74 HANOCH - ENOCH 74
The Sun Moon Relationship in Days, Months and Years
74:1 Furthermore, I saw another system of rotation with its own regulation whereby the system fulfills its monthly course of movement.
74:2 All these things -including their fixed positions -Uriel, the kodesh malak who is the guide of all of them, showed to me. And I wrote down their fixed positions as he showed them to me; and I wrote down their months as they were, as well as the variable aspects of their illumination until the completion of fifteen days.
74:3 The moon wanes in fifteen steps during a period of fifteen days, and waxes in fourteen steps in the east and the west respectively.
74:4 In certain designated months it alters its westerly settings and in certain designated months it fulfills its unusual courses of movement.
74:5 For two months it the moon sets with the sun, and uses those two middle openings which are the third and the fourth gate.
74:6 It comes out for seven days and completes a circuit as it returns again to the gate through which the sun rises. In this manner it waxes and recedes from the sun, entering the sixth gate through which the sun rises in eight days.
74:7 When the sun rises through the fourth gate the moon comes out for seven days, until it starts coming out through the fifth. It then turns back toward the fourth gate in seven days, waxing as it recedes, and enters the first gate in eight days.
74:8 Then again it returns to the fourth gate through which the sun rises in seven days.
74:9 This is how I saw their fixed positions -how the moon rises and shines when the sun sets-in those days.
74:10 If five years are combined the sun gains thirty extra days; consequently one of those five years gains, and when it is completed, it turns out to be three hundred sixty four days.
74:11 The gain of the sun and of the stars turns out to be six days; in five years, six days every year add up to thirty days; and the moon falls behind the sun and the stars for thirty days.
74:12 They bring about all the years punctiliously, so that they forever neither gain upon nor fall behind their fixed positions for a single day, but they convert the year with punctilious justice into three hundred sixty four days.
74:13 In three years there are one thousand and ninety two days and in five years one thousand eight hundred and twenty days, so that in eight years there are two thousand nine hundred and twelve days.
74:14 For the moon singly in three years its days add up to one thousand thirty days, so that it falls behind by sixty two days in three years.
74:15 In five years they add up to one thousand eight hundred seventy days, so that it falls behind by fifty days in five years. Thus it is for the moon.
74:16 In eight years the days add up to two thousand eight hundred thirty two days, so that it falls behind by eight days in eight years.
74:17 In this way the years are completed with precision, in accordance with their fixed positions in the universe and the fixed stations of the sun which shine, the gate through which it the sun rises and sets for thirty days.