Book of Enoch
Complete text of the ancient religious work attributed to Enoch, great-grandfather of Noah. Browse, search, and study the Ethiopic Book of Enoch.
Why we built it
The Book of Enoch is cited in Jude and quoted in fragments across the early church, yet it usually reaches a reader as a public-domain scan or a plain-text file with no navigation. This edition is the text itself made readable: numbered verses, a chapter index, narration on every chapter, and a commentary note beside each one so the historical context — the Watchers, the flood, the messianic passages — is available where the reader meets it rather than in a separate search.
How it works
The text is numbered verse by verse across 108 chapters, with a chapter index that lists every chapter rather than paging through them. The edition can be switched from the reading view, and the choice follows you through the book.
Each chapter carries a commentary note and audio, so the historical context and a spoken reading sit beside the passage rather than in a second tab. Search runs across the whole text and jumps to the verse, and a signed-in reader keeps bookmarks and a continue-reading position.
What it does
All 108 chapters
The complete text, numbered verse by verse, with a chapter index that lists every chapter rather than paging through them.
Editions side by side
Switch the translation from the reading view — the Oxford 1917 edition is the default, and the choice follows you through the book.
Narration
Every chapter has audio, playable from the chapter header without leaving the text.
Commentary per chapter
A historical and textual note sits beside the chapter it belongs to, so context does not need a second tab.
Search the text
Search the whole book for a word or phrase and jump straight to the verse.
Pick up where you stopped
A signed-in reader keeps a profile with bookmarks and a continue-reading position.
Inside the app
Captured from the running product — no mock-ups.
On a phone
What it does not do
A limit named before you open the app is worth more than a feature list that never mentions one.
- The commentary is a reading aid, not a critical apparatus: there is no manuscript apparatus, variant list or original-language interlinear.
- The audio is generated narration rather than a studio recording, and it reads the English text.
- Bookmarks and reading position need an account. The text itself is readable without one.