1 And in those days shall the earth also give back that which has been entrusted to it,
And Sheol also shall give back that which it has received,
And hell shall give back that which it owes.
5a For in those days the Elect One shall arise,
2 And he shall choose the righteous and holy from among them:
For the day has drawn nigh that they should be saved.
3 And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne,
And his mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and counsel:
For the Lord of Spirits hath given (them) to him and hath glorified him.
4 And in those days shall the mountains leap like rams,
And the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk,
And the faces of [all] the angels in heaven shall be lighted up with joy.
5b And the earth shall rejoice,
5c And the righteous shall dwell upon it,
5d And the elect shall walk thereon.
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l And after those days in that place where I had seen all the visions of that which
is hidden -for
2 I had been carried off in a whirlwind and they had borne me towards
the west-There mine eyes saw all the secret things of heaven that shall be, a mountain
of iron, and a mountain of copper, and a mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold,
and a mountain of soft metal, and a mountain of lead.
3 And I asked the angel who went
with me, saying, 'What things are these which I have seen in
4 secret?' And he said unto
me: 'All these things which thou hast seen shall serve the dominion of His Anointed that
he may be potent and mighty on the earth.'
5 And that angel of peace answered, saying
unto me: 'Wait a little, and there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things
which surround the Lord of Spirits.
6 And these mountains which thine eyes have seen,
The mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver,
And the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the mountain of lead,
All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One
As wax: before the fire,
And like the water which streams down from above [upon those mountains],
And they shall become powerless before his feet.
7 And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved,
Either by gold or by silver,
And none be able to escape.
8 And there shall be no iron for war,
Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate.
Bronze shall be of no service,
And tin [shall be of no service and] shall not be esteemed,
And lead shall not be desired.
9 And all these things shall be [denied and] destroyed from the surface of the earth,
When the Elect One shall appear before the face of the Lord of Spirits.'
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1 There mine eyes saw a deep valley with open mouths, and all who dwell on the earth and sea and islands shall bring to him gifts and presents and tokens of homage, but that deep valley shall not become full.
2 And their hands commit lawless deeds,
And the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly oppress:
Yet the sinners shall be destroyed before the face of the Lord of Spirits,
And they shall be banished from off the face of His earth,
And they shall perish for ever and ever.
3 For I saw all the angels of punishment abiding (there) and preparing all the
instruments of Satan.
4 And I asked the angel of peace who went with me: ' For whom are
they preparing these Instruments?'
5 And he said unto me: ' They prepare these for the
kings and the mighty of this earth, that they may thereby be destroyed.
6 And after this
the Righteous and Elect One shall cause the house of his congregation to appear: henceforth
they shall be no more hindered in the name of the Lord of Spirits.
7 And these mountains shall not stand as the earth before his righteousness, But the
hills shall be as a fountain of water,
And the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of sinners.'
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1 And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and saw there a deep valley
with burning
2 fire. And they brought the kings and the mighty, and began to
cast them into this deep valley.
3 And there mine eyes saw how they made these
their instruments, iron chains of immeasurable weight.
4 And I asked the angel of
peace who went with me, saying: ' For whom are these chains being prepared ? '
And he said unto me: ' These are being prepared for the hosts of Azazel, so
that they may take them and cast them into the abyss of complete condemnation,
and they shall cover their jaws with rough stones as the Lord of Spirits commanded.
6 And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of them on that
great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace, that the Lord of Spirits may
take vengeance on them for their unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading
astray those who dwell on the earth.'
7 And in those days shall punishment come
from the Lord of Spirits, and he will open all the chambers of waters which are above
the heavens, and of the fountains which are beneath the earth.
8 And all the waters shall be joined with the waters: that which is above the heavens is the masculine, 9 and the water which is beneath the earth is the feminine. And they shall destroy all who dwell 10 on the earth and those who dwell under the ends of the heaven. And when they have recognized their unrighteousness which they have wrought on the earth, then by these shall they perish.
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1 And after that the Head of Days repented and said: ' In vain have I destroyed all
who dwell
2 on the earth.' And He sware by His great name: ' Henceforth
I will not do so to all who dwell on the earth, and I will set a sign in the heaven:
and this shall be a pledge of good faith between Me and them for ever, so long as heaven
is above the earth. And this is in accordance with My command.
3 When I have desired to take hold of them by the hand of the angels
on the day of tribulation and pain because of this,
I will cause My chastisement and My wrath to abide upon them, saith
4 God, the Lord of Spirits. Ye mighty kings who dwell on the earth, ye shall have
behold Mine Elect One, how he sits on the throne of glory and judges Azazel, and all
his associates, and all his hosts in the name of the Lord of Spirits.'
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1 And I saw there the hosts of the angels of punishment going, and they held scourges
and chains
2 of iron and bronze. And I asked the angel of peace who went with me, saying:
' To whom are
3 these who hold the scourges going ? ' And he said unto me:
' To their elect and beloved ones, that they may be cast into the chasm of the abyss
of the valley.
4 And then that valley shall be filled with their elect and beloved,
And the days of their lives shall be at an end,
And the days of their leading astray shall not thenceforward be reckoned.
5 And in those days the angels shall return
And hurl themselves to the east upon the Parthians and Medes:
They shall stir up the kings, so that a spirit of unrest shall come upon them,
And they shall rouse them from their thrones,
That they may break forth as lions from their lairs,
And as hungry wolves among their flocks.
6 And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His elect ones
[And the land of His elect ones shall be before them a threshing-floor and a highway :]
7 But the city of my righteous shall be a hindrance to their horses.
And they shall begin to fight among themselves,
And their right hand shall be strong against themselves,
And a man shall not know his brother,
Nor a son his father or his mother,
Till there be no number of the corpses through their slaughter,
And their punishment be not in vain.
