17. Truth will depart and falsehood will come near. Even now the eagle, which you saw in your vision, hastens to come."
18. I answered: "I will speak in your presence, Lord!
19. Look, I will go as you commanded me and warn the people who are now living. But who will warn those who will be born in the future?
20. The world is in darkness. Those who live in it have no light,
21. because your Law has been burned, and so no one knows what things you have done or what works are about to come to pass.
22. If then I have found favor before you, send a holy spirit into me, and I will write everything that has happened in the world from the beginning, the things that were written in your Law, so that human beings can find the path, and those who want to live in the last days may live."
23. He replied to me: "Go, gather the people and say to them that they shouldn’t seek you for forty days.
24. Gather up many writing tablets, and take with you Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ethanus, and Asiel, these five, who are trained to write fast.
25. Come here, and I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding. It won’t be extinguished until you have written everything down.
26. When you are finished, you will make some things public, others you will transmit secretly to the wise. You will begin to write tomorrow at this time."
27. I did as he commanded me. I gathered all the people and said,
28. "Hear these words, Israel.
29. At first our fathers lived as strangers in Egypt, and they were liberated from there.