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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:10 pm
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Abram's Knowledge of God and wonderful Deeds (xi. 16-24).
16. And the child began to understand the errors of the earth
that all went astray after graven images and after uncleanness,
and his father taught him
1890 A.M.writing, and he was two weeks of years old, and he
separated himself from his father 4 that he might not worship
idols with him. 17. And he began to pray to the Creator of all
things that He might save him from the errors of the children of
men, and that his portion should not fall into error after
uncleanness and vileness. 18. And the seed time came for the
sowing of seed upon the land, and they all went forth together
to protect their seed against the ravens, and Abram went forth
with those that went, and the child was a lad of fourteen years.
19. And a cloud of ravens came to devour the seed, and Abram ran
to meet them before they settled on the ground, and cried to
them before they settled on the ground to devour the seed, and
said, "Descend not: return to the place
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whence ye came," and they proceeded to turn back. 20. And he
caused the clouds of ravens to turn back that day seventy times,
and of all the ravens throughout all the land where Abram was
there settled there not so much as one. 21. And all who were
with him throughout all the land saw him cry out, and all the
ravens turn back, and his name became great in all the land of
the Chaldees. 22. And there came to him this year all those that
wished to sow, and he went with them until the time of sowing
ceased: and they sowed their land, and that year they brought
enough grain home and ate and were satisfied. 23. And in the
first year of the fifth week Abram taught
1891 A.M.those who made implements for oxen, the artificers in
wood, and they made a vessel above the ground, facing the frame
of the plough, 1 in order to put the seed thereon, and the seed
fell down therefrom upon the share of the plough, and was hidden
in the earth, and they no longer feared the ravens. 24. And
after this manner they made (vessels) above the ground on all
the frames of the ploughs, and they sowed and tilled all the
land, according as Abram commanded them, and they no longer
feared the birds.
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:11 pm
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Abram seeks to convert Terah from Idolatry; the Family of Terah
(cf. Gen. xi. 27-30). Abram burns the Idols. Death of Haran (cf.
Gen. xi. 28) (xii. 1-14).
XII. And it came to pass in the
1904 A.M.sixth week, in the seventh year thereof, that Abram
said to Terah his father, saying, "Father!" And he said,
"Behold, here am I, my son." 2. And he said,
p. 88
"What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost
worship,
And before which thou dost bow thyself? 1
3. For there is no spirit in them, 2
For they are dumb forms, and a misleading of the heart.
Worship them not:
4. Worship the God of heaven,
Who causeth the rain and the dew to descend on the earth, 3
And doeth everything upon the earth,
And hath created everything by His word, 4
And all life is from before His face.
5. Why do ye worship things that have no spirit in them?
For they are the work of (men's) hands, 5
And on your shoulders do ye bear them, 6
And ye have no help from them,
But they are a great cause of shame to those who make them,
And a misleading of the heart to those who worship them:
Worship them not."
6. And his father said unto him, "I also know it, my son, but
what shall I do with a people who have made me to serve before
them? 7. And if I tell them the truth, they will slay me; for
their soul cleaveth
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to them to worship them and honour them. Keep silent, 1 my son,
lest they slay thee." 8. And these words he spake to his two
brothers, and they were angry with him and he kept silent. 9.
And in the fortieth jubilee, in the second week, in the seventh
year
1925 A.M.thereof, Abram took to himself a wife, and her name was
Sarai, the daughter of his father, and she became his wife. 2
10. And Haran, his brother, took to himself a wife in the third
year of the third week, and she bare him a son in the seventh
year of this
1932 A.M.week and he called his name Lot. 11. And Nahor, his
brother, took to himself a wife. 3 12. And in the sixtieth year
of the life of Abram, that is, in the fourth
1936 A.M.week, in the fourth year thereof, Abram arose by night,
and burned the house of the idols, and he burned all that was in
the house, and no man knew it. 13. And they arose in the night
and sought to save their gods from the midst of the fire. 14.