8 In those days Sheol shall open its jaws,
And they shall be swallowed up therein
And their destruction shall be at an end;
Sheol shall devour the sinners in the presence of the elect.' |
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1 And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of wagons, and men riding thereon,
and
2 coming on the winds from the east, and from the west to the south.
And the noise of their wagons was heard, and when this turmoil took place the
holy ones from heaven remarked it, and the pillars of the earth were moved from their
place, and the sound thereof was heard from the one end of heaven
3 to the other,
in one day. And they shall all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits.
And this is the end of the second Parable.
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1 And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and elect.
2 Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect,
For glorious shall be your lot.
3 And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun.
And the elect in the light of eternal life:
The days of their life shall be unending,
And the days of the holy without number.
4 And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the Lord of Spirits:
There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal Lord.
5 And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven
That they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of faith:
For it has become bright as the sun upon earth,
And the darkness is past.
6 And there shall be a light that never endeth,
And to a limit (lit. ' number ') of days they shall not come,
For the darkness shall first have been destroyed,
[And the light established before the Lord of Spirits]
And the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of Spirits.
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1 [In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings, and of the lights, and the
judgements they execute (lit. ' their judgement '): and they lighten for a blessing or a
curse as the Lord of
2 Spirits willeth. And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, and
how when it resounds above in the heaven, the sound thereof is heard, and he caused me to
see the judgements executed on the earth, whether they be for well-being and blessing, or
for a curse according to the word of the Lord of Spirits.
3 And after that all the secrets
of the lights and lightnings were shown to me, and they lighten for blessing and for
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CHAPTER 60 | A Fragment of the Book of Noah
1 In the year 500, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the life of
Enoch. In that Parable I saw how a mighty quaking made the heaven of heavens to quake, and
the host of the Most High, and the angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten
thousand, were
2 disquieted with a great disquiet. And the Head of Days sat on the throne of His glory, and the angels and the righteous stood around Him.
3 And a great trembling seized me,
And fear took hold of me,
And my loins gave way,
And dissolved were my reins,
And I fell upon my face.
4 And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones and he raised me up,
and when he had raised me up my spirit returned; for I had not been able to endure the
look of this host, and the
5 commotion and the quaking of the heaven. And Michael said
unto me: ' Why art thou disquieted with such a vision? Until this day lasted the day of His
mercy; and He hath been merciful and
6 long-suffering towards those who dwell on the earth.
And when the day, and the power, and the punishment, and the judgement come, which the Lord of
Spirits hath prepared for those who worship not the righteous law, and for those who deny the
righteous judgement, and for those who take His name in vain-that day is prepared, for the
elect a covenant, but for sinners an inquisition.
25 When the punishment of the Lord of
Spirits shall rest upon them, it shall rest in order that the punishment of the Lord of
Spirits may not come, in vain, and it shall slay the children with their mothers and the
children with their fathers. Afterwards the judgement shall take place according to His mercy
and His patience.'
7 And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named
Leviathan, to dwell in the
8 abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the waters.
But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named
Duidain, on the east of the garden where the elect and righteous dwell, where my
grandfather was taken up, the seventh from Adam, the first
9 man whom the Lord of
Spirits created. And I besought the other angel that he should show me the might of
those monsters, how they were parted on one day and cast, the one into the abysses
10 of the sea, and the other unto the dry land of the wilderness. And he said to me: '
Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to know what is hidden.'
11 And the other angel
who went with me and showed me what was hidden told me what is first and last in the heaven
in the height, and beneath the earth in the depth, and at the ends of the
12 heaven,
and on the foundation of the heaven. And the chambers of the winds, and how the winds are
divided, and how they are weighed, and (how) the portals of the winds are reckoned, each
according to the power of the wind, and the power of the lights of the moon, and according
to the power that is fitting: and the divisions of the stars according to their names,
and how all the divisions
13 are divided. And the thunders according to the places
where they fall, and all the divisions that are made among the lightnings that it may
lighten, and their host that they may at once obey.
14 For the thunder has places
of rest (which) are assigned (to it) while it is waiting for its peal; and the thunder and
lightning are inseparable, and although not one and undivided, they both go together
15 through the spirit and separate not. For when the lightning lightens, the thunder
utters its voice, and the spirit enforces a pause during the peal, and divides equally
between them; for the treasury of their peals is like the sand, and each one of them as
it peals is held in with a bridle, and turned back by the power of the spirit, and pushed
forward according to the many quarters of the earth.
16 And the spirit of the sea is
masculine and strong, and according to the might of his strength he draws it back with a rein,
and in like manner it is driven forward and disperses amid all the mountains
17 of the
earth. And the spirit of the hoar-frost is his own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a
good
18 angel. And the spirit of the snow has forsaken his chambers on account of his
strength -There is a special spirit therein, and that which ascends from it is like smoke,
and its name is frost. And the spirit of the mist is not united with them in their chambers,
but it has a special chamber; for its course is glorious both in light and in darkness, and
in winter and in summer, and in its chamber is an angel.
19 And the spirit of the dew has its
dwelling at the ends of the heaven, and is connected with the chambers of the rain, and its
course is in winter and summer: and its clouds and the clouds of the
20 mist are connected,
and the one gives to the other. And when the spirit of the rain goes forth from its chamber,
the angels come and open the chamber and lead it out, and when it is diffused over the whole
earth it unites with the water on the earth. And whensoever it unites with the water on
21 the earth . . . For the waters are for those who dwell on the earth; for they are
nourishment for the earth from the Most High who is in heaven: therefore there is a measure
for the rain,
22, and the angels take it in charge. And these things I saw towards the
Garden of the Righteous.
23 And the angel of peace who was with me said to me:
' These two monsters, prepared conformably to the greatness of God, shall feed . . .
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