Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
fourteenth to the half of a seventh, and all her remaining light
disappears wholly on the fifteenth. 9. And in certain months the month
has twenty-nine days and once twenty-eight. 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. 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 during fourteen days [her light is accomplished in
the heaven], and when she is illumined throughout, her light is
accomplished in the heaven. 12. And on the first day she is called the
new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her. 13. She becomes full
moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and from the east
she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night through till the
sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over against the sun.
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. 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. 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. 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 else in her save her light.
LXXIX-LXXX. 1. _Recapitulation of several of the Laws._
LXXIX. 1. And now, my son, I have shown thee everything, and the law of
all the stars of the heaven is completed. 2. And he showed me all the
laws of these for every day, and for every season of bearing rule, and
for every year, and for its going forth, and for the order prescribed to
it every month and every week: 3. And the waning of the moon which takes
place in the sixth portal: for in this sixth portal her light is
accomplished, and after that there is the beginning of the waning: 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. 5. She falls
behind the sun and the order of the stars exactly five days in the
course of one period, and when this place which thou seest has been
traversed. 6. Such is the picture and sketch of every luminary which
Uriel the archangel, who is their leader, showed unto me.
LXXX. 1. And in those days the angel Uriel answered and said to me:
‘Behold, I have shown thee everything, Enoch, and I have revealed
everything to thee that thou shouldest see this sun and this moon, and
the leaders of the stars of the heaven and all those who turn them,
their tasks and times and departures.
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