The Book of Jubilees
“Beyond The 66 Restored Scripture”
Book of Jubilees
The Little Genesis
Introduction to the Book of Jubilees
Shalum, Mysphaka.
The Book of Jubilees is an ancient record of the beginnings of creation, the generations of the patriarchs, and the covenant history of Yahshar'al. It presents the timeline of the world according to the heavenly tablets, given as revelation to Mosheh on Mount Sinai. In this writing the days, years, weeks, and jubilees of the world are counted with precision, and the ways of righteousness are shown through the lives of the fathers who walked before YAHUAH.
This book was treasured among early communities who sought to preserve the ancient order of creation. It affirms the authority of YAHUAH, the calling of His people, and the continual witness of the covenant from Adam to Noah, from Noah to Abraham, and from Abraham to Yahshar'al. Within it are detailed the commandments given from the beginning, the appointed times established in the heavens, and the guidance passed down to the generations who sought to remain faithful.
The Book of Jubilees restores the understanding of how YAHUAH governed His creation, how sin entered the world, how righteousness was preserved through the chosen line, and how the nations were divided. It reveals the purposes of YAHUAH in raising up a people who would walk in His statutes, honor His covenant, and remember His works throughout all generations.
It is a testimony of instruction, discipline, and promise. It reminds the reader that YAHUAH watches all the works of men, that His messengers keep record of all deeds, and that His covenant stands firm for those who love Him and guard His ways. It is also a witness of YAHUSHA, the One through whom all things were made, and the Redeemer promised from the beginning.
The restored digital edition you are about to read has been prepared with reverence and care, preserving the ancient order as closely as possible while restoring the sacred names and covenant language of the text. May it strengthen your understanding of the beginning, deepen your reverence for YAHUAH, and draw you closer to the covenant He established with His people.
Now, Mysphaka… let us begin the restored reading of The Book of Jubilees, Chapter One.
Chapter 1
☆The History Given to Mosheh on Sinai
The History Given to Mosheh on Sinai
This is the history of the division of the days of the law and of the testimony, of the events of the years, of their year weeks, of their jubilees throughout all the years of the world, as YAHUAH spoke to Mosheh on Mount Sinai when he went up to receive the tables of the law and of the commandment, according to the voice of ALUAH as He said to him, "Go up to the top of the mountain."
And it came to pass in the first year of the Anno Mundi exodus of the children of Yahshar'al out of Mitsrayim, in the third month, on the sixteenth day of the month, that ALUAH spoke to Mosheh, saying:
"Come up to Me on the mountain, and I will give you two tables of stone of the law and of the commandment, which I have written, so that you may teach them."
And Mosheh went up into the mountain of ALUAH, and the esteem of YAHUAH abode on Mount Sinai, and a cloud overshadowed it six days. And He called to Mosheh on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud,
and the appearance of the esteem of YAHUAH was like a flaming fire on the top of the mountain.
And Mosheh was on the mountain forty days and forty nights, and ALUAH taught him the earlier and the later history
of the division of all the days of the law and of the testimony.
Prophesied Rebellion and Captivity of Yahshar'al
And He said, "Incline your heart to every word which I shall speak to you on this mountain, and write them in a book so that their generations may see how I have not forsaken them for all the evil which they have worked in transgressing the covenant which I establish between Me and you for their generations this day on Mount Sinai.
And this is how it will come to pass when all these things come upon them, 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 truly been with them.
And you write for yourself all these words which I declare to you this day, for I know their rebellion and their stiff neck, before I bring them into the land which I swore to their fathers, to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob, saying, 'To your seed I will give a land flowing with milk and honey.'
And they will eat and be satisfied, and they will turn to strange gods, to gods which cannot deliver them from any of their tribulation.
And this witness will be heard for a witness against them. For they will forget all My commandments, even all that I command them, and they will walk after the nations,
and after their uncleanness, and after their shame, and will serve their gods, and these will prove to them an offence and a tribulation and an affliction and a snare.
And many will perish and they will be taken captive, and will fall into the hands of the enemy, because they have forsaken My ordinances and My commandments, and the festivals of My covenant,
and My Shabbaths, and My Qodesh place which I have set apart for Myself in their midst, and My tabernacle, and My sanctuary, which I have set apart for Myself in the midst of the land, that I should set My Name upon it, and that it should dwell there.
And they will make for themselves high places and groves and graven images, and they will worship, each his own graven image, so as to go astray, and they will sacrifice their children to demons and to all the works of the error of their hearts.
And I will send witnesses to them, so that I may witness against them, but they will not hear, and will slay the witnesses also,
and they will persecute those who watch over Torah, and they will transgress My Torah and work evil in My sight.
And I will hide My face from them, and I will deliver them into the hand of the nations for captivity, and for a prey, and for devouring, and I will remove them from the midst of the land, and I will scatter them among the nations.
And they will forget all My law and all My commandments and all My judgments, and will go astray regarding new moons, and Shabbaths, and festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances."
Promised Return, Peace, and Sanctuary
"And after this they will turn to Me from among the nations with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their strength,
and I will gather them from among all the nations, and they will seek Me so that I may be found by them,
when they seek Me with all their heart and with all their soul. And I will disclose to them abounding peace with righteousness, and I will remove from them the plant of unrighteousness, with all My heart and with all My soul,
and they will be for a Barakah and not for a curse, and they will be the head and not the tail.
And I will build My sanctuary in their midst, and I will dwell with them, and I will be their ALUAH and they will be My people in truth and righteousness.
And I will not forsake them nor fail them, for I am YAHUAH their ALUAH."
Mosheh Palals for Yahshar'al
And Mosheh fell on his face and Palal and said,
"O YAHUAH my ALUAH, do not forsake Your people and Your inheritance, so that they should wander in the error of their hearts, and do not deliver them into the hands of their enemies, the nations, lest they rule over them and cause them to sin against You.
Let Your mercy, O YAHUAH, be lifted up upon Your people, and create in them an upright Ruach,
and let not the Ruach of Beliar rule over them to accuse them before You, and to ensnare them from all the paths of righteousness, so that they may perish from before Your face.
But they are Your people and Your inheritance, which You have delivered with Your great power from the hands of the people of Mitsrayim.
Create in them a clean heart and a Qodesh Ruach, and let them not be ensnared in their sins from henceforth until eternity."
New Heart, Heavenly Tablets, and the Order of the Ages
And YAHUAH said to Mosheh, "I know their contrariness and their thoughts and their stiff-neckedness, and they will not be obedient until they confess their own sin and the sin of their fathers.
And after this they will turn to Me in all uprightness and with all their heart and with all their soul, and I will circumcise the foreskin of their heart and the foreskin of the heart of their seed, and I will create in them a Qodesh Ruach, and I will cleanse them so that they will not turn away from Me from that day unto eternity.
And their souls will cleave to Me and to all My commandments, and they will fulfil My commandments, and I will be their Father and they will be My children.
And they will all be called children of the living ALUAH, and every messenger and every Ruach will know, yes, they will know that these are My children, and that I am their Father in uprightness and righteousness, and that I love them.
And you write down for yourself all these words which I declare to you on this mountain, the first and the last, which will 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 throughout eternity."
And He said to the messenger of the presence, "Write for Mosheh from the beginning of creation until My sanctuary has been built among them for all eternity.
And YAHUAH will appear to the eyes of all, and all will know that I am the ALUAH of Yahshar'al and the Father of all the children of Jacob, and King on Mount Zion for all eternity. And Zion and Yerushalayim will be Qodesh."
And the messenger of the presence who went before the camp of Yahshar'al took the tables of the divisions of the years from the time of the creation
of the law and of the testimony of the weeks, of the jubilees, according to the individual years, according to all the number of the jubilees according to the individual years, from the day of the new creation when the SHAMAYIM and the earth will be renewed and all their creation according to the powers of the SHAMAYIM, and according to all the creation of the earth,
until the sanctuary of YAHUAH will be made in Yerushalayim on Mount Zion, and all the luminaries will be renewed for healing and for peace and for Barakah for all the elect of Yahshar'al, and that thus it may be from that day and unto all the days of the earth.
Chapter 2
☆The Six Days of Creation and the Shabbath
The Messenger of the Presence Speaks to Mosheh
And the messenger of the presence spoke to Mosheh according to the word of YAHUAH, saying,
"Write the complete history of the creation, how in six days YAHUAH ALUAH finished all His works and all that He created, and rested on the seventh day and set it apart for all ages, and appointed it as a sign for all His works."
Day One: Creation of Shamayim, Earth, Light, and the Hosts of Heaven
For on the first day He created the Shamayim which are above, and the earth, and the waters, and all the spirits which serve before Him,
the messengers of the presence, and the messengers of sanctification, and the messengers of the Ruach of fire and the messengers of the Ruach of the winds, and the messengers of the Ruach of the clouds,
and of darkness, and of snow and of hail and of frost, and the messengers of the voices and of the thunder and of the lightning, and the messengers of the spirits of cold and heat, and of winter and of spring and of autumn and of summer,
and of all the spirits of His creatures which are in the Shamayim and on the earth. He created the abysses and the darkness, evening and night, and the light, dawn and day, which He prepared in the knowledge of His heart.
And after this we saw His works, and praised Him, and gave thanks before Him because of all His works, for seven great works He created on the first day.
Day Two: The Firmament and the Separation of the Waters
And on the second day He created the firmament in the midst of the waters, and the waters were divided, half above and half below the firmament which was in the midst over the face of the whole earth.
And this was the only work ALUAH created on the second day.
Day Three: The Gathering of the Waters and the Creation of Land and Plants
And on the third day He commanded the waters to pass from off the face of the whole earth into one place, and the dry land to appear.
And the waters did so as He commanded them, and they withdrew from off the face of the earth into one place outside of this firmament, and the dry land appeared.
And on that day He created for them all the seas according to their separate gathering places, and all the rivers, and the gatherings of the waters in the mountains and on all the earth,
and all the lakes, and all the dew of the earth, and the seed which is sown, and all sprouting things, and fruit-bearing trees, and trees of the wood, and the Garden of Eden in Eden, and all plants after their kind.
These four great works ALUAH created on the third day.
Day Four: Sun, Moon, and Stars Appointed as Signs and Seasons
And on the fourth day He created the sun and the moon and the stars, and set them in the firmament of the Shamayim to give light upon all the earth,
and to rule over the day and the night, and to divide the light from the darkness.
And ALUAH appointed the sun to be a great sign on the earth for days and for Shabbaths and for months and for feasts and for years and for Shabbaths of years and for jubilees and for all seasons of the years.
And it divides the light from the darkness and brings prosperity so that all things may grow on the earth.
These three kinds He made on the fourth day.
Day Five: Creation of the Great Sea Creatures and Birds
And on the fifth day He created great sea creatures 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.
And the sun rose above them to prosper them, and above everything that was on the earth, everything that grows out of the earth, and all fruit-bearing trees, and all flesh.
These three kinds He created on the fifth day.
Day Six: Creation of Animals and of Man
And on the sixth day He created all the animals of the earth, and all cattle, and everything that moves on the earth.
And after all this He created man, a man and a woman He created them,
and He gave him dominion over everything 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. And there were altogether twenty-two kinds.
And He finished all His work on the sixth day, all that is in the Shamayim and on the earth and in the seas and in the abysses and in the light and in the darkness and in everything.
The Shabbath Commanded for Creation, Shamayim, and Yahshar'al
And He gave us a great sign, the Shabbath day, that we should work six days but keep Shabbath on the seventh day from all work. And all the messengers of the presence and all the messengers of sanctification,
these two great classes, He commanded to keep the Shabbath with Him in the Shamayim and on the earth.
And He said to us, "Behold, I will separate for Myself a people from among all the peoples, and they will keep the Shabbath day,
and I will set them apart for Myself as My people, and I will Barak them. As I have set apart the Shabbath day and set it apart for Myself, even so will I Barak them, and they will be My people and I will be their ALUAH.
And I have chosen the seed of Jacob from among all that I have seen, and have written him down as My firstborn son, and I have set him apart for Myself forever and ever.
And I will teach them the Shabbath day, so that they may keep Shabbath on it from all work."
The Heavenly Law of Shabbath for All Generations of Yahshar'al
"And thus He created in it a sign in accordance with which they should keep Shabbath with Us on the seventh day, to eat and to drink and to Barak Him who created all things,
as He has Barak and set apart to Himself a peculiar people above all peoples, so that they may keep Shabbath together with Us.
And He caused His commands to ascend as a sweet aroma acceptable before Him all the days. There were twenty-two heads of mankind from Adam to Jacob,
and twenty-two kinds of work were made until the seventh day.
This one is Baruk and Qodesh, and the former also is Baruk and Qodesh,
and this one serves with that one for sanctification and Barakah.
And to this (Jacob and his seed) it was granted that they should always be the Baruk and Qodesh ones of the first testimony and law, even as He has set apart and Baruk the Shabbath day on the seventh day.
He created the Shamayim and the earth and everything that He created in six days, and ALUAH made the seventh day Qodesh for all His works.
Therefore He commanded regarding it that whoever does any work on it will die, and that whoever defiles it will surely die.
Therefore command the children of Yahshar'al to observe this day so that they may keep it Qodesh and not do any work on it and not defile it,
for it is more Qodesh than all other days. And whoever profanes it will surely die, and whoever does any work on it will surely die eternally,
so that the children of Yahshar'al may observe this day throughout their generations and not be rooted out of the land.
For it is a Qodesh day and a Baruk day. And everyone who observes it and keeps Shabbath on it from all his work will be Qodesh and Baruk throughout all days like Us.
Declare and say to the children of Yahshar'al the law of this day, that they should keep Shabbath on it and not forsake it in the error of their hearts,
and that it is not lawful to do any unseemly work on it, nor do their own pleasure, and that they should not prepare on it anything to be eaten or drunk,
and that it is not lawful to draw water or bring in or take out on it through their gates any burden which they did not prepare for themselves on the sixth day in their dwellings.
And they will not bring in nor take out from house to house on that day, for that day is more Qodesh and Baruk than any jubilee day of the jubilees.
On this day We kept Shabbath in the Shamayim before it was made known to any flesh to keep Shabbath on the earth.
And the Creator of all things Baruk it, but He did not set apart all peoples and nations to keep Shabbath on it, but Yahshar'al alone.
Them alone He permitted to eat and drink and to keep Shabbath on it on the earth.
And the Creator of all things Baruk this day which He created for a Barakah and a sanctification and esteem above all days.
This law and testimony was given to the children of Yahshar'al as a law forever for their generations."
Chapter 3
☆Adam, Chuah, and the Garden of Eden
The Animals are Brought to Adam to be Named
And on the six days of the second week we brought, according to the word of ALUAH, to Adam all the beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and everything that moves on the earth, and everything that moves in the water, according to their kinds and according to their types.
The beasts on the first day, the cattle on the second day, the birds on the third day, and all that moves on the earth on the fourth day, and that which moves in the water on the fifth day.
And Adam named them all by their respective names, and as he called them, so was their name.
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 helpmate for himself.
The Creation of Chuah (Eve)
And YAHUAH said to us, "It is not good that the man should be alone. Let Us make a helpmate for him."
And YAHUAH our ALUAH caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and he slept. And He took for the woman one rib from among his ribs, and this rib was the origin of the woman from among his ribs,
and He built up the flesh in its place, and He built the woman.
And He awakened Adam out of his sleep, and when he awoke he rose on the sixth day, and He brought her to him, and he knew her, and said to 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."
Therefore man and wife will be one, and therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cling to his wife, and they will be one flesh.
In the first week Adam was created, and the rib, his wife. In the second week He showed her to him.
The Law of Purification for Childbirth
And for this reason the commandment was given to keep in their uncleanness. For a male child seven days, and for a female child twice seven days.
And after Adam had completed forty days in the land where he had been created, we brought him into the Garden of Eden to till and keep it. But his wife they brought in on the eightieth day, and after this she entered into the Garden of Eden.
And for this reason the commandment is written on the heavenly tablets in regard to her who bears a child:
"If she bears a male, she will remain in her uncleanness seven days according to the first week of days,
and thirty-three days she will remain in the blood of her purifying, and she will not touch any Qodesh thing, nor enter the sanctuary, until she completes these days which are commanded in the case of a male child.
But in the case of a female child she will remain in her uncleanness two weeks of days according to the first two weeks,
and sixty-six days in the blood of her purification. Altogether eighty days."
And when she had completed these eighty days, we brought her into the Garden of Eden, for it is more Qodesh than all the earth, and every tree that is planted in it is set apart.
Therefore it was ordained regarding her who bears a male or a female child the statute of those days, that she should touch no Qodesh thing, nor enter the sanctuary until these days for the male or female child are accomplished.
This is the law and testimony which was written down for Yahshar'al, so that they should observe it all their days.
Adam and Chuah in the Garden, the Serpent's Deception, and the Fall
And in the first week of the first jubilee, Adam and his wife were in the Garden of Eden for seven years, tilling and keeping it.
And we gave him work, and we instructed him to do everything that is suitable for tillage.
And he tilled the garden and was naked and knew it not, and was not ashamed.
And he protected the garden from the birds and beasts and cattle, and gathered its fruit, and ate. And he set aside the residue for himself and for his wife, and he set aside that which was being kept.
And after the completion of the seven years which he had completed there, seven years exactly, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the serpent came and approached the woman, and the serpent said to the woman,
"Has ALUAH commanded you, saying, 'You will not eat of every tree of the garden'?"
And she said to it, "Of all the fruit of the trees of the garden ALUAH has said to us, 'Eat.'
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden ALUAH has said to us, 'You will not eat from it, nor touch it, lest you die.'"
And the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.
For ALUAH knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like mighty ones, knowing good and evil."
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 from it and ate.
