81.1 And he said to me:
"O Enoch, look at the book of the Tablets of Heaven, and read what is written
upon them, and note every individual fact."
81.2 And I looked at everything in the Tablets of Heaven, and I read everything
which was written, and I noted everything. And I read the book, and everything
that was written in it, all the deeds of men, and all who will be born of flesh,
on the Earth, for all the generations of eternity.
81.3 And then I immediately blessed the Lord, the Eternal King of Glory, in
that He has made all the works of the world, and I praised the Lord because
of His patience, and I blessed Him on account of the sons of Adam.
81.4 And, at that time, I said: "Blessed is the man who dies righteous
and good, concerning whom no book of iniquity has been written, and against
whom no guilt has been found."
81.5 And these three Holy ones brought me, and set me on the earth, in front
of the door of my house, and said to me: "Tell everything to your son Methuselah,
and show all your children that no flesh is righteous, before the Lord, for
He created them.
81.6 For one year, we will leave you with your children, until you have regained
your strength, so that you may teach your children, and write these things down
for them, and testify to all your children. And, in the second year, we will
take you from amongst them.
81.7 Let your heart be strong, for the good will proclaim righteousness to the
good, the righteous will rejoice with the righteous, and they will wish each
other well.
81.8 But the sinner will die with the sinner, and the apostate will sink with
the apostate.
81.9 And those who practice righteousness will die because of the deeds of men,
and will be gathered in because of the deeds of the impious."
81.10 And, in those days they finished speaking to me, and I went to my family
as I blessed the Lord of the Ages.
82.1 And now, my son Methuselah,
all these things I recount to you, and write down for you. I have revealed everything
to you, and have given you books about all these things. Keep, my son Methuselah,
the books from the hand of your father, so that you may pass them on to the
generations of eternity.
82.2 I have given wisdom to you, and to your children, and to those who will
be your children, so that they may give it to their children, for all the generations,
for ever, this wisdom that is beyond their thoughts.
82.3 And those who understand it will not sleep, but will incline their ears,
so that they may learn this wisdom, and it will be better for those who eat
from it than good food.
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, so 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 prayer
down, for the generations of eternity, and I will show everything to you, my
son Methuselah.
83.11 And, when I went out below, and saw the sky, and the Sun rising in the
east, and the Moon setting in the west, and some stars, and the whole Earth,
and everything as He knew it at the beginning. Then I blessed the Lord of Judgement,
and ascribed Majesty to Him, for He makes the Sun come out from the windows
of the east, so that it ascends and rises on the face of Heaven, and sets out
and goes in the path which has been shown to it.
84.1 And I raised my hands
in righteousness and I blessed the Holy and Great One. And I spoke with the
breath of my mouth, and with the tongue of flesh, which God has made for men
born of flesh, so that they might speak with it; and He has given them breath,
and a tongue, and a mouth, so that they might speak with them.
84.2 "Blessed are You, O Lord King, and Great and Powerful in Your Majesty,
Lord of the whole Creation of Heaven, King of Kings, and God of the whole World!
And Your Kingly Authority, and Your Sovereignty, and Your Majesty, will last
for ever, and for ever and ever, and Your Power for all generations. And all
the Heavens are Your Throne, for ever, and the whole Earth Your footstool, for
ever, and for ever and ever.
84.3 For You made, and You rule, everything, and nothing is too hard for You,
and no wisdom escapes You; it does not turn away from Your Throne, nor from
Your presence. And You know, and see, and hear, everything, and nothing is hidden
from You; for You see everything.
84.4 And now, the Angels of Your Heaven are doing wrong, and Your anger rests
upon the flesh of men until the day of the Great Judgement.
84.5 And now, O God, and Lord, and Great King, I entreat and ask, that You will
fulfil my prayer to leave me a posterity on Earth, and not to wipe out all the
flesh of men, and make the Earth empty, so that there is destruction for ever.
