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Chapter 60. He who does injury to the soul of another man, does injury
to his own soul
1 He who works the killing of a man s soul, kills his own soul, and kills his own body, and there is no cure
for him for all time.
2 He who puts a man in any snare, shall stick in it himself, and there is no cure for him for all time.
3 He who puts a man in any vessel, his retribution will not be wanting at the great judgment for all time.
4 He who works crookedly or speaks evil against any soul, will not make justice for himself for all time.
Chapter 61. Enoch instructs his sons to keep themselves from injustice,
to help others and to share
1 And now, my children, keep your hearts from every injustice, which the Lord hates. Just as a man asks
something for his own soul from God, so let him do to every living soul, because I know all things, how in
the great time to come there is much inheritance prepared for men, good for the good, and bad for the bad,
without number many.
2 Blessed are those who enter the good houses, for in the bad houses there is no peace nor return from them.
3 Hear, my children, small and great! When man puts a good thought in his heart, brings gifts from his
labours before the Lord s face and his hands made them not, then the Lord will turn away his face from the
labour of his hand, and that man cannot find the labour of his hands.
4 And if his hands made it, but his heart murmur, and his heart cease not making murmur incessantly, he has
not any advantage.
Chapter 62. Of how it is fitting to bring one s gifts in faith, because there
is no repentance after death
1 Blessed is the man who in his patience brings his gifts with faith before the Lord s face, because he will
find forgiveness of sins.
2 But if he take back his words before the time, there is no repentance for him; and if the time pass and he do
not of his own will what is promised, there is no repentance after death.
3 Because every work which man does before the time, is all deceit before men, and sin before God.
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Chapter 63. Of how not to despise the poor, but to share with them
equally, lest you be murmured against before God
1 When man clothes the naked and fills the hungry, he will find reward from God.
2 But if his heart murmur, he commits a double evil; ruin of himself and of that which he gives; and for him
there will be no finding of reward on account of that.
3 And if his own heart is filled with his food and his own flesh, clothed with his own clothing, he commits
contempt, and will forfeit all his endurance of poverty, and will not find reward of his good deeds.
4 Every proud and magniloquent man is hateful to the Lord, and every false speech, clothed in untruth; it will
be cut with the blade of the sword of death, and thrown into the fire, and shall burn for all time.
Chapter 64. Of how the Lord calls up Enoch, and people took counsel to
go and kiss him at the place called Achuzan
1 When Enoch had spoken these words to his sons, all people far and near heard how the Lord was calling
Enoch. They took counsel together:
2 Let us go and kiss Enoch, and two thousand men came together and came to the place Achuzan where
Enoch was, and his sons.
3 And the elders of the people, the whole assembly, came and bowed down and began to kiss Enoch and said
to him:
4 Our father Enoch, may you be blessed of the Lord, the eternal ruler, and now bless your sons and all the
people, that we may be glorified to-day before your face.
5 For you shalt be glorified before the Lord s face for all time, since the Lord chose you, rather than all men
on earth, and designated you writer of all his creation, visible and invisible, and redeemed of the sins of man,
and helper of your household.
Chapter 65. Of Enoch s instructions to his sons
1 And Enoch answered all his people saying: Hear, my children, before that all creatures were created, the
Lord created the visible and invisible things.
2 And as much time as there was and went past, understand that after all that he created man in the likeness of
his own form, and put into him eyes to see, and ears to hear, and heart to reflect, and intellect wherewith to
deliberate.
3 And the Lord saw all man s works, and created all his creatures, and divided time, from time he fixed the
years, and from the years he appointed the months, and from the months he appointed the days, and of days
he appointed seven.
4 And in those he appointed the hours, measured them out exactly, that man might reflect on time and count
years, months, and hours, their alternation, beginning, and end, and that he might count his own life, from the
beginning until death, and reflect on his sin and write his work bad and good; because no work is hidden
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before the Lord, that every man might know his works and never transgress all his commandments, and keep
my handwriting from generation to generation.
5 When all creation visible and invisible, as the Lord created it, shall end, then every man goes to the great
judgment, and then all time shall perish, and the years, and thenceforward there will be neither months nor
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