The Book of Enoch 74

¹🔗nd if five years are added together the sun has an overplus of thirty days, and all the days which accrue to it for one of those five years, when they are full, amount to 364 days.

²🔗 And the overplus of the sun and of the stars amounts to six days: in 5 years 6 days every year come to 30 days: and the moon falls behind the sun and stars to the number of 30 days.

³🔗 And =the sun= and the stars bring in all the years exactly, so that they do not advance or delay their position by a single day unto eternity; but complete the years with perfect justice in 364 days.

⁴🔗 In 3 years there are 1092 days, and in 5 years 1820 days, so that in 8 years there are 2912 days.

⁵🔗 For the moon alone the days amount in 3 years to 1062 days, and in 5 years she falls 50 days behind: .

⁶🔗 And in 5 years there are 1770 days, so that for the moon the days in 8 years amount to 2832 days.

⁷🔗 , all the days she falls behind in 8 years are

⁸🔗 And the year is accurately completed in conformity with their world-stations and the stations of the sun, which rise from the portals through which it (the sun) rises and sets 30 days.

⁹🔗 And she returns again in seven days into the fourth portal from which the sun goes forth.

¹⁰🔗 Thus I saw their position—how the moons rose and the sun set in those days.