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title: "The Hebrew Book of Enoch (3 Enoch)"
author: "R. Ishmael ben Elisha (attributed)"
translator: "Hugo Odeberg"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hidden books"
section: 13 of 54
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-3-odeberg-1928/13/
cite: "R. Ishmael ben Elisha (attributed), tr. Hugo Odeberg, The Hebrew Book of Enoch (3 Enoch), section 13. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-3-odeberg-1928/13/"
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# The Hebrew Book of Enoch (3 Enoch)

*R. Ishmael ben Elisha (attributed), tr. Hugo Odeberg*

Rabbi Ishmael ascends to the heavenly palaces and meets Enoch, now the angel Metatron.

## 13. Chapter 13

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-3-odeberg-1928/13/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-3-odeberg-1928/13/#p-N

### God writes with a flaming style on Metatron’s crown the cosmic letters by which heaven and earth were created

[¶1] R. Ishmael said: Metatron, the angel, the Prince of the Presence, the Glory of all heavens, said to me:

[¶2] 1 Because of the great love and mercy with which the Holy One, blessed be He, loved and cherished me more than all the children of heaven. He wrote with his ringer with a flaming style upon the crown on my head the letters by which were created heaven and earth, the seas and rivers, the mountains and hills, the planets and constellations, the Ughtnings, winds, earthquakes and voices (thunders), the snow and hail, the storm-wind and the tempest; the letters by which were created all the needs of the world and all the orders of Creation.

[¶3] 2 And every single letter sent forth time after time as it were lightnings, time after time as it were torches, time after time as it were flames of fire, time after time (rays) like [as] the rising of the sun and the moon and the planets.