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R. Ishmael ben Elisha (attributed) · The Hebrew Book of Enoch (3 Enoch) · 9 of 54

Chapter 9

Translated by Hugo Odeberg

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

R. 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 luminary.

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.