1 Enoch 81:9

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And those who practise righteousness shall die on account of the deeds of men, And be taken away on account of the doings of the godless.’The righteous die, yet they are taken away to the abodes of the blessed. The phrase is borrowed from Isa. lvii. 1, 'The righteous is taken away out of the way of (or 'because of) the evil.' Cf. 2 Kings xxii. 20; Wisdom iv. 7-14. The Hebrew word 'take away' occurs in e.g. Num. xx. 26; Ps. civ. 29.