3 Enoch Chapter 3: Modernized English & Source Wording
The Hebrew Book · Lightly modernized English
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Rabbi Ishmael said:
1 In that hour I asked Metatron, the angel, the Prince of the Presence: "What is your name?"
2 He answered me: "I have seventy names, corresponding to the seventy tongues of the world and all of them are based upon the name Metatron, angel of the Presence; but my King calls me 'Youth' (Na’ar)“
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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.