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The Book of Enoch — godinanutshell.com

It seems likely therefore, that copies of the Book of Enoch survived
into Egyptian times, 3500 BC, and was known to Moses around

2,000 years later.

Moses presumably took a copy of the book with him when they all

left Egypt, and he was no doubt pleased to see Enoch's prophecy
fulfilled.

The book probably existed mainly in Hebrew during the thousand
years after the exodus. No Hebrew copies exist today, however,

although there are some Hebrew passages quoted in some of the
Aramaic fragments that survive from a few centuries BC.

The appearance of the book in Ethiopia, is probably due to events
in Jerusalem during the reign of King Manasseh of Judah, (695 -
642 BC), which are documented in the Bible, (2 Chronicles 33:1 -

20, and at 2 Kings 21:1 – 18).

King Manasseh was not of the Jewish faith, he erected alters to
Baal and Asherah in Solomon's Temple. In Kings at 21:16, it says
that so much innocent blood was shed that it filled Jerusalem from

end to end. At this time, the religious establishment left the
country, taking the Ark of the Covenant and all the important

religious texts with them.

After a number of years in Egypt, the refugees went further south,

near to the source of the Nile, at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. The

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