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2 Enoch (The Book of the Secrets of Enoch) 8

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And those men took me thence, and led me up on to the third heaven, and placed me there; and I looked downwards, and saw the produce of these places, such as has never been known for goodness.

2And I saw all the sweet-flowering trees and beheld their fruits, which were sweet-smelling, and all the foods borne (by them) bubbling with fragrant exhalation.

3And in the midst of the trees that of life, in that place whereon the Lord rests, when he goes up into paradise; and this tree is of ineffable goodness and fragrance, and adorned more than every existing thing; and on all sides (it is) in form gold-looking and vermilion and fire-like and covers all, and it has produce from all fruits.

4Its root is in the garden at the earth’s end.

5And paradise is between corruptibility and incorruptibility.

6And two springs come out which send forth honey and milk, and their springs send forth oil and wine, and they separate into four parts, and go round with quiet course, and go down into the PARADISE OF EDEN, between corruptibility and incorruptibility.

7And thence they go forth along the earth, and have a revolution to their circle even as other elements.

8And here there is no unfruitful tree, and every place is blessed.

9And (there are) three hundred angels very bright, who keep the garden, and with incessant sweet singing and never-silent voices serve the Lord throughout all days and hours.

10And I said: How very sweet is this place, and those men said to me:

About 2 Enoch (The Book of the Secrets of Enoch)

Known as Slavonic Enoch: the ascent through the seven heavens, what Enoch sees in each one and the account of creation he brings back to his sons. English text: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, vol. 2, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (Oxford: Clarendon Press), N. Forbes and R. H. Charles, from W. R. Morfill, 1913 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, vol. 2, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (Oxford: Clarendon Press), N. Forbes and R. H. Charles, from W. R. Morfill (1913) · public domain