1.6
The Book of Enoch 1.6 · Mountains shake, hills melt📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
The earth itself gives way before the coming.
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ነዋኃን፡1
nawāḫān
Hightall
አድባር፡2
ʾadbār
mountains
ወይደነግፁ፡3
wa-yǝdanǝgǝḍu
will shake,and they shake
, ነዋኃት፡4
nawāḫāt
hightall
አውግር፡5
ʾawgǝr
hills
ወይቴሐቱ፡6
wa-yǝtēḥatu
will be brought low,and they are humbled
, ወይትመሰዉ፡7
wa-yǝtmasawu
and will meltand they melt
ከመ፡8
kama
likeas
መዓረ፡9
maʿāra
waxhoney of
ግራ፡10
gǝrā
of the comb
እምላህብ።11
ʾǝm-lāhb
before the flame.from flame
. And the high mountains will shake, and the high hills will be brought low, and will melt like wax before the flame.
And the high mountains will shake, and the high hills will be brought low, and will melt like wax before the flame.
1.7
The Book of Enoch 1.7 · The earth is split📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
The judgement moves from the mountains to the whole earth.
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And the earth will be split, and all that is on the earth will perish, and there will be judgement upon all.
The simile is wax melting before a flame, and the Ge’ez puts it in a surprising way: maʿāra gǝrā is literally “honey of the comb”. Dillmann explains that gǝrā, the honeycomb, is always joined with maʿār, “honey”, and that the pair stands for beeswax; he cites this verse. The same simile is in the Ethiopic Isaiah 64:2, ከመ ይትመሰው መዓረ ግራ እምገጸ እሳት, “as wax melts from the face of fire”.
The mountains are nawāḫān: Dillmann’s first sense is “long”, and his examples of height include mountains and trees. The hills are ʾawgǝr, the plural of wagr; Dillmann cites this verse for it, though with the epithet ልዑላት, “lofty”, where our page has ነዋኃት, “high”, another place where manuscripts differ. “Brought low” is tatǝḥta; Dillmann lists Isaiah 40:4 and Luke 3:5 beside this verse, the stock picture of high places made low.