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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: 29 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/29/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 29. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/29/"
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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.

## 29. Chapter 28

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/29/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/29/#p-N

### How God established the Water, and surrounded it with Light, and established upon it Seven Islands

[¶1] 1 And I ordered that there should be a separation between the light and the darkness, and I said: ‘Let strong from the invisible, A. SS AS ome there be a thick substance, and it was sol.

[¶2] 2 And I spread this out and there was water, and I spread it over the darkness, below the light.

[¶3] 3 And thus I made firm the waters, that is, the depths, and I surrounded the waters with light, and I created seven circles and I fashioned them like crystal, moist and dry, that is to say, like glass and ice, and as for the waters, and also the other elements, I showed each of them their paths, (viz.) to the seven stars, each of them in their heaven, how they should go; and I saw that it was good.

[¶4] 4 And I separated between the light and the darkness; that is to say, between the waters here and there. And I said to the light: ‘Let it be day’; and to the darkness, ‘Let it be night.’ And the evening and the morning were the first day +.