1 Enoch 32:5
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
Then I said: ‘How beautiful is the tree, and how attractive is its look!’
This verse’s chapter, studied
The Garden of Righteousness, and the Tree That Opened Eyes
Enoch crosses the Erythraean Sea and comes to the Garden of Righteousness, filled with large, beautiful, fragrant trees, among them the tree of wisdom. Raphael tells him this is the very tree his father and mother, old Adam and Eve, ate from, gaining wisdom, having their eyes opened, realizing they were naked, and being driven from the garden.
- Genesis 2:9 : the tree of knowledge of good and evil that Raphael identifies for Enoch
- Genesis 3:7 : echoes their eyes being opened and their knowing that they were naked
- Genesis 3:23 : echoes the Lord God sending them forth from the garden of Eden
Teachers on this ground
R. H. Charles
The Book of Enoch (1917)
The public-domain translation this shelf reads, with the critical introduction the field still builds on.
Johnny Enlow
The Book of Enoch: Paraphrase and Commentary (2025)
A living teacher's paraphrase of the whole book with his own running commentary, from the prophetic stream.
Michael S. Heiser
A Companion to the Book of Enoch: A Reader's Commentary, Vol. I — The Book of the Watchers (2019)
A verse-by-verse reader's commentary on chapters 1–36: the closest thing in print to a study Bible for this section.