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The Book of Enoch

Notes

The Third Parable. (Pages 75-85)

The two monsters mentioned at 60.7 are also mentioned in the book of Job
possibly the oldest book in the Bible. See Job 40.15 & 41.1. Behemoth is "the beast"

and Leviathan is "the monster of chaos,” but what they represent, in Enoch's book, is

not made clear. At 60.10, the Watchers say it is a secret and then they soon change the
subject.

At 60.1 Enoch gives his age; it is written as 500 and not 50 in the Ethiopian copies. I

feel this must be due to an ancient transcription error so I have substituted 50 as the
most likely alternative. I suspect that Enoch had just had his exact age calculated by the

Watchers, based on the story of his birth, which would be a rare thing to know in the
days before calendars were in everyday use.

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