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Chapter 13
1 And Enoch went
and said: Azazel, thou shalt have no peace: a severe sentence has gone forth
2 against thee to put thee in bonds: And thou shalt not have toleration nor
request granted to thee, because of the unrighteousness which thou hast taught,
and because of all the works of godlessness
3 and unrighteousness and sin which thou hast shown to men. Then I went and
spoke to them all
4 together, and they were all afraid, and fear and trembling seized them. And
they besought me to draw up a petition for them that they might find forgiveness,
and to read their petition in the presence
5 of the Lord of heaven. For from thenceforward they could not speak (with Him)
nor lift up their
6 eyes to heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been condemned.
Then I wrote out their petition, and the prayer in regard to their spirits and
their deeds individually and in regard to their
7 requests that they should have forgiveness and length. And I went off and
sat down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the south of the west
of Hermon: I read their petition till I fell
8 asleep. And behold a dream came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and
I saw visions of chastisement, and a voice came bidding (me) I to tell it to
the sons of heaven, and reprimand them.
9 And when I awaked, I came unto them, and they were all sitting gathered together,
weeping in
10 Abelsjail, which is between Lebanon and Seneser, with their faces covered.
And I recounted before them all the visions which I had seen in sleep, and I
began to speak the words of righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly Watchers.
Chapter 14
1 The book of
the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the eternal Watchers in
accordance
2 with the command of the Holy Great One in that vision. I saw in my sleep what
I will now say with a tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which
the Great One has given to men to
3 converse therewith and understand with the heart. As He has created and given
to man the power of understanding the word of wisdom, so hath He created me
also and given me the power of reprimanding
4 the Watchers, the children of heaven. I wrote out your petition, and in my
vision it appeared thus, that your petition will not be granted unto you throughout
all the days of eternity, and that judgement
5 has been finally passed upon you: yea (your petition) will not be granted
unto you. And from henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven unto all eternity,
and in bonds of the earth the decree
6 has gone forth to bind you for all the days of the world. And (that) previously
you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons and ye shall have no
pleasure in them, but they shall fall before
7 you by the sword. And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted,
nor yet on your own: even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained
in the writing which I have
8 written. And the vision was shown to me thus: Behold, in the vision clouds
invited me and a mist summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings
sped and hastened me, and the winds in
9 the vision caused me to fly and lifted me upward, and bore me into heaven.
And I went in till I drew nigh to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded
by tongues of fire: and it began to affright
10 me. And I went
into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large house which was built of crystals:
and the walls of the house were like a tesselated floor (made) of crystals,
and its groundwork was
11 of crystal. Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the lightnings,
and between them were
12 fiery cherubim, and their heaven was (clear as) water. A flaming fire surrounded
the walls, and its
13 portals blazed with fire. And I entered into that house, and it was hot as
fire and cold as ice: there
14 were no delights of life therein: fear covered me, and trembling got hold
upon me. And as I quaked
15 and trembled, I fell upon my face. And I beheld a vision, And lo! there was
a second house, greater
16 than the former, and the entire portal stood open before me, and it was built
of flames of fire. And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and magnificence
and extent that I cannot describe to
17 you its splendour and its extent. And its floor was of fire, and above it
were lightnings and the path
18of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire. And I looked and saw
therein a lofty throne: its appearance was as crystal, and the wheels thereof
as the shining sun, and there was the vision of
19 cherubim. And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so
that I could not look
20 thereon. And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly
than the sun and
21 was whiter than any snow. None of the angels could enter and could behold
His face by reason
22 of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him. The flaming
fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and none around
could draw nigh Him: ten thousand times
23 ten thousand (stood) before Him, yet He needed no counselor. And the most
holy ones who were
24 nigh to Him did not leave by night nor depart from Him. And until then I
had been prostrate on my face, trembling: and the Lord called me with His own
mouth, and said to me: ' Come hither,
25 Enoch, and hear my word.' And one of the holy ones came to me and waked me,
and He made me rise up and approach the door: and I bowed my face downwards.
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