The Book of Enoch 89

¹🔗nd thus in the vision I saw that one who wrote how he wrote down every one that was destroyed by those shepherds, day by day, and carried up and laid down and showed actually the whole book to the Lord of the sheep—(even) everything that they had done, and all that each one of them had made away with, and all that they had given over to destruction.

²🔗 And the book was read before the Lord of the sheep, and He took the book from his hand and read it and sealed it and laid it down. LXXXIX. 72-

³🔗 And forthwith I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and behold three of those sheep turned back and came and entered and began to build up all that had fallen down of that house; but the wild boars tried to hinder them, but they were not able.

⁴🔗 And they began again to build as before, and they reared up that tower, and it was named the high tower; and they began again to place a table before the tower, but all the bread on it was polluted and not pure.

⁵🔗 And as touching all this the eyes of those sheep were blinded so that they saw not, and (the eyes of) their shepherds likewise; and they delivered them in large numbers to their shepherds for destruction, and they trampled the sheep with their feet and devoured them.

⁶🔗 And the Lord of the sheep remained unmoved till all the sheep were dispersed over the field and mingled with them (_i. e._ the beasts), and they (_i. e._ the shepherds) did not save them out of the hand of the beasts.

⁷🔗 And this one who wrote the book carried it up, and showed it and read it before the Lord of the sheep, and implored Him on their account, and besought Him on their account as he showed Him all the doings of the shepherds, and gave testimony before Him against all the shepherds.

⁸🔗 And he took the actual book and laid it down beside Him and departed.

⁹🔗 And the shepherds and their associates delivered over those sheep to all the wild beasts, to devour them, and each one of them received in his time a definite number: it was written by the other in a book how many each one of them destroyed of them.

¹⁰🔗 And each one slew and destroyed many more than was prescribed; and I began to weep and lament on account of those sheep.