Assumption of Moses 6

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.

1Then there shall be raised up unto them kings bearing rule, and they shall call themselves priests of the Most High God: they shall assuredly work iniquity in the holy of holies.

2And an insolent king shall succeed them, who will not be of the race of the priests, a man bold and shameless, and he shall judge them as they shall deserve.

3And he shall cut off their chief men with the sword, and shall destroy them in secret places, so that no one may know where their bodies are.

4He shall slay the old and the young, and he shall not spare.

5Then the fear of him shall be bitter unto them in their land.

6And he shall execute judgments on them as the Egyptians executed upon them, during thirty and four years, and he shall punish them.

7And he shall beget children, (who) succeeding him shall rule for shorter periods.

8Into their parts cohorts and a powerful king of the west shall come, who shall conquer them: and he shall take them captive, and burn a part of their temple with fire, (and) shall crucify some around their colony.

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.