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title: "The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)"
author: "Enoch (attributed)"
translator: "R. H. Charles"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hidden books"
section: 87 of 108
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-1-charles-1917/87/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. R. H. Charles, The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch), section 87. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-1-charles-1917/87/"
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# The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)

*Enoch (attributed), tr. R. H. Charles*

The Ethiopic book of watchers, parables and visions that Jude quotes.

## 87. Chapter 87

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-1-charles-1917/87/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-1-charles-1917/87/#p-N

### The Advent of the Seven Archangels

[¶1] 1 And again I saw how they began to gore each other and to devour each other, and the earth began to cry aloud. 2 And I raised mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there came forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and four went forth from that place and three with them. 3 And those three that had last come forth grasped me by my hand and took me up, away from the generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty place, and showed me a tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills were lower. 4 And one said unto me: ‘Remain here till thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.’