3 Enoch Chapter 32: 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 When the Holy One, blessed be he, opens the Book half of which is fire and half flame, (then) they go out from before Him in every moment to execute the judgment on the wicked by His sword (that is) drawn forth out of its sheath and the splendor of which shines like a lightning and pervades the world from one end to the other, as it is written (Is. Ixvi. 16): "For by fire will the Lord plead (and by his sword with all flesh)."
2 And all the inhabitants of the world (lit. those who come into the world) fear and tremble before Him, when they see His sharpened sword like to a lightning from one end of the world to the other, and sparks and flashes of the size of the stars of Raqia' going out from it; according as it is written (Deut. xxxii. 41):" If I whet the lightning of my sword".
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.