�� The Book of Jubilees

�� From "The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament"

�� R.H. Charles

�� Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913

�� See an article about the history of the book.

�� See the Introduction to understand the view of an "already working kingdom prior to Messiah."

�� This kingdom would gradually come into existence, and consistent with the New Wineskin scheme

�� continues to evolve as we write.

�� The History of Heredotus, Chapter Three reads:

�� About the time when Cambyses arrived at Memphis, Apis appeared to the Egyptians. Now Apis is

�� the god whom the Greeks call Epaphus. As soon as he appeared, straightway all the Egyptians

�� arrayed themselves in their gayest garments, and fell to feasting and jollity: which when

�� Cambyses saw, making sure that these rejoicings were on account of his own ill success, he called

�� before him the officers who had charge of Memphis, and demanded of them‑

�� "Why, when he was in Memphis before, the Egyptians had done nothing of this kind,

�� but waited until now, when he had returned with the loss of so many of his troops?"

�� The officers made answer,

�� "That one of their gods had appeared to them, a god who at long

�� intervals of time had been accustomed to show himself in Egypt‑

�� and that always on his appearance the whole of Egypt feasted and

�� kept jubilee."

�� THIS is the history of the division of the days of the law and of the testimony, of the events of the

�� years, of their (year) weeks, of their Jubilees throughout all the years of the world, as the Lord spake

�� to Moses on Mount Sinai when he went up to receive the tables of the law and of the

�� commandment, according to the voice of God as he said unto him, 'Go up to the top of the Mount.'

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 1]

�� 1 And it came to pass in the first year of the exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the

�� third month, on the sixteenth day of the month, [2450 Anno Mundi] that God spake to Moses,

�� saying:

�� 'Come up to Me on the Mount, and I will give thee two tables of stone of the law and

�� of the commandment, which

�� 2 I have written, that thou mayst teach them.' And Moses went up into the mount of God, and

�� the

�� 3 glory of the Lord abode on Mount Sinai, and a cloud overshadowed it six days.

�� And He called to Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud, and the

�� appearance of the glory of the

�� 4 Lord was like a flaming fire on the top of the mount. And Moses was on the Mount forty days

�� and forty nights,

�� and God taught him the earlier and the later history of the

�� division of all the days

�� 5 of the law and of the testimony.

�� The word day (h3117) can mean a chronicle. A Book of Days

�� And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made

�� a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written

�� in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 2 Kings 20:20

�� Some days are accounts of instantaneous creation. Other days speak of

�� God planting, the plants grow and begin reproducing after their kind. This

�� would agree with Isaiah 48 where we see that God created all things

�� probably in ZERO time. Then, He brought them forth in their own good

�� time:

�� Yowm (h3117) yome; from an unused root mean. to be hot;

�� a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to

�� sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a

�� space of time defined by an associated term), chronicles,

�� continually , (for) ever (‑lasting, ‑more), perpetually,

�� presently, required, season, process of time...

�� We know that creation out of nothing is instantaneous. However, God

�� then makes, forms, brings forth and then chronicles or heralds what He

�� has done in parable‑like stories which can be easily learned and repeated.

�� These day journals were to contradict the absurd creation accounts of the

�� Babylonian triads and modern evolution which discounts the Divine.

�� Day can also mean everlasting or evermore.� Literally, evermore means

�� for the necessary duration of time and not always eternity.

�� And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in

�� darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou

�� shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore (h3117),

�� and no man shall save thee. Deuteronomy 28:29

�� The "groping at noonday" was symbolic of groping forever or for

�� whatever time it took:

�� And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the

�� commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to

�� do for evermore (yowm); and ye shall not fear other

�� gods (elohim). 2 Kings 17:37

�� And He said:

�� 'Incline thine heart to every word which I shall speak to thee on this mount,

�� and write them in a book in order that their generations may

�� see how I have not forsaken them for all the evil which they have wrought in

�� transgressing the covenant

�� 6 which I establish between Me and thee for their generations this day on Mount Sinai.

�� And thus it will come to pass when all these things come upon them, that they will

�� recognise that I am more righteous than they in all their judgments and in all their

�� actions, and they will recognise that

�� 7 I have been truly with them. And do thou write for thyself all these words which I declare unto,

�� thee this day,

�� for I know their rebellion and their stiff neck, before I bring them into the land of

�� which I sware to their fathers, to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob, saying: ' Unto

�� your seed

�� The Musical Idolatry at Mount Sinai was an oft‑repeated pattern of

�� God offering grace and evil men turning back to musical idolatry.

�� When God gave the Book of the Covenant, Exodus reads:

�� And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord

�� descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke

�� of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. Exodus 19:18

�� However, as a result of the musical idolatry‑‑rising up to play‑‑God gave them the

�� Book of the Law to protect them. After punishment, God ordained the Levites to

�� stand between the people and the Tabernacle as the symbol of His presence. All but

�� the Levites and Priests were now strangers and the clergy must bear the burden for the

�� people. Therefore, in Deuteronomy, the second law or that "in addition to the

�� Covenant":

�� And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord

�� descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke

�� of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. Deut.33:1

�� And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from

�� Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he

�� came with ten thousands of saints:

�� from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

�� Deut 33:2

�� Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and

�� they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy

�� words. Deut 33:3

�� Moses commanded us a law, even the

�� inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. Deut

�� 33:4

�� This theme of Covenant, sin, and the Law

�� is repeated in The Book of Enoch

�� Quoted by Jude, vss. 14, 15.

�� And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the

�� Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, Jude 14

�� To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly

�� among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly

�� committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have

�� spoken against him. Jude 15

�� These documents all attribute musical worship of Yahweh to a Satanic

�� attack with mixed‑sex choirs and intrumental music in the hands of the

�� women and youth.

�� 8 will I give a land flowing with milk and honey. And they will eat and be satisfied,

�� and they will turn to strange gods, to (gods) which cannot deliver them from aught of

�� their tribulation:

�� and this witness shall be heard for a witness against them.

�� For they will forget all My commandments, (even) all that I command

�� them, and they will

�� walk after the Gentiles, and after their uncleanness, and after their

�� shame, and will serve their gods, and these will

�� 10 prove unto them an offence and a tribulation and an affliction and a

�� snare.

�� And many will perish and they will be taken captive, and will fall into the hands of the enemy,

�� because they have forsaken My ordinances and My commandments, and the

�� festivals of My covenant, and My sabbaths,

�� and My holy place which I have hallowed for Myself in their midst, and

�� My tabernacle, and My sanctuary, which I have hallowed for Myself in

�� the midst of the land, that I should set my name

�� 11 upon it, and that it should dwell (there).

�� And they will make to themselves high places and groves and graven images, and

�� they will worship, each his own (graven image), so as to go astray, and they

�� 12 will sacrifice their children to demons, and to all the works of the error of their hearts.

�� While the women were lamenting for Tammuz in the

�� Jerusalem temple, the men were bowing to the sun in the

�� east. The "tree" or stone pillar representing various "gods"

�� was very important to show superiority.

�� This woodcut shows the Israelites worshiping a four‑fold

�� image two of which are crowned with the sun. The

�� non‑functional columns were "trees" or stumps like the

�� original cross. In Judaism and lots of modern christianity the

�� Sun is worshiped rather than the Son. This is a symbolic

�� grove.

�� In the Septuagint "God" describes how this took place by showing how He will

�� musically bring judgment upon Assyria. This describes the worship of Molech at

�� Topheth and defines how God will carry out His judgment upon all who are unfaithful:

�� Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep a ieast? and

�� must ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel

�� Isaiah 30:29 LXX

�� and the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard and the wrath of his arm, to

�� make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly,

�� and his wrath shall be as water and violent hail. Isaiah 14:30 LXX

�� For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, even by the stroke

�� where with he shall smite them. Isaiah 14:31 LXX

�� And it shall happen to him from every side, that they from whom their hope of

�� assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with

�� drums and with harp. Isaiah 14:32 LXX

�� And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the

�� Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps:and in

�� battles of shaking will he fight with it. Isaiah 14:32KJV

�� This is an illustration how they got an oracle from Molech by

�� buring babies in his red‑hot arms while the loud music drowned out

�� the evil sounds for the mothers. The screams of the children was

�� "music" in the ears of Molech representing Satan.

�� And I will send witnesses unto them, that I may witness against them, but they will not hear, and will

�� slay the witnesses also,

�� and they will persecute those who seek the law,

�� and they will abrogate and change

�� 13 everything so as to work evil before My eyes. And I will hide My face from them, and I will

�� deliver them into the hand of the Gentiles for captivity, and for a prey, and for devouring, and I

�� will remove them from the midst of the land, and I will scatter them amongst the Gentiles.

�� God said that Abraham was justified by faith:

�� Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my

�� commandments, my statutes, and my laws. Genesis 26:5

�� At Mount Sinai, God restated the covenant made with Abraham which was a

�� patriarchal covenant without clergy and without sacrifice. When Israel fell back into

�� Osiris (Apis the bull) worship, He gave them the Book of the Law. After they "fired"

�� God as their King so that they could worship like the nations, He allowed them to walk

�� in their own ways. Their religion, therefore, was not a spiritual religion of Grace but a

�� religion quite identical to those of the surrounding nations. In time, this religion would

�� lead to their captivity and almost destruction. The book of Jubilees describes this:

�� Jubilee picks up this eternal theme:

�� 14 And they will forget all My law and all My commandments and all My judgments,

�� and will go

�� 15 astray as to new moons, and sabbaths, and festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances.

�� And after this they will turn to Me from amongst the Gentiles with all their heart and

�� with all their soul and with all their strength, and I will gather them from amongst all the

�� Gentiles, and they will seek me, so

�� 16 that I shall be found of them, when they seek me with all their heart and with all their soul. And I

�� will disclose to them abounding peace with righteousness, and I will remove them the plant of

�� uprightness, with all My heart and with all My soul, and they shall be for a blessing and not for

�� 17 a curse, and they shall be the head and not the tail.

�� And I will build My sanctuary in their midst,

�� and I will dwell with them, and I will be their God

�� and they shall be My people in truth and

�� 18, 19 righteousness.

�� And I will not forsake them nor fail them; for I am the Lord their God.'

�� And Moses fell on his face and prayed and said, 'O Lord my God, do not forsake

�� Thy people and Thy inheritance, so that they should wander in the error of their hearts,

�� and do not deliver them into the hands of their enemies, the Gentiles, lest they should

�� rule over them and cause them to sin against

�� 20 Thee. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be lifted up upon Thy people, and create in them an upright

�� spirit, and let not the spirit of Beliar rule over them to accuse them before Thee, and to ensnare

�� them

�� 21 from all the paths of righteousness, so that they may perish from before Thy face. But they are

�� Thy people and Thy inheritance, which thou hast delivered with thy great power from the hands of

�� the Egyptians: create in them a clean heart and a holy spirit, and let them not be ensnared in

�� 22 their sins from henceforth until eternity.'

�� And the Lord said unto Moses: 'I know their contrariness and their thoughts and their

�� stiffneckedness, and they will not be obedient till they confess

�� 23 their own sin and the sin of their fathers. And after this they will turn to Me in all uprightness

�� and with all (their) heart and with all (their) soul, and

�� I will circumcise the foreskin of their heart and the foreskin of the heart of their seed,

�� and I will create in them a holy spirit, [See notes on A holy spirit]

�� and I will cleanse them so that they shall not turn away from Me from that day unto

�� eternity.

�� 24 And their souls will cleave to Me and to all My commandments, and they will fulfil My

�� 25 commandments, and I will be their Father and they shall be My children. And they all shall be

�� called children of the living God, and every angel and every spirit shall know, yea, they shall

�� know that these are My children,

�� and that I am their Father in uprightness and righteousness, and that

�� 26 I love them. And do thou write down for thyself all these words which I declare unto thee on

�� this mountain, the first and the last, which shall come to pass in all the divisions of the days in

�� the law and in the testimony and in the weeks and the jubilees unto eternity, until I descend and dwell

�� 27 with them throughout eternity.'

�� And He said to the angel of the presence: Write for Moses from

�� 28 the beginning of creation till My sanctuary has been built among them for all eternity. And the

�� Lord will appear to the eyes of all, and all shall know that I am the God of Israel and the Father of all

�� the children of Jacob, and King on Mount Zion for all eternity. And Zion and Jerusalem shall

�� 29 be holy.' And the angel of the presence who went before the camp of Israel

�� took the tables of the divisions of the years ‑from the time of the creation‑

�� of the law and of the testimony of the weeks of the jubilees,

�� according to the individual years, according to all the number of the jubilees

�� [according, to the individual years],

�� from the day of the [new] creation when the heavens and the earth shall

�� be renewed and all their creation according to the powers of the heaven,

�� and according to all the creation of the earth, until the sanctuary of the

�� Lord shall be made in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, and all the luminaries

�� be renewed for healing and for peace and for blessing for all the elect of

�� Israel, and that thus it may be from that day and unto all the days of the

�� earth.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 2]

�� 1 And the angel of the presence spake to Moses according to the word of the Lord, saying:

�� Write the complete history of the creation, how in six days the Lord God

�� finished all His works and all that He created, and kept Sabbath on the seventh day

�� and hallowed it for all ages, and

�� 2 appointed it as a sign for all His works.

�� Notice that the first day was devoted to the "spirits" of all things

�� On the first day He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters

�� and all the spirits which serve before him in internal silence. Jesus prescribed the

�� "spirit" as the place where He looks for worshipers and not the body or His works.

�� Whatever exists, there is a divine law which is invisible but makes things what they are.

�� the angels of the presence,

�� and the angels of sanctification, and the

�� angels [of the spirit of fire and

�� the angels] of the spirit of the winds,

�� and the angels of the spirit of the clouds,

�� and of darkness, and of snow and of hail and of hoar frost,

�� and the angels of the voices and of the thunder and of the lightning,

�� and the angels of the spirits of cold and of heat,

�� and of winter and of spring and of autumn and of summer

�� and of all the spirits of his creatures which are in the heavens and on the earth,

�� (He created) the abysses and the darkness, eventide (and night),

�� and the light, dawn and day, which He hath

�� 3 prepared in the knowledge of his heart. And thereupon we saw His works, and praised Him, and

�� lauded before Him on account of all His works;

�� for seven great works did He create on the first day.

�� 4 And on the second day He created the firmament in the midst of the waters, and the waters were

�� divided on that day ‑half of them went up above and half of them went down below the firmament

�� (that was) in the midst over the face of the whole earth. And this was the only work (God) created

�� 5 on the second day. And on the third day He commanded the waters to pass from off the face

�� of

�� 6 the whole earth into one place, and the dry land to appear. And the waters did so as He

�� commanded them, and they retired from off the face of the earth into one place outside of this

�� firmament,

�� 7 and the dry land appeared. And on that day He created for them all the seas according to their

�� separate gathering‑places, and all the rivers, and the gatherings of the waters in the mountains and on

�� all the earth, and all the lakes, and all the dew of the earth, and the seed which is sown, and all

�� sprouting things, and fruit‑bearing trees, and trees of the wood, and the garden of Eden, in Eden

�� 8 and all plants after their kind. These four great works God created on the third day. And on the

�� fourth day He created the sun and the moon and the stars, and set them in the firmament of the

�� heaven, to give light upon all the earth, and to rule over the day and the night, and divide the

�� 9 light from the darkness. And God appointed the sun to be a great sign on the earth for days and

�� 10 for sabbaths and for months and for feasts and for years and for sabbaths of years and for

�� jubilees and for all seasons of the years. And it divideth the light from the darkness [and] for

�� prosperity, that all things may prosper which shoot and grow on the earth. These three kinds He

�� made on the fourth day. And on the fifth day He created great sea monsters in the depths of the

�� waters, for these were the first things of flesh that were created by his hands, the fish and everything

�� that moves in the

�� 12 waters, and everything that flies, the birds and all their kind. And the sun rose above them to

�� prosper (them), and above everything that was on the earth, everything that shoots out of the earth,

�� and all

�� 13 fruit‑bearing trees, and all flesh. These three kinds He created on the fifth day. And on the sixth

�� day

�� 14 He created all the animals of the earth, and all cattle, and everything that moves on the earth.

�� And after all this He created man, a man and a woman created He them, and gave him dominion

�� over all that is upon the earth, and in the seas, and over everything that flies, and over beasts and

�� over cattle, and over everything that moves on the earth, and over the whole earth, and over all this

�� He gave

�� 15 him dominion. And these four kinds He created on the sixth day. And there were altogether

�� 16 two and twenty kinds. And He finished all his work on the sixth day ‑all that is in the heavens

�� and on the earth, and in the seas and in the abysses, and in the light and in the darkness, and in

�� 17 everything. And He gave us a great sign, the Sabbath day, that we should work six days,

�� The Sabbath was not created for a day of "external worship" which is usually the most

�� stressful part of the week. Rather, the Sabbath was created for all of the animal and

�� human life to rest. In order to keep this day holy God took "Saturday rituals" out of the

�� hands of mankind by defining what could not be done on that day.

�� but

�� 18 keep Sabbath on the seventh day from all work. And all the angels of the presence, and all the

��angels of sanctification, these two great classes ‑He hath bidden us to keep the Sabbath with Him

�� 19 in heaven and on earth. And He said unto us:

�� 'Behold, I will separate unto Myself a people from among all the peoples, and these

�� shall keep the Sabbath day, and I will sanctify them unto Myself as My people, and

�� will bless them; as I have sanctified the Sabbath day and do sanctify (it) unto

�� 20 Myself, even so will I bless them, and they shall be My people and I will be their God. And I

�� have chosen the seed of Jacob from amongst all that I have seen, and have written him down as My

�� first‑born son, and have sanctified him unto Myself for ever and ever; and I will teach them the

�� 21 Sabbath day, that they may keep Sabbath thereon from all work.' And thus He created

�� therein a sign in accordance with which they should keep Sabbath with us on the seventh day,

�� to eat and to drink, and to bless Him who has created all things as He has blessed

�� and sanctified unto Himself

�� 22 a peculiar people above all peoples, and that they should keep Sabbath together with us. And

�� He caused His commands to ascend as a sweet savour acceptable before Him all the days . . .

�� 23 There (were) two and twenty heads of mankind from Adam to Jacob, and two and twenty kinds

�� of work were made until the seventh day; this is blessed and holy; and the former also is blessed and

�� 24 holy; and this one serves with that one for sanctification and blessing. And to this (Jacob and his

�� seed) it was granted that they should always be the blessed and holy ones of the first testimony

�� 25 and law, even as He had sanctified and blessed the Sabbath day on the seventh day. He created

�� heaven and earth and everything that He created in six days, and God made the seventh day holy,

�� for all His works; therefore He commanded on its behalf that,

�� whoever does any work thereon

�� 26 shall die, and that he who defiles it shall surely die. Wherefore do thou command the children of

�� Israel to observe this day that they may keep it holy and not do thereon any work, and not to

�� 27 defile it, as it is holier than all other days. And whoever profanes it shall surely die, and whoever

�� does thereon any work shall surely die eternally, that the children of Israel may observe this day

�� throughout their generations, and not be rooted out of the land; for it is a holy day and a blessed

�� 28 day. And every one who observes it and keeps Sabbath thereon from all his work, will be holy

�� and

�� 29 blessed throughout all days like unto us. Declare and say to the children of Israel the law of this

�� day both that they should keep Sabbath thereon, and that they should not forsake it in the error of

�� their hearts; (and)

�� that it is not lawful to do any work thereon which is unseemly,

�� to do thereon their own pleasure, and that they should not prepare thereon anything to

�� be eaten or drunk,

�� and (that it is not lawful) to draw water, or bring in or take out thereon through their

�� gates any burden,

�� If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day;

�� and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him,

�� not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own

�� words: Isa 58:13

�� 30 which they had not prepared for themselves on the sixth day in their dwellings.

�� And they shall not bring in nor take out from house to house on that day;

�� for that day is more holy and blessed than any jubilee day of the jubilees; on this

�� we kept Sabbath in the heavens before it was made

�� 31 known to any flesh to keep Sabbath thereon on the earth. And the Creator of all things blessed it,

�� but he did not sanctify all peoples and nations to keep Sabbath thereon, but

�� Israel alone: them

�� 32 alone he permitted to eat and drink and to keep Sabbath thereon on the earth. And the

�� Creator of all things blessed this day which He had created for blessing and holiness and glory above

�� all

�� 33 days. This law and testimony was given to the children of Israel as a law for ever unto their

�� generations.

�� See more about the limits of the Sabbath Day.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 3]

�� 1 And on the six days of the second week we brought, according to the word of God, unto Adam

�� all the beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and everything that moves on the earth, and

�� everything that moves in the water, according to their kinds, and according to their types: the beasts

�� on the first day; the cattle on the second day; the birds on the third day; and all that which moves on

�� the earth on the fourth day; and that which moves in the water on the fifth day.

�� 2 And Adam named them all by their respective names, and as he called them, so was their name.

�� 3 And on these five days Adam saw all these, male and female, according to every kind that was on

�� 4 the earth, but he was alone and found no helpmeet for him. And the Lord said unto us: 'It is not

�� 5 good that the man should be alone: let us make a helpmeet for him.' And the Lord our God caused

�� a deep sleep to fall upon him, and he slept, and He took for the woman one rib from amongst

�� 6 his ribs, and this rib was the origin of the woman from amongst his ribs, and He built up the flesh in

�� its stead, and built the woman. And He awaked Adam out of his sleep and on awaking he rose on

�� the sixth day, and He brought her to him, and he knew her, and said unto her: 'This is now bone of

�� my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called

�� 7 [my] wife; because she was taken from her husband.' Therefore shall man and wife be one and

�� therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they shall be

�� 8 one flesh. In the first week was Adam created, and the rib ‑his wife: in the second week He

�� showed her unto him: and for this reason the commandment was given to keep in their defilement,

�� 9 for a male seven days, and for a female twice seven days. And after Adam had completed forty

�� days in the land where he had been created, we brought him into the garden of Eden to till and keep

�� it, but his wife they brought in on the eightieth day, and after this she entered into the garden

�� 10 of Eden. And for this reason the commandment is written on the heavenly tablets in regard to her

�� that gives birth: 'if she bears a male, she shall remain in her uncleanness seven days according to the

�� first week of days, and thirty and three days shall she remain in the blood of her purifying, and she

�� shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor enter into the sanctuary, until she accomplishes these

�� 11 days which (are enjoined) in the case of a male child. But in the case of a female child she shall

�� remain in her uncleanness two weeks of days, according to the first two weeks, and sixty‑six days

�� 12 in the blood of her purification, and they will be in all eighty days.' And when she had completed

�� these eighty days we brought her into the garden of Eden, for it is holier than all the earth besides and

�� 13 every tree that is planted in it is holy. Therefore, there was ordained regarding her who bears a

�� male or a female child the statute of those days that she should touch no hallowed thing, nor

�� 14 enter into the sanctuary until these days for the male or female child are accomplished. This is the

�� law and testimony which was written down for Israel, in order that they should observe (it) all the

�� 15 days. And in the first week of the first jubilee, [1‑7 A.M.] Adam and his wife were in the garden

�� of Eden for seven years tilling and keeping it, and we gave him work and we instructed him to

�� do everything

�� Genesis 3:1 NOW the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the

�� Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not

�� eat of every tree of the garden?

�� Genesis 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees

�� of the garden:

�� Genesis 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath

�� said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

�� Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

�� Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be

�� opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

�� Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was

�� pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit

�� thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

�� Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were

�� naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

�� Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the

�� cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord

�� God amongst the trees of the garden.

�� Genesis 3:9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

�� Genesis 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I

�� was naked; and I hid myself.

�� Genesis 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the

�� tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

�� Genesis 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she

�� gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

�� Genesis 3:13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast

�� done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

�� Genesis 3:14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this,

�� thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt

�� thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

�� Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy

�� seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

�� Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy

�� conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy

�� husband, and he shall rule over thee.

�� Genesis 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of

�� thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not

�� eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of

�� thy life;

�� Genesis 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the

�� herb of the field;

�� Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the

�� ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

�� Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wifes name Eve; because she was the mother of all

�� living.

�� Genesis 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins,

�� and clothed them.

�� Genesis 3:22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to

�� know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of

�� life, and eat, and live for ever:

�� Genesis 3:23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the

�� ground from whence he was taken.

�� Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden

�� Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree

�� of life.

�� 16 that is suitable for tillage. And he tilled (the garden), and was naked and knew it not, and was

�� not ashamed, and he protected the garden from the birds and beasts and cattle, and gathered its

�� fruit, and eat, and put aside the residue for himself and for his wife [and put aside that which was

�� 17 being kept]. And after the completion of the seven years, which he had completed there, seven

�� years exactly, [8 A.M.] and in the second month, on the seventeenth day (of the month), the

�� serpent came and approached the woman, and the serpent said to the woman, 'Hath God

�� commanded you,

�� 18 saying, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?' And she said to it, 'Of all the fruit of the

�� trees of the garden God hath said unto us, Eat; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the

�� garden God hath said unto us, Ye shall not eat thereof, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'

�� And the serpent said unto the woman, 'Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know

�� that on the day ye shall eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as gods,

�� and ye will know good and

�� 20 evil. And the woman saw the tree that it was agreeable and pleasant to the eye, and that its fruit

�� 21 was good for food, and she took thereof and eat. And when she had first covered her shame

�� with figleaves, she gave thereof to Adam and he eat, and his eyes were opened, and he saw that he

�� was

�� 22 naked. And he took figleaves and sewed (them) together, and made an apron for himself, and

�� 23, 24 covered his shame. And God cursed the serpent, and was wroth with it for ever . . . And

�� He was wroth with the woman, because she harkened to the voice of the serpent, and did eat; and

�� He said unto her: 'I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy pains: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth

�� 25 children, and thy return shall be unto thy husband, and he will rule over thee.' And to Adam also

�� he said, ' Because thou hast harkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of

�� which I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat thereof, cursed be the ground for thy sake:

�� thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat thy bread in the sweat of thy face, till

�� thou returnest to the earth from whence thou wast taken; for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt

�� 26 thou return.' And He made for them coats of skin, and clothed them, and sent them forth from

�� 27 the Garden of Eden. And on that day on which Adam went forth from the Garden, he offered as

�� a sweet savour an offering, frankincense, galbanum, and stacte, and spices in the morning with the

�� 28 rising of the sun from the day when he covered his shame. And on that day was closed the mouth

�� of all beasts, and of cattle, and of birds, and of whatever walks, and of whatever moves, so that they

�� could no longer speak: for they had all spoken one with another with one lip and with one tongue.

�� 29 And He sent out of the Garden of Eden all flesh that was in the Garden of Eden, and all flesh

�� was scattered according to its kinds, and according to its types unto the places which had been

�� created

�� 30 for them. And to Adam alone did He give (the wherewithal) to cover his shame, of all the beasts

�� and

�� 31 cattle. On this account, it is prescribed on the heavenly tablets as touching all those who know

�� the judgment of the law, that they should cover their shame, and should not uncover themselves as

�� the

�� 32 Gentiles uncover themselves. And on the new moon of the fourth month, Adam and his wife

�� went

�� 33 forth from the Garden of Eden, and they dwelt in the land of Elda in the land of their creation.

�� And

�� 34 Adam called the name of his wife Eve. And they had no son till the first jubilee, [8 A.M.] and

�� after this he

�� 35 knew her. Now he tilled the land as he had been instructed in the Garden of Eden.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 4]

�� 1 And in the third week in the second jubilee she gave birth to Cain, and in the fourth she gave birth

�� to Abel, and in the fifth she gave birth to her daughter Awan. And in the first (year) of the third

�� jubilee, Cain slew Abel because (God) accepted the sacrifice of Abel, and did not accept

�� 3 the offering of Cain. And he slew him in the field: and his blood cried from the ground to heaven,

�� 4 complaining because he had slain him. And the Lord reproved Cain because of Abel, because he

�� had slain him, and he made him a fugitive on the earth because of the blood of his brother, and he

�� 5 cursed him upon the earth. And on this account it is written on the heavenly tables, 'Cursed is,

�� he who smites his neighbour treacherously, and let all who have seen and heard say, So be it; and

�� 6 the man who has seen and not declared (it), let him be accursed as the other.' And for this reason

�� we announce when we come before the Lord our God all the sin which is committed in heaven and

�� 7 on earth, and in light and in darkness, and everywhere. And Adam and his wife mourned for Abel

�� four weeks of years, [99‑127 A.M] and in the fourth year of the fifth week [130 A.M.] they became

�� joyful, and Adam knew his wife again, and she bare him a son, and he called his name Seth; for he

�� said 'GOD has

�� 8 raised up a second seed unto us on the earth instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.' And in the sixth

�� 9 week [134‑40 A.M.] he begat his daughter Azura. And Cain took Awan his sister to be his wife

�� and she bare him Enoch at the close of the fourth jubilee. [190‑196 A.M.] And in the first year of

�� the first week of the fifth jubilee, [197 A.M.] houses were built on the earth, and Cain built a city,

�� and called its name after the name of

�� 10, 11 his son Enoch. And Adam knew Eve his wife and she bare yet nine sons. And in the fifth

�� week of the fifth jubilee [225‑31 A.M.] Seth took Azura his sister to be his wife, and in the fourth

�� (year of the sixth

�� 12,13 week) [235 A.M.] she bare him Enos. He began to call on the name of the Lord on the

�� earth. And in the seventh jubilee in the third week [309‑15 A.M.] Enos took Noam his sister to be

�� his wife, and she bare him a son

�� 14 in the third year of the fifth week, and he called his name Kenan. And at the close of the eighth

�� jubilee [325, 386‑3992 A.M.] Kenan took Mualeleth his sister to be his wife, and she bare him a

�� son in the ninth jubilee,

�� 15 in the first week in the third year of this week, [395 A.M] and he called his name Mahalalel.

