1 Enoch 72:4
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with illuminating and heating fire.
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.