1 Enoch 66
Outside the Protestant canon. Scripture for: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo. How each church treats it →
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LXVI. The Angels of the Waters bidden to hold them in Check.
1And after that he showed me the angels of punishment who are prepared to come and let loose all the powers of the waters which are beneath in the earth in order to bring judgement and destruction on all who [abide and] dwell on the earth.They deal solely with the second judgement in the Parables. Here they wrongly are said to be the agents of the Deluge, and angels over the power of the waters. See xl. 7 (note). Cf liv. 7 and lx. 16. Cf. Rev. xvi. 5. 2And the Lord of Spirits gave commandment to the angels who were going forth, that they should not cause the waters to rise but should hold them in check; for those angels were over the powers of the waters.Text corruptly reads 'the hands'. The angels are to pause that the ark may be built. Cf. Rev. vii. 1 seqq. 3And I went away from the presence of Enoch.
1En-Charles: 1 Enoch, tr. R. H. Charles (APOT 1913) (1913) · Public Domain · The Book of Enoch, tr. R. H. Charles, in The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1913); public domain. Digital text: CrossWire SWORD module 'Enoch' v2.0.