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The Book of Enoch

wished that they could return to their enclosure. And that sheep took some

other sheep with it, and went to those sheep that had gone astray, and then

began to kill them; and the sheep were afraid of it. And that sheep brought

back those sheep that had gone astray, and they returned to their enclosures.

89.36 And I looked there at the vision, until that sheep became a man, and
built a house for the Lord of the sheep, and made all the sheep stand in that

house.
89.37 And I looked until that sheep, which had met that sheep that led the

sheep, fell asleep. And I looked until all the large sheep were destroyed
and small ones arose in their place, and they came to a pasture, and drew

near a river of water.

89.38 And that sheep that led them, which had become a man, separated

from them and fell asleep, and all the sheep sought it, and cried out very

bitterly over it.

89.39 And I looked until they left off crying for that sheep, and crossed that

river of water. And there arose all the sheep that led them, in place of those

which had fallen asleep; and they led.

89.40 And I looked until the sheep came to a good place and a pleasant and

glorious land, and I looked until those sheep were satisfied. And that house

was in the middle of them in that green and pleasant land.

89.41 And sometimes their eyes were opened, and sometimes blinded, until

another sheep rose up, led them, and brought them all back. And their eyes

were opened.

89.42 And the dogs, and the foxes, and the wild boars, began to devour

those sheep until the Lord of the sheep raised up a ram from among them,

which led them.

89.43 And that ram began to butt those dogs, foxes, and wild boars, on one

side and on the other until it had destroyed them all.

89.44 And the eyes of that sheep were opened, and it saw that ram in the

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