3 Enoch Chapter 21: Historical English Edition
The Hebrew Book · Historical English source edition
Chapter Text — Historical English Edition
R. Ishmael said: Metatron, the angel, the Prince of the Presence, said to me :
1 Four (are) the Chayyoth corresponding to the four winds. Each Chayya is as the space of the whole world. And each one has four faces ; and each face is as the face of the East.
2 Each one has four wings and each wing is like the cover (roof) of the universe.
3 And each one has faces in the middle of faces and wings in the middle of wings. The size of the faces is (as the size of) 248 faces, and the size of the wings is (as the size of) 365 wings.
4 And every one is crowned with 2000 crowns on his head. And each crown is like unto the bow in the cloud. And its splendour is like unto the splendour of the globe of the sun. And the sparks that go forth from every one are like the splendour of the morning star (planet Venus) in the East.
About This Source Edition
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.