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The Book of Enoch · 80 of 109
Chapter LXXX
1.And in those days the angel Uriel answered and said to me: ‘Behold, I have shown thee everything, Enoch, and I have revealed everything to thee that thou shouldst see this sun and this moon, and the leaders of the stars of the heaven and all those who turn them, their tasks and times and departures.
2.And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened,
And their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields,
And all things on the earth shall alter,
And shall not appear in their time:
And the rain shall be kept back
And the heaven shall withhold (it).
3.And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward,
And shall not grow in their time,
And the fruits of the trees shall be withheld in their time.
4.And the moon shall alter her order,
And not appear at her time.
5.And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening on the extremity of the great chariot in the west And shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.
6.And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order (prescribed).
And these shall alter their orbits and tasks,
And not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
7.And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners,
And the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them,
And they shall be altered from all their ways,
Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods.
8.And evil shall be multiplied upon them,
And punishment shall come upon them So as to destroy all.’
Asked of Guide
Why will the sun, moon, and stars change their courses in this chapter?
The angel Uriel tells Enoch that celestial changes happen because of human sin: “in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened” and the heavenly bodies will “alter their orbits and tasks” as a consequence. These changes serve as signs and punishments—rain and fruits withheld, and the “whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners”—so people will be driven into error and idolatry.
This chapter treats cosmic disorder as moral causality rather than neutral astronomy; the sky responds to human wickedness. That idea echoes Revelation, which links cosmic disturbances to judgment, and also mirrors passages in Isaiah where celestial signs accompany divine intervention.
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