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THE BOOK OF JUBILEES - LITTLE GENESIS
By: patrick jane Date: September 7, 2020, 6:41 pm
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[center]TRANSLATIONS OF EARLY DOCUMENTS
SERIES I
PALESTINIAN JEWISH TEXTS
(PRE-RABBINIC)
THE BOOK OF JUBILEES
OR
THE LITTLE GENESIS
p. iii
THE BOOK OF JUBILEES
OR
THE LITTLE GENESIS
TRANSLATED FROM THE ETHIOPIC TEXT
BY
R. H. CHARLES, D.LITT., D.D.
CANON OF WESTMINSTER; FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE;
FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
G. H. BOX, M.A.
LECTURER IN RABBINICAL HEBREW, KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON;
HON. CANON OF ST. ALBANS
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
LONDON 68, HAYMARKET, S.W. 1.
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1917
Scanned at sacred-texts.com, July 2004. John Bruno Hare,
redactor. This text is in the public domain in the USA. These
files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this
notice of attribution is left intact.[/center]
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
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EDITORS' PREFACE
THE object of this series of translations is primarily to
furnish students with short, cheap, and handy text-books, which,
it is hoped, will facilitate the study of the particular texts
in class under competent teachers. But it is also hoped that the
volumes will be acceptable to the general reader who may be
interested in the subjects with which they deal. It has been
thought advisable, as a general rule, to restrict the notes and
comments to a small compass; more especially as, in most cases,
excellent works of a more elaborate character are available.
Indeed, it is much to be desired that these translations may
have the effect of inducing readers to study the larger works.
Our principal aim, in a word, is to make some difficult texts,
important for the study of Christian origins, more generally
accessible in faithful and scholarly translations.
In most cases these texts are not available in a cheap and handy
form. In one or two cases texts have been included of books
which are available in the official Apocrypha; but in every such
case reasons exist for putting forth these texts in a new
translation, with an Introduction, in this series.
We desire to express our thanks to Canon Charles and Messrs. A.
and C. Black, for their permission to reprint here the
translation of The Book of Jubilees, published in 1902.
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
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INTRODUCTION
SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE BOOK
THE Book of Jubilees, or, as it is sometimes called, "the little
Genesis," purports to be a revelation given by God to Moses
through the medium of an angel (" the Angel of the Presence," i.
27), and containing a history, divided up into jubilee-periods
of forty-nine years, from the creation to the coming of Moses.
Though the actual narrative of events is only carried down to
the birth and early career of Moses, its author envisages the
events of a later time, and in particular certain events of
special interest at the time when he wrote, which was probably
in the latter years of the second century B.C., perhaps in the
reign of the Maccabean prince John Hyrcanus.
Though distinguished from the Pentateuch proper ("the first
Law," vi. 22), it presupposes and supplements the latter. The
actual narrative embraces material contained in the whole of
Genesis and part of Exodus. But the legal regulations given
presuppose other parts of the Pentateuch, especially the
so-called "Priest's Code" (P), and certain details in the
narrative are probably intended to apply to events that occurred
in the author's own time (the latter years of the second century
B.C.). The author himself seems to have contemplated the speedy
inauguration of the Messianic Age, and in this respect his point
of view is similar to that of the Apocalyptic writers. But his
work, though it contains one or two passages of an apocalyptic
character, is quite unlike the typical apocalypses. It is
largely narrative based upon the historical narratives in
Genesis and
p. viii
[paragraph continues] Exodus, interspersed with legends, and
emphasizing certain legal practices (such as the strict
observance of the Sabbath, circumcision, etc.), and laying much
stress upon their eternal obligation. But his main object was to
inculcate a reform in the regulation of the calendar and
festivals, in place of the intercalated lunar calendar, which he
condemns in the strongest language. He proposes to substitute
for this a solar calendar consisting of 12 months and containing
364 days. The result of such a system is to make all festivals,
except the Day of Atonement, fall on a Sunday; the author also
fixes the date of the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) on Sivan 15th
(in place of the traditional Sivan 6th). He obviously believes
that the prevailing system has produced grave consequences in
religious practice. The proper observance of the feasts, which
had been prescribed by divine authority, is, according to his
view, rendered impossible so long as the right principles for
regulating the calendar are ignored. These principles are
justified from the written Law, and are represented as having
been ordained in heaven. To what party or tendency in Judaism
did the author belong? Various answers have been given to this
question, which will be fully discussed below. It is very
difficult to believe, as Dr. Charles contends, that the author
was a Pharisee, for the positions he advocates are in many
respects fundamentally opposed to later Pharisaic practice.
