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The Book of Enoch

15) ENOCH'S LETTER TO METHUSELAH

81.5 And these three Holy ones brought me and set me on the earth in front

of the door of my house, and said to me: “Tell everything to your son

Methuselah, and show all your children that no flesh is righteous, before
the Lord, for He created them.

81.6 For one year we will leave you with your children, until you have
regained your strength, so that you may teach your children and write these

things down for them, and testify to all your children. And in the second
year we will take you from amongst them.

81.7 Let your heart be strong, for the good will proclaim righteousness to

the good, the righteous will rejoice with the righteous and they will wish

each other well.

81.8 But the sinner will die with the sinner and the apostate will sink with

the apostate.

81.9 And those who practice righteousness will die because of the deeds of

men, and will be gathered in because of the deeds of the impious.”

81.10 And in those days they finished speaking to me and I went to my

family as I blessed the Lord of Ages.

82.1 And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I recount to you, and

write down for you. I have revealed everything to you, and have given you

books about all these things. Keep, my son Methuselah, the books from the

hand of your father so that you may pass them on to the generations of

eternity.

82.2 I have given wisdom to you, and to your children, and to those who

will be your children, that they may give it to their children, for all the

generations, forever, this wisdom that is beyond their thoughts.

82.3 And those who understand it will not sleep, but will incline their ears

that they may learn this wisdom, and it will be better for those who eat

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