And when she had first covered her shame with fig leaves, she gave to Adam and he ate,
and his eyes were opened, and he saw that he was naked. And he took fig leaves and sewed them together and made an apron for himself and covered his shame.
The Judgment of YAHUAH and the Expulsion from Eden
And ALUAH cursed the serpent and was angry with it forever.
And He was angry with the woman because she listened to the voice of the serpent and ate.
And He said to her, "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your pains. In sorrow you will bring forth children, and your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
And to Adam also He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree concerning which I commanded you that you should not eat from it, cursed is the ground for your sake.
Thorns and thistles will it bring forth for you, and you will eat your bread in the sweat of your face, until you return to the earth from where you were taken. For earth you are, and to earth you will return."
And He made for them coats of skin and clothed them, and sent them forth from the Garden of Eden.
The Speech of Creatures Ceases and Creation is Scattered
And on the day when Adam went out from the garden, he offered a sweet aroma, an offering of frankincense, galbanum, and stacte, and spices in the morning with the rising of the sun from the day when he covered his shame.
And on that day was closed the mouth of all beasts and of cattle and of birds and of all that walks and moves, so that they could no longer speak. For they had all spoken with one lip and one tongue.
And He sent out from the Garden of Eden all flesh that was in the garden, and all flesh was scattered according to its kinds and types into the places which had been created for them.
The Law of Modesty Given to Yahshar'al
And to Adam alone He gave the means to cover his shame of all beasts and cattle.
On this account it is prescribed on the heavenly tablets concerning all who know the judgment of the law, that they should cover their shame and should not uncover themselves as the nations uncover themselves.
Adam and Chuah Leave Eden and Enter the Land of Their Creation
And on the new moon of the fourth month Adam and his wife went forth from the Garden of Eden, and they lived in the land of 'Elda, in the land of their creation.
The Naming of Chuah, and the First Conception
And Adam called the name of his wife Chuah. And they had no son until the first jubilee.
And after this he knew her. Now he tilled the land as he had been instructed in the Garden of Eden.
Chapter 4
☆The Generations from Adam to Noah
The Birth of Cain, Abel, and Their Sister Awan
And in the third week in the second jubilee, she gave birth to Cain. And in the fourth week she gave birth to Abel, and in the fifth week she gave birth to her daughter Awan.
Cain Slays Abel and is Cursed
And in the first year of the third jubilee, Cain killed Abel because ALUAH accepted the sacrifice of Abel and did not accept the offering of Cain.
And he killed him in the field, and his blood cried from the ground to the Shamayim complaining because he had killed him.
And YAHUAH reproved Cain because of Abel, because he had killed him, and He made him a fugitive on the earth because of the blood of his brother, and He cursed him on the earth.
And on this account it is written on the heavenly tablets, "Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor deceitfully." And let all who have seen and heard say, "So be it."
And the man who has seen and not declared it, let him be cursed like the other.
The Heavenly Record of All Sin and Righteousness
And for this reason we declare when we come before YAHUAH our ALUAH all the sin which is committed in the Shamayim and on the earth, in light and in darkness, and everywhere.
Adam and Chuah Mourn for Abel; The Birth of Seth and Azura
And Adam and his wife mourned for Abel four weeks of years.
And in the fourth year of the fifth week they became joyful, and Adam knew his wife again, and she gave birth to a son, and he called his name Seth. For he said, "ALUAH has raised up for us another seed on the earth instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."
And in the sixth week he fathered his daughter Azura.
Cain Builds a City and the First Houses on Earth
And Cain took Awan his sister to be his wife, and she gave birth to Enoch at the end of the fourth jubilee.
And in the first year of the first week of the fifth jubilee, houses were built on the earth, and Cain built a city and called its name after his son Enoch.
And Adam knew Chuah his wife, and she gave birth to nine sons.
The Early Generations: Enos, Kenan, Mahalalel, and Jared
And in the fifth week of the fifth jubilee, Seth took Azura his sister to be his wife, and in the fourth year of the sixth week she gave birth to Enos. He began to call on the Name of YAHUAH on the earth.
And in the seventh jubilee in the third week, Enos took Noam his sister to be his wife, and she gave birth to a son in the third year of the fifth week, and he called his name Kenan.
And at the end of the eighth jubilee Kenan took Mualeleth his sister to be his wife, and she gave birth to a son in the ninth jubilee in the first week in the third year of the week, and he called his name Mahalalel.
And in the second week of the tenth jubilee Mahalalel took to himself a wife, and her name was Dinah, the daughter of Barakiel, the daughter of his father's brother. And she gave birth to a son in the third week in the sixth year, and he called his name Jared.
The Watchers Descend in the Days of Jared
For in his days the messengers of YAHUAH descended on the earth, those who are named the Watchers, that they should instruct the children of men and that they should do judgment and uprightness on the earth.
The Birth of Enoch, First Scribe of the Earth
And in the eleventh jubilee Jared took to himself a wife, and her name was Baraka, the daughter of Rasujal, a daughter of his father's brother, in the fourth week of this jubilee.
And she gave birth to a son in the fifth week in the fourth year of the jubilee, and he called his name Enoch.
And he was the first among men who are born on earth to learn writing and knowledge and wisdom.
And he wrote down the signs of the Shamayim according to the order of their months in a book, so that men might know the seasons of the years according to the order of their separate months.
And he was the first to write a testimony, and he testified to the sons of men among the generations of the earth, and recounted the weeks of the jubilees, and made known to them the days of the years, and set in order the months, and recounted the Shabbaths of the years as we made them known to him.
And what was and what will be he saw in a vision of his sleep, as it will happen to the children of men throughout their generations until the day of judgment.
He saw and understood everything, and wrote his testimony, and placed the testimony on earth for all the children of men and for their generations.
Enoch's Walk with the Messengers and His Rebuke of the Watchers
And in the twelfth jubilee in the seventh week, he took to himself a wife, and her name was Edni, the daughter of Daniel, the daughter of his father's brother. And in the sixth year in this week she gave birth to a son, and he called his name Methuselah.
And he was with the messengers of ALUAH for six jubilees of years, and they showed him everything which is on earth and in the Shamayim, the rule of the sun, and he wrote down everything.
And he testified to the Watchers who had sinned with the daughters of men.
For these had begun to join themselves to be defiled with the daughters of men, and Enoch testified against them all.
Enoch Taken into Eden and the Four Qodesh Places
And he was taken from among the children of men, and we conducted him into the Garden of Eden in majesty and honor.
And behold, there he writes down the condemnation and judgment of the world and all the wickedness of the children of men.
And because of it ALUAH brought the waters of the flood on all the land of Eden. For there he was set as a sign so that he would testify against all the children of men, and recount all the deeds of the generations until the day of condemnation.
And he burned the incense of the sanctuary, even sweet spices, acceptable before YAHUAH on the mountain.
For YAHUAH has four places on the earth: the Garden of Eden, the Mount of the East, this mountain on which you are this day, Mount Sinai, and Mount Zion, which will be set apart in the new creation for a sanctification of the earth.
Through it the earth will be sanctified from all guilt and uncleanness throughout the generations of the world.
The Generations of Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah
And in the fourteenth jubilee Methuselah took to himself a wife, Edna the daughter of Azrael, the daughter of his father's brother, in the third week in the first year of this week. And he fathered a son and called his name Lamech.
And in the fifteenth jubilee in the third week Lamech took to himself a wife, and her name was Betenos, the daughter of Barakiel, the daughter of his father's brother. And in this week she gave birth to 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 YAHUAH has cursed."
The Death of Adam and Cain and the Law of Just Retribution
And at the end of the nineteenth jubilee, in the seventh week in the sixth year of it, Adam died, and all his sons buried him in the land of his creation, and he was the first to be buried in the earth.
And he lacked seventy years of one thousand years. For one thousand years are as one day in the testimony of the Shamayim.
And because of this it was written concerning the tree of knowledge, "On the day that you eat from it you will die." For this reason he did not complete the years of that day, for he died during it.
And at the end of this jubilee, Cain was killed 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 with a stone he was killed in righteous judgment.
For this reason it was ordained on the heavenly tablets, "With the instrument with which a man kills his neighbor, with the same he will be killed. In the same manner that he injured him, in the same manner will they deal with him."
The Line of Noah and the Sons of Noah
And in the twenty-fifth jubilee Noah took to himself a wife, and her name was Emzara, the daughter of Rakeel, the daughter of his father's brother, in the first year in the fifth week.
And in the third year she gave birth to Shem, and in the fifth year she gave birth to Ham, and in the first year in the sixth week she gave birth to Japheth.
And these are the generations of the sons of Noah.
Chapter 5
☆The Flood and the Judgment of All Flesh
The Wickedness of Men and the Rise of the Giants
And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,
that the messengers of ALUAH saw them in a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon. And they took for themselves wives of all whom they chose, and they bore to them sons, and they were giants.
And lawlessness increased on the earth, and all flesh corrupted its way, alike men and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walks on the earth.
All of them corrupted their ways and their orders, and they began to devour one another.
And lawlessness increased on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of all men was evil continually.
The Judgment Decreed Against All Flesh
And ALUAH looked upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways, and all that were upon the earth had worked all manner of evil before His eyes.
And He said, "I will destroy man and all flesh upon the face of the earth which I have created."
The Watchers are Bound and Their Giant Sons Destroyed
But Noah found favor before the eyes of YAHUAH.
And against the messengers whom He had sent upon the earth, He was exceedingly angry, and He gave command to remove them from all their dominion,
and He commanded us to bind them in the depths of the earth. And behold, they are bound in the midst of them, and are kept separate.
And against their sons went forth a command from before His face that they should be struck with the sword and removed from under the Shamayim.
And He said, "My Ruach will not always dwell with man, for they also are flesh, and their days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
And He sent His sword into their midst so that each should strike his neighbor, and they began to strike each other until they all fell by the sword and were destroyed from the earth.
And their fathers were witnesses of their destruction, and after this they were bound in the depths of the earth forever, until the day of the great condemnation when judgment is executed on all who have corrupted their ways and their works before YAHUAH.
The Heavenly Tablets Record All Judgments
And He destroyed all from their places, and there was not one of them left whom He did not judge according to their wickedness.
And He made for all His works a new and righteous nature, so that they should not sin in their whole nature forever, but should all be righteous each in his kind always.
And the judgment of all is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets in righteousness,
even the judgment of all who depart from the path which is ordained for them to walk in. And if they do not walk in it, judgment is written down for every creature and for every kind.
And there is nothing in the Shamayim or on the earth or in light or in darkness or in Sheol or in the depth or in the place of darkness which is not judged.
And all their judgments are ordained and written and engraved.
No Respect of Persons in the Judgment of ALUAH
In regard to all He will judge. The great according to his greatness, and the small according to his smallness, and each according to his way.
And He is not one who will regard the person of anyone, nor is He one who will receive gifts if He says that He will execute judgment on each.
Even if one gave everything that is on the earth, He will not regard the gifts or the person of anyone, nor accept anything at his hands, for He is a righteous judge.
The Mercy Promised to Yahshar'al When They Repent
And concerning the children of Yahshar'al it has been written and ordained: If they turn to Him in righteousness, He will forgive all their transgressions and pardon all their sins.
It is written and ordained that He will show mercy to all who turn from all their guilt once each year.
Noah Alone was Found Righteous Before the Flood
But in the case of all those who corrupted their ways and their thoughts before the flood, no person was accepted except Noah alone. For his life was accepted on behalf of his sons, whom ALUAH saved from the waters of the flood on his account.
For his heart was righteous in all his ways, as it was commanded regarding him, and he had not departed from anything that was ordained for him.
Noah is Commanded to Build the Ark
And YAHUAH said that He would destroy everything which was upon the earth, both men and cattle and beasts and the birds of the air and that which moves on the earth.
And He commanded Noah to make an ark, so that he might save himself from the waters of the flood.
And Noah made the ark in all respects as He commanded him, in the twenty-seventh jubilee of years, in the fifth week in the fifth year, on the new moon of the first month.
The Flood Begins and the Waters Prevail
And he entered the ark in the sixth year of it, in the second month, on the new moon of the second month,
until the sixteenth day. And he entered, and all that we brought to him into the ark, and YAHUAH closed it from the outside on the seventeenth evening.
And YAHUAH opened seven floodgates of the Shamayim and the mouths of the fountains of the great deep, seven mouths in number. And the floodgates began to pour down water from the Shamayim forty days and forty nights.
And the fountains of the deep also sent up waters until the whole world was full of water.
And the waters increased on the earth. Fifteen cubits did the waters rise above all the high mountains.
And the ark was lifted up above the earth, and it moved on the face of the waters.
And the waters prevailed on the face of the earth five months, one hundred and fifty days.
The Waters Recede and the Earth Dries
And the ark went and rested on the top of Lubar, one of the mountains of Ararat.
And on the new moon of the fourth month the fountains of the great deep were closed and the floodgates of the Shamayim were restrained.
And on the new moon of the seventh month all the mouths of the abysses of the earth were opened, and the water began to descend into the deep below.
And on the new moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.
And on the new moon of the first month the earth became visible. And the waters disappeared from above the earth in the fifth week in the seventh year of it.
And on the seventeenth day in the second month, the earth was dry.
And on the twenty-seventh day he opened the ark and sent forth from it beasts, cattle, birds, and every moving thing.
Chapter 6
☆Noah's Covenant, the Feasts, and the 364-Day Calendar
Noah Offers Sacrifice After the Flood
And on the new moon of the third month he went forth from the ark, and built an altar on that mountain.
And he made atonement for the earth, and took a kid and made atonement by its blood for all the guilt of the earth. For everything on it had been destroyed except those who were in the ark with Noah.
And he placed the fat of it on the altar, and he took an ox and a goat and a sheep and kids and salt and a turtledove and the young of a dove,
and placed a burnt sacrifice on the altar, and poured upon it an offering mingled with oil, and sprinkled wine and strewed frankincense over everything, and caused a good aroma to arise, acceptable before YAHUAH.
And YAHUAH smelled the good aroma, and He made a covenant with him that there would not again be a flood to destroy the earth.
That all the days of the earth seed-time and harvest would never cease, cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night would not change their order or cease forever.
Noah is Commanded to Multiply and Has Dominion Over Creation
"And you, increase and multiply upon the earth, and become many upon it, and be a Barakah upon it.
The fear of you and the dread of you I will inspire in everything that is on the earth and in the sea.
And behold, I have given to you all beasts and all winged things and everything that moves on the earth and the fish in the waters, and all things for food. As the green plants, I have given you all things to eat.
But flesh with its life, that is, with its blood, you will not eat, for the life of all flesh is in the blood, lest your blood of your lives be required.
At the hand of every beast and at the hand of every man will I require the blood of man.
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of ALUAH He made man.
And you, increase and multiply on the earth."
The Covenant of Blood and the Law of Blood for All Generations
And Noah and his sons swore that they would not eat any blood that was in any flesh.
And he made a covenant before YAHUAH ALUAH forever throughout all the generations of the earth in this month.
For this reason He spoke to you so that you should make a covenant with the children of Yahshar'al in this month on the mountain with an oath, and that you should sprinkle blood upon them because of all the words of the covenant which YAHUAH made with them forever.
And this testimony is written concerning you so that you should observe it continually, so that you do not eat on any day any blood of beasts or birds or cattle during all the days of the earth.
And the man who eats the blood of beast or cattle or birds during all the days of the earth, he and his seed will be rooted out of the land.
And you command the children of Yahshar'al to eat no blood, so that their names and their seed may be before YAHUAH our ALUAH continually.
And for this law there is no limit of days, for it is forever. They will observe it throughout their generations, so that they may continue seeking atonement on your behalf with blood before the altar.
Every day and at morning and evening they will seek forgiveness on your behalf continually before YAHUAH, that they may keep it and not be rooted out.
The Sign of the Covenant: The Bow in the Clouds
And He gave to Noah and his sons a sign that there would not again be a flood on the earth.
He set His bow in the cloud for a sign of the eternal covenant, that there would not again be a flood on the earth to destroy it all the days of the earth.
The Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) Ordained from Creation
For this reason it is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets that they should celebrate the Feast of Weeks in this month once a year, to renew the covenant every year.
And this whole festival was celebrated in the Shamayim from the day of creation until the days of Noah—twenty-six jubilees and five weeks of years.
And Noah and his sons observed it for seven jubilees and one week of years, until the day of Noah's death. But from the day of Noah's death his sons abandoned it until the days of Abraham, and they ate blood.
But Abraham observed it, and Isaac and Jacob and his children observed it until your days.
And in your days the children of Yahshar'al forgot it until you celebrated it anew on this mountain.
The Children of Yahshar'al Commanded to Keep Shavuot Forever
And you command the children of Yahshar'al to observe this festival in all their generations as a commandment for them.
One day in the year in this month they will celebrate the festival.
For it is the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of First-Fruits. This feast is twofold and of a double nature. According to what is written and engraved concerning it, celebrate it.
For I have written in the Book of the First Law, in that which I have written for you, that you should celebrate it in its season, one day in the year.
And I have explained to you its sacrifices, so that the children of Yahshar'al should remember and celebrate it throughout their generations in this month, one day every year.
The Four Seasonal Divisions of the Year
And on the new moon of the first month and on the new moon of the fourth month and on the new moon of the seventh month and on the new moon of the tenth month are the days of remembrance and the days of the seasons in the four divisions of the year.
These are written and ordained as a testimony forever.
And Noah ordained them for himself as feasts for the generations forever, so that they have become a memorial to him.
Noah's Sign Days Established Forever
And on the new moon of the first month he was commanded to make for himself an ark, and on that day the earth became dry, and he opened the ark and saw the earth.
And on the new moon of the fourth month the mouths of the depths of the abysses below were closed.
