3 These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both is alike. (ENO) 4 In the circumference of the sun there are seven portions of light which are added to it more than to the moon, and in definite measures it is transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is exhausted. (ENO) 5 And they set and enter the portals of the west, and make their revolution by the north, and come forth through the eastern portals on the face of the heaven. (ENO)
Book of Enoch 78:3–5
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Book of Enoch 72:1–3
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Book of Enoch 72:36–37
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Book of Enoch 72:26–28
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Book of Enoch 72:7–9
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Book of Enoch 72:22–24
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Book of Enoch 73:2–4
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