73 HANOCH - ENOCH 73
The moon and the varying amounts of its illuminations!
73:1 After I saw this set of regulations for the sun I saw another set of regulations concerning the minor luminary whose name is moon.
73:2 Its roundness is like the roundness of the sky, and the wind drives the chariot on which it rides; and it is given light in varying measure.
73:3 It's coming out and its going in change every month. It's days are like the days of the sun; and when its light becomes evenly distributed then it amounts to one seventh of the light of the sun.
73:4 It the moon rises in this manner: Its head faces the easterly direction, coming out on the thirtieth day, on that day, that is, on the thirtieth day, it comes into existence, and it appears with the sun in the gate through which the sun exits; and you have the beginning of the month.
73:5 Considering half of it to be divisible into seven parts, the whole disk of it is without light, with the exception of one-seventh part of the fourteenth part of the light of the sun, one seventh of its half light.
73:6 On the day when it receives one-seventh part of its one half, as the sun sets, it becomes equivalent to one-seventh light of one half of it.
73:7 Then when the sun rises, the moon rises together with it, taking a portion of one half of its light; that night the moon, just beginning its monthly journey on its first lunar day, sets with the sun and becomes dark, in respect to its thirteen parts that night. On that day it rises and shines with exactly one-seventh part of its semicircle.
73:8 Then it comes out and recedes toward the east away from where the sun rises, continuing to be brighter in one sixth of one seventh of one half of the light of the sun during the remaining days.