ḤANOḴ 75

1 And the leaders of the heads of the thousands, who are placed over the whole creation and over all the stars, have also to do with the four intercalary days, being inseparable from their office, according to the reckoning of the year, and these render service on the four days which are not reckoned in the reckoning of the year.

2 And owing to them men go astray therein, for those lights truly render service on the world-stations, one in the first portal, one in the third portal of the shamayim, one in the fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and the exactness of the year is accomplished through its separate three hundred and sixty-four stations.

3 For the signs and the times and the years and the days the messenger Uri’ĕl showed to me, whom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of esteem has appointed forever over all the lights of the shamayim, in the shamayim and in the world, that they should rule on the face of the shamayim and be seen on the earth, and be leaders for the day and the night: the sun, moon, and stars, and all the ministering beings which make their revolution in all the chariots of the shamayim.

4 In the same way, twelve doors Uri’ĕl showed me, open in the circumference of the sun’s chariot in the shamayim, through which the rays of the sun break forth: and from them is warmth diffused over the earth, when they are opened at their appointed times.

5 And for the winds and the spirit of the dew when they are opened, standing open in the shamayim at the ends.

6 As for the twelve portals in the shamayim, at the ends of the earth, out of which go forth the sun, moon, and stars, and all the works of the shamayim in the east and in the west,

7 there are many windows open to the left and right of them, and one window at its appointed time produces warmth, corresponding to those doors from which the stars come forth according as He has commanded them, and wherein they are placed corresponding to their number.

8 And I saw chariots in the shamayim, running in the world, above those portals in which revolve the stars that never go down.

9 And one is larger than all the rest, and it is that which makes its course through the entire world.