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2 Enoch (The Book of the Secrets of Enoch) 61

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And now, my children, keep your hearts from every injustice, which the Lord hates. Just as a man asks something for his own soul from God, so let him do to every living soul, because I know all things, how in the great time to come there is much inheritance prepared for men, good for the good, and bad for the bad, without number many.

2Blessed are those who enter the good houses, for in the bad houses there is no peace nor return from them.

3Hear, my children, small and great! When man puts a good thought in his heart, brings gifts from his labours before the Lord’s face and his hands made them not, then the Lord will turn away his face from the labour of his hand, and (that) man cannot find the labour of his hands.

4And if his hands made it, but his heart murmur, and his heart cease not making murmur incessantly, he has not any advantage.

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About 2 Enoch (The Book of the Secrets of Enoch)

Known as Slavonic Enoch: the ascent through the seven heavens, what Enoch sees in each one and the account of creation he brings back to his sons. English text: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, vol. 2, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (Oxford: Clarendon Press), N. Forbes and R. H. Charles, from W. R. Morfill, 1913 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, vol. 2, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (Oxford: Clarendon Press), N. Forbes and R. H. Charles, from W. R. Morfill (1913) · public domain