1 Enoch 72:3
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And I saw six portals in which the sun rises, and six portals in which the sun sets: and the moon rises and sets in these portals, and the leaders of the stars and those whom they lead: six in the east and six in the west, and all following each other in accurately corresponding order: also many windows to the right and left of these portals.
This verse’s chapter, studied
The Book of the Luminaries Opens: Uriel's Calendar
Enoch turns to record "the book of the courses of the luminaries of heaven" as shown to him by the angel Uriel, describing the sun's rising and setting through six portals in the east and six in the west, and how the changing length of day and night through the year follows an exact, fixed order "unto eternity."
Teachers on this ground
R. H. Charles
The Book of Enoch (1917)
The public-domain translation this shelf reads, with the critical introduction the field still builds on.
Johnny Enlow
The Book of Enoch: Paraphrase and Commentary (2025)
A living teacher's paraphrase of the whole book with his own running commentary, from the prophetic stream.