�� And in the second week of the tenth jubilee [449‑55 A.M.] Mahalalel took unto him to wife Dinah,

�� the daughter of Barakiel the daughter of his father's brother, and she bare him a son in the third week

�� in the sixth year, [461 A.M.] and he called his name Jared,

�� for in his days the angels of the Lord descended on the earth, those who are named

�� the Watchers, that they should instruct the children of men, and that they should do

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�� 16 judgment and uprightness on the earth. And in the eleventh jubilee [512‑18 A.M.] Jared took

�� to himself a wife, and her name was Baraka, the daughter of Rasujal, a daughter of his father's

�� brother, in the fourth week of this jubilee, [522 A.M.] and she bare him a son in the fifth week, in the

�� fourth year of the jubilee, and

�� 17 he called his name Enoch. And he was the first among men that are born on earth who learnt

�� writing and knowledge and wisdom and who wrote down the signs of heaven according to the

�� order of their months in a book, that men might know the seasons of the years according to the

�� order of

�� 18 their separate months. And he was the first to write a testimony and he testified to the sons of

�� men among the generations of the earth, and recounted the weeks of the jubilees, and made known

�� to them the days of the years, and set in order the months and recounted the Sabbaths of the years

�� 19 as we made (them), known to him. And what was and what will be he saw in a vision of his

�� sleep, as it will happen to the children of men throughout their generations until the day of judgment;

�� he saw and understood everything, and wrote his testimony, and placed the testimony on earth for all

�� 20 the children of men and for their generations. And in the twelfth jubilee, [582‑88] in the seventh

�� week thereof, he took to himself a wife, and her name was Edna, the daughter of Danel, the

�� daughter of his father's brother, and in the sixth year in this week [587 A.M.] she bare him a son and

�� he called his name

�� 21 Methuselah. And he was moreover with the angels of God these six jubilees of years, and they

�� showed him everything which is on earth and in the heavens, the rule of the sun, and he wrote

�� down

�� 22 everything. And he testified to the Watchers, who had sinned with the daughters of men; for

�� these had begun to unite themselves, so as to be defiled, with the daughters of men, and Enoch

�� 23 testified against (them) all. And he was taken from amongst the children of men, and we

�� conducted him into the Garden of Eden in majesty and honour, and behold there he writes down the

�� con‑

�� 24 demnation and judgment of the world, and all the wickedness of the children of men. And on

�� account of it (God) brought the waters of the flood upon all the land of Eden; for there he was set

�� as a sign and that he should testify against all the children of men, that he should recount all the

�� 25 deeds of the generations until the day of condemnation. And he burnt the incense of the

�� sanctuary,

�� 26 (even) sweet spices acceptable before the Lord on the Mount. For the Lord has four places

�� on the earth, the Garden of Eden, and the Mount of the East, and this mountain on which thou art

�� this day, Mount Sinai, and Mount Zion (which) will be sanctified in the new creation for a

�� sanctification of the earth; through it will the earth be sanctified from all (its) guilt and its uncleanness

�� through‑

�� 27 out the generations of the world. And in the fourteenth jubilee [652 A.M.] Methuselah took unto

�� himself a wife, Edna the daughter of Azrial, the daughter of his father's brother, in the third week, in

�� the

�� 28 first year of this week, [701‑7 A.M.] and he begat a son and called his name Lamech. And in the

�� fifteenth jubilee in the third week Lamech took to himself a wife, and her name was Betenos the

�� daughter of Baraki'il, the daughter of his father's brother, and in this week she bare him a son and

�� he called his name Noah, saying, 'This one will comfort me for my trouble and all my work, and for

�� the ground

�� 29 which the Lord hath cursed.' And at the close of the nineteenth jubilee, in the seventh week in the

�� sixth year [930 A.M.] thereof, Adam died, and all his sons buried him in the land of his creation, and

�� he

�� 30 was the first to be buried in the earth. And he lacked seventy years of one thousand years; for

�� one thousand years are as one day in the testimony of the heavens and therefore was it written

�� concerning the tree of knowledge: 'On the day that ye eat thereof ye shall die.' For this reason he

�� 31 did not complete the years of this day; for he died during it. At the close of this jubilee Cain was

�� killed after him in the same year; for his house fell upon him and he died in the midst of his house, and

�� he was killed by its stones; for with a stone he had killed Abel, and by a stone was he killed in

�� 32 righteous judgment. For this reason it was ordained on the heavenly tablets: With the instrument

�� with which a man kills his neighbour with the same shall he be killed; after the manner that

�� 33 he wounded him, in like manner shall they deal with him.' And in the twenty‑fifth [1205 A.M.]

�� jubilee Noah took to himself a wife, and her name was Emzara, the daughter of Rake'el, the

�� daughter of his father's brother, in the first year in the fifth week [1207 A.M.]: and in the third year

�� thereof she bare him Shem, in the fifth year thereof [1209 A.M.] she bare him Ham, and in the first

�� year in the sixth week [1212 A.M.] she bare him Japheth.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 5]

�� 1 And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and

�� daughters were born unto them,

�� that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they were

�� beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives of all whom they

�� 2 chose, and they bare unto them sons and they were giants.

�� And lawlessness increased on the earth and all flesh corrupted its way, alike men and

�� cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walks on the earth ‑all of them

�� corrupted their ways and their orders, and they began to devour each other, and

�� lawlessness increased on the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of all men

�� 3 (was) thus evil continually. And God looked upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt, and all

�� flesh had corrupted its orders, and all that were upon the earth had wrought all manner of evil

�� 4 before His eyes. And He said that He would destroy man and all flesh upon the face of the earth

�� 5,6 which He had created. But Noah found grace before the eyes of the Lord.

�� And against the angels whom He had sent upon the earth, He was exceedingly

�� wroth, and He gave commandment to root them out of all their dominion, and He bade

�� us to bind them in the depths of the earth, and

�� 7 behold they are bound in the midst of them, and are (kept) separate. And against their sons went

�� forth a command from before His face that they should be smitten with the sword, and be removed

�� 8 from under heaven. And He said 'My spirit shall not always abide on man; for they also are flesh

�� 9 and their days shall be one hundred and twenty years'. And He sent His sword into their midst that

�� each should slay his neighbour, and they began to slay each other till they all fell by the sword

�� 10 and were destroyed from the earth. And their fathers were witnesses (of their destruction),

�� and after this they were bound in the depths of the earth for ever,

�� until the day of the great condemnation, when judgment is executed on all those who

�� have corrupted their ways and their works before

�� 11 the Lord. And He destroyed all from their places, and there was not left one of them whom

�� 12 He judged not according to all their wickedness. And he made for all his works a new and

�� righteous nature, so that they should not sin in their whole nature for ever, but should be all

�� 13 righteous each in his kind alway. And the judgment of all is ordained and written on the heavenly

�� tablets in righteousness ‑even (the judgment of) all who depart from the path which is ordained for

�� them to walk in; and if they walk not therein, judgment is written down for every creature and

�� 14 for every kind. And there is nothing in heaven or on earth, or in light or in darkness, or in Sheol or

�� in the depth, or in the place of darkness (which is not judged); and all their judgments are

�� 15 ordained and written and engraved. In regard to all He will judge,the great according to his

�� 16 greatness, and the small according to his smallness, and each according to his way. And He is not

�� one who will regard the person (of any), nor is He one who will receive gifts, if He says that He will

�� execute judgment on each: if one gave everything that is on the earth, He will not regard the

�� 17 gifts or the person (of any), nor accept anything at his hands, for He is a righteous judge. [And of

�� the children of Israel it has been written and ordained: If they turn to him in righteousness He will

�� forgive all their transgressions and pardon all their sins. It is written and ordained that

�� 19 He will show mercy to all who turn from all their guilt once each year.] And as for all those who

�� corrupted their ways and their thoughts before the flood, no man's person was accepted save that of

�� Noah alone;

�� for his person was accepted in behalf of his sons,

�� whom (God) saved from the waters of the flood on his account; for his heart was

�� righteous in all his ways, according as it was com‑

�� 20 manded regarding him, and he had not departed from aught that was ordained for him. And the

�� Lord said that he would destroy everything which was upon the earth, both men and cattle, and

�� 21 beasts, and fowls of the air, and that which moveth on the earth. And He commanded Noah to

�� 22 make him an ark, that he might save himself from the waters of the flood. And Noah made the

�� ark in all respects as He commanded him, in the twenty‑seventh jubilee of years, in the fifth week

�� 23 in the fifth year (on the new moon of the first month). [1307 A.M.] And he entered in the sixth

�� (year) thereof, [1308 A.M.] in the second month, on the new moon of the second month, till the

�� sixteenth; and he entered, and all that we brought to him, into the ark, and the Lord closed it from

�� without on the seventeenth evening.

�� 24 And the Lord opened seven flood‑gates of heaven,

�� And the mouths of the fountains of the great deep, seven mouths in number.

�� 25 And the flood‑gates began to pour down water from the heaven forty days and forty nights,

�� And the fountains of the deep also sent up waters, until the whole world was full of water.

�� 26 And the waters increased upon the earth: Fifteen cubits did the waters rise above all the high

�� mountains, And the ark was lift up above the earth,

�� And it moved upon the face of the waters.

�� 27 And the water prevailed on the face of the earth five months ‑one hundred and fifty days.

�� 28, 29 And the ark went and rested on the top of Lubar, one of the mountains of Ararat. And (on

�� the new moon) in the fourth month the fountains of the great deep were closed and the flood‑gates of

�� heaven were restrained; and on the new moon of the seventh month all the mouths of the abysses

�� 30 of the earth were opened, and the water began to descend into the deep below. And on the new

�� moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen, and on the new moon of the first 31

�� month the earth became visible. And the waters disappeared from above the earth in the fifth week

�� in the seventh year [1309 A.M.] thereof, and on the seventeenth day in the second month the earth

�� was dry.

�� 32 And on the twenty‑seventh thereof he opened the ark, and sent forth from it beasts, and cattle,

�� and birds, and every moving thing.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 6]

�� 1 And on the new moon of the third month he went forth from the ark, and built an altar on

�� 2 that mountain. And he made atonement for the earth, and took a kid and made atonement by its

�� blood for all the guilt of the earth; for everything that had been on it had been destroyed, save

�� 3 those that were in the ark with Noah. And he placed the fat thereof on the altar, and he took an

�� ox, and a goat, and a sheep and kids, and salt, and a turtle‑dove, and the young of a dove, and

�� placed a burnt sacrifice on the altar, and poured thereon an offering mingled with oil, and sprinkled

�� wine and strewed frankincense over everything, and caused a goodly savour to arise, acceptable

�� before

�� 4 the Lord. And the Lord smelt the goodly savour, and He made a covenant with him that there

�� should not be any more a flood to destroy the earth; that all the days of the earth seed‑time and

�� harvest should never cease; cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night should not

�� 5 change their order, nor cease for ever. 'And you, increase ye and multiply upon the earth, and

�� become many upon it, and be a blessing upon it. The fear of you and the dread of you I will

�� 6 inspire in everything that is on earth and in the sea. And behold I have given unto you all beasts,

�� and all winged things, and everything that moves on the earth, and the fish in the waters, and all

�� 7 things for food; as the green herbs, I have given you all things to eat. But flesh, with the life thereof,

�� with the blood, ye shall not eat; for the life of all flesh is in the blood, lest your blood of your lives be

�� required. At the hand of every man, at the hand of every (beast) will I require the

�� 8 blood of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of

�� 9,10 God made He man. And you, increase ye, and multiply on the earth.' And Noah and his sons

�� swore that they would not eat any blood that was in any flesh, and he made a covenant before the

�� 11 Lord God for ever throughout all the generations of the earth in this month. On this account He

�� spake to thee that thou shouldst make a covenant with the children of Israel in this month upon the

�� mountain with an oath, and that thou shouldst sprinkle blood upon them because of all the words

�� 12 of the covenant, which the Lord made with them for ever. And this testimony is written

�� concerning you that you should observe it continually, so that you should not eat on any day any

�� blood of beasts or birds or cattle during all the days of the earth, and the man who eats the blood of

�� beast or of cattle or of birds during all the days of the earth, he and his seed shall be rooted out of

�� the land.

�� 13 And do thou command the children of Israel to eat no blood, so that their names and their seed

�� 14 may be before the Lord our God continually. And for this law there is no limit of days, for it is for

�� ever. They shall observe it throughout their generations, so that they may continue supplicating on

�� your behalf with blood before the altar; every day and at the time of morning and evening they shall

�� seek forgiveness on your behalf perpetually before the Lord that they may keep

�� 15 it and not be rooted out. And He gave to Noah and his sons a sign that there should not again

�� 16 be a flood on the earth. He set His bow in the cloud for a sign of the eternal covenant that there

�� 17 should not again be a flood on the earth to destroy it all the days of the earth. For this reason it is

�� ordained and written on the heavenly tablets, that they should celebrate the feast of weeks in this

�� 18 month once a year, to renew the covenant every year. And this whole festival was celebrated in

�� heaven from the day of creation till the days of Noah ‑twenty‑six jubilees and five weeks of years

�� [1309‑1659 A.M.]: and Noah and his sons observed it for seven jubilees and one week of years, till

�� the day of Noah's death, and from the day of Noah's death his sons did away with (it) until the days

�� of Abraham, and

�� 19 they eat blood. But Abraham observed it, and Isaac and Jacob and his children observed it up to

�� thy days, and in thy days the children of Israel forgot it until ye celebrated it anew on this mountain.

�� 20 And do thou command the children of Israel to observe this festival in all their generations for a

�� 21 commandment unto them: one day in the year in this month they shall celebrate the festival. For it

�� is the feast of weeks and the feast of first fruits: this feast is twofold and of a double nature:

�� 22 according to what is written and engraven concerning it, celebrate it. For I have written in the

�� book of the first law, in that which I have written for thee, that thou shouldst celebrate it in its season,

�� one day in the year, and I explained to thee its sacrifices that the children of Israel should remember

�� and should celebrate it throughout their generations in this month, one day in every year.

�� 23 And on the new moon of the first month, and on the new moon of the fourth month, and on the

�� new moon of the seventh month, and on the new moon of the tenth month are the days of

�� remembrance, and the days of the seasons in the four divisions of the year. These are written and

�� ordained

�� 24 as a testimony for ever. And Noah ordained them for himself as feasts for the generations for

�� ever,

�� 25 so that they have become thereby a memorial unto him. And on the new moon of the first month

�� he was bidden to make for himself an ark, and on that (day) the earth became dry and he opened

�� 26 (the ark) and saw the earth. And on the new moon of the fourth month the mouths of the depths

�� of the abyss beneath were closed. And on the new moon of the seventh month all the mouths of27

�� the abysses of the earth were opened, and the waters began to descend into them. And on the new

�� 28 moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen, and Noah was glad. And on this

�� account he ordained them for himself as feasts for a memorial for ever, and thus are they ordained.

�� 29 And they placed them on the heavenly tablets, each had thirteen weeks; from one to another

�� (passed) their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the

�� 30 third to the fourth. And all the days of the commandment will be two and fifty weeks of days, and

�� (these will make) the entire year complete. Thus it is engraven and ordained on the heavenly

�� 31 tablets. And there is no neglecting (this commandment) for a single year or from year to year.

�� 32 And command thou the children of Israel that they observe the years according to this reckoning‑

�� three hundred and sixty‑four days, and (these) will constitute a complete year, and they will not

�� disturb its time from its days and from its feasts; for everything will fall out in them according to

�� 33 their testimony, and they will not leave out any day nor disturb any feasts. But if they do neglect

�� and do not observe them according to His commandment, then they will disturb all their seasons and

�� the years will be dislodged from this (order), [and they will disturb the seasons and the years

�� 34 will be dislodged] and they will neglect their ordinances. And all the children of Israel will forget

�� and will not find the path of the years, and will forget the new moons, and seasons, and sabbaths

�� 35 and they will go wrong as to all the order of the years. For I know and from henceforth will I

�� declare it unto thee, and it is not of my own devising; for the book (lies) written before me, and on

�� the heavenly tablets the division of days is ordained, lest they forget the feasts of the covenant

�� 36 and walk according to the feasts of the Gentiles after their error and after their ignorance. For

�� there will be those who will assuredly make observations of the moon ‑how (it) disturbs the

�� 37 seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon. For this reason the years will come

�� upon them when they will disturb (the order), and make an abominable (day) the day of testimony,

�� and an unclean day a feast day, and they will confound all the days, the holy with the unclean, and

�� the unclean day with the holy; for they will go wrong as to the months and sabbaths and feasts and

�� 38 jubilees. For this reason I command and testify to thee that thou mayst testify to them; for after

�� thy death thy children will disturb (them), so that they will not make the year three hundred and

�� sixty‑four days only, and for this reason they will go wrong as to the new moons and seasons and

�� sabbaths and festivals, and they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 7]

�� 1 And in the seventh week in the first year [1317 A.M.] thereof, in this jubilee, Noah planted vines

�� on the mountain on which the ark had rested, named Lubar, one of the Ararat Mountains, and they

�� produced fruit in the fourth year, [1320 A.M.] and he guarded their fruit, and gathered it in this

�� year in the

�� 2 seventh month. And he made wine therefrom and put it into a vessel, and kept it until the fifth

�� 3 year, [1321 A.M.] until the first day, on the new moon of the first month. And he celebrated with

�� joy the day of this feast, and he made a burnt sacrifice unto the Lord, one young ox and one ram,

�� and seven sheep, each a year old, and a kid of the goats, that he might make atonement thereby for

�� himself

�� 4 and his sons. And he prepared the kid first, and placed some of its blood on the flesh that was on

�� the altar which he had made, and all the fat he laid on the altar where he made the burnt sacrifice,

�� 5 and the ox and the ram and the sheep, and he laid all their flesh upon the altar. And he placed all

�� their offerings mingled with oil upon it,

�� and afterwards he sprinkled wine on the fire which he had previously made on the

�� altar, and he placed incense on the altar and caused a sweet savour to

��6 ascend acceptable before the Lord his God. And he rejoiced and drank of this wine, he and his

�� 7 children with joy. And it was evening, and he went into his tent, and being drunken he lay down

�� 8 and slept, and was uncovered in his tent as he slept. And Ham saw Noah his father naked, and

�� 9 went forth and told his two brethren without. And Shem took his garment and arose, he and

�� Japheth, and they placed the garment on their shoulders and went backward and covered the shame

�� 10 of their father, and their faces were backward. And Noah awoke from his sleep and knew all that

�� his younger son had done unto him, and he cursed his son and said: 'Cursed be Canaan; an

�� 11 enslaved servant shall he be unto his brethren.' And he blessed Shem, and said: 'Blessed be the

�� 12 Lord God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and God shall

�� 13 dwell in the dwelling of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.' And Ham knew that his father

�� had cursed his younger son, and he was displeased that he had cursed his son. and he parted from

�� 14 his father, he and his sons with him, Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. And he built for

�� 15 himself a city and called its name after the name of his wife Ne'elatama'uk. And Japheth saw it,

�� and became envious of his brother, and he too built for himself a city, and he called its name after

�� 16 the name of his wife 'Adataneses. And Shem dwelt with his father Noah, and he built a city close

�� to his father on the mountain, and he too called its name after the name of his wife Sedeqetelebab.

�� 17 And behold these three cities are near Mount Lubar; Sedeqetelebab fronting the mountain on its

�� 18 east; and Na'eltama'uk on the south; 'Adatan'eses towards the west. And these are the sons of

�� Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad ‑this (son) was born two years after the flood‑ and

�� 19 Lud, and Aram. The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan, Tubal and

�� 20 Meshech and Tiras: these are the sons of Noah. And in the twenty‑eighth jubilee [1324‑1372

�� A.M.]

�� Noah began to enjoin upon his sons' sons the ordinances and commandments, and all

�� the judgments that he knew, and he exhorted his sons to observe righteousness, and to

�� cover the shame of their flesh, and to bless their Creator, and honour father and

�� mother, and love their neighbour, and guard their souls

�� 21 from fornication and uncleanness and all iniquity. For owing to these three things came the flood

�� upon the earth, namely,

�� owing to the fornication wherein the Watchers against the law of their ordinances

�� went a whoring after the daughters of men, and took themselves wives of all which

�� they

�� 22 chose: and they made the beginning of uncleanness. And they begat sons the Naphidim, and

�� they were all unlike, and they devoured one another: and the Giants slew the Naphil (Naphelim), and

�� the

�� 23 Naphil slew the Eljo (Elioud), and the Eljo mankind, and one man another. And every one sold

�� himself

�� 24 to work iniquity and to shed much blood, and the earth was filled with iniquity. And after this they

�� sinned against the beasts and birds, and all that moves and walks on the earth: and much blood was

�� shed on the earth, and every imagination and desire of men imagined vanity and evil

�� 25 continually. And the Lord destroyed everything from off the face of the earth; because of the

�� wickedness of their deeds, and because of the blood which they had shed in the midst of the earth

�� 26 He destroyed everything. 'And we were left, I and you, my sons, and everything that entered with

�� us into the ark, and behold I see your works before me that ye do not walk in righteousness: for in

�� the path of destruction ye have begun to walk, and ye are parting one from another, and are envious

�� one of another, and (so it comes) that ye are not in harmony, my sons, each with his brother.

�� 27 For I see, and behold the demons have begun (their) seductions against you and against your

�� children and now I fear on your behalf, that after my death ye will shed the blood of men upon the

�� earth,

�� 28 and that ye, too, will be destroyed from the face of the earth. For whoso sheddeth man's blood,

�� and whoso eateth the blood of any flesh, shall all be destroyed from the earth.

�� 29 And there shall not be left any man that eateth blood,

�� or that sheddeth the blood of man on the earth,

�� Nor shall there be left to him any seed or descendants living under heaven;

�� For into Sheol shall they go, And into the place of condemnation shall they descend,

�� And into the darkness of the deep shall they all be removed by a violent death.

�� 30 There shall be no blood seen upon you of all the blood there shall be all the days in which ye have

�� killed any beasts or cattle or whatever flies upon the earth, and work ye a good work to your

�� 31 souls by covering that which has been shed on the face of the earth. And ye shall not be like him

�� who eats with blood, but guard yourselves that none may eat blood before you: cover the blood,

�� 32 for thus have I been commanded to testify to you and your children, together with all flesh. And

�� suffer not the soul to be eaten with the flesh, that your blood, which is your life, may not be

�� required

�� 33 at the hand of any flesh that sheds (it) on the earth. For the earth will not be clean from the blood

�� which has been shed upon it; for (only) through the blood of him that shed it will the earth be

�� 34 purified throughout all its generations. And now, my children, harken: work judgment and

�� righteousness that ye maybe planted in righteousness over the face of the whole earth, and your

�� 35 glory lifted up before my God, who saved me from the waters of the flood. And behold, ye will

�� go and build for yourselves cities, and plant in them all the plants that are upon the earth, and

�� moreover

�� 36 all fruit‑bearing trees. For three years the fruit of everything that is eaten will not be gathered: and

�� in the fourth year its fruit will be accounted holy [and they will offer the first‑fruits], acceptable before

�� the Most High God, who created heaven and earth and all things. Let them offer in abundance the

�� first of the wine and oil (as) first‑fruits on the altar of the Lord, who receives it, and

�� 37 what is left let the servants of the house of the Lord eat before the altar which receives (it). And in

�� the fifth year

�� make ye the release so that ye release it in righteousness and uprightness, and ye shall

�� bc righteous,

�� 38 and all that you plant shall prosper. For thus did Enoch, the father of your father command

�� Methuselah, his son, and Methuselah his son Lamech, and Lamech commanded me all the things

�� 39 which his fathers commanded him. And I also will give you commandment, my sons, as Enoch

�� commanded his son in the first jubilees: whilst still living, the seventh in his generation, he

�� commanded and testified to his son and to his son's sons until the day of his death.'

�� Chapter XIII.‑Origin of Idolatry.

�� See The Sons of God.

�� Recognitions of Clement, Book IV

�� Chapter XII.‑Translation of Enoch.

�� "But that He might show that these things were done on account of the ungrateful, He translated to

�� immortality a certain one of the first race of men, because He saw that he was not unmindful of His

�� grace, and because he hoped to call on the name of God; while the rest, who were so ungrateful that

�� they could not be amended and corrected even by labours and tribulations, were condemned to a

�� terrible death. Yet amongst them also He found a certain one, who was righteous with his house,

�� whom He preserved, having enjoined him to build an ark, in which he and those who were

�� commanded to go with him might escape, when all things should be destroyed by a deluge: in order

�� that, the wicked being cut off by the overflow of waters, the world might receive a purification; and

�� he who had been preserved for the continuance of the race, being purified by water, might anew

�� repair the world.

�� "But when all these things were done, men turned again to impiety; and on this account a law was

�� given by God to instruct them in the manner of living.

�� But in process of time, the worship of God and righteousness were corrupted by the

�� unbelieving and the wicked, as we shall show more fully by and by.

�� Moreover, perverse and erratic religions were introduced, to which the greater part

�� of men gave themselves up,

�� by occasion of holidays and solemnities, instituting drinkings and

�� banquets,

�� following pipes, and flutes, and harps, and diverse kinds of musical

�� instruments, and indulging themselves in all kinds of drunkenness and

�� luxury.

�� Hence every kind of error took rise; hence they invented groves and

�� altars, fillets and victims, and after drunkenness they were agitated as if

�� with mad emotions.

�� By this means power was given to the demons to enter

�� into minds of this sort, so that they seemed to lead insane

�� dances and to rave like Bacchanalians; hence were

�� invented the gnashing of teeth, and bellowing from the

��depth of their bowels; hence a terrible countenance and a

�� fierce aspect in men, so that he whom drunkenness had

�� subverted and a demon had instigated, was believed by the

�� deceived and the erring to be filled with the Deity.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 8]

�� 1 In the twenty‑ninth jubilee, in the first week, [1373 A.M.] in the beginning thereof Arpachshad

�� took to himself a wife and her name was Rasu'eja, the daughter of Susan, the daughter of Elam,

�� and she

�� 2 bare him a son in the third year in this week, [1375 A.M.] and he called his name Kainam. And

�� the son grew, and his father taught him writing, and he went to seek for himself a place where he

�� might seize for

�� 3 himself a city. And he found a writing which former (generations) had carved on the rock, and

�� he read what was thereon,

�� and he transcribed it and sinned owing to it; for it contained the teaching of the

�� Watchers in accordance with which they used to observe the omens of the sun and

�� moon and

�� 4 stars in all the signs of heaven. And he wrote it down and said nothing regarding it; for he was

�� 5 afraid to speak to Noah about it lest he should be angry with him on account of it. And in the

�� thirtieth jubilee, [1429 A.M.] in the second week, in the first year thereof, he took to himself a wife,

��and her name was Melka, the daughter of Madai, the son of Japheth, and in the fourth year [1432

�� A.M.] he begat a son, and

�� 6 called his name Shelah; for he said: 'Truly I have been sent.' [And in the fourth year he was born],

��and Shelah grew up and took to himself a wife, and her name was Mu'ak, the daughter of Kesed, his

�� father's brother, in the one and thirtieth jubilee, in the fifth week, in the first year [1499 A.M.]

�� 7 thereof. And she bare him a son in the fifth year [1503 A.M.] thereof, and he called his name Eber:

�� and he took unto himself a wife, and her name was 'Azurad, the daughter of Nebrod, in the

�� thirty‑second

�� 8 jubilee, in the seventh week, in the third year thereof. [1564 A.M.] And in the sixth year [1567

�� A.M.] thereof, she bare him son, and he called his name Peleg; for in the days when he was born the

�� children of Noah began

�� 9 to divide the earth amongst themselves: for this reason he called his name Peleg. And they

�� 10 divided (it) secretly amongst themselves, and told it to Noah. And it came to pass in the beginning

�� of the thirty‑third jubilee [1569 A.M.] that they divided the earth into three parts, for Shem and

�� Ham and Japheth, according to the inheritance of each, in the first year in the first week, when one

�� of us

�� 11 who had been sent, was with them. And he called his sons, and they drew nigh to him, they and

�� their children, and he divided the earth into the lots, which his three sons were to take in possession,

�� and they reached forth their hands, and took the writing out of the bosom of Noah, their father.

�� 12 And there came forth on the writing as Shem's lot the middle of the earth which he should take as

�� an inheritance for himself and for his sons for the generations of eternity, from the middle of the

�� mountain range of Rafa, from the mouth of the water from the river Tina, and his portion goes

�� towards the west through the midst of this river, and it extends till it reaches the water of the abysses,

�� out of which this river goes forth and pours its waters into the sea Me'at, and this river flows into the

�� great sea. And all that is towards the north is Japheth's, and all that is towards the

�� 13 south belongs to Shem. And it extends till it reaches Karaso: this is in the bosom of the tongue

�� 14 which looks towards the south. And his portion extends along the great sea, and it extends in a

�� straight line till it reaches the west of the tongue which looks towards the south: for this sea is

�� 15 named the tongue of the Egyptian Sea. And it turns from here towards the south towards the

�� mouth of the great sea on the shore of (its) waters, and it extends to the west to 'Afra, and it extends

�� till it reaches the waters of the river Gihon, and to the south of the waters of Gihon, to the

�� 16 banks of this river. And it extends towards the east, till it reaches the Garden of Eden, to the

�� south thereof, [to the south] and from the east of the whole land of Eden and of the whole east, it

�� turns to the east and proceeds till it reaches the east of the mountain named Rafa, and it descends

�� 17 to the bank of the mouth of the river Tina. This portion came forth by lot for Shem and his sons,

�� 18 that they should possess it for ever unto his generations for evermore. And Noah rejoiced that

�� this portion came forth for Shem and for his sons, and he remembered all that he had spoken with his

�� mouth in prophecy; for he had said:

�� 'Blessed be the Lord God of Shem

�� And may the Lord dwell in the dwelling of Shem.'

�� 19 And he knew that the Garden of Eden is the holy of holies, and the dwelling of the Lord, and

�� Mount Sinai the centre of the desert, and

�� Mount Zion ‑the centre of the navel of the earth: these three

�� 20 were created as holy places facing each other. And he blessed the God of gods, who had put

�� the

�� 21 word of the Lord into his mouth, and the Lord for evermore. And he knew that a blessed portion

�� and a blessing had come to Shem and his sons unto the generations for ever ‑the whole land of Eden

�� and the whole land of the Red Sea, and the whole land of the east and India, and on the Red Sea

�� and the mountains thereof, and all the land of Bashan, and all the land of Lebanon and the islands of

�� Kaftur, and all the mountains of Sanir and 'Amana, and the mountains of Asshur in the north, and all

�� the land of Elam, Asshur, and Babel, and Susan and Ma'edai, and all the mountains of Ararat, and all

�� the region beyond the sea, which is beyond the mountains of Asshur towards the

�� 22 north, a blessed and spacious land, and all that is in it is very good. And for Ham came forth the

�� second portion, beyond the Gihon towards the south to the right of the Garden, and it extends

�� towards the south and it extends to all the mountains of fire, and it extends towards the west to the

�� sea of 'Atel and it extends towards the west till it reaches the sea of Ma'uk ‑that (sea) into which

�� 23 everything which is not destroyed descends. And it goes forth towards the north to the limits of

�� Gadir, and it goes forth to the coast of the waters of the sea to the waters of the great sea till it draws

�� near to the river Gihon, and goes along the river Gihon till it reaches the right of the Garden

�� 24 of Eden. And this is the land which came forth for Ham as the portion which he was to occupy

�� 25 for ever for himself and his sons unto their generations for ever. And for Japheth came forth the

�� third portion beyond the river Tina to the north of the outflow of its waters, and it extends north‑

�� 26 easterly to the whole region of Gog, and to all the country east thereof. And it extends northerly

�� to the north, and it extends to the mountains of Qelt towards the north, and towards the sea of

�� 27 Ma'uk, and it goes forth to the east of Gadir as far as the region of the waters of the sea. And it

�� extends until it approaches the west of Fara and it returns towards 'Aferag, and it extends easterly

�� 28 to the waters of the sea of Me'at. And it extends to the region of the river Tina in a north‑easterly

�� direction until it approaches the boundary of its waters towards the mountain Rafa, and it turns

�� 29 round towards the north. This is the land which came forth for Japheth and his sons as the portion

�� of his inheritance which he should possess for himself and his sons, for their generations for ever;

�� 30 five great islands, and a great land in the north. But it is cold, and the land of Ham is hot, and the

�� land of Shem is neither hot nor cold, but it is of blended cold and heat.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 9]

�� 1 And Ham divided amongst his sons, and the first portion came forth for Cush towards the east,

�� and to the west of him for Mizraim, and to the west of him for Put, and to the west of him

�� 2 [and to the west thereof] on the sea for Canaan. And Shem also divided amongst his sons, and the

�� first portion came forth for Ham and his sons, to the east of the river Tigris till it approachcs the east,

�� the whole land of India, and on the Red Sea on its coast, and the waters of Dedan, and all the

�� mountains of Mebri and Ela, and all the land of Susan and all that is on the side of Pharnak

�� 3 to the Red Sea and the river Tina. And for Asshur came forth the second Portion, all the land of

�� 4 Asshur and Nineveh and Shinar and to the border of India, and it ascends and skirts the river. And

�� for Arpachshad came forth the third portion, all the land of the region of the Chaldees to the east of

�� the Euphrates, bordering on the Red Sea, and all the waters of the desert close to the tongue of the

�� sea which looks towards Egypt, all the land of Lebanon and Sanir and 'Amana to the border of the

�� 5 Euphrates. And for Aram there came forth the fourth portion, all the land of Mesopotamia

�� between the Tigris and the Euphrates to the north of the Chaldees to the border of the mountains

�� 6 of Asshur and the land of 'Arara. And there came forth for Lud the fifth portion, the mountains of

�� Asshur and all appertaining to them till it reaches the Great Sea, and till it reaches the east of

�� 7, 8 Asshur his brother. And Japheth also divided the land of his inheritance amongst his sons. And

�� the first portion came forth for Gomer to the east from the north side to the river Tina; and in the

�� north there came forth for Magog all the inner portions of the north until it reaches to the sea of

�� 9 Me'at. And for Madai came forth as his portion that he should posses from the west of his two

�� 10 brothers to the islands, and to the coasts of the islands. And for Javan came forth the fourth

�� 11 portion every island and the islands which are towards the border of Lud. And for Tubal there

�� came forth the fifth portion in the midst of the tongue which approaches towards the border of the

�� portion of Lud to the second tongue, to the region beyond the second tongue unto the third tongue.