84.6 And now, my Lord, wipe out from the Earth the flesh that has provoked Your
anger, but the flesh of righteousness, and uprightness, establish as a seed-bearing
plant for ever. And do not hide Your face from the prayer of Your servant, O
Lord."
85.1 And after this, I
saw another dream, and I will show it all to you, my son.
85.2 And Enoch raised his voice, and said to his son Methuselah: "To you
I speak, my son. Hear my words, and incline your ear to the dream vision of
your father.
85.3 Before I took your mother, Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold,
a bull came out of the earth, and that bull was white. And, after it, a heifer
came out, and with the heifer came two bullocks, and one of them was black,
and the other red.
85.4 And that black bullock struck the red one, and pursued it over the earth,
and from then on I could not see that red bullock.
85.5 But that black bullock grew, and a heifer went with it; and I saw that
many bulls came out from it, which were like it, and followed behind it.
85.6 And that cow, that first one, came from the presence of that first bull,
seeking that red bullock, but did not find it. And then it moaned bitterly,
and continued to seek it.
85.7 And I looked until that first bull came to it, and calmed it, and from
that time it did not cry out.
85.8 And after this, she bore another white bull, and after this she bore many
black bulls and cows.
85.9 And I saw, in my sleep, that white bull, how it likewise grew, and became
a large white bull. And from it came many white bulls, and they were like it.
85.10 And they began to beget many white bulls that were like them; one following
another.
86.1 And again, I looked
with my eyes as I was sleeping, and I saw Heaven above, and behold, a star fell
from Heaven, and it arose, and ate, and pastured amongst those bulls.
86.2 And, after this, I saw the large bulls and the black ones, and behold,
all of them changed their pens, and their pastures, and their heifers. And they
began to moan, one after another.
86.3 And, again, I saw in the vision and looked up at Heaven, and behold, I
saw many stars, how they came down, and threw themselves down from Heaven, to
that first star, and amongst those heifers and bulls. They were with them, pasturing
amongst them.
86.4 And I looked at them, and saw, and behold, all of them let out their private
parts, like horses, and began to mount the cows of the bulls. And they all became
pregnant, and bore elephants, camels, and asses.
86.5 And all the bulls were afraid of them, and were terrified in front of them.
And they began to bite with their teeth, and to devour, and to gore with their
horns.
86.6 And so they began to devour those bulls, and behold, all the sons of the
Earth began to tremble and shake before them, and to flee.
87.1 And again, I saw them,
how they began to gore one another, and to devour one another, and the Earth
began to cry out.
87.2 And I raised my eyes again to Heaven, and saw in the vision, and behold,
there came from Heaven beings that were like white men. And four came from that
place, and three others with them.
87.3 And those three, who came out last, took hold of me by my hand, and raised
me from the generations of the Earth, and lifted me up onto a high place, and
showed me a tower, high above the Earth, and all the hills were lower.
87.4 And one said to me: "Remain here, until you have seen everything which
is coming upon these elephants, and camels, and asses, and upon the stars, and
upon all the bulls."
88.1 And I saw one of those
four, who had come out first, how he took hold of that first star, which had
fallen from Heaven, and bound it by its hands and feet, and threw it into an
abyss. And that abyss was narrow, and deep, and horrible, and dark.
88.2 And one of them drew his sword, and gave it to those elephants, camels,
and asses; and they began to strike one another, and the whole Earth shook because
of them.
88.3 And, as I looked in the vision, behold, one of those four, who had come
out, cast a line from Heaven and gathered and took all the large stars; those
whose private parts were like the private parts of horses, and bound them all
by their hands and their feet, and threw them into a chasm of the Earth.
89.1 And one of those four,
went to a white bull, and taught him a mystery, trembling as he was. He was
born a bull, but became a man, and built for himself a large vessel, and dwelt
on it, and three bulls dwelt with him in that vessel, and they were covered
over.
89.2 And I again raised my eyes to Heaven, and saw a high roof with seven water
channels on it, and those channels discharged much water into an enclosure.
