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title: "The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch)"
author: "Enoch (attributed)"
translator: "W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hidden books"
section: 13 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/13/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 13. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/13/"
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# The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch)

*Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles*

The Slavonic Enoch: ten heavens, and a closing fragment on the birth of Melchizedek.

## 13. Chapter 12

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/13/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/13/#p-N

[¶0] 1 Fourth heaven. According. Comings and goings.. And I measured their goings, and computed their light.

[¶1] 2 And I saw that the sun has a light seven times greater than the moon. I beheld their circle, and their chariot 4 on which each goes like a wind advancing with astonishing swiftness, and they have no rest day or night coming or going.

[¶2] 3 There are four great stars; each star has under it a thousand stars at the right of the chariot of the sun; and four at the left, each having under it a thousand stars, altogether eight thousand.

[¶3] 4 Fifteen myriads of angels go out with the sun and attend him during the day, and by night one thousand. Each angel has six

[¶4] 5 And wings. They go’? before the chariot of the sun’. a hundred angels keep warm and heht up the sun.