2 Enoch 13
2 Enoch 13
Section: Heavenly Journey (Ten Heavens)
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
Zhe Angels tok Enoch, and placed him on the East at the Gates of the Sun
XIII. 1. These men brought me to the East * and * showed me the gates* by which the sun * goes forth® at the appointed seasons, and according to the revolution of the months * of the whole year °, and * according to the number of the hours, dayand night’. 2. And I saw the six great® gates *open, each gate having sixty-one stadia and a quarter of one stadium °; *and I truly measured them and understood their size to be so much ®, by which the sun goes forth; and he goes to the west *and makes his course correspond. And he proceeds through all the months °. 3. * And by the first gates he goes out forty-two days; by the second gates thirty-five days ; by the fourth gates thirty-five; by the fifth gates thirty- five; by the sixth gates® forty-five }°. 4. *And so he returns ‘! * from the sixth gates in the course of time ®: *and he enters by the fifth gates during thirty-five days, hy the fourth gates thirty-five, by the third gates during thirty- five days; by the second gates thirty-five’. 5. *Andso the
1 To descend upon, B; under the heaven and under, Sok. 7 The rays of the sun, B ; Of his beams, Sok.
XIII. * Baddsof the heavens. ‘ Placed meat the gates of the sun, A. ° Enters, B. ® Bom. 7 At the shortening upto the lengthening of the days and nighis, B. 5 A om. ® And I measured their size, and I could not comprehend their size, B. 10 A Bom. 1 B om. A adds to rest.
the conception in Eth. En. lx. 20. sun goes forth. These are the six 3. Goes under the earth. This gates mentioned in the next verse. is undoubtedly corrupt, as the sun For an account of the sun’s six eastern does not go under the earth but gates and six western see ith. En, through the fourth heaven when he Ixxii. 2-4. Six gates: Eth. En. sets in the west. See xiv. 2 (note). Ixxii. 3. The rest of the chapter is Uneceasingly : cf. xi. 2 (note). hopelessly corrupt. The account seems
XIII.1. The gates by which the to be derived originally from Eth. En,
16 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch.
days of the whole year‘ are finished according to the alterna- tion of the four? seasons.