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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:45 pm
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Judah's Incest with Tamar; his Repentance and Forgiveness (xli.
1-28; Cf. Gen. xxxviii.).
2165 A.M.XLI. And in the forty-fifth jubilee, in the second
week, (and) in the second year, Judah took for his first-born
Er, a wife from the daughters of Aram, 4 named Tamar. 2. But he
hated, and did not lie with her, because his mother was of the
daughters of Canaan, and he wished to take him a wife of the
kinsfolk of his mother, but Judah, his father, would not permit
him. 3. And this Er, the first-born of
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[paragraph continues] Judah, was wicked, and the Lord slew him.
4. And Judah said unto Onan, his brother: "Go in unto thy
brother's wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto
her, 1 and raise up seed unto thy brother." 5. And Onan knew
that the seed would not be his, (but) his brother's only, and he
went into the house of his brother's wife, and spilt the seed on
the ground, and he was wicked in the eyes of the Lord, and He
slew him. 6. And Judah said unto Tamar, his daughter-in-law:
"Remain in thy father's house as a widow till Shelah my son be
grown up, and I shall give thee to him to wife." 7. And he grew
up; but Bêdsû’êl, 2 the wife of Judah, did not permit her son
Shelah to marry. And Bêdsû’êl, the wife of Judah, died in the
fifth year of this week. 8. And
2168 A.M.in the sixth year Judah went up to shear his sheep at
2169 A.M.Timnah. And they told Tamar: "Behold thy father-in-law
goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep." 9. And she put off her
widow's clothes, and put on a veil, and adorned herself, and sat
in the gate adjoining the way to Timnah. 10. And as Judah was
going along he found her, and thought her to be an harlot, and
he said unto her: "Let me come in unto thee"; and she said unto
him: "Come in," and he went in. 11. And she said unto him: "Give
me my hire"; and he said unto her: "I have nothing in my hand
save my ring that is on my finger, and my necklace, and my staff
which is in my hand." 12. And she said unto him: "Give them to
me until thou dost send me my hire"; and he said unto her: "I
will send unto thee a kid of the goats"; and he gave them to
her, (and he went in unto her,) and she conceived by him. 13.
And Judah went unto his sheep, and she went to her father's
house. 14. And Judah sent a kid of the goats by the hand of his
shepherd, an Adullamite, and he found her not; and he asked the
people of the place, saying: "Where is the harlot who was here?"
And they said unto him: "There
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is no harlot here with us." 15. And he returned and informed
him, and said unto him that he had not found her; "I asked the
people of the place, and they said unto me: 'There is no harlot
here.'" And he said: "Let her keep (them) lest we become a cause
of derision." 16. And when she had completed three months, it
was manifest that she was with child, and they told Judah,
saying: "Behold Tamar, thy daughter-in-law, is with child by
whoredom." 17. And Judah went to the house of her father, and
said unto her father and her brothers: "Bring her forth, and let
them burn her, 1 for she hath wrought uncleanness in Israel."
18. And it came to pass when they brought her forth to bum her
that she sent to her father-in-law the ring and the necklace,
and the staff, saying: "Discern whose are these, for by him am I
with child." 19. And Judah acknowledged, and said: "Tamar is
more righteous than I am. And therefore let them burn her not."
20. And for that reason she was not given to Shelah, and he did
not again approach her. 21. And after that she bare
2170 A.M.two sons, Perez and Zerah, in the seventh year of this
second week. 22. And thereupon the seven years of fruitfulness
were accomplished, of which Joseph spake to Pharaoh. 2 23. And
Judah acknowledged that the deed which he had done was evil, for
he had lain with his daughter-in-law, and he esteemed it hateful
in his eyes, and he acknowledged that he had transgressed and
gone astray; for he had uncovered the skirt of his son, and he
began to lament and to supplicate before the Lord because of his
transgression. 24. And we told him in a dream that it was
forgiven him because he supplicated earnestly, and lamented, and
did not again commit it. 25. And he received forgiveness because
he turned from his
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sin and from his ignorance, for he transgressed greatly before
our God; and every one that acteth thus, every one who lieth
with his mother-in-law, let them burn him with fire that he may
bum therein, 1 for there is uncleanness and pollution upon them;
with fire let them bum them. 26. And do thou command the
children of Israel that there be no uncleanness amongst them,
for every one who lieth with his daughter-in-law 2 or with his
mother-in-law hath wrought uncleanness; with fire let them bum
the man who hath lain with her, and likewise the woman, and He
will turn away wrath and punishment from Israel. 27. And unto
Judah we said that his two sons had not lain with her, and for
this reason his seed was established for a second generation,
and would not be rooted out. 28. For in singleness of eye he had
gone and sought for punishment, namely, according to the
judgment of Abraham, 3 which he had commanded his sons, Judah
had sought to burn her with fire.
