The Book of the Secrets of Enoch 20
Those two men lifted Enoch to the seventh heaven, where he saw a very great light and fiery troops of great archangels.
1nd those two men lifted me up thence on to the seventh heaven, and I saw there a very great light, and fiery troops of great archangels, incorporeal forces, and dominions, orders and governments, Cherubim and seraphim, thrones and many-eyed ones, nine regiments, the Ioanit stations of light, and I became afraid, and began to tremble with great terror, and those men took me, and led me after them, and said to me:
2 Have courage, Enoch, do not fear, and showed me the Lord from afar, sitting on His very high throne. For what is there on the tenth heaven, since the Lord dwells there?
3 On the tenth heaven is God, in the Hebrew tongue he is called Aravat.
4 And all the heavenly troops would come and stand on the ten steps according to their rank, and would bow down to the Lord, and would again go to their places in joy and felicity, singing songs in the boundless light with small and tender voices, gloriously serving him.
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Those two men lifted Enoch to the seventh heaven, where he saw a very great light and fiery troops of great archangels.
Enoch beheld Cherubim, seraphim, thrones, many-eyed ones, nine regiments, and the Ioanit stations of light among incorporeal forces.
Seized by great terror at the heavenly hosts, Enoch trembled until the men urged him to have courage and not fear.
On the tenth heaven dwells God, who in the Hebrew tongue is called Aravat.
Heavenly troops stood on ten steps by rank, bowed, then returned singing in boundless light with small and tender voices.
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In brief
Two men lift Enoch into the seventh heaven amid great light and ranks of archangels, cherubim, seraphim and other powers. He trembles in terror until they give him courage and show the Lord seated afar on His throne as the hosts bow and sing, God called Aravat dwelling on the tenth heaven.