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The Book of Enoch

89.7 And, again, I looked at that vision until those water channels were

removed from that high roof, and the chasms of the Earth were made level,

and other abysses were opened.

89.8 And the water began to run down into them, until the earth became

visible, and that vessel settled on the earth and the darkness departed, and
light appeared.

89.9 And that white bull, who became a man, went out from that vessel,
and the three bulls with him. And one of the three bulls was white, like

that bull, and one of them was red as blood, and one was black. And that
white bull passed away from them.

89.10 And they began to beget wild animals and birds, so that there arose

from them every kind of species: lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild-

boars, foxes, badgers, pigs, falcons, vultures, kites, eagles, and ravens. But

amongst them was born a white bull.

89.11 And they began to bite one another but that white bull, which was

born amongst them, begat a wild ass and a white bull with it, and the wild

asses increased.

89.12 But that bull, which was born from it, begat a black wild boar and a

white sheep, and that wild-boar begat many boars and that sheep begat

twelve sheep.

89.13 And when those twelve sheep had grown, they handed one of their

number over to the asses, and those in turn, handed that sheep over to the

wolves; and that sheep grew up amongst the wolves.

89.14 And the Lord brought the eleven sheep to dwell with it, and to

pasture with it amongst the wolves, and they increased and became many

flocks of sheep.

89.15 And the wolves began to make them afraid, and they oppressed them

until they made away with their young, and then they threw their young

into a river with much water; but those sheep began to cry out because of

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