The book of Enoch : translated from Professor Dillmann's Ethiopic ...

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and the fourth Erae. 3. These are the two large luminaries :
their circumference is like the circumference of the heaven,
and in size they are both alike. 4. And in the circumfer-
ence of the sun there is a seventh portion of light wherewith
additions are made to the moon, and definite measures are
transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is exhausted.
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. 6. And when
the moon rises she is seen in the heaven with the fourteenth
part of the light ;
and in fourteen days she becomes full moon.
7. Also fifteen parts of light are added to her so that on the
fifteenth day her light is full, according to the sign of the
year, and there arise fifteen parts, and the moon originates in
the addition of fourteenth parts (lit. ' through the half of a
seventh part'). 8. And in her waning the moon decreases
on the first day to fourteen parts of her light, on the second
to thirteen, on the third to twelve, on the fourth to eleven,
on the fifth to ten, on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to
eight, on the eighth to seven, on the ninth to six, on the
LXXVIIL 3. In size they are both alike. G M read : hS^mh
tlttfUnx; hoD; *Mfl: ti^fr (iXi&hXPao-i 0«, but this addition
is only a repetition of the preceding line. 4. Definite measures.
period of conjunction when she is 5. By the north: cf. lxxii. 5. 6-17.
invisible. Erae from HTJJ (i.e. from These verses give a detailed descrip-
JT^ to cast, dart) is suitable as a tion of the waxing and waning of
designation of the waxing or full the moon, of the length of the
moon. 3. Cf. lxxii. 4, 37 ; lxxiii. months, &c. 6. This case where
2. 4. From lxxii. 37 and lxxiii. 3 there are fourteen days from new
we have already learnt that the light moon to full moon has already been
of the sun is sevenfold that of the treated of in lxxiii. 5, 6 (notes). 7.
moon: from lxxiii. 2 that light is This case where there are fifteen
added to the moon in due measure. days from new moon to fulPmoon
Here we are further informed that has already been discussed : see lxxiii.
one seventh of the light of the sun 7, 8 (note). 8. As the moon wanes,
is gradually transferred to the moon, her light decreases each day by one
and that this seventh part is wholly fourteenth part : on the fifteenth day
transferred when the moon is full. the remainder, i.e. one twenty-eighth,