The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

Enasti*23 CORRESPONDING TO EN. 76-9 AND 82 289
-p m ] m pnir^iDi iina*?!!? K^QB? [••nn s7nnK ^ann ni&y nn]
pn"? 'rna D m xom"? pi?i n^anp [xin
nnp Kanp"? pp"']
[n]fn nxT
X3isa''nn K m Knn'jv vacat xa'7S7 ^[na ] IKT
pp piai raDiD |in*?Di p'7S7 i^xai ]^ms7 pxa x^aiz? ^3D[ID ]^]nx 5
pD
]'''?Txi s'-air ^n"is7 "73 innoi i^ojDnai p s s na [fiDS KIIDS*?! 0
nna'?
][*']xa n a mta ^1x1 K^au? ^iKa pnn ph p
m'i[a Nnna*?!]
vacat fniT
]irua xiz^jx •'la na naio"? pma in KS7-IX n[... n'rn n'-tm'
vacat xDurii? 6[nn&]'7[i] y[a]B?'7i inana"? [pnia im inm*?!]
pn^Vs? nn[2i x]'7[an "757 n ]ni]6 b[:> p pn xmo ns;a» n''Tm].io
[ ]xi'7n
a The copyist started to write XQ, but he at once deleted the Mem and the Aleph by
erasure. On phonetic, and consequently orthographic, confusion of the laryngals, see Milik,
Bibltca, 31 (1950), 204-5 and DJD iii, p. 229.
Translation of the combined texts Enastr^ 23 and Enastr"" i ii 13-20
[^3... drought and] destruction and death and [heat] and desolation. ^^And
the twelve gates of the four quarters of heaven are completely (described);
their complete explanation I have shown [to you, my son Methuselah.
^ I And they call the east East] because it is the first; and they call the south
South {dardm)y because the Great One dwells {dd*er rabbd) there, and in it
dwells [. . .] blessed forever. ^And the great quarter (they call) the West
quarter, because there go the stars of heaven; there they set and there all
stars enter. And for this reason they call it West. 3[And the north (they call)
North], because in it all the bodies (lit. vessels) of the heavens hide and
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