1And I said: “0 ETERNAL One! How long are the hours of the age?”.
2And He said: “Twelve hours1 have I ordained for this present age of ungodliness to rule among the nations and within your seed,
3and until the end of the times it shall be even as you saw.
4And now reckon and understand and look again into the picture.
5And I looked and saw a man2 going out from the left side of the nations and there went out men and women and children,
6from the side of nations, many hosts, and worshipped Him.
7And while I still looked, there came many from the right side,
8and some of these insulted Him, and some of them even struck Him, but others however worshipped Him.
9And as I watched, I saw Azazel approach Him, and he kissed Him on the face and then stood behind him.3
10And I said: “0 ETERNAL One! Who is the man insulted and beaten, who is worshipped by the nations and kissed by Azazel?”.
11And He answered and said: “Hear Abraham! The man you saw insulted and beaten and yet worshipped by many,
12He is the “relief” granted by the nations, to the people who proceed from you, in the last days, in the twelfth hour of the age of ungodliness.
13But in the twelfth hour of my final age will I set up this man from your generation, whom you saw issue from among my people
14and all who follow will become like this man, and such as are called by me will join the others, even those who will to change within themselves.
15And as for those who emerge from the left side of the picture, the meaning is this,
16there shall be many from the nations who shall set their hopes upon him4,
17but as for those whom you saw from your seed on the right of the picture who insulted him and struck him,
18many shall be offended in him5, but some shall worship him.
19And He shall test those of your seed who have worshipped him
20in the twelfth hour at the end, with a view to shortening the age of ungodliness.6
21Before the age of the righteous begins to grow,
22my judgment shall come upon the lawless peoples through the people of your seed who have been separated unto me.
23And in those days I will bring upon all creatures of the earth ten plagues,
24through misfortune and disease and the sighing of their grief.
25And this shall be brought upon the generations of men on account of the provocation
26and the corruption of mankind7, whereby they provoke me.
27And then shall righteous men of your seed survive in the number which is kept secret by me8,
28and will hasten the coming of the glory of My Name to that place prepared beforehand for them, which you saw devastated in the picture.
29And they shall live and be established by sacrifices of righteousness9 in the age of the righteous,
30and they shall rejoice in me continually, and receive those who return to me in repentance,
31for great shall be the inner torment of those who have despitefully used them in this world,
32as they observe the honour placed upon my own in the day of glory.
33See Abraham, what you have seen and hear what you have heard, and take knowledge of all that you have come to know.
34Go to your heritage, and behold, I am with you unto the age.”