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The Book of Enoch

78.10 And Uriel showed me another law: - when light is transferred to the

Moon, and on which side it is transferred from the Sun.

78.11 All the time that the Moon is increasing in its light, it transfers as it

becomes opposite the Sun, until in fourteen days it’s light is full in the sky;

and when it is all ablaze, it’s light is full in the sky.
78.12 And on the first day it is called the New Moon, for on that, daylight

rises on it.
78.13 And its light becomes full exactly on the day that as the Sun goes

down in the west it rises from the east for the night. And the Moon shines
for the whole night until the Sun rises opposite it, and the Moon is seen

opposite the Sun.

78.14 And on the side on which the light of the Moon appears, there again

it wanes, until all its light disappears, and the days of the Moon end and its

disc remains empty without light.

78.15 And for three months, at its proper time, it achieves thirty days, and

for three months, it achieves twenty-nine days, during which it completes

its waning, in the first period, in the first Gate, 127 days.

78.16 And in the time of it’s rising, for three months, it appears in each

month with thirty days. And for three months it appears in each month

with twenty-nine days

78.17 By night, for twenty days each time, it looks like a man, and by day

like Heaven, for there is nothing else in it except it’s light.

79.1 And now, my son Methuselah, I have shown you everything, and the

whole Law of the Stars of Heaven is complete.

79.2 And he showed me the whole law for these, for every day, and for

every time, and for every rule, and for every year, and for the end thereof,

according to its command, for every month and every week.

79.3 And the waning of the Moon, which occurs in the sixth Gate, for in

that sixth Gate it’s light becomes full, and after that it is the beginning of

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