1 Enoch 35
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
1And from thence I went towards the west to the ends of the earth, and saw there three portals of the heaven open such as I had seen in the east, the same number of portals, and the same number of outlets.
The chapter, studied
The Mirror in the West
Enoch travels west to the ends of the earth and finds the same arrangement he had already seen in the east: three open portals of heaven, matching in number and outlets.
This is the shortest chapter in the section, essentially a single verse confirming architectural symmetry: the west matches what Enoch "had seen in the east," reinforcing the tour's larger claim that the earth's weather system is built on a single consistent, ordered design rather than region-by-region chaos.
Structurally the brevity is deliberate: having spent a full chapter on the north's portals in chapter 34, the book moves quickly through the west and then covers south and east together in chapter 36, because the point being made is the pattern itself, not a fresh incident in every direction.
Doors into the 66
- Revelation 7:1 — stands beside four angels holding the four winds of the earth
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.
1And from thence I went towards the west to the ends of the earth, and saw there three portals of the heaven open such as I had seen in the east, the same number of portals, and the same number of outlets.
The language it was written in
Aramaic (the Qumran fragments' language); parts possibly Hebrew. The Parables (chs. 37–71) have no Qumran witness and their original language is debated.
What survives, and where
Aramaic: Dead Sea Scrolls
Eleven fragmentary manuscripts from Qumran Cave 4 covering every section except the Parables (3rd c. BC – 1st c. AD).
Greek
Substantial portions: chs. 1–32 (Codex Panopolitanus), quotations in Syncellus, and the Chester Beatty papyrus of the Epistle.
Ge’ez (Ethiopic)
The only complete text, preserved by the Ethiopian church, whose canon receives the book; the base of every full translation.
What you are reading here
R. H. Charles's 1917 English translation, made from the Ge’ez against the Greek and Aramaic evidence then known — public domain, quotable in full.
No tagged word floor exists for the Aramaic or Ge’ez text; word-by-word study on this shelf awaits a future ingest. What stands here is the manuscript story itself.