2 Enoch (Slavonic Enoch)

About this text

Also called "The Book of the Secrets of Enoch." Describes Enoch's journey through ten heavens, creation accounts, and moral teachings. Preserved in Old Slavonic manuscripts.

Significance

Expands the Enochic tradition with unique cosmological details not found elsewhere.

How to Read This Historical Text

2 Enoch (Slavonic Enoch) is included here as a historical and educational resource, not as Scripture and not as a replacement for the biblical canon. Readers may find it useful for understanding the ideas, debates, devotional language, and literary settings that surrounded Jewish and Christian communities in different periods.

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Key excerpts

"I saw the treasuries of the snow and ice, and the angels who keep their terrible storehouses, and the clouds from whence they come and go."

"Blessed is the man who fears the name of the Lord, who serves before His face continually."

Scripture cross-references

• Job 38:22 — God asks Job about the "storehouses of snow"
• Hebrews 11:5 — Enoch was taken so he would not see death

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This text is one of 17 in the Early Jewish / Second Temple Texts category, and one of 62 across the entire library.