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Book of Enoch 79

Ethiopic

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And now, my son, I have shown thee everything, and the law of all the stars of the heaven is completed.

2And 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:

3And 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:

4And 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.

5She 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.

6Such is the picture and sketch of every luminary which Uriel the archangel, who is their leader, showed unto me.

About Book of Enoch

The most influential apocryphal book there is: the fall of the Watcher angels, the giants, Enoch's journey through the heavens and the final judgement. Quoted in the New Testament by the letter of Jude and held canonical by the Ethiopian Church. English text: The Book of Enoch (London: SPCK), R. H. Charles, 1917 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Book of Enoch (London: SPCK), R. H. Charles (1917) · public domain