1 Enoch 79:4
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And the waning which takes place in the first portal in its season, till one hundred and seventy-seven days are accomplished: reckoned according to weeks, twenty-five (weeks) and two days.
This verse’s chapter, studied
The Sketch Is Finished
Uriel confirms to Enoch that he has now shown him the complete law governing every star, for every day, season, year, and month. The chapter restates the moon's waning cycle: beginning in the sixth portal, running one hundred seventy-seven days, and falling five days behind the sun's order each period. Enoch calls it "the picture and sketch of every luminary" that the archangel Uriel, "their leader," has shown him.
- Psalms 19:1 : "The heavens declare the glory of God" — the same confidence that the sky's order is knowable and speaks plainly, which this closing summary claims to have set down in full.
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.