1There was a wise man, a great artificer, and Yahuah (Lord) conceived love for him and received him, that he should behold the uppermost dwellings and be an eye-witness of the wise and great and inconceivable and immutable realm of El Shaddai (God Almighty), of the very wonderful and glorious and bright and many-eyed station of Yahuah's (Lord’s) servants, and of the inaccessible throne of Yahuah (Lord), and of the degrees and manifestations of the incorporeal hosts, and of the ineffable ministration of the multitude of the elements, and of the various apparition and inexpressible singing of the host of Cherubim, and of the boundless light.
2At that time, he said, when my one hundred and sixty-fifth year was completed, I begat my son Mathusal.
3After this too I lived two hundred years and completed of all the years of my life three hundred and sixty-five years.