In particular, how can any member of the Pharisaic party, which
from its beginning championed popular religious custom, have
advocated a solar calendar? More can be said for the view that
the author was a member of the Hasidim or "pious" (who must not
be confounded with the Pharisees), while in a recent important
discussion Leszynsky has made out a strong, if not quite
convincing, case for Sadducean authorship. The Book has
sometimes been styled a Midrash, but such a descriptive term
needs some qualification. It claims to be a revelation, and not
a mere exposition of Genesis and
p. ix
[paragraph continues] Exodus. At the same time, there is a
certain Midrashic tendency observable in the way the author
rewrites the older narratives, which reminds one of the work of
the Chronicler as compared with the earlier canonical books
which he remodelled. But Jubilees is not at all like the typical
Midrash of the later Rabbinical period; it is more independent,
and resembles rather such works as the "Chronicles of
Jerahmeel," or the earlier (narrative) part of the "Apocalypse
of Abraham."
The Book, which was probably composed in Hebrew, is divided into
fifty chapters, and appears to be complete.
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
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TITLES
The Book was known under various titles, most of them in Greek
as referred to in later Greek writers. The most important are
"Jubilees" (= τὰ
Ἰωβηλαῖα or ) and "the
little Genesis" (= ἡ λεπτὴ; and
variants). Both of these seem to go back to Hebrew originals,
and there would thus appear to have been two authoritative
Hebrew titles of the original Hebrew work, viz. ha-yôbĕlîm
(or sēfer hâ-yôbĕlôth), and Berēshîth zûtā.
In the latter the epithet "little" 1 refers not to the extent of
the work, but to its relatively inferior position as compared
with the canonical Genesis. It is also noteworthy that a clear
reference to our Book is made in the recently recovered
fragments of a "Zadokite Work." 2 The passage runs as follows
(xx. 1):
And as for the exact statement of their Periods to put Israel in
remembrance in regard to all these, behold it is treated
accurately in the Book of the Divisions of the Seasons according
to their jubilees and their Weeks.
This is remarkably like the opening words of the Prologue of our
Book: This is the history of the division
p. x
of the days . . . of the events of the years according to their
(year-) weeks, according to their jubilees. . . . Cf. also the
colophon at the end of the Book:
Herewith is completed the account of the division of the days.
Other titles of our Book are: The Apocalypse of Moses
(Syncellus); The Testament of Moses (the Catena of Nicephorus);
The Book of Adam's Daughters (perhaps applied only to a portion
of Jubilees); The Life of Adam (perhaps an amplified excerpt of
our Book).
Footnotes
ix:1 Applied also to certain minor midrashîm ("midrash
zûtā," etc.).
ix:2 First published by Schechter in 1910 (Cambridge Press).
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God's Revelation to Moses on Mount Sinai
(i. 1-26: cf. Ex. xxiv. 15-18).