And Haran hasted to save them, but the fire flamed over him, and
he was burnt in the fire, and he died in Ur of the Chaldees
before Terah his father, and they buried him in Ur of the
Chaldees. 4
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:12 pm
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The Family of Terah in Haran; Abram's Experiences there; his
Journey to Canaan (xii. 15-31; cf. Gen. xi, 31-xii. 3).
15. And Terah went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, he and his
sons, to go into the land of Lebanon and into the land of
Canaan, and he dwelt in the land of Haran, and Abram, dwelt with
Terah his father in
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[paragraph continues] Haran two weeks of years. 1 16. And in the
sixth week, in the fifth year thereof, Abram sat up throughout
the night on the new moon of the seventh month to observe the
stars from the evening to the morning, in order to see what
would be the character of the year with regard to the rains, and
he was alone as he sat and observed. 17. And a word came into
his heart and he said: "All the signs of the stars, and the
signs of the moon and of the sun are all in the hand of the
Lord. Why do I search (them) out?
18. If He desireth, He causeth it to rain, morning and evening;
And if He desireth, He withholdeth it, And all things are in His
hand."
19. And he prayed that night and said
"My God, God Most High, Thou alone art my God,
And Thee and Thy dominion have I chosen.
And Thou hast created all things,
And all things that are are the work of Thy hands.
20. Deliver me from the hands of evil spirits who have sway over
the thoughts of men's hearts,
And let them not lead me astray from Thee, my God.
And stablish Thou me and my seed for ever
That we go not astray from henceforth and for evermore."
[paragraph continues] 21. And he said Shall I return unto Ur of
the Chaldees who seek my face that I may return to them, or am I
to remain here in this place? The right path before Thee prosper
it in the hands of Thy servant that he may fulfil (it) and that
I may not walk in the deceitfulness of my heart, O my God." 22.
And he made an end of speaking and praying, and behold the word
of the Lord was sent to him through me, saying: "Get thee up
from thy country, and from thy kindred and from the house of thy
father unto a land which I shall show thee, and I shall make
thee a great and numerous nation.
195 I A.M.
p. 91
23. And I shall bless thee
And I shall make thy name great,
And thou wilt be blessed in the earth,
And in thee will all families of the earth be blessed,
And I shall bless them that bless thee,
And curse them that curse thee. 1
[paragraph continues] 24. And I shall be a God to thee and thy
son, and to thy son's son, and to all thy seed: fear not, from
henceforth and unto all generations of the earth I am thy God."
25. And the Lord God said: "Open his mouth and his ears, that he
may hear and speak with his mouth, with the language which hath
been revealed"; 2 for it had ceased from the mouths of all the
children of men from the day of the overthrow (of Babel). 26.
And I 3 opened his mouth, and his ears and his lips, and I began
to speak with him in Hebrew in the tongue of the creation. 27.
And he took the books of his fathers, and these were written in
Hebrew and he transcribed them, and he began from henceforth to
study them, and I made known to him that which he could not
(understand), and he studied them during the six rainy months. 4
28. And it came to pass in the seventh year of the sixth week
1953 A.M.that he spoke to his father, and informed him that he
would leave Haran to go into the land of Canaan to see it and
return to him. 29. And Terah his father said unto him; "Go in
peace:
May the eternal God make thy path straight,
And the Lord [(be) with thee, and] protect thee from all evil,
And grant unto thee grace, mercy and favour before those who see
thee,
And may none of the children of men have power over thee to harm
thee;
Go in peace.
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[paragraph continues] 30. And if thou seest a land pleasant to
thy eyes to dwell in, then arise and take me to thee and take
Lot with thee, the son of Haran thy brother, as thine own son:
the Lord be with thee. 31. And Nahor thy brother leave with me
till thou returnest in peace, and we go with thee all together."
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:12 pm
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Abram with Lot in Canaan and Egypt (cf. Gen. xii. 4-20). Abram
separates from Lot (cf. Gen. xiii. 11-18) (xiii. 1-21).
XIII. And Abram journeyed from Haran, and he took Sarai, his
wife, and Lot his brother Haran's son, to the land of Canaan,
and he came into †Asshur†, 1 and proceeded to Shechem, and dwelt
near a lofty oak. 2 2. And he saw, and, behold, the land was
very pleasant from the entering of Hamath to the lofty oak. 3.
