the moon

Also known as: Moon · Role: heavenly sphere · First appears: The Fourth Day

Life events

The sun and the moon were assigned their places in the heavens.(The Fourth Day · 📍 the heavens)
- With: the sun
- “These heavenly spheres were not actually fashioned on this day; they were created on the first day, and merely were assigned their places in the heavens on the fourth.”
The sun and the moon initially possessed equal powers and prerogatives.(The Fourth Day)
- With: the sun
- “At first the sun and the moon enjoyed equal powers and prerogatives.”
God decreed that the moon would keep only one-sixtieth of its light.(The Fourth Day)
- “As a punishment I decree that thou mayest keep but one-sixtieth of thy light.”
God promised to restore the moon’s light to equal the sun’s light.(The Fourth Day)
- “In the future world I will restore thy light, so that thy light may again be as the light of the sun.”
The moon fell, and tiny threads loosed from its body became the stars.(The Fourth Day)
- “When God punished the envious moon by diminishing her light and splendor, so that she ceased to be the equal of the sun as she had been originally, she fell, and tiny threads were loosed from her body. These are the stars.”

rivals with the sun “What, thou still plottest against the sun? As thou livest, in the world to come his light shall be sevenfold the light he now sheds.”

Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume I. Made with Rho MD.