Uriel
- 9:1) And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth.
- 9:2) And they said one to another: 'The earth made without inhabitant cries the voice of their cryings up to the gates of heaven.
- 9:3) And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men make their suit, saying, "Bring our cause before the Most High."'
- 9:4) And they said to the Lord of the ages: 'Lord of lords, God of gods, King of kings, and God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory (standeth) unto all the generations of the ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the ages!
- 9:5) Thou hast made all things, and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all things, and nothing can hide itself from Thee.
- 9:6) Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which men were striving to learn.
- 9:7) And Semjaza, to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his associates.
- 9:8) And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept with the women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins.
- 9:9) And the women have borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness.
- 9:10) And now, behold, the souls of those who have died are crying and making their suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations have ascended: and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are wrought on the earth.
- 9:11) And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.'
- 10:1) Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech,
- 10:2) and said to him: 'Go to Noah and tell him in my name "Hide thyself!" and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it.
- 10:3) And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world.'
- 19:1) And Uriel said to me: 'Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods, (here shall they stand,) till the day of the great judgement in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of.
- 19:2) And the women also of the angels who went astray shall become sirens.'
- 19:3) And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have seen.
- 20:1) And these are the names of the holy angels who watch.
- 20:2) Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus.
- 21:1) And I proceeded to where things were chaotic.
- 21:2) And I saw there something horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible.
- 21:3) And there I saw seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire.
- 21:4) Then I said: 'For what sin are they bound, and on what account have they been cast in hither?'
- 21:5) Then said Uriel, one of the holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and said: 'Enoch, why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth?
- 21:6) These are of the number of the stars of heaven, which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand years, the time entailed by their sins, are consummated.'
- 21:7) And from thence I went to another place, which was still more horrible than the former, and I saw a horrible thing: a great fire there which burnt and blazed, and the place was cleft as far as the abyss, being full of great descending columns of fire:
- 21:8) neither its extent or magnitude could I see, nor could I conjecture.
- 21:9) Then I said: 'How fearful is the place and how terrible to look upon!' Then Uriel answered me, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: 'Enoch, why hast thou such fear and affright?'
- 21:10) And I answered: 'Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain.' And he said unto me: 'This place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.'
- 27:1) Then said I: 'For what object is this blessed land, which is entirely filled with trees, and this accursed valley between?'
- 27:2) Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said: 'This accursed valley is for those who are accursed for ever: Here shall all the accursed be gathered together who utter with their lips against the Lord unseemly words and of His glory speak hard things. Here shall they be gathered together, and here shall be their place of judgement.
- 27:3) In the last days there shall be upon them the spectacle of righteous judgement in the presence of the righteous for ever: here shall the merciful bless the Lord of glory, the Eternal King.
- 27:4) In the days of judgement over the former, they shall bless Him for the mercy in accordance with which He has assigned them (their lot).'
- 27:5) Then I blessed the Lord of Glory and set forth His glory and lauded Him gloriously.
- 33:1) And from thence I went to the ends of the earth and saw there great beasts, and each differed from the other; and (I saw) birds also differing in appearance and beauty and voice, the one differing from the other.]
- 33:2) And to the east of those beasts I saw the ends of the earth whereon the heaven rests, and the portals of the heaven open. And I saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and I counted the portals out of which they proceed,
- 33:3) and wrote down all their outlets, of each individual star by itself, according to their number and their names, their courses and their positions, and their times and their months, as Uriel the holy angel who was with me showed me.
- 33:4) He showed all things to me and wrote them down for me: also their names he wrote for me, and their laws and their companies.
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