12 And how should there be one who could behold the heaven, and who is there that could understand the things of heaven and see a soul or a spirit and could tell thereof, or ascend and see all their ends and think them or do like them? (ENO) 13 And who is there of all men that could know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has been shown the measure of all of them? (ENO) 14 Or is there any one who could discern the length of the heaven and how great is its height, and upon what it is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and where all the luminaries rest?] (ENO)
Book of Enoch 93:12–14
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