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The Book of Enoch

38.1 The First Parable.

When the community of the righteous appears and the sinners are judged

for their sins and are driven from the face of the dry ground.

38.2 And when the Righteous One appears, in front of the chosen

righteous, whose works are weighed by the Lord of Spirits. And when
light appears to the righteous and chosen who dwell on the dry ground.

Where will be the dwelling of the sinners? And where will be the resting-
place of those who denied the Lord of Spirits? It would have been better

for them, if they had not been born.
38.3 And when the secrets of the righteous are revealed, the sinners will be

judged, and the impious driven from the presence of the righteous and the

chosen.

38.4 And from then on, those who possess the earth will not be mighty and

exalted. Nor will they be able to look at the face of the Holy ones, for the

light of the Lord of the Spirits will have appeared on the face of the Holy,

the righteous, and the chosen.

38.5 And the mighty kings will at that time be destroyed and given into the

hand of the righteous and the Holy.

38.6 And from then on no one will be able to seek the Lord of Spirits for

their life will be at an end.

39.1 And it will come to pass in these days that the chosen and holy

children will come down from the high Heavens and their offspring will

become one with the sons of men.

39.2 In those days Enoch received books of indignation and anger and

books of tumult and confusion. And there will be no mercy for them, says

the Lord of Spirits.

39.3 And at that time clouds and a storm wind carried me off from the face

of the earth and set me down at the end of Heaven.

39.4 And there I saw another vision; the Dwelling of the Righteous and the

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