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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: 32 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/32/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 32. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/32/"
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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.

## 32. Chapter 31

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/32/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/32/#p-N

### God gives Paradise to Adam, and gives him Knowledge, so as to see the Heavens open, and that he should see the Angels singing a Song of Trinmph

[¶1] 1 Adam had a life on earth,... and I made a garden in Eden in the East. and (I ordained) that he should observe the law and keep the instruction.

[¶2] 2 I made for him the heavens open that he should perceive the angels singing the song of triumph. And there was light without any darkness continually in Paradise.

[¶3] 3 And the devil took thought, as if wishing to make another world, because things were subservient to Adam on earth, to rule it and have lordship over it.

[¶4] 4 The devil is to be the evil spirit of the lowest places; he became Satan, after he left the heavens. His name was formerly Satanail.

[¶5] 5 And then, though he became different from the angels in nature, he did not change his understanding of just and sinful

[¶6] 6 And on account of this, he conceived designs against Adam; in such a manner he entered and deceived Eve. But he did not touch Adam.

[¶7] 7 But I cursed him for (his) ignorance: but those I previously blessed, them I did not curse‘,

[¶8] 8 nor man did I curse, nor the earth, nor any other things created, but the evil fruit of man, and then his works.