10 ‘Now these were the avisions 1in my mind as I lay on my bed: I was looking, and behold, there was a btree in the midst of the 2earth and its height was great.

11 ‘The tree grew large and became strong

And its height areached to the sky,

And it was visible to the end of the whole earth.

12 ‘Its foliage was abeautiful and its fruit abundant,

And in it was food for all.

The bbeasts of the field found cshade under it,

And the dbirds of the sky dwelt in its branches,

And all 1living creatures fed themselves from it.

13 ‘I was looking in the avisions 1in my mind as I lay on my bed, and behold, ban angelic watcher, a choly one, descended from heaven.

14 ‘He shouted out and spoke as follows:

“aChop down the tree and cut off its branches,

Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit;

Let the bbeasts flee from under it

And the birds from its branches.

15 “Yet aleave the stump 1with its roots in the ground,

But with a band of iron and bronze around it

In the new grass of the field;

And let him be drenched with the dew of heaven,

And let 2him share with the beasts in the grass of the earth.