1There I saw another progress and regulation which he made in the law of the moon. The progress of the moons, and every thing relating to them, Uriel the holy angel who conducted them all shewed to me.
2I wrote down all their situations, as he shewed them to me.
3I wrote down their months as they are, with the appearance of their light, until it is filled up in fifteen days.
4In each of its single seven portions, it completes all its light at rising, and in each of its single seven portions, it completes all its darkness at setting.
5On appointed months it goes its course alone, and in two gates the moon sets with the sun, in the two gates which are in the middle, in the third and fourth gates. It goes forth seven days, and makes its circuit.
6And it turns again to the gate whence the sun goes forth, and in that makes full all its light, then it declines from the sun, and comes in eight days into the sixth gate, and returns in seven days into the third gate, from which the sun goes forth.
7When the sun goes forth from the fourth gate, the moon goes forth for seven days, until it goes forth from the fifth gate.
8Again it turns in seven days to the fourth gate, and there makes full all its light, and turns, and comes by the first gate, eight days,
9And returns in seven days to the fourth gate, from which the sun goes forth.
10Thus I saw their situations, according to the fixed order of the months the sun rises and sets.
11At these times there are in five years, thirty days belonging to the sun. All the days belonging to each year of the five years, when completed, amount to three hundred and sixty-four days, and to the sun and stars belong six days, six days in each of the five years, thus thirty days belong to them.
12So that the moon has thirty days less than the sun and stars.
13The moon brings on all the years exactly, that their places may neither be before, or be delayed a single day, but that the exact changing of the year may be in three hundred and sixty-four days. Three years have one thousand and ninety-two days, and five years, one thousand eight hundred and twenty days: so there are in eight years two thousand nine hundred and twelve days.
14To the moon alone come in three years one thousand and sixty-two days, in five years it has fifty days less than the sun, for an addition being made to the thousand and sixty-two days, in five years there are one thousand seven hundred and seventy days, and the days of the moon in eight years are two thousand eight hundred and thirty-two days.
15For its days in eight years are less than the days of the sun by eighty days, and these eighty days are what it has less in eight years.
16The year then becomes truly complete according to the place of the moons, and the place of the sun, which rise in the different gates, which rise and set in them for thirty days.