The Book of Jubilees

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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 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 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. 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.

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 [ A. 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.

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. 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. 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 [ A. 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. For it is the feast of weeks and the feast of first fruits: 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.

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.

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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 of 27 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. 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. 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.

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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.

And he made wine therefrom and put it into a vessel, and kept it until the fifth 3 year, [ A. 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: God shall enlarge Japheth, and God shall 13 dwell in the dwelling of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. 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. 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: And in the twenty-eighth jubilee [ A. 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 begat sons the Naphidim, and they were all unlike, and they devoured one 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 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. For whoso sheddeth man's blood, and whoso eateth the blood of any flesh, shall all be destroyed from the earth. And ye shall not be like him who eats with blood, but guard yourselves that none may eat blood before you: 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: 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: 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: 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, [ A. And she bare him a son in the fifth year [ A. 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 [ A. 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. 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: 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: 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: 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.

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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. 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.

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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. 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.

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: 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 chief of the spirits, Mastema, came and said: Let the tenth part of them remain before him, and let nine parts descend into the 10 place of condemnation. And we did according to all His words: 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. 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: And they built it: 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 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 [ A. 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: 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. 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. 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, [ A.

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, [ A.

And she bare him Terah in the seventh year of this week. 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 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: And in this thirty-ninth jubilee, in the second week in the first year, [ A. And in the seventh year of this week [ A. 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: 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 in the first year of the fifth week [ A. 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.

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: 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 in the fortieth jubilee, in the second week, in the seventh year thereof, [ A. And Haran, his brother, took to himself a wife in the third year of the third week, [ A. 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, [ A. 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, [ A.

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? And Thou hast created all things, And all things that are the work of thy hands. And stablish Thou me and my seed for ever That we go not astray from henceforth and for evermore. 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.

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 [ A. 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.

And Nahor thy brother leave with me till thou returnest in peace, and we go with thee all together. 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: 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, A. 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.

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, [ A. 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: 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: 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 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.

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.

And the king of Sodom came to him and bowed himself before him, and said: These shall take their portion. And He said 6 unto him: And He said unto him: 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!

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 on that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: 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.

Abraham's role in the Book of Jubilees corresponds to Abraham's role in the Quran in more than one way. The interpretation of biblical figures as prophets is also rooted in the Book of Jubilees. Also numerology, the emphasis on angels , and the symbolism of anniversaries found their way into Islam, such as the fact that many important events in the prophet's biography as presented by Ibn Ishaq happen on the same date.

Jubilees covers much of the same ground as Genesis , but often with additional detail, and addressing Moses in the second person as the entire history of creation, and of Israel up to that point, is recounted in divisions of 49 years each, or "Jubilees".

The elapsed time from the creation, up to Moses receiving the scriptures upon Sinai during the Exodus, is calculated as fifty Jubilees, less the 40 years still to be spent wandering in the desert before entering Canaan — or 2, years. Four classes of angels are mentioned: Enoch was the first man initiated by the angels in the art of writing, and wrote down, accordingly, all the secrets of astronomy, of chronology, and of the world's epochs. As regards demonology, the writer's position is largely that of the deuterocanonical writings from both New and Old Testament times.

The Book of Jubilees narrates the genesis of angels on the first day of Creation and the story of how a group of fallen angels mated with mortal females, giving rise to a race of giants known as the Nephilim , and then to their descendants, the Elioud. The Ethiopian version states that the "angels" were in fact the disobedient offspring of Seth Deqiqa Set , while the "mortal females" were daughters of Cain.

Their hybrid children, the Nephilim in existence during the time of Noah , were wiped out by the great flood. However, Jubilees also states that God granted ten percent of the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim to try to lead mankind astray after the flood. Jubilees makes an incestuous reference regarding the son of Adam and Eve, Cain, and his wife. In chapter iv 1—12 Cain and Abel , it mentions that Cain took his sister Awan to be his wife and Enoch was their child.

It also mentions that Seth the third son of Adam and Eve married his sister Azura. According to this book, Hebrew is the language of Heaven, and was originally spoken by all creatures in the Garden, animals and man; however, the animals lost their power of speech when Adam and Eve were expelled. Following the Deluge, the earth was apportioned into three divisions for the three sons of Noah , and his sixteen grandsons. After the destruction of the Tower of Babel , their families were scattered to their respective allotments, and Hebrew was forgotten, until Abraham was taught it by the angels.

Jubilees also contains a few scattered allusions to the Messianic kingdom. Robert Henry Charles wrote in This kingdom would be gradually realized on earth, and the transformation of physical nature would go hand in hand with the ethical transformation of man until there was a new heaven and a new earth. Thus, finally, all sin and pain would disappear and men would live to the age of 1, years in happiness and peace, and after death enjoy a blessed immortality in the spirit world.