1 Enoch 26:1

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1En-Charles

And I went from thence to the middle of the earth, and I saw a blessed place ┌in which there were trees┐ with branches abiding and blooming [of a dismembered tree].Enoch visits Jerusalem and its vicinity.– Jerusalem. Cf Ezek. xxxviii. 12, v. 5. In Jubilees, viii. 12, 19, it is called the earth's ομφαλός or navel, as Delphi was among the Greeks. In 1 En. xc. 26, Gehenna is 'in the midst of the earth'.all MSS. of E except q read 'blessed planted place'. Cf. xxvii. i, lxxxix. 40; Dan. xi. 16, 41, 45.Cf. the blessing of Joseph, Gen. xlix. 23: also John xv. 5.