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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: 9 of 54
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-3-odeberg-1928/9/
cite: "R. Ishmael ben Elisha (attributed), tr. Hugo Odeberg, The Hebrew Book of Enoch (3 Enoch), section 9. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-3-odeberg-1928/9/"
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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.

## 9. Chapter 9

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-3-odeberg-1928/9/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-3-odeberg-1928/9/#p-N

### Enoch receives blessings from the Most High and is adorned with angelic attributes

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

[¶2] 1 After all these things the Holy One, blessed be He, put His hand upon me and blessed me with 5360 blessings.

[¶3] 2 And I was raised and enlarged to the size of the length and width of the world.

[¶4] 3 And He caused 72 wings to grow on me, 36 on each side. And each wing was as the whole world.

[¶5] 4 And He fixed on me 365 eyes: each eye was as the great luminary.

[¶6] 5 And He left no kind of splendour, brilliance, radiance, beauty in (of) all the lights of the universe that He did not fix on me.