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Book of Enoch 17

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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.

2And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven.

3And 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.

4And they took me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west, which receives every setting of the sun.

5And I came to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the great sea towards the west.

6I saw the great rivers and came to the great river and to the great darkness, and went to the place where no flesh walks.

7I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place whence all the waters of the deep flow.

8I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.

About Book of Enoch

The most influential apocryphal book there is: the fall of the Watcher angels, the giants, Enoch's journey through the heavens and the final judgement. Quoted in the New Testament by the letter of Jude and held canonical by the Ethiopian Church. English text: The Book of Enoch (London: SPCK), R. H. Charles, 1917 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Book of Enoch (London: SPCK), R. H. Charles (1917) · public domain