89.3 And I looked again, and behold, springs opened on the floor of that large
enclosure, and water began to bubble up, and to rise above the floor. And I
looked at that enclosure until its whole floor was covered by water.
89.4 And water, and darkness, and mist increased on it, and I looked at the
height of that water, and that water had risen above that enclosure, and was
pouring out over the enclosure, and it remained on the earth.
89.5 And all the bulls of that enclosure were gathered together, until I saw
how they sank and were swallowed up, and destroyed, in that water.
89.6 And that vessel floated on the water, but all the bulls, elephants, camels,
and asses sank to the bottom, together with all the animals, so that I could
not see them. And they were unable to get out, but were destroyed, and sank
into the depths.
89.7 And, again, I looked at that vision, until those water channels were removed
from that high roof, and the chasms of the Earth were made level, and other
abysses were opened.
89.8 And the water began to run down into them until the earth became visible,
and that vessel settled on the earth, and the darkness departed, and light appeared.
89.9 And that white bull, who became a man, went out from that vessel and the
three bulls with him. And one of the three bulls was white, like that bull,
and one of them was red as blood, and one was black. And that white bull passed
away from them.
89.10 And they began to beget wild animals and birds, so that there arose from
them every kind of species: lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild-boars,
foxes, badgers, pigs, falcons, vultures, kites, eagles, and ravens. But amongst
them was born a white bull.
89.11 And they began to bite one another, but that white bull, which was born
amongst them, begat a wild ass, and a white bull with it, and the wild asses
increased.
89.12 But that bull, which was born from it, begat a black wild boar, and a
white sheep, and that wild boar begat many boars, and that sheep begat twelve
sheep.
89.13 And, when those twelve sheep had grown, they handed one of their number
over to the asses, and those in turn, handed that sheep over to the wolves;
and that sheep grew up amongst the wolves.
89.14 And the Lord brought the eleven sheep to dwell with it, and to pasture
with it amongst the wolves, and they increased and became many flocks of sheep.
89.15 And the wolves began to make them afraid, and they oppressed them, until
they made away with their young, and then they threw their young into a river
with much water; but those sheep began to cry out, because of their young, and
to complain to their Lord.
89.16 But a sheep, which had been saved from the wolves, fled and escaped to
the wild asses. And I saw the sheep moaning, and crying out, and petitioning
the Lord with all their power, until that Lord of the sheep came down, at the
call of the sheep, from a high room, and came to them, and pastured them.
89.17 And He called that sheep, which had fled from the wolves, and spoke to
it about the wolves, that it should warn them that they should not touch the
sheep.
89.18 And the sheep went to the wolves, in accordance with the Word of the Lord,
and another sheep met that sheep, and went with it. And the two of them together,
entered the assembly of those wolves, spoke to them, and warned them that from
then on, they should not touch those sheep.
89.19 And after this, I saw the wolves, how they acted even more harshly towards
the sheep, with all their power, and the sheep called out.
89.20 And their Lord came to the sheep, and began to beat those wolves; and
the wolves began to moan, but the sheep became silent, and from then on they
did not cry out.
89.21 And I looked at the sheep until they escaped from the wolves; but the
eyes of the wolves were blinded, and those wolves went out in pursuit of the
sheep with all their forces.
89.22 And the Lord of the sheep went with them, as He led them, and all His
sheep followed Him; and His face was glorious, and His appearance terrible and
magnificent.
89.23 But, the wolves began to pursue those sheep, until they met them by a
stretch of water.
89.24 And that stretch of water was divided, and the water stood on one side,
and on the other, before them. And their Lord, as He led them, stood between
them and the wolves.
89.25 And, while those wolves had not yet seen the sheep, they went into the
middle of that stretch of water; but the wolves pursued the sheep, and those
wolves ran after them into that stretch of water.
89.26 But, when they saw the Lord of the sheep, they turned to flee in front
of Him; but that stretch of water flowed together again, and suddenly resumed
its natural form, and the water swelled up, and rose, until it covered those
wolves.
