9. “O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no mystery is too difficult for you, tell me the visions of my dream that I saw and their interpretation.
10. The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.
11. The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth.
12. Its leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.
13. “I saw in the visions of my head as I lay in bed, and behold, a watcher, a holy one, came down from heaven.