1 And after that Ḥanoḵ both gave and began to recount from the books. And Ḥanoḵ said, “Concerning the children of righteousness and concerning the elect of the world, and concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these matters, therefore I Ḥanoḵ will declare unto you, my sons,
2 according to that which appeared to me in the vision of the shamayim, and which I have known through the word of the qodesh messengers, and have learned from the tablets of the shamayim.”
3 And Ḥanoḵ began to recount from the books and said, “I was born the seventh in the first week, while judgment and righteousness still endured.
4 “And after me there shall arise in the second week great wickedness, and deceit shall have sprung up; and in it there shall be the first end. And in it a man shall be saved; and after it is ended, unrighteousness shall grow up, and a Law shall be made for the sinners.
5 “And after that in the third week, at its close, a man shall be elected as the plant of righteous judgment, and his posterity shall become the plant of righteousness for everlasting.
6 “And after that in the fourth week, at its close, visions of the qodesh and righteous shall be seen, and a Law for all generations and an enclosure shall be made for them.
7 “And after that in the fifth week, at its close, the house of esteem and dominion shall be built forever.
8 “And after that in the sixth week, all who live in it shall be blinded, and the hearts of all of them shall wickedly forsake wisdom. And in it a man shall ascend; and at its close the house of dominion shall be burnt with fire, and the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed.
9 “And after that in the seventh week, shall an apostate generation arise, and its deeds shall be many, and all its deeds shall be apostate.
10 “And at its close shall be elected the elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness, to receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation.
11 “For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear the voice of the Qadosh One without being troubled? And who can think His thoughts, and who is there that can look upon all the works of the shamayim?
12 And how should there be one who could look upon the shamayim, and who is there that could understand the matters of the shamayim and see a being or a spirit and could tell of it, or ascend and see all their ends and think them, or do like them?
13 And who is there of all men that could know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has been shown the measure of all of them?
14 Or is there anyone who could discern the length of the shamayim and how great is its height, and upon what it is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and where all the lights rest?”