The Book Of Jubilees
The Book of Jubilees
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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.'
[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. 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
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. 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.
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, 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.
[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. For 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 -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
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, 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,
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.
[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
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.
[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
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.
[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.
[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 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.
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.
[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, and the
23 Naphil slew the Eljo, 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.'
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