The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

EnGiants* 8 FIRST COPY 315
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[npi;Ta KS7nxi
p]3'^'?[s?] nmi xs;n[K]3 p[D]ni2n
[b^ b2p^ ps7Ta x^aip ''S7nn is7 p'jo n'ppi] pD^n lais; "pyl pD^^ps? n'papi lo
[ ] vacat nn pn'73n n x'pnn
[ ]iD]hi3!2 nB?Di x'^an [''111 Knmaa m
[ ] 1*7X1 15
^The boo[k of . . .].
3The copy of the second tablet of the E[pistle . . . written] ^by Enoch, the
distinguished scribe's own hand [...., the Watcher] sand the Holy One, to
Semihazah and to all [his] com[panions . . .]:
^*Let it be known to you that [you] n[ot. . .] ^and your works and those of
your wives [. . .] ^themselves [and their] children and the wives of [their
children . . .] ^by your prostitution on the earth. And it befell you [. . . And
the earth complains] ^^and accuses you, and the works of your children too,
[and its voice rises right to the portals of heaven, complaining and accusing
(you) of]" the corruption by which you have corrupted it.
[. . .] i^until the coming of Raphael. Lo, a destruction [. . . on men and
on animals: the birds which fly on the face of heaven, and the animals which
live on the earth], ^^and those which (live) in the deserts, and those which
(live) in the seas. And the interpretation of [your ?] affa[ir ? . . .] ^^on you for
the worst. And now, loosen your bonds which tie [you] up [. . .] ^^and begin
to pray.'
This fragment should almost certainly be placed in the upper part of the column which
followed 7 ii; it can therefore be given the siglum 7 iii.
Line i bore the title of one section of the Book of Giants, comparable with that of En 14: i,
quoted above.
L. 4 contained epithets of Enoch, comparable with those of EnS ii 22-3 (above, pp. 260-3).