^{12 Ref} The leaves of it were beautiful, and the fruit of it much, and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the sky lived in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed from it.

^{13 Ref} I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.

^{14 Ref} He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.