1. And it came to pass in the first year of the
2450 A.M. (A.M. = Anno Mundi) exodus of the children of Israel
out of Egypt, in the third month, 5 on the sixteenth day of the
month, 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 I have written, that thou mayst teach
them." 6 2. And Moses went up into the mount of God, and the
glory of the Lord abode on Mount Sinai, and a cloud overshadowed
it six days. 3. And He called to Moses on
p. 36
the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud, and the
appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a flaming fire on
the top of the Mount. 4. And Moses was on the Mount forty days
and forty nights, and God taught him the earlier and the later
history 1 of the division of all the days of the law and of the
testimony. 5. And He said: "Incline thine heart to every word
which I shall speak to thee on this Mount, and write them 2 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 which I establish between Me and thee
for their generations this day on Mount Sinai. 6. And thus it
will come to pass when all these things come upon them, 3 that
they will recognize that I am more righteous than they in all
their judgments and in all their actions, and they will
recognize that I have been truly with them. 7. And do thou write
for thyself 4 all these words which I declare unto thee this
day, for I know their rebellion and their stiff neck, 5 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 will
I give a land flowing with milk and honey. 8. 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. 6 9. 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 prove unto them an offence and a tribulation and
an affliction and a snare. 7 10. And
p. 37
many will perish and they will be taken captive, 1 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 2 which I have
hallowed for Myself in their midst, and My tabernacle, 3 and My
sanctuary, which I have hallowed for Myself in the midst of the
land, that I should set My name upon it, and that it should
dwell (there). 11. And they 4 will make to themselves high
places and groves and graven images, 5 and they will worship,
each his own (graven image), so as to go astray, and they will
sacrifice their children to demons, 6 and to all the works of
the error of their hearts. 12. And I will send witnesses unto
them, that I may witness against them, but they will not hear, 7
and will slay 8 the witnesses also, and they will persecute
those who seek the law, and they will abrogate and change
everything so as to work evil before My eyes. 13. And I shall
hide My face from them, and I shall deliver them into the hand
of the Gentiles for captivity, and for a prey, and for
devouring, 9 and I shall remove them from the midst of the land,
and I shall scatter 10 them amongst the Gentiles. 14. And they
will forget all My law and all My commandments and all My
judgments, and will go astray as to new moons, and sabbaths, and
festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances. 15. And after this they
will turn to Me 11 from amongst the Gentiles with all their
heart and with all their soul and with all their strength, and I
shall gather them from amongst all the Gentiles, 12 and they
will seek Me, so that I shall be found of them, when they seek
Me
p. 38
with all their heart and with all their soul. 16. And I shall
disclose to them abounding peace with righteousness, and I shall
†remove them the plant of uprightness†, 1 with all My heart and
with all My soul, 2 and they will be for a blessing and not for
a curse, 3 and they will be the head and not the tail. 4 17. And
I shall build My sanctuary 5 in their midst, and I shall dwell
with them, and I shall be their God and they will be My people 6
in truth and righteousness. 18. And I shall not forsake them nor
fail them; 7 for I am the Lord their God." 19. And Moses fell on
his face and prayed and said, "O Lord my God, do not forsake Thy
people and Thy inheritance, 8 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 Thee. 20. Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be
lifted up upon Thy people, and create in them an upright spirit,
9 and let not the spirit of Beliar 10 rule over them to accuse
them before Thee, and to ensnare them from all the paths of
righteousness, so that they may perish from before Thy face. 21.
But they are Thy people and Thy inheritance, which Thou hast
delivered with Thy great power 11 from the hands of the
Egyptians: create in them a clean heart and a holy Spirit, 12
and let them not be ensnared in their sins from henceforth until
eternity." 22. And the Lord said unto Moses: "I know their
contrariness and their thoughts and their stiffneckedness, 13
and they will not be obedient till they confess their own sin
and the sin of their
p. 39
fathers. 1 23. And after this they will turn to Me in all
uprightness and with all (their) heart and with all (their)
soul, and I shall circumcise the foreskin of their heart 2 and
the foreskin of the heart of their seed, and I shall create in
them a holy spirit, and I shall 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 commandments, and I shall be their Father and
they will be My children. 25. And they will all be called
children of the living God, 3 and every angel and every spirit
will know, yea, they will know that these are My children, and
that I am their Father in uprightness and righteousness, and
that I love them. 26. And do thou write down for thyself all
these words 4 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
with them 5 throughout eternity."
