Again they observe the days of summer, that the sun is direct upon it at their beginning, when you seek for a covered and shady tree, by reason of the burning sun, when the earth is scorched with fervid heat, and you are neither able to walk upon the ground or upon the rocks, because of that heat.
Apocrypha · Chapter 5 of 105
Book of Enoch 5
Ethiopic
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The most influential apocryphal book there is: the fall of the Watcher angels, the giants, Enoch's journey through the heavens and the final judgement. Quoted in the New Testament by the letter of Jude and held canonical by the Ethiopian Church.