Genesis 1:15

Hebrew Bible

14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years, 15 and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also. 17 God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth, 18 to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. 19 There was evening, and there was morning, a fourth day.

1 Enoch 75:3

Pseudepigrapha

2 Due to these luminaries, people often miscalculate, for these luminaries indeed serve at specific world-stations: one in the first portal, one in the third, one in the fourth, and one in the sixth portal of heaven, ensuring the year's precision through its distinct 364 stations. 3 Uriel, the angel appointed by the Lord of glory to oversee all the celestial bodies in heaven and on earth, showed me the signs, times, years, and days. These celestial bodies govern the sky and are visible on Earth, leading day and night—the sun, moon, stars, and all entities that make their circuits in the celestial chariots.

 Notes and References

"... It is clear from 1 Enoch 72-82 that the writer of the Enochic text knew and used Genesis 1, especially the passage regarding the creation of the heavenly lights on day four. So, for example, he designates the sun “the great light” (72:4, 35-36) and the moon “the smaller light” (73:1), and he refers to sign(s) in connection with the luminaries (72:13, 19; compare 78:7 and 82:16, 19). Furthermore, 1 Enoch 75:3 and 82:7, 9-10 contain summary statements that take up several terms from Genesis 1:14-19: times, days, years, set times, and rule ..."

VanderKam, James "Enoch's Science" in Ben-Dov, Jonathan, and Seth L. Sanders, (eds.) Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature (pp. 51-67) New York University Press, 2014

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