1I saw all these things, even to the garden of the righteous.
2In the five hundredth year, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day of the month of the lifetime of Enoch, in that parable, I saw that the heaven of heavens shook with a powerful shake, and that the powers of the Most High, and the angels, thousands of thousands, and myriads of myriads, were agitated with a great agitation, and immediately I saw the Creator of days sitting on the throne of his glory, and the angels, and the righteous standing around him. A great trembling came upon me, and terror seized me, my loins were bowed down and relaxed, my whole were loosened, and I fell on my face. The holy Michael, another holy angel, one of the holy ones, was sent to me, and he raised me up.
3And when he had raised me up, my spirit returned, for I was not able to endure this vision of power, its agitation, and the concussion of heaven.
4Then holy Michael said to me, Wherefore art thou affrightned at such a vision?
5This day was the day of mercy, and he has been merciful and forbearing towards all who dwell on the earth.
6But when the day shall come, and the power, and the punishment, and the judgment, which the Lord of spirits has prepared for those who humble themselves before the judgment of righteousness, for those who deny that judgment of righteousness, and for those who take his name in vain.
7That day has been prepared for the covenant of the elect, and for the examination of sinners.
8In that day there shall be distributed two monsters, a female monster, whose name is Leviathan, because it dwells in the depths of the sea above the springs of water.
9And a male monster whose name is Behemoth, which occupies with his breast the invisible desert;
10His name was Dendayen in the east of the garden, where the elect and the righteous will dwell, where he received it from my ancestor who was man, from Adam the first of men, whom the Lord of spirits made.
11And I asked that angel to shew me the power of these monsters, how they became divided on the same day, one being put into the depths of the sea, and one on the earth in the desert.
12And he said, Son of man, thou here desirest to know what is concealed.
13And the angel of peace who was with me said to me, These two monsters are by the power of the Almighty prepared to become needful of food, that the punishment of the Almighty may not be in vain.
14Then children shall be slain with their mothers, and sons with their fathers.
15And when the punishment of the Lord of spirits rests upon them, so it shall rest upon them, that the punishment of the Lord of spirits may not come upon them in vain. In the end there will be a judgment according to his mercy and forbearance. *