Fish the Right

The Book of Enoch

1 Enoch 20

Outside the Bibles most churches use. Scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (and its sister church in Eritrea); not in Catholic, Eastern Orthodox or Protestant Bibles. About 1 Enoch

R. H. Charles’s translation (1917).

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Names and Functions of the Seven Archangels.

1And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. 2Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus. 3Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men. 4Raguel, one of the holy angels who †takes vengeance on† the world of the luminaries. 5Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind ⟦and⟧ over chaos. 6Saraqâêl, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit. 7Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim. 8Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.

R. H. Charles, The Book of Enoch (Translations of Early Documents, Series I), with an introduction by W. O. E. Oesterley. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1917. In the public domain in the United States.

Text from Project Gutenberg (eBook #77935), checked against the Internet Archive’s scan of the same printing.