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:46 pm
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The Two Journeys of the Sons of Jacob to Egypt (xlii. 1-25; cf.
Gen. xlii., xliii.).
XLII. And in the first year of the third week of
2171 A.M.the forty-fifth jubilee the famine began to come into
the land, and the rain refused to be given to the earth, for
none whatever fell. 2. And the earth grew barren, but in the
land of Egypt there was food, for Joseph had gathered the seed
of the land in the seven years of plenty and had preserved it. 4
3 . And the Egyptians came to Joseph that he might give them
food, and he opened the storehouses where was the grain of the
first year, and he sold it to the people of the land for gold. 5
4. (Now the famine was very sore in the land of Canaan), and
Jacob heard that there
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was food in Egypt, and he sent his ten sons that they should
procure food for him in Egypt; but Benjamin he did not send, and
(the ten sons of Jacob) arrived (in Egypt) among those that went
(there.) 5. And Joseph recognized them, but they did not
recognize him, and he spake unto them and questioned them, and
he said unto them: "Are ye not spies, and have ye not come to
explore the approaches of the land?" And he put them in ward. 6.
And after that he set them free again, and detained Simeon alone
and sent off his nine brothers. 7. And he filled their sacks
with corn, and he put their gold in their sacks, and they did
not know. 8. And he commanded them to bring their younger
brother, for they had told him their father was living and their
younger brother. 9. And they went up from the land of Egypt and
they came to the land of Canaan; and they told their father all
that had befallen them, and how the lord of the country had
spoken roughly to them, and had seized Simeon till they should
bring Benjamin. 10. And Jacob said: "Me have ye bereaved of my
children! Joseph is not and Simeon also is not, and ye will take
Benjamin away. On me hath your wickedness come." 1 11. And he
said: "My son will not go down with you lest perchance he fall
sick; for their mother gave birth to two sons, and one hath
perished, and this one also ye will take from me. If perchance
he took a fever on the road, 2 ye would bring down my old age
with sorrow unto death." 12. For he saw that their money had
been returned to every man in his sack, and for this reason he
feared to send him. 13. And the famine increased and became sore
in the land of Canaan, and in all lands save in the land of
Egypt, for many of the children of the Egyptians had stored up
their seed for food from the time when they saw Joseph gathering
seed together
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and putting it in storehouses and preserving it for the years of
famine. 14. And the people of Egypt fed themselves thereon
during the first year of their famine. 15. But when Israel saw
that the famine was very sore in the land, and there was no
deliverance, he said unto his sons: "Go again, and procure food
for us that we die not." 16. And they said: "We shall not go;
unless our youngest brother go with us, we shall not go." 17.
And Israel saw that if he did not send him with them, they
should all perish by reason of the famine. 18. And Reuben said:
"Give him into my hand, and if I do not bring him back to thee,
slay my two sons instead of his soul." And he said unto him He
will not go with thee." 19. And Judah came near and said: "Send
him with me, and if I do not bring him back to thee, let me bear
the blame before thee all the days of my life." 20. And he sent
him with them in the second year of this
2172 A.M.week on the first day of the month, and they came to
the land of Egypt with all those who went, and (they had)
presents in their hands, stacte and almonds and terebinth nuts
and pure honey. 21. And they went and stood before Joseph, and
he saw Benjamin his brother, and he knew him, and said unto
them: "Is this your youngest brother?" And they said unto him:
"It is he." And he said: "The Lord be gracious to thee, my son!"
22. And he sent him into his house and he brought forth Simeon
unto them and he made a feast for them, and they presented to
him the gift which they had brought in their hands. 23. And they
ate before him and he gave them all a portion, but the portion
of Benjamin was seven times larger than that of any of theirs.
24. And they ate and drank and arose and remained with their
asses. 25. And Joseph devised a plan whereby he might learn
their thoughts as to whether thoughts of peace prevailed amongst
them, and he said to the steward who was over his house: "Fill
all their sacks with food, and return their money unto them into
their vessels, and my cup, the silver cup out of which I
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drink, put it in the sack of the youngest, and send them away."
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:47 pm
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Joseph finally tests his Brethren, and then makes himself known
to them (xliii. 1-24; cf. Gen. xliv., xlv.).
XLIII. And he did as Joseph had told him, and filled all their
sacks for them with food and put their money in their sacks, and
put the cup in Benjamin's sack. 2. And early in the morning they
departed, and it came to pass that, when they had gone from
thence, Joseph said unto the steward of his house: "Pursue them,
run and seize them, saying, 'For good ye have requited me with
evil; you have stolen from me the silver cup out of which my
lord drinks.' And bring back to me their youngest brother, and
fetch (him) quickly before I go forth to my seat of judgment."
