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Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit abundant, and on it was food for all. Beneath it the beasts of the field found shade and birds of the sky lived in its branches, and from it all creatures were fed.

10 “I was watching the visions in my mind while on my bed, and behold, a watcher, a holy one, descended from heaven. 11 He called loudly, saying:

‘Chop down the tree and cut off its branches,
    strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit!
Let beasts flee from under it,
    and birds from its branches.

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