2 And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh. (ENO) 3 And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds, and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep. (ENO) 4 And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there: and their bones too fell to the earth and the sheep became few. (ENO)
Book of Enoch 90:2–4
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Book of Enoch 90:7–9
7 Yea, they cried to them, but they did not hearken to what they said to them, but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were very exceedingly blinded. (ENO) 8 And I saw in the vision how the ravens flew upon those lambs and took one of those lambs, and dashed the sheep… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 89:18–20
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Book of Enoch 89:36–38
36 And I saw in this vision till that sheep became a man and built a house for the Lord of the sheep, and placed all the sheep in that house. (ENO) 37 And I saw till this sheep which had met that sheep which led them fell asleep: and I saw till all the great sheep perishe… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 90:18–20
18 And I saw till the Lord of the sheep came unto them and took in His hand the staff of His wrath, and smote the earth, and the earth clave asunder, and all the beasts and all the birds of the heaven fell from among those sheep, and were swallowed up in the ear… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 89:41–43
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Book of Enoch 90:29–31
29 And I saw till the Lord of the sheep brought a new house greater and loftier than that first, and set it up in the place of the first which had been folded up: all its pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and larger than those of the first, the old on… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 89:26–28
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Book of Enoch 89:54–56
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