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.

16 “Let his 1mind be changed from that of a man

And let a beast’s 1mind be given to him,

And let aseven 2periods of time pass over him.

17 “This sentence is by the decree of the angelic watchers

And the decision is a command of the holy ones,

In order that the living may aknow

That the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind,

And bbestows it on whom He wishes

And sets over it the clowliest of men.”