3 In single seventh parts she accomplishes all her light in the east, and in single seventh parts accomplishes all her darkness in the west. (ENO) 4 And in certain months she alters her settings, and in certain months she pursues her own peculiar course. (ENO)
Book of Enoch 74:3–4
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Book of Enoch 73:2–4
2 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. (ENO) 3 And her rising and setting change every month: and her days are like the days of the sun,… (ENO) 4 … (ENO)
Book of Enoch 73:7–8
7 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 ni… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 79:4–6
4 〈And the waning〉 which takes place in the first portal in its season, till one hundred and seventy-seven days are accomplished: reckoned according to weeks, twenty-five (weeks) and two days. (ENO) 5 She falls behind the sun and the order of the stars exactly five days… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 78:16–17
16 And in the time of her going out she appears for three months (of) thirty days each, and for three months she appears (of) twenty-nine each. (ENO) 17 At night she appears like a man for twenty days each time, and by day she appears like the heaven, and there is nothing… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 78:10–12
10 And Uriel showed me another law: when light is transferred to the moon, and on which side it is transferred to her by the sun. (ENO) 11 During all the period during which the moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when opposite to the sun durin… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 78:5–7
5 And they set and enter the portals of the west, and make their revolution by the north, and come forth through the eastern portals on the face of the heaven. (ENO) 6 And when the moon rises one-fourteenth part appears in the heaven: [the light becomes full in her]: on… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 72:33–35
33 And the length of the day and of the night, and the shortness of the day and of the night arise—through the course of the sun these distinctions are made (lit. ‘they are separated’). (ENO) 34 So it comes that its course becomes daily longer, and its course nightly shor… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 72:15–17
15 And the sun mounts up to make the day shorter and the night longer, and the sun returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises from it and sets thirty mornings. (ENO) 16 And when thirty mornings are accomplished, the day decreases by exactly one part,… (ENO) 17 … (ENO)
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