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Book of Enoch 85

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And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the whole dream to thee, my son.

2And Enoch lifted up his voice and spake to his son Methuselah: ‘To thee, my son, will I speak: hear my words—incline thine ear to the dream-vision of thy father.

3Before I took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold a bull came forth from the earth, and that bull was white; and after it came forth a heifer, and along with this latter came forth two bulls, one of them black and the other red.

4And that black bull gored the red one and pursued him over the earth, and thereupon I could no longer see that red bull.

5But that black bull grew and that heifer went with him, and I saw that many oxen proceeded from him which resembled and followed him.’

6And that cow, that first one, went from the presence of that first bull in order to seek that red one, but found him not, and lamented with a great lamentation over him and sought him.

7And I looked till that first bull came to her and quieted her, and from that time onward she cried no more.

8And after that she bore another white bull, and after him she bore many bulls and black cows.

9And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a great white bull, and from him proceeded many white bulls, and they resembled him.

10And they began to beget many white bulls, which resembled them, one following the other, even many.

About Book of Enoch

The most influential apocryphal book there is: the fall of the Watcher angels, the giants, Enoch's journey through the heavens and the final judgement. Quoted in the New Testament by the letter of Jude and held canonical by the Ethiopian Church. English text: The Book of Enoch (London: SPCK), R. H. Charles, 1917 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Book of Enoch (London: SPCK), R. H. Charles (1917) · public domain