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The Book of Enoch

of that first star, which had fallen from Heaven, and bound it by its hands

and feet, and threw it into an abyss. And that abyss was narrow, and deep,

and horrible, and dark.

88.2 And one of them drew his sword, and gave it to those elephants,

camels, and asses; and they began to strike one another, and the whole
Earth shook because of them.

88.3 And as I looked in the vision, behold, one of those four who had come
out cast a line from Heaven and gathered and took all the large stars; those

whose private parts were like the private parts of horses, and bound them
all by their hands and their feet, and threw them into a chasm of the Earth.

89.1 And one of those four, went to a white bull, and taught him a mystery,

trembling as he was. He was born a bull, but became a man, and built for

himself a large vessel, and dwelt on it, and three bulls went with him in that

vessel, and they were covered over.

89.2 And, again, I raised my eyes to Heaven and saw a high roof with

seven water channels on it, and those channels discharged much water into

an enclosure.

89.3 And I looked again, and behold, springs opened on the floor of that

large enclosure, and water began to bubble up, and to rise above the floor.

And I looked at that enclosure until its whole floor was covered by water.

89.4 And water, darkness, and mist increased on it, and I looked at the

height of that water, and that water had risen above that enclosure and was

pouring out over the enclosure, and it remained on the earth.

89.5 And all the bulls of that enclosure were gathered together, until I saw

how they sank, and were swallowed up, and destroyed, in that water.

89.6 And that vessel floated on the water, but all the bulls, elephants,

camels, and asses sank to the bottom, together with all the animals, so that I

could not see them. And they were unable to get out, but were destroyed,

and sank into the depths.

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