3 Enoch Chapter 30: Modernized English & Source Wording
The Hebrew Book · Lightly modernized English
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Rabbi Ishmael said: Metatron, the Angel, the Prince of the Presence, said to me:
1 Whenever the Great Beth Din is seated in the 'Araboth Raqia' on high there is no opening of the mouth for anyone in the world save those great princes who are called H' by the name of the Holy One, blessed be he.
2 How many are those princes? Seventy-two princes of the kingdoms of the world besides the Prince of the World who speaks (pleads) in favor of the world before the Holy One, blessed be he, every day, at the hour when the book is opened in which are recorded all the doings of the world, according as it is written (Dan.vii.10): "The judgment was set and the books were opened."
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.