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Book of Enoch

Chapter XVII
Jewish Apocrypha trans. R.H. Charles • c. 3rd-1st century BCE
17:1
And they took ⌈and⌉ brought me to a place in which those who were there were like flaming fire, and, when they wished, they appeared as men.
17:2
And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven.
17:3
And I saw the places of the luminaries ⌈and the treasuries of the stars⌉ and of the thunder ⌈and⌉ in the uttermost depths, where were a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, and ⌈⌈a fiery sword⌉⌉ and all the lightnings.
17:4
And they took me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west, which receives every setting of the sun.
17:5
And I came to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the great sea towards the west.
17:6
I saw the great rivers and came to the great ⌈river and to the great⌉ darkness, and went to the place where no flesh walks.
17:7
I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place whence all the waters of the deep flow.
17:8
I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.