4 In like manner twelve doors Uriel showed me, open in the circumference of the sun’s chariot in the heaven, through which the rays of the sun break forth: and from them is warmth diffused over the earth, when they are opened at their appointed seasons. (ENO) 5 [And for the winds and the spirit of the dew† when they are opened, standing open in the heavens at the ends.] (ENO) 6 As for the twelve portals in the heaven, at the ends of the earth, out of which go forth the sun, moon, and stars, and all the works of heaven in the east and in the west, (ENO)
Book of Enoch 75:4–6
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