1 And I saw till that in this manner, thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing, and by number they completed their periods as did the first; and others received them into their hands, to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period.
2 And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of the shamayim coming, the eagles, the vultures, the hawks, the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep, and to peck out their eyes and to devour their flesh.
3 And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds; and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over the shepherd who pastured the sheep.
4 And I saw until the sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and hawks, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there; and their bones too fell to the earth and the sheep became few.
5 And I saw until the twenty-three had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their numbered periods fifty-eight times.
6 But see, lambs were borne by those white sheep, and they began to open their eyes and to see, and to cry to the sheep.
7 Therefore, they cried to them, but they did not listen to what they said to them, but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were exceedingly blinded.
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.
9 And I saw till horns grew upon those lambs, and the ravens cast down their horns; and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of those sheep, and their eyes were opened.
10 And it looked at them and their eyes opened, and it cried to the sheep, and the rams saw it and all ran to it.
11 And notwithstanding all this, the eagles and vultures and ravens and hawks still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down upon them and devouring them: still the sheep remained silent, but the rams lamented and cried out.
12 And those ravens fought and battled with it and sought to lay low its horn, but they had no power over it.
13 And I saw till the shepherds and eagles and the vultures and kites came, and they cried to the ravens that they should break the horn of the ram. And they battled and fought with it, and it battled with them and cried that its help might come.
14 And I saw till the man, who wrote down the names of the shepherds and lifted up into the presence of the Aḏon of the sheep.
15 And I saw till the Aḏon of the sheep came to them in wrath, and all who saw Him fled, and they all fell from before His face.
16 All the eagles and vultures and ravens and hawks were gathered together, and there came with them all the sheep of the field, even all came together, and helped each other to break the horn of the ram.
17 And I saw the man, who wrote the Book according to the Command of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, till he opened the Book concerning the destruction which those twelve last shepherds had wrought, and showed that they had destroyed much more than their predecessors, before the Aḏon of the sheep.
18 And I saw till the Aḏon of the sheep came to them and took in His hand the staff of His wrath, and smote the earth, and the earth broke apart, and all the beasts and all the birds of the shamayim fell from among the sheep, and were swallowed up in the earth and it covered them.
19 And I saw till a great sword was given to the sheep, and the sheep proceeded against all the beasts of the field to slay them, and all the beasts and the birds of the shamayim fled before their face.
20 And I saw till a throne was erected in the pleasant land, and the Aḏon of the sheep sat Himself upon it, and the other took the sealed Books and opened those Books before the Aḏon of the sheep.
21 And the Aḏon called those men, the seven first white ones, and commanded that they should bring before Him, beginning with the first star which led the way, all the stars whose members were like those of horses, and they brought them all before Him.
22 And He said to the man who wrote before Him, being one of those seven white ones, and said to him, “Take those seventy shepherds to whom I delivered the sheep, and who, taking them on their own authority slew more than I commanded them.”
23 And see, they were all bound, I saw, and they all stood before Him.
24 And the judgment was held first over the stars, and they were judged and found guilty, and went to the place of condemnation, and they were cast into an abyss, full of fire and flaming, and full of pillars of fire.
25 And those seventy shepherds were judged and found guilty, and they were cast into the fiery abyss.
26 And I saw at that time how, like an abyss was opened in the midst of the earth, full of fire, and they brought those blinded sheep, and they were all judged and found guilty and cast into this fiery abyss, and they burned – now this abyss was to the right of the house.
27 And I saw the sheep burning and their bones burning.
28 And I stood up to see till they folded up the old house, and carried off all the pillars, and all the beams and ornaments of the house that were at the same time folded up with it, and they carried it off and laid it in a place in the south of the land.
29 And I saw till the Aḏon of the sheep brought a new house greater and higher than that first, and put it up in the place of the first which had been folded up. All its pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and larger than those of the first – the old one which He had taken away – and all the sheep were within it.
30 And I saw all the sheep which had been left, and all the beasts on the earth, and all the birds of the shamayim, falling down and doing obeisance to those sheep and making petition to, and obeying them in every matter.
31 And after this, those three who were clothed in white and had seized me by my hand who had taken me up before, and the hand of the ram also seizing hold of me, they took me up and put me down in the midst of the sheep before the judgment took place.
32 And the sheep were all white, and their wool was abundant and clean.
33 And all that had been destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field, and all the birds of the shamayim, assembled in the house, and the Aḏon of the sheep rejoiced with great joy because they were all good and had returned to His house.
34 And I saw till they laid down the sword, which had been given to the sheep, and they brought it back into the house, and it was sealed before the presence of the Aḏon, and all the sheep were invited into the house, but it did not hold them.
35 And the eyes of them all were opened, and they saw the good, and there was not one among them that did not see.
36 And I saw that the house was large and broad and very full.
37 And I saw that a white bull was born, with large horns and all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the shamayim feared him and made petition to him all the time.
38 And I saw till all their generations were transformed, and they all became white bulls; and the first among them became a lamb, and that lamb became a great animal and had great black horns on its head; and the Aḏon of the sheep rejoiced over it and over all the oxen.
39 And I slept in their midst, and I awoke and saw all matters.
40 This is the vision which I saw while I slept, and I awoke and baraḵ 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of righteousness and gave Him esteem.
41 Then I wept with a great weeping and my tears did not cease till I could no longer endure. When I saw, they flowed on account of what I had seen; for all matters shall come and be fulfilled, and all the deeds of men in their order were shown to me.
42 On that night I remembered the first vision, and because of it I wept and was troubled because I had seen that vision.