2. And Enoch said, Concerning the children of righteousness, concerning
the elect of the world, and concerning the plant of righteousness and
integrity.
3. _Concerning_ these things will I speak, and _these things_ will I
explain to you, my children: I _who_ am Enoch. In consequence of that
which has been shown to me, from my heavenly vision and from the voice
of the holy angels have I acquired knowledge; and from the tablet of
heaven have I acquired understanding.
4. Enoch then began to speak from a book, and said, I have been born the
seventh in the first week, while judgment and righteousness wait with
patience.
5. But after me, in the second week, great wickedness shall arise, and
fraud shall spring forth.
6. In that week[246] the end of the first shall take place, in which
mankind shall be safe.
7. But when _the first_ is completed,[247] iniquity shall grow up; and
he shall execute the decree upon sinners.[248]
8. Afterwards, in the third week, during its completion, a man[249] of
the plant of righteous judgment shall be selected; and after him the
plant of righteousness shall come for ever.
9. Subsequently, in the fourth week, during its completion, the visions
of the holy and the righteous shall be seen, the order of generation
after generation _shall take place_, and an habitation shall be made for
them.[250] Then in the fifth week, during its completion, the house of
glory and of dominion[251] shall be erected for ever.
10. After that, in the sixth week, all those who are in it shall be
darkened, the hearts of all of them shall be forgetful of wisdom, and in
it shall a man[252] ascend.
11. And during its completion he shall burn the house of dominion with
fire, and all the race of the elect root shall be dispersed.[253]
12. Afterwards, in the seventh week, a perverse generation shall arise;
abundant shall be its deeds, and all its deeds perverse. During its
completion, the righteous shall be selected from the everlasting plant
of righteousness; and to them shall be given the sevenfold doctrine of
his whole creation.
13. Afterwards there shall be another week, the eighth of righteousness,
to which shall be given a sword to execute judgment and justice upon all
oppressors.
14. Sinners shall be delivered up into the hands of the righteous, who
during its completion shall acquire habitations by their righteousness;
and the house of the great King shall be established for celebrations
for ever. After this, in the ninth week, shall the judgment of
righteousness be revealed to the whole world.
15. Every work of the ungodly shall disappear from the whole earth; the
world shall be marked for destruction; and all men shall be on the look
out for the path of integrity.
16. And after this, on the seventh day of the tenth week, there shall be
an everlasting judgment, which shall be executed upon the Watchers; and
a spacious eternal heaven shall spring forth in the midst of the angels.
17. The former heaven shall depart and pass away; a new heaven shall
appear; and all the celestial powers shine with sevenfold splendour for
ever. Afterwards likewise shall there be many weeks, which shall
externally exist in goodness and in righteousness.