89.27 And I looked until all the wolves, that had pursued those sheep, were
destroyed and drowned.
89.28 But the sheep escaped that water, and went to a desert, where there was
neither water nor grass. And they began to open their eyes, and see, and I saw
the Lord of the sheep pasturing them, and giving them water, and grass, and
that sheep going and leading them.
89.29 And that sheep went up to the summit of a high rock, and the Lord of the
sheep sent it to them.
89.30 And after this, I saw the Lord of the sheep standing in front of them,
and His appearance was terrible and majestic, and all those sheep saw Him, and
were afraid of Him.
89.31 And all of them were afraid, and trembled before Him; and they cried out
after that sheep who was with them in their midst: "We cannot stand before
our Lord, nor look at Him."
89.32 And that sheep, which led them, again went up to the summit of that rock;
and the sheep began to be blinded, and go astray from the path which it had
shown to them, but that sheep did not know.
89.33 And the Lord of the sheep was extremely angry with them, and that sheep
knew, and went down from the summit of the rock, and came to the sheep, and
found the majority of them, with their eyes blinded, and going astray from his
path.
89.34 And when they saw it, they were afraid, and trembled before it, and wished
that they could return to their enclosure.
89.35 And that sheep, took some other sheep with it, and went to those sheep
that had gone astray, and then began to kill them; and the sheep were afraid
of it. And that sheep brought back those sheep that had gone astray, and they
returned to their enclosures.
89.36 And I looked there, at the vision, until that sheep became a man, and
built a house for the Lord of the sheep, and made all the sheep stand in that
house.
89.37 And I looked until that sheep, which had met that sheep that led the sheep,
fell asleep. And I looked until all the large sheep were destroyed, and small
ones arose in their place, and they came to a pasture, and drew near a river
of water.
89.38 And that sheep that led them, which had become a man, separated from them,
and fell asleep, and all the sheep sought it, and cried out very bitterly over
it.
89.39 And I looked until they left off crying for that sheep, and crossed that
river of water. And there arose all the sheep that led them, in place of those
which had fallen asleep; and they led them.
89.40 And I looked until the sheep came to a good place, and a pleasant and
glorious land, and I looked until those sheep were satisfied. And that house
was in the middle of them in that pleasant land.
89.41 And sometimes their eyes were opened, and sometimes blinded, until another
sheep rose up and led them and brought them all back. And their eyes were opened.
89.42 And the dogs, and the foxes, and the wild boars, began to devour those
sheep until the Lord of the sheep raised up a ram, from among them, which led
them.
89.43 And that ram began to butt those dogs, foxes, and wild boars, on one side
and on the other, until it had destroyed them all.
89.44 And the eyes of that sheep were opened, and it saw that ram, in the middle
of the sheep, how it renounced its glory, and began to butt those sheep, and
how it trampled on them, and behaved unbecomingly.
89.45 And the Lord of the sheep sent the sheep to another sheep, and raised
it up to be a ram, and to lead the sheep in place of that sheep which had renounced
its glory.
89.46 And it went to it, and spoke with it alone, and raised up that ram, and
made it the prince and leader of the sheep. And, during all this, those dogs
oppressed the sheep.
89.47 And the first ram pursued that second ram, and that second ram rose and
fled before it. And I looked until those dogs made the first ram fall.
89.48 And that second ram rose up, and led the small sheep, and that ram begat
many sheep, and fell asleep. And a small sheep became a ram, in place of it,
and became the prince, and leader of those sheep.
89.49 And those sheep grew and increased; but all the dogs, and foxes, and wild
boars, were afraid and fled from it. And that ram butted and killed all the
animals, and those animals did not again prevail amongst the sheep, and did
not seize anything further from them.
89.50 And that house became large and broad, and for those sheep a high tower
was built, on that house, for the Lord of the sheep. And that house was low,
but the tower was raised up, and high. And the Lord of the sheep stood on that
tower and they spread a full table before him.
