7. And the days, Uriel showed me; the angel whom the Lord of glory
appointed over all the luminaries.
8. Of heaven in heaven, and in the world; that they might rule in the
face of the sky, and appearing over the earth, become
9. Conductors of the days and nights: the sun, the moon, the stars, and
all the ministers of heaven, which make their circuit with all the
chariots of heaven.
10. Thus Uriel showed me twelve gates open for the circuit of the
chariots of the sun in heaven, from which the rays of the sun shoot
forth.
11. From these proceed heat over the earth, when they are opened in
their stated seasons. They are for the winds, and the spirit of the dew,
when in their seasons they are opened; opened in heaven at _its_
extremities.
12. Twelve gates I beheld in heaven, at the extremities of the earth,
through which the sun, moon, and stars, and all the works of heaven,
proceed at their rising and setting.