1After this law I saw another law of lesser light, the name of which is the moon, the orb of which is as the orb of heaven.
2And where its chariot ascends the wind blows forth, and light is given to it by measure.
3At the beginning and end of every month it is changed, and its days are as the days of the sun, and when in like manner its light is to be, its light is a seventh part from the light of the sun.
4And when it rises, its beginning is towards the east, it goes forth thirty days.
5At that time it is seen and is to you the beginning of the month, it is thirty days with the sun in the gate from which the sun goes forth.
6One half of it being taken away, it is seven portions, and the whole of its orb is without any light, except a seventh portion out of the fourteen portions of its light, in a day it receives a seventh or half that portion of its light. Its light is by sevens, by one portion, and by the half of a portion it sets with the sun.
7And when the sun rises, the moon rises with it, and receives a half portion of light.
8And on that night in its beginning in the east, before the day of the month, the moon sets with the sun.
9And it is dark on that night in its fourteen portions, that is in each half, but it rises on that day with a seventh portion exactly, and it goes forth and turns from the rising of the sun.
10During the remainder of its time, its light in creases to fourteen portions.