Scriptural Savant

1 Enoch 17

Related ancient text — scholarly reference

Extra-canonical text — not LDS scripture and not in the KJV Apocrypha. Provided as scholarly reference for parallel literature of the Second Temple period and the early Christian era. Read with discernment; the Apostle Jude quotes 1 Enoch and Paul knew this material, but inclusion here is for study, not doctrine.

1And they took and brought me to a place in which those who were there were like flaming fire,

2and, when they wished, they appeared as men. And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven. And I saw the places of the luminaries and the treasuries of the stars and of the thunder and in the uttermost depths, where were

4a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and all the lightnings. And they took

5me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west, which receives every setting of the sun. And I came to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the great sea towards

6the west. I saw the great rivers and came to the great river and to the great darkness, and went

7to the place where no flesh walks. I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place

8whence all the waters of the deep flow. I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.

Public-domain text (R.H. Charles 1913 and equivalents). These works are not canonical, but several were widely read in antiquity and one (1 Enoch) is quoted by name in Jude 1:14–15. Useful for understanding the doctrinal landscape from which the apostles and earliest saints taught.