3 Enoch Chapter 41: Modernized English & Source Wording

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Rabbi Ishmael the letters engraved on the Throne of Glory by which letters everything in heaven and earth has been created Rabbi Ishmael said: Metatron, the Angel, the Prince of the Presence, said to me:

¹ Come and see the letters by which the heaven and theearth were created, the letters by which were created the mountains and hills, the letters by which were created the seas and rivers, the letters by which were created the trees and herbs, the letters by which were created the planets and the constellations, the letters by which were created the globe of the moon and the globe of the sun, Orion, the Pleiades and all the different heavenly lights of Raqia'.

² the letters by which were created the Throne of Glory and the Wheels of the Merkaba, the letters by which were created the necessities of the worlds,

³ the letters by which were created wisdom, understanding, knowledge, prudence, meekness and righteousness by which the whole world is sustained.

⁴ And I walked by his side and he took me by his hand and raised me upon his wings and showed me those letters, all of them, that are graven with a flaming style on the Throne of Glory: and sparks go out from them and cover all the chambers of 'Araboth.