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Before these things Chanokh was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew where he was hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him. 2. And his activities had to do with the Iriyn, and his days were with the set-apart ones.
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And I, Chanokh, was blessing the Sovereign of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Iriyn called me - Chanokh the scribe - and said to me: 4. ‘Chanokh, you scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Iriyn of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the set-apart eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken to themselves wives: “You have wrought great destruction on the earth: 5. And you shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children, 6. The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication to eternity, but mercy and peace shall you not attain.”’