The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

En^ I SIXTH COPY 245
in n^'na'? man is'jn ]i]n[^]^i[s7i] ]innm ][in''S7na pn'pD xm x^aDxi]
[x^'aip ]»i^annai ^nm ]'']x% pDiD xni[ x^'au; npim ^a'pnn n^'tn ms7i 3]
[pm2^3 ]inas7i I'jx X^'?JS7 S7*']sa3 xn[in iDsnnm x^'aip X3DID m*?] 5
[8« ^And again I kept my eyes up in the dream and I saw the heaven]
above, [and behold], a star [fell from heaven into the midst of the big oxen;
and it fed and pastured] among them. ^Behold, then I saw [these oxen, big
ones and black ones, and behold, all of them exchanged] their [pastures]
and their cattle-sheds, and their calves, [and they began to live one with
another. ^And again I saw in my dream and beheld the heaven] and behold
many stars [were descending and falling from heaven to near the first star,
and they were turned into] bulls in the midst of [those calves and pastured
with them and among them . . .]
Versions to be compared: Greek, in pap. Oxyrhynchus 2069, fragment I'^+z^ (En. 85: 10-
86: 2), ed. Milik, Chronique d'J^gypte, xlvi, no. 92, pp. 323-9, and Ethiopic.
For lines 1-3 (En. 86 1-2) see my commentary in Chronique d^jSgypte, loc. cit.
Ll. 1-2 (En. 86: i). The restoration n^^im, instead of the more usual fl'PDl, seems to
be required by d>v dvapXetpas of Oxy. i'^+2^, line 3.—]in*'2*'3 = md^ikala of E; in Oxy.,
line 8, fjL€Ta[iv avrcov), or even [JLCT a[vTd)v], the latter = mislehomu used with the same verb
in V. 3 of E (line 5 of En^).
Ll. 2-3 (En. 86: 2). ]*'^XD XH simplified to wa*imzi in E.—InEn^the predicate 'exchanged*
was probably put after the three objects, which is quite correct in Aramaic syntax.
Ll. 4-5 (En. 86: 3). [''O^jna] En^ hard'ty E; cf. En^ 4 ii i (En. 89: 7).—After XHI =
wanawd E adds r^*iku (E wari^iku nawd). In a similar manner, before XHI of line i (En. 86: i)
Oxy., line 4, adds icat iOewpow [icat l8ov]; also E^^ wariHku {samdya} wanawd. Again in
En. 89: 3 to the Aramaic XHI of En« 4 i 17 corresponds wariHku kd'iha wanawd in E.—
E transfers 'alhimta konu = Xn[in IDSHnm] after md'^kala 'mktu ta'^wd =
[]^X
All the chapter En. 86 recounts afresh, from En. 6: 1-7: 6, the story of Semihazah and his
companions.
SEVENTH COPY (4QEn^ Pis. XXI-XXIV)
Skin greyish and faintly purplish-blue, bright pink here and there, thick and
fairly taut; surface finely granular, damaged in places or shrunk; verso