Chanuk (Enoch) — 83

1 And now I have shown you, my son Mathushalah, every sight which I saw prior to your birth. I will relate another vision, which I saw before I was married; they resemble each other.

2 The first was when I was learning a book; and the other before I was married to your mother. I saw a potent vision;

3 And on account of these things besought 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.

4 I was lying down in the house of my grandfather Malal'al, I saw in a vision Shamaym thrown down and removed.

5 And when it fell upon the Arath, I saw likewise the Arath absorbed by a great abyss; and mountains suspended over mountains.

6 Hills were sinking upon hills, lofty trees were gliding off from their trunks, and were in the act of being projected, and of sinking into the abyss.

7 And at these things, the word fell down in my mouth. I cried out and said: The Arath is destroyed. Then my grandfather Malal'al raised me up, and said to me: Why do you thus cry out, my son? And wherefore thus do you lament?

8 I related to him the whole vision which I had seen. He said to me: Confirmed is that which you have seen, my son;

9 And potent the vision of your dream respecting every secret sin of the Arath. Its substance shall sink into the abyss, and a great destruction take place.

10 Now, my son, rise up; and beseech the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of Kabad (for you are faithful), that a remnant may be left upon Arath, and that 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH would not wholly destroy it. My son, all this calamity upon Arath comes down from Shamaym; upon Arath shall there be a great destruction.

11 Then I arose, prayed, and entreated; and wrote down my prayer for the generations of the world, explaining everything to my son Mathushalah.

12 When I went down below, and looking up to Shamaym, beheld the sun proceeding from the east, the moon descending to the west, a few stars, and everything which 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH has known from the beginning, I Baraked the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of judgment, and magnified him: because he has sent forth the sun from the windows of the east; that, ascending and rising in the face of Shamaym, it might spring up, and pursue the path which has been pointed out to it.