4 On the first uppermost circle I placed the stars, Kruno, and on the second Aphrodit, on the third Aris, on the fifth Zeus, on the sixth Ermis, on the seventh lesser the moon, and adorned it with the lesser stars. (2EN) 5 And on the lower I placed the sun for the illumination of day, and the moon and stars for the illumination of night. (2EN) 6 The sun that it should go according to each animal (sc. signs of the zodiac), twelve, and I appointed the succession of the months and their names and lives, their thunderings, and their hour-markings, how they should succeed. (2EN)
2 Enoch 30:4–6
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