1 And I saw another course, a law for her, how according to that law she performs her monthly revolution.
2 And all these Uri’ĕl, the qodesh messenger who is the leader of them all, showed to me, and their positions. And I wrote down their positions as he showed them to me, and I wrote down their months as they were, and the appearance of their lights till fifteen days were accomplished.
3 In single seventh parts she accomplishes all her light in the east, and in single seventh parts accomplishes all her darkness in the west.
4 And in certain months she alters her going down, and in certain months she pursues her own peculiar course.
5 In two months the moon goes down with the sun: in those two middle portals the third and the fourth.
6 She goes forth for seven days, and turns about and returns again through the portal where the sun rises, and accomplishes all her light: and she recedes from the sun, and in eight days enters the sixth portal from which the sun goes forth.
7 And when the sun goes forth from the fourth portal she goes forth seven days, until she goes forth from the fifth and turns back again in seven days into the fourth portal and accomplishes all her light: and she recedes and enters into the first portal in eight days.
8 And she returns again in seven days into the fourth portal from which the sun goes forth.
9 Thus I saw their position – how the moon rose and the sun went down in those days.
10 And if five years are added together the sun has an excess of thirty days, and all the days which increase to it for one of those five years, when they are full, amount to three hundred and sixty-four days.
11 And the excess of the sun and of the stars amounts to six days: in five years, six days every year come to thirty days, and the moon falls behind the sun and stars to the number of thirty days.
12 And the sun and the stars bring in all the years exactly, so that they do not advance or delay their position by a single day unto everlasting; but complete the years with perfect justice in three hundred and sixty-four days.
13 In three years there are one thousand and ninety-two days, and in five years; one thousand, eight hundred and twenty days, so that in eight years there are two thousand, nine hundred and twelve days.
14 For the moon alone the days amount in three years to one thousand and sixty-two days, and in five years she falls fifty days behind: to the sum there is five to be added and sixty-two days.
15 And in five years there are one thousand, seven hundred and seventy days, so that for the moon the days six in eight years amount to two thousand, eight hundred and thirty-two days.
16 For in eight years she falls behind to the amount of eighty days, all the seventeen days she falls behind in eight years are eighty.
17 And the year is accurately completed in conformity with their world-stations and the stations of the sun, which rise from the portals through which it rises and goes down thirty days.