CHAPTER 13
1 These men brought me to the East and showed me the gates by which the sun goes forth at the appointed seasons, and according to the revolution of the months of the whole year, and according to the number of the hours, day and night.
2 And I saw the six great gates open, each gate having sixty-one stadia and a quarter of one stadium; and I truly measured them and understood their size to be so much, by which the sun goes forth; and he goes to the west and makes his course correspond. And he proceeds through all the months.
3 And by the first gates he goes out forty-two days; by the second gates thirty-five days; by the fourth gates thirty-five; by the fifth gates thirtyfive; by the sixth gates forty-five.
4 And so he returns from the sixth gates in the course of time: and he enters by the fifth gates during thirty-five days, by the fourth gates thirty-five, by the third gates during thirty-five days; by the second gates thirty-five,
5 And so the days of the whole year are finished according to the alternation of the four seasons.