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First Enoch

Chapter 22 · 22 of 108

First Enoch

English, translated by R. H. Charles — Charles, S.P.C.K., London, 1912

=== XXII. Sheol or the Underworld. === CHAPTER XXII. 1. And thence I went to another place, and he showed me in the west ⌈another⌉ great and high mountain [and] of hard rock.

3. Then Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: ‘These hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the dead should assemble therein, yea that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here. 4. And these places have been made to receive them till the day of their judgement and till their appointed period [till the period appointed], till the great judgement (comes) upon them.’

7. And he answered me saying: ‘This is the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of men.’