34 So it comes that its course becomes daily longer, and its course nightly shorter. (ENO) 35 And this is the law and the course of the sun, and his return as often as he returns sixty times and rises, i.e. the great luminary which is named the sun, for ever and ever. (ENO) 36 And that which (thus) rises is the great luminary, and is so named according to its appearance, according as the Lord commanded. (ENO)
Book of Enoch 72:34–36
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