3 Its circle and the wheels on which it goes always, like a wind going past with very marvellous speed, and day and night it has no rest. [*1] (2EN) 4 Its passage and return are accompanied by four great stars, and each star has under it a thousand stars, to the right of the sun's wheel, and by four to the left, each having under it a thousand stars, altogether eight thousand, issuing with the sun continually. (2EN) 5 And by day fifteen myriads of angels attend it, and by night a thousand. (2EN)
2 Enoch 11:3–5
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