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The Book of Enoch
7) ENOCH STAYS FOR A WHILE WITH THE WATCHERS
17.1 And they took me to a place where they were like burning fire, and,
when they wished, they made themselves look like men.
17.2 And they led me to a place of storm, and to a mountain, the tip of
whose summit reached to Heaven.
17.3 And I saw lighted places, and thunder in the outermost ends, in its
depths a bow of fire, and arrows and their quivers, and a sword of fire, and
all the flashes of lightning.
17.4 And they took me to the Water of Life, as it is called, and to the Fire
of the West, which receives every setting of the Sun.
17.5 And I came to a river of fire, whose fire flows like water, and pours
out into the Great Sea, which is towards the west.
17.6 And I saw all the great rivers, and I reached the Great Darkness, and
went where all flesh walks.
17.7 And I saw the Mountains of the Darkness of Winter and the place
where the water of all the deeps pours out.
17.8 And I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the Earth, and the mouth of
the deep.
18.1 And I saw the storehouses of all the winds, and I saw how with them
He has adorned all creation, and I saw the foundations of the Earth.
18.2 And I saw the cornerstone of the Earth. And I saw the four winds
which support the Earth and the sky.
18.3 And I saw how the winds stretch out the height of Heaven, and how
they position themselves between Heaven and Earth; they are the Pillars of
Heaven.
18.4 And I saw the winds which turn the sky and cause the disc of the Sun
and all the stars to set.
18.5 And I saw the winds on the Earth which support the clouds and I saw
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