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God commands the Angel to write (i. 27-29).
27. And He said to the angel of the presence: 6 "Write 7 for
Moses from the beginning of creation till My sanctuary has been
built among them for all eternity. 28. 8 And the Lord will
appear to the eyes
p. 40
of all, 1 and all will know that I am the God of Israel and the
Father of all the children of Jacob, 2 and King on Mount Zion 3
for all eternity. And Zion and Jerusalem will be holy." 29. And
the angel of the presence who went before the camp of Israel 4
took the tables of the divisions of the years 5--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 6
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 7 on Mount Zion, and all the luminaries be renewed for
healing 8 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.
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The Angel dictates to Moses the Primæval History: the Creation
of the World and Institution of the Sabbath (ii. 1-33; cf. Gen.
i.-ii. 3).
II. 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 appointed it as a sign
p. 41
for all His works. 2. 1 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 2 of the presence,
and the angels of sanctification, 3 and the angels [of the
spirit of fire and the angels] of the spirit of the winds, 4 and
the angels of the spirit of the clouds, and of darkness, and of
snow and of hail and of hoar frost, 5 and the angels of the
voices 6 and of the thunder and of the lightning, 7 and the
angels of the spirits of cold and of heat, and of winter and of
spring and of autumn and of summer, 8 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 prepared in the knowledge
of His heart. 3. 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
p. 42
day 1 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 on the second day. 5. And on the third day 2
He commanded the waters to pass from off the face of the whole
earth into one place, and the dry land to appear. 6. 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,
and the dry land appeared. 7. 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, and all (plants after their kind).
These four great works God created on the third day. 8. And on
the fourth day 3 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 light from the darkness. 9. And God appointed the sun
4 to be a great sign on the earth for days and 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. 10. And
it divideth the light from the darkness [and] for
p. 43
prosperity, that all things may prosper which shoot and grow on
the earth. These three kinds He made on the fourth day. 11. And
on the fifth day 1 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 waters, and everything that flies, the birds and all their
kind. 12. 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 fruit-bearing trees, and all flesh.
These three kinds He created on the fifth day. 13. And on the
sixth day 2 He created all the animals of the earth, and all
cattle, and everything that moves on the earth. 14. 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 him dominion. And
these four kinds He created on the sixth day. 15. And there were
altogether two and twenty kinds. 3 16. And He finished all His
work on the sixth 4 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 everything. 17. And He gave us a great
sign, the Sabbath day, 5 that we should work six days, but keep
Sabbath on the seventh day from all work. 18. And all the angels
of the presence, and all the angels of sanctification, these two
great classes--He hath hidden us
p. 44
to keep the Sabbath with Him 1 in heaven and on earth. 19. And
He said unto us: "Behold, I will separate unto Myself 2 a people
from among all the peoples, and these will 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 Myself, even so shall I bless them, and they will be
My people and I shall be their God. 20 . And I have chosen the
seed of Jacob 3 from amongst all that I have seen, and have
written him down as My firstborn son, 4 and have sanctified him
unto Myself for ever and ever; and I will teach them the Sabbath
day, that they may keep Sabbath thereon from all work." 21. And
thus He created therein a sign 5 in accordance with which they
should keep Sabbath with us 6 on the seventh day, to eat and to
drink, and to bless Him 7 who hath created all things as He hath
blessed and sanctified unto Himself a peculiar people 8 above
all peoples, and that they should keep Sabbath together with us.
22. And He caused His commands to ascend as a sweet savour 9
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 10 until
p. 45
the seventh day; this 1 is blessed and holy; and the former 2
also is blessed and holy; and this one serves with that one for
sanctification and blessing. 24. And to this (Jacob and his
seed) it was granted that they should always be the blessed and
holy ones of the first testimony and law, even as He had
sanctified and blessed the Sabbath day on the seventh day. 25.
