# 1 Enoch 23

Not received as Scripture by the Jewish canon or by the major Christian churches, apart from local exceptions such as the Ethiopian Orthodox canon, which includes 1 Enoch and Jubilees. This is not the Apocrypha.

1. From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth.
2. And I saw a burning fire which ran without resting, and paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly.
3. And I asked saying: ‘What is this which rests not?’
4. Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered me ⌈⌈and said unto me⌉⌉: ‘This course ⌈of fire⌉ ⌈⌈which thou hast seen⌉⌉ is the fire in the west which †persecutes† all the luminaries of heaven.’

- Edition: charles-1917
- Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Enoch_(Charles)