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

210 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. ill.
tenth to five, on the eleventh to four, on the twelfth to three,
on the thirteenth to two, on the fourteenth to the half of a
seventh of all her light, and all her remaining (light) disappears
on the fifteenth. 9. And in certain months the month has
twenty-nine days, and once twenty-eight. 10. And Uriel
showed me another regulation (which determines) when light is
added to the moon on which side it is added to her by the sun.
11. During all the period in which the moon is growing in
her light, she is opposite to the sun as she waxes (lit.
' she
waxes opposite the sun') till the fourteenth day her light
becomes 'full' in the heaven, and when she is illumined
throughout, her light is f full ' 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. And she becomes full moon
exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and she
rises at night from the east, and shines the whole night
through till the sun rises over against her and she is seen
over against the sun. 14. On the side whence the light of
the moon comes forth, there again she wanes till all her light
vanishes and the days of the month are at an end, and her
circumference is empty, void of light. 15. And three
So G M. Other MSS., ' in definite measures it is added/ 8. Half,
&c. So G : cn>l£#; W %"h&\ Ytfc *aCYi-, but that I omit (D. 9.
Once twenty-eight. G reads QQg hav; wg, and M Wfc (Dhfil (D%.
vanishes. 9. Twenty-nine days teenth, nineteenth, and thus the dif-
cf.lxxiv. 10-17; lxxviii. 15-17. Once ference between the solar and lunar
twenty-eight. As we learnt from years at the end of this cycle was
lxxiv. 13-16 that the author was about j\ hours. Calippus, recognis-
acquainted with the eight-year cycle ing this difference, quadrupled the
of the Greeks, so here, as Wieseler Metonic cycle and deducted one day
has already pointed out, we find a from the last month of this period
reference to the seventy-six year cycle of seventy-six years, and thus this
of Calippus. The cycle of Calippus month had only twenty-eight days as
is really an emended Metonic cycle. in our text. 11. The moon waxes
According to the cycle of Meton, to over against the sun on the side
which there is no allusion in Enoch, turned to the sun, i. e. the western
seven lunar months were intercalated side. 13. This remark is quite
in nineteen lunar years, in the third, true. 15. Each half-year has
fifth, eighth, eleventh, thirteenth, six- three months of thirty days and three