1 Enoch 31
What Happens in This Chapter
The traveler continues his tour and sees more mountains with groves of trees on them, and a sweet-smelling sap flows out of the trees. Past those mountains he sees another mountain, east of the ends of the earth, covered with aloe trees that look like almond trees and are full of fragrant gum. When the gum is burned, its smell is sweeter than any other sweet smell. The chapter is part of a list of the fragrant trees and their places that he is shown.
Then I saw more mountains. Among them were groves of trees, and a sweet liquid flowed out of the trees. It is called sarara and galbanum.
1And I saw other mountains, and amongst them were groves of trees, and there flowed forth from them nectar, which is named sarara and galbanum.
"Nectar" here means the sap or gum that seeps out of a tree, not flower nectar. Galbanum is one such gum, used to make incense; sarara is a name we no longer know the meaning of.
2Past these mountains I saw another mountain, east of the far edge of the earth. Aloe trees grew on it, and all the trees were full of stacte. They looked like almond trees.
2And beyond these mountains I saw another mountain to the east of the ends of the earth, whereon were aloe-trees, and all the trees were full of stacte, being like almond-trees.
Stacte is another sweet-smelling gum that oozes from a tree and was burned as incense.
3And when someone burned it, it smelled sweeter than any sweet smell.
3And when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
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