The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

264 THE BOOKS OF ENOCH En« i iii
Xin nix i[n pD"? yiixi ^'7ax nix xn xoenpi] xnns^ 20
pi&ipi tn^y naa
[]ai pan? nnna X'PD nix n]^fnx ^iin
>]f)i3 n[iiianxi n^np X['7D nix x^'ac? nni'?ai] ns7T X'7D nix
[S7i3!&a m'?''n]x mn\b[ ^iin xin n]ix naxi n^na ^iin aoi
[S7m Dip'' nna ]av D^na nin n]3D XDB?P
IS71 •'aip
[ Jnar xoani xnp» na n pm 25
* Daleth written on Zain.
[. . . 5. . . and sin shall perish in] darkness [forever . . . and shall never be
visible again] from this day forth [for all generations forever. ^ lAnd when
he was transmitting his Epistle], Enoch [took up] his discourse, ^saying:
[* Concerning the children of righteousness and about the elect of the world
who have grown] up from a plant of truth [and of justice, behold, I will
speak and will make (it) known unto you], my sons. I Enoch, I have been
shown [everything in a heavenly vision, and from] the word of the Watchers
and Holy Ones I have known everything; [and in the heavenly tablets I]
have read ever5rthing [and understoo]d\ ^And Enoch took up his discourse
again and said: *I [Enoch], the seventh I [was born in the] first [Week], and
until my time justice was still [enduring. ^And after me will arise] the second
[Week] in which lying and violence will have sprung up [. . .]
Texts for comparison: E and Coptic fragment, recto, col. i.
More than two-thirds of this column, seventeen lines and a half, correspond only to verses
3 to 5 of En. 92. There was a very long piece of text on the reward of the just at the end of time.
Verse 3 is fairly similar to 91: 10: *and the just will arise from sleep' on the one hand, *then the
just will arise from their sleep' on the other; cf. above, i ii 13, note. The part missing from our
column probably contained a description analogous to that of the three last Weeks, En. 91:
11-17 = Ens I iv 14-26. Thus 92: 5 echoes the end of the tenth Week: *and sin will be lost
in the darkness for ever, and will not be visible any more from this day forth unto eternity';
'and sin will not be mentioned again by name until eternity' (91: 17).
Ll. 16-18 (En. 92: 5). E (quoted immediately above) is too short for the lacuna.
According to my calculation, the recto of a small fragment of the Chester Beatty-Michigan
papyrus, the verso of which has been discussed above in the note to i ii 22, should be placed
at lines 16-17
^^^s column. Only a few letters are preserved:
]ripa[
]riaK[
]•«[
Reading an aorist or a perfect form of KrarapcS/xat, *to curse', in line i and [... T]rjs ic[a/cta? ...]
in line 2, one obtains the same context as that of En. 92: 5.