And on the new moon of the seventh month all the mouths of the abysses of the earth were opened, and the waters began to descend into them.
And on the new moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen, and Noah was glad.
And for this reason he ordained them for himself as feasts as a memorial forever, and they are written as such.
The 364-Day Calendar Commanded from Heaven
And they placed them on the heavenly tablets—each had thirteen weeks. From one to another passed their memorial,
from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth.
And all the days of the commandment will be fifty-two weeks of days. These will make the entire year complete.
Thus it is engraved and ordained on the heavenly tablets. And there is no neglecting this commandment for a single year or from year to year.
And you command the children of Yahshar'al that they observe the years according to this reckoning—three hundred and sixty-four days.
And these will constitute a complete year. They will not disturb its time from its days and from its feasts.
For everything will fall on them according to their testimony. They will not leave out any day nor disturb any feast.
The Warning About Following the Lunar System
But if they neglect and do not observe them according to His commandment, then they will disturb all their seasons, and the years will be dislodged from this order.
And they will disturb the seasons, and the years will be dislodged, and they will neglect their ordinances.
And all the children of Yahshar'al will forget and will not find the path of the years. They will forget the new moons and the seasons and Shabbaths, and they will go wrong regarding the whole order of the years.
For I know, and from now on I declare it to you. It is not of my own devising. For the book lies written before me, and on the heavenly tablets the division of days is ordained,
so that they forget not the feasts of the covenant and walk according to the feasts of the nations after their error and after their ignorance.
For there will be those who will certainly make observations of the moon, for it disturbs the seasons and comes in from year to year ten days early.
For this reason the years will come upon them when they disturb the order and make an abominable day the day of testimony, and an unclean day a feast day.
And they will confound all the days—the Qodesh with the unclean, and the unclean day with the Qodesh. For they will go wrong regarding the months and Shabbaths and feasts and jubilees.
The Future Error of the Children of Yahshar'al Foretold
For this reason I command and testify to you that you may testify to them.
For after your death, your children will disturb them, so that they will not make the year three hundred and sixty-four days only.
And for this reason they will go wrong regarding the new moons and seasons and Shabbaths and festivals.
And they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.
Chapter 7
☆Noah's Vineyard, the Curse of Canaan, and the Law of Blood
Noah Plants Vines and Makes Wine
And in the seventh week in the first year of this jubilee, Noah planted vines on the mountain on which the ark had rested, named Lubar, one of the Ararat Mountains.
And they produced fruit in the fourth year.
And he guarded their fruit and gathered it in this year in the seventh month. And he made wine from it and put it into a vessel and kept it until the fifth year, until the first day, on the new moon of the first month.
Noah Makes Offerings and Drinks of the Wine
And he celebrated with joy the day of this feast, and he made a burnt sacrifice to YAHUAH, one young ox and one ram, and seven sheep, each a year old, and a kid of the goats, so that he might make atonement for himself and for his sons.
And he prepared the kid first and placed some of its blood on the flesh that was on the altar which he had made, and he laid all the fat on the altar where he made the burnt sacrifice.
And the ox and the ram and the sheep, and he laid all their flesh on the altar. And he placed all their offerings mingled with oil upon it.
And afterward he sprinkled wine on the fire which he had previously made on the altar, and he placed incense on the altar and caused a sweet aroma to arise, acceptable before YAHUAH his ALUAH.
And he rejoiced and drank of this wine, he and his children with joy.
Noah Becomes Drunk and is Found Uncovered
And it was evening, and he went into his tent, and being drunk he lay down and slept, and was uncovered in his tent as he slept.
And Ham saw Noah his father naked and went out and told his two brothers outside.
And Shem took his garment and arose, he and Japheth, and they placed the garment on their shoulders and went backward and covered the shame of their father, and their faces were turned backward.
Noah Curses Canaan and Blesses Shem and Japheth
And Noah awoke from his sleep and knew all that his younger son had done to him.
And he cursed his son and said, "Cursed be Canaan. A servant of servants he will be to his brothers."
And he Baruk Shem and said, "Baruk be YAHUAH ALUAH of Shem, and Canaan will be his servant.
ALUAH will enlarge Japheth, and ALUAH will dwell in the dwelling of Shem, and Canaan will be his servant."
And Ham knew that his father had cursed his younger son, and he was displeased that he had cursed his son, and he separated from his father, he and his sons with him, Cush and Mitsrayim and Put and Canaan.
The Three Sons of Noah Build Cities
And he built for himself a city and called its name after the name of his wife Neelatamak.
And Japheth saw it and became envious of his brother, and he too built for himself a city and he called its name after the name of his wife Adataneses.
And Shem lived with his father Noah, and he built a city close to his father on the mountain, and he too called its name after the name of his wife Sedeqetelbab.
And behold, these three cities are near Mount Lubar, Sedeqetelbab facing the mountain on its east, Neelatamak on the south, and Adataneses toward the west.
The Sons of Noah and Their Descent
And these are the sons of Shem, Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad (this son was born two years after the flood), Lud, and Aram.
The sons of Japheth, Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. These are the sons of Noah.
Noah Teaches His Grandchildren Righteousness
And in the twenty-eighth jubilee Noah began to command his sons' sons concerning the ordinances and commandments and all the judgments that he knew.
And he exhorted his sons to observe righteousness and to cover the shame of their flesh and to Barak their Creator and honor father and mother and love their neighbor and guard their souls from fornication and uncleanness and all iniquity.
The Three Sins That Brought the Flood
For because of these three things the flood came upon the earth, namely,
because of the fornication in which the Watchers, against the law of their nature, went astray after the daughters of men and took wives for themselves of all whom they chose, and they made the beginning of uncleanness.
The Giants, the Nephil, and the Eljo
And they bore sons, the Nephilim, and they were all unlike, and they devoured one another. And the Giants slew the Nephil, and the Nephil slew the Eljo, and the Eljo slew mankind, and one man slew another.
And every one sold himself to work iniquity and to shed much blood, and the earth was filled with iniquity.
The Corruption of All Living Creatures
And after this they sinned against the beasts and birds and all that moves and walks on the earth, and much blood was shed on the earth.
And every imagination and desire of men imagined vanity and evil continually.
The Judgment of the Flood
And YAHUAH destroyed everything from off the face of the earth because of the wickedness of their deeds and because of the blood which they had shed in the midst of the earth He destroyed everything.
Noah Reminds His Sons of Their Deliverance
"And we were left, I and you, my sons, and everything that entered with us into the ark.
And behold, I see your works before me, that you do not walk in righteousness, for in the path of destruction you have begun to walk.
And you are separating one from another and are envious of one another, and so it happens that you are not in harmony, my sons, each with his brother.
Noah Warns of the Demons' Seductions
For I see, and behold, the demons have begun their seductions against you and against your children.
And now I fear for you, that after my death you will shed the blood of men on the earth and that you too will be destroyed from the face of the earth.
The Law of Blood
For whoever sheds man's blood, and whoever eats the blood of any flesh, will all be destroyed from the earth.
And there will not remain any man who eats blood or who sheds the blood of man on the earth, nor will there remain for him any seed or descendants living under the Shamayim.
For into Sheol they will go and into the place of condemnation they will descend.
And into the darkness of the deep they will all be removed by a violent death. There will be no blood seen upon you from all this.
For in all the days in which you have killed any beasts or cattle or whatever flies upon the earth, work a good work for your souls by covering that which has been shed on the face of the earth.
The Command to Cover the Blood
And you will not be like him who eats with blood, but guard yourselves so that no one may eat blood before you.
Cover the blood, for thus I have been commanded to testify to you and your children together with all flesh.
The Law of Life: Blood and Justice
And do not allow the soul to be eaten with the flesh, so that your blood, which is your life, may not be required at the hand of any flesh that sheds it on the earth.
For the earth will not be clean from the blood which has been shed upon it, for only through the blood of him who shed it will the earth be purified throughout all its generations.
Noah Exhorts His Sons to Righteousness and Mercy
"And now, my children, listen. Work judgment and righteousness so that you may be planted in righteousness over the face of the whole earth and your esteem lifted up before my ALUAH who saved me from the waters of the flood.
And behold, you will go and build for yourselves cities and plant in them all the plants that are upon the earth and also all fruit-bearing trees.
The Law of First-Fruits Established by Enoch and Passed Down
For three years the fruit of everything that is eaten will not be gathered, and in the fourth year its fruit will be considered Qodesh, and they will offer the first-fruits,
acceptable before the Most High ALUAH who created Shamayim and earth and all things.
Let them offer in abundance the first of the wine and oil as first-fruits on the altar of YAHUAH who receives it.
And what is left let the servants of the house of YAHUAH eat before the altar which receives it.
And in the fifth year make the release so that you release it in righteousness and uprightness and you will be righteous, and all that you plant will prosper.
For thus did Enoch, the father of your father, command Methuselah his son, and Methuselah his son Lamech, and Lamech commanded me all the things which his fathers commanded him.
And I also will give you commandment, my sons, as Enoch commanded his son in the first jubilees,
while he was still living, the seventh in his generation, he commanded and testified to his son and to his sons' sons until the day of his death.
Chapter 8
☆The Division of the Earth Among the Sons of Noah
The Birth of Kainam and the Watchers' Teachings
In the twenty-ninth jubilee, in the first week, at the beginning of it, Arpachshad took for himself a wife and her name was Rasueja, the daughter of Susan, the daughter of Elam.
And in the third year of this week she bore him a son, and he called his name Kainam.
And the son grew, and his father taught him writing. And he went to seek for himself a place where he might seize for himself a city.
And he found a writing which former generations had carved on the rock, and he read what was on it, and he copied it and sinned because of it, for it contained the teaching of the Watchers in accordance with which they used to observe
the omens of the sun and moon and stars in all the signs of the Shamayim.
And he wrote it down and said nothing about it, for he was afraid to speak to Noah about it lest he should be angry with him because of it.
The Line of Shem Through Shelah, Eber, and Peleg
And in the thirtieth jubilee, in the second week, in the first year of it, he took for himself a wife, and her name was Melka, the daughter of Madai, the son of Japheth.
And in the fourth year he fathered a son and called his name Shelah, for he said, "Truly I have been sent."
And in the fourth year he was born, and Shelah grew up and took for himself a wife, and her name was Muak, the daughter of Kesed, his father's brother.
And in the thirty-first jubilee, in the fifth week, in the first year of it, she bore him a son in the fifth year of it, and he called his name Eber.
And he took for himself a wife, and her name was Azurad, the daughter of Nebrod, in the thirty-second jubilee, in the seventh week, in the third year of it.
And in the sixth year of it she bore him a son, and he called his name Peleg.
For in the days when he was born the children of Noah began to divide the earth among themselves. For this reason he called his name Peleg.
And they divided it secretly among themselves and told it to Noah.
Noah Divides the Earth Among His Sons
And it came to pass at the beginning of the thirty-third jubilee that they divided the earth into three parts, for Shem and Ham and Japheth, according to the inheritance of each, in the first year, in the first week, when one of us, who had been sent, was with them.
And he called his sons, and they came near to him, they and their children, and he divided the earth into the lots which his three sons were to take in possession.
And they reached out their hands and took the writing out of the bosom of Noah their father.
The Portion of Shem
And there came forth on the writing as Shem's lot the middle of the earth which he should take as an inheritance for himself and for his sons for the generations of eternity, from the middle of the mountain range of Rafa, from the mouth of the water of the river Tina.
And his portion goes toward the west through the midst of this river, and it extends until it reaches the water of the abysses, out of which this river flows.
And it pours its waters into the Sea Me'at, and this river flows into the great sea.
And all that is toward the north is Japheth's, and all that is toward the south belongs to Shem. And it extends until it reaches Karaso, this is in the bosom of the tongue which looks toward the south.
And his portion extends along the great sea, and it extends in a straight line until it reaches the west of the tongue which looks toward the south.
For this sea is named the tongue of the Mitsrayim Sea.
And it turns from here toward the south toward the mouth of the great sea on the shore of its waters, and it extends to the west to Afra,
and it extends until it reaches the waters of the river Gihon, and to the south of the waters of Gihon, to the banks of this river. And it extends toward the east until it reaches the Garden of Eden, to the south of it, and from the east of the whole land of Eden and of all the east it turns to the east,
and goes until it reaches the east of the mountain named Rafa, and it descends to the bank of the mouth of the river Tina.
This portion came out by lot for Shem and his sons so that they should possess it forever to his generations for evermore.
Noah Blesses Shem and His Portion
And Noah rejoiced that this portion came out for Shem and for his sons, and he remembered all that he had spoken with his mouth in prophecy, for he had said,
"Baruk be YAHUAH ALUAH of Shem, and may YAHUAH dwell in the dwelling of Shem."
And he knew that the Garden of Eden is the Qodesh of Qodesh and the dwelling of YAHUAH, and Mount Sinai the center of the desert, and Mount Zion the center of the navel of the earth. These three were created as Qodesh places facing each other.
And he Baruk the ALUAH of mighty ones who had put the word of YAHUAH into his mouth, and he Baruk YAHUAH forevermore.
And he knew that a Baruk portion and a Barakah had come to Shem and his sons to the generations forever,
The Description of Shem's Land
the whole land of Eden and the whole land of the Red Sea and the whole land of the east and India and on the Red Sea and the mountains of it and all the land of Bashan and all the land of Lebanon and the islands of Kaftur and all the mountains of Sanir and Amana,
and the mountains of Asshur in the north and all the land of Elam, Asshur, and Babel, and Susan and Madai and all the mountains of Ararat,
and all the region beyond the sea which is beyond the mountains of Asshur toward the north, a Baruk and spacious land, and all that is in it is very good.
The Portion of Ham
And for Ham came forth the second portion, beyond the Gihon toward the south, to the right of the Garden, and it extends toward the south,
and it extends to all the mountains of fire, and it extends toward the west to the sea of Atel, and it extends toward the west until it reaches the sea of Ma'uk, that sea into which everything which is not destroyed descends.
And it goes toward the north to the limits of Gadir, and it goes to the coast of the waters of the sea to the waters of the great sea, until it draws near to the river Gihon, and goes along the river Gihon until it reaches the right side of the Garden of Eden.
And this is the land which came forth for Ham as the portion which he was to occupy forever for himself and his sons to their generations forever.
The Portion of Japheth
And it goes toward the north to the limits of Gadir, and it goes to the coast of the waters of the sea to the waters of the great sea, until it draws near to the river Gihon, and goes along the river Gihon until it reaches the right of the Garden of Eden.
And it extends northward to the north, and it extends to the mountains of Qelt toward the north and toward the sea of Ma'uk,
and it goes toward the east of Gadir as far as the region of the waters of the sea. And it extends until it approaches the west of Fara,
and it returns toward Aferag, and it extends eastward to the waters of the Sea of Me'at. And it extends to the region of the river Tina in a north-easterly direction until it approaches the boundary of its waters toward the mountain Rafa, and it turns back toward the north.
This is the land which came forth for Japheth and his sons as the portion of his inheritance which he should possess for himself and his sons, for their generations forever.
The Climate and Nature of the Three Portions
Five great islands and a great land in the north. But it is cold, and the land of Ham is hot.
And the land of Shem is neither hot nor cold, but it is of blended cold and heat.
Chapter 9
☆The Sons Divide Their Portions and Swear an Oath
Ham Divides His Portion Among His Sons
And Ham divided among his sons, and the first portion came forth for Cush toward the east, and to the west of him for Mitsrayim, and to the west of him for Put, and to the west of him and to the west of that on the sea for Canaan.
Shem Divides His Portion Among His Sons
And Shem also divided among his sons. And the first portion came forth for Elam and his sons, to the east of the river Tigris until it approaches the east,
the whole land of India, and on the Red Sea and its coasts, and the waters of Dedan, and all the mountains of Mebri and Ela, and all the land of Susan, and all that is on the side of Farnak to the Red Sea and the river Tina.
And for Asshur came forth the second portion, all the land of Asshur and Nineveh and Shinar and to the border of India, and it ascends and skirts the river.
The Portion of Arpachshad
And for Arpachshad came forth the third portion, all the land of the region of the Chaldees, to the east of the Euphrates, bordering on the Red Sea,
and all the waters of the desert close to the tongue of the sea which looks toward Mitsrayim, all the land of Lebanon and Senir and Amana to the border of the Euphrates.
The Portion of Aram
And for Aram there came forth the fourth portion, all the land of Mesopotamia between the Tigris and the Euphrates, to the north of the Chaldees, to the border of the mountains of Asshur and the land of Arara.
The Portion of Javan (Greece and Islands)
The whole land of India, and on the Red Sea and its coasts, and the waters of Dedan, and all the mountains of Mebri and Ela, and all the land of Susan, and all that is on the side of Farnak to the Red Sea and the river Tina.
Japheth Divides His Portion Among His Sons
And Japheth also divided the land of his inheritance among his sons.
And the first portion came forth for Gomer to the east, from the north side to the river Tina.
And in the north there came forth for Magog all the inner parts of the north until it reaches the Sea of Me'at.
And for Madai came forth his portion, that he would possess from the west of his two brothers to the islands and to the coasts of the islands.
And for Javan came forth the fourth portion, every island and the islands which are toward the border of Lud.
And for Tubal there came forth the fifth portion in the midst of the tongue which approaches the border of the portion of Lud to the second tongue, to the region beyond the second tongue to the third tongue.
And for Meshech came forth the sixth portion, all the region beyond the third tongue until it approaches the east of Gadir.
The Portion of Tiras and the Mixed Islands
And for Tiras there came forth the seventh portion, four great islands in the midst of the sea, which reach to the portion of Ham. And the islands of Kamaturri came forth by lot
for the sons of Arpachshad as his inheritance.
Noah Confirms the Division by Oath
And thus the sons of Noah divided among their sons in the presence of Noah their father. And he bound them all by an oath, putting a curse on everyone who would seek to seize the portion which had not fallen to him by his lot.
