1.9
The Book of Enoch 1.9 · He comes with ten thousands📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
The last verse of the opening. The New Testament letter of Jude quotes it (Jude 14–15).
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ወናሁ፡1
wa-nāhu
And behold,
, መጽአ፡2
maṣʾa
he has comehe came
በትእልፊት፡3
ba-tǝʾǝlfit
with ten thousandswith a ten-thousand
ቅዱሳን፡4
qǝddusān
of holy ones,
, ከመ፡5
kama
toso that
ይግበር፡6
yǝgbar
executehe may do
ፍትሐ፡7
fǝtḥa
judgement
ላዕሌሆሙ፡8
lāʿlehomu
upon them,
, ወያሕጕሎሙ፡9
wa-yāḥgʷǝlomu
and destroy them,and he destroys them
, ለረሲዓን፡10
la-rasiʿān
the godless;the impious
; ወይዘልፍ፡11
wa-yǝzallǝf
and he will convictand he reproves
ኵሎ፡12
kʷǝllo
all
ዘሥጋ፡13
za-śǝgā
fleshof flesh
በእንተ፡14
ba-ʾǝnta
concerning
ኵሉ፡15
kʷǝllu
all
ዘገብሩ፡16
za-gabru
that they did,
, ወረስዑ፡17
wa-rasʿu
and acted impiouslyand they acted impiously
ላዕሌሁ፡18
lāʿlehu
against him,upon him
, ኃጥኣን፡19
ḫāṭǝʾān
the sinners
[ወ]ረሲዓን።20
[wa]rasiʿān
[and] the godless.[and] the impious
. And behold, he has come with ten thousands of holy ones, to execute judgement upon them, and destroy them, the godless; and he will convict all flesh concerning all that they did, and acted impiously against him, the sinners [and] the godless.
And behold, he has come with ten thousands of holy ones, to execute judgement upon them, and destroy them, the godless; and he will convict all flesh concerning all that they did, and acted impiously against him, the sinners [and] the godless.
6.1
The Book of Enoch 6.1 · When the children of men multiplied📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
Chapter 6 opens the story of the Watchers, the angels who come down to earth. Enoch begins where Genesis 6 begins.
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And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied, that in those days there were born to them beautiful and lovely daughters.
This is the verse the New Testament letter of Jude quotes, at Jude 14–15. The Ge’ez በትእልፊት ቅዱሳን ba-tǝʾǝlfit qǝddusān is “with ten thousands of holy ones”, and Jude’s Greek says the same, “with ten thousands of his saints” in the older English. The verb is the perfect maṣʾa, “he came”, and Jude’s Greek is also a past tense; English usually says “comes”. Dillmann quotes the Ge’ez phrase as his first example under tǝʾǝlfit, “a host of ten thousand”, and under the prefix ba- he sets Enoch 1:9 and Jude 14 side by side as examples of ba- meaning “with”.
Dillmann quotes the other clauses too: ያህጕሎሙ ለረሲዓን, “he destroys the godless”, under ʾahgʷala, and ከመ ይግበር ፍትሐ ላዕሌሆሙ, “that he may make judgement upon them”, under fǝtḥ. The closing pair, ኃጥኣን ረሲዓን, “sinners, godless”, matches the last words of Jude’s quotation, “ungodly sinners”. Jude adds a second charge, the hard things sinners have said against him, which the Ge’ez on our page does not have. Charles marks lāʿlehomu, “upon them”, as corrupt.