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2 Enoch (The Book of the Secrets of Enoch) 66

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And now, my children, keep your souls from all injustice, such as the Lord hates.

2Walk before his face with terror and trembling and serve him alone.

3Bow down to the true God, not to dumb idols, but bow down to his similitude, and bring all just offerings before the Lord’s face. The Lord hates what is unjust.

4For the Lord sees all things; when man takes thought in his heart, then he counsels the intellects, and every thought is always before the Lord, who made firm the earth and put all creatures on it.

5If you look to heaven, the Lord is there; if you take thought of the sea’s deep and all the under-earth, the Lord is there.

6For the Lord created all things. Bow not down to things made by man, leaving the Lord of all creation, because no work can remain hidden before the Lord’s face.

7Walk, my children, in long-suffering, in meekness, honesty, in provocation, in grief, in faith and in truth, in (reliance on) promises, in illness, in abuse, in wounds, in temptation, in nakedness, in privation, loving one another, till you go out from this age of ills, that you become inheritors of endless time.

8Blessed are the just who shall escape the great judgment, for they shall shine forth more than the sun sevenfold, for in this world the seventh part is taken off from all, light, darkness, food, enjoyment, sorrow, paradise, torture, fire, frost, and other things; he put all down in writing, that you might read and understand.

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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