Enoch's Dream

1 At that time, he said, when my 165th year was completed, I fathered my son Mathusal. After this too I lived two hundred years and completed three hundred and sixty-five years in all the years of my life. 2 On the first day of the first month I was in my house alone and was resting on my couch and slept. 3 And when I was asleep, great distress came up into my heart, and I was weeping with my eyes in sleep, and I could not understand what this distress was, or what would happen to me. 4 And two men appeared to me, so enormous that I had never seen anyone like them on earth;⁠a 5 their faces were shining like the sun, their eyes too were like a burning light,⁠b and from their lips fire was coming out with clothing and singing of various kinds purple in appearance, their wings were brighter than gold, their hands whiter than snow. They were standing at the head of my couch and began to call me by my name. 6 And I got up from my sleep and clearly saw those two men standing in front of me. 7 And I greeted them and was seized with fear and the appearance of my face changed with terror, and those men said to me: 8 'Take courage, Enoch, do not fear; the eternal God sent us to you, and today you will ascend with us into heaven, 9 and you shall tell your sons and all your household all that they are to do without you on earth in your house, and let no one seek you until the Lord returns you to them.' 10 And I hurried to obey them and went out from my house, and headed for the doors, as I had been ordered, and summoned my sons Mathusal and Regim and Gaidad and made known to them all the marvels those men had told me.