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An anonymous clothed group leaves rock recesses while one dark-haired brown-robed witness watches at right.
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Historical Library · Extra-canonical text
1 Enoch 51

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Source and translation notes

· Geʿez

Source edition: charles-1906-enoch

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  • 51:1[a] The selected noun means a deposit or entrusted charge, not a womb. Dillmann1865 columns138-139 explicitly cites51:1 under depositum, including entrusted persons as well as things. This does not supply an absent phrase from another text.
  • 51:1[b] Sheol is the realm of the dead. Destruction renders the place-of-destruction noun; Dillmann1865 column19 explicitly cites51:1 for that underworld sense (Abaddon), not a separate named being.
  • 51:1[c] The debt/restitution verb is supported by Dillmann1865 column1379, which cites51:1 under owing something. All three return clauses are retained.
  • 51:3[a] The printed dagger marks a corrupt phrase beginning with from the thought. Charles printed94 note11 proposes different emendations and moving the preposition; none is silently installed here. The awkward expression is preserved in a provisional English construal, not certified as a recovered original reading.
  • 51:3[b] The object of has given is not expressed in the selected Ge’ez; it is left as it in English rather than specified as a new gift not stated by the text.
  • 51:4[a] The final angels/faces construction is unusual. Charles printed94 notes20 and22 discuss taking angels as the subject and combining the be and shine verbs. This English follows that disclosed syntactic construal; it does not turn the mountains or hills into angels.
  • 51:5[a] Charles brackets the final and rejoice as dittography in printed94 note28. It is retained visibly in brackets here, not presented as an uncontested separate clause.

1 Enoch 51:1

Returning What Was Entrusted

Return, Wisdom and Rejoicing · 1 Enoch 51

Story guide: Rock recesses and people interpret returning, not a mapped underworld or documented resurrection. Destruction is not pictured as a separate being; the deposit reading and all three return clauses stay intact.

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1In those days the earth will give back what was entrusted to it, and Sheol will give back what it was given, and Destruction will give back what it owes.

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