# Book of Enoch (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)