�� 12 And for Meshech came forth the sixth portion, all the region beyond the third tongue till it

�� 13 approaches the east of Gadir. And for Tiras there came forth the seventh portion, four great

�� islands in the midst of the sea, which reach to the portion of Ham [and the islands of Kamaturi

�� 14 came out by lot for the sons of Arpachshad as his inheritance]. And thus the sons of Noah

�� divided unto their sons in the presence of Noah their father, and he bound them all by an oath,

�� imprecating

�� 15 a curse on every one that sought to seize the portion which had not fallen (to him) by his lot. And

�� they all said, 'So be it; so be it ' for themselves and their sons for ever throughout their generations till

�� the day of judgment, on which the Lord God shall judge them with a sword and with fire for all the

�� unclean wickedness of their errors, wherewith they have filled the earth with transgression and

�� uncleanness and fornication and sin.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 10]

�� 1 And in the third week of this jubilee the unclean demons began to lead astray the children of

�� 2 the sons of Noah, and to make to err and destroy them. And the sons of Noah came to Noah their

�� father, and they told him concerning the demons which were leading astray and blinding and

�� 3 slaying his sons' sons. And he prayed before the Lord his God, and said:

�� 'God of the spirits of all flesh, who hast shown mercy unto me

�� And hast saved me and my sons from the waters of the flood,

�� And hast not caused me to perish as Thou didst the sons of perdition;

�� For Thy grace has been great towards me,

�� And great has been Thy mercy to my soul;

�� Let Thy grace be lift up upon my sons,

�� And let not wicked spirits rule over them

�� Lest they should destroy them from the earth.

�� 4 But do Thou bless me and my sons, that we may increase and Multiply and replenish the earth.

�� 5 And Thou knowest how Thy Watchers, the fathers of these spirits, acted in my day: and as for

�� these spirits which are living, imprison them and hold them fast in the place of condemnation, and let

�� them not bring destruction on the sons of thy servant, my God; for these are malignant, and

�� 6 created in order to destroy. And let them not rule over the spirits of the living; for Thou alone

�� canst exercise dominion over them. And let them not have power over the sons of the righteous

�� 7,8 from henceforth and for evermore.' And the Lord our God bade us to bind all. And the chief of

�� the spirits, Mastema, came and said: 'Lord, Creator, let some of them remain before me, and let

�� them harken to my voice, and do all that I shall say unto them; for if some of them are not left to me,

�� I shall not be able to execute the power of my will on the sons of men; for these are for corruption

�� and leading astray before my judgment, for great is the wickedness of the sons of men.'

�� 9 And He said: Let the tenth part of them remain before him, and let nine parts descend into the

�� 10 place of condemnation.' And one of us He commanded that we should teach Noah all their

�� 11 medicines; for He knew that they would not walk in uprightness, nor strive in righteousness. And

�� we did according to all His words: all the malignant evil ones we bound in the place of condemna‑

�� 12 tion and a tenth part of them we left that they might be subject before Satan on the earth. And we

�� explained to Noah all the medicines of their diseases, together with their seductions, how he

�� 13 might heal them with herbs of the earth. And Noah wrote down all things in a book as we

�� instructed him concerning every kind of medicine. Thus the evil spirits were precluded from

�� 14 (hurting) the sons of Noah. And he gave all that he had written to Shem, his eldest son; for he

�� 15 loved him exceedingly above all his sons. And Noah slept with his fathers, and was buried on

�� 16 Mount Lubar in the land of Ararat. Nine hundred and fifty years he completed in his life, nineteen

�� 17 jubilees and two weeks and five years. [1659 A.M.] And in his life on earth he excelled the

�� children of men save Enoch because of the righteousness, wherein he was perfect. For Enoch's

�� office was ordained for a testimony to the generations of the world, so that he should recount all the

�� deeds of generation

�� 18 unto generation, till the day of judgment. And in the three and thirtieth jubilee, in the first year in

�� the second week, Peleg took to himself a wife, whose name was Lomna the daughter of Sina'ar, and

�� she bare him a son in the fourth year of this week, and he called his name Reu; for he said: 'Behold

�� the children of men have become evil through the wicked purpose of building for themselves

�� 19 a city and a tower in the land of Shinar.' For they departed from the land of Ararat eastward

�� to Shinar; for in his days they built the city and the tower, saying, 'Go to, let us ascend thereby into

�� 20 heaven.' And they began to build, and in the fourth week they made brick with fire, and the

�� bricks served them for stone, and the clay with which they cemented them together was asphalt

�� which

�� 21 comes out of the sea, and out of the fountains of water in the land of Shinar. And they built it:

�� forty and three years [1645‑1688 A.M.] were they building it; its breadth was 203 bricks, and the

�� height (of a brick) was the third of one; its height amounted to 5433 cubits and 2 palms, and (the

�� extent of one wall

�� 22 was) thirteen stades (and of the other thirty stades). And the Lord our God said unto us: Behold,

�� they are one people, and (this) they begin to do, and now nothing will be withholden from them. Go

�� to, let us go down and confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech,

�� and they may be dispersed into cities and nations, and one purpose will no longer abide with

�� 23 them till the day of judgment.' And the Lord descended, and we descended with him to see the

�� 24 city and the tower which the children of men had built. And he confounded their language, and

�� they no longer understood one another's speech, and they ceased then to build the city and the

�� 25 tower. For this reason the whole land of Shinar is called Babel, because the Lord did there

�� confound all the language of the children of men, and from thence they were dispersed into their

�� 26 cities, each according to his language and his nation. And the Lord sent a mighty wind against the

�� tower and overthrew it upon the earth, and behold it was between Asshur and Babylon in the

�� 27 land of Shinar, and they called its name 'Overthrow'. In the fourth week in the first year [1688

�� A.M.] in the beginning thereof in the four and thirtieth jubilee, were they dispersed from the land of

�� Shinar.

�� 28 And Ham and his sons went into the land which he was to occupy, which he acquired as his

�� portion

�� 29 in the land of the south. And Canaan saw the land of Lebanon to the river of Egypt, that it was

�� very good, and he went not into the land of his inheritance to the west (that is to) the sea, and he

�� dwelt in the land of Lebanon, eastward and westward from the border of Jordan and from the

�� border

�� 30 of the sea. And Ham, his father, and Cush and Mizraim his brothers said unto him: 'Thou hast

�� settled in a land which is not thine, and which did not fall to us by lot: do not do so; for if thou dost

�� do so, thou and thy sons will fall in the land and (be) accursed through sedition; for by sedition

�� 31 ye have settled, and by sedition will thy children fall, and thou shalt be rooted out for ever. Dwell

�� 32 not in the dwelling of Shem; for to Shem and to his sons did it come by their lot. Cursed art thou,

�� and cursed shalt thou be beyond all the sons of Noah, by the curse by which we bound our‑

�� 33 selves by an oath in the presence of the holy judge, and in the presence of Noah our father.' But

�� he did not harken unto them, and dwelt in the land of Lebanon from Hamath to the entering of

�� 34,35 Egypt, he and his sons until this day. And for this reason that land is named Canaan. And

�� Japheth and his sons went towards the sea and dwelt in the land of their portion, and Madai saw the

�� land of the sea and it did not please him, and he begged a (portion) from Ham and Asshur and

�� Arpachshad, his wife's brother, and he dwelt in the land of Media, near to his wife's brother until

�� 36 this day. And he called his dwelling‑place, and the dwelling‑place of his sons, Media, after the

�� name of their father Madai.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 11]

�� 1 And in the thirty‑fifth jubilee, in the third week, in the first year [1681 A.M.] thereof, Reu took to

�� himself a wife, and her name was 'Ora, the daughter of 'Ur, the son of Kesed, and she bare him a

�� son, and

�� 2 he called his name Seroh, in the seventh year of this week in this jubilee. [1687 A.M.] And the

�� sons of Noah began to war on each other, to take captive and to slay each other, and to shed the

�� blood of men on the earth, and to eat blood, and to build strong cities, and walls, and towers, and

�� individuals (began) to exalt themselves above the nation, and to found the beginnings of kingdoms,

�� and to go to war people against people, and nation against nation, and city against city, and all

�� (began) to do evil, and to acquire arms, and to teach their sons war, and they began to capture

�� cities, and to sell

�� 3 male and female slaves. And 'Ur, the son of Kesed, built the city of 'Ara of the Chaldees, and

�� called its name after his own name and the name of his father. And they made for themselves molten

�� images, and they worshipped each the idol, the molten image which they had made for themselves,

�� and they began to make graven images and unclean simulacra, and malignant spirits

�� 5 assisted and seduced (them) into committing transgression and uncleanness. And the prince

�� Mastema exerted himself to do all this, and he sent forth other spirits, those which were put under his

�� hand, to do all manner of wrong and sin, and all manner of transgression, to corrupt and destroy,

�� 6 and to shed blood upon the earth. For this reason he called the name of Seroh, Serug, for every

�� one

�� 7 turned to do all manner of sin and transgression. And he grew up, and dwelt in Ur of the

�� Chaldees, near to the father of his wife's mother, and he worshipped idols, and he took to himself

�� a wife in the thirty‑sixth jubilee, in the fifth week, in the first year thereof, [1744 A.M.] and her

�� name was Melka, the daughter

�� 8 of Kaber, the daughter of his father's brother. And she bare him Nahor, in the first year of this

�� week, and he grew and dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees, and his father taught him the researches of the

�� 9 Chaldees to divine and augur, according to the signs of heaven. And in the thirty‑seventh jubilee

�� in the sixth week, in the first year thereof, [1800 A.M.] he took to himself a wife, and her name was

�� 'Ijaska, the

�� 10 daughter of Nestag of the Chaldees. And she bare him Terah in the seventh year of this week.

�� [1806 A.M.]

�� 11 And the prince Mastema sent ravens and birds to devour the seed which was sown in the

�� land, in order to destroy the land, and rob the children of men of their labours. Before they could

�� plough

�� 12 in the seed, the ravens picked (it) from the surface of the ground. And for this reason he called his

�� name Terah because the ravens and the birds reduced them to destitution and devoured their

�� And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to

�� sow; Matthew 13:3 See Mark 4:3, Luke 8:5

�� And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and

�� devoured them up: Matthew 13:4

�� See 13:19. The "fowl" is the wicked one or his agents. Since almost every Christian

�� institution in the WORLD has one or more "ministers" on the staff without Biblical,

�� historical or common sensical authority, we must assuredly look to the pulpit as the

�� primary PLACE where the seed is planted but then taken away.

�� Remember the parable of the net and the fish. The net will get filled with abnornal trash

�� fish. The kingdom is the same way: it will become bloated with trash fish, tares or

�� demons.

�� Remember also, that God's people have always been a tiny remnant. Therefore, when

�� we begin to see the "kingdom" expand and become easy and popular we can

�� understand that we are part of the popular Babylonian Whore religion and we need to

�� "go outside the camp" to find Jesus.

�� In the Apocalypse of Abraham, Azazel is portrayed as an unclean bird

�� which came down upon the sacrifice which Abraham prepared. This is in

�� reference to Genesis 15:11 "Birds of prey came down upon the

�� carcasses, and Abram drove them away."

�� "And the unclean bird spoke to me and said, 'What are you

�� doing, Abraham, on the holy heights, where no one eats of

�� drinks, nor is there upon them food for men. But these all

�� will be consumed by fire and ascend to the height, they will

�� destroy you.' And it came to pass when I saw the bird

�� speaking I said this to the angel: 'What is this, my lord?' And

�� he said, 'This is disgrace, this is Azazel!' And he said to him,

�� 'Shame on you Azazel! For Abraham's portion is in heaven,

�� and yours is on earth, for you have selected here, (and)

�� become enamored of the dwelling place of your blemish.

�� Therefore the Eternal Ruler, the Mighty One, has given you

�� a dwelling on earth. Through you the all‑evil spirit (is) a

�� liar, and through you (are) wrath and trials on the

�� generations of men who live impiously." ‑ Apocalypse of

�� Abraham 13:4‑9

�� The Apocalypse of Abraham also associates Azazel with Hell. Abraham

�� says to him "May you be the firebrand of the furnace of the earth! Go,

�� Azazel, into the untrodden parts of the earth. For your heritage is over

�� those who are with you" (14:5‑6) There is also the idea that God's

�� heritage (the created world) is largely under the dominion of evil. It is

�� "shared with Azazel" (20:5) Azazel is also identified with the serpent

�� which tempted Eve. His form is described as a dragon with "hands and

�� feet like a man's, on his back six wings on the right and six on the left."

�� (23:7)

�� Finally, the Apocalypse of Abraham says that the wicked will "putrefy in

�� the belly of the crafty worm Azazel, and be burned by the fire of Azazel's

�� tongue." (31:5) Here again, there is another reference to Azazel as being

�� Hell.

�� 13 seed. And the years began to be barren, owing to the birds, and they devoured all the fruit of

�� the trees from the trees: it was only with great effort that they could save a little of all the fruit of the

�� 14 earth in their days. And in this thirty‑ninth jubilee, in the second week in the first year, [1870

�� A.M.] Terah took to himself a wife, and her name was 'Edna, the daughter of 'Abram, the daughter

�� of his father's sister. And in the seventh year of this week [1876 A.M.] she bare him a son, and he

�� called his name Abram,

�� 15 by the name of the father of his mother; for he had died before his daughter had conceived a son.

�� 16 And the child began to understand the errors of the earth that all went astray after graven

�� images and after uncleanness, and his father taught him writing, and he was two weeks of years old,

�� [1890 A.M.] and he

�� 17 separated himself from his father, that he might not worship idols with him. And he began to

�� pray to the Creator of all things that He might save him from the errors of the children of men, and

�� that

�� 18 his portion should not fall into error after uncleanness and vileness. And the seed time came for

�� the sowing of seed upon the land, and they all went forth together to protect their seed against the

�� 19 ravens, and Abram went forth with those that went, and the child was a lad of fourteen years.

�� And a cloud of ravens came to devour the seed, and Abram ran to meet them before they settled on

�� the ground, and cried to them before they settled on the ground to devour the seed, and said, '

�� Descend

�� 20 not: return to the place whence ye came,' and they proceeded to turn back. And he caused the

�� clouds of ravens to turn back that day seventy times, and of all the ravens throughout all the land

�� 21 where Abram was there settled there not so much as one. And all who were with him throughout

�� all the land saw him cry out, and all the ravens turn back, and his name became great in all the

�� 22 land of the Chaldees. And there came to him this year all those that wished to sow, and he went

�� with them until the time of sowing ceased: and they sowed their land, and that year they brought

�� 23 enough grain home and eat and were satisfied. And in the first year of the fifth week [1891 A.M.]

�� Abram taught those who made implements for oxen, the artificers in wood, and they made a vessel

�� above the ground, facing the frame of the plough, in order to put the seed thereon, and the seed fell

�� down therefrom upon the share of the plough, and was hidden in the earth, and they no longer

�� feared the

�� 24 ravens. And after this manner they made (vessels) above the ground on all the frames of the

�� ploughs, and they sowed and tilled all the land, according as Abram commanded them, and they no

��longer feared the birds.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 12]

�� 1 And it came to pass in the sixth week, in the seventh year thereof, [1904 A.M.] that Abram said to

�� Terah his

�� 2 father, saying, 'Father!' And he said, 'Behold, here am I, my son.' And he said,

�� 'What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship,

�� And before which thou dost bow thyself?

�� 3 For there is no spirit in them,

�� For they are dumb forms, and a misleading of the heart.

�� Worship them not:

�� 4 Worship the God of heaven,

�� Who causes the rain and the dew to descend on the earth

�� And does everything upon the earth,

�� And has created everything by His word,

�� And all life is from before His face.

�� 5 Why do ye worship things that have no spirit in them?

�� For they are the work of (men's) hands,

�� And on your shoulders do ye bear them,

�� And ye have no help from them,

�� But they are a great cause of shame to those who make them,

�� And a misleading of the heart to those who worship them:

�� Worship them not.'

�� 6 And his father said unto him, I also know it, my son, but what shall I do with a people who have

�� 7 made me to serve before them? And if I tell them the truth, they will slay me; for their soul cleaves

�� to them to worship them and honour them. Keep silent, my son, lest they slay thee.' And

�� 9 these words he spake to his two brothers, and they were angry with him and he kept silent. And in

�� the fortieth jubilee, in the second week, in the seventh year thereof, [1925 A.M.] Abram took to

�� himself a wife,

�� 10 and her name was Sarai, the daughter of his father, and she became his wife. And Haran, his

�� brother, took to himself a wife in the third year of the third week, [1928 A.M.] and she bare him a

�� son in the

�� 11 seventh year of this week, [1932 A.M.] and he called his name Lot. And Nahor, his brother,

�� took to himself

�� 12 a wife. And in the sixtieth year of the life of Abram, that is, in the fourth week, in the fourth year

�� thereof, [1936 A.M.] Abram arose by night, and burned the house of the idols, and he burned all

�� that was in the

�� 13 house and no man knew it. And they arose in the night and sought to save their gods from the

�� 14 midst of the fire. And Haran hasted to save them, but the fire flamed over him, and he was burnt

�� in the fire, and he died in Ur of the Chaldees before Terah his father, and they buried him in Ur of

�� 15 the Chaldees. And Terah went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, he and his sons, to go into the land

�� of Lebanon and into the land of Canaan, and he dwelt in the land of Haran, and Abram dwelt with

�� 16 Terah his father in Haran two weeks of years. And in the sixth week, in the fifth year thereof,

�� [1951 A.M.] Abram sat up throughout the night on the new moon of the seventh month to observe

�� the stars from the evening to the morning, in order to see what would be the character of the year

�� with regard

�� 17 to the rains, and he was alone as he sat and observed. And a word came into his heart and he

�� said: All the signs of the stars, and the signs of the moon and of the sun are all in the hand of the

�� Lord. Why do I search (them) out?

�� 18 If He desires, He causes it to rain, morning and evening;

�� And if He desires, He withholds it,

�� And all things are in his hand.'

�� 19 And he prayed that night and said,

�� 'My God, God Most High, Thou alone art my God,

�� And Thee and Thy dominion have I chosen.

�� And Thou hast created all things,

�� And all things that are the work of thy hands.

�� 20 Deliver me from the hands of evil spirits who have dominion over the thoughts of men's hearts,

�� And let them not lead me astray from Thee, my God.

�� And stablish Thou me and my seed for ever

�� That we go not astray from henceforth and for evermore.'

�� 21 And he said, 'Shall I return unto Ur of the Chaldees who seek my face that I may return to them,

�� am I to remain here in this place? The right path before Thee prosper it in the hands of Thy servant

�� that he may fulfil (it) and that I may not walk in the deceitfulness of my heart, O my God.'

�� 22 And he made an end of speaking and praying, and behold the word of the Lord was sent to him

�� through me, saying: 'Get thee up from thy country, and from thy kindred and from the house of thy

�� father unto a land which I will show thee, and I shall make thee a great and numerous nation.

�� 23 And I will bless thee

�� And I will make thy name great,

�� And thou shalt be blessed in the earth,

�� And in Thee shall all families of the earth be blessed,

�� And I will bless them that bless thee,

�� And curse them that curse thee.

�� 24 And I will be a God to thee and thy son, and to thy son's son, and to all thy seed: fear not, from

�� 25 henceforth and unto all generations of the earth I am thy God.' And the Lord God said: 'Open his

�� mouth and his ears, that he may hear and speak with his mouth, with the language which has been

�� revealed'; for it had ceased from the mouths of all the children of men from the day of the

�� 26 overthrow (of Babel). And I opened his mouth, and his ears and his lips, and I began to speak

�� 27 with him in Hebrew in the tongue of the creation. And he took the books of his fathers, and these

�� were written in Hebrew, and he transcribed them, and he began from henceforth to study them, and

�� I made known to him that which he could not (understand), and he studied them during the six

�� 28 rainy months. And it came to pass in the seventh year of the sixth week [1953 A.M.] that he

�� spoke to his father and informed him, that he would leave Haran to go into the land of Canaan to see

�� it and

�� 29 return to him. And Terah his father said unto him; Go in peace:

�� May the eternal God make thy path straight.

�� And the Lord [(be) with thee, and] protect thee from all evil,

�� And grant unto thee grace, mercy and favour before those who see thee,

�� And may none of the children of men have power over thee to harm thee;

�� Go in peace.

�� 30 And if thou seest a land pleasant to thy eyes to dwell in, then arise and take me to thee and take

�� 31 Lot with thee, the son of Haran thy brother as thine own son: the Lord be with thee. And Nahor

�� thy brother leave with me till thou returnest in peace, and we go with thee all together.'

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 13]

�� 1 And Abram journeyed from Haran, and he took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother Haran's son,

�� to the land of Canaan, and he came into Asshur, and proceeded to Shechem, and dwelt near

�� 2 a lofty oak. And he saw, and, behold, the land was very pleasant from the entering of Hamath to

�� 3 the lofty oak. And the Lord said to him: 'To thee and to thy seed will I give this land.' And

�� 4 he built an altar there, and he offered thereon a burnt sacrifice to the Lord, who had appeared to

�� 5 him. And he removed from thence unto the mountain . . . Bethel on the west and Ai on the

�� 6 east, and pitched his tent there. And he saw and behold, the land was very wide and good, and

�� everything grew thereon ‑vines and figs and pomegranates, oaks and ilexes, and terebinths and oil

�� trees, and cedars and cypresses and date trees, and all trees of the field, and there was water on the

�� 7 mountains. And he blessed the Lord who had led him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and had brought

�� 8 him to this land. And it came to pass in the first year, in the seventh week, on the new moon of the

�� first month, 1954 A.M.] that he built an altar on this mountain, and called on the name of the Lord:

�� 'Thou,

�� 9 the eternal God, art my God.' And he offered on the altar a burnt sacrifice unto the Lord that He

�� 10 should be with him and not forsake him all the days of his life. And he removed from thence and

�� went towards the south, and he came to Hebron and Hebron was built at that time, and he dwelt

�� there two years, and he went (thence) into the land of the south, to Bealoth, and there was a famine

�� 11 in the land. And Abram went into Egypt in the third year of the week, and he dwelt in Egypt

�� 12 five years before his wife was torn away from him. Now Tanais in Egypt was at that time built‑

�� 13 seven years after Hebron. And it came to pass when Pharaoh seized Sarai, the wife of Abram

�� that the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

�� 14 And Abram was very glorious by reason of possessions in sheep, and cattle, and asses, and

�� horses, and camels, and menservants, and maidservants, and in silver and gold exceedingly. And Lot

�� also

�� 15 his brother's son, was wealthy. And Pharaoh gave back Sarai, the wife of Abram, and he sent

�� him out of the land of Egypt, and he journeyed to the place where he had pitched his tent at the

�� beginning, to the place of the altar, with Ai on the east, and Bethel on the west, and he blessed the

�� 16 Lord his God who had brought him back in peace. And it came to pass in the forty‑first jubilee in

�� the third year of the first week, [1963 A.M.] that he returned to this place and offered thereon a

�� burnt sacrifice, and called on the name of the Lord, and said: 'Thou, the most high God, art my God

�� for ever

�� 17 and ever.' And in the fourth year of this week [1964 A.M.] Lot parted from him, and Lot dwelt

�� in Sodom, and

�� 18 the men of Sodom were sinners exceedingly. And it grieved him in his heart that his brother's

�� 19 son had parted from him; for he had no children. In that year when Lot was taken captive, the

�� Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot had parted from him, in the fourth year of this week: 'Lift up

�� thine eyes from the place where thou art dwelling, northward and southward, and westward and

�� 20 eastward. For all the land which thou seest I will give to thee and to thy seed for ever, and I will

�� make thy seed as the sand of the sea: though a man may number the dust of the earth, yet

�� 21 thy seed shall not be numbered. Arise, walk (through the land) in the length of it and the breadth

�� of it, and see it all; for to thy seed will I give it.' And Abram went to Hebron, and dwelt there.

�� 22 And in this year came Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch

�� king of Sellasar, and Tergal, king of nations, and slew the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Sodom

�� 23 fled, and many fell through wounds in the vale of Siddim, by the Salt Sea. And they took captive

�� Sodom and Adam and Zeboim, and they took captive Lot also, the son of Abram's brother, and

�� 24 all his possessions, and they went to Dan. And one who had escaped came and told Abram that

�� 25 his brother's son had been taken captive and (Abram) armed his household servants . . .

�� . . . . for Abram, and for his seed, a tenth of the first fruits to the Lord, and the Lord ordained it as an

�� ordinance for ever that they should give it to the priests

�� 26 who served before Him, that they should possess it for ever. And to this law there is no limit of

�� days; for He hath ordained it for the generations for ever that they should give to the Lord the tenth

�� of everything, of the seed and of the wine and of the oil and of the cattle and of the sheep.

�� 27,28 And He gave (it) unto His priests to eat and to drink with joy before Him. And the king of

�� Sodom came to him and bowed himself before him, and said: 'Our Lord Abram, give unto us the

�� 29 souls which thou hast rescued, but let the booty be thine.' And Abram said unto him: 'I lift up my

�� hands to the Most High God, that from a thread to a shoe‑latchet I shall not take aught that is thine

�� lest thou shouldst say, I have made Abram rich; save only what the young men have eaten, and the

�� portion of the men who went with me ‑Aner, Eschol, and Mamre. These shall take their portion.'

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 14]

�� 1 After these things, in the fourth year of this week, on the new moon of the third month, the word of

�� the Lord came to Abram in a dream, saying: 'Fear not, Abram; I am thy defender, and

�� 2 thy reward will be exceeding great.' And he said: 'Lord, Lord, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go

�� hence childless, and the son of Maseq, the son of my handmaid, is the Dammasek Eliezer: he

�� 3 will be my heir, and to me thou hast given no seed.' And he said unto him: 'This (man) will not

�� 4 be thy heir, but one that will come out of thine own bowels; he will be thine heir.' And He brought

�� him forth abroad, and said unto him: 'Look toward heaven and number the stars if thou

�� 5 art able to number them.' And he looked toward heaven, and beheld the stars. And He said

�� 6 unto him: 'So shall thy seed be.' And he believed in the Lord, and it was counted to him for

�� 7 righteousness. And He said unto him: 'I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees,

�� to give thee the land of the Canaanites to possess it for ever; and I will be God unto thee and to

�� 8 thy seed after thee.' And he said: 'Lord, Lord, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit (it)?'

�� 9 And He said unto him: 'Take Me an heifer of three years, and a goat of three years, and a sheep

�� 10 of three years, and a turtle‑dove, and a pigeon.' And he took all these in the middle of the month

�� 11 and he dwelt at the oak of Mamre, which is near Hebron. And he built there an altar, and

�� sacrificed all these; and he poured their blood upon the altar, and divided them in the midst, and

�� 12 laid them over against each other; but the birds divided he not. And birds came down upon the

�� 13 pieces, and Abram drove them away, and did not suffer the birds to touch them. And it came to

�� pass, when the sun had set, that an ecstasy fell upon Abram, and lo ! an horror of great darkness fell

�� upon him, and it was said unto Abram: 'Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land

�� (that is) not theirs, and they shall bring them into bondage, and afflict them four hundred

�� 14 years. And the nation also to whom they will be in bondage will I judge, and after that they shall

�� 15 come forth thence with much substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried

�� 16 in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall return hither; for the iniquity of the

�� 17 Amorites is not yet full.' And he awoke from his sleep, and he arose, and the sun had set; and

�� there was a flame, and behold ! a furnace was smoking, and a flame of fire passed between the

�� 18 pieces. And on that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: 'To thy seed will I give

�� this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates, the Kenites, the Kenizzites,

�� the Kadmonites, the Perizzites, and the Rephaim, the Phakorites, and the Hivites, and the

�� 19 Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. And the day passed, and

�� Abram offered the pieces, and the birds, and their fruit offerings, and their drink offerings, and

�� 20 the fire devoured them. And on that day we made a covenant with Abram, according as we had

�� covenanted with Noah in this month; and Abram renewed the festival and ordinance for himself

�� 21 for ever. And Abram rejoiced, and made all these things known to Sarai his wife; and he believed

�� 22 that he would have seed, but she did not bear. And Sarai advised her husband Abram, and said

�� unto him: 'Go in unto Hagar, my Egyptian maid: it may be that I shall build up seed unto thee

�� 23 by her.' And Abram harkened unto the voice of Sarai his wife, and said unto her, 'Do (so).' And

�� Sarai took Hagar, her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to Abram, her husband, to be his

�� 24 wife. And he went in unto her, and she conceived and bare him a son, and he called his name

�� Ishmael, in the fifth year of this week [1965 A.M.]; and this was the eighty‑sixth year in the life of

�� Abram.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 15]

�� 1 And in the fifth year of the fourth week of this jubilee, [1979 A.M.] in the third month, in the

�� middle of the

�� 2 month, Abram celebrated the feast of the first‑fruits of the grain harvest. And he offered new

�� offerings on the altar, the first‑fruits of the produce, unto the Lord, an heifer and a goat and a sheep

�� on the altar as a burnt sacrifice unto the Lord; their fruit offerings and their drink offerings he

�� 3 offered upon the altar with frankincense. And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him:

�� 4 'I am God Almighty; approve thyself before me and be thou perfect. And I will make My covenant

�� between Me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly.' And Abram fell on his face, and God

�� talked with him, and said:

�� 6 'Behold my ordinance is with thee,

�� And thou shalt be the father of many nations.

�� 7 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram,

�� But thy name from henceforth, even for ever, shall be Abraham.

�� For the father of many nations have I made thee.

�� And I will make thee very great,

�� And I will make thee into nations,

�� And kings shall come forth from thee.

�� 9 And I shall establish My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, throughout their

�� generations, for an eternal covenant, so that I may be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

�� 10 And I will give to thee and to they seed after them the land where thou hast been a sojourner,

�� 11 the land of Canaan, that thou mayst possess it for ever, and I will be their God.' And the Lord

�� said unto Abraham: 'And as for thee, do thou keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee: and

�� circumcise ye every male among you, and circumcise your foreskins, and it shall be a token of

�� 12 an eternal covenant between Me and you. And the child on the eighth day ye shall circumcise,

�� every male throughout your generations, him that is born in the house, or whom ye have bought

�� 13 with money from any stranger, whom ye have acquired who is not of thy seed. He that is born in

�� thy house shall surely be circumcised, and those whom thou hast bought with money shall be circum‑

�� 14 cised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an eternal ordinance. And the uncircumcised

�� male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul shall be cut off

�� from

�� 15 his people, for he has broken My covenant.' And God said unto Abraham: 'As for Sarai thy wife,

�� 16 her name shall no more be called Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. And I will bless her, and

�� give thee a son by her, and I will bless him, and he shall become a nation, and kings of nations shall

�� 17 proceed from him.' And Abraham fell on his face, and rejoiced, and said in his heart: 'Shall a son

�� be born to him that is a hundred years old, and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bring forth?'

