Zhe Mea took Enoch and placed him at the East, at the Course of the Moon
1 The other, the computation of the moon these And they pointed out the gates to me, twelve great gates extending from the West to the East, by which the moon enters and goes out at the customary times. men showed me; all the goings and revolutions.
2 She enters the first gate when the sun is in the West thirty-one days exactly’; by the second gate thirty-one days exactly; by the third gate thirty days exactly; by the fourth gate thirty days exactly; by the fifth gate thirty-one days exactly; by the sixth gate thirty-one days exactly; by the seventh gate thirty days exactly; by the eighth gate thirty-one days exactly; by the ninth gate thirty-one days exactly; by the tenth gate thirty 1 exactly; by the eleventh gate thirty-one days exactly; by the twelfth gate twenty-eight days" exactly.
3 And so by the Western gates in her revolutions, and corresponding to the number of the Eastern gates
4 And unto the sun there are three hundred and sixty-five days and a quarter she goes, and accomplishes the year, sun in xiii. cannot possibly apply to the moon. In order to correct it we have only to read instead of ‘moon’ We have thus ‘sun wherever it occurs. a description of the Solar year. numbers when added together = 365. Hence in ver. 4 we are told that a Solar year = 365+ days. Then in ver. 5 we proceed to consider the lunar year which amounts not to 365 but to 354 days, there being a difference of eleven days, or more exactly eleven and a quarter days. of one day!.
5 But in the lunar year there are three hundred and fifty-four days, making twelve months of twenty-nine days; and there remain eleven days over, which belong to the solar circle of the whole year, and are lunar epacts of the whole year. [Thus the great circle has five hundred
6 The fourth part (of one day) is neglected during three years and the fourth year completes it and thirty-two years. exactly. On account of this they are omitted from the heavens during three years, and are not added to the number of the days, on which account these change the seasons of the year in two new months, to make the number complete and there are two others to diminish.
7 And when she has gone through the Western gates, she returns and goes to the Eastern, with her light, and so she goes day and night in the heavenly circles, below all the circles more quickly than 1 So she sets by the western gates and finishes the year in 364 days that are accomplished,
8 This may be the original text, or 364 may be an error for 354.