3 Enoch Chapter 12: Modernized English & Source Wording
The Hebrew Book · Lightly modernized English
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Rabbi Ishmael said: Metatron, the Prince of the Presence, said to me:
1 Because of the love with which the Holy One, blessed be he, loved me more than all the children of heaven, He made me a garment of glory on which were fixed all kinds of lights, and He clad me in it.
2 And He made me a robe of honor on which were fixed all kinds of beauty, splendor, brilliance and majesty.
3 And he made me a royal crown in which were fixed forty-nine costly stones like to the light of the globe of the sun.
4 For its splendor went out in the four quarters of the 'Araboth Raqia', and in (through) the seven heavens, and in the four quarters of the world. And he put it on my head.
5 And He called me THE LESSER YHWH in the presence of all His heavenly household; as it is written (Ex. xxiii. 21): "For my name is in him".
Compare This Chapter with Its English Source
Hugo Odeberg, 3 Enoch or the Hebrew Book of Enoch (1928). Translation-only transcription hosted by Cleartext Editions; checked against the 1928 scan. Includes 15B, 22B–C, and 48A–D. Scholarly footnotes are not reproduced. This reading edition lightly modernizes historical English; source wording remains available.