# Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch, Slavonic Enoch) 61:4

**Not Scripture.** Read [Why](https://apologetics.wiki/non-canonical/2-enoch#research-notice) and [the Issues With This Book](https://apologetics.wiki/non-canonical/2-enoch#issues-with-this-book).

Listen, my children, both small and great: When a man conceives a good thought in his heart and brings gifts before the Lord of his labours—if his hands have not wrought them then the Lord turns away His face from the labour of his hands, and he cannot gain advantage from the work of his hand.

Not received as Scripture by the Jewish canon or by the major Christian churches, apart from local exceptions such as the Ethiopian Orthodox canon, which includes 1 Enoch and Jubilees. This is not the Apocrypha.

- Edition: morfill-1896
- Source: https://archive.org/details/bookofsecretsofe00morf
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