2 Enoch 64

2 Enoch 64
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)

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How the Lord calls Enoch: the People take Counsel to go to kiss him in the Place called Achuzan

LXIV. 1. When Enoch said these words to his sons, * and the princes of the people !, all the people * far and near? heard bow the Lord called Enoch. And? they took counsel,

and they all said: ‘Let us go and kiss Enoch!’ 2. And the men assembled to the numher of 20005, and came to the place Achuzan °, where Enoch was, and his sons. 3. And?

the elders of the people* came together and made obeisance and ® kissed Enoch, and said to him: ‘ Enoch, our father °; be thou blessed of the Lord, the eternal King!’ 4. And now bless thy *sons, and all the® people, that we may be glorified * before thee to-day. 5. For thou art glorified? before the face of the Lord *for ever!; since God has chosen thee *above all men upon the earth, and has ap- pointed thee® as *the seribe of His creation of visible and invisible things, and® an avenger!” of the sins of men, * and a succour to thy family®!’ And Enoch answered all his people saying? :