Chapter XXIX

¹And he answered and said to me, Whatever happens then will happen to the whole earth; so that all who are alive will experience it. ²For at that time I will protect only those who are found in those days in this land. ³And it shall be that when all is accomplished that was to come to pass in the twelve periods before the end, ¹ Lit. ‘in those parts’. We have taken the reference here to be to the twelve divisions of the time of the Messianic woes (described in detail in chap. xxvii): however, the reference could possibly be to the ‘parts of the earth’ mentioned in xxviii. 7. the Messiah shall then begin to be revealed. And ⁴Behemoth shall appear from his place and Leviathan shall ascend from the sea – those two great monsters I created on the fifth day of creation and have kept until then; and then they shall serve as food for all that survive. ⁵The earth also shall yield its fruit ten thousand-fold; and on each vine there shall be a thousand branches, and each branch shall produce a thousand clusters, and each cluster produce a thousand grapes, and each grape produce a cor of wine. ⁶And those who have been hungry will rejoice; and, also, they shall see marvels every day. ⁷For winds shall go forth from me bearing the scent of aromatic fruits every morning, and, at the close of day, clouds distilling a health-giving dew. ⁸And at that time the storehouse of manna shall descend from on high again; and they shall eat of it in those years, because it is they who have come to the final consummation.