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 doth any work
thereon shall die, 3 and that he who defileth it shall surely
die. 26. Wherefore do thou command the children of Israel to
observe this day that they may keep it holy 4 and not do thereon
any work, and not to defile it, as it is holier than all other
days. 5 27. And whoever profaneth it shall surely die, and
whoever doeth 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 day. 28. And every one who observeth it and
keepeth Sabbath thereon from all his work, will be holy and
blessed throughout all days like unto us. 29. 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, 6 and that they should not prepare thereon anything to
be eaten or drunk. 7 †and (that it is not lawful) to draw water,
or bring in or take out thereon through their gates any burden,†
8 which they had not
p. 46
prepared for themselves on the sixth day 1 in their dwellings.
30. And they shall not bring in nor take out from house to house
2 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 known to any flesh to keep Sabbath
thereon on the earth. 31. And the Creator of all things blessed
it, 3 but He did not sanctify all peoples and nations to keep
Sabbath thereon, but Israel alone: them alone He permitted to
eat and drink and to keep Sabbath thereon on the earth. 32. And
the Creator of all things blessed this day which He had created
for a blessing and a sanctification and a glory above all days.
33. This law and testimony was given to the children of Israel
as a law for ever unto their generations. 4
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Paradise and the Fall (iii. 1-35; cf. Gen. ii. 4-iii .).
III. 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 moveth on the
earth, and everything that moveth 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 moveth on the earth on the fourth day;
and that which moveth 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. 5 3. And on these five days Adam saw all
these, male and female, according to every kind that was on the
earth, but he was alone and found no helpmeet
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for him. 1 4. And the Lord said unto us: "It is not good that
the man should be alone: let us make a helpmeet for him." 2 5.
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 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. 6. 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 will be called [my] wife; because she was taken
from her husband." 3 7. 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 one flesh. 4 8. 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, for a male
seven days, and for a female twice seven days. 5 9. 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 of Eden. 10. And for this
reason the commandment is written on the heavenly tables 6 in
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regard to her that giveth birth: "if she beareth 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
accomplisheth these days which (are enjoined) in the case of a
male child. 11. 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 in the blood of her
purification, and they will be in all eighty days." 12. 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
every tree that is planted in it is holy. 13. Therefore, there
was ordained regarding her who beareth a male or a female child
the statute of those days that she should touch no hallowed
thing, nor enter into the sanctuary until these days for the
male or female child are accomplished. 14. This is the law and
testimony which was written down for Israel, in order that they
should observe (it) all the days. 15. And in the first week
1-7 A.M.of the first jubilee, Adam and his wife were in the
Garden of Eden for seven 1 years tilling and keeping it, and we
gave him work and we instructed him to do everything that is
suitable for tillage. 2 16. And he tilled (the garden), and was
naked and knew it not, and was not ashamed, 3 and he protected
the garden from the birds and beasts and cattle, and gathered
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its fruit, and ate, and put aside the residue for himself and
for his wife [and put aside that which was being kept]. 1 17. 2
And after the completion of the seven years, which he had
completed there, seven years exactly, and in the second month,
on the seventeenth
8 A.M.day (of the month), the serpent came and approached the
woman, and the serpent said to the woman, "Hath God commanded
you, saying, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" 18.
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." 19.
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 evil." 20. And the woman saw the tree that it was
agreeable and pleasant to the eye, and that its fruit was good
for food, and she took thereof and ate. 21. And when she had
first covered her shame with fig-leaves, she gave thereof to
Adam and he ate, and his eyes were opened, and he saw that he
was naked. 22. And he took fig-leaves and sewed (them) together,
and made an apron for himself, and covered his shame. 32. And
God cursed the serpent, and was wroth with it for ever. . . . 3
24. And He was wroth with the woman, because she hearkened to
the voice of the serpent, and did eat; and He said unto her: 4 I
shall greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy pains in sorrow thou
shalt bring forth children, and thy return 5 shall be unto thy
husband, and he will rule over thee." 25.
