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The Book of Enoch

17) ENOCH'S FIRST VISION

83.1 And now, my son Methuselah, I will show you all the visions that I

saw, recounting them before you.

83.2 Two visions I saw, before I took a wife, and neither one was like the
other. For the first time, when I learnt the art of writing, and for the second

time, before I took your mother. I saw a terrible vision and concerning this
I made supplication to the Lord.

83.3 I had lain down in the house of my grandfather, Malalel, when I saw
in a vision how Heaven was thrown down, and removed, and it fell upon

the Earth.

83.4 And when it fell upon the Earth, I saw how the earth was swallowed

up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills

sank down upon hills, and tall trees were torn up by their roots, and were

thrown down, and sank into the abyss.

83.5 And then speech fell into my mouth, and I raised my voice to cry out,

and said: “The earth is destroyed!”

83.6 And my grandfather, Malalel, roused me, since I lay near him, and

said to me: “Why did you cry out so, my son, and why do you moan so?”

83.7 And I recounted to him the whole vision, which I had seen, and he

said to me: “A terrible thing you have seen, my son! Your dream vision

concerns the secrets of all the sin of the Earth; it is about to sink into the

abyss and be utterly destroyed.

83.8 And now, my son, rise and make supplication to the Lord of Glory, for

you are faithful, that a remnant may be left on the Earth and that he may

not wipe out the whole Earth.

83.9 My son, from Heaven all this will come upon the Earth, and upon the

Earth there will be great destruction.”

83.10 And then I rose and prayed, and made supplication, and wrote my

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