And they all said, "So be it. So be it," for themselves and for their sons forever throughout their generations
until the day of judgment, on which YAHUAH ALUAH will judge them with a sword and with fire, for all the unclean wickedness of their errors with which they have filled the earth with transgression and uncleanness and fornication and sin.
Chapter 10
☆The Demons, the Tower of Babel, and Canaan's Transgression
Unclean Demons Begin to Lead Astray the Sons of Noah
And in the third week of this jubilee the unclean demons began to lead astray the children of the sons of Noah and to cause them to err and destroy them.
And the sons of Noah came to Noah their father, and they told him concerning the demons which were leading astray and blinding and slaying his sons' sons.
Noah's Prayer Against the Demons
And he prayed before YAHUAH his ALUAH and said, "ALUAH of the spirits of all flesh, who has shown mercy to me and has saved me and my sons from the waters of the flood and has not caused me to perish as You did the sons of perdition."
"For Your grace has been great toward me and great has been Your mercy to my soul."
"Let Your grace be lifted up upon my sons,"
"but Barak me and my sons so that we may increase and multiply and replenish the earth."
"And You know how Your Watchers, the fathers of these spirits, acted in my days."
"And as for these spirits who are living, imprison them and hold them fast in the place of condemnation, and let them not bring destruction on the sons of Your servant, my ALUAH, for these are malignant and were created in order to destroy."
"And let them not rule over the spirits of the living, for You alone can exercise dominion over them, and let them not have power over the sons of the righteous from now and forevermore."
YAHUAH Commands the Binding of the Demons
And YAHUAH our ALUAH commanded us to bind all of them.
Mastema Requests a Tenth Part
And the chief of the spirits, Mastema, came and said, "YAHUAH, Creator, let some of them remain before me and let them listen to my voice and do all that I shall say to them,"
"for if some of them are not left to me, I will not be able to exercise the power of my will on the sons of men,"
"for these are for corruption and leading astray before my judgment, for great is the wickedness of the sons of men."
A Tenth Left on Earth, Noah Taught the Medicines
And He said, "Let the tenth part of them remain before him, and let nine parts descend into the place of condemnation."
And one of us He commanded that we should teach Noah all their medicines, for He knew that they would not walk in uprightness nor strive in righteousness.
And we did according to all His words, and all the malignant evil ones we bound in the place of condemnation, and a tenth part of them we left so that they might be subject before Satan on the earth.
And we explained to Noah all the medicines of their diseases together with their seductions, how he might heal them with herbs of the earth.
And Noah wrote down all things in a book as we instructed him concerning every kind of medicine.
Thus the evil spirits were prevented from hurting the sons of Noah.
And he gave all that he had written to Shem his eldest son, for he loved him exceedingly above all his sons.
Noah's Death and Enoch's Testimony
And Noah slept with his fathers and was buried on Mount Lubar in the land of Ararat.
Nine hundred and fifty years he completed in his life, nineteen jubilees and two weeks and five years.
And in his life on earth he excelled the children of men except Enoch because of the righteousness in which he was perfect.
For Enoch's office was ordained as a testimony to the generations of the world so that he should recount all the deeds of generation to generation until the day of judgment.
Peleg and the Rising of Babel
And in the thirty-third jubilee, in the first year in the second week, Peleg took for himself a wife whose name was Lomna, the daughter of Sina'ar.
And she bore him a son in the fourth year of this week, and he called his name Reu.
For he said, "Behold, the children of men have become evil through the wicked purpose of building for themselves a city and a tower in the land of Shinar."
For they departed from the land of Ararat eastward to Shinar, for in his days they built the city and the tower, saying, "Let us ascend by it into the Shamayim."
And they began to build, and in the fourth week they made brick with fire, and the bricks served them for stone, and the clay with which they cemented them together was asphalt which comes out of the sea and out of the fountains of water in the land of Shinar.
Demons Again Lead Astray; YAHUAH Confuses Their Language
And in the third week of this jubilee the unclean demons began to lead astray the children of the sons of Noah and to cause them to err and destroy them.
And YAHUAH our ALUAH said to us, "Behold, they are one people and this they begin to do, and now nothing will be withheld from them."
"Let us go down and confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech,"
"and they may be dispersed into cities and nations, and one purpose will no longer abide with them until the day of judgment."
And YAHUAH descended and we descended with Him to see the city and the tower which the children of men had built.
And He confounded their language and they no longer understood one another's speech, and they ceased then to build the city and the tower.
For this reason the whole land of Shinar is called Babel because YAHUAH confounded there all the language of the children of men, and from there they were dispersed into their cities, each according to his language and his nation.
And YAHUAH sent a mighty wind against the tower and overthrew it upon the earth.
And behold, it was between Asshur and Babylon in the land of Shinar, and they called its name Overthrow.
In the fourth week in the first year, in the beginning of it, in the thirty-fourth jubilee, they were dispersed from the land of Shinar.
Ham, Canaan, and the Stolen Land
And Ham and his sons went into the land which he was to occupy, which he acquired as his portion in the land of the south.
And Canaan saw the land of Lebanon to the river of Mitsrayim, that it was very good, and he did not go into the land of his inheritance to the west, that is to the sea.
And he dwelled in the land of Lebanon eastward and westward from the border of Jordan and from the border of the sea.
And Ham his father and Cush and Mitsrayim his brothers said to him, "You have settled in a land which is not yours and which did not fall to us by lot."
"Do not do so, for if you do so, you and your sons will fall in the land and be cursed through sedition."
"For by sedition you have settled, and by sedition your children will fall, and you will be rooted out forever."
"Dwell not in the dwelling of Shem, for to Shem and his sons did it come by their lot."
"Cursed are you and cursed will you be beyond all the sons of Noah by the curse by which we bound ourselves by an oath in the presence of the set apart Judge and in the presence of Noah our father."
But he did not listen to them and dwelled in the land of Lebanon from Hamath to the entering of Mitsrayim, he and his sons until this day, and for this reason that land is named Canaan.
Japheth and Madai
And Japheth and his sons went toward the sea and dwelled in the land of their portion.
And Madai saw the land of the sea and it did not please him, and he requested a portion from Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad his wife's brother.
And he dwelled in the land of Media near his wife's brother until this day, and he called his dwelling place, and the dwelling place of his sons, Media after the name of their father Madai.
Chapter 11
☆The Rise of Wickedness and the Birth of Abram
The Rise of War, Idols, and Wickedness After the Flood
In the thirty-fifth jubilee, in the third week, in the first year of it, Reu took for himself a wife, and her name was Ora, the daughter of Ur, the son of Kesed.
And she bore him a son, and he called his name Seroh, in the seventh year of this week in this jubilee.
And the sons of Noah began to war against each other, to take captive and to kill each other, and to shed the blood of men on the earth, and to eat blood.
And they built strong cities and walls and towers, and individuals began to exalt themselves above the nation and to found the beginnings of kingdoms.
And they went to war, people against people, and nation against nation, and city against city, and all began to do evil and to acquire weapons and to teach their sons war.
And they began to capture cities and to sell male and female slaves.
Idols, Images, and the Rise of the Chaldees
And Ur, the son of Kesed, built the city of Ara of the Chaldees and called its name after his own name and the name of his father.
And they made for themselves molten images, and they worshiped each the idol, the molten image they had made for themselves.
And they began to make carved images and unclean forms, and malignant spirits assisted and seduced them into committing transgression and uncleanness.
And the prince Mastema exerted himself to do all this, and he sent forth other spirits, those placed under his authority, to do all kinds of wrong and sin and all kinds of transgression, to corrupt and destroy and to shed blood upon the earth.
For this reason he called the name of Seroh, Serug, for everyone had turned to do all kinds of sin and transgression.
Serug, Nahor, and the Chaldean Diviners
And he grew up and lived in Ur of the Chaldees, near the father of his wife's mother, and he worshiped idols.
And he took for himself a wife in the thirty-sixth jubilee, in the fifth week, in the first year of it, and her name was Melka, the daughter of Kaber, the daughter of his father's brother.
And she bore him Nahor in the first year of this week, and he grew and lived in Ur of the Chaldees.
And his father taught him the practices of the Chaldees, to divine and to interpret omens according to the signs of the Shamayim.
And in the thirty-seventh jubilee, in the sixth week, in the first year of it, he took for himself a wife, and her name was Ijaska, the daughter of Nestag of the Chaldees, and she bore him Terah in the seventh year of this week.
Mastema Sends Ravens and the Land Becomes Desolate
And the prince Mastema sent ravens and birds to devour the seed that was sown in the land, in order to destroy the land and rob the children of men of their labor.
Before they could plow the seed into the soil, the ravens picked it from the surface of the ground.
And for this reason he called his name Terah, because the ravens and the birds reduced them to destitution and devoured their seed.
And the years began to be barren because of the birds, and they devoured all the fruit of the trees from the trees.
It was only with great effort that they were able to save a little of all the fruit of the earth in their days.
Terah's Household and the Birth of Abram
And in the thirty-ninth jubilee, in the second week, in the first year, Terah took for himself a wife, and her name was Edna, the daughter of Aram, the daughter of his father's sister.
And in the seventh year of this week she bore him a son, and he called his name Abram, after the name of the father of his mother, for he had died before his daughter had conceived a son.
Abram Recognizes the Error of Idolatry
And the child began to understand the errors of the earth, that all had gone astray after carved images and after uncleanness.
And his father taught him writing, and he was two weeks of years old, and he separated himself from his father so that he would not worship idols with him.
And he began to pray to the Creator of all things that He would save him from the errors of the children of men, and that his portion would not fall into error after uncleanness and vileness.
Abram Confronts the Ravens and Saves the Harvest
And the season came for the sowing of seed upon the land, and they all went out together to protect their seed from the ravens.
And Abram went out with those who went, and the child was a lad of fourteen years, and a cloud of ravens came to devour the seed.
And Abram ran to meet them before they settled on the ground and cried to them before they settled to devour the seed and said,
"Descend not. Return to the place from which you came," and they proceeded to turn back.
And he caused the clouds of ravens to turn back that day seventy times, and of all the ravens throughout the land where Abram was, not one settled.
And all who were with him throughout the land saw him cry out, and all the ravens turn back, and his name became great in all the land of the Chaldees.
Abram Teaches the People How to Sow Without Fear
And those who wished to sow came to him that year, and he went with them until the time of sowing ceased.
And they sowed their land, and that year they brought home enough grain and ate and were satisfied.
And in the first year of the fifth week Abram taught those who made implements for oxen, the workers in wood.
And they made a vessel above the ground facing the frame of the plow in order to put the seed upon it, and the seed fell down from it upon the share of the plow and was hidden in the earth.
And they no longer feared the ravens, and after this manner they made vessels above the ground on all the frames of the plows.
And they sowed and tilled all the land according to what Abram commanded them, and they no longer feared the birds.
Chapter 12
☆Abram's Call and the Hebrew Tongue Restored
Abram Rebukes Idol Worship
And it came to pass in the sixth week, in the seventh year of it, that Abram said to Terah his father, "Father," and he said, "Behold, here I am, my son."
And he said, "What help or profit do we have from those idols which you worship and before which you bow yourself, for there is no Ruach in them, for they are dumb forms and a misleading of the heart. Do not worship them.
Worship the ALUAH of the Shamayim who causes the rain and the dew to descend on the earth and does everything upon the earth and has created everything by His word, and all life is from before His face.
Why do you worship things that have no Ruach in them, for they are the work of men's hands, and on your shoulders you bear them.
And you have no help from them, for they are a cause of shame to those who make them and a misleading of the heart to those who worship them. Do not worship them."
Terah Fears the People
And his father said to him, "I also know it, my son, but what shall I do with a people who have made me serve before them?
And if I tell them the truth, they will kill me, for their soul clings to them to worship them and honor them. Keep silent, my son, lest they kill you."
And he spoke these words to his two brothers, and they were angry with him, and he kept silent.
Abram Takes Sarai as Wife — Haran and Nahor Also Marry
And in the fortieth jubilee, in the second week, in the seventh year of it, Abram took for himself a wife, and her name was Sarai, the daughter of his father, and she became his wife.
And Haran his brother took for himself a wife in the third year of the third week, and she bore him a son in the seventh year of this week, and he called his name Lot.
And Nahor his brother took for himself a wife.
Abram Burns the House of Idols
And in the sixtieth year of the life of Abram, in the fourth week, in the fourth year of it, Abram rose by night and burned the house of the idols, and he burned all that was in the house, and no man knew it.
And they arose in the night and sought to save their gods from the fire.
And Haran hurried to save them, but the fire burned over him, and he was burned in the fire, and he died in Ur of the Chaldees before Terah his father, and they buried him in Ur of the Chaldees.
Terah Moves His Family to Haran
And Terah went out from Ur of the Chaldees, he and his sons, to go into the land of Lebanon and into the land of Kanaan, and he lived in the land of Haran.
And Abram lived with Terah his father in Haran two weeks of years.
Abram Observes the Shamayim and Prays for Guidance
And in the sixth week, in the fifth year of it, Abram stayed awake throughout the night on the new moon of the seventh month to observe the stars from evening to morning, in order to see what the year would bring regarding the rains.
And he was alone as he sat and observed. 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 YAHUAH.
Why do I search them out? If He desires, He causes it to rain morning and evening, and if He desires, He withholds it, and all things are in His hand."
Abram's Prayer to ALUAH Most High
And he prayed that night and said, "My ALUAH, ALUAH Most High, You alone are my ALUAH, and You and Your dominion I have chosen, and You have created all things, and all things that exist are the work of Your hands."
"Deliver me from the hands of evil spirits who have power over the thoughts of men's hearts and let them not lead me astray from You, my ALUAH."
"Establish me and my seed forever so that we do not go astray from now and forevermore."
Abram Asks Whether to Return to Ur or Remain in Haran
And he said, "Shall I return to Ur of the Chaldees who seek my life that I may return to them, or am I to remain here in this place?"
"Make the right path before You prosper in the hands of Your servant so that he may fulfill it and so that I may not walk in the deceitfulness of my heart, O my ALUAH."
YAHUAH Speaks to Abram and Calls Him Out
And he finished speaking and praying, and behold, the word of YAHUAH was sent to him through me, saying,
"Get up from your country and from your kindred and from the house of your father, to a land which I will show you."
"And I will make you a great and numerous nation, and I will Barak you and I will make your name great, and you will be Barak in the earth."
"And in you all families of the earth will be Barak, and I will Barak those who Barak you and curse those who curse you."
"And I will be an ALUAH to you and to your son and to your son's son and to all your seed."
"Fear not, from now and to all generations of the earth I am your ALUAH."
Abram's Language is Opened — The Tongue of Creation (Hebrew)
And YAHUAH ALUAH said, "Open his mouth and his ears so that he may hear and speak with his mouth with the language which has been revealed," for it had ceased from the mouths of all the children of men from the day of the overthrow of Babel. And I opened his mouth and his ears and his lips, and I began to speak with him in Hebrew, the tongue of the creation.
And he took the books of his fathers, and they were written in Hebrew, and he transcribed them, and he began from then on to study them, and I made known to him that which he could not understand, and he studied them during the six rainy months.
Abram Prepares to Leave Haran
And it came to pass in the seventh year of the sixth week that he spoke to his father and told him that he would leave Haran to go into the land of Kanaan to see it and return to him.
And Terah his father said to him, "Go in peace. May the eternal ALUAH make your path straight, and may YAHUAH be with you and protect you from all evil."
"And grant to you grace, mercy, and favor before those who see you, and may none of the children of men have power over you to harm you. Go in peace."
"And if you see a land pleasant to your eyes to live in, then arise and take me to you, and take Lot with you, the son of Haran your brother, as your own son. May YAHUAH be with you. And leave Nahor your brother with me until you return in peace, and we will go with you all together."
Chapter 13
☆Abram's Journey to Kanaan and the Tithe Ordained
Abram Enters the Land of Kanaan
And Abram journeyed from Haran, and he took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother Haran's son to the land of Kanaan, and he came into Asshur.
And he proceeded to Shechem and lived near a lofty oak, and he saw, and behold, the land was very pleasant from the entering of Hamath to the lofty oak.
YAHUAH Appears to Abram in Shechem
And YAHUAH said to him, "To you and to your seed I will give this land." And he built an altar there and offered on it a burnt sacrifice to YAHUAH who had appeared to him.
Abram Between Bethel and Ai
And he moved from there to the mountain, Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and pitched his tent there.
And he saw and behold, the land was very wide and good, and everything grew on it.
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 were there, and there was water on the mountains.
And he Baruk YAHUAH who had led him out of Ur of the Chaldees and had brought him to this land.
Abram Calls on the Name of YAHUAH
And it came 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 YAHUAH, saying, "You, the eternal ALUAH, are my ALUAH."
And he offered on the altar a burnt sacrifice to YAHUAH so that He would be with him and not forsake him all the days of his life.
Abram Goes South — Famine in the Land
And he moved from there and went toward the south, and he came to Hebron, and Hebron was built at that time, and he lived there two years, and he went from there into the land of the south to Bealoth, and there was a famine in the land.
And Abram went into Mitsrayim in the third year of the week, and he lived in Mitsrayim five years before his wife was taken from him.
Now Tanais in Mitsrayim was at that time built, seven years after Hebron.
Pharaoh Seizes Sarai — YAHUAH Plagues Pharaoh
And it came to pass when Pharaoh seized Sarai the wife of Abram that YAHUAH plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
Abram Leaves Mitsrayim with Great Wealth
And Abram was very glorious because of possessions in sheep and cattle and donkeys and horses and camels and male servants and female servants and in silver and gold exceedingly.
And Lot also, his brother's son, was wealthy.
