# 3 Enoch (Hebrew Enoch) 42

**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).

**Mysticism or Magic.** Chapters 41–48 have Metatron show Rabbi Ishmael the letters by which heaven and earth were created, the souls, and the Curtain of the Throne. [This issue](https://apologetics.wiki/non-canonical/3-enoch#issue-names).

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 Angel, the Prince of the Presence, said to me: Come and I will show thee, where the waters are suspended in the highest, where fire is burning in the midst of hail, where lightnings lighten out of the midst of snowy mountains, where thunders are roaring in the celestial heights, where a flame is burning in the midst of the burning fire and where voices make themselves heard in the midst of thunder and earthquake.
2. Then I went by his side and he took me by his hand and lifted me up on his wings and showed me all those things. I beheld the waters suspended on high in ‘Araboth Raqia‘ by (force of) the name YAH ’EHYE ’ASHER ’EHYE (Jah, I am that I am), and their fruits going down from heaven and watering the face of the world, as it is written (Ps. civ. 13): “(He watereth the mountains from his chambers:) the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy work”.
3. And I saw fire and snow and hailstone that were mingled together within each other and yet were undamaged, by (force of) the name ’ESH ’OKELA (consuming fire), as it is written (Deut. iv. 24): “For the Lord, thy God, is a consuming fire”.
4. And I saw lightnings that were lightening out of mountains of snow and yet were not damaged (quenched), by (force of) the name YAH SUR ‘OLAMIM (Jah, the everlasting rock), as it is written (Is. xxvi. 4): “For in Jah, YHWH, the everlasting rock”.
5. And I saw thunders and voices that were roaring in the midst of fiery flames and were not damaged (silenced), by (force of) the name EL-SHADDAI RABBA (the Great God Almighty) as it is written (Gen. xvii. 1): “I am God Almighty”.
6. And I beheld a flame (and) a glow (glowing flames) that were flaming and glowing in the midst of burning fire, and yet were not damaged (devoured), by (force of) the name YAD‘AL KES YAH (the hand upon the Throne of the Lord) as it is written (Ex. xvii. 16): “And he said: for the hand is upon the Throne of the Lord”.
7. And I beheld rivers of fire in the midst of rivers of water and they were not damaged (quenched) by (force of) the name ‘OSE SHALOM (Maker of Peace) as it is written (Job xxv. 2): “He maketh peace in his high places”. For he makes peace between the fire and the water, between the hail and the fire, between the wind and the cloud, between the earthquake and the sparks.

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