The Book of Enoch 87
Book IV The Book of Dream Visions Chapters 83–90 · c. 165-160 BCE
Two dream visions, including the Animal Apocalypse - a symbolic history of the world from Adam to the end, with peoples shown as animals.
Dating & manuscripts. The Animal Apocalypse (85-90) allegorizes the Maccabean revolt, which dates it precisely to the 160s BCE - the reign of Antiochus IV and Judas Maccabeus.
1 Enoch is an anthology of five distinct works, composed over roughly three centuries.
The Coming of the Seven Archangels
They began to gore each other and to devour each other while the earth cried aloud.
1nd again I saw how they began to gore each other and to devour each other, and the earth began to cry aloud.
2 And I raised mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there came forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and four went forth from that place and three with them.
3 And those three that had last come forth grasped me by my hand and took me up, away from the generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty place, and showed me a tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills were lower.
4 And one said unto me: ' Remain here till thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.'
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They began to gore each other and to devour each other while the earth cried aloud.
Beings like white men came forth from heaven, four going forth from that place and three with them.
Three beings grasped Enoch by the hand, took him from the generations of the earth, and raised him to a lofty place.
They showed him a tower raised high above the earth and all the hills were lower.
One instructed Enoch to remain and see everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen.
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In brief
Enoch sees them begin to gore and devour each other as the earth cries aloud. Beings like white men come from heaven; three raise him to a lofty place, show him a tower high above the earth, and tell him to remain until he sees all that befalls the elephants, camels, asses, stars and oxen.