89.51 And I saw those sheep again, how they went astray, and walked in many
ways, and left that house of theirs; and the Lord of the sheep called some of
the sheep, and sent them to the sheep, but the sheep began to kill them.
89.52 But one of them was saved, and was not killed, and it sprang away, and
cried out against the sheep. And they wished to kill it, but the Lord of the
sheep saved it from the hands of the sheep, brought it up to me, and made it
remain there.
89.53 And He sent many other sheep, to those sheep, to testify to them, and
to lament over them.
89.54 And after this, I saw how when they left the house of the Lord of the
sheep, and his tower, they went astray in everything, and their eyes were blinded.
And I saw how the Lord of the sheep wrought much slaughter among them, in their
pastures, until those sheep themselves invited that slaughter, and betrayed
His place.
89.55 And He gave them into the hands of the lions, and the tigers, and the
wolves, and the hyenas, and into the hands of the foxes, and to all the animals.
And those wild animals began to tear those sheep in pieces.
89.56 And I saw how He left that house of theirs, and their tower, and gave
them all into the hands of the lions, so that they might tear them in pieces,
and devour them, and into the hands of all the animals.
89.57 And I began to cry out, with all my power, to call the Lord of the sheep,
and to represent to Him concerning the sheep; that all the wild animals were
devouring them.
89.58 But He remained still, although He saw, and He rejoiced that they were
devoured, swallowed up, and carried off. And He gave them into the hands of
all the animals for food.
89.59 And He called seventy shepherds, and cast off those sheep, so that they
might pasture them. And He said to the shepherds, and to their companions: "Each
one of you, from now on, is to pasture the sheep, and do whatever I command
you.
89.60 And, I will hand them over to you, duly numbered, and I will tell you
which of them are to be destroyed; and destroy them." And He handed those
sheep over to them.
89.61 And He called another, and said to him: "Observe, and see everything
that these shepherds do, against these sheep, for they will destroy, from among
them, more than I have commanded them.
89.62 And, write down all the excess, and destruction, which is wrought by the
shepherds; how many they destroy at My command, and how many they destroy of
their own volition. Write down against each shepherd, individually, all that
he destroys.
89.63 And read out, in front of Me, exactly how many they destroy of their own
volition, and how many are handed over for destruction, so that this may be
a testimony for Me against them. So that I may know all the deeds of the shepherds,
in order to hand them over for destruction. And I may see what they do, whether
they abide by My command, with which I have commanded them, or not.
89.64 But, they must not know this, and you must not show this to them, nor
reprove them, but only write down against each individual, in his time, all
that the shepherds destroy, and bring it all up to Me."
89.65 And I looked until those shepherds pastured, at their times, and they
began to kill and to destroy more than they were commanded, and they gave those
sheep into the hands of the lions.
89.66 And the lions, and the tigers, devoured and swallowed up the majority
of those sheep, and the wild boars devoured with them; and they burnt down that
tower, and demolished that house.
89.67 And I was extremely sad about that tower, because that house of the sheep
had been demolished; and after that I was unable to see whether those sheep
went into that house.
89.68 And the shepherds, and their companions, handed those sheep over to all
the animals so that they might devour them. Each one of them, at his time, received
an exact number, and for each one of them, one after the other, there was written
in a book how many of them he destroyed.
89.69 And each one killed, and destroyed, more than was prescribed, and I began
to weep and moan, very much, because of those sheep.
89.70 And likewise, in the vision, I saw that one who wrote; how every day he
wrote down each one which was destroyed by those shepherds. And he brought up,
and presented, and showed the whole book to the Lord of the sheep, everything
that they had done, and all that each one of them had made away with, and all
that they had handed over to destruction.
89.71 And the book was read out, in front of the Lord of the sheep, and He took
the book in His hand, read it, sealed it, and put it down.
