1 Enoch 78:1-17

¹The names of the sun are these two: the first is Oryares, and the second is Tomas.

²And the moon has four names: the first is Asonya, the second Ebla, the third Benase, and the fourth Era.

³These are the two great luminaries; their orb is like the orb of heaven, and in the measure of both of them they are equal.

⁴In the orb of the sun there are seven parts of light which are added to it beyond the moon, and by measure it is apportioned until the seventh part of the sun has passed.

⁵And they set and enter through the portals of the west, and they go around by the north and come out through the portals of the east upon the face of heaven.

⁶And when the moon rises, it appears in heaven, and the half of a seventh part of light is what it has; and on the fourteenth day it completes its light in full.

⁷And three fifths of light are added to it until on the fifteenth day its light is fulfilled, for a sign of the year; and it becomes three fifths, and the moon comes into being through the half of a seventh part.

⁸And in its waning, on the first day it decreases to fourteen parts of its light; on the second, it decreases to thirteen parts; on the third, to twelve parts; on the fourth, to eleven parts; on the fifth, to ten parts; on the sixth, to nine parts; on the seventh, to eight parts; on the eighth, to seven parts; on the ninth, to six parts; on the tenth, to five parts; on the eleventh, to four parts; on the twelfth, to three parts; on the thirteenth, to two parts; on the fourteenth, it decreases to the half of a seventh; and on the fifteenth day all the remainder of its whole light is consumed.

⁹And in certain months the moon has twenty-nine days, and at times twenty-eight.

¹⁰And Uriel showed me another order: when light is put into the moon, and from where it is put in, from the sun.

¹¹All the time that the moon is waxing in its light, it puts it forth before the sun, until in fourteen days its light is completed in heaven; and when it is wholly kindled, its light is completed in heaven.

¹²And the first day it is called the new moon, for on that day the light rises upon it.

¹³And it becomes precisely full on the day when the sun descends into the west, and from the east it ascends by night; and the moon gives light through all the night until the sun rises over against it and the moon is seen opposite the sun.

¹⁴From the place whence the light of the moon comes forth, from there again it wanes until all its light is consumed and the days of the moon pass, and its orb remains empty, without light.

¹⁵And three months it makes of thirty days in its season, and three months it makes of twenty-nine days each, in which it performs its waning in the first period and in the first portal, in one hundred and seventy-seven days.

¹⁶And in the time of its going forth, for three months it appears for thirty days each, and for three months it appears for twenty-nine days each.

¹⁷By night it appears for twenty days like a man, and by day like the heaven, for there is nothing else in it except its light.