3. And he ran after them and said unto them according to these
words. 4. And they said unto him: "God forbid that thy servants
should do this thing, and steal from the house of thy lord any
utensil, and the money also which we found in our sacks the
first time, we thy servants brought back from the land of
Canaan. 5. How then should we steal any utensil? Behold here are
we and our sacks; search, and wherever thou findest the cup in
the sack of any man amongst us, let him be slain, and we and our
asses will serve thy lord." 6. And he said unto them: "Not so,
the man with whom I find, him only shall I take as a servant,
and ye will return in peace unto your house." 7. And as he was
searching in their vessels, beginning with the eldest and ending
with the youngest, it was found in Benjamin's sack. 8. And they
rent their garments, and laded their asses, and returned to the
city and came to the house of Joseph, and they all bowed
themselves on their faces to the ground before him. 9. And
Joseph said unto them: "Ye have done evil." And they
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said: "What shall we say and how shall we defend ourselves? Our
lord hath discovered the transgression of his servants; behold
we are the servants of our lord, and our asses also." 10. And
Joseph said unto them: "I too fear the Lord; as for you, go ye
to your homes and let your brother be my servant, for ye have
done evil.. Know ye not that a man delighteth in his cup as I
with this cup? 1 And yet ye have stolen it from me." 11. And
Judah said: "O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a
word in my lord's ear; two brothers did thy servant's mother
bear to our father; one went away and was lost, and hath not
been found, and he alone is left of his mother, and thy servant
our father loveth him, and his life also is bound up with the
life of this (lad). 12. And it will come to pass, when we go to
thy servant our father, and the lad is not with us, that he will
die, and we shall bring down our father with sorrow unto death.
13. Now rather let me, thy servant, abide instead of the boy as
a bondsman unto my lord, and let the lad go with his brethren,
for I became surety for him at the hand of thy servant our
father, and if I do not bring him back, thy servant will bear
the blame to our father for ever." 14. And Joseph saw that they
were all accordant in goodness one with another, and he could
not refrain himself, and he told them that he was Joseph. 15.
And he conversed with them in the Hebrew tongue 2 and fell on
their neck and wept. But they knew him not and they began to
weep. 16. And he said unto them: "Weep not over me, but hasten
and bring my father to me; and ye see that it is my mouth that
speaketh and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see. 17. For behold
this is the second year of the famine, and there are still five
years without harvest or fruit of trees or ploughing. 18. Come
down quickly ye and your households, so that ye perish not
through the famine,
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and do not be grieved for your possessions, for the Lord sent me
before you to set things in order that many people might live.
19. And tell my father that I am still alive, and ye, behold, ye
see that the Lord hath made me as a father to Pharaoh, and ruler
over his house and over all the land of Egypt. 20. And tell my
father of all my glory, and all the riches and glory that the
Lord hath given Me." 21. And by the command of the mouth of
Pharaoh he gave them chariots and provisions for the way, and he
gave them all many-coloured raiment and silver. 22. And to their
father he sent raiment and silver and ten asses which carried
com, and he sent them away. 23. And they went up and told their
father that Joseph was alive, and was measuring out corn to all
the nations of the earth, and that he was ruler over all the
land of Egypt. 24. And their father did not believe it, for he
was beside himself in his mind; but when he saw the wagons which
Joseph had sent, the life of his spirit revived, and he said:
"It is enough for me if Joseph liveth; I will go down and see
him before I die."
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:47 pm
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Jacob, celebrates the Feast of First-fruits and journeys to
Egypt. List of his Descendants. (xliv. 1-34; cf. Gen. xlvi.
1-28).
