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The Book of Enoch

west, and returns to the east, and rises in the third Gate for thirty one

mornings, and sets in the west of the sky.

72.32 And on that day the night becomes shorter, and amounts to nine

parts, and the day amounts to nine parts, and the night becomes equal with

the day. And the year amounts to exactly 364 days.
72.33 And the length of the day and the night, and the shortness of the day

and the night - they are different because of the journey of the Sun.
72.34 Because of it, its journey becomes daily longer, and nightly shorter.

72.35 And this is the law and the journey of the Sun and its return, as often
as it returns; sixty times it returns and rises, that is the great eternal light,

which for ever and ever is named the Sun.

72.36 And this that rises is the great light, which is named after its

appearance, as the Lord commanded.

72.37 And thus it rises and sets; it neither decreases, nor rests, but runs day

and night in its chariot. And its light is seven times brighter than that of the

Moon but in size the two are equal.

73.1 And after this law I saw another law, for the lesser light, named the

Moon.

73.2 And its disc is like the disc of the Sun, and the wind blows its chariot

on which it rides, and in fixed measure light is given to it.

73.3 And every month it’s rising and setting change, and its days are as the

days of the Sun, and when its light is uniformly full, it is a seventh part the

light of the Sun.

73.4 And thus it rises, and its first phase is towards the east; it rises on the

thirtieth morning. And on that day it appears, and becomes for you the first

phase of the Moon, on the thirtieth morning, together with the Sun in the

Gate through which the Sun rises.

73.5 And a half.(…..) .with a seventh part, and its entire disc is empty,

without light, except for a seventh part, a fourteenth part of it’s light.

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