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| [1]And I proceeded to where things were chaotic, |
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| [2]And I saw there something horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible, |
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| [3]And there I saw seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire, |
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| [4]Then I said: For what sin are they bound, and on what account have they been cast in hither? |
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| [5]Then said Uriel, one of the holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and said: Enoch, why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth? |
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| [6]These are of the number of the stars [Gg: of heaven], which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand years, the time entailed by their sins, are consummated, |
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| [7]And from thence I went to another place, which was still more horrible than the former, and I saw a horrible thing: a great fire there which burnt and blazed, and the place was cleft as far as the abyss, being full of great descending columns of fire: neither its extent or magnitude could I see, nor could I conjecture, |
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| [8]Then I said: How fearful is the place and how terrible to look upon! |
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| [9]Then Uriel answered me, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: Enoch, why hast thou such fear and affright? And I answered: Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain, |
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| [10]And he said [E: unto me]: This place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever. |
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