1 Do not strive to corrupt your actions through covetousness or to beguile your souls by empty phrases, because if you keep silence in purity of heart, you shall understand how to hold fast the will of Elohim, and to cast away the will of Beliar.
2 Sun, moon, and stars do not alter their order; thus you should not alter the Torah of Elohim by the disorder of your actions.
3 The gentiles, because they wandered astray and forsook 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, have changed the order, and have devoted themselves to stones and sticks, patterning themselves after wandering spirits.
4 But you, my children, shall not be like that: In the firmament, in the earth, and in the sea, in all the products of his workmanship discern 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 who made all things, so that you do not become like Seḏom, which departed from the order of nature.
5 Likewise the Watchers departed from nature’s order; 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 pronounced a curse on them at the flood. On their account, He made the earth without inhabitants and fruitless.