XLIV. And Israel took his journey from †Haran† 1 from his house
on the new moon of the third month, and he went on the way of
the Well of the Oath, 2 and he offered a sacrifice to the God of
his father Isaac on the seventh of this month. 2. And Jacob
remembered the dream that he had seen at Bethel, 3 and he feared
to go down into Egypt. 3. And while he was thinking of sending
word to Joseph to come to him, and that he would not go down, he
remained there seven days, if perchance he should see a vision
as to whether he should remain or go down. 4. And
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he celebrated the harvest festival of the first-fruits 1 with
old grain, for in all the land of Canaan there was not a handful
of seed (in the land), for the famine was over all the beasts
and cattle and birds, and also over man. 5. And on the sixteenth
the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, "Jacob, Jacob";
and he said, "Here am I." And He said unto him: "I am the God of
thy fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac; fear not to go down
into Egypt, for I will there make of thee a great nation. 6. I
shall go down with thee, and I shall bring thee up 2 (again),
and in this land wilt thou be buried, and Joseph will put his
hands upon thy eyes. Fear not; go down into Egypt." 7. And his
sons rose up, and his sons' sons, and they placed their father
and their possessions upon wagons. 8. And Israel rose up from
the Well of the Oath on the sixteenth of this third month, and
he went to the land of Egypt. 9. And Israel sent Judah before
him to his son Joseph to examine 3 the Land of Goshen, for
Joseph had told his brothers that they should come and dwell
there that they might be near him. 10. And this was the
goodliest (land) in the land of Egypt, and near to him, for all
(of them) and also for the cattle. 11. And these are the names
of the sons of Jacob who went into Egypt with Jacob their
father. 12. 4 Reuben, the first-born of Israel; and these are
the names of his sons: Enoch, and Pallu, and Hezron and
Carmi--five. 5 13. Simeon and his sons; and these are the names
of his sons: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad,
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and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul, the son of the Zephathite 1
woman--seven. 14. Levi and his sons; and these are the names of
his sons: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari--four. 15. Judah and
his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Shela, and Perez,
and Zerah--four. 16. Issachar and his sons; and these are the
names of his sons: Tola, and Phûa, 2 and Jâsûb, 3 and
Shimron--five. 17. Zebulon and his sons; and these are the names
of his sons: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel--four. 18. And these
are the sons of Jacob, and their sons, whom Leah bore to Jacob
in Mesopotamia, six, and their one sister, Dinah: and all the
souls of the sons of Leah, and their sons, who went with Jacob
their father into Egypt, were twenty-nine, and Jacob their
father being with them, they were thirty. 19. And the sons of
Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, the wife of Jacob, whom she bore unto
Jacob, Gad and Asher. 20. And these are the names of their sons
who went with him into Egypt: the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and
Haggi, and Shuni, and Ezbon, (and Eri) and Areli, and
Arodi--eight. 21. And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, (and
Ishvi), and Beriah, and Serah, their one sister--six. 22. All
the souls were fourteen, and all those of Leah were forty-four.
23. And the sons of Rachel, the wife of Jacob: Joseph and
Benjamin. 24. And there were born to Joseph in Egypt before his
father came into Egypt, those whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphar
priest of Heliopolis bare unto him, Manasseh, and
Ephraim--three. 25. And the sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher,
and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, and Ehi, and Rosh, and Muppim, and
Huppim, and Ard--eleven. 26. And all the souls of Rachel were
fourteen. 27. And the sons of Bilhah, the handmaid of Rachel,
the wife of Jacob, whom she
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bare to Jacob, were Dan and Naphtali. 28. And these are the
names of their sons who went with them into Egypt. And the sons
of Dan were Hushim, and Sâmôn, and Asûdî, and ’Îjâka, and
Salômôn--six. 29. And they died the year in which they entered
into Egypt, and there was left to Dan Hushim alone. 1 30. And
these are the names of the sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni,
and Jezer, and Shallum, and ‘Îv. 2 31. And ‘Îv, who was born
after the years of famine, died in Egypt. 32. And all the souls
of Rachel were twenty-six. 33. And all the souls of Jacob which
went into Egypt were seventy souls. These are his children and
his children's children, in all seventy; but five died in Egypt
before Joseph, and had no children. 34. And in the land of
Canaan two sons of Judah died, Er and Onan, and they had no
children, and the children of Israel buried those who perished,
and they were reckoned among the seventy Gentile nations.
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:48 pm
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Joseph receives Jacob. The Land of Egypt is acquired for
Pharaoh. Jacob's Death and Burial (xlv. 1-16; cf. Gen. xlvi. 28
ff., xlvii. 11 ff.).
XLV. And Israel went into the country of Egypt,
2172 A M.into the land of Goshen, on the new moon of the fourth
month, in the second year of the third week of the forty-fifth
jubilee. 2. And Joseph went to meet his father Jacob, to the
land of Goshen, and he fell on his father's neck and wept. 3.
And Israel said unto Joseph: "Now let me die since I have seen
thee, and now may the Lord God of Israel be blessed, the God of
Abraham and the God of Isaac who hath not withheld His mercy and
His grace from His servant Jacob. 4. It is enough for me that I
have seen thy face whilst †I am† 3 yet alive; yea, true is the
vision which I saw at Bethel. Blessed be the
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[paragraph continues] Lord my God for ever and ever, and blessed
be His name." 5. And Joseph and his brothers ate bread before
their father and drank wine, and Jacob rejoiced with exceeding
great joy because he saw Joseph eating with his brothers and
drinking before him, and he blessed the Creator of all things
who had preserved him, and had preserved for him his twelve
sons. 6. 1And Joseph had given to his father and to his
brothers as a gift the right of dwelling in the land of Goshen
and in Rameses and all the region round about, which he ruled
over before Pharaoh. And Israel and his sons dwelt in the land
of Goshen, the best part of the land of Egypt; and Israel was
one hundred and thirty years old when he came into Egypt, 7. And
Joseph nourished his father and his brethren and also their
possessions with bread as much as sufficed them 2 for the seven
years of the famine. 8. And the land of Egypt suffered by reason
of the famine, and Joseph acquired all the land of Egypt for
Pharaoh in return for food, and he got possession of the people
and their cattle and everything for Pharaoh. 9. And the years of
the famine were accomplished, and Joseph gave to the people in
the land seed and food that they might sow (the land) in the
eighth year, for the river had overflowed all the land of Egypt.