89.72 And after this, I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and
behold; three of those sheep returned, and arrived, and came and began to build
up all that had fallen down from that house; but the wild boars hindered them
so that they could not.
89.73 And they again began to build, as before, and they raised up that tower,
and it was called the high tower. And they began, again, to place a table before
the tower, but all the bread on it was unclean, and was not pure.
89.74 And, besides all this, the eyes of these sheep were blinded, so that they
could not see, and their shepherds likewise. And they handed yet more of them
over to their shepherds for destruction, and they trampled upon the sheep, with
their feet, and devoured them.
89.75 But the Lord of the sheep remained still, until all the sheep were scattered
abroad, and had mixed with them, and they did not save them from the hands of
the animals.
89.76 And that one who wrote the book, brought it up, showed it, and read it
out in the dwelling of the Lord of the sheep. And he entreated Him on behalf
of them, and petitioned Him, as he showed Him all the deeds of their shepherds,
and testified in front of Him against all the shepherds.
89.77 And he took the book, and put it down by Him, and went out.
90.1 And I looked until
the time that thirty-five shepherds had pastured the sheep in the same way,
and each individually, they all completed their time like the first ones. And
others received them into their hands to pasture them, at their time, each shepherd
at his own time.
90.2 And after this, I saw in the vision, all the birds of the sky coming; the
eagles, the vultures, and the kites, and the ravens. But the eagles led all
the birds, and they began to devour those sheep, to peck out their eyes, and
to devour their flesh.
90.3 And the sheep cried out because the birds devoured their flesh. And I cried
out, and lamented, in my sleep, because of that shepherd who pastured the sheep.
90.4 And I looked until those sheep were devoured by those dogs, and by the
eagles, and by the kites, and they left them neither flesh, nor skin, nor sinew,
until only their bones remained. And their bones fell upon the ground, and the
sheep became few.
90.5 And I looked until the time that twenty-three shepherds had pastured, and
they completed, each in his time, fifty-eight times.
90.6 And small lambs were born from those white sheep, and they began to open
their eyes, to see, and to cry to the sheep.
90.7 But the sheep did not cry to them, and did not listen to what they said
to them, but were extremely deaf, and their eyes were extremely and excessively
blinded.
90.8 And I saw, in the vision, how the ravens flew upon those lambs, and took
one of those lambs, and dashed the sheep in pieces, and devoured them.
90.9 And I looked until horns came up on those lambs, but the ravens cast their
horns down. And I looked until a big horn grew, on one of those sheep, and their
eyes were opened.
90.10 And it looked at them; and their eyes were opened. And it cried to the
sheep, and the rams saw it, and they all ran to it.
90.11 And, besides all this, those eagles, and vultures, and ravens, and kites,
were still continually tearing the sheep in pieces, and flying upon them, and
devouring them. And the sheep were silent, but the rams lamented and cried out.
90.12 And those ravens battled and fought with it, and wished to make away with
its horn, but they did not prevail against it.
90.13 And I looked at them, until the shepherds, and the eagles, and those vultures,
and kites, came and cried to the ravens that they should dash the horn of that
ram in pieces. And they fought and battled with it, and it fought with them,
and cried out, so that its help might come to it.
90.14 And I looked until that man, who wrote down the names of the shepherds,
and brought them up before the Lord of the sheep, came, and he helped that ram,
and showed it everything; that its help was coming down.
90.15 And I looked until that Lord of the sheep came to them in anger, all those
who saw him fled, and they all fell into the shadows, in front of Him.
90.16 All the eagles, and vultures, and ravens, and kites, gathered together,
and brought with them all the wild sheep, and they all came together, and helped
one another, in order to dash that horn of the ram in pieces.
90.17 And I looked at that man, who wrote the book at the command of the Lord,
until he opened that book, of the destruction that those twelve last shepherds
had wrought. And he showed, in front of the Lord of the sheep, that they had
destroyed even more than those before them.
90.18 And I looked until the Lord of the sheep came to them, and took in His
hand the Staff of His Anger, and struck the Earth. And the Earth was split.