And the Lord said to him: "To thee and to thy seed will I give
this land." 4. And he built an altar there, and he offered
thereon a burnt sacrifice to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
5. And he removed from thence unto the mountain . . . 3 Bethel
on the west and Ai on the east, and pitched his tent there. 4 6.
And he saw and behold, the land was very wide and good, and
everything grew thereon--vines and figs and pomegranates, oaks
and ilexes, and terebinths and oil trees, and cedars and
cypresses and date trees, and all trees of the field, and there
was water on the mountains. 7. And he blessed the Lord who had
led him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and had brought him to this
land. 8. And it came
1954 A.M.to pass in the first year, in the seventh week, on the
new moon of the first month, that he built an altar on this
mountain, and called on the name of the Lord: "Thou, the eternal
God, art my God." 5 9. And he offered on the altar a burnt
sacrifice unto the Lord
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that He should be with him and not forsake him all the days of
his life. 10. And he removed from thence and went towards the
south, 1 and he came to Hebron, and Hebron was built at, that
time, and he dwelt there two years, and he went (thence) into
the land of the south, to Bealoth 2 and there was a famine in
the land. 11. And Abram went into Egypt 3 in the third
1956 A.M.year of the week, and he dwelt in Egypt five years
before his wife was torn away from him. 12. NOW Tanais 4 in
Egypt was at that time built--seven years after Hebron. 5 11 And
it came to pass when Pharaoh seized Sarai, the wife of Abram,
that the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues
because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 14. And Abram was very glorious
by reason of possessions in sheep, and cattle, and asses, and
horses, and camels, and menservants, and maidservants, and in
silver and gold exceedingly. And Lot also, his brother's son,
was wealthy. 15. And Pharaoh gave back Sarai, the wife of Abram,
and he sent him out of the land of Egypt, 6 and he journeyed to
the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, to the
place of the altar, with Ai on the east, and Bethel on the west,
and he blessed the Lord his God who had brought him back in
peace. 7 16. And it came to pass in the forty-first jubilee, in
the third year of the
1963 A.M.first week, that he returned to this place and offered
thereon a burnt sacrifice, and called on the name of the Lord,
and said: "Thou, the most high God, art my God for ever and
ever." 8 17. And in the fourth year
1964 A.M.of this week Lot parted from him, and Lot dwelt in
Sodom, and the men of Sodom were sinners exceedingly. 9 18. And
it grieved him in his heart that his brother's son had parted
from him; for he had no
p. 94
children. 19. 1 In that year when Lot was taken captive, the
Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot had parted from him, in the
fourth year of this week: "Lift up thine eyes from the place
where thou art dwelling, northward and southward, and westward
and eastward. 20. For all the land which thou seest I shall give
to thee and to thy seed for ever, and I shall make thy seed as
the sand of the sea: 2 though a man may number the dust of the
earth, yet thy seed shall not be numbered. 3 21. Arise, walk
(through the land) in the length of it and the breadth of it,
and see it all; for to thy seed shall I give it." And Abram went
to Hebron, and dwelt there.
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:13 pm
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The Campaign of Chedorlaomer (xiii. 22-29; cf. Gen. xiv.).
22. And in this year came Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and
Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Sęllâsar 4 and
Tęrgâl, 5 king of nations, and slew the king of Gomorrah, and
the king of Sodom fled, and many fell through wounds in the vale
of Siddim, by the Salt Sea. 23. And they took captive Sodom and
Adam 6 and Zeboim, and they took captive Lot also, the son of
Abram's brother, and all his possessions, and they went to Dan.
7 24. And one who had escaped came and told Abram that his
brother's son had been taken captive and (Abram) armed 8 his
household servants. 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . for Abram, and
for his seed, a
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tenth of the first-fruits to the Lord, 1 and the Lord ordained
it as an ordinance for ever that they should give it to the
priests who served before Him, that they should possess it for
ever. 2 26. And to this law there is no limit of days; for He
hath ordained it for the generations for ever that they should
give to the Lord the tenth of everything, of the seed and of the
wine and of the oil and of the cattle and of the sheep. 27. And
He gave (it) unto His priests to eat and to drink with joy
before Him. 28. And the king of Sodom came to him and bowed
himself before him, and said: "Our Lord Abram, give unto us the
souls which thou hast rescued, but let the booty be thine." 29.