10. For in the seven years of the famine it had not overflowed
and had irrigated only a few places on the banks of the river,
but now it overflowed and the Egyptians sowed the land, and it
bore much corn that year. 11. And this was the
2178 A.M.first year of the fourth week of the forty-fifth
jubilee. 12. And Joseph took of the corn of the harvest the
fifth part for the king and left four parts for them for food
and for seed, and Joseph made it an ordinance for the land of
Egypt until this day. 13. And Israel lived in the land of Egypt
seventeen years, and all the days which he lived were three
jubilees, one hundred and forty-seven years, and he died in the
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fourth year of the fifth week of the forty-fifth jubilee.
2188 A.M.14. And Israel blessed his sons before he died and told
them everything 1 that would befall them in the land of Egypt;
and he made known to them what would come upon them in the last
days, and blessed them and gave to Joseph two portions 2 in the
land. 15. And he slept with his fathers, and he was buried in
the double cave in the land of Canaan, near Abraham his father
in the grave which he dug for himself in the double cave in the
land of Hebron. 3 16. And he gave all his books and the books of
his fathers to Levi his son that he might preserve them and
renew them for his children until this day. 4
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Re: Book Of Jubilees
By: patrick jane Date: September 8, 2020, 7:48 pm
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The Death of Joseph. The Bones of Jacob's Sons (except Joseph)
interred at Hebron. The Oppression of Israel by Egypt (xlvi.
1-16; cf. Gen. l.; Exod. i.).
XLVI. And it came to pass that after Jacob died the children of
Israel multiplied in the land of Egypt, and they became a great
nation, and they were of one accord in heart, so that brother
loved brother and every man helped his brother, and they
increased abundantly and multiplied exceedingly, ten weeks
2242 A.M.of years, all the days of the life of Joseph. 5 2. And
there was no Satan 6 nor any evil all the days of the life of
Joseph which he lived after his father Jacob, for all the
Egyptians honoured the children of Israel all the days of the
life of Joseph. 3. And Joseph died being a hundred and ten years
old; 7 seventeen years he lived in the land of Canaan, and ten
years he was a servant, and three years in prison, and eighty
years he was under the king, ruling all the land
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of Egypt. 4. And he died and all his brethren and all that
generation. 5. And he commanded the children of Israel before he
died that they should carry his bones with them when they went
forth from the land of Egypt. 1 6. And he made them swear
regarding his bones, for he knew that the Egyptians would not
again bring forth and bury him in the land of Canaan, 2 for
Mâkamârôn, 3 king of Canaan, while dwelling in the land of
Assyria, fought in the valley with the king of Egypt and slew
him there, and pursued after the Egyptians to the gates of
’Êrmôn. 4 7. But he was not able to enter, for another, a new
king, had become king of Egypt, 5 and he was stronger than he,
and he returned to the land of Canaan, and the gates of Egypt
were closed, and none went out and none came into Egypt. 8. And
Joseph died
2242 A.M.in the forty-sixth jubilee, in the sixth week, in the
second year, and they buried him in the land of Egypt, and his
brethren died after him. 9. And the king of Egypt went forth to
war with the king of
2263 A.M.Canaan in the forty-seventh jubilee, in the second week
in the second year, and the children of Israel brought forth all
the bones of the children of Jacob save the bones of Joseph, and
they buried them in the field in the double cave in the
mountain. 10. And the most (of them) returned to Egypt, but a
few of them remained in the mountains of Hebron, and
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[paragraph continues] Amram thy father remained with them 1. 11.
And the king of Canaan was victorious over the king of Egypt,
and he closed the gates of Egypt. 12. And he devised an evil
device against the children of Israel of afflicting them; and he
said unto the people of Egypt: 13. "Behold the people of the
children of Israel have increased and multiplied more than we.
Come and let us deal wisely with them before they become too
many, and let us afflict them with slavery before war come upon
us and before they too fight against us; else they will join
themselves unto our enemies and get them up out of our land, for
their hearts and faces are towards the land of Canaan." 14. And
he set over them taskmasters to afflict them with slavery; and
they built strong 2 cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses, and
they built all the walls and all the fortifications which had
fallen in the cities of Egypt. 15. And they made them serve with
rigour, and the more they dealt evilly with them, the more they
increased and multiplied. 16. And the people of Egypt abominated
the children of Israel.
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The Birth and Early Years of Moses (xlvii. 1-12; cf. Exod. ii.).
