1 Enoch 81:1-10

¹And he said to me: "O Enoch, look at the book of the tablets of heaven, and read what is written upon them, and mark every single thing."

²And I looked at all that was on the tablets of heaven, and I read all that was written, and I understood everything; and I read the book and all that was written in it—all the deeds of humankind and of all the children of flesh who are upon the earth, unto the generations of eternity.

³And thereupon I blessed the Lord, the King of Glory forever, because he has made all the works of the world; and I praised the Lord for his patience, and I blessed him on account of the children of the world.

⁴And at that time I said: "Blessed is the man who dies righteous and good, against whom no book of iniquity has been written, and against whom no guilt has been found."

⁵And those three holy ones brought me and set me down upon the earth before the door of my house, and said to me: "Declare everything to Methuselah your son, and make known to all your children that no one of flesh can be righteous before the Lord, for he is their Creator.

⁶For one year we will leave you with your children, until again you give your command, that you may teach your children and write it down for them and bear witness to all your children; and in the second year they shall take you from among them.

⁷Let your heart be strong, for the good shall declare righteousness to the good; the righteous with the righteous shall rejoice, and they shall greet one another.

⁸But the sinner shall die with the sinner, and the apostate shall sink with the apostate.

⁹And those who practice righteousness shall die on account of the deeds of humankind, and shall be gathered up on account of the deeds of the wicked."

¹⁰And in those days they finished speaking with me, and I came to my people, blessing the Lord of the ages.