The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

290 THE ASTRONOMICAL BOOK Enastr^ 23
gather together and revolve, and proceed to the east of the heavens. [And the
east (they call)] East (midnah) because from there arise {dfnah) the bodies of
the heavens; and also (they call it) mizrah because thence they arise (z^rah).
[And I saw three sections] of the earth: one of them was for the dwelling of
the sons of men in it; and one of them for all [the seas, and the rivers; and
one of them] for the deserts and for the Seven and for the Paradise of righteousness.
4[And I saw] seven mountains, [higher than] all the mountains
[which are on the] earth; and snow comes down upon them [. . .]
L. I (En. 76: 13). ]TfD[K1]: small but definite traces of three letters; on the correspondence
between the Ethiopic dimsdsi and the Aramaic see above, p. 286, note to Enastr*^ i ii 2/3.
— r e a d i n g fairly certain; E omits *and death', but in 76: 5 some Ethiopic manuscripts
have wamot instead of wamoq *and heat'.
Ll. 1-2 (En. 76: 14). The first part of this verse has been preserved in Enastr*^.
L. 2. N*'Q1Z? **nn: 'gates of heaven' E; correctly surmised by Charles, p. 165: 'MSS. read
"portals", i.e. dvpwv corrupt for ficpajv, a rendering of DiniT; cf. Martin, p. 178. ]inQ^2?
]ini&nD1: a kind of hendiadys, 'complete explanation concerning them'; E 'all their laws, and
all their punishments, and all their benefactions'. 'Their laws' translates ]inB?TD (cf. Syriac
purMUy 'definitio, iudicium, discrimen') and 'their benefactions' translates ]in0^2?; 'their
punishments' has been added in the Ethiopic version (or even previously in the Greek translation),
recalling the punishments of the angel-stars described in the Book of Watchers and the
Book of Dreams.
Ll. 3-4 (En. 77: i). L. 3. Note the masculine gender of KHIT in this verse (X^'Dlp Enastr