The Law of the Stars – The Ordinance of the Stars

Citation: ‘Ethiopian Enoch’ or 1 Enoch’ translated from the Ethiopic by Richard Laurence, London (1883)

Chapter 81 (LXXXI) verses 9-25

Synopsis

The order of the stars, how they bring in the days, months years and the names of their conductors are given in this chapter. The four intercalary days are rehashed and described in greater detail. 

Here are a few of the verses:

81:9 This is the ordinance of the stars, which set in their places, in their seasons, in their periods, in their days, and in their months.

81:10 These are the names of the those who conduct them, who watch and enter in their seasons, according to their ordinance in their periods, in their months, in [the times of] their influence, and in their stations.

81:11 Four conductors of them first enter, who separate the four quarters of the year. After these, twelve conductors of their classes, who separate the months and the year [into] three hundred and sixty-four [days], with the leaders of a thousand, who distinguish between the days, as well as between the four additional ones; which, [as] conductors, divide the four quarters of the year.

81:12 These leaders of a thousand are in the midst of the conductors, and the conductors are added each behind his station, and their conductors make the separation. These are the names of the conductors, who separate the four quarters of the year, who are appointed [over them]: Melkel, Helammelak,

81:13 Meliyal, and Narel.

81:14 And the names of those who conduct them are Adnarel, Jyasusal, and Jyelumeal.

81:15 These are the three who follow after the conductors of the classes [of stars]; each following after the three conductors of the classes, which themselves follow after those conductors of the stations, who divide the four quarters of the year.