XLVII. And in the seventh week, in the seventh
2303 A.M.year, in the forty-seventh jubilee, thy father 3 went
forth from the land of Canaan, and thou wast born in the fourth
week, in the sixth year thereof, in the
2330 A.M.forty-eighth jubilee; this was the time of tribulation
on the children of Israel. 2. And Pharaoh, king of Egypt, issued
a command regarding them that they
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should cast all their male children which were born into the
river. 3. And they cast them in for seven months until the day
that thou wast born. And thy mother hid thee for three months,
and they told regarding her. 4. And she made an ark for thee,
and covered it with pitch and asphalt, and placed it in the
flags on the bank of the river, and she placed thee in it seven
days, and thy mother came by night and suckled thee, and by day
Miriam, thy sister, guarded thee from the birds. 5. And in those
days Tharmuth, 1 the daughter of Pharaoh, came to bathe in the
river, and she heard thy voice crying, and she told her maidens
to bring thee forth, and they brought thee unto her. 6. And she
took thee out of the ark, and she had compassion on thee. 7. And
thy sister said unto her: "Shall I go and call unto thee one of
the Hebrew women to nurse and suckle this babe for thee?" And
she said (unto her): "Go." 8. And she went and called thy mother
Jochebed, 2 and she gave her wages, and she nursed thee. 9. And
afterwards, when thou wast grown up, they brought thee unto the
daughter of Pharaoh, and thou didst become her son, and Amram
thy father taught thee writing, 3 and after thou hadst completed
three weeks they brought thee into the royal court. 10. And thou
2351-2372 A.M.wast three weeks of years at court until the time
when thou didst go forth from the royal court and didst see an
Egyptian smiting thy friend who was of the children of Israel,
and thou didst slay him and hide him in the sand. 11. And on the
second day thou didst find two of the children of Israel
striving together, and thou didst say to him who was doing the
wrong: "Why dost thou smite thy brother? 12. And he was angry
and indignant, and said "Who made thee a prince and a judge over
us? Thinkest thou to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian
yesterday?" And thou didst fear and flee on account of these
words.
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From the Flight of Moses to the Exodus (xlviii. 1-19; cf. Exod.
ii. 15 ff., iv. 19-24, vii-xiv.).
XLVIII. And in the sixth year of the third week
2372 A.M.of the forty-ninth jubilee thou didst depart and dwell
in the land of Midian 1 five weeks and one year. And thou didst
return into Egypt 2 in the second week in the second year in the
fiftieth jubilee. 2.
2410 A.M.And thou thyself knowest what He spake unto thee on
Mount Sinai, and what prince Mastêmâ 3 desired to do with thee
when thou wast returning into Egypt on the way when thou didst
meet him at the lodging-place. 3. Did he not with all his power
seek to slay thee and deliver the Egyptians out of thy hand when
he saw that thou wast sent to execute judgment and vengeance on
the Egyptians? 4 4. And I delivered thee out of his hand, and
thou didst perform the signs and wonders which thou wast sent to
perform in Egypt against Pharaoh, and against all his house, and
against his servants and his people. 5. And the Lord executed a
great vengeance on them for Israel's sake, and smote them
through (the plagues of) blood and frogs, lice and dog-flies,
and malignant boils breaking forth in blains; and their cattle
by death; and by hail-stones, thereby He destroyed everything
that grew for them; and by locusts which devoured the residue
which had been left by the hail, and by darkness; and (by the
death) of the first-born of men and animals, and on all their
idols the Lord took vengeance and burned them with fire. 5 6.
And everything was sent through thy hand,
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that thou shouldst declare (these things) before they were done,
and thou didst speak with the king of Egypt before all his
servants and before his people. 7. And everything took place
according to thy words; ten great and terrible judgments came on
the land of Egypt that thou mightest execute vengeance on it for
Israel. 8. And the Lord did everything for Israel's sake, and
according to His covenant, which He had ordained with Abraham
that He would take vengeance on them as they had brought them by
force into bondage. 1 9. And the prince of the Mastêmâ stood up
against thee, and sought to cast thee into the hands of Pharaoh,
and he helped the Egyptian sorcerers, and they stood up and
wrought before thee. 10. The evils indeed we permitted them to
work, but the remedies we did not allow to be wrought by their
hands. 11. And the Lord smote them with malignant ulcers, and
they were not able to stand 2 for we destroyed them so that they
could not perform a single sign. 12. And notwithstanding all
(these) signs and wonders the prince of the Mastêmâ was not put
to shame because he took courage and cried to the Egyptians to
pursue after thee with all the powers of the Egyptians, with
their chariots, and with their horses, and with all the hosts of
the peoples of Egypt. 3 13. And I stood between the Egyptians
and Israel, and we delivered Israel out of his hand, and out of
the hand of his people, and the Lord brought them through the
midst of the sea as if it were dry land. 14. And all the peoples
whom he brought to pursue after Israel, the Lord our God cast
them into the midst of the sea, into the depths of the abyss
beneath the children of Israel, even as the people of Egypt had
cast their children into the river. 4 He took vengeance on
1,000,000 of them, and one thousand strong and energetic men
were
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destroyed on account of one suckling of the children of thy
people which they had thrown into the river. 1 15. And on the
fourteenth day and on the fifteenth and on the sixteenth and on
the seventeenth and on the eighteenth the prince of the Mastêmâ
was bound and imprisoned behind the children of Israel that he
might not accuse them. 16. And on the nineteenth we let them
loose that they might help the Egyptians and pursue the children
of Israel. 17. And he 2 hardened their hearts and made them
stubborn, and the device was devised by the Lord our God that He
might smite the Egyptians and cast them into the sea. 18. And on
the fourteenth we bound him that he might not accuse the
children of Israel on the day when they asked the Egyptians for
vessels and garments, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold,
and vessels of bronze, in order to despoil the Egyptians 3 in
return for the bondage in which they had forced them to serve.
