1 Enoch 78:8
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And in her waning (the moon) decreases on the first day to fourteen parts of her light, on the second to thirteen parts of light, on the third to twelve, on the fourth to eleven, on the fifth to ten, on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to eight, on the eighth to seven, on the ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the eleventh to four, on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two, on the fourteenth to the half of a seventh, and all her remaining light disappears wholly on the fifteenth.
This verse’s chapter, studied
Counting the Moon Down to Nothing
Enoch records mysterious names given to the sun and the moon, then returns to the moon's changing light in exact daily fractions: fourteen parts to full, then one fewer part each day of waning until, on the fifteenth day, "all her remaining light disappears wholly." He notes that months run twenty-nine or thirty days, and that Uriel showed him from which side the sun's light is transferred to the moon.
- Genesis 1:16 : Genesis names the two lights only by function, never by proper name: a restraint this chapter's mythic naming of sun and moon stands against.
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.