And Pharaoh returned Sarai the wife of Abram to him and sent him out of the land of Mitsrayim, 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 Baruk YAHUAH his ALUAH who had brought him back in peace.
And it came to pass in the forty-first jubilee, in the third year of the first week, that he returned to this place and offered on it a burnt sacrifice and called on the name of YAHUAH and said, "You, the Most High ALUAH, are my ALUAH forever and ever."
Lot Separates from Abram
And in the fourth year of this week Lot parted from him.
And Lot lived in Sodom, and the men of Sodom were sinners exceedingly.
And it grieved him in his heart that his brother's son had parted from him, for he had no children.
YAHUAH Renews the Promise
In that year when Lot was taken captive, YAHUAH said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, in the fourth year of this week,
"Lift your eyes from the place where you are living, northward and southward and westward and eastward. For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed forever, and I will make your seed as the sand of the sea. Though a man may number the dust of the earth, yet your seed will not be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in its length and its breadth, and see it all, for to your seed I will give it."
And Abram went to Hebron and lived there.
The War of the Kings — Lot Taken Captive
And in this year Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Sellasar and Tergal king of nations
killed the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Sodom fled, and many fell by wounds in the valley of Siddim by the Salt Sea, and they took captive Sodom and Adam and Zeboim,
and they took captive Lot also, the son of Abram's brother, and all his possessions, and they went to Dan.
And one who had escaped came and told Abram that his brother's son had been taken captive,
and Abram armed his household servants.
The Tithe Ordained Forever
For Abram and for his seed a tenth of the first-fruits was given to YAHUAH, and YAHUAH ordained it as an ordinance forever that they should give it to the priests who served before Him so that they should possess it forever.
And to this law there is no limit of days, for He has ordained it for the generations forever that they should give to YAHUAH the tenth of everything, of the seed and of the wine and of the oil and of the cattle and of the sheep.
And He gave it to His priests to eat and to drink with joy before Him.
The King of Sodom and Abram Speak
And the king of Sodom came to him and bowed before him and said, "Our YAHUAH Abram, give to us the souls which you have rescued, but let the plunder be yours."
And Abram said to him, "I lift up my hands to the Most High ALUAH,
that from a thread to a shoe-latchet I will not take anything that is yours, lest you say I have made Abram rich,
except 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."
Chapter 14
☆The Covenant Between the Pieces and Ishmael's Birth
YAHUAH Speaks to Abram in a Dream and Promises an Heir
After these things, in the fourth year of this week, on the new moon of the third month, the word of YAHUAH came to Abram in a dream, saying,
"Fear not, Abram. I am your defender, and your reward will be exceedingly great."
And he said, "YAHUAH, YAHUAH, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the son of Maseq, the son of my handmaid, is the Damasek Eliezer. He will be my heir, and You have given me no seed."
And He said to him, "This man will not be your heir, but one who will come out of your own body. He will be your heir."
And He brought him outside and said to him, "Look toward the Shamayim and number the stars if you are able to number them."
And he looked toward the Shamayim and saw the stars, and He said to him, "So will your seed be."
And he believed in YAHUAH, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
And He said to him, "I am YAHUAH who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees to give you the land of the Kanaanites to possess it forever,
and I will be ALUAH to you and to your seed after you."
And he said, "YAHUAH, YAHUAH, how will I know that I will inherit it?"
Abram Prepares the Sacrifices for the Covenant
And He said to him, "Take for Me a heifer of three years, and a goat of three years, and a sheep of three years, and a turtledove, and a pigeon."
And he took all these in the middle of the month.
And he lived at the oak of Mamre, which is near Hebron.
And he built an altar there and sacrificed all these, and he poured their blood upon the altar and divided them in the middle and laid them opposite each other, but he did not divide the birds.
And birds came down upon the pieces, and Abram drove them away and did not allow the birds to touch them.
The Prophecy of Bondage and Redemption
And it came to pass, when the sun had set, that an ecstasy fell upon Abram, and behold, a great horror of darkness fell upon him.
And it was said to Abram, "Know for certain that your seed will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will bring them into bondage and afflict them four hundred years.
And the nation whom they serve I will judge, and after this they will come out with much substance.
And you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried in a good old age.
But in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
The Covenant is Sealed with Fire
And he awoke from his sleep and he arose, and the sun had set.
And there was a flame, and behold, a smoking furnace and a flame of fire passed between the pieces.
And on that day YAHUAH made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I will give this land, from the river of Mitsrayim to the great river, the river Euphrates,
the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Phakorites, the Hivites, the Amorites, the Kanaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
Abram Renews the Festival and Sarai Gives Hagar to Abram
And the day passed, and Abram offered the pieces, and the birds, and their grain-offerings, and their drink-offerings, and the fire devoured them.
And on that day we made a covenant with Abram according to what we had covenanted with Noah in this month.
And Abram renewed the festival and the ordinance for himself forever.
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.
And Sarai advised her husband Abram and said to him, "Go in to Hagar my Mitsrayim maid. It may be that I will build up seed for you through her."
And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai his wife and said to her, "Do so."
And Sarai took Hagar her maid, the Mitsrayim woman, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
And he went in to her, and she conceived and bore 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.
Chapter 15
☆The Covenant of Circumcision and the Promise of Isaac
Abraham Celebrates First-Fruits and YAHUAH Appears to Him
In the fifth year of the fourth week of this jubilee, in the third month, in the middle of the month, Abram celebrated the feast of the first-fruits of the grain harvest.
And he offered new offerings on the altar, the first-fruits of the produce, to YAHUAH, a heifer and a goat and a sheep on the altar as a burnt sacrifice to YAHUAH, and he offered their grain-offerings and their drink-offerings on the altar with frankincense.
And YAHUAH appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am ALUAH Almighty. Approve yourself before Me and be perfect.
And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly."
And Abram fell on his face, and ALUAH spoke with him and said,
"Behold, My ordinance is with you, and you will be the father of many nations.
Your name will no longer be called Abram, but your name from now and forever will be Abraham, for the father of many nations I have made you.
And I will make you very great, and I will make you into nations, and kings will come from you.
And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations as an eternal covenant so that I may be ALUAH to you and to your seed after you.
And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land where you have been a sojourner, the land of Kanaan, so that you may possess it forever, and I will be their ALUAH."
The Everlasting Covenant of Circumcision
And YAHUAH said to Abraham, "As for you, keep My covenant, you and your seed after you.
And circumcise every male among you, and circumcise your foreskins, and it will be a sign of an eternal covenant between Me and you.
And the child on the eighth day you will circumcise, every male throughout your generations, him that is born in the house or one bought with money from any stranger whom you have acquired
who is not of your seed. He that is born in your house will surely be circumcised, and those whom you have bought with money will be circumcised, and My covenant will be in your flesh as an eternal ordinance.
And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul will be cut off from his people, for he has broken My covenant."
Sarai's Name Changed to Sarah — The Promise of Isaac
And ALUAH said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, her name will no longer be called Sarai, but Sarah will be her name.
And I will Barak her and give you a son by her, and I will Barak him, and he will become a nation, and kings of nations will come from him."
And Abraham fell on his face and rejoiced and said in his heart, "Will a son be born to one who is a hundred years old, and will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
And Abraham said to ALUAH, "O that Ishmael might live before You."
And ALUAH said, "Yes, but Sarah will also bear you a son, and you will call his name Isaac, and I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
And as for Ishmael, I have heard you, and behold, I will Barak him and make him great and multiply him exceedingly, and he will father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you in these days in the next year."
And He finished speaking with him, and ALUAH went up from Abraham.
Abraham Obeys and Circumcises All His Household
And Abraham did as ALUAH had said to him, and he took Ishmael his son and all who were born in his house and those whom he had bought with his money, every male in his house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin.
And on that same day Abraham was circumcised, and all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from the children of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
The Eternal Law of Circumcision
This law is for all generations forever,
and there is no change in the days and no omission of one day out of the eight days, for it is an eternal ordinance, ordained and written on the heavenly tablets.
And everyone who is born, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised on the eighth day, does not belong to the children of the covenant which YAHUAH made with Abraham, but to the children of destruction.
Nor is there any sign on him that he is YAHUAH's, but he is destined to be destroyed and killed from the earth and to be rooted out of the earth, for he has broken the covenant of YAHUAH our ALUAH.
The Set-Apart Role of Yashar'al
For all the messengers of the presence and all the messengers of sanctification have been made in this way from the day of their creation, and before the messengers of the presence and the messengers of sanctification He set apart Yashar'al so that they would be with Him and with His set apart messengers.
And command the children of Yashar'al, and let them observe the sign of this covenant for their generations as an eternal ordinance so that they will not be rooted out of the land.
For the command is ordained for a covenant so that they should observe it forever among all the children of Yashar'al.
But Ishmael and his sons and his brothers and Esau YAHUAH did not cause to draw near to Him, and He did not choose them.
Because they are the children of Abraham, He knew them, but He chose Yashar'al to be His people, and He set them apart and gathered them from among all the children of men.
For there are many nations and many peoples, and all are His, and over all He has placed spirits in authority to lead them astray from Him.
But over Yashar'al He did not appoint any messenger or Ruach, for He alone is their ruler, and He will preserve them and require them at the hand of His messengers and His spirits and at the hand of all His powers
so that He may preserve them and Barak them so that they may be His and He may be theirs from now and forever.
And now I announce to you that the children of Yashar'al will not remain faithful 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, will leave their sons uncircumcised as they were born.
And great wrath will come from YAHUAH against the children of Yashar'al because they have forsaken His covenant and turned aside from His word
and provoked and blasphemed, because 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 longer be pardon or forgiveness for them for the sin of this eternal error.
Chapter 16
☆Isaac's Birth and the First Feast of Tabernacles
The Messengers Announce Isaac's Birth
And on the new moon of the fourth month we appeared to Abraham at the oak of Mamre, and we spoke with him.
And we announced to him that a son would be given to him by Sarah his wife.
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 because of the words.
And we told her the name of her son, as his name is ordained and written in the heavenly tablets, Isaac.
And we told her that when we returned to her at the appointed time she would have conceived a son.
The Judgment of Sodom and Lot's Deliverance
And in this month YAHUAH executed His judgments on Sodom and Gomorrah and Zeboim and all the region of the Jordan.
And He burned them with fire and brimstone and destroyed them until this day, just as I have declared to you 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.
And in the same manner ALUAH will execute judgment on the places where they have acted according to the uncleanness of the Sodomites, like the judgment of Sodom.
But Lot we saved, for ALUAH remembered Abraham and sent him out from the midst of the overthrow.
And he and his daughters committed sin upon the earth, such as had not been on the earth since the days of Adam until his time, for the man lay with his daughters.
And behold, it was commanded and engraved concerning all his seed on the heavenly tablets to remove them and root them out and to execute judgment upon them like the judgment of Sodom and to leave no seed of the man on earth on the day of condemnation.
Abraham Moves to Gerar and the Well of the Oath
And in this month Abraham moved from Hebron and departed and lived between Kadesh and Shur in the mountains of Gerar.
And in the middle of the fifth month he moved from there and lived at the Well of the Oath.
And in the middle of the sixth month YAHUAH visited Sarah and did to her as He had spoken.
And she conceived and bore a son in the third month, in the middle of the month, at the time which YAHUAH had spoken to Abraham.
On the festival of the first-fruits of the harvest Isaac was born, and Abraham circumcised his son on the eighth day.
He was the first who was circumcised according to the covenant which is ordained forever.
The Promise of a Set-Apart Seed Through Isaac
And in the sixth year of the fourth week we came to Abraham at the Well of the Oath, and we appeared to him as we had told Sarah that we would return to her and she would have conceived a son,
and we returned in the seventh month and found Sarah with child before us.
And we Baruk him, and we announced to him all the things which had been decreed concerning him, that he would not die until he had fathered six sons more
and would see them before he died, but that in Isaac his name and seed would be called.
And that all the seed of his sons would become Gentiles and be counted with the Gentiles, but from the sons of Isaac one would become a set apart seed and would not be counted among the Gentiles.
For he would become the portion of the Most High, and all his seed would fall into the possession of ALUAH so that they would be to YAHUAH a people for His possession above all nations, and they would become a kingdom, priests, and a set apart nation.
And we went our way, and we announced to Sarah all that we had told him, and they both rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.
Abraham Celebrates the First Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)
And he built an altar there to YAHUAH who had delivered him and who was giving him joy in the land of his sojourning, and he celebrated a festival of joy in this month for seven days near the altar which he had built at the Well of the Oath. 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, and during these seven days he brought each day to the altar a burnt offering to YAHUAH.
He brought two oxen, two rams, seven sheep, and one he-goat for a sin-offering so that he might atone for himself and for his seed.
And as a thank-offering he brought seven rams, seven kids, seven sheep, and seven he-goats, and their grain-offerings and their drink-offerings.
And he burned all the fat of them on the altar, a chosen offering to YAHUAH for a sweet aroma.
And morning and evening he burned fragrant substances, frankincense and galbanum and stacte and nard and myrrh and spice and costum; all these seven he offered, crushed and mixed together in equal parts and pure.
And he celebrated this feast for seven days, rejoicing with all his heart and with all his soul, he and all who were in his house, and there was no stranger with him and no one uncircumcised.
Abraham is Baruk for His Obedience — The Festival Ordained Forever
And he Baruk 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 for the eternal generations and from him a set apart seed so that it would become like Him who made all things.
And he rejoiced and Baruk YAHUAH, and he called the name of this festival the Festival of YAHUAH, a joy acceptable to the Most High ALUAH.
And we Baruk him forever and 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 tablets.
For this reason it is ordained on the heavenly tablets concerning Yashar'al that they will celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days with joy in the seventh month, acceptable before YAHUAH, a statute forever throughout their generations every year.
And to this there is no limit of days, for it is ordained forever concerning Yashar'al that they will celebrate it and live in booths and place wreaths on their heads,
and take leafy branches and willows from the brook.
And every day going around the altar with the branches seven times in the morning he praised and gave thanks to his ALUAH for all things in joy.
Chapter 17
☆Isaac is Weaned and Mastema's Accusation
Isaac is Weaned and Sarah Becomes Jealous
Isaac was weaned in this jubilee, and Abraham made a great banquet in the third month on the day his son Isaac was weaned.
And Ishmael, the son of Hagar the Mitsrayim woman, was before the face of Abraham his father in his place.
And Abraham rejoiced and Baruk ALUAH because he had seen his sons and had not died childless.
And he remembered the words which YAHUAH had spoken to him on the day Lot had parted from him, and he rejoiced because YAHUAH had given him seed on the earth to inherit the earth.
And he Baruk with all his mouth the Creator of all things.
And Sarah saw Ishmael playing and dancing and Abraham rejoicing with great joy, and she became jealous of Ishmael and said to Abraham,
"Cast out this bondwoman and her son, for the son of this bondwoman will not be heir with my son Isaac."
And the matter was grievous in Abraham's sight because of his maidservant and because of his son, that he should drive them away.
ALUAH Tells Abraham to Heed Sarah and Promises to Bless Ishmael
And ALUAH said to Abraham, "Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the child and because of the bondwoman. In all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her words and do them, for in Isaac your name and seed will be called.
But as for the son of this bondwoman, I will make him a great nation because he is of your seed."
Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness
And Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and placed them on the shoulders of Hagar and the child and sent her away, and she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
And the water in the bottle was spent, and the child became thirsty and was not able to go on and fell down.
And his mother took him and placed him under an olive tree.
And she went and sat down opposite him at the distance of a bowshot, for she said, "Let me not see the death of my child," and as she sat she wept.
And a messenger of ALUAH, one of the set apart ones, said to her, "Why do you weep, Hagar? Arise, take the child and hold him in your hand, for ALUAH has heard your voice and has seen the child."
And she opened her eyes and saw a well of water, and she went and filled her bottle with water and gave the child to drink.
And she arose and went toward the wilderness of Paran, and the child grew and became an archer, and ALUAH was with him.
And his mother took him a wife from among the daughters of Mitsrayim, and she bore him a son, and he called his name Nebaioth, for she said, "YAHUAH was near to me when I called upon Him."
Heavenly Voices Declare Abraham Faithful
And it came to pass in the seventh week, in the first year of it, in the first month in this jubilee, on the twelfth day of this month, there were voices in the Shamayim concerning Abraham,
that he was faithful in all that He told him, and that he loved YAHUAH, and that in every affliction he was faithful.
Mastema Accuses Abraham and Requests the Test
And the prince Mastema came and said before ALUAH, "Behold, Abraham loves Isaac his son, and he delights in him above all things.
Command him to offer him as a burnt offering on the altar, and You will see if he will do this command, and You will know if he is faithful in everything in which You test him."
And YAHUAH knew that Abraham was faithful in all his afflictions, for He had tested him through his country and with famine, and had tested him with the wealth of kings, and had tested him again through his wife when she was taken from him,
and with circumcision, and had tested him through Ishmael and Hagar his maidservant when he sent them away, and in everything in which He had tested him he was found faithful,
and his soul was not impatient, and he was not slow to act, for he was faithful and a lover of YAHUAH.
Chapter 18
☆The Binding of Isaac and the Oath of Blessing
The Command to Offer Isaac
And ALUAH said to him, "Abraham, Abraham," and he said, "Behold, here I am."
And He said, "Take your beloved son whom you love, Isaac, and go to the high country and offer him on one of the mountains which I will show you."
And he rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two young men with him and Isaac his son, and he split the wood for the burnt offering and went to the place on the third day, and he saw the place far off.
And he came to a well of water and he said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there, and when we have worshiped we will return to you."
And he took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife, and they both went together to that place.
And Isaac said to his father, "Father," and he said, "Here I am, my son." And he said to him, "Behold the fire and the knife and the wood, but where is the sheep for the burnt offering, father?"
