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The Book of Enoch

16) THE LAW OF THE STARS

82.4 Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who walk in the way

of righteousness and do not sin like the sinners.

In the numbering of all their days in which the Sun journeys in Heaven,
coming in and out, through the Gates of Heaven, for thirty days.

With the leaders of the thousands, of this order of stars, and with the four
which are added, and divided between the four seasons of the year, which

lead them and appear with them on four days.
82.5 Because of them men go wrong, and they do not reckon them in the

reckoning of the whole year; for men go wrong in respect of them and do

not know them exactly.

82.6 For they belong in the reckoning of the year, and are truly recorded

forever, one in the first Gate, and one in the third, and one in the fourth and

one in the sixth. And the year is completed in 364 days.

82.7 And the account of it is true, and the recorded reckoning of it is exact,

for the lights, and the months, and the feasts, and the years, and the days.

Uriel showed me, and inspired me; he to whom the Lord of the whole

created world gave commands about the Host of Heaven for me.

82.8 And he has power in Heaven, over night and day, to cause light to

shine on men; the Sun, the Moon, and the stars, and all the Powers of

Heaven, which rotate in their orbits.

82.9 And this is the Law of the Stars, which set in their places, at their

times, and at their feasts, and in their months.

82.10 And these are the names of those who lead them, who keep watch, so

that they appear at their times, and in their orders, and in their months, and

in their periods of rule, and in their positions.

82.11 Their four leaders, who divide the four parts of the year, appear first;

and after them the twelve leaders of the orders, who divide the months and

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