1 Enoch 86:3
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And again I saw in the vision, and looked towards the heaven, and behold I saw many stars descend and cast themselves down from heaven to that first star, and they became bulls amongst those cattle and pastured with them [amongst them].
This verse’s chapter, studied
Stars That Fall and Feed
Enoch sees a star fall from heaven and begin to graze and live among the oxen. Many more stars fall and join it, taking bull form among the cattle. These star-bulls "let out their privy members, like horses" and mate with the cows, who bear elephants, camels, and asses: and the terrified oxen begin to bite, gore, and devour one another as the earth's people tremble and flee.
- Genesis 6:2 : "The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives" is the event this chapter tells as falling stars mating with cattle.
- Genesis 6:11 : "The earth also was corrupt… and… filled with violence" is exactly the aftermath this chapter pictures as oxen goring and devouring one another.
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.