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[paragraph continues] And to Adam also He said, "Because thou
hast hearkened 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
thou return." 26. And He made for them coats of skin, and
clothed them, and sent them forth from the Garden of Eden. 1 27.
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 2 in the morning with the rising of the
sun from the day when he covered his shame. 28. And on that day
was closed the mouth of all beasts, and of cattle, and of birds,
and of whatever walketh, and of whatever moveth, so that they
could no longer speak: 3 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 for them. 30.
And to Adam alone did He give (the wherewithal) to cover his
shame, of all the beasts and cattle. 31. On this account, it is
prescribed on the heavenly tables as touching all those who know
the judgment of the law, that they should cover their shame, and
should not uncover themselves as the Gentiles uncover
8 A.M.themselves. 4 32. And on the new moon of the fourth month,
Adam and his wife went forth from the Garden
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of Eden, and they dwelt in the land of ’Eldâ, 1 in the land of
their creation. 33. And Adam called the name of his wife Eve.
34. And they had no son till the first jubilee, and after this
he knew her. 35. Now he tilled the land as he had been
instructed in the Garden of Eden. 2
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Cain and Abel (iv. 1-12; cf. Gen. iv.).
IV. And in the third week in the second jubilee
64-70 A.M.she gave birth to Cain, and in the fourth she gave
birth
71-77 A.M.to Abel, and in the fifth she gave birth to her
daughter
78-84 A.M.’Âwân. 3 2. And in the first (year) of the third
jubilee,
99-105 A.M.Cain slew Abel because (God) accepted the sacrifice
of Abel, and did not accept the offering of Cain. 3. And he slew
him in the field: and his blood cried from the ground to heaven,
complaining because he had slain him. 4 4. 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 cursed him upon the earth. 5
5. And on this account it is written on the heavenly tables,
"Cursed is he who smiteth his neighbour treacherously, and let
all who have seen and heard say, So be it; and the man who hath
seen and not declared (it), let him be accursed as the other."
6. And for this reason we announce when we come before the Lord
our God all the sin which is committed in heaven and on earth,
and in light and in darkness, and everywhere. 7. And Adam and
his wife mourned for Abel four weeks of years, and in the fourth
year
(99-127) 130 A.M.of the fifth week they became joyful, and Adam
knew
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his wife again, and she bare him a son, and he 1 called his name
Seth; for he said "God hath raised up a second seed unto us on
the earth instead of Abel; for Cain slew him." 2 8. And in the
sixth week he
134-140 A.M.begat his daughter ’Azûrâ. 9. And Cain took ’Âwân
his sister to be his wife and she bare him Enoch 3 at
190-196 A.M.the close of the fourth jubilee. And in the first
year of the first week of the fifth jubilee, houses were built
197 A.M.on the earth, and Cain built a city, and called its name
after the name of his son Enoch. 10. And Adam knew Eve his wife
and she bare yet nine sons. 4
225-231 A.M.11. And in the fifth week of the fifth jubilee Seth
took ’Azûrâ his sister to be his wife, and in the fourth
235 A.M.(year of the sixth week) she bare him Enos. 5 12. He 6
began to call on the name of the Lord on the earth.
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The Patriarchs from Adam to Noah (cf. Gen. v.); Life of Enoch;
Death of Adam and Gain (iv. 13-33).