�� 18,19 And Abraham said unto God: 'O that Ishmael might live before thee!' And God said: 'Yea,

�� and Sarah also shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish My

�� 20 covenant with him, an everlasting covenant, and for his seed after him. And as for Ishmael also

�� have I heard thee, and behold I will bless him, and make him great, and multiply him exceedingly,

�� 21 and he shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. But My covenant will

�� 22 I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee, in these days, in the next year.' And He left

�� 23 off speaking with him, and God went up from Abraham. And Abraham did according as God

�� had said unto him, and he took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and whom he

�� had

�� 24 bought with his money, every male in his house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin. And

�� on the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and all the men of his house, and those in the house,

�� and all those, whom he had bought with money from the children of the stranger, were

�� 25 circumcised with him. This law is for all the generations for ever, and there is no circumcision of

�� the days, and no omission of one day out of the eight days; for it is an eternal ordinance, ordained

�� 26 and written on the heavenly tablets. And every one that is born, the flesh of whose foreskin is not

�� circumcised on the eighth day, belongs not to the children of the covenant which the Lord made with

�� Abraham, but to the children of destruction; nor is there, moreover, any sign on him that he is the

�� Lord's, but (he is destined) to be destroyed and slain from the earth, and to be rooted out of

�� 27 the earth, for he has broken the covenant of the Lord our God. For all the angels of the presence

�� and all the angels of sanctification have been so created from the day of their creation, and before the

�� angels of the presence and the angels of sanctification He hath sanctified Israel, that they should

�� 28 be with Him and with His holy angels. And do thou command the children of Israel and let them

�� observe the sign of this covenant for their generations as an eternal ordinance, and they will not be

�� 29 rooted out of the land. For the command is ordained for a covenant, that they should observe it

�� 30 for ever among all the children of Israel. For Ishmael and his sons and his brothers and Esau, the

�� Lord did not cause to approach Him, and he chose them not because they are the children of

�� 31 Abraham, because He knew them, but He chose Israel to be His people. And He sanctified it,

�� and gathered it from amongst all the children of men; for there are many nations and many peoples,

�� and all are His, and over all hath He placed spirits in authority to lead them astray from Him.

�� 32 But over Israel He did not appoint any angel or spirit, for He alone is their ruler, and He will

�� preserve them and require them at the hand of His angels and His spirits, and at the hand of all His

�� powers in order that He may preserve them and bless them, and that they may be His and He

�� 33 may be theirs from henceforth for ever. And now I announce unto thee that the children of Israel

�� will not keep true to this ordinance, and they will not circumcise their sons according to all this law;

�� for in the flesh of their circumcision they will omit this circumcision of their sons, and all of them,

�� 34 sons of Beliar, will leave their sons uncircumcised as they were born. And there will be great

�� wrath from the Lord against the children of Israel. because they have forsaken His covenant and

��turned aside from His word, and provoked and blasphemed, inasmuch as they do not observe the

�� ordinance of this law; for they have treated their members like the Gentiles, so that they may be

�� removed and rooted out of the land. And there will no more be pardon or forgiveness unto them [so

�� that there should be forgiveness and pardon] for all the sin of this eternal error.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 16]

�� 1 And on the new moon of the fourth month we appeared unto Abraham, at the oak of Mamre, and

�� we talked with him, and we announced to him that a son would be given to him by Sarah his wife.

�� 2 And Sarah laughed, for she heard that we had spoken these words with Abraham, and we

�� admonished

�� 3 her, and she became afraid, and denied that she had laughed on account of the words. And we

�� told her the name of her son, as his name is ordained and written in the heavenly tablets (i.e.) Isaac,

�� 4,5 And (that) when we returned to her at a set time, she would have conceived a son. And in this

�� month the Lord executed his judgments on Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Zeboim, and all the region

�� of the Jordan, and He burned them with fire and brimstone, and destroyed them until this day, even

�� as [lo] I have declared unto thee all their works, that they are wicked and sinners exceedingly, and

�� that they defile themselves and commit fornication in their flesh, and work uncleanness on the earth.

�� 6 And, in like manner, God will execute judgment on the places where they have done according to

�� 7 the uncleanness of the Sodomites, like unto the judgment of Sodom. But Lot we saved; for God

�� 8 remembered Abraham, and sent him out from the midst of the overthrow. And he and his

�� daughters committed sin upon the earth, such as had not been on the earth since the days of Adam

�� till his

�� 9 time; for the man lay with his daughters. And, behold, it was commanded and engraven concerning

�� all his seed, on the heavenly tablets, to remove them and root them out, and to execute judgment

�� upon them like the judgment of Sodom, and to leave no seed of the man on earth on the day

�� 10 of condemnation. And in this month Abraham moved from Hebron, and departed and dwelt

�� between

�� 11 Kadesh and Shur in the mountains of Gerar. And in the middle of the fifth month he moved from

�� 12 thence, and dwelt at the Well of the Oath. And in the middle of the sixth month the Lord visited

�� 13 Sarah and did unto her as He had spoken and she conceived. And she bare a son in the third

�� month, and in the middle of the month, at the time of which the Lord had spoken to Abraham, on

�� 14 the festival of the first fruits of the harvest, Isaac was born. And Abraham circumcised his son on

�� the eighth day: he was the first that was circumcised according to the covenant which is ordained

�� 15 for ever. And in the sixth year of the fourth week we came to Abraham, to the Well of the Oath,

�� and we appeared unto him [as we had told Sarah that we should return to her, and she would have

�� 16 conceived a son. And we returned in the seventh month, and found Sarah with child before us]

�� and we blessed him, and we announced to him all the things which had been decreed concerning

�� him, that he should not die till he should beget six sons more, and should see (them) before he died;

�� but

�� 17 (that) in Isaac should his name and seed be called: And (that) all the seed of his sons should be

�� Gentiles, and be reckoned with the Gentiles; but from the sons of Isaac one should become a holy

�� 18 seed, and should not be reckoned among the Gentiles. For he should become the portion of the

�� Most High, and all his seed had fallen into the possession of God, that it should be unto the Lord a

�� people for (His) possession above all nations and that it should become a kingdom and priests and

�� 19 a holy nation. And we went our way, and we announced to Sarah all that we had told him, and

�� 20 they both rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And he built there an altar to the Lord who had

�� delivered him, and who was making him rejoice in the land of his sojourning, and he celebrated a

�� festival of joy in this month seven days, near the altar which he had built at the Well of the Oath.

�� 21 And he built booths for himself and for his servants on this festival, and he was the first to

�� celebrate

�� 22 the feast of tabernacles on the earth. And during these seven days he brought each day to the

�� altar a burnt offering to the Lord, two oxen, two rams, seven sheep, one he‑goat, for a sin offering,

�� 23 that he might atone thereby for himself and for his seed. And, as a thank‑offering, seven rams,

�� seven kids, seven sheep, and seven he‑goats, and their fruit offerings and their drink offerings; and he

�� burnt all the fat thereof on the altar, a chosen offering unto the Lord for a sweet smelling savour.

�� 24 And morning and evening he burnt fragrant substances, frankincense and galbanum, and stackte,

�� and nard, and myrrh, and spice, and costum; all these seven he offered, crushed, mixed together in

�� 25 equal parts (and) pure. And he celebrated this feast during seven days, rejoicing with all his heart

�� and with all his soul, he and all those who were in his house, and there was no stranger with him,

�� 26 nor any that was uncircumcised. And he blessed his Creator who had created him in his

�� generation, for He had created him according to His good pleasure; for He knew and perceived that

�� from him would arise the plant of righteousness for the eternal generations, and from him a holy seed,

�� so that it

�� 27 should become like Him who had made all things. And he blessed and rejoiced, and he called the

�� 28 name of this festival the festival of the Lord, a joy acceptable to the Most High God. And we

�� blessed him for ever, and all his seed after him throughout all the generations of the earth, because

�� 29 he celebrated this festival in its season, according to the testimony of the heavenly tablets. For this

�� reason it is ordained on the heavenly tablets concerning Israel, that they shall celebrate the feast of

�� tabernacles seven days with joy, in the seventh month, acceptable before the Lord ‑a statute for

�� 30 ever throughout their generations every year. And to this there is no limit of days; for it is

�� ordained for ever regarding Israel that they should celebrate it and dwell in booths, and set wreaths

�� upon

�� 31 their heads, and take leafy boughs, and willows from the brook. And Abraham took branches of

�� palm trees, and the fruit of goodly trees, and every day going round the altar with the branches seven

�� times [a day] in the morning, he praised and gave thanks to his God for all things in joy.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 17]

�� 1 And in the first year of the fifth week Isaac was weaned in this jubilee, [1982 A.M.] and Abraham

�� made

�� 2 a great banquet in the third month, on the day his son Isaac was weaned. And Ishmael, the son of

�� Hagar, the Egyptian, was before the face of Abraham, his father, in his place, and Abraham rejoiced

�� 3 and blessed God because he had seen his sons and had not died childless. And he remembered

�� the words which He had spoken to him on the day on which Lot had parted from him, and he

�� rejoiced because the Lord had given him seed upon the earth to inherit the earth, and he blessed with

�� all his

�� 4 mouth the Creator of all things. And Sarah saw Ishmael playing and dancing, and Abraham

�� rejoicing with great joy, and she became jealous of Ishmael and said to Abraham, 'Cast out this

�� 5 bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman will not be heir with my son, Isaac.' And

�� the thing was grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his maidservant and because of his son,

�� 6 that he should drive them from him. And God said to Abraham 'Let it not be grievous in thy sight,

�� because of the child and because of the bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee,

�� 7 harken to her words and do (them); for in Isaac shall thy name and seed be called. But as for

�� 8 the son of this bondwoman I will make him a great nation, because he is of thy seed.' And

�� Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and placed them on the

�� shoulders

�� 9 of Hagar and the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of

�� Beersheba, and the water in the bottle was spent, and the child thirsted, and was not able to go on,

�� 10 and fell down. And his mother took him and cast him under an olive tree, and went and sat her

�� down over against him, at the distance of a bow‑shot; for she said, 'Let me not see the death of my

�� 11 child,' and as she sat she wept. And an angel of God, one of the holy ones, said unto her, 'Why

�� weepest thou, Hagar? Arise take the child, and hold him in thine hand; for God hath heard thy

�� 12 voice, and hath seen the child.' And she opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and she

�� went and filled her bottle with water, and she gave her child to drink, and she arose and went

�� towards

�� 13 the wilderness of Paran. And the child grew and became an archer, and God was with him, and

�� his

�� 14 mother took him a wife from among the daughters of Egypt. And she bare him a son, and he

�� called

�� 15 his name Nebaioth; for she said, 'The Lord was nigh to me when I called upon him.' And it came

�� to pass in the seventh week, in the first year thereof, [2003 A.M.] in the first month in this jubilee, on

�� the twelfth of this month, there were voices in heaven regarding Abraham, that he was faithful in all

�� that He

�� 16 told him, and that he loved the Lord, and that in every affliction he was faithful. And the prince

�� Mastema came and said before God, 'Behold, Abraham loves Isaac his son, and he delights in him

�� above all things else; bid him offer him as a burnt‑offering on the altar, and Thou wilt see if he will do

�� this command, and Thou wilt know if he is faithful in everything wherein Thou dost try him.

�� 17 And the Lord knew that Abraham was faithful in all his afflictions; for He had tried him through

�� his country and with famine, and had tried him with the wealth of kings, and had tried him again

�� through his wife, when she was torn (from him), and with circumcision; and had tried him through

�� 18 Ishmael and Hagar, his maid‑servant, when he sent them away. And in everything wherein He

�� had tried him, he was found faithful, and his soul was not impatient, and he was not slow to act; for

�� he was faithful and a lover of the Lord.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 18]

�� 1,2 And God said to him, 'Abraham, Abraham'; and he said, Behold, (here) am I.' And he said,

�� Take thy beloved son whom thou lovest, (even) Isaac, and go unto the high country, and offer him

�� 3 on one of the mountains which I will point out unto thee.' And he rose early in the morning and

�� saddled his ass, and took his two young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood of the

�� 4 burnt offering, and he went to the place on the third day, and he saw the place afar off. And he

�� came to a well of water, and he said to his young men, 'Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the

�� 5 lad shall go (yonder), and when we have worshipped we shall come again to you.' And he took

�� the wood of the burnt‑offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the

�� 6 knife, and they went both of them together to that place. And Isaac said to his father, 'Father;' and

�� he said, 'Here am I, my son.' And he said unto him, 'Behold the fire, and the knife, and the

�� 7 wood; but where is the sheep for the burnt‑offering, father?' And he said, 'God will provide for

�� himself a sheep for a burnt‑offering, my son.' And he drew near to the place of the mount of

�� 8 God. And he built an altar, and he placed the wood on the altar, and bound Isaac his son, and

�� placed him on the wood which was upon the altar, and stretched forth his hand to take the knife

�� 9 to slay Isaac his son. And I stood before him, and before the prince Mastema, and the Lord said,

�� 'Bid him not to lay his hand on the lad, nor to do anything to him, for I have shown that he fears

�� 10 the Lord.' And I called to him from heaven, and said unto him: 'Abraham, Abraham;' and he

�� 11 was terrified and said: 'Behold, (here) am I.' And I said unto him: 'Lay not thy hand upon the lad,

�� neither do thou anything to him; for now I have shown that thou fearest the Lord, and hast

�� 12 not withheld thy son, thy first‑born son, from me.' And the prince Mastema was put to shame;

�� and Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold a ram caught . . . by his horns, and

�� Abraham

��13 went and took the ram and offered it for a burnt‑offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham

�� called that place 'The Lord hath seen', so that it is said in the mount the Lord hath seen: that is

�� 14 Mount Sion. And the Lord called Abraham by his name a second time from heaven, as he

�� caused

�� 15 us to appear to speak to him in the name of the Lord. And he said: 'By Myself have I sworn,

�� saith the Lord,

�� Because thou hast done this thing,

�� And hast not withheld thy son, thy beloved son, from Me,

�� That in blessing I will bless thee,

�� And in multiplying I will multiply thy seed

�� As the stars of heaven, And as the sand which is on the seashore.

�� And thy seed shall inherit the cities of its enemies,

�� 16 And in thy seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed;

�� Because thou hast obeyed My voice,

�� And I have shown to all that thou art faithful unto Me in all that I have said unto thee:

�� Go in peace.'

�� 17 And Abraham went to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba, and

�� Abraham [2010 A.M.]

�� 18 dwelt by the Well of the Oath. And he celebrated this festival every year, seven days with joy,

�� and he called it the festival of the Lord according to the seven days during which he went and

�� 19 returned in peace. And accordingly has it been ordained and written on the heavenly tablets

�� regarding Israel and its seed that they should observe this festival seven days with the joy of festival.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 19]

�� 1 And in the first year of the first week in the forty‑second jubilee, Abraham returned and dwelt

�� 2 opposite Hebron, that is Kirjath Arba, two weeks of years. And in the first year of the third week

�� 3 of this jubilee the days of the life of Sarah were accomplished, and she died in Hebron. And

�� Abraham went to mourn over her and bury her, and we tried him [to see] if his spirit were patient

�� and he were not indignant in the words of his mouth; and he was found patient in this, and was not

�� 4 disturbed. For in patience of spirit he conversed with the children of Heth, to the intent that they

�� 5 should give him a place in which to bury his dead. And the Lord gave him grace before all who

�� saw him, and he besought in gentleness the sons of Heth, and they gave him the land of the double

�� 6 cave over against Mamre, that is Hebron, for four hundred pieces of silver. And they besought him

�� saying, We shall give it to thee for nothing; but he would not take it from their hands for nothing, for

�� he gave the price of the place, the money in full, and he bowed down before them twice, and after

�� 7 this he buried his dead in the double cave. And all the days of the life of Sarah were one hundred

�� and twenty‑seven years, that is, two jubilees and four weeks and one year: these are the days of the

�� 8 years of the life of Sarah. This is the tenth trial wherewith Abraham was tried, and he was found

�� 9 faithful, patient in spirit. And he said not a single word regarding the rumour in the land how that

�� God had said that He would give it to him and to his seed after him, and he begged a place there to

�� bury his dead; for he was found faithful, and was recorded on the heavenly tablets as the friend of

�� 10 God. And in the fourth year thereof he took a wife for his son Isaac and her name was Rebecca

�� [2020 A.M.] [the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, the brother of Abraham] the sister of

�� Laban and daughter of Bethuel; and Bethuel was the son of Melca, who was the wife of Nahor, the

�� brother of Abraham.

�� 11 And Abraham took to himself a third wife, and her name was Keturah, from among the daughters

�� of his household servants, for Hagar had died before Sarah. And she bare him six sons, Zimram,

�� 12 and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah, in the two weeks of years. And in

�� 13 the sixth week, in the second year thereof, Rebecca bare to Isaac two sons, Jacob and Esau, and

�� [2046 A.M.] Jacob was a smooth and upright man, and Esau was fierce, a man of the field, and

�� hairy, and Jacob

�� 14 dwelt in tents. And the youths grew, and Jacob learned to write; but Esau did not learn, for he

�� 15 was a man of the field and a hunter, and he learnt war, and all his deeds were fierce. And

�� Abraham

�� 16 loved Jacob, but Isaac loved Esau. And Abraham saw the deeds of Esau, and he knew that in

�� Jacob should his name and seed be called; and he called Rebecca and gave commandment

�� regarding

�� 17 Jacob, for he knew that she (too) loved Jacob much more than Esau. And he said unto her:

�� My daughter, watch over my son Jacob,

�� For he shall be in my stead on the earth,

�� And for a blessing in the midst of the children of men,

�� And for the glory of the whole seed of Shem.

�� 18 For I know that the Lord will choose him to be a people for possession unto Himself, above all

�� 19 peoples that are upon the face of the earth. And behold, Isaac my son loves Esau more than

�� Jacob, but I see that thou truly lovest Jacob.

�� 20 Add still further to thy kindness to him,

�� And let thine eyes be upon him in love;

�� For he shall be a blessing unto us on the earth from henceforth unto all generations of

�� the earth.

�� 21 Let thy hands be strong

�� And let thy heart rejoice in thy son Jacob;

�� For I have loved him far beyond all my sons.

�� He shall be blessed for ever,

�� And his seed shall fill the whole earth.

�� 22 If a man can number the sand of the earth,

�� His seed also shall be numbered.

�� 23 And all the blessings wherewith the Lord hath blessed me and my seed shall belong to Jacob and

�� 24 his seed alway. And in his seed shall my name be blessed, and the name of my fathers, Shem,

�� and

�� 25 Noab, and Enoch, and Mahalalel, and Enos, and Seth, and Adam. And these shall serve

�� To lay the foundations of the heaven,

�� And to strengthen the earth,

�� And to renew all the luminaries which are in the firmament.

�� 26 And he called Jacob before the eyes of Rebecca his mother, and kissed him, and blessed him,

�� and

�� 27 said: 'Jacob, my beloved son, whom my soul loveth, may God bless thee from above the

�� firmament, and may He give thee all the blessings wherewith He blessed Adam, and Enoch, and

�� Noah, and Shem; and all the things of which He told me, and all the things which He promised to

�� give me, may he cause to cleave to thee and to thy seed for ever, according to the days of heaven

�� above the

�� 28 earth. And the Spirits of Mastema shall not rule over thee or over thy seed to turn thee from the

�� 29 Lord, who is thy God from henceforth for ever. And may the Lord God be a father to thee and

�� 30 thou the first‑born son, and to the people alway. Go in peace, my son.' And they both went forth

�� 31 together from Abraham. And Rebecca loved Jacob, with all her heart and with all her soul, very

�� much more than Esau; but Isaac loved Esau much more than Jacob.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 20]

�� 1 And in the forty‑second jubilee, in the first year of the seventh week, Abraham called Ishmael,

�� [2052 (2045?) A.M.]

�� 2 and his twelve sons, and Isaac and his two sons, and the six sons of Keturah, and their sons. And

�� he commanded them that they should observe the way of the Lord; that they should work

�� righteousness, and love each his neighbour, and act on this manner amongst all men; that they should

�� each

�� 3 so walk with regard to them as to do judgment and righteousness on the earth. That they should

�� circumcise their sons, according to the covenant which He had made with them, and not deviate to

�� the right hand or the left of all the paths which the Lord had commanded us; and that we should keep

�� ourselves from all fornication and uncleanness, [and renounce from amongst us all fornication and

�� 4 uncleanness]. And if any woman or maid commit fornication amongst you, burn her with fire and

�� let them not commit fornication with her after their eyes and their heart; and let them not take to

�� themselves wives from the daughters of Canaan; for the seed of Canaan will be rooted out of

�� 5 the land. And he told them of the judgment of the giants, and the judgment of the Sodomites,

�� how they had been judged on account of their wickedness, and had died on account of their

�� fornication, and uncleanness, and mutual corruption through fornication.

�� 6 'And guard yourselves from all fornication and uncleanness,

�� And from all pollution of sin,

�� Lest ye make our name a curse,

�� And your whole life a hissing,

�� And all your sons to be destroyed by the sword,

�� And ye become accursed like Sodom,

�� And all your remnant as the sons of Gomorrah.

�� 7 I implore you, my sons, love the God of heaven

�� And cleave ye to all His commandments.

�� And walk not after their idols, and after their uncleannesses,

�� 8 And make not for yourselves molten or graven gods;

�� For they are vanity,

�� And there is no spirit in them;

�� For they are work of (men's) hands,

�� And all who trust in them, trust in nothing.

�� 9 Serve them not, nor worship them,

�� But serve ye the most high God, and worship Him continually:

�� And hope for His countenance always,

�� And work uprightness and righteousness before Him,

�� That He may have pleasure in you and grant you His mercy,

�� And send rain upon you morning and evening,

�� And bless all your works which ye have wrought upon the earth,

�� And bless thy bread and thy water,

�� And bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy land,

�� And the herds of thy cattle, and the flocks of thy sheep.

�� 10 And ye will be for a blessing on the earth,

�� And all nations of the earth will desire you,

�� And bless your sons in my name,

�� That they may be blessed as I am.

�� 11 And he gave to Ishmael and to his sons, and to the sons of Keturah, gifts, and sent them away

�� 12 from Isaac his son, and he gave everything to Isaac his son. And Ishmael and his sons, and the

�� sons of Keturah and their sons, went together and dwelt from Paran to the entering in of Babylon in

�� 13 all the land which is towards the East facing the desert. And these mingled with each other, and

�� their name was called Arabs, and Ishmaelites.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 21]

�� 1 And in the sixth year of the seventh week of this jubilee Abraham called Isaac his son, and [2057

�� (2050?) A.M.] commanded him: saying, 'I am become old, and know not the day of my death, and

�� am full of my

�� 2 days. And behold, I am one hundred and seventy‑five years old, and throughout all the days of my

�� life I have remembered the Lord, and sought with all my heart to do His will, and to walk uprightly

�� 3 in all His ways. My soul has hated idols, and I have despised those that served them and I have,

�� 4 given my heart and spirit> that I might observe to do the will of Him who created me. For He is

�� the living God, and He is holy and faithful, and He is righteous beyond all, and there is with Him no

�� accepting of (men's) persons and no accepting of gifts; for God is righteous, and executeth judg‑

�� 5 ment on all those who transgress His commandments and despise His covenant. And do thou, my

�� son, observe His commandments and His ordinances and His judgments, and walk not after the

�� 6 abominations and after the graven images and after the molten images. And eat no blood at all of

�� 7 animals or cattle, or of any bird which flies in the heaven. And if thou dost slay a victim as an

�� acceptable peace offering, slay ye it, and pour out its blood upon the altar, and all the fat of the

�� offering offer on the altar with fine flour and the meat offering mingled with oil, with its drink offering

�� ‑offer them all together on the altar of burnt offering; it is a sweet savour before the Lord.

�� 8 And thou wilt offer the fat of the sacrifice of thank offerings on the fire which is upon the altar, and

�� the fat which is on the belly, and all the fat on the inwards and the two kidneys, and all the fat that

�� 9 is upon them, and upon the loins and liver thou shalt remove, together with the kidneys. And offer

�� all these for a sweet savour acceptable before the Lord, with its meat‑offering and with its drink‑

�� 10 offering, for a sweet savour, the bread of the offering unto the Lord. And eat its meat on that day

�� and on the second day, and let not the sun on the second day go down upon it till it is eaten, and let

�� nothing be left over for the third day; for it is not acceptable [for it is not approved] and let it no

�� longer be eaten, and all who eat thereof will bring sin upon themselves; for thus I have found it

�� written in the books of my forefathers, and in the words of Enoch, and in the words of Noah.

�� 11 And on all thy oblations thou shalt strew salt, and let not the salt of the covenant be lacking in all

�� 12 thy oblations before the Lord. And as regards the wood of the sacrifices, beware lest thou bring

�� (other) wood for the altar in addition to these: cypress, bay, almond, fir, pine, cedar, savin, fig, olive,

�� 13 myrrh, laurel, aspalathus. And of these kinds of wood lay upon the altar under the sacrifice, such

�� as have been tested as to their appearance, and do not lay (thereon) any split or dark wood, (but)

�� hard and clean, without fault, a sound and new growth; and do not lay (thereon) old wood, [for its

�� 14 fragrance is gone] for there is no longer fragrance in it as before. Besides these kinds of wood

�� there is none other that thou shalt place (on the altar), for the fragrance is dispersed, and the smell of

�� its

�� 15 fragrance goes not up to heaven. Observe this commandment and do it, my son, that thou mayst

�� 16 be upright in all thy deeds. And at all times be clean in thy body, and wash thyself with water

�� before thou approachest to offer on the altar, and wash thy hands and thy feet before thou drawest

�� 17 near to the altar; and when thou art done sacrificing, wash again thy hands and thy feet. And let

�� no blood appear upon you nor upon your clothes; be on thy guard, my son, against blood, be on thy

�� 18 guard exceedingly; cover it with dust. And do not eat any blood for it is the soul; eat no blood

�� whatever. And take no gifts for the blood of man, lest it be shed with impunity, without judgment; for

�� it is the blood that is shed that causes the earth to sin, and the earth cannot be cleansed from the

�� 20 blood of man save by the blood of him who shed it. And take no present or gift for the blood of

�� man: blood for blood, that thou mayest be accepted before the Lord, the Most High God; for He is

�� the defence of the good: and that thou mayest be preserved from all evil, and that He may save thee

�� from every kind of death.

�� 21 I see, my son,

�� That all the works of the children of men are sin and wickedness,

�� And all their deeds are uncleanness and an abomination and a pollution,

�� And there is no righteousness with them.

�� 22 Beware, lest thou shouldest walk in their ways

�� And tread in their paths,

�� And sin a sin unto death before the Most High God.

�� Else He will [hide His face from thee

�� And] give thee back into the hands of thy transgression,

�� And root thee out of the land, and thy seed likewise from under heaven,

�� And thy name and thy seed shall perish from the whole earth.

�� 23 Turn away from all their deeds and all their uncleanness,

�� And observe the ordinance of the Most High God,

�� And do His will and be upright in all things.

�� 24 And He will bless thee in all thy deeds,

�� And will raise up from thee a plant of righteousness through all the earth, throughout all

�� generations of the earth,

�� And my name and thy name shall not be forgotten under heaven for ever.

�� 25 Go, my son in peace.

�� May the Most High God, my God and thy God, strengthen thee to do His will,

�� And may He bless all thy seed and the residue of thy seed for the generations for ever,

�� with all righteous blessings,

�� That thou mayest be a blessing on all the earth.'

�� 26 And he went out from him rejoicing.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 22]

�� 1 And it came to pass in the first week in the forty‑fourth jubilee, in the second year, that is, the year

�� in which Abraham died, that Isaac and Ishmael came from the Well of the Oath to celebrate the feast

�� of weeks ‑that is, the feast of the first fruits of the harvest‑to Abraham, their

�� 2 father, and Abraham rejoiced because his two sons had come. For Isaac had many possessions in

�� 3 Beersheba, and Isaac was wont to go and see his possessions and to return to his father. And in

�� those days Ishmael came to see his father, and they both came together, and Isaac offered a sacrifice

�� 4 for a burnt offering, and presented it on the altar of his father which he had made in Hebron. And

�� he offered a thank offering and made a feast of joy before Ishmael, his brother: and Rebecca made

�� new cakes from the new grain, and gave them to Jacob, her son, to take them to Abraham, his

�� father, from the first fruits of the land, that he might eat and bless the Creator of all things before he

�� died.

�� 5 And Isaac, too, sent by the hand of Jacob to Abraham a best thank offering, that he might eat and

�� 6 drink. And he eat and drank, and blessed the Most High God,

�� Who hath created heaven and earth,

�� Who hath made all the fat things of the earth,

�� And given them to the children of men

�� That they might eat and drink and bless their Creator.

�� 7 'And now I give thanks unto Thee, my God, because thou hast caused me to see this day: behold,

�� I am one hundred three score and fifteen years, an old man and full of days, and all my days have

�� 8 been unto me peace. The sword of the adversary has not overcome me in all that Thou hast given

�� 9 me and my children all the days of my life until this day. My God, may Thy mercy and Thy peace

�� be upon Thy servant, and upon the seed of his sons, that they may be to Thee a chosen nation and

�� an inheritance from amongst all the nations of the earth from henceforth unto all the days of the

�� 10 generations of the earth, unto all the ages.' And he called Jacob and said: 'My son Jacob, may the

�� God of all bless thee and strengthen thee to do righteousness, and His will before Him, and may He

�� choose thee and thy seed that ye may become a people for His inheritance according to His will

�� 11 alway. And do thou, my son, Jacob, draw near and kiss me.' And he drew near and kissed him,

�� and he said:

�� 'Blessed be my son Jacob

�� And all the sons of God Most High, unto all the ages:

�� May God give unto thee a seed of righteousness;

�� And some of thy sons may He sanctify in the midst of the whole earth;

�� May nations serve thee,

�� And all the nations bow themselves before thy seed.

�� 12 Be strong in the presence of men,

�� And exercise authority over all the seed of Seth.

�� Then thy ways and the ways of thy sons will be justified,

�� So that they shall become a holy nation.

�� 13 May the Most High God give thee all the blessings

�� Wherewith He has blessed me

�� And wherewith He blessed Noah and Adam;

�� May they rest on the sacred head of thy seed from generation to generation for ever.

��14 And may He cleanse thee from all unrighteousness and impurity,

�� That thou mayest be forgiven all the transgressions; which thou hast committed ignorantly.

�� And may He strengthen thee,

�� And bless thee.

�� And mayest thou inherit the whole earth,

�� 15 And may He renew His covenant with thee.

�� That thou mayest be to Him a nation for His inheritance for all the ages,

�� And that He may be to thee and to thy seed a God in truth and righteousness

�� throughout all the days of the earth.

�� 16 And do thou, my son Jacob, remember my words,

�� And observe the commandments of Abraham, thy father:

�� Separate thyself from the nations,

�� And eat not with them:

�� And do not according to their works,

�� And become not their associate;

�� For their works are unclean,

�� And all their ways are a Pollution and an abomination and uncleanness.

