More difficult to evaluate, and more important, is the image of weighing people or their deeds in the scales of justice (44:5; 49:2; 52:15). This motif is known elsewhere, of course (1 En. 41:1; 61:8; Apoc. Zeph. 8:5), but its most influential source is biblical: God is the one who weighs the heart and repays all according to their deeds (Prov 24:12; cf. 16:2; 21:2; Job 31:6; Dan 5:27). This biblical text links the image of weighing with paying back according to deeds; 2 Enoch extends the formula
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