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

Sect, in.] Chapter LXXXIL 2-1 1. 217
which lead them in and enter with them four days. 5.
And owing to them men will be at fault and will not reckon
them in the reckoning- of the whole course of the world :
yea,
men will be at fault, and not recognise them accurately. 6.
For they belong to the reckoning of the year and are truly
recorded (thereon) for ever, one in the first portal and one in
the third, and one in the fourth, and one in the sixth, and the
year is completed in three hundred and sixty-four days. 7.
And the account thereof is accurate and the recorded reckon-
ing thereof exact ; for the luminaries, and months, and festivals,
and years, and days, have been shown and revealed to me by
Uriel, to whom in my behoof the Lord of the whole creation
of the world has given command over the host of heaven.
8. And he has power over night and day in the heaven to
cause the light to give light to men—sun, moon, and stars,
and all the powers of the heaven which revolve in their
circular chariots. 9. And these are the orders of the stars,
which set in their places and in their seasons and festivals
and months. 10. And these are the names of those which
lead them, who watch that they enter at their appointed
seasons, who lead them in their places, in their orders, times,
months, periods of dominion, and in their positions. 11.
Their four leaders who divide the four parts of the year enter
MSS. and Din. ' divide.' 8. He has power over night and
day. G reads : ^"£vm$; 0*F; fob/Vi Q«n>^]r. To cause ... to
give light. G reads SCktL. 10. Who lead them in their
places. So G M : XA: J^aoChPa^i flffDltfWtn*. Other MSS.
these days. 5. Cf.lxxv. 2. 6. On the Physics. Moreover, lxxii. 1 promises
four intercalary days and the portals an account of the stars, and lxxix. I
to which they belong, see lxxv. 7. declares that the full account has
Lord of the whole creation of the now been given. This would be imworld.
Here only : cf. lxxxiv. 2. possible without lxxxii. 9-20. 11.
9-20. Din. regards these verses as a See Crit. Note. Dln.'s text of this
later addition to the book, but with- verse, even in the Crit. Note, is
out adequate reason. They are quite practically unintelligible. There is no
in harmony with all that rightly difficulty in the text of GM which
belongs to the Book of Celestial we have followed here. The twelve