1 The sun has two names: the first is Orjârês, and the second is Tômâs. 2 The moon has four names: the first is Asônjâ, the second Eblâ, the third Benâsê, and the fourth Erâe. 3 These are the two great lights,⁠a whose circumference is similar to that of the heaven, and the size of both is alike. 4 The sun contains seven portions of light which exceed those of the moon,⁠b distributed in definite measures until the seventh portion of the sun's light is depleted. 5 Both lights set and enter the portals of the west, orbit via the north, and emerge through the eastern portals facing the heavens. 6 When the moon rises, one-fourteenth of it becomes visible in the sky. By the fourteenth day, the moon reaches full illumination. 7 The moon receives fifteen parts of light by the fifteenth day, completing its full phase according to the annual cycle, growing incrementally by fourteen parts until fully illuminated. 8 As the moon wanes, its light decreases: fourteen parts on the first day, thirteen on the second, continuing to diminish each day by one part until, by the fourteenth day, only a half part remains, and by the fifteenth, all light disappears completely. 9 Some months have twenty-nine days and occasionally twenty-eight. 10 Uriel explained another law regarding how the moon receives light from the sun and on which side the light is transferred. 11 Throughout the fourteen days when the moon is waxing, it gathers light when positioned opposite the sun, achieving full brightness in the heavens. 12 The moon is termed the new moon on the first day, as it begins to capture light. 13 It becomes fully illuminated exactly when the sun sets in the west, rising from the east at night. The moon then shines all night until the sun rises opposite her in the morning. 14 The side from which the moon's light originates is also where it begins to wane until the light completely disappears, concluding the monthly cycle with her circumference empty and devoid of light. 15 The moon has three months consisting of thirty days each, and during her cycle, she also has three months of twenty-nine days each, during which she undergoes waning in the first period of time, lasting one hundred and seventy-seven days through the first portal. 16 During her emergence, she is visible for three months of thirty days each, and for three months of twenty-nine days each. 17 At night, she appears like a man for twenty days at a time, and by day she resembles the sky, containing nothing but her own light.