The Book of Enoch 72

¹🔗nd on that day the night decreases in length, and the night amounts to ten parts and the day to eight.

²🔗 And on that day the sun rises from that portal, and sets in the west, and returns to the east, and rises in the third portal for one and thirty mornings, and sets in the west of the heaven.

³🔗 On that day the night decreases and amounts to nine parts, and the day to nine parts, and the night is equal to the day and the year is exactly as to its days three hundred and sixty-four.

⁴🔗 And the length of the day and of the night, and the shortness of the day and of the night arise—through the course of the sun these distinctions are made (lit. ‘they are separated’).

⁵🔗 So it comes that its course becomes daily longer, and its course nightly shorter.

⁶🔗 And this is the law and the course of the sun, and his return as often as he returns sixty times and rises, _i. e._ the great luminary which is named the Sun, for ever and ever.

⁷🔗 And that which (thus) rises is the great luminary, and is so named according to its appearance, according as the Lord commanded.

⁸🔗 As he rises, so he sets and decreases not, and rests not, but runs day and night, and his light is sevenfold brighter than that of the moon; but as regards size they are both equal.

⁹🔗 And on that night has the night decreased in length by a ninth part, and the night has become eleven parts and the day seven parts.

¹⁰🔗 And the sun has returned and entered into the second portal in the east, and returns on those his divisions of his orbit for thirty mornings, rising and setting.