3 Enoch Chapter 43: Modernized English & Source Wording
The Hebrew Book · Lightly modernized English
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Rabbi Ishmael the dwelling of the unborn spirits and of the spirits of the righteous dead Rabbi Ishmael said: Metatron said to me:
1 Come and I will show you where are the spirits of the righteous that have been created and have returned, and the spirits of the righteous that have not yet been created.
2 And he lifted me up to his side, took me by his hand and lifted me up near the Throne of Glory by the place of the Shekina; and he revealed the Throne of Glory to me, and he showed me the spirits that have been created and had returned: and they were flying above the Throne of Glory before the Holy One, blessed be he.
3 After that I went to interpret the following verse of Scripture and I found in what is written (Isa.Ivii. 16): "for the spirit clothed itself before me, and the souls I have made" that ("for the spirit was clothed before me") means the spirits that have been created in the chamber of creation of the righteous and that have returned before the Holy One, blessed be he; (and the words:) "and the souls I have made" refer to the spirits 4 of the righteous that have not yet been created in the chamber (GUPH).
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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.