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death among them in each one of their herds, till these sheep even called for this death, and they betrayed his place. 55. And he left them in the hand of the lions and tigers and wolves and jackals, and in the hand of foxes and all the wild beasts, and these wild beasts began to tear those sheep to pieces. 56. And I saw that he left that house of theirs and their tower and gave them all into the hand of lions that they should tear and devour them, into the hand of all the wild beasts. 57. And I began to cry aloud with all my power, and called upon the Lord of the sheep and showed him this in reference to the sheep, that they were being devoured by all the wild beasts. 58. But he remained silent, seeing it, and rejoiced that they were devoured and swallowed and robbed, and left them in the hand of all the wild beasts as food. 59. And he called seventy shepherds and put away those sheep, in order that they should pasture them, and he spoke to the shepherds and to their companions: “Each single one of you shall now pasture the sheep, and everything I command you, do! 60. And I deliver them over to you according to number, and will tell you which of them shall be destroyed; those kill!” 61. And he gave those sheep over to them. And to another he called and said to him: “Watch, and see everything that the shepherds do concerning these sheep; for they will destroy more of them than I have commanded. 62. And each superabundance and the destruction which the shepherds do to these write down, how many they destroy by my command, and how many they destroy by their own will, and write down separately each destruction by each shepherd. 63. And according to the number recite before me how many hey have destroyed of their own account and how many were given them for destruction, hat this may be a testimony for me against them, that I may know every deed of the shepherds to give them over, and may see what they do, whether they do my commands which I have commanded them or not. 64. And they shall not know, and thou shalt not let hem know nor admonish them, but write down all the destruction of the shepherds, each one in its time, and lay everything before me.” 65. And I saw till those shepherds pastured in their times and began to kill and to destroy more than was commanded them, and left hose sheep in the hands of the lions. 66. And the lions and the tigers devoured and swallowed the greater part of those sheep, and the wild boars devoured with them; and they burned that tower and demolished that house. 67. And I mourned a great deal over that ower because that house of the sheep was demolished; and after that I could no longer see hose sheep whether they entered that house. 68. And the shepherds and their companions delivered over those sheep to all the wild beasts to devour them, and each one of them many he destroyed. 69. And each one killed and destroyed more than was ordered him; and I began to cry and to lament exceedingly concerning those sheep. 70. And in the vision I saw that scribe as he wrote each one that was destroyed by those shepherds on each day and brought up and opened and showed this whole book to the Lord of the sheep, everything that they had done and every one that each single one had removed and every one that they had handed over for destruction, 71. And the book was read before the Lord of the sheep, and he took the book in his hand, and read it and sealed it and laid it down. 72. And after that I saw received in his time a certain number, and of each one the other wrote down in a book how that shepherds pastured twelve hours, and behold, three of those sheep turned around and