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1 Enoch 17:3 includes a reference to a flaming sword, echoing the imagery found in the Greek Septuagint translation of Genesis 3:24 where a flaming sword guards the way to the tree of life. This may demonstrate how some specific translations of 1 Enoch are aware of existing Hellenistic Greek translations and traditions.
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LXX Genesis 3:24
Septuagint
22 Then God said, “See, Adam has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, and now perhaps he might reach out his hand and take of the tree of life and eat, and he will live forever.” 23 And the Lord God sent him forth from the orchard of delight to till the earth from which he was taken. 24 And he drove Adam out and caused him to dwell opposite the orchard of delight, and he stationed the cheroubim and the flaming sword that turns, to guard the way of the tree of life.
Date: 3rd Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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1 Enoch 17:3
Pseudepigrapha
1 And they brought me to a place where those present were like flaming fire, and when they wished, they appeared as men. 2 And they led me to a place of darkness, and to a mountain whose peak reached to heaven. 3 And I saw the places of the sun and moon and the treasuries of the stars and of the thunder in the utmost depths, where there was a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and all the lightnings. 4 And they took me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west, which receives every setting of the sun. 5 And I came to a river of fire where the fire flows like water and pours into the great sea towards the west.
Date: 200-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... The Ethiopian has in addition “and a flaming sword,” for which compare the “flaming sword” of Genesis 3:24 (LXX) ..."
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