64 command which I have commanded them. But they shall not know it, and thou shalt not declare
it to them, nor admonish them, but only record against each individual all the destruction which
65 the shepherds effect each in his time and lay it all before me.’ And I saw till those shepherds pastured
in their season, and they began to slay and to destroy more than they were bidden, and they delivered
66 those sheep into the hand of the lions. And the lions and tigers eat and devoured the greater part
of those sheep, and the wild boars eat along with them; and they burnt that tower and demolished
67 that house. And I became exceedingly sorrowful over that tower because that house of the sheep
was demolished, and afterwards I was unable to see if those sheep entered that house.
LXXXIX. 68–71. First Period of the Angelic Rulers—from the Destruction of Jerusalem to the
Return from the Captivity.
68 And the shepherds and their associates delivered over those sheep to all the wild beasts, to devour
them, and each one of them received in his time a definite number: it was written by the other
69 in a book how many each one of them destroyed of them. And each one slew and destroyed many
70 more than was prescribed; and I began to weep and lament on account of those sheep. And thus
in the vision I saw that one who wrote, how he wrote down every one that was destroyed by those
shepherds, day by day, and carried up and laid down and showed actually the whole book to the
Lord of the sheep—(even) everything that they had done, and all that each one of them had made
71 away with, and all that they had given over to destruction. And the book was read before the Lord
of the sheep, and He took the book from his hand and read it and sealed it and laid it down.
LXXXIX. 72–77. Second Period—from the Time of Cyrus to that of Alexander the Great.
72 And forthwith I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and behold three of those
sheep turned back and came and entered and began to build up all that had fallen down of that
73 house; but the wild boars tried to hinder them, but they were not able. And they began again
to build as before, and they reared up that tower, and it was named the high tower; and they
began again to place a table before the tower, but all the bread on it was polluted and not pure.
74 And as touching all this the eyes of those sheep were blinded so that they saw not, and (the eyes of)
their shepherds likewise ; and they delivered them in large numbers to their shepherds for destruc-
75 tion, and they trampled the sheep with their feet and devoured them. And the Lord of the sheep
remained unmoved till all the sheep were dispersed over the field and mingled with them (i.e. the
76 beasts), and they (i.e. the shepherds) did not save them out of the hand of the beasts. And this
one who wrote the book carried it up, and showed it and read it before the Lord of the sheep, and
implored Him on their account, and besought Him on their account as he showed Him all the doings
77 of the shepherds, and gave testimony before Him against all the shepherds. And he took the actual
book and laid it down beside Him and departed.
XC. 1-5. Third Period—from Alexander the Great to the Graeco-Syrian Domination.
90 1 And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing (of the sheep),
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