2 BARUCH 56
56:1 But now, since you have asked YAHWEH the Most High to reveal to you the explanation of the vision which you have seen,
56:2 I have been sent to say to you that YAHWEH the Mighty One has let you know the course of times, namely those which have passed and those which in HIS world will come to pass, from the beginning of HIS creation until the end, (the times) which are known by deceit and by Truth.
56:3 For as you saw a great cloud which came up from the sea and went and covered the earth; this is the length of the world which YAHWEH the Mighty One has created when HE took counsel in order to create the world.
56:4 And it happened when the word had gone out from HIM, that the length of the world was standing as something small, and it was established in accordance with the abundance of the intelligence of HIM who let it go forth.
56:5 And as you first saw the black waters on the top of the cloud which first came down upon the earth; this is the transgression which Adam, the first man, committed.
56:6 For when he transgressed, untimely death came into being, mourning was mentioned, affliction was prepared, illness was created, labor accomplished, pride began to come into existence, the realm of death began to ask to be renewed with blood, the conception of children came about, the passion of the parents was produced, the loftiness of men was humiliated, and goodness vanished.
56:7 What could, therefore, have been blacker and darker than these things?
56:8 This is the beginning of the black waters which you have seen.
56:9 And from these black waters again black were born, and very dark darkness originated.
56:10 For he who was a danger to himself was also a danger to the malakim.
56:11 For they possessed freedom in that time in which they were created.
56:12 And some of them came down and mingled themselves with women.
56:13 At that time they who acted like this were tormented in chains.
56:14 But the rest of the multitude of malakim, who have no number, restrained themselves.
56:15 And those living on earth perished together through the waters of the flood.
56:16 Those are the first black waters.