21 |About how here the angels left Enoch at the edge of the 7^th heaven, and departed from him invisibly. Word "20."|

And they do not leave by night, nor depart by day, standing in front of the face of the LORD, and carrying out his will * cherubim and seraphim standing all around his throne, six-winged and many-eyed; |and| they cover his entire throne, singing with gentle voice, in front of the face of the LORD.

            Holy, Holy, Holy, LORD |Lord| Sabaoth,

            Heaven and earth are full of his glory.

And when I had seen all these things, those men said to me, "Enoch, up to this point we have been commanded to travel with you." And the men went away from me, and from then on I did not see them anymore. But I, I remained alone at the edge of the seventh heaven. And I became terrified; and I fell on my face, and I said in myself, "Woe to me! What has happened to me?"

And the LORD sent one of his glorious ones, the Archangel Gabriel. And he said to me, "Be brave, Enoch! Don't be frightened! Stand up, and come with me and stand in front of the face of the LORD forever."

And I answered him and said, "Woe to me, my LORD! My soul has departed from me from fear and horror. And call 〈to me〉 the two men who brought me to this place, because I have put my confidence in them, and with them I will go before the face of the LORD." *〈|And Gabriel carried me up, like a leaf carried up by the wind.| He moved me along〉 and put me down in front of the face of the LORD. *And I saw the eighth heaven, which is called in the Hebrew language Muzaloth, the changer of the seasons, of dry and of wet, and the 12 zodiacs, which are above the seventh heaven. And I saw the ninth heaven, which in the Hebrew language is called Kukhavim, where the heavenly houses of the 12 zodiacs are.

22 |In the 10^th heaven the archangel Michael brought Enoch in front of the face of the LORD. Word "21."|

And on the 10^th heaven, Aravoth, I saw the view of the face of the LORD, like iron made burning hot in a fire |and| brought out, and it emits sparks and is incandescent. Thus even I saw the face of the LORD. But the face of the LORD is not to be talked about, it is so very marvelous and supremely awesome and supremely frightening. *|And| who am I to give an account of the incomprehensible being of the LORD, and of his face, so extremely strange and indescribable? And how many are his commands, and his multiple voice, and the LORD's throne, supremely great and not made by hands, and the choir stalls all around him, the cherubim and the seraphim armies, and their never-silent singing.

Who can give an account of his beautiful appearance, never changing

and indescribable, and his great glory? *And I fell down flat and did

obeisance to the LORD. *And the LORD, with his own mouth, said to me, "Be brave, Enoch! Don't be frightened! Stand up, and stand in front of my face forever." *And Michael, the LORD's archistratig, lifted me up and brought me in front of the face of the LORD. And the LORD said to his servants, sounding them out, "Let Enoch join in and stand in front of my face forever!" *And the LORD's glorious ones did obeisance and said, "Let Enoch yield in accordance with your word, O LORD!"

And the LORD said to Michael, "Go, and extract Enoch from |his| earthly clothing. And anoint him with my delightful oil, and put him into the clothes of my glory." *And so Michael did, just as the LORD had said to him. He anointed me and clothed me. And the appearance of that oil is greater than the greatest light, and its ointment is like sweet dew, and its fragrance       myrrh;

and it is like the rays of the glittering sun. *And I looked at myself, and I had become like one of his glorious ones, and there was no observable difference. And the LORD summoned one of his archangels, Vrevoil by name, who was swifter in wisdom than the other archangels,

and who records all the LORD's deeds. *And the LORD said to Vrevoil, "Bring out the books from my storehouses, and fetch a pen for speed-writing, and give it to Enoch and read him the books." 〈And Vrevoil hurried and brought me the books,〉 a knife(?), and ink(?). And he gave me the pen for speed writing from his hand.

23 |About Enoch's writing; how he wrote about his marvelous travels and what the heavens look like. And he himself wrote 360 and 6 books. Word "22."|

And he was telling me all the things of heaven and earth and sea and all the elements and the movements and their courses, and the living thunder, the sun and the moon and the stars, their courses and their changes, and seasons and years and days and hours, and

the coming of the clouds and the blowing of the winds, and the number of the angels and the songs of the armed troops;

and every kind of human thing, and every kind of language (and) singing, and human life and rules and instructions and sweet voiced singing, and everything that it is appropriate to learn.

And Vrevoil instructed me for 30 days and 30 nights, and his mouth never stopped speaking. And, as for me, I did not rest, writing all the symbols and all the creatures. *And when I had finished 30 days and 30 nights, Vrevoil said to me, "These things, whatever I have taught you, whatever you have learned, and whatever we have written down, you sit down |and| write * all the souls of men, whatever of them are not yet born, and their places, prepared for eternity.

For all the souls are prepared for eternity, before the composition

of the earth." *And I sat down for a second period of 30 days and 30 nights, and I wrote everything accurately. And I wrote 366 books.

24 |About the great secrets of God, which God revealed and related to Enoch; and he spoke with him face to face. Word "23."|

And the Lord called me; and he said to me, "Enoch, sit to the left of me with Gabriel." And I did obeisance to the LORD.

And the LORD spoke to me: "Enoch |Beloved|, whatever you see and whatever things are standing still or moving about were brought to perfection by me. And I myself will explain it to you.

Before anything existed at all, from the very beginning, whatever exists I created from the non-existent, and from the invisible the visible.

|Listen, Enoch, and pay attention to these words of mine!| For not even to my angels have I explained my secrets, nor related to them their origin, nor my endlessness 〈and inconceivableness〉, as I devise the creatures,

as I am making them known to you today. *For, before any visible things had come into existence,

            I, the ONE, moved around in the invisible things, like the sun,

                                                from east to west and from west to east.

But the sun has rest in himself; yet I did not find rest, because everything was not yet created. And I thought up the idea of establishing a foundation, to create a visible creation.

25 |God explains to Enoch how the visible and the invisible come down from the very lowest darkness. Word "24."|

"And I commanded the lowest things: *Let one of the invisible things descend visibly!' And Adoil descended, extremely large. And I looked at him, and, behold, in his belly he had a great light. *And I said to him, *Disintegrate yourself, Adoil, and let what is born from you become visible.' And he disintegrated himself, and there came out a very

great light. *And I was in the midst of the |great| light. And light out of light is carried thus. And the great age came out, and it revealed all the creation which I had thought up to create. And I saw how good it was.

And I placed for myself a throne, and I sat down on it. And then to the light I spoke: *You go up higher 〈than the throne〉, and be solidified |much higher than the throne|, and become the foundation for the highest things.

And there is nothing higher than the light, except nothing itself. And again I bowed(?) myself, and I looked upward from my throne.