1 Enoch 23

1 Enoch 23
Section: Book of Watchers
Translated by R.H. Charles (1917)

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XXIII. The Fire that deals with the Luminaries of Heaven.

XXIII. 1. From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth. 2. And I saw a 〚burning〛 fire which ran without resting, and paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly. 3. And I asked saying: ‘What is this which rests not?’ 4. Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered me 〚and said unto me〛: ‘This course ⌜of fire⌝ 〚which thou hast seen〛 is the fire in the west which †persecutes† all the luminaries of heaven.’