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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: 15 of 70
url: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/15/
cite: "Enoch (attributed), tr. W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch), section 15. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/15/"
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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.

## 15. Chapter 14

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/15/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/enoch-2-morfill-1896/15/#p-N

### The Angels tok Enoch, and placed him on the East at the Gates of the Sun

[¶1] 1 These men brought me to the East and showed me the gates by which the sun goes forth at the appointed seasons, and according to the revolution of the months of the whole year, and according to the number of the hours, day and night’.

[¶2] 2 And I saw the six great gates open, each gate having sixty-one stadia and a quarter of one stadium; and I truly measured them and understood their size to be so much, by which the sun goes forth; and he goes to the west and makes his course correspond. And he proceeds through all the months.

[¶3] 3 And by the first gates he goes out forty-two days; by the second gates thirty-five days; by the fourth gates thirty-five; by the fifth gates thirty-

[¶4] 4 And so he returns from the sixth gates in the course of time: and he enters by the fifth gates during thirty-five days, by the fourth gates thirty-five, by the third gates during thirty-

[¶5] 5 And so the five; by the sixth gates forty-five '. five days; by the second gates thirty-five, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch. days of the whole year are finished according to the alternation of the four seasons.