1 Enoch 60:1-23

¹In the year 500, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth of the month, in the life of Enoch—in that parable I saw how the heaven of heavens quaked with a mighty quaking, and the host of the Most High and the angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand, were shaken with great agitation.

²And then I saw the Head of Days seated upon the throne of his glory, and the angels and the righteous were standing around him.

³And a great trembling seized me, and fear took hold of me, and my loins gave way and were undone, and my whole being melted, and I fell upon my face.

⁴And the Holy One, Michael, sent another holy angel, one of the holy angels, and he raised me up. And when he raised me up, my spirit returned to me, for I had not been able to endure the sight of that host, and of its tumult, and of the quaking of heaven.

⁵And the Holy One, Michael, said to me: "Why are you troubled by such a vision? Until this day has endured the day of his mercy, and he has been merciful and long-suffering toward those who dwell upon the dry land.

⁶But when the day, and the power, and the punishment, and the judgment come, which the Lord of Spirits has prepared for those who bow down to the judgment of righteousness, and for those who deny the judgment of righteousness, and for those who take his name in vain—that day has been prepared as a covenant for the elect, and as an inquisition for the sinners."

⁷And on that day two monsters shall be parted from one another: a female monster whose name is Leviathan, to dwell in the depths of the sea, above the fountains of the waters; and the male, whose name is Behemoth, who holds with his breast an invisible wilderness whose name is Dendain, to the east of the garden where the elect and the righteous dwell—where my great-grandfather was received, who was seventh from Adam, the first of the men whom the Lord of Spirits made.

⁸And I asked that other angel to show me the might of those monsters—how they were parted on one day, and the one was cast into the depths of the sea, and the other into the dry land of the wilderness.

⁹And he said to me: "You, son of man, here desire to know what is hidden."

¹⁰And the other angel who was going with me and who showed me the hidden things spoke to me: that which is first and that which is last, in heaven in the height, and in the dry land in the deep, and at the ends of the heavens, and at the foundations of heaven, and in the storehouses of the winds;

¹¹and how the spirits are divided, and how they are weighed, and how the fountains and the winds are numbered according to the power of spirit, and the power of the light of the moon, and the power of righteousness, and the portions of the stars according to their names, and how every portion is divided;

¹²and the thunders according to the places where they strike, and every portion that is apportioned that it may flash in lightning, and their companies, that they may obey swiftly. For the thunder has stations of patience given for its voice; and the thunder and the lightning are not parted from one another, and not one: by one spirit the two of them go, and they are not parted.

¹³For when the lightning flashes, the thunder gives forth its voice, and the spirit at that time causes it to rest, and divides equally between them; for the storehouse of their appointed times is of sand, and each one of them in its time is held by a bridle and turned back by the power of the spirit, and is thrust forth thus according to the multitude of the regions of the earth.

¹⁴And the spirit of the sea is male and strong, and according to the power of its strength he turns it back with a bridle, and thus it is driven forth and scattered among all the mountains of the earth.

¹⁵And the spirit of the hoar-frost is its own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a good angel.

¹⁶And the spirit of the snow has forsaken his own chambers because of his might; there is a spirit peculiar to it alone, and that which ascends from it is like smoke, and its name is Dedek.

¹⁷And the spirit of the mist is not joined with them in their storehouses, but has a storehouse of its own, for its course is in glory and in light, and in darkness, and in winter and in summer; and its storehouse is light, and it is its own angel.

¹⁸And the spirit of the dew—its dwelling is at the ends of heaven, and it is conjoined with the storehouses of the rain, and its course is in winter and in summer; and its cloud and the cloud of the mist are united, and the one gives to the other.

¹⁹And the spirit of the rain: when it is stirred from its storehouse, the angels come and open the storehouse and bring it forth, and it is scattered over all the dry land; and it is joined at every time with the water that is upon the dry land.

²⁰For the waters are for those who dwell upon the dry land, for they are sustenance for the dry land from the Most High who is in heaven; therefore there is a measure for the rain, and the angels receive it.

²¹All these things I saw, as far as the garden of the righteous.

²²And the angel of peace who was with me said to me: "These two monsters, prepared by the greatness of God, shall feed, so that the punishment of God may not be in vain, and children shall be slain with their mothers, and sons with their fathers.

²³When the punishment of the Lord of Spirits rests upon them, it shall rest, that the punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not come in vain upon these; afterward there shall be judgment according to his mercy and his long-suffering."