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The Book of Enoch

themselves there, and not into the wilderness, as some say.

77.8 I saw seven large islands, in the sea and on the land, two on the land,

and five in the Great Sea.

78.1 The names of the Sun are as follows: The first Oryares, and the

second Tomases.
78.2 The Moon has four names: The first name is Asonya, and the second

Ebla, and the third Benase, and the fourth Era'e.
78.3 These are the two great lights; their disc is like the disc of Heaven and

in size the two are equal.
78.4 In the disc of the Sun, are seven parts of light, which are added to it

more than to the Moon, and in fixed measure light is transferred to the

Moon until a seventh part of the Sun is exhausted.

78.5 And they set, go into the Gates of the west, go round through the

north, and rise through the Gates of the east, on the face of Heaven.

78.6 And when the Moon rises, it appears in the sky, and has a half of a

seventh part of light, and on the fourteenth day it makes all its light full.

78.7 And fifteen parts of light are transferred to it, until on the fifteenth day

its light is full, according to the sign of the year, and amounts to fifteen

parts. And the Moon comes into being by halves of a seventh part.

78.8 And in its waning on the first day, it decreases to fourteen parts of its

light. And on the second to thirteen parts, and on the third to twelve parts,

on the fourth to eleven parts, and on the fifth to ten parts, and on the sixth

to nine parts, and on the seventh to eight parts, and on the eighth to seven

parts, and on the ninth to six parts, and on the tenth to five parts, and on the

eleventh to four parts, and on the twelfth to three, and on the thirteenth to

two, and on the fourteenth to half of a seventh part. And all the light that

remains from the total disappears on the fifteenth day.

78.9 And in certain months the Moon has twenty-nine days and once

twenty-eight.

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