XVII-XXXVII. Enoch’s Journeys through the Earth and Sheol.
XVII-XIX. The First Journey.
1 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. 2 And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven. 3 And 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. 4 And they took me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west, which receives every setting of the sun. 5 And I came to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the great sea towards the west. 6 I saw the great rivers and came to the great ⌜river and to the great⌝ darkness, and went to the place where no flesh walks. 7 I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place whence all the waters of the deep flow. 8 I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.