And he said, "ALUAH will provide for Himself a sheep for a burnt offering, my son." And he drew near to the place of the mountain of ALUAH.
And he built an altar and placed the wood on the altar and bound Isaac his son and placed him on the wood which was on the altar.
And he reached out his hand to take the knife to slay Isaac his son.
The Messenger Stops Abraham
And I stood before him and before the prince Mastema, and YAHUAH said, "Tell him not to lay his hand on the lad nor to do anything to him, for I have shown that he fears YAHUAH."
And I called to him from the Shamayim and said to him, "Abraham, Abraham," and he was terrified and said, "Behold, here I am."
And I said to him, "Do not lay your hand on the lad, nor do anything to him, for now I have shown that you fear YAHUAH and have not withheld your son, your firstborn son, from Me."
And the prince Mastema was put to shame.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a single ram caught by its horns, and Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
The Blessing and the Oath
And Abraham called that place "YAHUAH Sees," so that it is said, "On the mountain YAHUAH is seen," which is Mount Zion.
And YAHUAH called Abraham by his name a second time from the Shamayim as He caused us to appear to speak to him in the name of YAHUAH.
And He said, "By Myself I have sworn, says YAHUAH, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your beloved son, from Me,
that in Barakah I will Barak you and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the Shamayim and as the sand which is on the seashore, and your seed will inherit the cities of its enemies,
and in your seed all nations of the earth will be Baruk, because you have obeyed My voice and I have shown to all that you are faithful to Me in all that I have said to you. Go in peace."
Abraham Returns and Establishes the Festival
And Abraham went to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba, and Abraham lived by the Well of the Oath.
And he celebrated this festival every year for seven days with joy, and he called it the Festival of YAHUAH according to the seven days during which he went and returned in peace.
And it was ordained and written on the heavenly tablets concerning Yashar'al and its seed that they should observe this festival seven days with the joy of festival.
Chapter 19
☆The Death of Sarah and Abraham's Blessing upon Jacob
The Death of Sarah and Abraham's Patience
In the first year of the first week in the forty-second jubilee, Abraham returned and lived opposite Hebron, which is Kirjath Arba.
And he lived there two weeks of years. And in the first year of the third week of this jubilee, the days of the life of Sarah were completed, and she died in Hebron. And Abraham went to mourn over her and to bury her.
And we tested him to see if his Ruach was patient and that he would not be indignant in the words of his mouth, and he was found patient in this and was not disturbed.
For in patience of Ruach he spoke with the children of Heth so that they would give him a place in which to bury his dead.
And YAHUAH gave him grace before all who saw him, and he asked gently of the sons of Heth, and they gave him the land of the double cave near Mamre, which is Hebron, for four hundred pieces of silver.
And they urged him, saying, "We will give it to you for nothing," but he would not take it from their hands for nothing, for he gave the full price of the place, the money in full, and he bowed down before them twice.
And after this he buried his dead in the double cave.
And all the days of the life of Sarah were one hundred and twenty-seven years, which is two jubilees and four weeks and one year. These are the days of the years of the life of Sarah.
This was the tenth trial with which Abraham was tested, and he was found faithful and patient in Ruach.
And he did not speak a single word regarding the rumor in the land that ALUAH had said He would give it to him and to his seed after him, and he begged a place there to bury his dead.
For he was found faithful and was recorded on the heavenly tablets as the friend of ALUAH.
Isaac Receives Rebecca and Abraham Takes Keturah
And in the fourth year of this week he took a wife for his son Isaac, and her name was Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother. And Bethuel was the son of Melca, the wife of Nahor the brother of Abraham.
And Abraham took for himself a third wife, and her name was Keturah, from among the daughters of his household servants, for Hagar had died before Sarah.
And she bore him six sons, Zimram and Jokshan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah, in the two weeks of years.
The Birth of Jacob and Esau
And in the sixth week, in the second year of it, Rebecca bore to Isaac two sons, Jacob and Esau.
And Jacob was a smooth and upright man, and Esau was fierce, a man of the field, and hairy, and Jacob lived in tents.
And the youths grew, and Jacob learned to write, but Esau did not learn, for he was a man of the field and a hunter, and he learned war, and all his deeds were fierce.
And Abraham loved Jacob, but Isaac loved Esau.
Abraham Blesses Jacob and Prophesies His Destiny
And Abraham saw the deeds of Esau, and he knew that in Jacob his name and seed would be called.
And he called Rebecca and gave instruction regarding Jacob, for he knew that she also loved Jacob much more than Esau.
And he said to her, "My daughter, watch over my son Jacob, for he will stand in my place on the earth and will be a blessing in the midst of the children of men and for the esteem of the whole seed of Shem.
For I know that YAHUAH will choose him to be a people for His possession above all peoples that are on the face of the earth.
And behold, Isaac my son loves Esau more than Jacob, but I see that you truly love Jacob.
Add still further to your kindness to him, and let your eyes be upon him in love, for he will be a blessing to us on the earth from now and to all generations of the earth.
Let your hands be strong, and let your heart rejoice in your son Jacob, for I have loved him far beyond all my sons. He will be Baruk forever, and his seed will fill the whole earth.
If a man can number the sand of the earth, his seed will also be numbered.
And all the Barakah with which YAHUAH has Baruk me and my seed will belong to Jacob and his seed always.
And in his seed my name will be Baruk, and the name of my fathers Shem and Noah and Enoch and Mahalalel and Enos and Seth and Adam.
And these will serve to lay the foundations of the Shamayim and to strengthen the earth and to renew all the luminaries which are in the firmament."
Abraham's Final Blessing Over Jacob
And he called Jacob before the eyes of Rebecca his mother and kissed him and Baruk him and said,
"Jacob, my beloved son whom my soul loves, may ALUAH Barak you from above the firmament, and may He give you all the Barakah with which He Baruk Adam and Enoch and Noah and Shem,
and all the things of which He told me and all the things which He promised to give me, may He cause them to cling to you and to your seed forever according to the days of the Shamayim above the earth.
And the spirits of Mastema will not rule over you or over your seed to turn you from YAHUAH who is your ALUAH from now and forever.
And may YAHUAH ALUAH be a father to you and you the firstborn son and to the people always. Go in peace, my son."
And they both went out together from Abraham.
And Rebecca loved Jacob with all her heart and with all her soul, much more than Esau, but Isaac loved Esau much more than Jacob.
Chapter 20
☆Abraham Commands His Sons Before His Death
Abraham Commands His Sons Before His Death
In the forty-second jubilee, in the first year of the seventh week, Abraham called Ishmael and his twelve sons and Isaac and his two sons and the six sons of Keturah and their sons.
And he commanded them that they should observe the way of YAHUAH, that they should work righteousness and love each his neighbor and act in this manner among all men, that they should each walk in such a way as to do judgment and righteousness on the earth.
That they should circumcise their sons according to the covenant which He had made with them and not turn aside to the right hand or the left from all the paths which YAHUAH commanded us, and that they should keep themselves from all fornication and uncleanness and remove from among them all fornication and uncleanness.
And if any woman or maid commits fornication among you, burn her with fire, and let them not commit fornication with her after their eyes and their heart.
And let them not take wives from the daughters of Kanaan, for the seed of Kanaan will be rooted out of the land.
And he told them of the judgment of the Giants and the judgment of the Sodomites, how they had been judged on account of their wickedness and had died on account of their fornication and uncleanness,
and through their mutual corruption in fornication. "And guard yourselves from all fornication and uncleanness and from all pollution of sin lest you make our name a curse and your whole life a hissing,
and all your sons be destroyed by the sword, and you become accursed like Sodom, and all your remnant like the sons of Gomorrah.
I implore you, my sons, love the ALUAH of the Shamayim and cling to all His commandments, and do not walk after their idols and after their uncleannesses.
And do not make for yourselves molten or carved mighty ones, for they are vanity and there is no Ruach in them, for they are the work of men's hands, and all who trust in them trust in nothing.
Serve them not nor worship them, but serve the Most High ALUAH and worship Him continually and hope for His presence always.
And work uprightness and righteousness before Him so that He may have pleasure in you and grant you His mercy and send rain upon you morning and evening and Barak all your works which you have done on the earth,
and Barak your bread and your water and Barak the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land and the herds of your cattle and the flocks of your sheep.
And you will be for a Barakah on the earth, and all nations of the earth will desire you and Barak your sons in my name so that they may be Baruk as I am."
Abraham Divides His House and Sends Away the Sons of Keturah
And he gave to Ishmael and to his sons and to the sons of Keturah gifts and sent them away from Isaac his son, and he gave everything to Isaac his son.
And Ishmael and his sons and the sons of Keturah and their sons went together and lived from Paran to the entering of Babylon in all the land which is toward the east, facing the desert.
And these mingled with each other, and their name was called Arabs and Ishmaelites.
Chapter 21
☆Abraham's Final Commands to Isaac
Abraham Gives Final Commands to Isaac
In the sixth year of the seventh week of this jubilee, Abraham called Isaac his son and commanded him, saying,
"I have become old and do not know the day of my death, and I am full of my days.
And behold, I am one hundred and seventy-five years old, and throughout all the days of my life I have remembered YAHUAH and have sought with all my heart to do His will and to walk uprightly in all His ways.
My soul has hated idols, and I have despised those who served them, and I have given my heart and my Ruach so that I might do the will of Him who created me, for He is the living ALUAH and He is set apart and faithful, and He is righteous beyond all, and with Him there is no partiality and no accepting of gifts.
For ALUAH is righteous and exercises judgment on all who transgress His commandments and despise His covenant.
Instructions Regarding Idols, Blood, and Proper Sacrifice
"And you, my son, observe His commandments and His ordinances and His judgments, and do not walk after the abominations or after the carved images or after the molten images, and eat no blood at all of animals or cattle or of any bird which flies in the Shamayim.
And if you sacrifice a victim as an acceptable peace offering, slaughter it and pour out its blood upon the altar, and offer all the fat of the offering on the altar with fine flour and the grain offering mixed with oil, with its drink offering.
Offer them all together on the altar of burnt offering, for it is a sweet aroma before YAHUAH.
And you will offer the fat of the sacrifice of thank offerings on the fire that is on the altar, and the fat that is on the belly and all the fat on the inward parts
and the two kidneys and all the fat that is on them and on the loins, and remove the liver together with the kidneys.
And offer all these for a sweet aroma acceptable before YAHUAH with its grain offering and with its drink offering, for a sweet aroma, the bread of the offering to YAHUAH.
And eat its meat on that day and on the second day, and do not let the sun go down on it on the second day until it is eaten.
And nothing will be left over for the third day, for it is not acceptable, and do not eat it any longer,
and all who eat from it on the third day will bring sin upon themselves, for so I found it written in the books of my forefathers and in the words of Enoch and in the words of Noah.
And on all your offerings you will sprinkle salt, and do not let the salt of the covenant be lacking in all your offerings before YAHUAH.
And regarding the wood of the sacrifices, beware lest you bring other kinds of wood for the altar besides these, cypress, deffra, sagad, pine, fir, cedar, savin, palm, olive, myrrh, laurel, citron, juniper, and balsam.
And of these kinds of wood lay upon the altar under the sacrifice such as have been tested for appearance, and do not lay on it any split or darkened wood.
But use hard and clean wood without fault, sound and of new growth, and do not lay on it old wood, for its fragrance has passed, and there is no fragrance in it as before.
Besides these kinds of wood there is none other that you will place on the altar, for the fragrance is dispersed and its aroma does not go up to the Shamayim.
Observe this command and do it, my son, so that you will be upright in all your deeds.
Instructions Regarding Cleansing and Blood
"And at all times be clean in your body, and wash yourself with water before you approach to offer on the altar, and wash your hands and your feet before you draw near to the altar.
And when you are finished sacrificing, wash again your hands and your feet, and let no blood appear upon you or upon your clothes.
Be exceedingly careful regarding blood. Cover it with dust, and do not eat any blood, for it is the soul. Eat no blood of any kind.
And take no gifts in exchange for the blood of man, lest it be shed without judgment, for the blood that is shed causes the earth to sin, and the earth cannot be cleansed from the blood of man except by the blood of him who shed it.
And do not accept any present or gift for the blood of man, for blood must answer for blood.
Warning Against the Ways of the Nations
"So that you may be accepted before YAHUAH, the Most High ALUAH, for He is the defender of the good, and that you may be preserved from all evil and that He may save you from every kind of death.
I see, my son, that all the works of the children of men are sin and wickedness and all their deeds are uncleanness and abomination and pollution, and there is no righteousness with them.
Beware lest you walk in their ways and tread in their paths and sin a sin unto death before the Most High ALUAH.
Else He will hide His face from you and will give you over to the hand of your transgression and will root you out of the land and your seed from under the Shamayim, and your name and your seed will perish from the earth.
Turn away from all their deeds and from all their uncleanness, and observe the ordinance of the Most High ALUAH and do His will and be upright in all things.
And He will Barak you in all your deeds and will raise up from you the plant of righteousness through all the earth throughout all generations of the earth.
And my name and your name will not be forgotten under the Shamayim forever.
Abraham's Final Blessing and Farewell
"Go, my son, in peace. May the Most High ALUAH, my ALUAH and your ALUAH, strengthen you to do His will,
and may He Barak all your seed and the remnant of your seed for the generations forever with all righteous Barakah so that you may be a Barakah on all the earth." And he went out from him rejoicing.
Chapter 22
☆Abraham's Final Blessing upon Jacob and His Death
Isaac and Ishmael Come to Abraham Before His Death
In the first week of the forty-fourth jubilee, in the second year, which was the year in which Abraham died, Isaac and Ishmael came from the Well of the Oath to celebrate the Feast of Weeks, that is, the feast of the first-fruits of the harvest, with Abraham their father.
And Abraham rejoiced because his two sons had come.
For Isaac had many possessions in Beersheba, and Isaac was accustomed to go and see his possessions and to return to his father.
And in those days Ishmael came to see his father, and they both came together.
And Isaac offered a burnt offering and presented it on the altar of his father which he had made in Hebron, and he offered a thank offering and made a feast of joy before Ishmael his brother.
And Rebecca made new cakes from the new grain and gave them to Jacob her son to take to Abraham his father from the first-fruits of the land so that he might eat and Barak the Creator of all things before he died.
And Isaac also sent by the hand of Jacob to Abraham a best thank offering so that he might eat and drink.
And he ate and drank and Baruk the Most High ALUAH who created the Shamayim and the earth, who made all the fat things of the earth, and gave them to the children of men so that they might eat and drink,
and Baruk their Creator, saying, "Now I give thanks to You, my ALUAH, because You have caused me to see this day.
Behold, I am one hundred and seventy-five years old, an old man and full of days,
and all my days have been peace for me. The sword of the adversary has not overcome me in all that You have given to me and my children all the days of my life until this day.
My ALUAH, may Your mercy and Your peace be upon Your servant and upon the seed of his sons so that they may be to You a chosen nation and an inheritance from among all the nations of the earth from now to all the generations of the earth and to all ages."
Abraham Blesses Jacob Before His Death
And he called Jacob and said, "My son Jacob, may the ALUAH of all Barak you and strengthen you to do righteousness and His will before Him,
and may He choose you and your seed so that you may become a people for His inheritance according to His will always. And you, my son Jacob, draw near and kiss me." And he drew near and kissed him.
And he said, "Baruk be my son Jacob and all the sons of ALUAH Most High to all ages. May ALUAH give to you a seed of righteousness, and some of your sons may He set apart in the midst of the whole earth.
May nations serve you and all the nations bow before your seed. Be strong in the presence of men,
and exercise authority over all the seed of Seth. Then your ways and the ways of your sons will be justified so that they will become a set apart nation.
May the Most High ALUAH give you all the Barakah with which He Baruk me and with which He Baruk Noah and Adam. May they rest on the sacred head of your seed from generation to generation forever.
And may He cleanse you from all unrighteousness and impurity so that you may be forgiven all your transgressions and your sins of ignorance.
And may He strengthen you and Barak you, and may you inherit the whole earth, and may He renew His covenant with you so that you may be to Him a nation for His inheritance to all ages,
and that He may be to you and to your seed an ALUAH in truth and righteousness throughout all the days of the earth.
And you, my son Jacob, remember my words and observe the commandments of Abraham your father.
Separate yourself from the nations and do not eat with them, and do not do according to their works, and do not become their companion, for their works are unclean and all their ways are pollution and abomination and uncleanness.
They offer their sacrifices to the dead and they worship evil spirits and they eat over the graves.
And all their works are vanity and nothingness. They have no heart to understand and their eyes do not see what their works are or how they err in saying to a piece of wood, 'You are my ALUAH,' and to a stone, 'You are my YAHUAH and you are my deliverer.'
And as for you, my son Jacob, may the Most High ALUAH help you, and may the ALUAH of the Shamayim Barak you and remove you from their uncleanness and from all their error.
Be careful, my son Jacob, of taking a wife from any seed of the daughters of Kanaan, for all his seed is to be rooted out of the earth.
For because of the transgression of Ham, Kanaan went astray, and all his seed will be destroyed from the earth and all its remnants, and none springing from him will be saved on the day of judgment.
And as for all the worshipers of idols and the profane, there will be no hope for them in the land of the living, and there will be no remembrance of them on the earth, for they will descend into Sheol and into the place of condemnation they will go.
As the children of Sodom were taken away from the earth, so will all those who worship idols be taken away.
Fear not, my son Jacob, and do not be dismayed, O son of Abraham. May the Most High ALUAH preserve you from destruction and deliver you from all the paths of error.
This house I have built for myself so that I might place my name upon it in the earth. It is given to you and to your seed forever, and it will be called the house of Abraham.
It is given to you and to your seed forever, for you will build my house and establish my name before ALUAH forever.
