# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 19: Levi 3

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/19 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**19:1** Hear, then, concerning the seven heavens.

**19:2** The lowest is for this cause more gloomy, in that it is near all the iniquities of men.

**19:3** The second hath fire, snow, ice, ready for the day of the ordinance of the Lord, in the righteous judgment of God: in it are all the spirits of the retributions for vengeance on the wicked.

**19:4** In the third are the hosts of the armies which are ordained for the day of judgment, to work vengeance on the spirits of deceit and of Beliar.

**19:5** And the heavens up to the fourth above these are holy, for in the highest of all dwelleth the Great Glory, in the holy of holies, far above all holiness.

**19:6** In the heaven next to it are the angels of the presence of the Lord, who minister and make propitiation to the Lord for all the ignorances of the righteous; and they offer to the Lord a reasonable sweet-smelling savour, and a bloodless offering.

**19:7** And in the heaven below this are the angels who bear the answers to the angels of the presence of the Lord.

**19:8** And in the heaven next to this are thrones, dominions, in which hymns are ever offered to God.

**19:9** Therefore, whenever the Lord looketh upon us, all of us are shaken; yea, the heavens, and the earth, and the abysses, are shaken at the presence of His majesty; but the sons of men, regarding not these things, sin, and provoke the Most High.

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