And Abram said unto him: "I lift up my hands to the Most High
God, that from a thread to a shoe-latchet I shall not take aught
that is thine, lest thou shouldst say I have made Abram rich;
save only what the young men have eaten, and the portion of the
men who went with me--Aner, Eschol, and Mamre. These will take
their portion." 3
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:14 pm
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God's Covenant with Abram (xiv. 1-20; cf. Gen. xv.).
XIV. 4 After these things, in the fourth year of this week, on
the new moon of the third month, the word of the Lord came to
Abram in a dream, saying: "Fear not, Abram; I am thy defender,
and thy reward will be exceeding great." 2. And he said: "Lord,
Lord, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
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hence childless, and the son of Mâsęq, 1 the son of my handmaid,
is the Dammasek Eliezer: he will be my heir, and to me thou hast
given no seed." 3. And He said unto him: "This (man) will not be
thy heir, but one that will come out of thine own bowels; he
will be thine heir." 4. And He brought him forth abroad, and
said unto him: "Look toward heaven and number the stars, if thou
art able to number them." 5. And he looked toward heaven, and
beheld the stars. And He said unto him: "So shall thy seed be."
6. And he believed in the Lord, and it was counted to him for
righteousness. 7. And He said unto him: "I am the Lord that
brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee the land of
the Canaanites to possess it for ever; and I shall be God unto
thee and to thy seed after thee." 2 8. And he said: "Lord, Lord,
whereby shall I know that I shall inherit (it)?" 9. And he said
unto him: "Take Me an heifer of three years, and a goat of three
years, and a sheep of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a
pigeon." 3 10. And he took all these in the middle of the month;
and he dwelt at the oak of Mamre, which is near Hebron. 4 11.
And he built there an altar, and sacrificed all these; and he
poured their blood upon the altar, and divided them in the
midst, and laid them over against each other; but the birds
divided he not. 12. And birds came down upon the pieces, and
Abram drove them away, and did not suffer the birds to touch
them. 5 13. And it came to pass, when the sun had set, that an
ecstasy fell upon Abram, and lo! an horror of great darkness
fell upon him, and it was said unto Abram: "Know of a surety
that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land (that is) not
theirs, and they will bring them into bondage, and afflict them
four
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hundred years. 1 14. And the nation also to whom they will be in
bondage shall I judge, and after that they will come forth
thence with much substance. 15. And thou wilt go to thy fathers
in peace, and be buried in a good old age. 16. But in the fourth
generation 2 they will return hither; for the iniquity of the
Amorites is not yet full." 3 17. And he awoke from his sleep,
and he arose, and the sun had set; and there was a flame, and
behold! a furnace was smoking, and a flame of fire passed
between the pieces. 18. And on that day the Lord made a covenant
with Abram, saying: "To thy seed will I give this land, from the
river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates, the
Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Perizzites, and the
Rephaim, the Phakorites, 4 and the Hivites, 5 and the Amorites,
and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites." 6
19. And the day passed, and Abram offered the pieces, and the
birds, and their fruit-offerings, and their drink-offerings, and
the fire devoured them. 20. And on that day 7 we made a covenant
with Abram, according as we had covenanted with Noah in this
month; 8 and Abram renewed the festival and ordinance for
himself for ever.
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:15 pm
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The Birth of Ishmael (xiv. 21-24; cf. Gen. xvi. 1-4. 11).
21. And Abram rejoiced, and made all these things known to Sarai
his wife; and he believed that he would have seed, but she did
not bear. 22. And Sarai advised her husband Abram, and said unto
him: "Go in unto Hagar, my Egyptian maid: it may be that I shall
build up seed unto thee by her." 23. And Abram hearkened unto
the voice of Sarai his wife, and said unto her, "Do (so)." And
Sarai took Hagar, her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to Abram,
her husband, to be his wife. 24. And he went in unto her, and
she conceived and bare him a son, and he called his name
Ishmael, in the fifth year of this week; and this was the
eighty-sixth year in the life of Abram.
