2 Enoch 16
2 Enoch 16
Section: Heavenly Journey (Ten Heavens)
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)
The Men took Enoch and placed him at the East, at the Course of the Moon
XVI.. 1. * The other, the computation of the moon these men showed me!; *all the goings and revolutions”. * And they pointed out the gates to me *, twelve great * gates extend- ing * from the West to the East°, by which the moon enters *and goes out® at the customary times. 2. She enters
- the first gate when the sun is in the West thirty-one days exactly’; by the second gate thirty-one ® days exactly; by the third gate thirty days exactly; by the fourth gate thirty days exactly; by the fifth gate thirty-one days exactly; by the sixth gate thirty-one days exactly; by the seventh gate thirty days exactly; by the eighth gate thirty-one days exactly ; by the ninth gate thirty-one °® days exactly; by the tenth gate thirty ° exactly; by the eleventh gate thirty-one days exactly; by the twelfth gate twenty-eight days” exactly. 3. And so by the Western gates in her revolu- tions, and corresponding to the number of the Eastern gates she goes, and accomplishes the year ‘. 4. * And unto the sun there are three hundred and sixty-five days and a quarter
XVI. They also showed me the other arrangement, that of the
moon, B. * And allits course. And the men showed me all the movements of these two, B; A om. 3 A Sok. om. 4 Eternal, B. 5 Towards the Hast, B. 6 Bom. 7 ‘B OMITS ENTIRE VERSE. ‘Sok.
reads the first gates (western place of the sun) 31 days to the place of the sun exactly. For 31 A reads 1. ® Emended from 35 A Sok. 9 35, A. 9°31, Sok. 1 22, Sok. 12 Sok. adds in the days.
XVI. 1. Twelve great gates. numbers when added together = 365. These are the same asthe gates of the Hence in ver. 4 we are told that a gun in xiii, 2-3. It is obvions that Solar year = 3654 days. Then in ver. the text is here corrupt,as this account 5 we proceed to consider the lunar eannot possibly apply to the moon. year which amounts not to 365 but In order to correct it we have only to 354 days, there being a difference to read ‘sun’ instead of ‘moon’ of eleven days, or more exactly eleven wherever it occurs. We have thus and a quarter days.
a description of the Solar year. The
Chapter XVI. 1-7.
- But in the lunar year there are three
of one day},
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hundred and fifty-four days, making twelve months of twenty- nine days; and * there remain eleven days over, which belong to the solar circle of the whole year ?, and are * lunar epacts
of the whole year °. and thirty-two years. ]