And all the animals, and the birds of the sky, fell from those sheep and sank
in the Earth, and it closed over them.
90.19 And I looked until a big sword was given to the sheep. And the sheep went
out against all the wild animals to kill them. And all the animals and the birds
of the sky fled before them.
90.20 And I looked until a throne was set up, in a pleasant land, and the Lord
of the sheep sat on it. And they took all the sealed books, and opened those
books, in front of the Lord of the sheep.
90.21 And the Lord called to those men, the seven first white ones, and commanded
them to bring in front of Him the first star, which went before those stars
whose private parts were like horses, and they brought them all in front of
Him.
90.22 And He said to that man, who wrote in front of Him, who was one of the
seven white ones, He said to him: "Take those seventy shepherds, to whom
I handed over the sheep, and who, on their own authority took and killed more
than I commanded them."
90.23 And behold, I saw them all bound, and they all stood in front of Him.
90.24 And the Judgement was held, first on the stars, and they were judged and
found guilty, and they went to the place of damnation, and were thrown into
a deep place, full of fire burning, and full of pillars of fire.
90.25 And those seventy shepherds were judged, and found guilty, and they also
were thrown into that abyss of fire.
90.26 And I saw, at that time, how a similar abyss was opened, in the middle
of the Earth, which was full of fire, and they brought those blind sheep, and
they were all judged, and found guilty, and thrown into that abyss of fire,
and they burned. And that abyss was on the south of that house.
90.27 And I saw those sheep burning, and their bones were burning.
90.28 And I stood up, to look, until He folded up that old house, and they removed
all the pillars, and all the beams and ornaments of that house were folded up
with it. And they removed it and put it in a place in the south of the land.
90.29 And I looked until the Lord of the sheep brought a new house, larger and
higher than the first one, and He set it up on the site of the first one, that
had been folded up. And all its pillars were new, and its ornaments were new,
and larger than those of the first one, the old one that had been removed. And
the Lord of the sheep was in the middle of it.
90.30 And I saw all the sheep that were left, and all the animals of the Earth,
and all the birds of the sky, falling down and worshipping those sheep, and
entreating them, and obeying them in every command.
90.31 And after this, those three who were dressed in white, and had taken hold
of my hand, the ones who had brought me up at first. They, with the hand of
that ram also holding me, took me up, and put me down in the middle of those
sheep, before the judgement was held.
90.32 And those sheep were all white, and their wool thick and pure.
90.33 And all those which had been destroyed, and scattered, and all the wild
animals, and all the birds of the sky, gathered together in that house, and
the Lord of the sheep rejoiced very much, because they were all good, and had
returned to His house.
90.34 And I looked until they had laid down that sword, which had been given
to the sheep, and they brought it back into His house, and it was sealed in
front of the Lord. And all the sheep were enclosed, in that house, but it did
not hold them.
90.35 And the eyes of all of them were opened, and they saw well, and there
was not one among them that did not see.
90.36 And I saw that that house was large, broad, and exceptionally full.
90.37 And I saw how a white bull was born, and its horns were big, and all the
wild animals, and all the birds of the sky, were afraid of it, and entreated
it continually.
90.38 And I looked until all their species were transformed, and they all became
white bulls. And the first among them was a wild-ox. And that wild-ox was a
large animal, and had big black horns on its head. And the Lord of the sheep
rejoiced over them, and over all the bulls.
90.39 And I was asleep, in the middle of them, and I woke up and saw everything.
90.40 And this is the vision, which I saw while I was asleep, and I woke up,
blessed the Lord of Righteousness, and ascribed glory to Him.
90.41 But after this, I wept bitterly, and my tears did not stop until I could
not endure it. When I looked, they ran down, because of what I saw, for everything
will come to pass, and be fulfilled, and all the deeds of men, in their order,
were shown to me.
90.42 That night I remembered my first dream, and because of it I wept, and
was disturbed, because I had seen that vision.