�� 17 They offer their sacrifices to the dead

�� And they worship evil spirits,

�� And they eat over the graves,

�� And all their works are vanity and nothingness.

�� 18 They have no heart to understand

�� And their eyes do not see what their works are,

�� And how they err in saying to a piece of wood: 'Thou art my God,'

�� And to a stone: 'Thou art my Lord and thou art my deliverer.'

�� [And they have no heart.]

�� 19 And as for thee, my son Jacob,

�� May the Most High God help thee

�� And the God of heaven bless thee

�� And remove thee from their uncleanness and from all their error.

�� 20 Be thou ware, my son Jacob, of taking a wife from any seed of the daughters of Canaan;

�� For all his seed is to be rooted out of the earth.

�� 21 For, owing to the transgression of Ham, Canaan erred,

�� And all his seed shall be destroyed from off the earth and all the residue thereof,

�� And none springing from him shall be saved on the day of judgment.

�� 22 And as for all the worshippers of idols and the profane

�� (b) There shall be no hope for them in the land of the living;

�� (c) And there shall be no remembrance of them on the earth;

�� (c) For they shall descend into Sheol,

�� (d) And into the place of condemnation shall they go,

�� As the children of Sodom were taken away from the earth

�� So will all those who worship idols be taken away.

�� 23 Fear not, my son Jacob,

�� And be not dismayed, O son of Abraham:

�� May the Most High God preserve thee from destruction,

�� And from all the paths of error may he deliver thee.

�� 24 This house have I built for myself that I might put my name upon it in the earth: [it is given to thee

�� and to thy seed for ever], and it will be named the house of Abraham; it is given to thee and to thy

�� seed for ever; for thou wilt build my house and establish my name before God for ever: thy seed and

�� thy name will stand throughout all generations of the earth.'

�� 25,26 And he ceased commanding him and blessing him. And the two lay together on one bed, and

�� Jacob slept in the bosom of Abraham, his father's father and he kissed him seven times, and his

�� 27 affection and his heart rejoiced over him. And he blessed him with all his heart and said: 'The

�� Most High God, the God of all, and Creator of all, who brought me forth from Ur of the Chaldees

�� that he might give me this land to inherit it for ever, and that I might establish a holy seed‑blessed

�� 28 be the Most High for ever.' And he blessed Jacob and said: 'My son, over whom with all my

�� heart and my affection I rejoice, may Thy grace and Thy mercy be lift up upon him and upon his

�� seed

�� 29 alway. And do not forsake him, nor set him at nought from henceforth unto the days of eternity,

�� and may Thine eyes be opened upon him and upon his seed, that Thou mayst preserve him, and

�� 30 bless him, and mayest sanctify him as a nation for Thine inheritance; And bless him with all Thy

�� blessings from henceforth unto all the days of eternity, and renew Thy covenant and Thy grace with

�� him and with his seed according to all Thy good pleasure unto all the generations of the earth.'

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 23]

�� 1 And he placed two fingers of Jacob on his eyes, and he blessed the God of gods, and he covered

�� his face and stretched out his feet and slept the sleep of eternity, and was gathered to his fathers.

�� 2 And notwithstanding all this Jacob was lying in his bosom, and knew not that Abraham, his father's

�� 3 father, was dead. And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and behold Abraham was cold as ice, and he

�� 4 said 'Father, father'; but there was none that spake, and he knew that he was dead. And he arose

�� from his bosom and ran and told Rebecca, his mother; and Rebecca went to Isaac in the night, and

�� told him; and they went together, and Jacob with them, and a lamp was in his hand, and

�� 5 when they had gone in they found Abraham lying dead. And Isaac fell on the face of his father

�� 6 and wept and kissed him. And the voices were heard in the house of Abraham, and Ishmael his

�� son arose, and went to Abraham his father, and wept over Abraham his father, he and all the house

�� 7 of Abraham, and they wept with a great weeping. And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in

�� the double cave, near Sarah his wife, and they wept for him forty days, all the men of his house, and

�� Isaac and Ishmael, and all their sons, and all the sons of Keturah in their places; and the days of

�� 8 weeping for Abraham were ended. And he lived three jubilees and four weeks of years, one

�� hundred

�� 9 and seventy‑five years, and completed the days of his life, being old and full of days. For the days

�� of the forefathers, of their life, were nineteen jubilees; and after the Flood they began to grow less

�� than nineteen jubilees, and to decrease in jubilees, and to grow old quickly, and to be full of their

�� days by reason of manifold tribulation and the wickedness of their ways, with the exception of

�� 10 Abraham. For Abraham was perfect in all his deeds with the Lord, and well‑pleasing in

�� righteousness all the days of his life; and behold, he did not complete four jubilees in his life, when he

�� had

�� 11 grown old by reason of the wickedness, and was full of his days. And all the generations which

�� shall arise from this time until the day of the great judgment shall grow old quickly, before they

�� complete two jubilees, and their knowledge shall forsake them by reason of their old age Land all

�� their know‑

�� 12 ledge shall vanish away]. And in those days, if a man live a jubilee and a‑half of years, they shall

�� say regarding him: 'He has lived long, and the greater part of his days are pain and sorrow and

�� 13 tribulation, and there is no peace: For calamity follows on calamity, and wound on wound, and

�� tribulation on tribulation, and evil tidings on evil tidings, and illness on illness, and all evil judgments

�� such as these, one with another, illness and overthrow, and snow and frost and ice, and fever, and

�� chills, and torpor, and famine, and death, and sword, and captivity, and all kinds of calamities and

�� 14 pains.' And all these shall come on an evil generation, which transgresses on the earth: their works

�� 15 are uncleanness and fornication, and pollution and abominations. Then they shall say: 'The days of

�� the forefathers were many (even), unto a thousand years, and were good; but behold, the days of

�� our life, if a man has lived many, are three score years and ten, and, if he is strong, four score years,

�� 16 and those evil, and there is no peace in the days of this evil generation.' And in that generation the

�� sons shall convict their fathers and their elders of sin and unrighteousness, and of the words of their

�� mouth and the great wickednesses which they perpetrate, and concerning their forsaking the

�� covenant which the Lord made between them and Him, that they should observe and do all His

�� commandments and His ordinances and all His laws, without departing either to the right hand or the

�� left.

�� 17 For all have done evil, and every mouth speaks iniquity and all their works are an uncleanness

�� and

�� 18 an abomination, and all their ways are pollution, uncleanness and destruction. Behold the earth

�� shall be destroyed on account of all their works, and there shall be no seed of the vine, and no oil;

�� for their works are altogether faithless, and they shall all perish together, beasts and cattle and birds,

�� and

�� 19 all the fish of the sea, on account of the children of men. And they shall strive one with another,

�� the young with the old, and the old with the young, the poor with the rich, the lowly with the great,

�� and the beggar with the prince, on account of the law and the covenant; for they have forgotten

�� commandment, and covenant, and feasts, and months, and Sabbaths, and jubilees, and all

�� judgments.

�� 20 And they shall stand <with bows and> swords and war to turn them back into the way; but they

�� shall

�� 21 not return until much blood has been shed on the earth, one by another. And those who have

�� escaped shall not return from their wickedness to the way of righteousness, but they shall all exalt

�� themselves to deceit and wealth, that they may each take all that is his neighbour's, and they shall

�� name the great name, but not in truth and not in righteousness, and they shall defile the holy of

�� 22 holies with their uncleanness and the corruption of their pollution. And a great punishment shall

�� befall the deeds of this generation from the Lord, and He will give them over to the sword and to

�� 23 judgment and to captivity, and to be plundered and devoured. And He will wake up against them

�� the sinners of the Gentiles, who have neither mercy nor compassion, and who shall respect the

�� person of none, neither old nor young, nor any one, for they are more wicked and strong to do evil

�� than all the children of men.

�� And they shall use violence against Israel and transgression against Jacob,

�� And much blood shall be shed upon the earth,

�� And there shall be none to gather and none to bury.

�� 24 In those days they shall cry aloud,

�� And call and pray that they may be saved from the hand of the sinners, the Gentiles;

�� But none shall be saved.

�� 25 And the heads of the children shall be white with grey hair,

�� And a child of three weeks shall appear old like a man of one hundred years,

�� And their stature shall be destroyed by tribulation and oppression.

�� 26 And in those days the children shall begin to study the laws,

�� And to seek the commandments,

�� And to return to the path of righteousness.

�� 27 And the days shall begin to grow many and increase amongst those children of men

�� Till their days draw nigh to one thousand years.

�� And to a greater number of years than (before) was the number of the days.

�� 28 And there shall be no old man

�� Nor one who is <not> satisfied with his days,

�� For all shall be (as) children and youths.

�� 29 And all their days they shall complete and live in peace and in joy,

�� And there shall be no Satan nor any evil destroyer;

�� For all their days shall be days of blessing and healing.

�� 30 And at that time the Lord will heal His servants,

�� And they shall rise up and see great peace,

�� And drive out their adversaries.

�� And the righteous shall see and be thankful,

�� And rejoice with joy for ever and ever,

�� And shall see all their judgments and all their curses on their enemies.

�� 31 And their bones shall rest in the earth,

�� And their spirits shall have much joy,

�� And they shall know that it is the Lord who executes judgment,

�� And shows mercy to hundreds and thousands and to all that love Him

�� 32 And do thou, Moses, write down these words; for thus are they written, and they record (them)

�� on the heavenly tablets for a testimony for the generations for ever.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 24]

�� 1 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that the Lord blessed Isaac his son, and he arose

�� from Hebron and went and dwelt at the Well of the Vision in the first year of the third week [2073

�� A.M.]

�� 2 of this jubilee, seven years. And in the first year of the fourth week a famine began in the land,

�� [2080 A.M.]

�� 3 besides the first famine, which had been in the days of Abraham. And Jacob sod lentil pottage, and

�� Esau came from the field hungry. And he said to Jacob his brother: 'Give me of this red pottage.'

�� And Jacob said to him: 'Sell to me thy [primogeniture, this] birthright and I will give

�� 4 thee bread, and also some of this lentil pottage.' And Esau said in his heart: 'I shall die; of

�� 5 what profit to me is this birthright? 'And he said to Jacob: 'I give it to thee.' And Jacob said:

�� 6 'Swear to me, this day,' and he sware unto him. And Jacob gave his brother Esau bread and

�� pottage, and he eat till he was satisfied, and Esau despised his birthright; for this reason was Esau's

�� name

�� 7 called Edom, on account of the red pottage which Jacob gave him for his birthright. And Jacob

�� became

�� 8 the elder, and Esau was brought down from his dignity. And the famine was over the land, and

�� Isaac departed to go down into Egypt in the second year of this week, and went to the king of the

�� Philis‑

�� 9 tines to Gerar, unto Abimelech. And the Lord appeared unto him and said unto him: 'Go not down

�� into Egypt; dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of, and sojourn in this land, and I will

�� 10 be with thee and bless thee. For to thee and to thy seed will I give all this land, and I will establish

�� My oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father, and I will multiply thy seed as the

�� 11 stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all this land. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the

�� earth be blessed, because thy father obeyed My voice, and kept My charge and My

�� commandments, and My laws, and My ordinances, and My covenant; and now obey My voice and

�� dwell in

�� 12,13 this land.' And he dwelt in Gelar three weeks of years. And Abimelech charged concerning

�� him, [2080‑2101 A.M.] and concerning all that was his, saying: 'Any man that shall touch him or

�� aught that is his shall

�� 14 surely die.' And Isaac waxed strong among the Philistines, and he got many possessions, oxen

�� 15 and sheep and camels and asses and a great household. And he sowed in the land of the

�� Philistines and brought in a hundred‑fold, and Isaac became exceedingly great, and the Philistines

�� envied him.

�� 16 Now all the wells which the servants of Abraham had dug during the life of Abraham, the

�� Philistines

�� 17 had stopped them after the death of Abraham, and filled them with earth. And Abimelech said

�� unto Isaac: 'Go from us, for thou art much mightier than we', and Isaac departed thence in

�� 18 the first year of the seventh week, and sojourned in the valleys of Gerar. And they digged again

�� the wells of water which the servants of Abraham, his father, had digged, and which the Philistines

�� had closed after the death of Abraham his father, and he called their names as Abraham his father

�� 19 had named them. And the servants of Isaac dug a well in the valley, and found living water, and

�� the shepherds of Gerar strove with the shepherds of Isaac, saying: 'The water is ours'; and Isaac

�� 20 called the name of the well 'Perversity', because they had been perverse with us. And they dug a

�� second well, and they strove for that also, and he called its name 'Enmity'. And he arose from thence

�� and they digged another well, and for that they strove not, and he called the name of it 'Room', and

�� Isaac said: 'Now the Lord hath made room for us, and we have increased in the

�� 21 land.' And he went up from thence to the Well of the Oath in the first year of the first week in the

�� [2108 A.M.]

�� 22 forty‑fourth jubilee. And the Lord appeared to him that night, on the new moon of the first month,

�� and said unto him: 'I am the God of Abraham thy father; fear not, for I am with thee, and shall bless

�� thee and shall surely multiply thy seed as the sand of the earth, for the sake of Abraham my

�� 23 servant.' And he built an altar there, which Abraham his father had first built, and he called upon

�� 24 the name of the Lord, and he offered sacrifice to the God of Abraham his father. And they digged

�� 25 a well and they found living water. And the servants of Isaac digged another well and did not find

�� water, and they went and told Isaac that they had not found water, and Isaac said: 'I have sworn

�� 26 this day to the Philistines and this thing has been announced to us.' And he called the name of that

�� place the Well of the Oath; for there he had sworn to Abimelech and Ahuzzath his friend and

�� 27 Phicol the prefect Or his host. And Isaac knew that day that under constraint he had sworn to

�� them

�� 28 to make peace with them. And Isaac on that day cursed the Philistines and said: 'Cursed be the

�� Philistines unto the day of wrath and indignation from the midst of all nations; may God make them a

�� derision and a curse and an object of wrath and indignation in the hands of the sinners the

�� 29 Gentiles and in the hands of the Kittim. And whoever escapes the sword of the enemy and the

�� Kittim, may the righteous nation root out in judgment from under heaven; for they shall be the

�� enemies and foes of my children throughout their generations upon the earth.

�� 30 And no remnant shall be left to them,

�� Nor one that shall be saved on the day of the wrath of judgment;

�� For destruction and rooting out and expulsion from the earth is the whole seed of the Philistines

�� (reserved),

�� And there shall no longer be left for these Caphtorim a name or a seed on the earth.

�� 31 For though he ascend unto heaven,

�� Thence shall he be brought down,

�� And though he make himself strong on earth,

�� Thence shall he be dragged forth,

�� And though he hide himself amongst the nations,

�� Even from thence shall he be rooted out;

�� And though he descend into Sheol,

�� There also shall his condemnation be great,

�� And there also he shall have no peace.

�� 32 And if he go into captivity,

�� By the hands of those that seek his life shall they slay him on the way,

�� And neither name nor seed shall be left to him on all the earth;

�� For into eternal malediction shall he depart.'

�� 33 And thus is it written and engraved concerning him on the heavenly tablets, to do

�� unto him on the day of judgment, so that he may be rooted out of the earth.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 25]

�� 1 And in the second year of this week in this jubilee, Rebecca called Jacob her son, and spake unto

�� [2109 A.M.] him, saying: 'My son, do not take thee a wife of the daughters of Canaan, as Esau, thy

�� brother, who took him two wives of the daughters of Canaan, and they have embittered my soul with

�� all their unclean deeds: for all their deeds are fornication and lust, and there is no righteousness with

�� them,

�� 2 for (their deeds) are evil. And I, my son, love thee exceedingly, and my heart and my affection

�� 3 bless thee every hour of the day and watch of the night. And now, my son, hearken to my voice,

�� and do the will of thy mother, and do not take thee a wife of the daughters of this land, but only of

�� the house of my father, and of my father's kindred. Thou shalt take thee a wife of the house of my

�� father, and the Most High God will bless thee, and thy children shall be a righteous generation and

�� 4 a holy seed.' And then spake Jacob to Rebecca, his mother, and said unto her: 'Behold, mother, I

�� am nine weeks of years old, and I neither know nor have I touched any woman, nor have I

�� betrothed

�� 5 myself to any, nor even think of taking me a wife of the daughters of Canaan. For I remember,

�� mother, the words of Abraham, our father, for he commanded me not to take a wife of the daughters

�� 6 of Canaan, but to take me a wife from the seed of my father's house and from my kindred. I have

�� heard before that daughters have been born to Laban, thy brother, and I have set my heart on them

�� 7 to take a wife from amongst them. And for this reason I have guarded myself in my spirit against

�� sinning or being corrupted in all my ways throughout all the days of my life; for with regard to lust

�� 8 and fornication, Abraham, my father, gave me many commands. And, despite all that he has

�� commanded me, these two and twenty years my brother has striven with me, and spoken frequently

�� to me and said: 'My brother, take to wife a sister of my two wives'; but I refuse to do as he has

�� done.

�� 9 I swear before thee, mother, that all the days of my life I will not take me a wife from the daughters

�� 10 of the seed of Canaan, and I will not act wickedly as my brother has done. Fear not, mother; be

�� 11 assured that I shall do thy will and walk in uprightness, and not corrupt my ways for ever.' And

�� thereupon she lifted up her face to heaven and extended the fingers of her hands, and opened her

�� mouth and blessed the Most High God, who had created the heaven and the earth, and she gave

�� Him

�� 12 thanks and praise. And she said: 'Blessed be the Lord God, and may His holy name be blessed

�� for ever and ever, who has given me Jacob as a pure son and a holy seed; for he is Thine, and Thine

�� 13 shall his seed be continually and throughout all the generations for evermore. Bless him, O Lord,

�� 14 and place in my mouth the blessing of righteousness, that I may bless him.' And at that hour, when

�� the spirit of righteousness descended into her mouth, she placed both her hands on the head of

�� Jacob, and said:

�� 15 Blessed art thou, Lord of righteousness and God of the ages

�� And may He bless thee beyond all the generations of men.

�� May He give thee, my Son, the path of righteousness,

�� And reveal righteousness to thy seed.

�� 16 And may He make thy sons many during thy life,

�� And may they arise according to the number of the months of the year.

�� And may their sons become many and great beyond the stars of heaven,

�� And their numbers be more than the sand of the sea.

�� 17 And may He give them this goodly land ‑as He said He would give it to Abraham and to his seed

�� after him alway‑

�� And may they hold it as a possession for ever.

�� 18 And may I see (born) unto thee, my son, blessed children during my life,

�� And a blessed and holy seed may all thy seed be.

�� 19 And as thou hast refreshed thy mother's spirit during her life,

�� The womb of her that bare thee blesses thee thus,

�� [My affection] and my breasts bless thee

�� And my mouth and my tongue praise thee greatly.

�� 20 Increase and spread over the earth,

�� And may thy seed be perfect in the joy of heaven and earth for ever;

�� And may thy seed rejoice,

�� And on the great day of peace may it have peace.

�� 21 And may thy name and thy seed endure to all the ages,

�� And may the Most High God be their God,

�� And may the God of righteousness dwell with them,

�� And by them may His sanctuary be built unto all the ages.

�� 22 Blessed be he that blesseth thee,

�� And all flesh that curseth thee falsely, may it be cursed.'

�� 23 And she kissed him, and said to him;

�� 'May the Lord of the world love thee

�� As the heart of thy mother and her affection rejoice in thee and bless thee.'

�� And she ceased from blessing.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 26]

�� 1 And in the seventh year of this week Isaac called Esau, his elder Son, and said unto him: ' I am

�� [2114 A.M.]

�� 2 old, my son, and behold my eyes are dim in seeing, and I know not the day of my death. And now

�� take thy hunting weapons thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and hunt and catch me

�� (venison), my son, and make me savoury meat, such as my soul loveth, and bring it to me that I may

�� 3 eat, and that my soul may bless thee before I die.' But Rebecca heard Isaac speaking to Esau.

�� 4,5 And Esau went forth early to the field to hunt and catch and bring home to his father. And

�� Rebecca called Jacob, her son, and said unto him: 'Behold, I heard Isaac, thy father, speak unto

�� Esau, thy brother, saying: "Hunt for me, and make me savoury meat, and bring (it) to me that

�� 6 I may eat and bless thee before the Lord before I die." And now, my son, obey my voice in that

�� which I command thee: Go to thy flock and fetch me two good kids of the goats, and I will make

�� them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loves, and thou shalt bring (it) to thy father that he

�� 7 may eat and bless thee before the Lord before he die, and that thou mayst be blessed.' And Jacob

�� said to Rebecca his mother: 'Mother, I shall not withhold anything which my father would eat, and

�� which would please him: only I fear, my mother, that he will recognise my voice and wish to touch

�� 8 me. And thou knowest that I am smooth, and Esau, my brother, is hairy, and I shall appear before

�� his eyes as an evildoer, and shall do a deed which he had not commanded me, and he will be

�� 9 wroth with me, and I shall bring upon myself a curse, and not a blessing.' And Rebecca, his

�� 10 mother, said unto him: 'Upon me be thy curse, my son, only obey my voice.' And Jacob obeyed

�� the voice of Rebecca, his mother, and went and fetched two good and fat kids of the goats, and

�� 11 brought them to his mother, and his mother made them ~savoury meat~ such as he loved. And

�� Rebecca took the goodly rainment of Esau, her elder son, which was with her in the house, and she

�� clothed Jacob, her younger son, (with them), and she put the skins of the kids upon his hands and on

�� 12 the exposed parts of his neck. And she gave the meat and the bread which she had prepared into

�� 13 the hand of her son Jacob. And Jacob went in to his father and said: 'I am thy son: I have done

�� according as thou badest me: arise and sit and eat of that which I have caught, father, that thy soul

�� 14,15 may bless me.' And Isaac said to his son: 'How hast thou found so quickly, my son? 'And

�� Jacob

�� 16 said: 'Because (the Lord thy God caused me to find.' And Isaac said unto him: Come near, that

�� 17 I may feel thee, my son, if thou art my son Esau or not.' And Jacob went near to Isaac, his father,

�� 18 and he felt him and said: 'The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau,' and he

�� discerned him not, because it was a dispensation from heaven to remove his power of perception

�� and

�� 19 Isaac discerned not, for his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's, so that he blessed him. And

�� he said: 'Art thou my son Esau? ' and he said: 'I am thy son': and he said, 'Bring near to me that

�� 20 I may eat of that which thou hast caught, my son, that my soul may bless thee.' And he brought

�� 21 near to him, and he did eat, and he brought him wine and he drank. And Isaac, his father, said

�� unto

�� 22 him: 'Come near and kiss me, my son. And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the

�� smell of his raiment, and he blessed him and said: 'Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a

�� (full) field which the Lord hath blessed.

�� 23 And may the Lord give thee of the dew of heaven

�� And of the dew of the earth, and plenty of corn and oil:

�� Let nations serve thee,

�� And peoples bow down to thee.

�� 24 Be lord over thy brethren,

�� And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee;

�� And may all the blessings wherewith the Lord hath blessed me and blessed Abraham, my father;

�� Be imparted to thee and to thy seed for ever:

�� Cursed be he that curseth thee,

�� And blessed be he that blesseth thee.'

�� 25 And it came to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing his son Jacob, and Jacob had

�� gone

�� 26 forth from Isaac his father he hid himself and Esau, his brother, came in from his hunting. And he

�� also made savoury meat, and brought (it) to his father, and said unto his father: 'Let my father

�� 27 arise, and eat of my venison that thy soul may bless me.' And Isaac, his father, said unto him:

�� 'Who art thou? 'And he said unto him: 'I am thy first born, thy son Esau: I have done as thou hast

�� 28 commanded me.' And Isaac was very greatly astonished, and said: 'Who is he that hath hunted

�� and caught and brought (it) to me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him:

�� 29 (and) he shall be blessed, and all his seed for ever.' And it came to pass when Esau heard the

�� words of his father Isaac that he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said unto his father:

�� 30 'Bless me, (even) me also, father.' And he said unto him: 'Thy brother came with guile, and hath

�� taken away thy blessing.' And he said: 'Now I know why his name is named Jacob: behold, he hath

�� supplanted me these two times: he took away my birth‑right, and now he hath taken away

�� 31 my blessing.' And he said: 'Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me, father?' and Isaac answered

�� and said unto Esau:

�� 31 'Behold, I have made him thy lord,

�� And all his brethren have I given to him for servants,

�� And with plenty of corn and wine and oil have I strengthened him:

�� And what now shall I do for thee, my son?'

�� 32 And Esau said to Isaac, his father:

�� 'Hast thou but one blessing, O father?

�� Bless me, (even) me also, father: '

�� 33 And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

�� And Isaac answered and said unto him:

�� 'Behold, far from the dew of the earth shall be thy dwelling,

�� And far from the dew of heaven from above.

�� 34 And by thy sword wilt thou live,

�� And thou wilt serve thy brother.

�� And it shall come to pass when thou becomest great,

�� And dost shake his yoke from off thy neck,

�� Thou shalt sin a complete sin unto death,

�� And thy seed shall be rooted out from under heaven.'

�� 35 And Esau kept threatening Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him, and

�� he: said in his heart: 'May the days of mourning for my father now come, so that I may slay my

�� brother Jacob.'

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 27]

�� 1 And the words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebecca in a dream, and Rebecca sent and

�� 2 called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him: 'Behold Esau thy brother will take vengeance on

�� 3 thee so as to kill thee. Now, therefore, my son, obey my voice, and arise and flee thou to Laban,

�� my brother, to Haran, and tarry with him a few days until thy brother's anger turns away, and he

�� remove his anger from thee, and forget all that thou hast done; then I will send and fetch thee from

�� 4,5 thence.' And Jacob said: 'I am not afraid; if he wishes to kill me, I will kill him.' But she said

�� 6 unto him: 'Let me not be bereft of both my sons on one day.' And Jacob said to Rebecca his

�� mother: 'Behold, thou knowest that my father has become old, and does not see because his eyes

�� are dull, and if I leave him it will be evil in his eyes, because I leave him and go away from you, and

�� my father will be angry, and will curse me. I will not go; when he sends me, then only will I go.'

�� 7,8 And Rebecca said to Jacob: 'I will go in and speak to him, and he will send thee away.' And

�� Rebecca went in and said to Isaac: 'I loathe my life because of the two daughters of Heth, whom

�� Esau has taken him as wives; and if Jacob take a wife from among the daughters of the land such

�� 9 as these, for what purpose do I further live, for the daughters of Canaan are evil.' And Isaac called

�� 10 Jacob and blessed him, and admonished him and said unto him: 'Do not take thee a wife of any of

�� the daughters of Canaan; arise and go to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel, thy mother's father,

�� 11 and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother. And God

�� Almighty bless thee and increase and multiply thee that thou mayest become a company of nations,

�� and give thee the blessings of my father Abraham, to thee and to thy seed after thee, that thou

�� mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings and all the land which God gave to Abraham: go, my

�� 12 son, in peace.' And Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Mesopotamia, to Laban the son of

�� 13 Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca, Jacob's mother. And it came to pass after Jacob had

�� 14 arisen to go to Mesopotamia that the spirit of Rebecca was grieved after her son, and she wept.

�� And Isaac said to Rebecca: 'My sister, weep not on account of Jacob, my son; for he goeth in

�� peace, and

�� 15 in peace will he return. The Most High God will preserve him from all evil, and will be with him;

�� 16 for He will not forsake him all his days; For I know that his ways will be prospered in all things

�� 17 wherever he goes, until he return in peace to us, and we see him in peace. Fear not on his

�� account, my sister, for he is on the upright path and he is a perfect man: and he is faithful and will not

�� perish.

�� 18,19 Weep not.' And Isaac comforted Rebecca on account of her son Jacob, and blessed him.

�� And Jacob went from the Well of the Oath to go to Haran on the first year of the second week in the

�� forty‑fourth jubilee, and he came to Luz on the mountains, that is, Bethel, on the new moon of the

�� first month of this week, [2115 A.M.] and he came to the place at even and turned from the way to

�� the west of the

�� 20 road that night: and he slept there; for the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that

�� 21 place and laid it at his head under the tree, and he was journeying alone, and he slept. And he

�� dreamt that night, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven, and

�� behold, the angels of the Lord ascended and descended on it: and behold, the Lord stood upon it.

�� 22 And he spake to Jacob and said: 'I am the Lord God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of

�� 23 Isaac; the land whereon thou art sleeping, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee. And thy

�� seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt increase to the west and to the east, to the

�� 24 north and the south, and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the nations be blessed.

�� And behold, I will be with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and I will bring thee

�� again into this land in peace; for I will not leave thee until I do everything that I told thee of.'

�� 25 And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and said, 'Truly this place is the house of the Lord, and I knew

�� it not.' And he was afraid and said: 'Dreadful is this place which is none other than the house of

�� 26 God, and this is the gate of heaven.' And Jacob arose early in the morning, and took the stone

�� which he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar for a sign, and he poured oil upon the top of

�� it. And he called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of the place was Luz at the first.

�� 27 And Jacob vowed a vow unto the Lord, saying: 'If the Lord will be with me, and will keep me in

�� this way that I go, and give me bread to eat and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my

�� father's house in peace, then shall the Lord be my God, and this stone which I have set up as a pillar

�� for a sign in this place, shall be the Lord's house, and of all that thou givest me, I shall give the tenth

�� to thee, my God.'

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 28]

�� 1 And he went on his journey, and came to the land of the east, to Laban, the brother of Rebecca,

�� 2 and he was with him, and served him for Rachel his daughter one week. And in the first year of the

�� third week [2122 A.M.] he said unto him: 'Give me my wife, for whom I have served thee seven

�� years '; and

�� 3 Laban said unto Jacob: 'I will give thee thy wife.' And Laban made a feast, and took Leah his

�� elder daughter, and gave (her) to Jacob as a wife, and gave her Zilpah his handmaid for an hand‑

�� 4 maid; and Jacob did not know, for he thought that she was Rachel. And he went in unto her, and

�� behold, she was Leah; and Jacob was angry with Laban, and said unto him: 'Why hast thou dealt

�� thus with me? Did not I serve thee for Rachel and not for Leah? Why hast thou wronged me?

