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The Book of Enoch

he wrote down each one that was destroyed by those shepherds. And he

brought up, and presented, the whole book to the Lord of the sheep,

everything they had done and all that each one of them had made away

with, and all that they had handed to destruction.

89.71 And the book was read out in front of the Lord of the sheep, and he
took the book in his hand, read it, sealed it, and put it down.

89.72 And after this I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours,
and behold three of those sheep returned, and arrived, and came and began

to build up all that had fallen down from that house; but the wild boars
hindered them so that they could not.

89.73 And they again began to build, as before, and they raised up that

tower, and it was called the high tower. And they began again to place a

table before the tower but all the bread on it was unclean and was not pure.

89.74 And, besides all this, the eyes of these sheep were blinded so that

they could not see, and their shepherds likewise. And they handed yet

more of them over to destruction, and they trampled on the sheep with their

feet, and devoured them.

89.75 But the Lord of the sheep remained still, until all the sheep were

scattered abroad, and had mixed with them, and they did not save them

from the hands of the animals.

89.76 And that one who wrote the book brought it up, showed it, and read

it out in the dwelling of the Lord of the sheep. And he entreated Him on

behalf of them, and petitioned Him, as he showed Him all the deeds of their

shepherds and testified in front of Him against all the shepherds.

89.77 And he took the book, put it down by Him, and went out.

90.1 And I looked until the time that thirty-five shepherds had pastured the

sheep the same way, and, each individually; they all completed their time

like the first ones. And others received them into their hands to pasture

them, at their time, each shepherd at his own time.

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