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 makes three months of twenty-nine days each, in which she accomplishes her waning in the first period of time, and in the first portal for one hundred and seventy-seven days. (ENO) 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)
Book of Enoch 78:14–16
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Book of Enoch 73:2–4
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