The taking up of Enoch into the siath Heaven
1 And these men took me thence and brought me to the sixth heaven, and I saw there seven bands of angels, very bright and glorious, and their faces shining more than the rays of the sun. They are resplendent’, and there is no difference in their countenances, or their manner, or the style of their clothing,
2 And these orders arrange and study the revolutions of the stars, and the changes has seen the lustful watchers who are punished under the earth. I have Chag.”, and with the colourless account in the Asc. Is. There is no difference in their countenances, &c.: Asc. Is. viii. of the moon, and revolutions of the sun, and superintend the good or evil condition of the world’.
4 And they arrange teachings, and instructions, and sweet speaking, and singing, and all kinds of glorious praise. These are the archangels who are appointed over the angels! They hold in subjection all living things both in heaven and earth,. And there are the angels who are over seasons and years, and the angels who are over rivers and the sea, and those who are over the fruits of the earth, and the angels over every herb, giving all kinds of nourishment to every living thing.
5 And the angels over all souls of men, who write down all their works and their lives before the face of the Lord.
6 In the midst of them are seven phoenixes and seven cherubims, and seven six-winged creatures, being as one voice and singing with one voice; and it is not possible to deseribe their singing, and they rejoice before the Lord at His footstool. [Thence Enoch is taken into the seventh Heaven