�� 5 Take thy daughter, and I will go; for thou hast done evil to me.' For Jacob loved Rachel more than

�� Leah; for Leah's eyes were weak, but her form was very handsome; but Rachel had beautiful

�� 6 eyes and a beautiful and very handsome form. And Laban said to Jacob: 'It is not so done in our

�� country, to give the younger before the elder.' And it is not right to do this; for thus it is ordained and

�� written in the heavenly tablets, that no one should give his younger daughter before the elder; but the

�� elder, one gives first and after her the younger ‑and the man who does so, they set down guilt against

�� him in heaven, and none is righteous that does this thing, for this deed is evil before the

�� 7 Lord. And command thou the children of Israel that they do not this thing; let them neither take

�� 8 nor give the younger before they have given the elder, for it is very wicked. And Laban said to

�� Jacob: 'Let the seven days of the feast of this one pass by, and I shall give thee Rachel, that thou

�� mayst serve me another seven years, that thou mayst pasture my sheep as thou didst in the former

�� week.' And on the day when the seven days of the feast of Leah had passed, Laban gave Rachel to

�� Jacob, that he might serve him another seven years, and he gave to Rachel Bilhah, the sister of

�� 10 Zilpah, as a handmaid. And he served yet other seven years for Rachel, for Leah had been given

�� 11 to him for nothing. And the Lord opened the womb of Leah, and she conceived and bare Jacob

�� a son, and he called his name Reuben, on the fourteenth day of the ninth month, in the first year of

�� 12 the third week. [2122 A.M.] But the womb of Rachel was closed, for the Lord saw that Leah

�� was hated and

�� 13 Rachel loved. And again Jacob went in unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob a second

�� son, and he called his name Simeon, on the twenty‑first of the tenth month, and in the third year of

�� this

�� 14 week. [2124 A.M.] And again Jacob went in unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare him a third

�� son, and he

�� 15 called his name Levi, in the new moon of the first month in the sixth year of this week. [2127

�� A.M.] And again Jacob went in unto her, and she conceived, and bare him a fourth son, and he

�� called his name Judah,

�� 16 on the fifteenth of the third month, in the first year of the fourth week. [2129 A.M.] And on

�� account of all this Rachel envied Leah, for she did not bear, and she said to Jacob: 'Give me

�� children'; and Jacob

�� 17 said: 'Have I withheld from thee the fruits of thy womb? Have I forsaken thee?' And when Rachel

�� saw that Leah had borne four sons to Jacob, Reuben and Simeon and Levi and Judah, she said unto

�� 18 him: 'Go in unto Bilhah my handmaid, and she will conceive, and bear a son unto me.' (And she

��gave (him) Bilhah her handmaid to wife). And he went in unto her, and she conceived, and bare him

�� a son, and he called his name Dan, on the ninth of the sixth month, in the sixth year of the

�� 19 third week. [2127 A.M.] And Jacob went in again unto Bilhah a second time, and she conceived,

�� and bare Jacob another son, and Rachel called his name Napthali, on the fifth of the seventh month,

�� in the

�� 20 second year of the fourth week. [2130 A.M.] And when Leah saw that she had become sterile

�� and did not bear, she envied Rachel, and she also gave her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob to wife, and

�� she conceived, and bare a son, and Leah called his name Gad, on the twelfth of the eighth month, in

�� the third year of

�� 21 the fourth week. [2131 A.M.] And he went in again unto her, and she conceived, and bare him a

�� second son, and Leah called his name Asher, on the second of the eleventh month, in the fifth year of

�� the fourth

�� 22 week. [2133 A.M.] And Jacob went in unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare a son, and she

�� called his name Issachar, on the fourth of the fifth month, in the fourth year of the fourth week,[2132

�� A.M.] and she gave him

�� 23 to a nurse. And Jacob went in again unto her, and she conceived, and bare two (children), a son

�� and a daughter, and she called the name of the son Zabulon, and the name of the daughter Dinah,

�� 24 in the seventh of the seventh month, in the sixth year of the fourth week. [2134 A.M.] And the

�� Lord was gracious to Rachel, and opened her womb, and she conceived, and bare a son, and she

�� called his

�� 25 name Joseph, on the new moon of the fourth month, in the sixth year in this fourth week. [2134

�� A.M.] And in the days when Joseph was born, Jacob said to Laban: 'Give me my wives and sons,

�� and let me go to my father Isaac, and let me make me an house; for I have completed the years in

�� which I

�� 26 have served thee for thy two daughters, and I will go to the house of my father.' And Laban said

�� to Jacob: 'Tarry with me for thy wages, and pasture my flock for me again, and take thy wages.'

�� 27 And they agreed with one another that he should give him as his wages those of the lambs and

�� kids

�� 28 which were born black and spotted and white, (these) were to be his wages. And all the sheep

�� brought forth spotted and speckled and black, variously marked, and they brought forth again lambs

�� like themselves, and all that were spotted were Jacob's and those which were not were

�� 29 Laban's. And Jacob's possessions multiplied exceedingly, and he possessed oxen and sheep and

�� 30 asses and camels, and menservants and maid‑servants. And Laban and his sons envied Jacob,

�� and Laban took back his sheep from him, and he observed him with evil intent.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 29]

��1 And it came to pass when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Laban went to shear his sheep; for they

�� 2 were distant from him a three days' journey. And Jacob saw that Laban was going to shear his

�� sheep, and Jacob called Leah and Rachel, and spake kindly unto them that they should come with

�� 3 him to the land of Canaan. For he told them how he had seen everything in a dream, even all that

�� He had spoken unto him that he should return to his father's house, and they said: 'To every place

�� 4 whither thou goest we will go with thee.' And Jacob blessed the God of Isaac his father, and the

�� God of Abraham his father's father, and he arose and mounted his wives and his children, and took

�� all his possessions and crossed the river, and came to the land of Gilead, and Jacob hid his intention

�� 5 from Laban and told him not. And in the seventh year of the fourth week Jacob turned (his face)

�� toward Gilead in the first month, on the twenty‑first thereof. [2135 A.M.] And Laban pursued after

�� him and

�� 6 overtook Jacob in the mountain of Gilead in the third month, on the thirteenth thereof. And the

�� Lord did not suffer him to injure Jacob; for he appeared to him in a dream by night. And Laban

�� 7 spake to Jacob. And on the fifteenth of those days Jacob made a feast for Laban, and for all who

�� came with him, and Jacob sware to Laban that day, and Laban also to Jacob, that neither should

�� 8 cross the mountain of Gilead to the other with evil purpose. And he made there a heap for

�� 9 a witness; wherefore the name of that place is called: 'The Heap of Witness,' after this heap. But

�� before they used to call the land of Gilead the land of the Rephaim; for it was the land of the

�� Rephaim, and the Rephaim were born (there), giants whose height was ten, nine, eight down to

�� 10 seven cubits. And their habitation was from the land of the children of Ammon to Mount Hermon,

�� 11 and the seats of their kingdom were Karnaim and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, and Misur, and Beon.

�� And the Lord destroyed them because of the evil of their deeds; for they were very malignant, and

�� the Amorites dwelt in their stead, wicked and sinful, and there is no people to‑day which has

�� wrought

�� 12 to the full all their sins, and they have no longer length of life on the earth. And Jacob sent away

�� Laban, and he departed into Mesopotamia, the land of the East, and Jacob returned to the land of

�� 13 Gilead. And he passed over the Jabbok in the ninth month, on the eleventh thereof. And on that

�� day Esau, his brother, came to him, and he was reconciled to him, and departed from him unto

�� 14 the land of Seir, but Jacob dwelt in tents. And in the first year of the fifth week in this jubilee

�� [2136 A.M.] he crossed the Jordan, and dwelt beyond the Jordan, and he pastured his sheep from

�� the sea of the

�� 15 heap unto Bethshan, and unto Dothan and unto the forest of Akrabbim. And he sent to his father

�� Isaac of all his substance, clothing, and food, and meat, and drink, and milk, and butter, and

�� 16 cheese, and some dates of the valley. And to his mother Rebecca also four times a year, between

�� the times of the months, between ploughing and reaping, and between autumn and the rain (season)

�� 17 and between winter and spring, to the tower of Abraham. For Isaac had returned from the Well

�� of the Oath and gone up to the tower of his father Abraham, and he dwelt there apart from his son

�� 18 Esau. For in the days when Jacob went to Mesopotamia, Esau took to himself a wife Mahalath,

�� the daughter of Ishmael, and he gathered together all the flocks of his father and his wives, and went

�� 19 Up and dwelt on Mount Seir, and left Isaac his father at the Well of the Oath alone. And Isaac

�� went up from the Well of the Oath and dwelt in the tower of Abraham his father on the mountains

�� 20 of Hebron, And thither Jacob sent all that he did send to his father and his mother from time to

�� time, all they needed, and they blessed Jacob with all their heart and with all their soul.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 30]

�� 1 And in the first year of the sixth week [2143 A.M.] he went up to Salem, to the east of Shechem,

�� in peace, in

�� 2 the fourth month. And there they carried off Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, into the house of

�� Shechem, the son of Hamor, the Hivite, the prince of the land, and he lay with her and defiled her,

�� 3 and she was a little girl, a child of twelve years. And he besought his father and her brothers that

�� she might be given to him to wife. And Jacob and his sons were wroth because of the men of

�� Shechem; for they had defiled Dinah, their sister, and they spake to them with evil intent and dealt

�� 4 deceitfully with them and beguiled them. And Simeon and Levi came unexpectedly to Shechem

�� and executed judgment on all the men of Shechem, and slew all the men whom they found in it, and

�� left not a single one remaining in it: they slew all in torments because they had dishonoured

�� 5 their sister Dinah. And thus let it not again be done from henceforth that a daughter of Israel be

�� defiled; for judgment is ordained in heaven against them that they should destroy with the sword

�� 6 all the men of the Shechemites because they had wrought shame in Israel. And the Lord delivered

�� them into the hands of the sons of Jacob that they might exterminate them with the sword and

�� execute judgment upon them, and that it might not thus again be done in Israel that a virgin of

�� 7 Israel should be defiled. And if there is any man who wishes in Israel to give his daughter or his

�� sister to any man who is of the seed of the Gentiles he shall surely die, and they shall stone him with

�� stones; for he hath wrought shame in Israel; and they shall burn the woman with fire, because

�� 8 she has dishonoured the name of the house of her father, and she shall be rooted out of Israel. And

�� let not an adulteress and no uncleanness be found in Israel throughout all the days of the generations

�� of the earth; for Israel is holy unto the Lord, and every man who has defiled (it) shall surely die:

�� 9 they shall stone him with stones. For thus has it been ordained and written in the heavenly tablets

�� regarding all the seed of Israel: he who defileth (it) shall surely die, and he shall be stoned with

�� 10 stones. And to this law there is no limit of days, and no remission, nor any atonement: but the man

�� who has defiled his daughter shall be rooted out in the midst of all Israel, because he has given

�� 11 of his seed to Moloch, and wrought impiously so as to defile it. And do thou, Moses, command

��the children of Israel and exhort them not to give their daughters to the Gentiles, and not to take for

�� 12 their sons any of the daughters of the Gentiles, for this is abominable before the Lord. For this

�� reason I have written for thee in the words of the Law all the deeds of the Shechemites, which they

�� wrought against Dinah, and how the sons of Jacob spake, saying: 'We will not give our daughter

�� 13 to a man who is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us.' And it is a reproach to Israel,

�� to those who live, and to those that take the daughters of the Gentiles; for this is unclean and

�� 14 abominable to Israel. And Israel will not be free from this uncleanness if it has a wife of the

�� daughters of the Gentiles, or has given any of its daughters to a man who is of any of the Gentiles.

�� 15 For there will be plague upon plague, and curse upon curse, and every judgment and plague and

�� curse will come upon him: if he do this thing, or hide his eyes from those who commit uncleanness, or

�� those who defile the sanctuary of the Lord, or those who profane His holy name, (then) will the

�� 16 whole nation together be judged for all the uncleanness and profanation of this man. And there

�� will be no respect of persons [and no consideration of persons] and no receiving at his hands of fruits

�� and offerings and burnt‑offerings and fat, nor the fragrance of sweet savour, so as to accept it: and

�� 17 so fare every man or woman in Israel who defiles the sanctuary. For this reason I have

�� commanded thee, saying: 'Testify this testimony to Israel: see how the Shechemites fared and their

�� sons: how they were delivered into the hands of two sons of Jacob, and they slew them under

�� tortures, and it

�� 18 was (reckoned) unto them for righteousness, and it is written down to them for righteousness.

�� And the seed of Levi was chosen for the priesthood, and to be Levites, that they might minister

�� before the Lord, as we, continually, and that Levi and his sons may be blessed for ever; for he was

�� zealous

�� 19 to execute righteousness and judgment and vengeance on all those who arose against Israel. And

�� so they inscribe as a testimony in his favour on the heavenly tablets blessing and righteousness before

�� 20 the God of all: And we remember the righteousness which the man fulfilled during his life, at all

�� periods of the year; until a thousand generations they will record it, and it will come to him and to his

�� descendants after him, and he has been recorded on the heavenly tablets as a friend and a righteous

�� 21 man. All this account I have written for thee, and have commanded thee to say to the children of

�� Israel, that they should not commit sin nor transgress the ordinances nor break the covenant which

�� 22 has been ordained for them, (but) that they should fulfil it and be recorded as friends. But if they

�� transgress and work uncleanness in every way, they will be recorded on the heavenly tablets as

�� adversaries, and they will be destroyed out of the book of life, and they will be recorded in the book

�� of

�� 23 those who will be destroyed and with those who will be rooted out of the earth. And on the day

�� when the sons of Jacob slew Shechem a writing was recorded in their favour in heaven that they had

�� executed righteousness and uprightness and vengeance on the sinners, and it was written for a

�� blessing.

�� 24 And they brought Dinah, their sister, out of the house of Shechem, and they took captive

�� everything that was in Shechem, their sheep and their oxen and their asses, and all their wealth, and

�� all their

�� 25 flocks, and brought them all to Jacob their father. And he reproached them because they had put

�� the city to the sword for he feared those who dwelt in the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

�� 26 And the dread of the Lord was upon all the cities which are around about Shechem, and they did

�� not rise to pursue after the sons of Jacob; for terror had fallen upon them.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 31]

�� 1 And on the new moon of the month Jacob spake to all the people of his house. saying: 'Purify

�� yourselves and change your garments, and let us arise and go up to Bethel, where I vowed a vow to

�� Him on the day when I fled from the face of Esau my brother, because he has been with me and

�� 2 brought me into this land in peace, and put ye away the strange gods that arc among you.' And

�� they gave up the strange gods and that which was in their ears and which was on their necks and the

�� idols which Rachel stole from Laban her father she gave wholly to Jacob. And he burnt and brake

�� them to pieces and destroyed them, and hid them under an oak which is in the land of

�� 3 Shechem. And he went up on the new moon of the seventh month to Bethel. And he built an altar

�� at the place where he had slept, and he set up a pillar there, and he sent word to his father

�� 4 Isaac to come to him to his sacrifice, and to his mother Rebecca. And Isaac said: 'Let my son

�� 5 Jacob come, and let me see him before I die.' And Jacob went to his father Isaac and to his

�� mother Rebecca, to the house of his father Abraham, and he took two of his sons with him, Levi and

�� Judah, and he came to his father Isaac and to his mother Rebecca.

�� 6 And Rebecca came forth from the tower to the front of it to kiss Jacob and embrace him; for her

�� spirit had revived when she heard: 'Behold Jacob thy son has come'; and she kissed

�� 7 him. And she saw his two sons, and she recognised them, and said unto him: 'Are these thy sons,

�� my son?' and she embraced them and kissed them, and blessed them, saying: 'In you shall the

�� 8 seed of Abraham become illustrious, and ye shall prove a blessing on the earth.' And Jacob went

�� in to Isaac his father, to the chamber where he lay, and his two sons were with him, and he took the

�� hand of his father, and stooping down he kissed him, and Isaac clung to the neck of Jacob his son,

�� 9 and wept upon his neck. And the darkness left the eyes of Isaac, and he saw the two sons of

�� Jacob,

�� 10 Levi, and Judah, and he said: 'Are these thy sons, my son? for they are like thee.' And he said

�� unto him that they were truly his sons: 'And thou hast truly seen that they are truly my sons'.

�� 11 And they came near to him, and he turned and kissed them and embraced them both together.

�� 12 And the spirit of prophecy came down into his mouth, and he took Levi by his right hand and

�� 13 Judah by his left. And he turned to Levi first, and began to bless him first, and said unto him:

�� May the God of all, the very Lord of all the ages, bless thee and thy children throughout all the

�� 14 ages. And may the Lord give to thee and to thy seed greatness and great glory, and cause thee

�� and thy seed, from among all flesh, to approach Him to serve in His sanctuary as the angels of the

�� presence and as the holy ones. (Even) as they, shall the seed of thy sons be for glory and greatness

�� 15 and holiness, and may He make them great unto all the ages. And they shall be judges and

�� princes, and chiefs of all the seed of the sons of Jacob;

�� They shall speak the word of the Lord in righteousness,

�� And they shall judge all His judgments in righteousness.

�� And they shall declare My ways to Jacob

�� And My paths to Israel.

�� The blessing of the Lord shall be given in their mouths

�� To bless all the seed of the beloved.

�� 16 Thy mother has called thy name Levi,

�� And justly has she called thy name;

�� Thou shalt be joined to the Lord

�� And be the companion of all the sons of Jacob;

�� Let His table be thine,

�� And do thou and thy sons eat thereof;

�� And may thy table be full unto all generations,

�� And thy food fail not unto all the ages.

�� 17 And let all who hate thee fall down before thee,

�� And let all thy adversaries be rooted out and perish;

�� And blessed be he that blesses thee,

�� And cursed be every nation that curses thee.'

�� 18 And to Judah he said:

�� 'May the Lord give thee strength and power

�� To tread down all that hate thee;

�� A prince shalt thou be, thou and one of thy sons, over the sons of Jacob;

�� May thy name and the name of thy sons go forth and traverse every land and region.

�� Then shall the Gentiles fear before thy face,

�� And all the nations shall quake

��[And all the peoples shall quake].

�� In thee shall be the help of Jacob,

�� And in thee be found the salvation of Israel.

�� 20 And when thou sittest on the throne of honour of thy righteousness

�� There shall be great peace for all the seed of the sons of the beloved;

�� Blessed be he that blesseth thee,

�� And all that hate thee and afflict thee and curse thee

�� Shall be rooted out and destroyed from the earth and be accursed.'

�� 21 And turning he kissed him again and embraced him, and rejoiced greatly; for he had seen the

�� 22 sons of Jacob his son in very truth. And he went forth from between his feet and fell down and

�� bowed down to him, and he blessed them and rested there with Isaac his father that night, and they

�� 23 eat and drank with joy. And he made the two sons of Jacob sleep, the one on his right hand and

�� the

�� 24 other on his left, and it was counted to him for righteousness. And Jacob told his father everything

�� during the night, how the Lord had shown him great mercy, and how he had prospered (him in) all

�� 25 his ways, and protected him from all evil. And Isaac blessed the God of his father Abraham, who

�� 26 had not withdrawn his mercy and his righteousness from the sons of his servant Isaac. And in the

�� morning Jacob told his father Isaac the vow which he had vowed to the Lord, and the vision which

�� he had seen, and that he had built an altar, and that everything was ready for the sacrifice to be

�� 27 made before the Lord as he had vowed, and that he had come to set him on an ass. And Isaac

�� said unto Jacob his son: 'I am not able to go with thee; for I am old and not able to bear the way: go,

�� my son, in peace; for I am one hundred and sixty‑five years this day; I am no longer able to

�� 28 journey; set thy mother (on an ass) and let her go with thee. And I know, my son, that thou hast

�� come on my account, and may this day be blessed on which thou hast seen me alive, and I also have

�� 29 seen thee, my son. Mayest thou prosper and fulfil the vow which thou hast vowed; and put not

�� off thy vow; for thou shalt be called to account as touching the vow; now therefore make haste to

�� perform it, and may He be pleased who has made all things, to whom thou hast vowed the vow.'

�� 30 And he said to Rebecca: 'Go with Jacob thy son'; and Rebecca went with Jacob her son, and

�� 31 Deborah with her, and they came to Bethel. And Jacob remembered the prayer with which his

�� father had blessed him and his two sons, Levi and Judah, and he rejoiced and blessed the God of his

�� 32 fathers, Abraham and Isaac. And he said: 'Now I know that I have an eternal hope, and my sons

�� also, before the God of all'; and thus is it ordained concerning the two; and they record it as an

�� eternal testimony unto them on the heavenly tablets how Isaac blessed them.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 32]

�� 1 And he abode that night at Bethel, and Levi dreamed that they had ordained and made him the

�� priest of the Most High God, him and his sons for ever; and he awoke from his sleep and blessed

�� 2 the Lord. And Jacob rose early in the morning, on the fourteenth of this month, and he gave a tithe

�� of all that came with him, both of men and cattle, both of gold and every vessel and garment,

�� 3 yea, he gave tithes of all. And in those days Rachel became pregnant with her son Benjamin. And

�� Jacob counted his sons from him upwards and Levi fell to the portion of the Lord, and his

�� 4 father clothed him in the garments of the priesthood and filled his hands. And on the fifteenth of this

�� month, he brought to the altar fourteen oxen from amongst the cattle, and twenty‑eight rams, and

�� forty‑nine sheep, and seven lambs, and twenty‑one kids of the goats as a burnt‑offering on the

�� 5 altar of sacrifice, well pleasing for a sweet savour before God. This was his offering, in

�� consequence of the vow which he had vowed that he would give a tenth, with their fruit‑offerings and

�� their drink‑

��6 offerings. And when the fire had consumed it, he burnt incense on the fire over the fire, and for a

�� thank‑offering two oxen and four rams and four sheep, four he‑goats, and two sheep of a year old,

�� 7 and two kids of the goats; and thus he did daily for seven days. And he and all his sons and his

�� men were eating (this) with joy there during seven days and blessing and thanking the Lord, who

�� 8 had delivered him out of all his tribulation and had given him his vow. And he tithed all the clean

�� animals, and made a burnt sacrifice, but the unclean animals he gave (not) to Levi his son, and he

�� 9 gave him all the souls of the men And Levi discharged the priestly office at Bethel before Jacob his

�� father in preference to his ten brothers, and he was a priest there, and Jacob gave his vow: thus

�� 10 he tithed again the tithe to the Lord and sanctified it, and it became holy unto Him. And for this

�� reason it is ordained on the heavenly tablets as a law for the tithing again the tithe to eat before the

�� Lord from year to year, in the place where it is chosen that His name should dwell, and to this law

�� 11 there is no limit of days for ever. This ordinance is written that it may be fulfilled from year to year

�� in eating the second tithe before the Lord in the place where it has been chosen, and nothing

�� 12 shall remain over from it from this year to the year following. For in its year shall the seed be

�� eaten till the days of the gathering of the seed of the year, and the wine till the days of the wine,

�� 13 and the oil till the days of its season. And all that is left thereof and becomes old, let it be

�� regarded

�� 14 as polluted: let it be burnt with fire, for it is unclean. And thus let them eat it together in the

�� 15 sanctuary, and let them not suffer it to become old. And all the tithes of the oxen and sheep shall

�� be holy unto the Lord, and shall belong to his priests, which they will eat before Him from year to

�� 16 year; for thus is it ordained and engraven regarding the tithe on the heavenly tablets. And on the

�� following night, on the twenty‑second day of this month, Jacob resolved to build that place, and to

�� surround the court with a wall, and to sanctify it and make it holy for ever, for himself and his

�� children

�� 17 after him. And the Lord appeared to him by night and blessed him and said unto him: 'Thy name

�� 18 shall not be called Jacob, but Israel shall they name thy name.' And He said unto him again: 'I am

�� the Lord who created the heaven and the earth, and I will increase thee and multiply thee

�� exceedingly, and kings shall come forth from thee, and they shall judge everywhere wherever the

�� foot

�� 19 of the sons of men has trodden. And I will give to thy seed all the earth which is under heaven,

�� and they shall judge all the nations according to their desires, and after that they shall get possession

�� 20 of the whole earth and inherit it for ever.' And He finished speaking with him, and He went up

�� 21 from him. and Jacob looked till He had ascended into heaven. And he saw in a vision of the night,

�� and behold an angel descended from heaven with seven tablets in his hands, and he gave them to

�� Jacob, and he read them and knew all that was written therein which would befall him and his sons

�� 21 throughout all the ages. And he showed him all that was written on the tablets, and said unto him:

�� 'Do not build this place, and do not make it an eternal sanctuary, and do not dwell here; for this is

�� not the place. Go to the house of Abraham thy father and dwell with Isaac thy father until the day

�� 23 of the death of thy father. For in Egypt thou shalt die in peace, and in this land thou shalt be

�� buried

�� 24 with honour in the sepulchre of thy fathers, with Abraham and Isaac. Fear not, for as thou hast

�� seen and read it, thus shall it all be; and do thou write down everything as thou hast seen and read.'

�� 25 And Jacob said: 'Lord, how can I remember all that I have read and seen? 'And he said unto

�� 26 him: 'I will bring all things to thy remembrance.' And he went up from him, and he awoke from his

�� sleep, and he remembered everything which he had read and seen, and he wrote down all the

�� 27 words which he had read and seen. And he celebrated there yet another day, and he sacrificed

�� thereon according to all that he sacrificed on the former days, and called its name 'Addition,' for

�� 28 this day was added and the former days he called 'The Feast '. And thus it was manifested that it

�� should be, and it is written on the heavenly tablets: wherefore it was revealed to him that he should

�� 29 celebrate it, and add it to the seven days of the feast. And its name was called 'Addition,'

�� because that it was recorded amongst the days of the feast days, according to the number of

�� 30 the days of the year. And in the night, on the twenty‑third of this month, Deborah Rebecca's

�� nurse died, and they buried her beneath the city under the oak of the river, and he called the name of

�� this

�� 31 place, 'The river of Deborah,' and the oak, 'The oak of the mourning of Deborah.' And Rebecca

�� went and returned to her house to his father Isaac, and Jacob sent by her hand rams and sheep and

�� 32 he‑goats that she should prepare a meal for his father such as he desired. And he went after his

�� 33 mother till he came to the land of Kabratan, and he dwelt there. And Rachel bare a son in the

�� night, and called his name 'Son of my sorrow '; for she suffered in giving him birth: but his father

�� called his name Benjamin, on the eleventh of the eighth month in the first of the sixth week of this

�� 34 jubilee. [2143 A.M.] And Rachel died there and she was buried in the land of Ephrath, the same

�� is Bethlehem, and Jacob built a pillar on the grave of Rachel, on the road above her grave.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 33]

�� 1 And Jacob went and dwelt to the south of Magdaladra'ef. And he went to his father Isaac, he

�� 2 and Leah his wife, on the new moon of the tenth month. And Reuben saw Bilhah, Rachel's maid,

�� 3 the concubine of his father, bathing in water in a secret place, and he loved her. And he hid himself

�� at night, and he entered the house of Bilhah [at night], and he found her sleeping alone on a bed in

�� 4 her house. And he lay with her, and she awoke and saw, and behold Reuben was lying with her in

�� the bed, and she uncovered the border of her covering and seized him, and cried out, and

�� discovered

�� 5 that it was Reuben. And she was ashamed because of him, and released her hand from him, and

�� he

�� 6,7 fled. And she lamented because of this thing exceedingly, and did not tell it to any one. And

�� when Jacob returned and sought her, she said unto him: 'I am not clean for thee, for I have been

�� defiled as regards thee; for Reuben has defiled me, and has lain with me in the night, and I was

�� 8 asleep, and did not discover until he uncovered my skirt and slept with me.' And Jacob was

�� exceedingly wroth with Reuben because he had lain with Bilhah, because he had uncovered his

�� 9 father's skirt. And Jacob did not approach her again because Reuben had defiled her. And as for

�� any man who uncovers his father's skirt his deed is wicked exceedingly, for he is abominable before

�� 10 the Lord. For this reason it is written and ordained on the heavenly tablets that a man should not

�� lie with his father's wife, and should not uncover his father's skirt, for this is unclean: they shall surely

�� die together, the man who lies with his father's wife and the woman also, for they have

�� 11 wrought uncleanness on the earth. And there shall be nothing unclean before our God in the

�� nation

�� 12 which He has chosen for Himself as a possession. And again, it is written a second time: 'Cursed

�� be he who lieth with the wife of his father, for he hath uncovered his father's shame'; and all the

�� 13 holy ones of the Lord said 'So be it; so be it.' And do thou, Moses, command the children of

��Israel that they observe this word; for it (entails) a punishment of death; and it is unclean, and there is

�� no atonement for ever to atone for the man who has committed this, but he is to be put to death and

�� slain, and stoned with stones, and rooted out from the midst of the people of our God.

�� 14 For to no man who does so in Israel is it permitted to remain alive a single day on the earth, for

�� he

�� 15 is abominable and unclean. And let them not say: to Reuben was granted life and forgiveness after

�� he had lain with his father's concubine, and to her also though she had a husband, and her husband

�� 16 Jacob, his father, was still alive. For until that time there had not been revealed the ordinance and

�� judgment and law in its completeness for all, but in thy days (it has been revealed) as a law of

�� 17 seasons and of days, and an everlasting law for the everlasting generations. And for this law there

�� is no consummation of days, and no atonement for it, but they must both be rooted out in the midst

�� 18 of the nation: on the day whereon they committed it they shall slay them. And do thou, Moses,

�� write (it) down for Israel that they may observe it, and do according to these words, and not commit

�� a sin unto death; for the Lord our God is judge, who respects not persons and accepts not gifts. And

�� tell them these words of the covenant, that they may hear and observe, and be on their guard with

�� respect to them, and not be destroyed and rooted out of the land; for an uncleanness, and an

�� abomination, and a contamination, and a pollution are all they who commit it on the earth before

�� 20 our God. And there is no greater sin than the fornication which they commit on earth; for Israel is

�� a holy nation unto the Lord its God, and a nation of inheritance, and a priestly and royal nation and

�� for (His own) possession; and there shall no such uncleanness appear in the midst of the holy

�� 21 nation. And in the third year of this sixth week [2145 A.M.] Jacob and all his sons went and

�� dwelt in the house

�� 22 of Abraham, near Isaac his father and Rebecca his mother. And these were the names of the

�� sons of Jacob: the first‑born Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulon, the sons of Leah; and

�� the sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin; and the sons of Bilhah, Dan and Naphtali; and the sons of

�� Zilpah, Gad and Asher; and Dinah, the daughter of Leah, the only daughter of Jacob. And they

�� 23 came and bowed themselves to Isaac and Rebecca, and when they saw them they blessed Jacob

�� and all his sons, and Isaac rejoiced exceedingly, for he saw the sons of Jacob, his younger son and

�� he blessed them.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 34]

�� 1 And in the sixth year of this week of this forty‑fourth jubilee [2148 A.M.] Jacob sent his sons to

�� pasture their

�� 2 sheep, and his servants with them to the pastures of Shechem. And the seven kings of the

�� Amorites assembled themselves together against them, to slay them, hiding themselves under the

�� trees, and

�� 3 to take their cattle as a prey. And Jacob and Levi and Judah and Joseph were in the house with

�� Isaac their father; for his spirit was sorrowful, and they could not leave him: and Benjamin was

�� 4 the youngest, and for this reason remained with his father. And there came the king[s] of Taphu

�� and the king[s] of 'Aresa, and the king[s] of Seragan, and the king[s] of Selo, and the king[s] of

�� Ga'as, and the king of Bethoron, and the king of Ma'anisakir, and all those who dwell in these

�� 5 mountains (and) who dwell in the woods in the land of Canaan. And they announced this to Jacob

�� saying: 'Behold, the kings of the Amorites have surrounded thy sons, and plundered their herds.'

�� 6 And he arose from his house, he and his three sons and all the servants of his father, and his own

�� 7 servants, and he went against them with six thousand men, who carried swords. And he slew them

�� in the pastures of Shechem, and pursued those who fled, and he slew them with the edge of the

�� sword, and he slew 'Aresa and Taphu and Saregan and Selo and 'Amani‑

�� 8 sakir and Ga[ga]'as, and he recovered his herds. And he prevailed over them, and imposed tribute

�� on them that they should pay him tribute, five fruit products of their land, and he built Robel

�� 9 and Tamnatares. And he returned in peace, and made peace with them, and they became his

�� 10 servants, until the day that he and his sons went down into Egypt. And in the seventh year of this

�� week [2149 A.M.] he sent Joseph to learn about the welfare of his brothers from his house to the

�� land of Shechem,

�� 11 and he found them in the land of Dothan. And they dealt treacherously with him, and formed a

�� plot against him to slay him, but changing their minds, they sold him to Ishmaelite merchants, and they

�� brought him down into Egypt, and they sold him to Potiphar, the eunuch of Pharaoh, the

�� 12 chief of the cooks, priest of the city of 'Elew. And the sons of Jacob slaughtered a kid, and

�� dipped the coat of Joseph in the blood, and sent (it) to Jacob their father on the tenth of the seventh

�� month.

