1 Enoch 70
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
1And it came to pass after this that his name during his lifetime was raised aloft to that Son of Man and to the Lord of Spirits from amongst those who dwell on the earth.
2And he was raised aloft on the chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them.
3And from that day I was no longer numbered amongst them: and he set me between the two winds, between the North and the West, where the angels took the cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous.
4And there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning dwell in that place.
The chapter, studied
Enoch Is Taken Up, Set Between Two Winds
Enoch's name is "raised aloft" from among the living to the Son of Man and the Lord of Spirits; he is carried "on the chariots of the spirit" and vanishes from among mortal men. He is set in a place between the north and west winds, where angels measure out a place for him among "the first fathers and the righteous."
This short chapter marks Enoch's own translation, his removal from earthly life without ordinary death, narrated in the third person, distinct from the first-person ascent that fills chapter 71. The phrase "raised aloft to that Son of Man and to the Lord of Spirits" places Enoch's transition alongside, not merely toward, the enthroned figure the Parables have been building toward since chapter 46.
Being set "between the two winds, between the North and the West" and measured a place among "the first fathers and the righteous" ties this scene directly back to chapter 61's measuring-cord vision, giving Enoch himself the same accounting and inheritance promised to every one of the righteous dead.
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 it came to pass after this that his name during his lifetime was raised aloft to that Son of Man and to the Lord of Spirits from amongst those who dwell on the earth.
2And he was raised aloft on the chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them.
3And from that day I was no longer numbered amongst them: and he set me between the two winds, between the North and the West, where the angels took the cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous.
4And there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning dwell in that place.
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.