diff --git a/spring-restdocs-asciidoctor-support/src/main/resources/extensions/operation_block_macro.rb b/spring-restdocs-asciidoctor-support/src/main/resources/extensions/operation_block_macro.rb
index 8b37bc63..94f11801 100644
--- a/spring-restdocs-asciidoctor-support/src/main/resources/extensions/operation_block_macro.rb
+++ b/spring-restdocs-asciidoctor-support/src/main/resources/extensions/operation_block_macro.rb
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ class OperationBlockMacro < Asciidoctor::Extensions::BlockMacroProcessor
   end
 
   def add_blocks(content, doc, parent)
-    options = { safe: doc.options[:safe], attributes: doc.attributes }
+    options = { safe: doc.options[:safe], attributes: doc.attributes.clone }
+    options[:attributes].delete 'leveloffset'
     fragment = Asciidoctor.load content, options
     # use a template to get the correct sectname and level for blocks to append
     template = create_section(parent, '', {})
diff --git a/spring-restdocs-asciidoctor/src/test/java/org/springframework/restdocs/asciidoctor/AbstractOperationBlockMacroTests.java b/spring-restdocs-asciidoctor/src/test/java/org/springframework/restdocs/asciidoctor/AbstractOperationBlockMacroTests.java
index 369c8266..c40f9344 100644
--- a/spring-restdocs-asciidoctor/src/test/java/org/springframework/restdocs/asciidoctor/AbstractOperationBlockMacroTests.java
+++ b/spring-restdocs-asciidoctor/src/test/java/org/springframework/restdocs/asciidoctor/AbstractOperationBlockMacroTests.java
@@ -122,6 +122,22 @@ public abstract class AbstractOperationBlockMacroTests {
 		assertThat(result).isEqualTo(getExpectedContentFromFile("snippet-in-section"));
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void includeSnippetInSectionWithAbsoluteLevelOffset() throws Exception {
+		String result = this.asciidoctor
+				.convert("= A\n:doctype: book\n:sectnums:\n:leveloffset: 1\n\nAlpha\n\n= B\n\nBravo\n\n"
+						+ "operation::some-operation[snippets='curl-request']\n\n= C\n", this.options);
+		assertThat(result).isEqualTo(getExpectedContentFromFile("snippet-in-section"));
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void includeSnippetInSectionWithRelativeLevelOffset() throws Exception {
+		String result = this.asciidoctor
+				.convert("= A\n:doctype: book\n:sectnums:\n:leveloffset: +1\n\nAlpha\n\n= B\n\nBravo\n\n"
+						+ "operation::some-operation[snippets='curl-request']\n\n= C\n", this.options);
+		assertThat(result).isEqualTo(getExpectedContentFromFile("snippet-in-section"));
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void includeSnippetInSectionWithPdfBackend() throws Exception {
 		File output = configurePdfOutput();