�� 13 And he mourned all that night, for they had brought it to him in the evening, and he became

�� feverish with mourning for his death, and he said: 'An evil beast hath devoured Joseph'; and all the

�� members of his house [mourned with him that day, and they] were grieving and mourning with

�� 14 him all that day. And his sons and his daughter rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be

�� 15 comforted for his son. And on that day Bilhah heard that Joseph had perished, and she died

�� mourning him, and she was living in Qafratef, and Dinah also, his daughter, died after Joseph had

�� 16 perished. And there came these three mournings upon Israel in one month. And they buried

�� 17 Bilhah over against the tomb of Rachel, and Dinah also. his daughter, they buried there. And he

�� mourned for Joseph one year, and did not cease, for he said 'Let me go down to the grave mourning

�� 18 for my son'. For this reason it is ordained for the children of Israel that they should afflict

�� themselves on the tenth of the seventh month ‑on the day that the news which made him weep for

�� Joseph came to Jacob his father‑ that they should make atonement for themselves thereon with a

�� young goat on the tenth of the seventh month, once a year, for their sins; for they had grieved the

�� 19 affection of their father regarding Joseph his son. And this day has been ordained that they should

�� grieve thereon for their sins, and for all their transgressions and for all their errors, so that they

�� 20 might cleanse themselves on that day once a year. And after Joseph perished, the sons of Jacob

�� took unto themselves wives. The name of Reuben's wife is 'Ada; and the name of Simeon's wife is

�� 'Adlba'a, a Canaanite; and the name of Levi's wife is Melka, of the daughters of Aram, of the seed

�� of the sons of Terah; and the name of Judah's wife, Betasu'el, a Canaanite; and the name of

�� Issachar's wife, Hezaqa: and the name of Zabulon's wife, Ni'iman; and the name of Dan's wife, 'Egla;

�� and the name of Naphtali's wife, Rasu'u, of Mesopotamia; and the name of Gad's wife, Maka; and

�� the name of Asher's wife, 'Ijona; and the name of Joseph's wife, Asenath, the Egyptian; and the

�� name

�� 21 of Benjamin's wife, 'Ijasaka. And Simeon repented, and took a second wife from Mesopotamia

�� as his brothers.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 35]

�� 1 And in the first year of the first week of the forty‑fifth jubilee [2157 A.M.] Rebecca called Jacob,

�� her son, and commanded him regarding his father and regarding his brother, that he should honour

�� them all the

�� 2 days of his life. And Jacob said: 'I will do everything as thou hast commanded me; for this thing will

�� be honour and greatness to me, and righteousness before the Lord, that I should honour them.

�� 3 And thou too, mother, knowest from the time I was born until this day, all my deeds and all that is

�� in

�� 4 my heart, that I always think good concerning all. And how should I not do this thing which thou

�� 5 hast commanded me, that I should honour my father and my brother! Tell me, mother, what

�� 6 perversity hast thou seen in me and I shall turn away from it, and mercy will be upon me.' And she

�� said unto him: 'My son, I have not seen in thee all my days any perverse but (only) upright deeds.

�� And yet I will tell thee the truth, my son: I shall die this year, and I shall not survive this year in my

�� life; for I have seen in a dream the day of my death, that I should not live beyond a hundred and

�� fifty‑five years: and behold I have completed all the days of my life which I am to

�� 7 live.' And Jacob laughed at the words of his mother. because his mother had said unto him that she

�� should die; and she was sitting opposite to him in possession of her strength, and she was not infirm

�� in her strength; for she went in and out and saw, and her teeth were strong, and no ailment

�� 8 had touched her all the days of her life. And Jacob said unto her: 'Blessed am I, mother, if my days

�� approach the days of thy life, and my strength remain with me thus as thy strength: and thou

�� 9 wilt not die, for thou art jesting idly with me regarding thy death.' And she went in to Isaac and said

�� unto him: 'One petition I make unto thee: make Esau swear that he will not injure Jacob, nor pursue

�� him with enmity; for thou knowest Esau's thoughts that they are perverse from his youth,

�� 10 and there is no goodness in him; for he desires after thy death to kill him. And thou knowest all

�� that he has done since the day Jacob his brother went to Haran until this day: how he has forsaken us

�� with his whole heart, and has done evil to us; thy flocks he has taken to himself, and carried off

�� 11 all thy possessions from before thy face. And when we implored and besought him for what was

�� 12 our own, he did as a man who was taking pity on us. And he is bitter against thee because thou

�� didst bless Jacob thy perfect and upright son; for there is no evil but only goodness in him, and since

�� he came from Haran unto this day he has not robbed us of aught, for he brings us everything in its

�� season always, and rejoices with all his heart when we take at his hands and he blesses us, and has

�� not parted from us since he came from Haran until this day, and he remains with us continually

�� 13 at home honouring us.' And Isaac said unto her: 'I, too, know and see the deeds of Jacob who is

�� with us, how that with all his heart he honours us; but I loved Esau formerly more than Jacob,

�� because he was the firstborn; but now I love Jacob more than Esau, for he has done manifold evil

�� deeds, and there is no righteousness in him, for all his ways are unrighteousness and violence, [and

�� 14 there is no righteousness around him.] And now my heart is troubled because of all his deeds,

�� and neither he nor his seed is to be saved, for they are those who will be destroyed from the earth

�� and who will be rooted out from under heaven, for he has forsaken the God of Abraham and gone

�� 15 after his wives and after their uncleanness and after their error, he and his children. And thou dost

�� bid me make him swear that he will not slay Jacob his brother; even if he swear he will not abide

�� 16 by his oath, and he will not do good but evil only. But if he desires to slay Jacob, his brother, into

�� Jacob's hands will he be given, and he will not escape from his hands, [for he will descend into his

�� 17 hands.] And fear thou not on account of Jacob; for the guardian of Jacob is great and powerful

�� 18 and honoured, and praised more than the guardian of Esau.' And Rebecca sent and called Esau

�� and he came to her, and she said unto him: 'I have a petition, my son, to make unto thee, and do

�� 19 thou promise to do it, my son.' And he said: 'I will do everything that thou sayest unto me, and

�� 20 I will not refuse thy petition.' And she said unto him: 'I ask you that the day I die, thou wilt take

�� me in and bury me near Sarah, thy father's mother, and that thou and Jacob will love each other and

�� that neither will desire evil against the other, but mutual love only, and (so) ye will prosper, my sons,

�� and be honoured in the midst of the land, and no enemy will rejoice over you, and ye will be

�� 21 a blessing and a mercy in the eyes of all those that love you.' And he said: 'I will do all that thou

�� hast told me, and I shall bury thee on the day thou diest near Sarah, my father's mother, as

�� 22 thou hast desired that her bones may be near thy bones. And Jacob, my brother, also, I shall love

�� above all flesh; for I have not a brother in all the earth but him only: and this is no great merit for me if

�� I love him; for he is my brother, and we were sown together in thy body, and together came

�� 23 we forth from thy womb, and if I do not love my brother, whom shall I love? And I, myself, beg

�� thee to exhort Jacob concerning me and concerning my sons, for I know that he will assuredly be

�� king over me and my sons, for on the day my father blessed him he made him the higher and me

�� 24 the lower. And I swear unto thee that I shall love him, and not desire evil against him all the

�� 25 days of my life but good only.' And he sware unto her regarding all this matter. And she called

�� Jacob before the eyes of Esau, and gave him commandment according to the words which

�� 26 she had spoken to Esau. And he said: 'I shall do thy pleasure; believe me that no evil will proceed

�� from me or from my sons against Esau, and I shall be first in naught save in love only.'

�� 27 And they eat and drank, she and her sons that night, and she died, three jubilees and one week

�� and one year old, on that night, and her two sons, Esau and Jacob, buried her in the double cave

�� near Sarah, their father's mother.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 36]

�� 1 And in the sixth year of this week [2162 A.M.] Isaac called his two sons Esau and Jacob, and

�� they came to him, and he said unto them: 'My sons, I am going the way of my fathers, to the eternal

�� house

�� 2 where my fathers are. Wherefore bury me near Abraham my father, in the double cave in the field

�� of Ephron the Hittite, where Abraham purchased a sepulchre to bury in; in the sepulchre which

�� 3 I digged for myself, there bury me. And this I command you, my sons, that ye practise

�� righteousness and uprightness on the earth, so that the Lord may bring upon you all that the Lord

�� said that

�� 4 he would do to Abraham and to his seed. And love one another, my sons, your brothers as a man

�� who loves his own soul, and let each seek in what he may benefit his brother, and act together on the

�� earth; and let them love each other as their own souls. And concerning the question of idols, I

�� command and admonish you to reject them and hate them, and love them not, for they are full

�� 6 of deception for those that worship them and for those that bow down to them. Remember ye, my

�� sons, the Lord God of Abraham your father, and how I too worshipped Him and served Him in

�� righteousness and in joy, that He might multiply you and increase your seed as the stars of heaven in

�� multitude, and establish you on the earth as the plant of righteousness which will not be rooted

�� 7 out unto all the generations for ever. And now I shall make you swear a great oath ‑for there is no

�� oath which is greater than it by the name glorious and honoured and great and splendid and

�� wonderful and mighty, which created the heavens and the earth and all things together‑ that ye will

�� 8 fear Him and worship Him. And that each will love his brother with affection and righteousness,

�� and that neither will desire evil against his brother from henceforth for ever all the days of your life

�� 9 so that ye may prosper in all your deeds and not be destroyed. And if either of you devises evil

�� against his brother, know that from henceforth everyone that devises evil against his brother shall fall

�� into his hand, and shall be rooted out of the land of the living, and his seed shall be destroyed from

�� 10 under heaven. But on the day of turbulence and execration and indignation and anger, with

�� flaming devouring fire as He burnt Sodom, so likewise will He burn his land and his city and all that is

�� his, and he shall be blotted out of the book of the discipline of the children of men, and not be

�� recorded in the book of life, but in that which is appointed to destruction, and he shall depart into

�� eternal execration; so that their condemnation may be always renewed in hate and in execration and

�� in wrath and in torment and in indignation and in plagues and in disease for ever. I say and testify to

�� you, my sons, according to the judgment which shall come upon the man who wishes to

�� 12 injure his brother. And he divided all his possessions between the two on that day and he gave

�� the larger portion to him that was the first‑born, and the tower and all that was about it, and all that

�� 13 Abraham possessed at the Well of the Oath. And he said: 'This larger portion I will give to the

�� 14 firstborn.' And Esau said, 'I have sold to Jacob and given my birthright to Jacob; to him let it be

�� 15 given, and I have not a single word to say regarding it, for it is his.' And Isaac said, May a

�� blessing rest upon you, my sons, and upon your seed this day, for ye have given me rest, and my

�� heart is not

�� 16 pained concerning the birthright, lest thou shouldest work wickedness on account of it. May the

�� 17 Most High God bless the man that worketh righteousness, him and his seed for ever.' And he

�� ended commanding them and blessing them, and they eat and drank together before him, and he

�� rejoiced because there was one mind between them, and they went forth from him and rested that

�� day and

�� 18 slept. And Isaac slept on his bed that day rejoicing; and he slept the eternal sleep, and died one

�� hundred and eighty years old. He completed twenty‑five weeks and five years; and his two sons

�� 19 Esau and Jacob buried him. And Esau went to the land of Edom, to the mountains of Seir, and

�� 20 dwelt there. And Jacob dwelt in the mountains of Hebron, in the tower of the land of the

�� sojournings of his father Abraham, and he worshipped the Lord with all his heart and according to

�� the visible

�� 21 commands according as He had divided the days of his generations. And Leah his wife died in

�� the fourth year of the second week of the forty‑fifth jubilee, [2167 A.M.] and he buried her in the

�� double cave

�� 23 near Rebecca his mother to the left of the grave of Sarah, his father's mother and all her sons and

�� his sons came to mourn over Leah his wife with him and to comfort him regarding her, for he

�� 24 was lamenting her for he loved her exceedingly after Rachel her sister died; for she was perfect

�� and upright in all her ways and honoured Jacob,and all the days that she lived with him he did not

�� hear from her mouth a harsh word, for she was gentle and peaceable and upright and honourable

�� 24 And he remembered all her deeds which she had done during her life and he lamented her

�� exceedingly; for he loved her with all his heart and with all his soul.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 37]

�� 1 And on the day that Isaac the father of Jacob and Esau died, [2162 A.M.] the sons of Esau heard

�� that Isaac

�� 2 had given the portion of the elder to his younger son Jacob and they were very angry. And they

�� strove with their father, saying 'Why has thy father given Jacob the portion of the elder and passed

�� 3 over thee, although thou art the elder and Jacob the younger?' And he said unto them 'Because I

�� sold my birthright to Jacob for a small mess of lentils, and on the day my father sent me to hunt and

�� catch and bring him something that he should eat and bless me, he came with guile and brought

�� 4 my father food and drink, and my father blessed him and put me under his hand. And now our

�� father has caused us to swear, me and him, that we shall not mutually devise evil, either against his

�� brother, and that we shall continue in love and in peace each with his brother and not make our ways

�� 5 corrupt.' And they said unto him, 'We shall not hearken unto thee to make peace with him; for our

�� strength is greater than his strength, and we are more powerful than he; we shall go against him and

�� slay him, and destroy him and his sons. And if thou wilt not go with us, we shall do hurt

�� 6 to thee also. And now hearken unto us: Let us send to Aram and Philistia and Moab and Ammon,

�� and let us choose for ourselves chosen men who are ardent for battle, and let us go against him and

�� do battle with him, and let us exterminate him from the earth before he grows strong.'

�� 7 And their father said unto them, 'Do not go and do not make war with him lest ye fall before him.'

�� 8 And they said unto him, 'This too, is exactly thy mode of action from thy youth until this day, and

�� 9 thou art putting thy neck under his yoke. We shall not hearken to these words.' And they sent to

�� Aram, and to 'Aduram to the friend of their father, and they hired along with them one thousand

�� 10 fighting men, chosen men of war. And there came to them from Moab and from the children of

�� Ammon, those who were hired, one thousand chosen men, and from Philistia, one thousand chosen

�� men of war, and from Edom and from the Horites one thousand chosen fighting men, and from the

�� 11 Kittim mighty men of war. And they said unto their father: Go forth with them and lead them,

�� 12 else we shall slay thee.' And he was filled with wrath and indignation on seeing that his sons were

�� forcing him to go before (them) to lead them against Jacob his brother. But afterward he remem‑

�� 13 bered all the evil which lay hidden in his heart against Jacob his brother; and he remembered not

�� the oath which he had sworn to his father and to his mother that he would devise no evil all his days

�� 14 against Jacob his brother. And notwithstanding all this, Jacob knew not that they were coming

�� against him to battle, and he was mourning for Leah, his wife, until they approached very near to the

�� 15 tower with four thousand warriors and chosen men of war And the men of Hebron sent to him

�� saying, 'Behold thy brother has come against thee, to fight thee, with four thousand girt with the

�� sword, and they carry shields and weapons'; for they loved Jacob more than Esau. So they told him;

�� for

�� 16 Jacob was a more liberal and merciful man than Esau. But Jacob would not believe until they

�� came

�� 17 very near to the tower. And he closed the gates of the tower; and he stood on the battlements

�� and spake to his brother Esau and said, 'Noble is the comfort wherewith thou hast come to comfort

�� me for my wife who has died. Is this the oath that thou didst swear to thy father and again to thy

�� mother before they died? Thou hast broken the oath, and on the moment that thou didst swear to

�� 18 thy father wast thou condemned.' And then Esau answered and said unto him, 'Neither the

�� children of men nor the beasts of the earth have any oath of righteousness which in swearing they

�� have sworn (an oath valid) for ever; but every day they devise evil one against another, and how

�� each

�� 19 may slay his adversary and foe. And thou dost hate me and my children for ever. And there is

�� 20 no observing the tie of brotherhood with thee. Hear these words which I declare unto thee,

�� If the boar can change its skin and make its bristles as soft as wool,

�� Or if it can cause horns to sprout forth on its head like the horns of a stag or of a sheep,

�� Then will I observe the tie of brotherhood with thee

�� And if the breasts separated themselves from their mother, for thou hast not been a brother to me.

�� 21 And if the wolves make peace with the lambs so as not to devour or do them violence,

�� And if their hearts are towards them for good,

�� Then there shall be peace in my heart towards thee

�� 22 And if the lion becomes the friend of the ox and makes peace with him

�� And if he is bound under one yoke with him and ploughs with him,

�� Then will I make peace with thee.

�� 23 And when the raven becomes white as the raza,

�� Then know that I have loved thee

�� And shall make peace with thee

�� Thou shalt be rooted out,

�� And thy sons shall be rooted out,

�� And there shall be no peace for thee'

�� 24 And when Jacob saw that he was (so) evilly disposed towards him with his heart, and with all his

�� soul as to slay him, and that he had come springing like the wild boar which comes upon

�� 25 the spear that pierces and kills it, and recoils not from it; then he spake to his own and to his

�� servants that they should attack him and all his companions.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 38]

�� 1 And after that Judah spake to Jacob, his father, and said unto him: 'Bend thy bow, father, and send

�� forth thy arrows and cast down the adversary and slay the enemy; and mayst thou have the power,

�� for we shall not slay thy brother, for he is such as thou, and he is like thee let us give him

�� 2 (this) honour.' Then Jacob bent his bow and sent forth the arrow and struck Esau, his brother (on

�� 3 his right breast) and slew him. And again he sent forth an arrow and struck 'Adoran the Aramaean,

�� 4 on the left breast, and drove him backward and slew him And then went forth the sons of Jacob,

�� 5 they and their servants, dividing themselves into companies on the four sides of the tower. And

�� Judah went forth in front, and Naphtali and Gad with him and fifty servants with him on the south

�� side of the tower, and they slew all they found before them, and not one individual of them escaped.

�� 6 And Levi and Dan and Asher went forth on the east side of the tower, and fifty (men) with them,

�� 7 and they slew the fighting men of Moab and Ammon. And Reuben and Issachar and Zebulon went

�� forth on the north side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slew the fighting men of the

�� 8 Philistines. And Simeon and Benjamin and Enoch, Reuben's son, went forth on the west side of the

�� tower, and fifty (men) with them, and they slew of Edom and of the Horites four hundred men, stout

�� warriors; and six hundred fled, and four of the sons of Esau fled with them, and left their father

�� 9 lying slain, as he had fallen on the hill which is in 'Aduram. And the sons of Jacob pursued after

�� them to the mountains of Seir. And Jacob buried his brother on the hill which is in 'Aduram, and

�� 10 he returned to his house. And the sons of Jacob pressed hard upon the sons of Esau in the moun‑

�� 11 tains of Seir, and bowed their necks so that they became servants of the sons of Jacob. And they

�� 12 sent to their father (to inquire) whether they should make peace with them or slay them. And

�� Jacob sent word to his sons that they should make peace, and they made peace with them, and

�� placed the

�� 13 yoke of servitude upon them, so that they paid tribute to Jacob and to his sons always. And they

�� 14 continued to pay tribute to Jacob until the day that he went down into Egypt. And the sons of

�� Edom have not got quit of the yoke of servitude which the twelve sons of Jacob had imposed on

�� 15 them until this day. And these are the kings that reigned in Edom before there reigned any king

�� 16 over the children of Israel [until this day] in the land of Edom. And Balaq, the son of Beor,

�� reigned

�� 17 in Edom, and the name of his city was Danaba. And Balaq died, and Jobab, the son of Zara of

�� 18 Boser, reigned in his stead. And Jobab died, and 'Asam, of the land of Teman, reigned in his

�� stead.

�� 19 And 'Asam died, and 'Adath, the son of Barad, who slew Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in

�� his

�� 20 stead, and the name of his city was Avith. And 'Adath died, and Salman, from 'Amaseqa, reigned

�� 21,22 in his stead. And Salman died,and Saul of Ra'aboth (by the) river, reigned in his stead. And

�� Saul

�� 23 died, and Ba'elunan, the son of Achbor, reigned in his stead. And Ba'elunan, the son of Achbor

�� died, and 'Adath reigned in his stead, and the name of his wife was Maitabith, the daughter of

�� 25 Matarat, the daughter of Metabedza'ab. These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 39]

�� 1,2 And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings in the land of Canaan. These are the

�� generations of Jacob. And Joseph was seventeen years old when they took him down into

�� 3 the land of Egypt, and Potiphar, an eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief cook bought him. And he set

�� Joseph over all his house and the blessing of the Lord came upon the house of the Egyptian on

�� 4 account of Joseph, and the Lord prospered him in all that he did. And the Egyptian committed

�� everything into the hands of Joseph; for he saw that the Lord was with him, and that the

�� 5 Lord prospered him in all that he did. And Joseph's appearance was comely [and very beautiful

�� was his appearance], and his master's wife lifted up her eyes and saw Joseph, and she loved him

�� 6 and besought him to lie with her. But he did not surrender his soul, and he remembered the Lord

�� and the words which Jacob, his father, used to read from amongst the words of Abraham, that no

�� man should commit fornication with a woman who has a husband; that for him the punishment of

�� death has been ordained in the heavens before the Most High God, and the sin

�� 7 will be recorded against him in the eternal books continually before the Lord. And Joseph

�� 8 remembered these words and refused to lie with her. And she besought him for a year, but he

�� 9 refused and would not listen. But she embraced him and held him fast in the house in order to force

�� him to lie with her, and closed the doors of the house and held him fast; but he left

�� 10 his garment in her hands and broke through the door and fled without from her presence. And the

�� woman saw that he would not lie with her, and she calumniated him in the presence of his lord,

�� saying 'Thy Hebrew servant, whom thou lovest, sought to force me so that he might lie with me; and

�� it came to pass when I lifted up my voice that he fled and left his garment in

�� 11 my hands when I held him, and he brake through the door.' And the Egyptian saw the garment of

�� Joseph and the broken door, and heard the words of his wife, and cast Joseph into

�� 12 prison into the place where the prisoners were kept whom the king imprisoned. And he was there

�� in the prison; and the Lord gave Joseph favour in the sight of the chief of the prison guards and

�� compassion before him, for he saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord

�� 13 made all that he did to prosper. And he committed all things into his hands, and the chief of the

�� prison guards knew of nothing that was with him, for Joseph did every thing, and the

�� 14 Lord perfected it. And he remained there two years. And in those days Pharaoh, king of Egypt

�� was wroth against his two eunuchs, against the chief butler, and against the chief baker, and he put

�� 15 them in ward in the house of the chief cook, in the prison where Joseph was kept. And the chief

�� of

�� 16 the prison guards appointed Joseph to serve them; and he served before them. And they both

�� 17 dreamed a dream, the chief butler and the chief baker, and they told it to Joseph. And as he

�� interpreted to them so it befell them, and Pharaoh restored the chief butler to his office and the

�� 18 (chief) baker he slew, as Joseph had interpreted to them. But the chief butler forgot Joseph in the

�� prison, although he had informed him what would befall him, and did not remember to inform

�� Pharaoh how Joseph had told him, for he forgot.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 40]

�� 1 And in those days Pharaoh dreamed two dreams in one night concerning a famine which was to be

�� in all the land, and he awoke from his sleep and called all the interpreters of dreams that were in

�� Egypt, and magicians, and told them his two dreams, and they were not able to declare (them).

�� 2 And then the chief butler remembered Joseph and spake of him to the king, and he brought him

�� 3 forth from the prison, and he to]d his two dreams before him. And he said before Pharaoh that his

�� two dreams were one, and he said unto him: 'Seven years shall come (in which there shall be) plenty

�� over all the land of Egypt, and after that seven years of famine, such a famine as has not been in all

�� 4 the land. And now let Pharaoh appoint overseers in all the land of Egypt, and let them store up

�� food in every city throughout the days of the years of plenty, and there will be food for the seven

�� 5 years of famine, and the land will not perish through the famine, for it will be very severe.' And the

�� Lord gave Joseph favour and mercy in the eyes of Pharaoh, and Pharaoh said unto his servants. We

�� shall not find such a wise and discreet man as this man, for the spirit of the Lord is with

�� 6 him.' And he appointed him the second in all his kingdom and gave him authority over all

�� 7 Egypt, and caused him to ride in the second chariot of Pharaoh. And he clothed him with byssus

�� garments, and he put a gold chain upon his neck, and (a herald) proclaimed before him ' 'El 'El wa

�� 'Abirer,' and placed a ring on his hand and made him ruler over all his house, and magnified him, and

�� 8 said unto him. 'Only on the throne shall I be greater than thou.' And Joseph ruled over all the land

�� of Egypt, and all the princes of Pharaoh, and all his servants, and all who did the king's business

�� loved him, for he walked in uprightness, for he was without pride and arrogance, and he had no

�� respect of persons, and did not accept gifts, but he judged in uprightness all the people of the land.

�� 9 And the land of Egypt was at peace before Pharaoh because of Joseph, for the Lord was with

�� him, and gave him favour and mercy for all his generations before all those who knew him and those

�� who heard concerning him, and Pharaoh's kingdom was well ordered, and there was no Satan and

�� no evil

�� 10 person (therein). And the king called Joseph's name Sephantiphans, and gave Joseph to wife the

�� 11 daughter of Potiphar, the daughter of the priest of Heliopolis, the chief cook. And on the day that

�� 12 Joseph stood before Pharaoh he was thirty years old [when he stood before Pharaoh]. And in

�� that year Isaac died. And it came to pass as Joseph had said in the interpretation of his two dreams,

�� according as he had said it, there were seven years of plenty over all the land of Egypt, and the

�� 3 land of Egypt abundantly produced, one measure (producing) eighteen hundred measures. And

�� Joseph gathered food into every city until they were full of corn until they could no longer count and

�� measure it for its multitude.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 41]

�� 1 And in the forty‑fifth jubilee, in the second week, (and) in the second year, [2165 A.M.] Judah

�� took for his

�� 2 first‑born Er, a wife from the daughters of Aram, named Tamar. But he hated, and did not lie with

�� her, because his mother was of the daughters of Canaan, and he wished to take him a wife of the

�� 3 kinsfolk of his mother, but Judah, his father, would not permit him. And this Er, the first‑born of

�� Judah,

�� 4 was wicked, and the Lord slew him. And Judah said unto Onan, his brother 'Go in unto thy

�� brother's wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her, and raise up seed unto thy

�� brother.' And

�� 5 Onan knew that the seed would not be his, (but) his brother's only, and he went into the house of

�� his brother's wife, and spilt the seed on the ground, and he was wicked in the eyes of the Lord, and

�� He slew

�� 6 him. And Judah said unto Tamar, his daughter‑in‑law: 'Remain in thy father's house as a widow till

�� 7 Shelah my son be grown up, and I shall give thee to him to wife.' And he grew up; but Bedsu'el,

�� the wife of Judah, did not permit her son Shelah to marry. And Bedsu'el, the wife of Judah, died

�� [2168 A.M.]

�� 8 in the fifth year of this week. And in the sixth year Judah went up to shear his sheep at Timnah.

�� [2169 A.M.]

�� 9 And they told Tamar: 'Behold thy father‑in‑law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.' And she

�� put off her widow's clothes, and put on a veil, and adorned herself, and sat in the gate adjoining the

�� 10 way to Timnah. And as Judah was going along he found her, and thought her to be an harlot, and

�� he said unto her: 'Let me come in unto thee'; and she said unto him Come in,' and he went

�� 11 in. And she said unto him: 'Give me my hire'; and he said unto her: 'I have nothing in my

�� 12 hand save my ring that is on my finger, and my necklace, and my staff which is in my hand.' And

�� she said unto him 'Give them to me until thou dost send me my hire', and he said unto her: 'I will send

�� unto thee a kid of the goats'; and he gave them to her, and he went in unto her, and

�� 13,14 she conceived by him. And Judah went unto his sheep, and she went to her father's house.

��And Judah sent a kid of the goats by the hand of his shepherd, an Adullamite, and he found her not;

�� and he asked the people of the place, saying: 'Where is the harlot who was here?' And they said

�� 15 unto him; 'There is no harlot here with us.' And he returned and informed him, and said unto him

�� that he had not found her: 'I asked the people of the place, and they said unto me: "There

�� 16 is no harlot here." ' And he said: 'Let her keep (them) lest we become a cause of derision.' And

�� when she had completed three months, it was manifest that she was with child, and they told Judah,

�� 17 saying: 'Behold Tamar, thy daughter‑in‑law, is with child by whoredom.' And Judah went to the

�� house of her father, and said unto her father and her brothers: 'Bring her forth, and let them burn

�� 18 her, for she hath wrought uncleanness in Israel.' And it came to pass when they brought her forth

�� to burn her that she sent to her father‑in‑law the ring and the necklace, and the staff, saying:

�� 19 'Discern whose are these, for by him am I with child.' And Judah acknowledged, and said:

�� 'Tamar

�� 20 is more righteous than I am. And therefore let them burn her not' And for that reason she was

�� 21 not given to Shelah, and he did not again approach her And after that she bare two sons, Perez

�� [2170 A.M.]

�� 22 and Zerah, in the seventh year of this second week. And thereupon the seven years of fruitfulness

�� 23 were accomplished, of which Joseph spake to Pharaoh. And Judah acknowledged that the deed

�� which he had done was evil, for he had lain with his daughter‑in‑law, and he esteemed it hateful in his

�� eyes, and he acknowledged that he had transgressed and gone astray, for he had uncovered the skirt

�� of his son, and he began to lament and to supplicate before the Lord because of his transgression.

�� 24 And we told him in a dream that it was forgiven him because he supplicated earnestly, and

�� lamented,

�� 25 and did not again commit it. And he received forgiveness because he turned from his sin and from

�� his ignorance, for he transgressed greatly before our God; and every one that acts thus, every one

�� who lies with his mother‑in‑law, let them burn him with fire that he may burn therein, for there is

�� 26 uncleanness and pollution upon them, with fire let them burn them. And do thou command the

�� children of Israel that there be no uncleanness amongst them, for every one who lies with his

�� daughter‑in‑law or with his mother‑in‑law hath wrought uncleanness; with fire let them burn the man

�� who has lain with her, and likewise the woman, and He will turn away wrath and punishment

�� 27 from Israel. And unto Judah we said that his two sons had not lain with her, and for this reason

�� 28 his seed was stablished for a second generation, and would not be rooted out. For in singleness

�� of eye he had gone and sought for punishment, namely, according to the judgment of Abraham,

�� which he had commanded his sons, Judah had sought to burn her with fire.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 42]

�� 1 And in the first year of the third week of the forty‑fifth jubilee the famine began to come into the

�� [2171 A.M.]