309-315 A.M.13. 7 And in the seventh jubilee in the third week
Enos took Nôâm his sister to be his wife, and she bare
325 A.M.him a son in the third year of the fifth week, and he
called his name Kenan. 14. And at the close of the
386-392 A.M.eighth jubilee Kenan took Mûalêlêth 8 his sister to
be his wife, and she bare him a son in the ninth jubilee,
395 A.M.in the first week in the third year of this week, and
449-455 A.M.he called his name Mahalalel. 15. And in the second
week of the tenth jubilee Mahalalel took unto him to wife Dînâh,
the daughter of Barâkî’êl the daughter of his father's brother,
and she bare him a son in the third
461 A.M.week in the sixth year, and he called his name Jared; 9
for in his days the angels of the Lord descended on
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the earth, 1 those who are named the Watchers, 2 that they
should instruct the children of men, 3 and that they should do
judgment and uprightness on the earth. 16. And in the eleventh
jubilee Jared took to himself
512-518 A.M.a wife, and her name was Bâraka, the daughter of
Râsûjâl, a daughter of his father's brother, in the fourth week
of this jubilee, and she bare him a son in the fifth week, in
the fourth year of the jubilee,
522 A.M.and he called his name Enoch. 4 17. And he 5 was the
first among men that are born on earth who learnt writing and
knowledge and wisdom 6 and who wrote down the signs of heaven
according to the order of their months in a book, 7 that men
might know the seasons of the years according to the order of
their separate months. 18. 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, 8 and
set in order the months and recounted
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the Sabbaths of the years as we made (them) known to him. 19.
And what was and what will be he saw in a vision 1 of his sleep,
as it will happen to the children of men throughout their
generations until the day of judgment; he 2 saw and understood
everything, and wrote his testimony, and placed the testimony on
earth for all the children of men and
582-588 A.M.for their generations. 20. And in the twelfth
jubilee, in the seventh week thereof, he took to himself a wife,
and her name was Ednî, 3 the daughter of Dânêl,
587 AM.the daughter of his father's brother, and in the sixth
year in this week she bare him a son and he called his name
Methuselah. 4 21. And he was moreover with the angels of God
these six jubilees of years, and they showed him everything
which is on earth 5 and in the heavens, the rule of the sun, and
he wrote down everything. 22. 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 testified against (them) all. 23. And he was
taken from amongst the children of men, and we conducted him
into the Garden of Eden 6 in majesty and honour, and behold
there he writeth down the condemnation and judgment of the
world, and all the wickedness of the children of men. 7 24. And
on account of it (God) brought the waters of the flood 8 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 deeds of the generations until the day of
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condemnation. 1 25. And he burnt the incense of the sanctuary,
(even) sweet spices, 2 acceptable before the Lord on the Mount.
26. For the Lord hath four places 3 on the earth, the Garden of
Eden, and the Mount of the East, 4 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 throughout the generations of the
world. 5 27. And in the fourteenth
652 A M.jubilee Methuselah took unto himself a wife, Ednâ the
daughter of ’Âzrîâl, the daughter of his father's brother, in
the third week, in the first year of this week, and he begat a
son and called his name Lamech. 6 28. And in the fifteenth
jubilee in the third week
701-707 A.M.Lamech took to himself a wife, and her name was
Bêtênôs the daughter of Bârâkî’îl, 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 which the Lord hath cursed." 7
29. And at the close of the nineteenth jubilee, in the seventh
week in the sixth year thereof, Adam died, and all
930 A.M.his sons buried him in the land of his creation, 8 and
he was the first to be buried 9 in the earth. 30. And he lacked
seventy years of one thousand years; for one thousand years are
as one day in the testimony
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of the heavens and therefore was it written concerning the tree
of knowledge: "On the day that ye eat thereof ye will die." 1
For this reason he did not complete the years of this day; for
he died during it. 31. 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 righteous judgment. 32. For this reason it was
ordained on the heavenly tables: "With the instrument with which
a man killeth his neighbour with the same shall he be killed;
after the manner that he wounded him, in like manner shall they
deal with him." 2 33. And in
1205 A.M.the twenty-fifth jubilee Noah took to himself a wife,
and her name was ’Ĕmzârâ, the daughter of Râkê’êl, the
daughter of his father's brother, in the first year
1207 A.M.in the fifth week: and in the third year thereof she
1209 A.M.bare him Shem, in the fifth year thereof she bare him
1212 A.M.Ham, and in the first year in the sixth week she bare
him Japheth. 3
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