1 The Book of the Words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the eternal watchers in accordance with the command of the Qadosh Great One in that vision.
2 I saw in my sleep what I will now say with a tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth, which the Great One has given to men to converse with and understand with the heart.
3 As He has created and given to man the power of understanding the Word of wisdom, so has He created me also and given me the power of reprimanding the watchers, the children of the shamayim.
4 “I wrote out your petition, and in my vision it appeared thus, that your petition will not be granted unto you throughout all the days of eternity, and that judgment has been finally passed upon you, even so will not be granted unto you.
5 “And from hereon you shall not ascend into the shamayim unto all eternity, and in bonds of the earth the decree has gone forth to bind you for all the days of the world.
6 “And previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons and you shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before you by the sword.
7 “And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on your own, even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the writing which I have written.”
8 And the vision was shown to me thus: See, in the vision, clouds invited me and a mist summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings sped and hastened me, and the winds in the vision caused me to fly and lifted me upward, and carried me into the shamayim.
9 And I went in till I drew near to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire, and it began to terrorise me.
10 And I went into the tongues of fire and drew near to a large house which was built of crystals, and the walls of the house were like a mosaic floor of crystals, and its groundwork was of crystal.
11 Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the lightnings, and between them were fiery keruḇim, and their shamayim was as water.
12 A flaming fire surrounded the walls, and its portals blazed with fire.
13 And I entered into that house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice. There were no delights of life therein; fear covered me, and trembling took hold of me.
14 And as I quaked and trembled, I fell upon my face.
15 And I saw a vision, and see! There was a second house, greater than the former, and the entire portal stood open before me, and it was built of flames of fire.
16 And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to you its splendour and its extent.
17 And its floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings and the path of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire.
18 And I looked and saw therein a high throne, its appearance as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the vision of keruḇim.
19 And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look upon it.
20 And the Great Esteem sat upon it, and His garments shone more brightly than the sun and were whiter than any snow.
21 None of the messengers could enter and look upon His face because of the magnificence and esteem, and no flesh could look upon Him.
22 The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and none around could draw near Him, ten thousand times ten thousand before Him, yet He needed no counsellor.
23 And the most qodeshim who were near to Him did not leave by night nor depart from Him.
24 And until then I had been prostrate on my face, trembling, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 called me with His own mouth, and said to me, ‘Come here, Ḥanoḵ, and hear My word.’
25 And one of the qodeshim came to me and woke me, and he made me rise up and approach the door: and I bowed my face downwards.