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Read›1 Enoch›Chapter 75

1 Enoch 75:6

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As for the twelve portals in the heaven, at the ends of the earth, out of which go forth the sun, moon, and stars, and all the works of heaven in the east and in the west,6, 7. Adjoining each one of the sun’s twelve portals are twelve windows open to the left and right of them. Cf. lxxii. 3, 7. These diffuse warmth over the earth, one being open at a time, and all differing in heating power.6. This verse begins in ɑ with a dittograph 'when they are opened' from v. 4. (β inserts 'I saw', thus altering 'twelve portals' from a nominativus pendens into the acc. But Enoch had been viewing them since lxxii.

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