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:15 pm
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The Feast of First-fruits Circumcision instituted. The Promise
of Isaac's Birth. Circumcision ordained for all Israel (xv.
1-34; cf. Gen. xvii.).
XV. And in the fifth year of the †fourth† 1 week of this
jubilee, in the third month, in the middle of the month, 2 Abram
celebrated the feast of the first-fruits 3 of the grain harvest.
2. And he offered new offerings on the altar, the first-fruits
of the produce, unto the Lord, an heifer and a goat and a sheep
on the altar as a burnt sacrifice unto the Lord; their
fruit-offerings and their drink-offerings he offered upon the
altar with frankincense. 4 3. And the Lord appeared to Abram,
and said unto him: "I am God Almighty; approve thyself before Me
and be thou perfect. 4. And I will make My covenant between
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[paragraph continues] Me and thee, and I will multiply thee
exceedingly." 1 5. 2 And Abram fell on his face, and God talked
with him, and said:
6. "Behold My ordinance is with thee,
And thou wilt be the father of many nations.
7. Neither will thy name any more be called Abram,
But thy name from henceforth, even for ever, shall be Abraham.
For the father of many nations have I made thee.
8. And I shall make thee very great,
And I shall make thee into nations,
And kings will come forth from thee.
[paragraph continues] 9. And I shall establish My covenant
between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, throughout their
generations, for an eternal covenant, so that I may be a God
unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 10. (And I shall give to
thee and to thy seed after thee) 3 the land where thou hast been
a sojourner, the land of Canaan, that thou mayst possess it for
ever, and I shall be their God." 11. 4 And the Lord said unto
Abraham: "And as for thee, do thou keep My Covenant, thou and
thy seed after thee, and circumcise ye every male among you, and
circumcise your foreskins, and it will be a token of an eternal
covenant between Me and you. 12. And the child on the eighth day
5 ye will circumcise, every male throughout your generations,
him that is born in the house, or whom ye have bought with money
from any stranger, whom ye have acquired who is not of thy seed.
13. He that is born in thy house will surely be circumcised, and
those whom thou hast bought with money will be circumcised, and
My covenant will be in your
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flesh for an eternal ordinance. 14. 1 And the uncircumcised male
who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the
eighth day, 2 that soul will be cut off from his people, for he
hath broken My covenant." 15. 3 And God said unto Abraham: "As
for Sarai thy wife, her name will no more be called Sarai, but
Sarah will be her name. 16. And I shall bless her, and give thee
a son by her, and I shall bless him, 4 and he will become a
nation, and kings of nations will proceed from him." 17. And
Abraham fell on his face, and rejoiced, and said in his heart:
"Shall a son be born to him that is a hundred years old, and
shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bring forth?" 18. And
Abraham said unto God: "O that Ishmael might live before thee!"
19. And God said: "Yea, and Sarah also will bear thee a son, and
thou wilt call his name Isaac, and I shall establish My covenant
with him, an everlasting covenant, and for his seed after him.