19. And we did not lead forth the children of Israel from Egypt
empty handed.
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Regulations regarding the Passover (xlix. 1-23; cf. Exod. xii.).
XLIX. Remember the commandment which the Lord commanded thee
concerning the passover, that thou shouldst celebrate it in its
season on the fourteenth of the first month, that thou shouldst
kill it before it is evening, and that they should eat it by
night on the evening 4 of the fifteenth from the time of the
setting of the sun. 2. For on this night--the beginning of the
festival and the beginning of the joy--ye were eating the
passover in Egypt, when all the powers of Mastêmâ 5 had been let
loose to slay all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the
firstborn of Pharaoh to the first-born of the captive
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maidservant in the mill, and to the cattle. 3. And this is the
sign which the Lord gave them: Into every house on the lintels
of which they saw the blood of a lamb of the first year, into
(that) house they should not enter to slay, but should pass by
(it), that all those should be saved that were in the house
because the sign of the blood was on its lintels. 4. And the
powers of the Lord did everything according as the Lord
commanded them, and they passed by all the children of Israel,
and the plague came not upon them to destroy from amongst them
any soul either of cattle, or man, or dog. 5. And the plague was
very grievous in Egypt, and there was no house in Egypt where
there was not one dead, and weeping and lamentation. 6. And all
Israel was eating the flesh of the paschal lamb, and drinking
the wine, 1 and was lauding and blessing, and giving thanks to
the Lord God of their fathers, and was ready to go forth from
under the yoke of Egypt; and from the evil bondage. 7. And
remember thou this day all the days of thy life, and observe it
from year to year all the days of thy life, once a year, on its
day, according to all the law thereof, and do not adjourn (it)
from day to day, or from month to month. 8. For it is an eternal
ordinance, and engraven on the heavenly tables regarding all the
children of Israel that they should observe it every year on its
day once a year, throughout all their generations; 2 and there
is no limit of days, for this is ordained for ever. 9. And the
man who is free from uncleanness, and doth not come to observe
it on occasion of its day, so as to bring an acceptable offering
before the Lord, and to eat and to drink before the Lord on the
day of its festival, that man who is clean and close at hand
will be cut off; because he offered not the oblation of the Lord
in its appointed season, he will
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take the guilt upon himself. 1 10. Let the children of Israel
come and observe the passover on the day of its fixed time, on
the fourteenth day of the first month, between the evenings,
from the third part of the day to the third part of the night,
for two portions of the day are given to the light, and a third
part to the evening. 2 11. That is that which the Lord commanded
thee that thou shouldst observe it between the evenings. 12. And
it is not permissible to slay it during any period of the light,
but during the period bordering on the evening, 3 and let them
eat it at the time of the evening until the third part of the
night, 4 and whatever is leftover of all its flesh from the
third part of the night and onwards, let them burn it with fire.
13. And they shall not cook it with water, nor shall they eat it
raw, but roast on the fire: 5 they shall eat it with diligence,
6 its head with the inwards thereof 7 and its feet they shall
roast with fire, and not break any bone thereof; 8 for †of the
children of Israel no bone shall be crushed†. 9 14. For this
reason the Lord commanded the children of Israel to observe the
passover on the day of its fixed time, and they shall not break
a bone thereof; for it is a festival day, and a day commanded,
and
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there may be no passing over from day to day, and month to
month, but on the day of its festival let it be observed. 15.
And do thou command the children of Israel to observe the
passover throughout their days, every year, once a year on the
day of its fixed time, and it will come for a memorial well
pleasing before the Lord, and no plague will come upon them to
slay or to smite 1 in that year in which they celebrate the
passover in its season in every respect according to His
command. 16. And they shall not eat it outside the sanctuary 2
of the Lord, but before the sanctuary of the Lord, and all the
people of the congregation of Israel shall celebrate it in its
appointed season. 17. And every man who hath come upon its day
shall eat it in the sanctuary of your God before the Lord from
twenty years old 3 and upward; for thus is it written and
ordained that they should eat it in the sanctuary of the Lord.
