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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: 50 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/50/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 50. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/50/"
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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.

## 50. Chapter 49

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/50/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/50/#p-N

### Euoch instructs his Sons not to swear either by the Heaven or the Earth; and shows the Promise of God to a Man even in the Womb of his Mother

[¶1] 1 For I swear to you my children, but I will not swear by a single oath, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor by any other creature which God made. God" said: ‘There bus Liber,. It was Mr. Conybeare is no swearing in me, nor injustice, but truth. If there is no truth in men, let them swear by a word, yea, yea, or nay, nay.

[¶2] 2 But I swear to you, yea, yea’, that there has not been even a man in his mother’s womb, for whom a place has not been prepared for every soul; and a measure is fixed O! my children, be not deceived there is a place prepared there how long a man shall be tried in this world. for every soul of man. [How Nobody born upon the Earth can hide himself, nor are his Deeds concealed. (God) commands that he should be on the Earth a short time, endure Temptation, and Annoyance, and not injure the Widow and Orphan.