2 Baruch 68

Related ancient text — scholarly reference

Extra-canonical text — not LDS scripture and not in the KJV Apocrypha. Provided as scholarly reference for parallel literature of the Second Temple period and the early Christian era. Read with discernment; the Apostle Jude quotes 1 Enoch and Paul knew this material, but inclusion here is for study, not doctrine.

1"And the bright twelfth waters which thou hast seen: this is the word.

2For after these things a time will come when thy people shall fall into distress, so that they shall all run the risk of perishing together.

3Nevertheless, they will be saved, and their enemies will fall in their presence.

4And they will have in (due) time much joy.

5And at that time after a little interval Zion will again be builded, and its offerings will again be restored, and the priests will return to their ministry, and also the Gentiles will come to glorify it.

6Nevertheless, not fully as in the beginning.

8But it will come to pass after these things that there will be the fall of many nations.

9These are the bright waters which thou hast seen.

Public-domain text (R.H. Charles 1913 and equivalents). These works are not canonical, but several were widely read in antiquity and one (1 Enoch) is quoted by name in Jude 1:14–15. Useful for understanding the doctrinal landscape from which the apostles and earliest saints taught.