1 And the names of the sun are the following: the first Aryares, and the second T’oma.
2 And the moon has four names: the first name is Asoniya, the second Eḇla, the third Benase, and the fourth Erae.
3 These are the two great lights: their circumference is like the circumference of the shamayim, and the size of the circumference of both is alike.
4 In the circumference of the sun there are seven portions of light which are added to it more than to the moon, and in definite measures it is transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is exhausted.
5 And they go down and enter the portals of the west, and make their revolution by the north, and come forth through the eastern portals on the face of the shamayim.
6 And when the moon rises, one-fourteenth part appears in the shamayim – the light becomes full in her – on the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light.
7 And fifteen parts of light are transferred to her till the fifteenth day – her light is accomplished, according to the sign of the year, and she becomes fifteen parts, and the moon grows by fourteenth parts.
8 And in her diminishing, 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.
9 And in certain months the month has twenty-nine days and once twenty-eight.
10 And Uri’ĕl showed me another law: when light is transferred to the moon, and on which side it is transferred to her by the sun.
11 During all the period during which the moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when opposite to the sun. During fourteen days her light is accomplished in the shamayim, and when she is illuminated throughout, her light is accomplished full in the shamayim.
12 And on the first day she is called the new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her.
13 She becomes full moon exactly on the day when the sun goes down in the west, and from the east she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night through till the sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over against the sun.
14 On the side where the light of the moon comes forth, there again she diminishes till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are at an end, and her circumference is empty, void of light.
15 And three months she makes of thirty days, and at her time she makes three months of twenty-nine days each, in which she accomplishes her diminishing in the first period of time, and in the first portal for one hundredand seventy-seven days.
16 And in the time of her going out she appears for three months, thirty days each, and for three months she appears twenty-nine each.
17 At night she appears like a man for twenty days each time, and by day she appears like the shamayim, and there is none else in her save her light.