20. And as for Ishmael also have I heard thee, and behold I
shall bless him, and make him great, and multiply him
exceedingly, and he will beget twelve princes, and I shall make
him a great nation. 21. But My covenant shall I establish with
Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to thee, in these days, in the next
year." 22. And He left off speaking with him, and God went up
from Abraham. 23. 5 And Abraham did according as God had said
unto him, and he took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in
his house, and whom he had bought with his money, every male in
his house, and circumcised the flesh of their
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foreskin. 24. And on the selfsame day 1 was Abraham circumcised,
and all the men of his house, (and those born in the house), and
all those, whom he had bought with money from the children of
the stranger, were circumcised with him. 25. This law is for all
the generations for ever, and there is no circumcision of the
days, 2 and no omission of one day out of the eight days; 3 for
it is an eternal ordinance, ordained and written on the heavenly
tables. 26. And every one that is born, the flesh of whose
foreskin is not circumcised on 4 the eighth day, belongeth not
to the children of the covenant which the Lord made with
Abraham, but to the children of destruction; nor is there,
moreover, any sign on him that he is the Lord's, but (he is
destined) to be destroyed and slain from the earth, and to be
rooted out of the earth, for he hath broken the covenant of the
Lord our God. 27. For all the angels of the presence and all the
angels of sanctification 5 have been so created 6 from the day
of their creation, and before the angels of the presence and the
angels of sanctification He hath sanctified Israel, that they
should be with Him and with His holy angels. 28. And do thou
command the children of Israel and let them observe the sign of
this covenant for their generations as an eternal ordinance, and
they will not be rooted out of the land. 29. For the command is
ordained for a covenant, that they should observe it for ever
among all the children of Israel. 30. For Ishmael and his sons
and his brothers and Esau, the Lord did not cause to approach
Him, and he chose them not because they are the children of
Abraham, because He knew them, but He chose Israel to be His
people. 31. And He
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sanctified it, and gathered it from amongst all the children of
men 1; for there are many nations and many peoples, and all are
His, and over all hath He placed spirits in authority to lead
them astray 2 from Him. 32. But over Israel He did not appoint
any angel or spirit, for He alone is their ruler, and He will
preserve them and require them at the hand of His angels and His
spirits, and at the hand of all His powers in order that He may
preserve them and bless them, and that they may be His and He
may be theirs from henceforth for ever. 33. And now I announce
unto thee that the children of Israel will not keep true to this
ordinance, and they will not circumcise their sons according to
all this law; for in the flesh of their circumcision they will
omit this circumcision of their sons, and all of them, sons of
Beliar, 3 will leave their sons uncircumcised as they were born.
4 34. And there will be great wrath from the Lord against the
children of Israel, because they have forsaken His covenant and
turned aside from His word, and provoked and blasphemed,
inasmuch as they do not observe the ordinance of this law; for
they have treated their members like the Gentiles, so that they
may be removed and rooted out of the land. And there will no
more be pardon or forgiveness unto them [so that there should be
forgiveness and pardon] for all the sin of this eternal error.
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Angelic Visitation of Abraham in Hebron; Promise of Isaac's
Birth repeated. The Destruction of Sodom and Lot's Deliverance
(xvi. 1-9; cf. Gen. xviii.-xix.).
XVI. And on the new moon of the fourth month we 1 appeared unto
Abraham, at the oak of Mamre, and we talked with him, and we
announced to him that a son would be given to him by Sarah his
wife. 2 2. And Sarah laughed, for she heard that we had spoken
these words with Abraham, and we admonished her, and she became
afraid, and denied that she had laughed on account of the words.
3 3. And we told her the name of her son, as his name is
ordained and written in the heavenly tables (i.e.) Isaac. 4. And
(that) when we returned to her at a set time, she would have
conceived a son. 5. And in this month the Lord executed his
judgments on Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Zeboim, 4 and all the
region of the Jordan, and He burned them with fire and
brimstone, and destroyed them until this day, even as [lo] I
have declared unto thee all their works, that they are wicked
and sinners exceedingly, and that they defile themselves and
commit fornication in their flesh, and work uncleanness on the
earth. 5 6. And, in like manner, God will execute judgment on
the places where they have done according to the uncleanness of
the Sodomites, like unto the judgment of Sodom. 7. But Lot we
saved; for God remembered Abraham, and sent him out from the
midst of the overthrow. 8. And he and his daughters committed
sin upon the earth, such as had not been on the earth since the
days of Adam till his time; for the man lay with his daughters.
6 9. And, behold, it was commanded and engraven concerning all
his seed, on the heavenly tables, to remove them and root them
out, and to
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execute judgment upon them like the judgment of Sodom, and to
leave no seed of the man on earth on the day of condemnation.
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Abraham at Beersheba. Birth and Circumcision of Isaac (cf. Gen.
xxi. 1-4). Institution of the Feast of Tabernacles (xvi. 10-31).
