And He stretched forth the likeness of a hand, and took me by the crown of my head. And the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and sky, and brought me to Jerusalem in a vision of God, to the porch of the gate that looks to the north, where was the pillar of the Purchaser.

And the Lord stretched forth His hand to me, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put My words into your mouth.

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote in front of the lamp on the plaster of the wall of the king's house: and the king saw the knuckles of the hand that wrote.

And behold, a hand touched me, and it raised me on my knees.

And behold, as it were the likeness of a son of man touched my lips; and I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him that stood before me, O [my] lord, at the sight of you my insides were turned within me, and I had no strength.

And there touched me again as it were the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,

And He said to me, Son of Man, eat this volume, and go and speak to the children of Israel.

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come--In the volume of the book it is written of Me-- To do Your will, O God.'"

And I saw in the right [hand] of He that sat on the throne a scroll, having been written inside and outside, [and] having been sealed with seven seals.

And no one in heaven above or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, nor to look at it.

But one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome, to open the scroll and its seven seals."

Then the voice which I heard from heaven [was] speaking with me again and saying, "Go, take the little scroll which was open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land."

Then I took the scroll out of the angel's hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. And when I ate it, my stomach was made bitter.