Your seed and your name will stand throughout all generations of the earth."
Abraham's Final Moments
And he ceased commanding him and blessing him, and the two lay together on one bed, and Jacob slept in the bosom of Abraham his father's father.
And he kissed him seven times, and his affection and his heart rejoiced over him, and he Baruk him with all his heart.
And he said, "The Most High ALUAH, the ALUAH of all and Creator of all, who brought me out of Ur of the Chaldees so that He might give me this land to inherit it forever and that I might establish a set apart seed, Baruk be the Most High forever."
And he Baruk Jacob and said, "My son, over whom with all my heart and my affection I rejoice,
may Your grace and Your mercy be lifted up upon him and upon his seed always, and do not forsake him nor reject him from now to the days of eternity,
and may Your eyes be open upon him and upon his seed so that You may preserve him and Barak him and set him apart as a nation for Your inheritance,
and Barak him with all Your Barakah from now to all the days of eternity, and renew Your covenant and Your grace with him and with his seed according to all Your good pleasure for all generations of the earth."
Chapter 23
☆The Death of Abraham and the Prophecy of the Last Days
The Death of Abraham
And he placed two fingers of Jacob on his eyes and he Baruk the ALUAH of mighty ones and he covered his face.
And he stretched out his feet and slept the sleep of eternity and was gathered to his fathers.
And even though Jacob was lying in his bosom, he did not know that Abraham his father's father was dead.
And Jacob awoke from his sleep and behold Abraham was cold as ice, and he said, "Father, father," but there was none who answered.
And he knew that he was dead, and he arose from his bosom and ran and told Rebecca his mother.
And Rebecca went to Isaac in the night and told him.
And they went together, and Jacob with them, and a lamp was in his hand, and when they went in they found Abraham lying dead.
And Isaac fell on the face of his father and wept and kissed him, and the voices were heard in the house of Abraham.
And Ishmael his son arose and went to Abraham his father and wept over Abraham his father, he and all the house of Abraham, and they wept with a great weeping.
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the double cave near Sarah his wife.
And they wept for him forty days, all the men of his house, and Isaac and Ishmael and all their sons and all the sons of Keturah in their places, and the days of weeping for Abraham ended.
And he lived three jubilees and four weeks of years, one hundred and seventy-five years, and he completed the days of his life, being old and full of days.
The Decline of Human Lifespans
For the days of the forefathers were nineteen jubilees, and after the Flood they began to be less than nineteen jubilees.
And they began to decrease in the jubilees and grow old quickly and be full of their days because of much tribulation and the wickedness of their ways.
Except for Abraham, for Abraham was perfect in all his deeds with YAHUAH and well-pleasing in righteousness all the days of his life.
And behold, he did not complete four jubilees in his life, for he grew old because of wickedness in the generation and was full of his days.
And all the generations which will arise from this time until the day of the great judgment will grow old quickly before they complete two jubilees.
And their knowledge will forsake them because of their old age and all their understanding will vanish away.
And in those days, if a man lives a jubilee and a half of years, they will say regarding him, "He has lived long."
And the greater part of his days will be pain and sorrow and tribulation, and there will be no peace.
For calamity will follow calamity, and wound will follow wound, and tribulation will follow tribulation, and evil tidings will follow evil tidings, and illness will follow illness, and all evil judgments like these one after another.
Illness and overthrow and snow and frost and ice and fever and chills and weakness and famine and death and sword and captivity and all kinds of calamities and pains.
And all these will come upon an evil generation which transgresses on the earth, for their works are uncleanness and fornication and pollution and abominations.
The Lament of the Later Generations
Then they will say, "The days of the forefathers were many, even unto a thousand years, and were good, but behold the days of our life, if a man has lived long, are seventy years, and if he is strong eighty years, and they are evil,
and there is no peace in the days of this evil generation."
And in that generation the sons will convict their fathers and their elders of sin and unrighteousness and of the words of their mouth
and of the great wickedness that they commit and concerning their forsaking the covenant which YAHUAH made between them and Him so that they should observe and do all His commandments and His ordinances and His laws without turning either to the right hand or to the left.
For all have done evil, and every mouth speaks iniquity, and all their works are uncleanness and abomination, and all their ways are pollution and destruction.
Behold, the earth will be destroyed because of all their works, and there will be no seed of the vine and no oil, for their works are altogether faithless.
And they will all perish together, beasts and cattle and birds and all the fish of the sea, because of the children of men.
A Time of Great Strife
And they will strive one with another, the young with the old and the old with the young, the poor with the rich, and the lowly with the great, and the beggar with the prince,
because of the law and the covenant, for they have forgotten the commandments and the covenant and the feasts and the months and the Sabbaths and the jubilees and all the judgments.
And they will stand with bows and swords and war to force others back into the way, but they will not return until much blood has been shed on the earth,
one by another. And those who escape will not return from their wickedness to the way of righteousness.
But they will all exalt themselves to deceit and wealth so that each may take what belongs to his neighbor, and they will speak the great Name but not in truth and not in righteousness.
And they will defile the set apart of holies with their uncleanness and with the corruption of their pollution.
And a great punishment will fall upon the deeds of this generation from YAHUAH, and He will give them over to the sword and to judgment and to captivity and to be plundered and devoured.
And He will stir up against them the sinners of the Gentiles who have neither mercy nor compassion and who respect no person, neither old nor young nor anyone, for they are more wicked and stronger in evil than all the children of men.
And they will commit violence against Yashar'al and transgression against Jacob, and much blood will be shed on the earth, and there will be none to gather or bury them.
Restoration in the Last Days
In those days they will cry aloud and call and pray that they may be saved from the hand of the sinners among the Gentiles, but none will be saved.
And the heads of the children will be white with grey hair, and a child of three weeks will appear old like a man of one hundred years, and their stature will be broken because of tribulation and oppression.
And in those days the children will begin to study the laws and to seek the commandments and to return to the path of righteousness.
And the days will begin to grow many and increase among the children of men until their days draw near to one thousand years and to a greater number than before.
And there will be no old man nor anyone who is unsatisfied with his days, for all will be like children and youths, and all their days they will complete and live in peace and joy.
And there will be no Satan and no evil destroyer, for all their days will be days of Barakah and healing.
And at that time YAHUAH will heal His servants, and they will rise up and see great peace and drive out their adversaries.
And the righteous will see and be thankful and will rejoice with joy forever and ever.
And they will see all their judgments and all their curses upon their enemies, and their bones will rest in the earth, and their spirits will have much joy.
And they will know that it is YAHUAH who executes judgment and shows mercy to hundreds and thousands and to all who love Him.
And you, Moses, write down these words, for so they are written, and they record them on the heavenly tablets as a testimony for the generations forever.
Chapter 24
☆Isaac at Gerar and His Conflict with the Philistines
Isaac Settles at the Well of the Vision
And after the death of Abraham, YAHUAH Baruk Isaac his son, and he rose from Hebron and went.
And he lived at the Well of the Vision in the first year of the third week of this jubilee for seven years.
And in the first year of the fourth week a famine began in the land, besides the first famine which had been in the days of Abraham.
And Jacob cooked lentil pottage, and Esau came from the field hungry.
And he said to Jacob his brother, "Give me some of this red pottage." And Jacob said to him, "Sell to me your birthright and I will give you bread and also some of this lentil pottage."
And Esau said in his heart, "I am about to die. What profit is this birthright to me?"
And he said to Jacob, "I give it to you." And Jacob said, "Swear to me this day," and he swore to him.
And Jacob gave his brother Esau bread and pottage, and he ate until he was satisfied, and Esau despised his birthright.
For this reason Esau's name was called Edom on account of the red pottage which Jacob gave him for his birthright.
And Jacob became the elder and Esau was brought down from his dignity.
Isaac Is Commanded Not to Go into Mitsrayim
And the famine was over the land, and Isaac prepared to go down into Mitsrayim in the second year of this week.
And he went to the king of the Philistines in Gerar, to Abimelech.
And YAHUAH appeared to him and said to him, "Do not go down into Mitsrayim. Live in the land which I will tell you.
And sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and Barak you, for to you and to your seed I will give all this land, and I will establish My oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
And I will multiply your seed as the stars of the Shamayim and will give to your seed all this land. And in your seed all the nations of the earth will be Baruk,
because your father obeyed My voice and kept My charge and My commandments and My laws and My ordinances and My covenant.
And now obey My voice and live in this land."
And he lived in Gerar for three weeks of years.
The Philistines Envy Isaac
And Abimelech gave orders concerning him and all that was his, saying, "Any man who touches him or anything that is his will surely die."
And Isaac grew strong among the Philistines, and he obtained many possessions, oxen and sheep and camels and donkeys and a great household.
And he sowed in the land of the Philistines and brought in a hundredfold, and Isaac became exceedingly great.
And the Philistines envied him. And all the wells that the servants of Abraham had dug during the life of Abraham, the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham and filled them with earth.
And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much stronger than we are."
And Isaac departed from there in the first year of the seventh week and lived in the valleys of Gerar.
Isaac's Wells of Contention
And they dug again the wells of water which the servants of Abraham his father had dug and which the Philistines had closed after the death of Abraham his father, and he called their names as Abraham his father had called them.
And the servants of Isaac dug a well in the valley and found living water.
And the shepherds of Gerar argued with the shepherds of Isaac, saying, "The water is ours," and Isaac called the name of the well Perversity, because they had been perverse with him.
And they dug a second well, and they argued over that also, and he called its name Enmity.
And he departed from there and they dug another well, and over this they did not argue, and he called its name Room, and Isaac said, "Now YAHUAH has made room for us and we have increased in the land."
YAHUAH Appears Again and Renews the Promise
And he went up from there to the Well of the Oath in the first year of the first week of the forty-fourth jubilee.
And YAHUAH appeared to him that night on the new moon of the first month and said to him, "I am the ALUAH of Abraham your father. Do not fear, for I am with you and will Barak you and will surely multiply your seed as the sand of the earth for the sake of Abraham My servant."
And he built an altar there, which Abraham his father had first built, and he called on the name of YAHUAH and he offered sacrifice to the ALUAH of Abraham his father.
And they dug a well and found living water.
And the servants of Isaac dug another well and did not find water.
And they went and told Isaac that they had not found water, and Isaac said, "I have sworn this day to the Philistines, and this thing has been made known to us."
And he called the name of that place the Well of the Oath, for there he had sworn to Abimelech and Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.
And Isaac knew that day that he had sworn to them under pressure to make peace with them.
Isaac Curses the Philistines
And Isaac on that day cursed the Philistines and said, "Cursed be the Philistines to the day of wrath and indignation from among all nations.
May ALUAH make them a derision and a curse and an object of wrath and indignation in the hands of the sinners among the Gentiles and in the hands of the Kittim.
And whoever escapes the sword of the enemy and of the Kittim, may the righteous nation root out in judgment from under the Shamayim.
For they will be the enemies and foes of my children throughout their generations on the earth, and no remnant will be left to them nor one who will be saved on the day of wrath and judgment.
For destruction and rooting out and expulsion from the earth is the whole seed of the Philistines reserved. And there will no longer be left for these Caphtorim a name or a seed on the earth.
For though he ascends to the Shamayim, from there he will be brought down, and though he strengthens himself on the earth, from there he will be dragged forth.
And though he hides himself among the nations, from there he will be rooted out, and though he descends into Sheol, there his condemnation will be great and there he will have no peace.
And if he goes into captivity, by the hands of those who seek his life they will kill him on the way.
And neither name nor seed will remain to him on all the earth, for into eternal curse will he depart."
And this is written and engraved concerning him on the heavenly tablets, to do to him on the day of judgment so that he may be rooted out of the earth.
Chapter 25
☆Rebecca Commands Jacob and Blesses Him
Rebecca Commands Jacob
In the second year of this week in this jubilee, Rebecca called Jacob her son and spoke to him, saying,
"My son, do not take for yourself a wife from the daughters of Kanaan, as Esau your brother, who took for himself two wives from the daughters of Kanaan,
and they have embittered my soul with all their unclean deeds, for all their deeds are fornication and lust, and there is no righteousness with them, for their deeds are evil.
And I, my son, love you exceedingly, and my heart and my affection Barak you every hour of the day and every watch of the night.
And now, my son, listen to my voice and do the will of your mother, and do not take for yourself a wife from the daughters of this land, but only from the house of my father and from my father's kindred.
You will take for yourself a wife from the house of my father, and the Most High ALUAH will Barak you, and your children will be a righteous generation and a set apart seed."
Jacob Responds with a Vow of Purity
And Jacob spoke to Rebecca his mother and said to her, "Behold, mother, I am nine weeks of years old, and I do not know a woman,
nor have I touched any woman, nor have I betrothed myself to any, nor do I even think of taking a wife from the daughters of Kanaan.
For I remember, mother, the words of Abraham our father, for he commanded me not to take a wife from the daughters of Kanaan,
but to take for myself a wife from the seed of my father's house and from my kindred.
I have heard before that daughters have been born to Laban your brother, and I have set my heart on them to take a wife from among them.
And for this reason I have guarded myself in my Ruach against sinning or being corrupted in all my ways throughout all the days of my life, for concerning lust and fornication Abraham my father gave me many commands.
And despite all that he commanded me, for these twenty-two years my brother has argued with me and spoken frequently to me and said, 'My brother, take as wife a sister of my two wives,'
but I refuse to do as he has done. I swear before you, mother, that all the days of my life I will not take for myself a wife from the daughters of the seed of Kanaan, and I will not act wickedly as my brother has done.
Fear not, mother. Be assured that I will do your will and walk in uprightness and not corrupt my ways forever."
Rebecca Blesses Jacob
And she lifted up her face to the Shamayim and stretched out the fingers of her hands and opened her mouth and Baruk the Most High ALUAH who created the Shamayim and the earth,
and she gave Him thanks and praise and said, "Baruk be YAHUAH ALUAH, and may His set apart name be Baruk forever and ever, for He has given me Jacob as a pure son and a set apart seed.
For he is Yours, and his seed will be Yours continually and throughout all the generations forever. Barak him, O YAHUAH, and place in my mouth the Barakah of righteousness so that I may Barak him."
And at that hour, when the Ruach of righteousness descended into her mouth, she placed both her hands on the head of Jacob and said:
The Barakah of Rebecca
"Baruk are You, YAHUAH of righteousness and ALUAH of the ages, and may He Barak you beyond all the generations of men.
May He give you, my son, the path of righteousness and reveal righteousness to your seed, and may He make your sons many during your life, and may they arise according to the number of the months of the year.
And may their sons become many and great beyond the stars of the Shamayim, and their number be more than the sand of the sea.
And may He give them this good land, as He said He would give it to Abraham and to his seed after him always, and may they hold it as their possession forever.
And may I see Baruk children born to you, my son, during my life, and may all your seed be a Baruk and set apart seed.
And as you have refreshed your mother's Ruach during my life, the womb of her who bore you Barak you, and my affection and my breasts Barak you, and my mouth and my tongue praise you greatly.
Increase and spread over the earth, and may your seed be perfect in the joy of the Shamayim and the earth forever.
And may your seed rejoice, and on the great day of peace may it have peace.
And may your name and your seed endure to all ages, and may the Most High ALUAH be their ALUAH, and may the ALUAH of righteousness dwell with them, and by them may His sanctuary be built for all ages.
Baruk be he who Barak you, and all flesh that curses you falsely may it be cursed."
And she kissed him and said to him, "May YAHUAH of the world love you as the heart of your mother, and may her affection rejoice in you and Barak you." And she ceased from blessing.
Chapter 26
☆Isaac Blesses Jacob and the Stolen Blessing
Isaac Prepares to Bless Esau
In the seventh year of this week Isaac called Esau his elder son and said unto him, "I am old, my son, and behold my eyes are dim in seeing, and I know not the day of my death.
And now take your hunting weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt and catch me venison, my son.
And make me savory meat such as my soul loves, and bring it to me so that I may eat and that my soul may Barak you before I die.
But Rebecca heard Isaac speaking to Esau, and Esau went forth early to the field to hunt and catch and bring home to his father.
And Rebecca called Jacob her son and said unto him, "Behold, I heard Isaac your father speak unto Esau your brother saying,
'Hunt for me and make me savory meat and bring it to me so that I may eat and Barak you before YAHUAH before I die.'"
And now, my son, obey my voice in that which I command you.
Go to your flock and fetch me two good kids of the goats and I will make them savory meat for your father such as he loves.
And you shall bring it to your father so that he may eat and Barak you before YAHUAH before he dies and that you may be Baruk.
And Jacob said to Rebecca his mother, "Mother, I will not withhold anything which my father would eat and that would please him, only I fear that he will recognize my voice and desire to touch me.
And you know that I am smooth and Esau my brother is hairy, and I will appear before his eyes as an evildoer and will do a deed which he did not command me, and he will be angry with me and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a Barakah."
And Rebecca his mother said unto him, "Upon me be your curse, my son. Only obey my voice."
And Jacob obeyed the voice of Rebecca his mother and went and fetched two good and fat kids of the goats and brought them to his mother, and his mother made them savory meat such as he loved.
And Rebecca took the goodly raiment of Esau her elder son which was with her in the house and she clothed Jacob her younger son with them.
And she put the skins of the kids upon his hands and on the exposed parts of his neck.
And she put the meat and the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.
Jacob Receives the Blessing
And Jacob went in to his father and said, "I am your son. I have done according as you instructed me.
Arise and sit and eat of that which I have caught, father, so that your soul may Barak me."
And Isaac said to his son, "How have you found it so quickly, my son?" And Jacob said, "Because YAHUAH your ALUAH caused me to find it."
And Isaac said unto him, "Come near so that I may feel you, my son, whether you are my son Esau or not."
And Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice but the hands are the hands of Esau."
And he discerned him not because it was a dispensation from the Shamayim to remove his power of perception.
