waters

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OT Pseudepigrapha

and I spread it out with the light, and it became water, and I spread it out over the darkness, below the light, and then I made firm the waters, that is to say the bottomless, and I made foundation of light around the water, and created seven circles from inside, and imaged it (sc. the water) like crystal wet and dry, that is to say like glass, and the circumcession of the waters and the other elements, and I showed each one of them its road, and the seven stars each one of them in its heaven, that they go thus, and I saw that it was good.

2 Enoch 47:5

The Lord has placed the foundations in the unknown, and has spread forth heavens visible and invisible; he fixed the earth on the waters, and created countless creatures, and who has counted the water and the foundation of the unfixed, or the dust of the earth, or the sand of the sea, or the drops of the rain, or the morning dew, or the wind's breathings? Who has filled earth and sea, and the indissoluble winter?

Testament of Levi 2:2

Because when the rocks are being rent, and the sun quenched, and the waters dried up, and the fire cowering, and all creation troubled, and the invisible spirits melting away, and Hades taketh spoils through the visitations of the Most High, men will be unbelieving and persist in their iniquity.

Testament of Judah 1:37

And when I was at the waters of Kozeba, the men of Jobel came against us to battle.

Testament of Zebulun 2:25

Observe, therefore, the waters, and know when they flow together, they sweep along stones, trees, earth, and other things.

The Letter of Aristeas 4:19

They led me more than four furlongs outside the city and bade me peer down towards a certain spot and listen to the noise that was made by the meeting of the waters, so that the great size of the reservoirs became manifest to me, as has already been pointed out.

Odes of Solomon 6:9

And the restrainers of the children of men were not able to restrain it, nor the arts of those whose business it is to restrain waters;

Odes of Solomon 11:6

And speaking waters touched my lips from the fountain of the Lord plenteously:

Odes of Solomon 12:2

And like the flow of waters flows truth from my mouth, and my lips show forth His fruit.

Odes of Solomon 16:10

He spread out the earth and He settled the waters in the sea:

Odes of Solomon 30:1

Fill ye waters for yourselves from the living fountain of the Lord, for it is opened to you:

Odes of Solomon 30:3

For fair it is and pure and gives rest to the soul. Much more pleasant are its waters than honey;

2 Baruch 53:1

And when I had said these things I fell asleep there, and I saw a vision, and lo! a cloud was ascending from a very great sea, and I kept gazing upon it) and lo! it was full of waters white and black, and there were many colors in those self-same waters, and as it were the likeness of great lightning was seen at its summit.

2 Baruch 53:1

2 Baruch 53:3

And it came to pass after these things that that cloud began to pour upon the earth the waters that were in it.

2 Baruch 53:4

And I saw that there was not one and the same likeness in the waters which descended from it.

2 Baruch 53:5

For in the first beginning they were black and many (Or a time, and afterwards I saw that the waters became bright, but they were not many, and after these things again I saw black (waters), and after these things again bright, and again black and again bright.

2 Baruch 53:5

2 Baruch 53:7

And it came to pass at the end of the cloud, that lo! it rained black waters, and they were darker than had been all those waters that were before, and fire was mingled with them, and where those waters descended, they wrought devastation and destruction.

2 Baruch 53:7

2 Baruch 53:9

Now that lightning shone exceedingly, so as to illuminate the whole earth, and it healed those regions where the last waters had descended and wrought devastation.

2 Baruch 56:5

And as you did previously see on the summit of the cloud black waters which descended previously on the earth, this is the transgression wherewith Adam the first man transgressed.

2 Baruch 56:8

This is the beginning of the black waters which you have seen.

2 Baruch 56:9

And from these black (waters) again were black derived, and the darkness of darkness was produced.

2 Baruch 56:15

And those who dwelt on the earth perished together (with them) through the waters of the deluge.

2 Baruch 56:16

These are the black first waters.

2 Baruch 57:1

And after these (waters) you did see bright waters: this is the fount of Abraham, also his generations and advent of his son, and of his son's son, and of those like them.

2 Baruch 57:1

And after these (waters) you did see bright waters: this is the fount of Abraham, also his generations and advent of his son, and of his son's son, and of those like them.

2 Baruch 57:3

These are the bright waters, which you have seen.

2 Baruch 58:1

'And the black third waters which you have seen, these are the mingling of all sins, which the nations afterwards wrought after the death of those righteous men, and the wickedness of the land of Egypt, wherein they did wickedly in the service wherewith they made their sons to serve.

2 Baruch 59:1

'And the bright fourth waters which you have seen are the advent of Moses and Aaron and Miriam and Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb and of all those like them.

2 Baruch 59:12

These are the bright fourth waters which you have seen.

2 Baruch 60:1

And the black fifth waters which you have seen raining are the works which the Amorites wrought, and the spells of their incantations which they wrought, and the wickedness of their mysteries, and the mingling of their pollution.

2 Baruch 61:1

And the bright sixth waters which thru did see, this is the time in which David and Solomon were born.

2 Baruch 61:8

These are the bright waters which you have seen.

2 Baruch 62:1

And the black seventh waters which you have seen, this is the perversion (brought about) by the counsel of Jeroboam, who took counsel to make two calves of gold:

2 Baruch 62:8

These are the black seventh waters which you have seen.

2 Baruch 63:1

'And the bright eighth waters which you have seen, this is the rectitude and uprightness of Hezekiah king of Judah and the grace (of God) which came upon him.

2 Baruch 63:11

These are the bright waters which you have seen.

2 Baruch 64:1

'And the black ninth waters which you have seen, this is all the wickedness which was in the days of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah.

2 Baruch 65:2

These are the black ninth waters which you have seen.

2 Baruch 66:1

'And the bright tenth waters which you have seen: this is the purity of the generations of Josiah king of Judah, who was the only one at the time who submitted himself to the Mighty One with all his heart and with all his soul.

2 Baruch 66:7

For on his account and on account of those who are like him were the honorable glories, of which you were told before, created and prepared. These arc the bright waters which you have seen.

2 Baruch 67:1

'And the black eleventh waters which you have seen: this is the calamity which is now befalling "Zion.

2 Baruch 67:8

But he also shall fall at last. These are the black waters.

2 Baruch 68:1

'And the bright twelfth waters which you have seen: this is the word.

2 Baruch 68:8

These are the bright waters which you have seen.

2 Baruch 69:1

'For the last waters which you have seen which were darker than all that were before them, those which were after the twelfth number, which were collected together, belong to the whole world.

2 Baruch 69:5

On his account there were not black waters with black, nor bright with bright; for it is the consummation.

2 Baruch 70:1

'Hear therefore the interpretation of the last black waters which are to come [after the black]: this the word.

2 Baruch 72:1

'Hear now also regarding the bright lightning which is to come at the consummation after these black (waters): this is the word.

2 Baruch 74:4

This is the bright lightning which came after the last dark waters.'

2 Baruch 77:22

And now go and tarry not in (any) place, nor enter a nest, nor settle upon any tree, till you have passed over the breadth of the many waters of the river Euphrates, and have gone to the people that dwell there, and cast down to them this epistle.