1 Enoch 73

And after this law I saw another law dealing with the smaller luminary, which is named the Moon.

Then I saw another progress and regulation which He effected in the law of the moon. [^l3] The progress of the moons, and everything *relating to them*, Uriel showed me, the holy angel who conducted them all.

And after this law I saw another law with reference to the smaller luminary whose name is moon.

And her circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and her chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind, and light is given to her in (definite) measure.

Their stations I wrote down as he showed them to me.

And her circuit is like the circuit of the heavens, and her chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind, and in a measure light is given to her.

And her rising and setting change every month: and her days are like the days of the sun, and when her light is uniform (i.e. full) it amounts to the seventh part of the light of the sun.

I wrote down their months, as they occur, and the appearance of their light, until it is completed in fifteen days.

Every month her ascent and her descent is changed ; her days are like the days of the sun, and when her light is equal [full] her light is the seventh part of the light of the sun.

And thus she rises. And her first phase in the east comes forth on the thirtieth morning: and on that day she becomes visible, and constitutes for you the first phase of the moon on the thirtieth day together with the sun in the portal where the sun rises.

In each of its two seven portions it completes all its light at rising and at setting.

And thus she rises. And her beginning in the east comes forth on the thirtieth morning, and on that day she becomes visible and is for you the beginning of the moon, on the thirtieth morning, 16* 186 THE BOOK OF ENOCH. together with the sun in the portal wlience the sun proceeds.

And the one half of her goes forth by a seventh part, and her whole circumference is empty, without light, with the exception of one-seventh part of it, (and) the fourteenth part of her light.

On stated months it changes *its* settings; and on stated months it makes its progress *through* each *gate*. In two *gates* the moon sets with the sun, viz. in those two gates which are in the midst, in the third and fourth gate. *From the third gate* it goes forth for seven days, and makes its circuit.

And the one half is prominent by the seventh ])art, and her whole circuit is empty, and there is no light with the exception of the one seventh part of the fourteen parts of light.

And when she receives one-seventh part of the half of her light, her light amounts to one-seventh part and the half thereof.

Again it returns to the gate whence the sun goes forth, and in that completes the whole of its light. Then it declines from the sun, and enters in eight days into the sixth gate, *and returns in seven days to the third gate*, from which the sun goes forth.

And on that day when she takes up the seventh part and the half of her light, her light contains one seventh and one seventh part and the half of it. She sets with tlie sun.

And she sets with the sun, and when the sun rises the moon rises with him and receives the half of one part of light, and in that night in the beginning of her morning [in the commencement of the lunar day] the moon sets with the sun, and is invisible that night with the fourteen parts and the half of one of them.

When the sun proceeds to the fourth gate, the *moon* goes forth for seven days, until it passes from the fifth *gate*.

And when the sun rises the moon also rises with him and takes a half portion of light, and in that night in the beginning of her morning on her first day the moon sets with the sun, and is darkened in that night, with the seventh and the seventh portions and the half of one.

And she rises on that day with exactly a seventh part, and comes forth and recedes from the rising of the sun, and in her remaining days she becomes bright in the (remaining) thirteen parts.

Again it returns in seven days to the fourth gate, and completing all its light, declines, and passes on by the first gate in eight days;

And she will rise on that day with exactly the seventh part, and will come out and become smaller from the rising of the sun and shine the rest of her days, with the seventh and t^e seventh part.

(not present in Charles 1917)

And returns in seven days to the fourth gate, from which the sun goes forth.

(not present in Schodde 1882)

(not present in Charles 1917)

Thus I beheld their stations, as according to the fixed order of the months the sun rises and sets.

(not present in Schodde 1882)

(not present in Charles 1917)

At those times there is an excess of thirty days belonging to the sun in five years; all the days belonging to each year of the five years, when completed, amount to three hundred and sixty-four days; and to the sun and stars belong six days; six days in each of the five years; *thus* thirty days belong to them;

(not present in Schodde 1882)

(not present in Charles 1917)

So that the moon has thirty days less than the sun and stars.

(not present in Schodde 1882)

(not present in Charles 1917)

The moon brings on all the years exactly, that their stations may come neither too forwards nor too backwards a single day; but that the years may be changed with correct precision in three hundred and sixty-four days. In three years the days are one thousand and ninety-two; in five years they are one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and in eight years two thousand nine hundred and twelve days.

(not present in Schodde 1882)

(not present in Charles 1917)

To the moon alone belong in three years one thousand and sixty-two days; in five years it has fifty days less *than the sun*, for an addition being made to the *one thousand and* sixty-two days, in five years there are one thousand seven hundred and seventy days; and the days of the moon in eight years are two thousand eight hundred and thirty-two days.

(not present in Schodde 1882)

(not present in Charles 1917)

For its days in eight years are less *than those of the sun by* eighty days, which eighty days are its diminution in eight years.

(not present in Schodde 1882)

(not present in Charles 1917)

The year then becomes truly complete according to the station of the moons, and the station of the sun; which rise in the *different* gates; which rise and set in them for thirty days.

(not present in Schodde 1882)