10. And in this month Abraham moved from Hebron, and departed
and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur in the mountains 1 of Gerar.
11. And in the middle of the fifth month he moved from thence,
and dwelt at the Well of the Oath. 2 12. 3 And in the middle of
the sixth month the Lord visited Sarah and did unto her as He
had spoken, and she conceived.
1980 A.M.13. And she bare a son in the third month, and in the
middle of the month, 4 at the time of which the Lord had spoken
to Abraham, on the festival of the first-fruits of the harvest,
5 Isaac was born. 14. And Abraham circumcised his son on the
eighth day: he was the first that was circumcised according to
the covenant which is ordained for ever. 15. And in the sixth
year of the †fourth† 6 week we came to Abraham, to the Well of
the Oath, and we appeared unto him [as we had told Sarah that we
should return to her, and she would have conceived a son. 16.
And we returned in the seventh month, and found Sarah with child
before us] 7 and we blessed him, and we announced to him all the
things which had been decreed concerning him, that he should not
die till he should beget six sons more, 8 and should see (them)
before he died; but (that) in Isaac should his name and seed be
called: 9 17. And (that) all the seed of his sons should be
Gentiles, and be reckoned with the Gentiles; but from the sons
of Isaac one should
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become a holy seed, and should not be reckoned among the
Gentiles. 1 18. For he should become the portion of the Most
High, 2 and all his seed had fallen into the possession of God,
that it should be unto the Lord a people for (His) possession 3
above all nations and that it should become a kingdom and
priests and a holy nation. 4 19. And we went our way, and we
announced to Sarah all that we had told him, and they both
rejoiced with exceeding great joy. 20. And he built there an
altar to the Lord who had delivered him, and who was making him
rejoice in the land of his sojourning, and he celebrated a
festival of joy in this month seven days, 5 near the altar which
he had built at the Well of the Oath. 21. And he built booths
for himself and for his servants on this festival, and he was
the first to celebrate the feast of tabernacles on the earth.
22. And during these seven days he brought each day to the altar
a burnt-offering to the Lord, two oxen, 6 two rams, seven sheep,
7 one he-goat, for a sin-offering, that he might atone thereby
for himself and for his seed. 23. And, as a thank-offering,
seven rams, seven kids, seven sheep, and seven he-goats, and
their fruit-offerings and their drink-offerings; 8 and he burnt
all the fat thereof on the altar, a chosen offering unto the
Lord for a sweet smelling savour. 24. And morning and evening he
burnt fragrant substances, 9 frankincense
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and galbanum, and stacte, and nard, and myrrh, and spice, and
costum; all these seven he offered, crushed, mixed together in
equal parts (and) pure. 25. And he celebrated this feast during
seven days, rejoicing with all his heart and with all his soul,
he and all those who were in his house; and there was no
stranger with him, nor any that was uncircumcised. 26. And he
blessed his Creator who had created him in his generation, for
He had created him according to His good pleasure; for He knew
and perceived that from him would arise the plant of
righteousness 1 for the eternal generations, and from him a holy
seed, so that it should become like Him who had made all things.
27. And he blessed and rejoiced, and he called the name of this
festival the festival of the Lord, a joy acceptable to the Most
High God. 28. And we blessed him for ever, and all his seed
after him throughout all the generations of the earth, because
he celebrated this festival in its season, according to the
testimony of the heavenly tables. 29. For this reason it is
ordained on the heavenly tables concerning Israel, that they
shall celebrate the feast of tabernacles seven days with joy, in
the seventh month, acceptable before the Lord--a statute for
ever throughout their generations every year. 2 30. And to this
there is no limit of days; for it is ordained for ever regarding
Israel that they should celebrate it and dwell in booths, and
set wreaths upon their heads, 3 and take leafy boughs, and
willows from the brook. 4 31. And Abraham took branches of palm
trees, and the fruit of goodly trees, and every day going round
the altar with the branches seven times 5
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[paragraph continues] [a day] in the morning, he praised and
gave thanks to his God for all things in joy.
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