The Legends of the Jews, Volume II

Metatron

Family: Heaven · Role: Angel of the Face · First appears: The Ascension Of Moses

In The Ascension Of Moses, God commanded Metatron to escort Moses to the celestial regions with a bodyguard of thirty thousand angels. Metatron changed Moses so he could endure the journey, then took him to heaven with the angelic retinue. Metatron was linked to Jared as a parent and to Moses as elder-kin, identifying himself to them as “Enoch, the son of Jared, thy ancestor.”

Relationship record

Life events

  • God commanded Metatron to escort Moses to the celestial regions with an angelic bodyguard.(The Ascension Of Moses)
    • With: God Moses
    • “Hereupon God commanded Metatron, the Angel of the Face, to conduct Moses to the celestial regions amid the sound of music and song, and He commanded him furthermore to summon thirty thousand angels, to serve as his body-guard”
  • Metatron transformed Moses so he could endure the journey to heaven.(The Ascension Of Moses)
    • With: Moses
    • “whereupon Metatron changed Moses' flesh into torches of fire, his eyes into Merkabah wheels, his strength into an angel's, and his tongue into a flame”
  • Metatron took Moses to heaven with thirty thousand angels.(The Ascension Of Moses)
    • With: Moses
    • “and he took him to heaven with a retinue of thirty thousand angels”

The Ascension Of Moses

  • parent: Jared “I am Enoch, the son of Jared, thy ancestor”
  • younger kin: Moses “I am Enoch, the son of Jared, thy ancestor”

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