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Book of Enoch

Chapter LXXXVII
Jewish Apocrypha trans. R.H. Charles • c. 3rd-1st century BCE
87:1
And again I saw how they began to gore each other and to devour each other, and the earth began to cry aloud.
87:2
And I raised mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there came forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and four went forth from that place and three with them.
87:3
And those three that had last come forth grasped me by my hand and took me up, away from the generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty place, and showed me a tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills were lower.
87:4
And one said unto me: 'Remain here till thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.'