# 3 Enoch (Hebrew Enoch) 12

**Not Scripture.** Read [Why](https://apologetics.wiki/non-canonical/3-enoch#research-notice) and [the Issues With This Book](https://apologetics.wiki/non-canonical/3-enoch#issues-with-this-book).

**Venerating Angels or Other Created Things.** Chapters 3–15 tell Enoch transformed into Metatron, enthroned and called “the Lesser YHWH” in chapter 12. Chapter 16 tells how Acher saw him seated and said there are two powers in heaven. [This issue](https://apologetics.wiki/non-canonical/3-enoch#issue-metatron).

Not received as Scripture by the Jewish canon or by the major Christian churches, apart from local exceptions such as the Ethiopian Orthodox canon, which includes 1 Enoch and Jubilees. This is not the Apocrypha.

1. R. Ishmael said: Metatron, the Prince of the Presence, said to me: By reason of the love with which the Holy One, blessed be He, loved me more than all the children of heaven, He made me a garment of glory on which were fixed all kinds of lights, and He clad me in it.
2. And He made me a robe of honour on which were fixed all kinds of beauty, splendour, brilliance and majesty.
3. And he made me a royal crown in which were fixed forty-nine costly stones like unto the light of the globe of the sun.
4. For its splendour went forth in the four quarters of the ‘Araboth Raqia‘, and in (through) the seven heavens, and in the four quarters of the world. And he put it on my head.
5. And He called me THE LESSER YHWH in the presence of all His heavenly household; as it is written (Ex. xxiii. 21): “For my name is in him”.

- Edition: odeberg-1928
- Source: https://archive.org/details/3enochorhebrewbo00unse