1 I observed another pattern and law for the moon and how she completes her monthly cycle. 2 Uriel, the holy angel who leads them all, showed me this. He revealed their positions and I recorded these positions as he showed them to me, as well as the phases of their lights over the course of fifteen days. 3 The moon completes her illumination in the east in seven parts, and her waning in the west also in seven parts. 4 In certain months, she changes her settings, and in other months, she follows a unique path. 5 Specifically, in two months, the moon sets with the sun, corresponding to the middle portals, the third and the fourth. 6 The moon circles for seven days and then turns around and returns through the same portal where the sun rises, completing all her illumination before receding from the sun. After eight days, she enters the sixth portal, where the sun emerges. 7 When the sun moves through the fourth portal, the moon also takes seven days to complete her phase before moving through the fifth. She then returns in seven days back to the fourth portal and completes her illumination. She then retreats and enters the first portal in eight days. 8 The moon returns again to the fourth portal in seven days, from which the sun emerges. 9 This pattern showed how the moon rose and the sun set during that period. 10 When five years are combined, the sun accumulates an excess of thirty days, and all the days that accrue to it for one of those five years, when they are complete, amount to 364 days. 11 The excess of the sun and of the stars amounts to six days: in five years, six days every year come to 30 days, and the moon falls behind the sun and the stars by 30 days. 12 The sun and stars manage to synchronize over time, not advancing or delaying their position by even a day, but they complete the year perfectly just in 364 days.⁠a 13 In three years there are 1092 days, and in five years 1820 days, so that in eight years there are 2912 days. 14 For the moon alone, over three years, the total is 1062 days, falling 50 days behind over five years. 15 In five years, there are 1770 days total for the moon, so in eight years, the moon totals 2832 days. 16 Over eight years, the moon falls behind by a total of 80 days; all the days she falls behind in eight years are 80. 17 The year completes accurately according to the world-stations and the positions of the sun, which ascends and descends through the portals every 30 days.