¹'Nevertheless, because thou hast besought the Most High to reveal unto thee the interpretation of the vision which thou hast seen, I have been sent to tell thee.

²And the Mighty One hath assuredly made known unto thee the methods of the times that have passed, and of those that are destined to pass in His world from the beginning of its creation even unto its consummation, of those things which (are) deceit and of those which (are) in truth.

³For as you did see a great cloud which ascended from the sea, and went and covered the earth, this is the duration of the world (= αιων) which the Mighty One made when he took counsel to make the world.

⁴And it came to pass when the word had gone forth from His presence, that the duration of the world had come into being in a small degree, and was established according to the multitude of the intelligence of Him who sent it.

⁵And as you did previously see on the summit of the cloud black waters which descended previously on the earth, this is the transgression wherewith Adam the first man transgressed.

⁶For [since] when he transgressed Untimely death came into being, Grief was named And anguish was prepared, And pain was created, And trouble consummated, And disease began to be established, And Sheol kept demanding that it should be renewed in blood, And the begetting of children was brought about, And the passion of parents produced, And the greatness of humanity was humiliated, And goodness languished.

⁷What therefore can be blacker or darker than these things?

⁸This is the beginning of the black waters which thou hast seen.

⁹And from these black (waters) again were black derived, and the darkness of darkness was produced.

¹⁰For he became a danger to his own soul: even to the angels

¹¹For, moreover, at that time when he was created, they enjoyed liberty.

¹²And became he a danger some of them descended, and mingled with the women.

¹³And then those who did so were tormented in chains.

¹⁴But the rest of the multitude of the angels, of which there is (no) number, restrained themselves.

¹⁵And those who dwelt on the earth perished together (with them) through the waters of the deluge.

¹⁶These are the black first waters.