6.6
The Book of Enoch 6.6 · Two hundred on Mount Hermon📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
The angels come down to earth.
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ወኮኑ፡1
wa-konu
And they were
ክልኤ፡2
kǝlʾe
two
ምእት፡3
mǝʾǝt
hundred
ኵሎሙ፡4
kʷǝllomu
in all,all of them
, ወወረዱ፡5
wa-waradu
and they came downand they descended
ውስተ፡6
wǝsta
oninto
አርዲስ፡7
ʾArdis
Ardis,
, ዘውእቱ፡8
za-wǝʾǝtu
which iswhich [is] it
ድማኁ፡9
dǝmāḫu
the summitits crown
ለደብረ፡10
la-dabra
of Mountof the mountain of
አርሞን፡11
ʾArmon
Hermon;
; ወጸውዕዎ፡12
wa-ṣawwǝʿǝwwo
and they called itand they named it
ለደብረ፡13
la-dabra
Mountthe mountain of
አርሞን፡14
ʾArmon
Hermon,
, እስመ፡15
ʾǝsma
becausefor
መሐሉ፡16
maḥalu
they had swornthey swore
ቦቱ፡17
bottu
on it
ወአውገዙ፡18
wa-ʾawgazu
and bound themselves by cursesand they put a ban
በበይናቲሆሙ።19
babaynātihomu
to one another.among themselves
. And they were two hundred in all, and they came down on Ardis, which is the summit of Mount Hermon; and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn on it and bound themselves by curses to one another.
And they were two hundred in all, and they came down on Ardis, which is the summit of Mount Hermon; and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn on it and bound themselves by curses to one another.
7.1a
The Book of Enoch 7.1a · They took wives📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
The two hundred have come down. (Verses 6:7–8, the names of their twenty chiefs, will come with the full edition.)
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(These,) and all the others with them, took wives for themselves, and each chose one for himself.
Two hundred angels come down on the summit of Hermon, the high mountain north of Galilee, snow-covered most of the year. The book explains the name: they called it Hermon because they swore there. In Aramaic and Hebrew that is a pun, Hermon and ḥerem, “a thing under a ban”. Ge’ez keeps the story, but the pun did not survive translation.
Ardis is a puzzle. Charles marked the clause as damaged, and in his 1912 translation he read it as “in the days of Jared”. Jared is Enoch’s father (Genesis 5:18), and his name sounds like the Hebrew yārad, “to come down”, the verb of this verse.