1 Enoch 67
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
1And in those days the word of God came unto me, and He said unto me: ‘Noah, thy lot has come up before Me, a lot without blame, a lot of love and uprightness.
2And now the angels are making a wooden (building), and when they have completed that task I will place My hand upon it and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of life, and a change shall set in so that the earth will not remain without inhabitant.
3And I will make fast thy seed before me for ever and ever, and I will spread abroad those who dwell with thee: it shall not be unfruitful on the face of the earth, but it shall be blessed and multiply on the earth in the name of the Lord.’
4And He will imprison those angels, who have shown unrighteousness, in that burning valley which my grandfather Enoch had formerly shown to me in the west among the mountains of gold and silver and iron and soft metal and tin.
5And I saw that valley in which there was a great convulsion and a convulsion of the waters.
6And when all this took place, from that fiery molten metal and from the convulsion thereof in that place, there was produced a smell of sulphur, and it was connected with those waters, and that valley of the angels who had led astray (mankind) burned beneath that land.
7And through its valleys proceed streams of fire, where these angels are punished who had led astray those who dwell upon the earth.
8But those waters shall in those days serve for the kings and the mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, for the healing of the body, but for the punishment of the spirit; now their spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their body, for they have denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and yet believe not in His name.
9And in proportion as the burning of their bodies becomes severe, a corresponding change shall take place in their spirit for ever and ever; for before the Lord of Spirits none shall utter an idle word.
10For the judgement shall come upon them, because they believe in the lust of their body and deny the Spirit of the Lord.
11And those same waters will undergo a change in those days; for when those angels are punished in these waters, these water-springs shall change their temperature, and when the angels ascend, this water of the springs shall change and become cold.
12And I heard Michael answering and saying: ‘This judgement wherewith the angels are judged is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who possess the earth.’
13Because these waters of judgement minister to the healing of the body of the kings and the lust of their body; therefore they will not see and will not believe that those waters will change and become a fire which burns for ever.
The chapter, studied
The Ark, and the Valley That Burns for the Angels
The word of God comes to Noah, promising to preserve his "lot without blame" through a wooden vessel the angels are building, so that "the seed of life" survives and the earth is never again left without inhabitant. The guilty angels are imprisoned in a burning valley among mountains of gold, silver, iron, and tin, the same valley Enoch had shown Noah earlier, where the waters serve two purposes at once: healing for the bodies of unrepentant kings now, and, in time, a fire that burns forever for their unbelieving spirits.
The chapter gives Noah his own direct-address flood narrative, paralleling Genesis but told entirely from the angelic and cosmic side: the wooden vessel is "the angels... making," and God's hand is placed on it to "preserve it" so that "the seed of life" continues. The promise "it shall not be unfruitful on the face of the earth, but it shall be blessed and multiply" echoes the same fruitfulness blessing given to Noah's family in Genesis.
The imprisoning valley, already shown to Noah by Enoch earlier ("among the mountains of gold and silver and iron and soft metal and tin"), becomes the site of a striking double-edged image: waters that heal the body but "for the punishment of the spirit," since the kings who bathe in them still "deny the Lord of Spirits" even while healed. Bodily relief and spiritual danger are pictured as running through the very same water.
Michael's closing comment, that this judgment "is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who possess the earth", makes the punishment itself an ongoing sign to the living, not merely a private matter between God and the fallen angels: the wicked see their judgment "daily, and yet believe not in His name."
The valley where the guilty angels are bound and burn is the same valley Enoch had already shown Noah: the Book of Parables keeping the Watchers' judgment bound tightly to the flood narrative itself, consistent with Jude 6 and 2 Peter 2:4's picture of fallen angels held for judgment.
Doors into the 66
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. II — The Parables of Enoch (2020)
The reader's commentary continued into the Son of Man visions of these chapters.
1And in those days the word of God came unto me, and He said unto me: ‘Noah, thy lot has come up before Me, a lot without blame, a lot of love and uprightness.
2And now the angels are making a wooden (building), and when they have completed that task I will place My hand upon it and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of life, and a change shall set in so that the earth will not remain without inhabitant.
3And I will make fast thy seed before me for ever and ever, and I will spread abroad those who dwell with thee: it shall not be unfruitful on the face of the earth, but it shall be blessed and multiply on the earth in the name of the Lord.’
4And He will imprison those angels, who have shown unrighteousness, in that burning valley which my grandfather Enoch had formerly shown to me in the west among the mountains of gold and silver and iron and soft metal and tin.
5And I saw that valley in which there was a great convulsion and a convulsion of the waters.
6And when all this took place, from that fiery molten metal and from the convulsion thereof in that place, there was produced a smell of sulphur, and it was connected with those waters, and that valley of the angels who had led astray (mankind) burned beneath that land.
7And through its valleys proceed streams of fire, where these angels are punished who had led astray those who dwell upon the earth.
8But those waters shall in those days serve for the kings and the mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, for the healing of the body, but for the punishment of the spirit; now their spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their body, for they have denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and yet believe not in His name.
9And in proportion as the burning of their bodies becomes severe, a corresponding change shall take place in their spirit for ever and ever; for before the Lord of Spirits none shall utter an idle word.
10For the judgement shall come upon them, because they believe in the lust of their body and deny the Spirit of the Lord.
11And those same waters will undergo a change in those days; for when those angels are punished in these waters, these water-springs shall change their temperature, and when the angels ascend, this water of the springs shall change and become cold.
12And I heard Michael answering and saying: ‘This judgement wherewith the angels are judged is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who possess the earth.’
13Because these waters of judgement minister to the healing of the body of the kings and the lust of their body; therefore they will not see and will not believe that those waters will change and become a fire which burns for ever.
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.