1And now my son Mathusala, I have shewn thee every sight which I saw before thee, I will relate two visions which I saw before I took a wife, and one of them is not like the other.
2The first was when I learned a book, the other before I took thy mother. I saw a powerful vision,
3And by reason of that besought the Lord.
4When I rested in the house of my grandfather Malaleel, I saw in a vision heaven purified, and taken away.
5I fell on the earth, and when I fell, I saw the earth swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains suspended over mountains.
6Hills were sinking upon hills, lofty trees were cut off from their roots, and were thrown, and sunk in the abyss.
7Therefore the word fell down in my mouth, I raised a cry, and said, The earth is destroyed. And when I had called my grandfather Malaleel, he raised me up, and said to me, Wherefore criest thou so, my son? and wherefore lamentest thou in this manner?
8And I related to him all the vision which I had seen. He said to me, It is ponderous what thou sayest, my son;
9And the vision of thy dream is powerful concerning every secret sin of the earth, for it shall be plunged into the abyss, and sink below into a great destruction.
10Now my son rise up, and beseech the Lord of glory, (for thou art faithful) that a remnant may remain on the earth, and that he will not destroy it all. My son all this evil upon the earth is caused by heaven, for there shall be a great destruction upon the earth.
11Then I arose, prayed, and entreated, and wrote down my prayer for the generation of the world, and I have shewed all to thee Mathusala, my son.
12And I went out below, and saw the heaven and the sun going forth from the east, and every star, and the whole earth, and all which he has known from the beginning. I praised the Lord of judgment, and magnified him, because he has sent forth the sun from the windows of the east, that ascending and rising in the face of heaven, it might spring up, and go the way which for it had been appointed.