Fish the Right

The Book of Enoch

1 Enoch 4

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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1And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the earth over against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and the earth also burns with glowing heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.

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.