3 Enoch Chapter 39: 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 When the ministering angels utter the "Holy" then all the explicit names that are graven with a flaming style on the Throne of Glory fly off like eagles, with sixteen wings. And they surround and compass the Holy One, blessed be He, on the four sides of the place of His Shekina1.
2 And the angels of the host, and the flaming Servants, and the mighty 'Ophannim, and the Kerubim of the Shekina, and the Holy Chayyoth, and the Seraphim, and the 'Er'ellim, and the Taphsarim and the troops of consuming fire, and the fiery armies, and the flaming hosts, and the holy princes, adorned with crowns, clad in kingly majesty, wrapped in glory, girt with loftiness, 4 fall upon their faces three times, saying: "Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom for ever and ever".
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.