18. And when the children of Israel come into the land which
they are to possess, into the land of Canaan, and set up the
tabernacle of the Lord in the midst of the land in one of their
tribes until the sanctuary of the Lord hath been built in the
land, let them come and celebrate the passover in the midst of
the tabernacle of the Lord, and let them slay it before the Lord
from year to year. 19. And in the days when the house hath been
built in the name of the Lord in the land of their inheritance,
they shall go there and slay the passover in the evening, at
sunset, at the third part of the day. 20. And they will offer
its blood on the threshold of the altar, and shall place its fat
on the fire which is upon the altar, and they shall eat its
flesh roasted with fire in the court of the house 4 which hath
been sanctified in
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the name of the Lord. 21. And they may not celebrate the
passover in their cities, 1 nor in any place save before the
tabernacle of the Lord, or before His house where His name hath
dwelt; and they will not go astray from the Lord. 22. And do
thou, Moses, command the children of Israel to observe the
ordinances of the passover, as it was commanded unto thee;
declare thou unto them every year †and the day of its days, and†
2 the festival of unleavened bread, that they should eat
unleavened bread seven days, (and) that they should observe its
festival, and that they bring an oblation every day during those
seven days of joy before the Lord on the altar of your God. 23.
For ye celebrated this festival with haste 3 when ye went forth
from Egypt till ye entered into the wilderness of Shur; 4 for on
the shore of the sea ye completed it.
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Laws regarding the Jubilees and the Sabbath (l. 1-13).
L. And after this law I made known to thee the days of the
Sabbaths in the desert of Sin[ai], which is between Elim and
Sinai. 5 2. And I told thee of the Sabbaths of the land on Mount
Sinai, and I told thee of the jubilee years 6 in the sabbaths of
years: but the year thereof have I not told thee till ye enter
the land which ye are to possess. 3. And the land also will keep
its sabbaths while they dwell upon it, 7 and they will know the
jubilee year. 4. Wherefore I have ordained for thee the
year-weeks 8 and the years and the jubilees: there are
forty-nine jubilees from the days of Adam until this day, and
one week
2410 A.M.and two years and there are yet forty years to come
(lit. "distant for learning the commandments of
2450 A.M.
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the Lord, until they pass over into the land of Canaan, crossing
the Jordan to the west. 5. And the jubilees will pass by, until
Israel is cleansed from all guilt of fornication, and
uncleanness, and pollution, and sin, and error, and dwelleth
with confidence in all the land, and there will be no more a
Satan or any evil one, and the land will be clean from that time
for evermore. 1
6. And behold the commandment regarding the Sabbaths--I have
written (them) down for thee and all the judgments of its laws.
7. Six days wilt thou labour, but on the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord your God. 2 In it ye shall do no manner of
work, ye and your sons, and your men-servants and your
maid-servants, and all your cattle and the sojourner also who is
with you. 8. And the man that doeth any work on it shall die: 3
whoever desecrateth that day, whoever lieth with (his) wife 4 or
whoever saith he will do something on it, that he will set out
on a journey thereon 5 in regard to any buying or selling: 6 and
whoever draweth water thereon 7 which he had not prepared for
himself on the sixth day, and whoever taketh up any burden to
carry it out of his tent 8 or out of his house shall die. 9. Ye
shall do no work whatever on the Sabbath day save that ye have
prepared for yourselves on the sixth day, so as to eat, and
drink, and rest, and keep Sabbath from all work on that day, and
to bless the Lord your God, who has given you a day of festival,
and a holy day: and a day of the holy kingdom for all Israel is
this day among their days for ever. 10. For great is the
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honour which the Lord hath given to Israel that they should eat
and drink and be satisfied on this festival day, and rest
thereon from all labour 1 which belongeth to the labour of the
children of men, save burning frankincense and bringing
oblations and sacrifices before the Lord for days and for
Sabbaths. 11. This work alone shall be done on the Sabbath-days
2 in the sanctuary of the Lord your God; that they may atone for
Israel with sacrifice continually from day to day for a memorial
well-pleasing before the Lord, and that He may receive them
always from day to day according as thou hast been commanded.
12. And every man who doeth any work thereon, or goeth a
journey, or tilleth (his) farm, 3 whether in his house or any
other place, 4 and whoever lighteth a fire, 5 or rideth on any
beast, 6 or travelleth by ship on the sea, and whoever striketh
or killeth anything, or slaughtereth 7 a beast or a bird, or
whoever catcheth an animal or a bird or a fish, or whoever
fasteth or maketh war on the Sabbaths: 8 13. The man who doeth
any of these things on the Sabbath shall die, so that the
children of Israel shall observe the Sabbaths according to the
commandments regarding the Sabbaths of the land, as it is
written in the tables, which He gave into my hands that I should
write out for thee the laws of the seasons, and the seasons
according to the division of their days.
Herewith is completed the account of the division of the days.
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