6 She goes forth for seven days, and turns about and returns again through the portal where the sun rises, and accomplishes all her light: and she recedes from the sun, and in eight days enters the sixth portal from which the sun goes forth. (ENO) 7 And when the sun goes forth from the fourth portal she goes forth seven days, until she goes forth from the fifth and turns back again in seven days into the fourth portal and accomplishes all her light: and she recedes and enters into the first portal in eight days. (ENO) 8 And she returns again in seven days into the fourth portal from which the sun goes forth. (ENO)
Book of Enoch 74:6–8
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Book of Enoch 72:16–18
16 And when thirty mornings are accomplished, the day decreases by exactly one part, and becomes eleven parts, and the night seven. (ENO) 17 And the sun goes forth from that sixth portal in the west, and goes to the east and rises in the fifth portal for thirty mornings,… (ENO) 18 … (ENO)
Book of Enoch 72:10–12
10 On that day the day is longer than the night by a ninth part, and the day amounts exactly to ten parts and the night to eight parts. (ENO) 11 And the sun rises from that fourth portal, and sets in the fourth and returns to the fifth portal of the east thirty mornings,… (ENO) 12 … (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 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 72:22–24
22 And on that day the night becomes longer than the day, and night becomes longer than night, and day shorter than day till the thirtieth morning, and the night amounts exactly to ten parts and the day to eight parts. (ENO) 23 And the sun rises from that third portal and… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 73:3–5
3 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. (ENO) 4 And thus she rises. And her first phase in the east comes forth on the t… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 72:28–30
28 And on that night has the night decreased in length by a †ninth† part, and the night has become eleven parts and the day seven parts. (ENO) 29 And the sun has returned and entered into the second portal in the east, and returns on those his divisions of his orbit for t… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 78:14–16
14 On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again she wanes till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are at an end, and her circumference is empty, void of light. (ENO) 15 And three months she makes of thirty days, and at her time she m… (ENO)
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