3 Enoch Chapter 9: Modernized English & Source Wording
The Hebrew Book · Lightly modernized English
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Rabbi Ishmael said: Metatron, the Prince of the Presence, said to me:
1 After all these things the Holy One, blessed be he, put His hand upon me and blessed me with 5360 blessings.
2 And I was raised and enlarged to the size of the length and width of the world.
3 And He caused 72 wings to grow on me, 36 on each side. And each wing was as the whole world.
4 And He fixed on me 365 eyes: each eye was as the great heavenly light.
5 And He left no kind of splendor, brilliance, radiance, beauty in (of) all the lights of the universe that He did not fix on me.
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.