2 Enoch 46

2 Enoch 46
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)

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How an earthly Prince will not receive Gifts from Man which

are contemptible and impure. How much more does God loath impure Gifts, and rejects them with Wrath, and will not receive the Gifts of such a Man.|

XLVI. 1. * Hear, my people, and pay attention to the words of my lips}. If any one brings gifts to an earthly prince, but having unfaithfulness in his heart: if the prince knows it, will he not be angry with * him on account of that, and he will not take? his gifts, and will hand him over to condemnation ? 2. Or if a man flatters another *in his language, but (plans) evil against him in his heart, will not the other understand the craft of his heart, and he himself will be condemned, so that his unrighteousness will be evi- dent to all?? 3. But when God shall send a great light, by means of that there will be judgement‘ to the just and unjust, and nothing will be concealed.

[Enoch instructs his Sons from the Lips of God, and gives