2 Enoch 60

2 Enoch 60
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)

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How we ought not to kill a Man, neither with Weapon nor with Tongue

LX. 1. If he does an injury to the soul of man, he does an injury to his own soul; and there is no salvation for his flesh, * nor forgiveness? for ever *. 2. He who kills the soul of a man, kills his own soul, and destroys his own body, and there is no salvation for him for ever. 3. He who prepares a net for another man * will fall into it himself and there is no salvation for him for ever +. 4. He, who prepares a weapon against a man, shall not escape punish- ment in the great judgement for ever. 5. If a man acts crookedly or speaks evil against any soul, he shall have no righteousness for himself for ever.