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title: "The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch)"
author: "Enoch (attributed)"
translator: "W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hidden books"
section: 25 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/25/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 25. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/25/"
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# The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch)

*Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles*

The Slavonic Enoch: ten heavens, and a closing fragment on the birth of Melchizedek.

## 25. Chapter 24

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/25/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/25/#p-N

[¶0] 1 And he told me all the works of the heaven and the earth and the sea, and their goings and comings, -the noise of the thunder; the sun and moon and the movement of the stars; their changings; the seasons and years; days and hours; and’? goings of the winds; and the numbers of the angels; the songs of the armed hosts.

[¶1] 2 And everything relating to man, and every language of their songs, and the lives of men, and the precepts and instructions, and sweet-voiced singings, and all which it is suitable to be instructed in.

[¶2] 3 And Vretil instructed me thirty days and thirty nights, and his lips never ceased speaking; and I did not cease thirty days and thirty nights writing all the remarks1?.

[¶3] 4 And Vretil 11 said to me: All the things which I have told thee, thou hast written down. Sit?? down and write all about '? the souls of men, those of them which are not born, and the places

[¶4] 5 For every soul was created

[¶5] 6 And I wrote all out continuously during thirty days and thirty prepared for them for ever. eternally before the foundation of the world.’ nights, and I copied all out accurately, and I wrote.366 books. 35 And so I ceased and I had