�� 2 land, and the rain refused to be given to the earth, for none whatever fell. And the earth grew

�� barren, but in the land of Egypt there was food, for Joseph had gathered the seed of the land in the

�� 3 seven years of plenty and had preserved it. And the Egyptians came to Joseph that he might give

�� them food, and he opened the store‑houses where was the grain of the first year, and he sold it to

�� 4 the people of the land for gold. Now the famine was very sore in the land of Canaan, and Jacob

�� heard that there was food in Egypt, and he sent his ten sons that they should procure food for him in

�� Egypt; but Benjamin he did not send, and the ten sons of Jacob arrived in Egypt among those

�� 5 that went (there). And Joseph recognised them, but they did not recognise him, and he spake unto

�� them and questioned them, and he said unto them; 'Are ye not spies and have ye not come to

�� 6 explore the approaches of the land? 'And he put them in ward. And after that he set them free

�� 7 again, and detained Simeon alone and sent off his nine brothers. And he filled their sacks with

�� corn,

�� 8 and he put their gold in their sacks, and they did not know. And he commanded them to bring

�� 9 their younger brother, for they had told him their father was living and their younger brother. And

�� they went up from the land of Egypt and they came to the land of Canaan; and they told their father

�� all that had befallen them, and how the lord of the country had spoken roughly to them, and

�� 10 had seized Simeon till they should bring Benjamin. And Jacob said: 'Me have ye bereaved of my

�� children! Joseph is not and Simeon also is not, and ye will take Benjamin away. On me has your

�� 11 wickedness come. 'And he said: 'My son will not go down with you lest perchance he fall sick;

�� for their mother gave birth to two sons, and one has perished, and this one also ye will take from me.

�� If perchance he took a fever on the road, ye would bring down my old age with sorrow unto death.'

��12 For he saw that their money had been returned to every man in his sack, and for this reason he

�� 13 feared to send him. And the famine increased and became sore in the land of Canaan, and in all

�� lands save in the land of Egypt, for many of the children of the Egyptians had stored up their seed for

�� food from the time when they saw Joseph gathering seed together and putting it in storehouses

�� 14 and preserving it for the years of famine. And the people of Egypt fed themselves thereon during

�� 15 the first year of their famine But when Israel saw that the famine was very sore in the land, and

�� that there was no deliverance, he said unto his sons: 'Go again, and procure food for us that we die

�� 16 not.' And they said: 'We shall not go; unless our youngest brother go with us, we shall not go.'

�� 17 And Israel saw that if he did not send him with them, they should all perish by reason of the

�� famine

�� 18 And Reuben said: 'Give him into my hand, and if I do not bring him back to thee, slay my two

�� 19 sons instead of his soul.' And he said unto him: 'He shall not go with thee.' And Judah came near

�� and said: 'Send him with me, and if I do not bring him back to thee, let me bear the blame before

�� 20 thee all the days of my life.' And he sent him with them in the second year of this week on the

�� [2172 A.m.] first day of the month, and they came to the land of Egypt with all those who went, and

�� (they had)

�� 21 presents in their hands, stacte and almonds and terebinth nuts and pure honey. And they went

�� and stood before Joseph, and he saw Benjamin his brother, and he knew him, and said unto them: Is

�� this your youngest brother?' And they said unto him: 'It is he.' And he said The Lord be

�� 22 gracious to thee, my son!' And he sent him into his house and he brought forth Simeon unto them

�� and he made a feast for them, and they presented to him the gift which they had brought in their

�� 23 hands. And they eat before him and he gave them all a portion, but the portion of Benjamin was

�� 24 seven times larger than that of any of theirs. And they eat and drank and arose and remained with

�� 25 their asses. And Joseph devised a plan whereby he might learn their thoughts as to whether

�� thoughts of peace prevailed amongst them, and he said to the steward who was over his house: 'Fill

�� all their sacks with food, and return their money unto them into their vessels, and my cup, the silver

�� cup out of which I drink, put it in the sack of the youngest, and send them away.'

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 43]

�� 1 And he did as Joseph had told him, and filled all their sacks for them with food and put their

�� 2 money in their sacks, and put the cup in Benjamin's sack. Aud early in the morning they departed,

�� and it came to pass that, when they had gone from thence, Joseph said unto the steward of his

�� house: 'Pursue them, run and seize them, saying, "For good ye have requited me with evil; you have

�� stolen from me the silver cup out of which my lord drinks." And bring back to me their

�� 3 youngest brother, and fetch (him) quickly before I go forth to my seat of judgment.' And he ran

�� 4 after them and said unto them according to these words. And they said unto him: 'God forbid that

�� thy servants should do this thing, and steal from the house of thy lord any utensil, and the money also

�� which we found in our sacks the first time, we thy servants brought back from the land of

�� 5 Canaan. How then should we steal any utensil? Behold here are we and our sacks search, and

�� wherever thou findest the cup in the sack of any man amongst us, let him be slain, and we and our

�� 6 asses will serve thy lord.' And he said unto them: 'Not so, the man with whom I find, him only

�� 7 shall I take as a servant, and ye shall return in peace unto your house.' And as he was searching in

�� their vessels, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest, it was found in Benjamin's

�� 8 sack. And they rent their garments, and laded their asses, and returned to the city and came to the

�� 9 house of Joseph, and they all bowed themselves on their faces to the ground before him. And

�� Joseph said unto them: 'Ye have done evil.' And they said: 'What shall we say and how shall we

�� defend ourselves? Our lord hath discovered the transgression of his servants; behold we are the

�� 10 servants of our lord, and our asses also. 'And Joseph said unto them: 'I too fear the Lord; as for

�� you, go ye to your homes and let your brother be my servant, for ye have done evil. Know ye not

�� 11 that a man delights in his cup as I with this cup? And yet ye have stolen it from me.' And Judah

�� said: 'O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ear two brothers did thy

�� servant's mother bear to our father: one went away and was lost, and hath not been found, and he

�� alone is left of his mother, and thy servant our father loves him, and his life also is bound up with

�� 12 the life of this (lad). And it will come to pass, when we go to thy servant our father, and the lad is

�� 13 not with us, that he will die, and we shall bring down our father with sorrow unto death. Now

�� rather let me, thy servant, abide instead of the boy as a bondsman unto my lord, and let the lad go

�� with his brethren, for I became surety for him at the hand of thy servant our father, and if I do not

�� 14 bring him back, thy servant will hear the blame to our father for ever.' And Joseph saw that they

�� were all accordant in goodness one with another, and he could not refrain himself, and he told them

�� 15 that he was Joseph. And he conversed with them in the Hebrew tongue and fell on their neck and

�� 16 wept. But they knew him not and they began to weep. And he said unto them: 'Weep not over

�� me, but hasten and bring my father to me; and ye see that it is my mouth that speaketh and the

�� 17 eyes of my brother Benjamin see. For behold this is the second year of the famine, and there are

�� 18 still five years without harvest or fruit of trees or ploughing. Come down quickly ye and your

�� households, so that ye perish not through the famine, and do not be grieved for your possessions, for

�� 19 the Lord sent me before you to set things in order that many people might live. And tell my father

�� that I am still alive, and ye, behold, ye see that the Lord has made me as a father to Pharaoh,

�� 20 and ruler over his house and over all the land of Egypt. And tell my father of all my glory, and

�� 21 all the riches and glory that the Lord hath given me.' And by the command of the mouth of

�� Pharaoh he gave them chariots and provisions for the way, and he gave them all many‑coloured

�� 21 raiment and silver. And to their father he sent raiment and silver and ten asses which carried corn,

�� 23 and he sent them away. And they went up and told their father that Joseph was alive, and was

�� measuring out corn to all the nations of the earth, and that he was ruler over all the land of Egypt.

�� 24 And their father did not believe it, for he was beside himself in his mind; but when he saw the

�� wagons which Joseph had sent, the life of his spirit revived, and he said: 'It is enough for me if Joseph

�� lives; I will go down and see him before I die.'

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 44]

�� 1 And Israel took his journey from Haran from his house on the new moon of the third month, and

�� he went on the way of the Well of the Oath, and he offered a sacrifice to the God of his

�� 2 father Isaac on the seventh of this month. And Jacob remembered the dream that he had seen

�� 3 at Bethel, and he feared to go down into Egypt. And while he was thinking of sending word to

�� Joseph to come to him, and that he would not go down, he remained there seven days, if

�� 4 perchance he could see a vision as to whether he should remain or go down. And he celebrated

�� the harvest festival of the first‑fruits with old grain, for in all the land of Canaan there was not a

�� handful of seed [in the land], for the famine was over all the beasts and cattle and

�� 5 birds, and also over man. And on the sixteenth the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him,

�� 'Jacob, Jacob'; and he said, 'Here am I.' And He said unto him: 'I am the God of thy fathers, the

�� God of Abraham and Isaac; fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will there make of thee

�� 6 a great nation I will go down with thee, and I will bring thee up (again), and in this land shalt thou

�� be buried, and Joseph shall put his hands upon thy eyes. Fear not; go down into Egypt.'

�� 7 And his sons rose up, and his sons' sons, and they placed their father and their possessions upon

�� 8 wagons. And Israel rose up from the Well of the Oath on the sixteenth of this third month, and he

�� 9 went to the land of Egypt. And Israel sent Judah before him to his son Joseph to examine the Land

�� of Goshen, for Joseph had told his brothers that they should come and dwell there that they

�� 10 might be near him. And this was the goodliest (land) in the land of Egypt, and near to him, for all

�� 11 (of them) and also for the cattle. And these are the names of the sons of Jacob who went into

�� 12 Egypt with Jacob their father Reuben, the First‑born of Israel; and these are the names of his

�� 13 sons Enoch, and Pallu, and Hezron and Carmi‑five. Simeon and his sons; and these are the

�� names of his sons: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul, the son

�� 14 of the Zephathite woman‑seven. Levi and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Gershon,

�� and Kohath, and Merari‑four. Judah and his sons; and these are the names of his sons:

�� 15 Shela, and Perez, and Zerah‑four. Issachar and his sons; and these are the names of his sons:

�� 17 Tola, and Phua, and Jasub, and Shimron‑five. Zebulon and his sons; and these are the names of

�� 18 his sons: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel‑four. And these are the sons of Jacob and their sons whom

�� Leah bore to Jacob in Mesopotamia, six, and their one sister, Dinah and all the souls of the sons of

�� Leah, and their sons, who went with Jacob their father into Egypt, were twenty‑nine, and Jacob their

�� 19 father being with them, they were thirty. And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, the wife of

�� 20 Jacob, who bore unto Jacob Gad and Ashur. And there are the names of their sons who went

�� with him into Egypt. The sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, and Shuni, and Ezbon, (and Eri, and

�� Areli,

�� 21 and Arodi‑eight. And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, (and Ishvi), and Beriah, and Serah,

�� 22,23 their one sister‑six. All the souls were fourteen, and all those of Leah were forty‑four. And the

�� 24 sons of Rachel, the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin. And there were born to Joseph in Egypt

�� before his father came into Egypt, those whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphar priest of Heliopolis

�� 25 bare unto him, Manasseh, and Ephraim‑three. And the sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and

�� Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, and Ehi, and Rosh, and Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard‑eleven.

�� 26,27 And all the souls of Rachel were fourteen. And the sons of Bilhah, the handmaid of Rachel,

�� the

�� 28 wife of Jacob, whom she bare to Jacob, were Dan and Naphtali. And these are the names of

�� their sons who went with them into Egypt. And the sons of Dan were Hushim, and Samon, and

�� Asudi.

�� 29 and 'Ijaka, and Salomon‑six. And they died the year in which they entered into Egypt, and there

�� 30 was left to Dan Hushim alone. And these are the names of the sons of Naphtali Jahziel, and Guni

�� 31 and Jezer, and Shallum, and 'Iv. And 'Iv, who was born after the years of famine, died in Egypt.

�� 32,33 And all the souls of Rachel were twenty‑six. And all the souls of Jacob which went into Egypt

�� were seventy souls. These are his children and his children's children, in all seventy, but five died

�� 34 in Egypt before Joseph, and had no children. And in the land of Canaan two sons of Judah died,

�� Er and Onan, and they had no children, and the children of Israel buried those who perished, and

�� they were reckoned among the seventy Gentile nations.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 45]

�� 1 And Israel went into the country of Egypt, into the land of Goshen, on the new moon of the fourth

�� [2172 A.M].

�� 2 month, in the second year of the third week of the forty‑fifth jubilee. And Joseph went to meet his

�� 3 father Jacob, to the land of Goshen, and he fell on his father's neck and wept. And Israel said unto

�� Joseph: 'Now let me die since I have seen thee, and now may the Lord God of Israel be blessed the

�� God of Abraham and the God of Isaac who hath not withheld His mercy and His grace from

�� 4 His servant Jacob. It is enough for me that I have seen thy face whilst I am yet alive; yea, true is

�� the vision which I saw at Bethel. Blessed be the Lord my God for ever and ever, and blessed be

�� 5 His name.' And Joseph and his brothers eat bread before their father and drank wine, and Jacob

�� rejoiced with exceeding great joy because he saw Joseph eating with his brothers and drinking

�� before him, and he blessed the Creator of all things who had preserved him, and had preserved for

�� him his

�� 6 twelve sons. And Joseph had given to his father and to his brothers as a gift the right of dwelling in

�� the land of Goshen and in Rameses and all the region round about, which he ruled over before

�� Pharaoh. And Israel and his sons dwelt in the land of Goshen, the best part of the land of Egypt

�� 7 and Israel was one hundred and thirty years old when he came into Egypt. And Joseph nourished

�� his father and his brethren and also their possessions with bread as much as sufficed them for the

�� 8 seven years of the famine. And the land of Egypt suffered by reason of the famine, and Joseph

�� acquired all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh in return for food, and he got possession of the people

�� 9 and their cattle and everything for Pharaoh. And the years of the famine were accomplished, and

�� Joseph gave to the people in the land seed and food that they might sow (the land) in the eighth

�� 10 year, for the river had overflowed all the land of Egypt. For in the seven years of the famine it had

�� (not) overflowed and had irrigated only a few places on the banks of the river, but now it overflowed

�� 11 and the Egyptians sowed the land, and it bore much corn that year. And this was the first year of

�� [2178 A.M.]

�� 12 the fourth week of the forty‑fifth jubilee. And Joseph took of the corn of the harvest the fifth part

�� for the king and left four parts for them for food and for seed, and Joseph made it an ordinance for

�� 13 the land of Egypt until this day. And Israel lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and all the

�� days which he lived were three jubilees, one hundred and forty‑seven years, and he died in the fourth

�� [2188 A.M.]

�� 14 year of the fifth week of the forty‑fifth jubilee. And Israel blessed his sons before he died and told

�� them everything that would befall them in the land of Egypt; and he made known to them what would

�� come upon them in the last days, and blessed them and gave to Joseph two portions in

�� 15 the land. And he slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the double cave in the land of

�� Canaan, near Abraham his father in the grave which he dug for himself in the double cave in

�� 16 the land of Hebron. And he gave all his books and the books of his fathers to Levi his son that he

�� might preserve them and renew them for his children until this day.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 46]

�� 1 And it came to pass that after Jacob died the children of Israel multiplied in the land of Egypt, and

�� they became a great nation, and they were of one accord in heart, so that brother loved brother and

�� every man helped his brother, and they increased abundantly and multiplied exceedingly, ten [2242

�� A.M.]

�� 2 weeks of years, all the days of the life of Joseph And there was no Satan nor any evil all the days

�� of the life of Joseph which he lived after his father Jacob, for all the Egyptians honoured the children

�� 3 of Israel all the days of the life of Joseph. And Joseph died being a hundred and ten years old;

�� seventeen years he lived in the land of Canaan, and ten years he was a servant, and three years in

�� 4 prison, and eighty years he was under the king, ruling all the land of Egypt. And he died and all

�� 5 his brethren and all that generation. And he commanded the children of Israel before he died that

�� 6 they should carry his bones with them when they went forth from the land of Egypt. And he made

�� them swear regarding his bones, for he knew that the Egyptians would not again bring forth and bury

�� him in the land of Canaan, for Makamaron, king of Canaan, while dwelling in the land of Assyria,

�� fought in the valley with the king of Egypt and slew him there, and pursued after the

�� 7 Egyptians to the gates of 'Ermon. But he was not able to enter, for another, a new king, had

�� become king of Egypt, and he was stronger than he, and he returned to the land of Canaan, and the

�� gates of

�� 8 Egypt were closed, and none went out and none came into Egypt. And Joseph died in the

�� forty‑sixth jubilee, in the sixth week, in the second year, and they buried him in the land of Egypt,

�� and [2242 A.M.]

�� 9 all his brethren died after him. And the king of Egypt went forth to war with the king of Canaan

�� [2263 A.M.] in the forty‑seventh jubilee, in the second week in the second year, and the children of

�� Israel brought forth all the bones of the children of Jacob save the bones of Joseph, and they buried

�� them in the

�� 10 field in the double cave in the mountain. And the most (of them) returned to Egypt, but a few of

�� 11 them remained in the mountains of Hebron, and Amram thy father remained with them. And the

�� 12 king of Canaan was victorious over the king of Egypt, and he closed the gates of Egypt. And he

�� devised an evil device against the children of Israel of afflicting them and he said unto the people of

�� 13 Egypt: 'Behold the people of the children of Israel have increased and multiplied more than we.

�� Come and let us deal wisely with them before they become too many, and let us afflict them with

�� slavery before war come upon us and before they too fight against us; else they will join themselves

�� unto our enemies and get them up out of our land, for their hearts and faces are towards the land

�� 14 of Canaan.' And he set over them taskmasters to afflict them with slavery; and they built strong

�� cities for Pharaoh, Pithom, and Raamses and they built all the walls and all the fortifications which

�� 15 had fallen in the cities of Egypt. And they made them serve with rigour, and the more they dealt

�� evilly with them, the more they increased and multiplied. And the people of Egypt abominated the

�� children of Israel

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 47]

�� 1 And in the seventh week, in the seventh year, in the forty‑seventh jubilee, thy father went forth

�� [2303 A.M.] from the land of Canaan, and thou wast born in the fourth week, in the sixth year

�� thereof, in the [2330 A.M.]

�� 2 forty‑eighth jubilee; this was the time of tribulation on the children of Israel. And Pharaoh, king of

�� Egypt, issued a command regarding them that they should cast all their male children which were

�� 3 born into the river. And they cast them in for seven months until the day that thou wast born

�� 4 And thy mother hid thee for three months, and they told regarding her. And she made an ark for

�� thee, and covered it with pitch and asphalt, and placed it in the flags on the bank of the river, and she

�� placed thee in it seven days, and thy mother came by night and suckled thee, and by day

�� 5 Miriam, thy sister, guarded thee from the birds. And in those days Tharmuth, the daughter of

�� Pharaoh, came to bathe in the river, and she heard thy voice crying, and she told her maidens to

�� 6 bring thee forth, and they brought thee unto her. And she took thee out of the ark, and she had

�� 7 compassion on thee. And thy sister said unto her: 'Shall I go and call unto thee one of the

�� 8 Hebrew women to nurse and suckle this babe for thee?' And she said (unto her): 'Go.' And she

�� 9 went and called thy mother Jochebed, and she gave her wages, and she nursed thee. And

�� afterwards, when thou wast grown up, they brought thee unto the daughter of Pharaoh, and thou

�� didst become her son, and Amram thy father taught thee writing, and after thou hadst completed

�� three weeks

�� 10 they brought thee into the royal court. And thou wast three weeks of years at court until the time

�� [2351‑] when thou didst go forth from the royal court and didst see an Egyptian smiting thy friend

�� who was [2372 A.M.]

�� 11 of the children of Israel, and thou didst slay him and hide him in the sand. And on the second day

�� thou didst and two of the children of Israel striving together, and thou didst say to him who was

�� 12 doing the wrong: 'Why dost thou smite thy brother?' And he was angry and indignant, and said:

�� 'Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Thinkest thou to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian

�� yesterday?' And thou didst fear and flee on account of these words.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 48]

�� 1 And in the sixth year of the third week of the forty‑ninth jubilee thou didst depart and dwell (in

�� [2372 A.M.] the land of Midian, five weeks and one year. And thou didst return into Egypt in the

�� second week

�� 2 in the second year in the fiftieth jubilee. And thou thyself knowest what He spake unto thee on

�� [2410 A.M.] Mount Sinai, and what prince Mastema desired to do with thee when thou wast

�� returning into Egypt

�� 3 on the way when thou didst meet him at the lodging‑place. Did he not with all his power seek to

�� slay thee and deliver the Egyptians out of thy hand when he saw that thou wast sent to execute

�� 4 judgment and vengeance on the Egyptians? And I delivered thee out of his hand, and thou didst

�� perform the signs and wonders which thou wast sent to perform in Egypt against Pharaoh, and

�� 5 against all his house, and against his servants and his people. And the Lord executed a great

�� vengeance on them for Israel's sake, and smote them through (the plagues of) blood and frogs, lice

�� and dog‑flies, and malignant boils breaking forth in blains; and their cattle by death; and by

�� hail‑stones, thereby He destroyed everything that grew for them; and by locusts which devoured the

�� residue which had been left by the hail, and by darkness; and (by the death) of the first‑born of

�� 6 men and animals, and on all their idols the Lord took vengeance and burned them with fire And

�� everything was sent through thy hand, that thou shouldst declare (these things) before they were

�� done, and thou didst speak with the king of Egypt before all his servants and before his people

�� 7 And everything took place according to thy words; ten great and terrible judgments came on

�� the

�� 8 land of Egypt that thou mightest execute vengeance on it for Israel. And the Lord did everything

�� for Israel's sake, and according to His covenant, which he had ordained with Abraham that He

�� 9 would take vengeance on them as they had brought them by force into bondage. And the prince

�� Mastema stood up against thee, and sought to cast thee into the hands of Pharaoh, and he helped

�� 10 the Egyptian sorcerers, and they stood up and wrought before thee the evils indeed we permitted

�� 11 them to work, but the remedies we did not allow to be wrought by their hands. And the Lord

�� smote them with malignant ulcers, and they were not able to stand, for we destroyed them so that

�� 12 they could not perform a single sign. And notwithstanding all (these) signs and wonders the prince

�� Mastema was not put to shame because he took courage and cried to the Egyptians to pursue after

�� thee with all the powers of the Egyptians, with their chariots, and with their horses, and with all the

�� 13 hosts of the peoples of Egypt. And I stood between the Egyptians and Israel, and we delivered

�� Israel out of his hand, and out of the hand of his people, and the Lord brought them through the

�� 14 midst of the sea as if it were dry land. And all the peoples whom he brought to pursue after

�� Israel, the Lord our God cast them into the midst of the sea, into the depths of the abyss beneath the

�� children of Israel, even as the people of Egypt had cast their children into the river He took

�� vengeance on 1,000,000 of them, and one thousand strong and energetic men were destroyed on

�� 15 account of one suckling of the children of thy people which they had thrown into the river. And

�� on the fourteenth day and on the fifteenth and on the sixteenth and on the seventeenth and on the

�� eighteenth the prince Mastema was bound and imprisoned behind the children of Israel that he

�� 16 might not accuse them. And on the nineteenth we let them loose that they might help the

�� 17 Egyptians and pursue the children of Israel. And he hardened their hearts and made them

�� stubborn, and the device was devised by the Lord our God that He might smite the Egyptians and

�� 18 cast them into the sea. And on the fourteenth we bound him that he might not accuse the children

�� of Israel on the day when they asked the Egyptians for vessels and garments, vessels of silver, and

�� vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze, in order to despoil the Egyptians in return for the bondage in

�� 19 which they had forced them to serve. And we did not lead forth the children of Israel from Egypt

�� empty handed.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 49]

�� 1 Remember the commandment which the Lord commanded thee concerning the passover, that thou

�� shouldst celebrate it in its season on the fourteenth of the first month, that thou shouldst kill it before it

�� is evening, and that they should eat it by night on the evening of the fifteenth from the

�� 2 time of the setting of the sun. For on this night ‑the beginning of the festival and the beginning of the

�� joy‑ ye were eating the passover in Egypt, when all the powers of Mastema had been let loose to

�� slay all the first‑born in the land of Egypt, from the first‑born of Pharaoh to the first‑born

�� 3 of the captive maid‑servant in the mill, and to the cattle. And this is the sign which the Lord gave

�� them: Into every house on the lintels of which they saw the blood of a lamb of the first year, into

�� (that) house they should not enter to slay, but should pass by (it), that all those should be saved that

�� 4 were in the house because the sign of the blood was on its lintels. And the powers of the Lord did

�� everything according as the Lord commanded them, and they passed by all the children of Israel,

�� and the plague came not upon them to destroy from amongst them any soul either of cattle, or

�� 5 man, or dog. And the plague was very grievous in Egypt, and there was no house in Egypt

�� 6 where there was not one dead, and weeping and lamentation. And all Israel was eating the flesh of

�� the paschal lamb, and drinking the wine, and was lauding, and blessing, and giving thanks to the Lord

�� God of their fathers, and was ready to go forth from under the yoke of Egypt, and from

�� 7 the evil bondage. And remember thou this day all the days of thy life, and observe it from year to

�� year all the days of thy life, once a year, on its day, according to all the law thereof, and do not

�� 8 adjourn (it) from day to day, or from month to month. For it is an eternal ordinance, and engraven

�� on the heavenly tablets regarding all the children of Israel that they should observe it every year on its

�� day once a year, throughout all their generations; and there is no limit of days, for this is ordained

�� 9 for ever. And the man who is free from uncleanness, and does not come to observe it on occasion

�� of its day, so as to bring an acceptable offering before the Lord, and to eat and to drink before the

�� Lord on the day of its festival, that man who is clean and close at hand shall be cut off: because he

�� offered not the oblation of the Lord in its appointed season, he shall take the guilt upon himself.

�� 10 Let the children of Israel come and observe the passover on the day of its fixed time, on the

�� fourteenth day of the first month, between the evenings, from the third part of the day to the third

�� part of

�� 11 the night, for two portions of the day are given to the light, and a third part to the evening. This

�� 12 is that which the Lord commanded thee that thou shouldst observe it between the evenings. And

�� it is not permissible to slay it during any period of the light, but during the period bordering on the

�� evening, and let them eat it at the time of the evening, until the third part of the night, and whatever is

�� left over of all its flesh from the third part of the night and onwards, let them burn

�� 13 it with fire. And they shall not cook it with water, nor shall they eat it raw, but roast on the fire:

�� they shall eat it with diligence, its head with the inwards thereof and its feet they shall roast with fire,

�� and not break any bone thereof; for of the children of Israel no bone shall be crushed.

�� 14 For this reason the Lord commanded the children of Israel to observe the passover on the day of

�� its fixed time, and they shall not break a bone thereof; for it is a festival day, and a day commanded,

�� and there may be no passing over from day to day, and month to month, but on the day of its

�� 15 festival let it be observed. And do thou command the children of Israel to observe the passover

�� throughout their days, every year, once a year on the day of its fixed time, and it shall come for a

�� memorial well pleasing before the Lord, and no plague shall come upon them to slay or to smite in

�� that year in which they celebrate the passover in its season in every respect according to His

�� 16 command. And they shall not eat it outside the sanctuary of the Lord, but before the sanctuary of

�� the Lord, and all the people of the congregation of Israel shall celebrate it in its appointed season.

�� 17 And every man who has come upon its day shall eat it in the sanctuary of your God before the

�� Lord from twenty years old and upward; for thus is it written and ordained that they should eat it

�� 18 in the sanctuary of the Lord. And when the children of Israel come into the land which they are to

�� possess, into the land of Canaan, and set up the tabernacle of the Lord in the midst of the land in one

�� of their tribes until the sanctuary of the Lord has been built in the land, let them come and celebrate

�� the passover in the midst of the tabernacle of the Lord, and let them slay it

�� 19 before the Lord from year to year. And in the days when the house has been built in the name of

�� the Lord in the land of their inheritance, they shall go there and slay the passover in the evening, at

�� 20 sunset, at the third part of the day. And they shall offer its blood on the threshold of the altar, and

�� shall place its fat on the fire which is upon the altar, and they shall eat its flesh roasted

�� 21 with fire in the court of the house which has been sanctified in the name of the Lord. And they

�� may not celebrate the passover in their cities, nor in any place save before the tabernacle of the

�� Lord, or before His house where His name hath dwelt; and they shall not go astray from the Lord.

�� 22 And do thou, Moses, command the children of Israel to observe the ordinances of the passover,

�� as it was commanded unto thee; declare thou unto them every year and the day of its days, and the

�� festival of unleavened bread, that they should eat unleavened bread seven days, (and) that they

�� should observe its festival, and that they bring an oblation every day during those seven days of

�� 23 joy before the Lord on the altar of your God. For ye celebrated this festival with haste when ye

�� went forth from Egypt till ye entered into the wilderness of Shur; for on the shore of the sea ye

�� completed it.

�� [The Book of Jubilees: Chapter 50]

�� 1 And after this law I made known to thee the days of the Sabbaths in the desert of Sin[ai], which

�� 2 is between Elim and Sinai. And I told thee of the Sabbaths of the land on Mount Sinai, and I told

�� thee of the jubilee years in the sabbaths of years: but the year thereof have I not told thee till ye

�� 3 enter the land which ye are to possess. And the land also shall keep its sabbaths while they dwell

�� 4 upon it, and they shall know the jubilee year. Wherefore I have ordained for thee the year‑weeks

�� and the years and the jubilees: there are forty‑nine jubilees from the days of Adam until this day,

�� [2410 A.M.] and one week and two years: and there are yet forty years to come (lit. 'distant') for

�� learning the [2450 A.M.] commandments of the Lord, until they pass over into the land of Canaan,

�� crossing the Jordan to the

�� 5 west. And the jubilees shall pass by, until Israel is cleansed from all guilt of fornication, and

�� uncleanness, and pollution, and sin, and error, and dwells with confidence in all the land, and there

�� shall be no more a Satan or any evil one, and the land shall be clean from that time for evermore.

�� 6 And behold the commandment regarding the Sabbaths ‑I have written (them) down for thee‑

�� 7 and all the judgments of its laws. Six days shalt thou labour, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath

�� of the Lord your God. In it ye shall do no manner of work, ye and your sons, and your men‑

�� 8 servants and your maid‑servants, and all your cattle and the sojourner also who is with you. And

�� the man that does any work on it shall die: whoever desecrates that day, whoever lies with (his) wife,

�� or whoever says he will do something on it, that he will set out on a journey thereon in regard to any

�� buying or selling: and whoever draws water thereon which he had not prepared for himself on the

�� sixth day, and whoever takes up any burden to carry it out of his tent or out of his house

�� 9 shall die. Ye shall do no work whatever on the Sabbath day save what ye have prepared for

�� yourselves on the sixth day, so as to eat, and drink, and rest, and keep Sabbath from all work on

�� that day, and to bless the Lord your God, who has given you a day of festival and a holy day: and

�� 10 a day of the holy kingdom for all Israel is this day among their days for ever. For great is the

�� honour which the Lord has given to Israel that they should eat and drink and be satisfied on this

�� festival day, and rest thereon from all labour which belongs to the labour of the children of men save

�� burning frankincense and bringing oblations and sacrifices before the Lord for days and for

�� 11 Sabbaths. This work alone shall be done on the Sabbath‑days in the sanctuary of the Lord your

�� God; that they may atone for Israel with sacrifice continually from day to day for a memorial

�� well‑pleasing before the Lord, and that He may receive them always from day to day according as

�� thou

�� 12 hast been commanded. And every man who does any work thereon, or goes a journey, or tills

�� (his) farm, whether in his house or any other place, and whoever lights a fire, or rides on any beast,

�� or travels by ship on the sea, and whoever strikes or kills anything, or slaughters a beast or a bird, or

�� 13 whoever catches an animal or a bird or a fish, or whoever fasts or makes war on the Sabbaths:

�� The man who does any of these things on the Sabbath shall die, so that the children of Israel shall

�� observe the Sabbaths according to the commandments regarding the Sabbaths of the land, as it is

�� written in the tablets, which He gave into my hands that I should write out for thee the laws of the

�� seasons, and the seasons according to the division of their days.

�� Herewith is completed the account of the division of the days.

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