1Methuselah, having answered his father Enoch, said: 'What is pleasing to your eyes, father, that I may do before your face, that you may bless our dwellings, and your children, and that your people may be made glorious through you, and then that you may depart thus, as the Lord said?'
2Enoch answered his son Methuselah and said: 'Hear, son, since the time when the Lord anointed me with the ointment of his glory, there has been no food in me, and my soul does not remember earthly pleasure, nor do I want anything earthly!'