Parallels with Canonical Texts
Comprehensive view of all connections between the Book of Enoch and biblical and other religious texts
Direct Quote
Book of Enoch
1:2I Enoch, blessed with blessing, shall declare to you, the sons of men, all things that pertain to the sons of men.
The Book of the Watchers
Canonical Text
Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
Connection: Enoch walked with God
Book of Enoch
1:9And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.'
The Book of the Watchers
Canonical Text
Connection: Jude directly quotes this prophecy of Enoch about the Lord coming with ten thousands of His saints.
Book of Enoch
4:1And Enoch walked with God. And he was not, for God took him.
Enoch's Visions of Heaven
Canonical Text
Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
Connection: Enoch's translation
Book of Enoch
20:4'Michael is set over the repentance and the holy hope of those who inherit eternal life.'
The Archangels and Their Duties
Canonical Text
Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
Connection: Ministering spirits
Thematic
Book of Enoch
1:8And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.
The Book of the Watchers
Canonical Text
The sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
Connection: Beautiful daughters and angelic desire
Book of Enoch
1:9And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.'
The Book of the Watchers
Canonical Text
Connection: Both describe the Second Coming and final judgment. Moses 7 includes Enoch seeing this event in vision.
Book of Enoch
Expanded
Book of Enoch
5:1And in those days the word of the Lord came unto me, and he said: 'Go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto them wives.'
The Watchers' Punishment Continued
Canonical Text
And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling — these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment.
Connection: Watchers' transgression
Book of Enoch
20:2'Uriel is set over Tartarus and the torments of the spirits.'
The Archangels and Their Duties
Canonical Text
In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side... between us and you a great chasm has been set in place.
Connection: Tartarus