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The Book of Enoch

89.62 And write down all the excess and destruction, which is wrought by

the shepherds; how many they destroy at my command and how many they

destroy of their own volition. Write down against each shepherd,

individually, all that he destroys.

89.63 And read out in front of me exactly how many they destroy of their
own volition and how many are handed over for destruction so that this

may be a testimony for me against them. So that I may know all the deeds
of the shepherds in order to hand them over for judgment. And I will see

what they do, whether they abide by my command with which I have
commanded them, or not.

89.64 But they must not know this, and you must not show this to them, but

only write down against each individual in his time all that the shepherds

destroy, and bring it all up to me.”

89.65 And I looked until those shepherds pastured at their times, and they

began to kill and destroy more than they were commanded, and they gave

those sheep into the hands of the lions.

89.66 And the lions and the tigers devoured and swallowed up the majority

of those sheep, and the wild boars devoured with them; and they burnt

down that tower and demolished that house.

89.67 And I was extremely sad about that tower because that house of the

sheep had been demolished; and after that I was unable to see whether

those sheep went into that house.

89.68 And the shepherds and their companions handed those sheep over to

all the animals so that they might devour them. Each one of them, at his

time, received an exact number, and for each of them, one after the other,

there was written in a book how many of them were destroyed.

89.69 And each one killed and destroyed more than was prescribed and I

began to weep and moan very much because of those sheep.

89.70 And likewise, in the vision, I saw that one who wrote, how each day,

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