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the phrase "God took him" with the Greek verb metatithemi u???????u? meaning moving from one place to another. Sirach 44:16, from about the same period, states that "Enoch pleased God and was translated into paradise that he may give repentance to the nations." The Greek word used here for paradise, paradeisos ??????????, was derived from an ancient Persian word meaning "enclosed garden", and was used in the Septuagint to describe

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