1
When the sun went down, smoke like a furnace appeared, and the messengers who had received the portions of the offering ascended from the top of the smoke.
2
Yaho'el took me with his right hand, placed me upon the right wing of the pigeon, and placed himself upon the left wing of the turtledove.
3
The birds had not been slaughtered. They carried us toward the borders of the flaming fire, and through many winds we ascended above the firmament.
4
I saw in the heights a light too strong to describe. Within the light was a fiercely burning fire and a multitude in forms like ishim, continually changing appearance, moving, bowing, and crying aloud with voices whose words I could not …