And Isaac discerned not, for his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's, so he Baruk him.
And he said, "Are you my son Esau?" And he said, "I am."
And he said, "Bring near to me that I may eat of that which you have caught, my son, so that my soul may Barak you." And he brought near to him and he ate, and he brought him wine and he drank.
And Isaac his father said unto him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."
And he came near and kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his raiment and Baruk him and said, "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a full field which YAHUAH has Baruk.
And may YAHUAH give you of the dew of the Shamayim and of the dew of the earth and plenty of grain and oil.
Let nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brethren and let your mother's sons bow down to you.
And may all the Barakah with which YAHUAH has Baruk me and Baruk Abraham my father be imparted to you and to your seed forever. Cursed be he that curses you, and Baruk be he that Barak you."
Esau Returns and Learns of the Deception
And it came to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing his son Jacob and Jacob had gone forth from Isaac his father, he hid himself, and Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
And he also made savory meat and brought it to his father and said unto his father, "Let my father arise and eat of my venison so that your soul may Barak me."
And Isaac his father said unto him, "Who are you?" And he said, "I am your firstborn son Esau. I have done as you commanded me."
And Isaac was very greatly astonished and said, "Who is he that has hunted and caught and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and I Baruk him. And he will be Baruk, and all his seed forever."
And it came to pass when Esau heard the words of his father Isaac that he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry and said unto his father, "Barak me, even me also, father."
And he said unto him, "Your brother came with deceit and has taken away your blessing."
And he said, "Now I know why his name is named Jacob. Behold, he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birth-right, and now he has taken away my blessing." And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me, father?"
And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brethren I have given to him for servants, and with plenty of grain and wine and oil have I strengthened him. And what now shall I do for you, my son?"
And Esau said to Isaac his father, "Have you only one blessing, O father? Barak me, even me also, father." And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
And Isaac answered and said unto him, "Behold, far from the dew of the earth shall be your dwelling and far from the dew of the Shamayim from above.
And by your sword you will live and you will serve your brother, and it shall come to pass when you become great and shake his yoke from off your neck, you will sin a complete sin unto death and your seed will be rooted out from under the Shamayim."
And Esau kept threatening Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father Baruk him, and he said in his heart, "May the days of mourning for my father now come so that I may slay my brother Jacob."
Chapter 27
☆Jacob Flees to Laban and the Vision at Bethel
Rebecca Warns Jacob and Sends Him Away
And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebecca in a dream, and Rebecca sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Behold, Esau your brother will take vengeance on you so as to kill you.
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice and arise and flee to Laban my brother, to Haran,
and stay with him a few days until your brother's anger turns away,
and he removes his anger from you and forgets all that you have done. Then I will send and fetch you from there."
And Jacob said, "I am not afraid. If he wishes to kill me, I will kill him." But she said to him, "Let me not be bereft of both my sons on one day."
And Jacob said to Rebecca his mother, "Behold, you know that my father has become old and does not see because his eyes are dull,
and if I leave him it will be evil in his eyes because I leave him and go away from you, and my father will be angry and will curse me.
I will not go. When he sends me, then only will I go."
And Rebecca said to Jacob, "I will go in and speak to him and he will send you away."
Isaac Blesses Jacob and Sends Him to Laban
And Rebecca went in and said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the two daughters of Heth whom Esau has taken for himself as wives. And if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of the land such as these, for what purpose do I further live, for the daughters of Canaan are evil."
And Isaac called Jacob and Baruk him and admonished him and said to him, "Do not take for yourself a wife from any of the daughters of Canaan.
Arise and go to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take for yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
And ALUAH Almighty Baruk you and increase and multiply you so that you may become a company of nations,
and give you the blessings of my father Abraham, to you and to your seed after you, that you may inherit the land of your sojournings and all the land which ALUAH gave to Abraham. Go, my son, in peace."
And Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca, Jacob's mother.
Rebecca Grieves; Isaac Comforts Her
And it came to pass after Jacob had arisen to go to Mesopotamia that the Ruach of Rebecca was grieved over her son and she wept.
And Isaac said to Rebecca, "My sister, do not weep on account of Jacob my son, for he goes in peace and in peace will he return.
The Most High ALUAH will preserve him from all evil and will be with him, for He will not forsake him all his days. For I know that his ways will be prospered in all things wherever he goes, until he returns in peace to us and we see him in peace.
Fear not on his account, my sister, for he is on the upright path and he is a perfect man, and he is faithful and will not perish. Do not weep."
And Isaac comforted Rebecca on account of her son Jacob and Baruk him.
Jacob's Ladder Dream at Bethel
And Jacob went from the Well of the Oath to go to Haran in the first year of the second week in the forty-fourth jubilee.
And he came to Luz on the mountains, that is, Bethel, on the new moon of the first month of this week, and he came to the place at evening
and turned from the way to the west of the road that night, and he slept there, for the sun had set.
And he took one of the stones of that place and laid it at his head under the tree, and he was journeying alone, and he slept.
And he dreamed that night, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth and its top reached to the Shamayim, and behold, the messengers of YAHUAH ascended and descended on it, and behold, YAHUAH stood upon it.
And He spoke to Jacob and said, "I am YAHUAH ALUAH of Abraham your father and the ALUAH of Isaac. The land on which you are lying I will give to you and to your seed after you.
And your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will increase to the west and to the east and to the north and the south, and in you and in your seed all the families of the nations will be Baruk.
And behold, I shall be with you and shall keep you wherever you go, and I shall bring you again into this land in peace, for I will not leave you until I do everything that I told you."
And Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Truly this place is the house of YAHUAH, and I did not know it."
And he was afraid and said, "Dreadful is this place, which is none other than the house of ALUAH, and this is the gate of the Shamayim."
And Jacob arose early in the morning and took the stone which he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar for a sign, and he poured oil on the top of it.
And he called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the place was Luz at the first.
And Jacob vowed a vow unto YAHUAH, saying, "If YAHUAH will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and give me bread to eat and raiment to put on,
so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then YAHUAH shall be my ALUAH,
and this stone which I have set up as a pillar for a sign in this place shall be the house of YAHUAH, and of all that You give me, I shall give the tenth to You, my ALUAH."
Chapter 28
☆Jacob's Marriages and Children
Jacob Arrives and Serves Laban
And he went on his journey and came to the land of the east, to Laban the brother of Rebecca.
And he was with him and served him for Rachel his daughter one week.
And in the first year of the third week he said to him, "Give me my wife for whom I have served you seven years."
And Laban said to Jacob, "I will give you your wife."
And Laban made a feast and took Leah his elder daughter and gave her to Jacob as a wife, and gave her Zilpah his handmaid as a handmaid.
And Jacob did not know, for he thought she was Rachel. And he went in to her, and behold, she was Leah.
And Jacob was angry with Laban and said to him, "Why have you dealt thus with me? Did I not serve you for Rachel and not for Leah? Why have you wronged me?
Take your daughter and I will go, for you have done evil to me."
For Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah, for Leah's eyes were weak, but her form was very handsome, and Rachel had beautiful eyes and a beautiful and very handsome form.
The Ordinance of the Heavenly Tables
And Laban said to Jacob, "It is not so done in our country to give the younger before the elder, and it is not right to do this.
For thus it is ordained and written in the heavenly tables that no one should give his younger daughter before the elder, for the elder one is given first and after her the younger. And the man who does so, they set down guilt against him in the Shamayim, and none is righteous who does this thing, for this deed is evil before YAHUAH.
And command the children of Israel that they do not do this thing. Let them neither take nor give the younger before they have given the elder, for it is very wicked."
And Laban said to Jacob, "Let the seven days of the feast of this one pass by, and I shall give you Rachel, that you may serve me another seven years, that you may pasture my sheep as you did in the former week."
And on the day when the seven days of the feast of Leah had passed, Laban gave Rachel to Jacob so that he might serve him another seven years.
And he gave to Rachel Bilhah the sister of Zilpah as a handmaid.
And he served yet another seven years for Rachel, for Leah had been given to him for nothing.
The Children Born to Jacob
And YAHUAH opened the womb of Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a son, and he called his name Reuben, on the fourteenth day of the ninth month in the first year of the third week.
But the womb of Rachel was closed, for YAHUAH saw that Leah was hated and Rachel loved.
And again Jacob went in to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a second son, and he called his name Simeon, on the twenty-first of the tenth month in the third year of this week.
And again Jacob went in to Leah, and she conceived and bore him a third son, and he called his name Levi, on the new moon of the first month in the sixth year of this week.
And again Jacob went in to her, and she conceived and bore him a fourth son, and he called his name Judah, on the fifteenth of the third month in the first year of the fourth week.
And on account of all this Rachel envied Leah, for she did not bear, and she said to Jacob, "Give me children."
And Jacob said, "Have I withheld from you the fruits of your womb? Have I forsaken you?"
And when Rachel saw that Leah had borne four sons to Jacob, Reuben and Simeon and Levi and Judah, she said to him, "Go in to Bilhah my handmaid, and she will conceive and bear a son for me."
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife, and he went in to her, and she conceived and bore him a son, and he called his name Dan, on the ninth of the sixth month in the sixth year of the third week.
And Jacob went in again to Bilhah a second time, and she conceived and bore Jacob another son, and Rachel called his name Naphtali, on the fifth of the seventh month in the second year of the fourth week.
And when Leah saw that she had become sterile and did not bear, she envied Rachel, and she also gave her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
And she conceived and bore a son, and Leah called his name Gad, on the twelfth of the eighth month in the third year of the fourth week.
And he went in again to her, and she conceived and bore him a second son, and Leah called his name Asher, on the second of the eleventh month in the fifth year of the fourth week.
And Jacob went in to Leah and she conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Issachar, on the fourth of the fifth month in the fourth year of the fourth week, and she gave him to a nurse.
And Jacob went in again to her, and she conceived and bore two children, a son and a daughter, and she called the name of the son Zebulon and the name of the daughter Dinah, on the seventh of the seventh month in the sixth year of the fourth week.
And YAHUAH was gracious to Rachel and opened her womb, and she conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Joseph, on the new moon of the fourth month in the sixth year of this fourth week.
Jacob's Wealth Multiplies and Laban Envies Him
And in the days when Joseph was born Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wives and my sons, and let me go to my father Isaac and let me make myself a house,
for I have completed the years in which I have served you for your two daughters, and I will go to the house of my father."
And Laban said to Jacob, "Stay with me for your wages and pasture my flock for me again and take your wages."
And they agreed with one another that he should receive as his wages the lambs and kids which were born black and spotted and white. These were to be his wages.
And all the sheep brought forth spotted and speckled and black, variously marked, and they brought forth again lambs like themselves, and all that were spotted were Jacob's, and those which were not were Laban's.
And Jacob's possessions multiplied exceedingly, and he possessed oxen and sheep and asses and camels and menservants and maidservants.
And Laban and his sons envied Jacob, and Laban took back his sheep from him and observed him with evil intent.
Chapter 29
☆Jacob's Return from Mesopotamia
Jacob Prepares to Flee Laban
And it came to pass when Rachel had borne Joseph that Laban went to shear his sheep, for they were distant from him three days' journey.
And Jacob saw that Laban was going to shear his sheep, and Jacob called Leah and Rachel and spoke kindly to them that they should come with him to the land of Canaan.
For he told them how he had seen everything in a dream, even all that He had spoken to him, that he should return to his father's house.
And they said, "To every place where you go, we will go with you."
And Jacob Baruk the ALUAH of Isaac his father and the ALUAH of Abraham his father's father, and he arose and mounted his wives and his children and took all his possessions and crossed the river and came to the land of Gilead.
And Jacob hid his intention from Laban and did not tell him. And in the seventh year of the fourth week Jacob turned his face toward Gilead in the first month on the twenty-first thereof.
Laban Pursues Jacob and Makes a Covenant
And Laban pursued after him and overtook Jacob in the mountain of Gilead in the third month on the thirteenth thereof.
And YAHUAH did not allow him to injure Jacob, for He appeared to him in a dream by night.
And Laban spoke to Jacob, and on the fifteenth of those days Jacob made a feast for Laban and for all who came with him.
And Jacob swore to Laban that day, and Laban also swore to Jacob, that neither should cross the mountain of Gilead to the other with evil purpose.
And he made there a heap for a witness. Therefore the name of that place is called The Heap of Witness after this heap.
The Land of the Rephaim
But before this they used to call the land of Gilead the land of the Rephaim, for it was the land of the Rephaim,
and the Rephaim were born there, giants whose height was ten, nine, eight, down to seven cubits.
And their habitation was from the land of the children of Ammon to Mount Hermon, and the seats of their kingdom were Karnaim and Ashtaroth and Edrei and Misur and Beon.
And YAHUAH destroyed them because of the evil of their deeds, for they were very malignant, and the Amorites dwelt in their stead, wicked and sinful,
and there is no people today which has done all their sins to the full, and they have no longer length of life on the earth.
Jacob Returns Toward Canaan
And Jacob sent away Laban, and he departed into Mesopotamia, the land of the East, and Jacob returned to the land of Gilead. And he crossed over the Jabbok in the ninth month on the eleventh thereof.
And on that day Esau his brother came to him, and he was reconciled to him, and departed from him to the land of Seir, but Jacob dwelt in tents.
And in the first year of the fifth week in this jubilee he crossed the Jordan and dwelt beyond the Jordan, and he pastured his sheep from the sea of the heap to Bethshan and to Dothan and to the forest of Akrabbim.
And he sent to his father Isaac of all his substance, clothing and food and meat and drink and milk and butter and cheese and some dates of the valley,
and to his mother Rebecca also four times a year, between the times of the months, between ploughing and reaping, and between autumn and the rain season and between winter and spring,
to the tower of Abraham. For Isaac had returned from the Well of the Oath and had gone up to the tower of his father Abraham, and he dwelt there apart from his son Esau.
For in the days when Jacob went to Mesopotamia, Esau took to himself a wife Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael,
and he gathered together all the flocks of his father and his wives and went up and dwelt on Mount Seir and left Isaac his father at the Well of the Oath alone.
And Isaac went up from the Well of the Oath and dwelt in the tower of Abraham his father on the mountains of Hebron.
And there Jacob sent all that he sent to his father and his mother from time to time, all that they needed, and they Baruk Jacob with all their heart and with all their soul.
Chapter 30
☆The Defilement of Dinah and the Judgment on Shechem
The Defilement of Dinah and the Judgment on Shechem
And in the first year of the sixth week he went up to Salem, to the east of Shechem, in peace, in the fourth month.
And there they carried off Dinah the daughter of Jacob into the house of Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, and he lay with her and defiled her,
and she was a little girl, a child of twelve years. And he besought his father and her brothers that she might be given to him for a wife.
And Jacob and his sons were wroth because of the men of Shechem, for they had defiled Dinah their sister, and they spoke to them with evil intent and dealt deceitfully with them and beguiled them.
And Simeon and Levi came unexpectedly to Shechem and executed judgment on all the men of Shechem and slew all the men whom they found in it and left not a single one remaining in it.
They slew all in torments because they had dishonored their sister Dinah.
And thus let it not again be done from henceforth that a daughter of Israel be defiled.
For judgment is ordained in the Shamayim against them, that they should destroy with the sword all the men of the Shechemites because they had wrought shame in Israel.
And YAHUAH delivered them into the hands of the sons of Jacob, that they might exterminate them with the sword and execute judgment upon them,
and that it might not again be done in Israel that a virgin of Israel should be defiled.
The Set-Apart Ordinance for Israel
And if there is any man who wishes in Israel to give his daughter or his sister to any man who is of the seed of the Gentiles he shall surely die, and they shall stone him with stones, for he has wrought shame in Israel.
And they shall burn the woman with fire because she has dishonored the name of the house of her father, and she shall be rooted out of Israel.
And let not an adulteress nor any uncleanness be found in Israel throughout all the days of the generations of the earth, for Israel is set apart unto YAHUAH.
And every man who has defiled it shall surely die, they shall stone him with stones.
For thus has it been ordained and written in the heavenly tables regarding all the seed of Israel: he who defiles it shall surely die and shall be stoned with stones.
And to this law there is no limit of days and no remission nor any atonement, but the man who has defiled his daughter shall be rooted out from the midst of all Israel, because he has given of his seed to Moloch and has wrought impiously so as to defile it.
And do you, Moses, command the children of Israel and exhort them not to give their daughters to the Gentiles and not to take for their sons any of the daughters of the Gentiles, for this is abominable before YAHUAH.
For this reason I have written for you in the words of the Law all the deeds of the Shechemites which they wrought against Dinah,
and how the sons of Jacob said, "We shall not give our daughter to a man who is uncircumcised,
for that were a reproach to us." And it is a reproach to Israel to those who give and to those who take the daughters of the Gentiles, for this is unclean and abominable to Israel. And Israel will not be free
from this uncleanness if it has a wife of the daughters of the Gentiles or has given any of its daughters to a man who is of the Gentiles, for there will be plague upon plague and curse upon curse, and every judgment and plague and curse will come upon him,
if he does this thing or hides his eyes from those who commit uncleanness or those who defile the sanctuary of YAHUAH or those who profane His set apart name. Then the whole nation together will be judged for all the uncleanness and profanation of this man.
And there will be no respect of persons and no receiving of gifts or fruits or burnt-offerings or fat nor the fragrance of sweet savor so as to accept it.
And so shall it fare with every man or woman in Israel who defiles the sanctuary.
For this reason I have commanded you, saying, "Testify this testimony to Israel. See how the Shechemites fared and their sons, how they were delivered into the hands of two sons of Jacob and they slew them under torments,
and it was reckoned to them for righteousness, and it is written down to them for righteousness. And the seed of Levi was chosen for the priesthood and to be Levites, that they might minister before YAHUAH as we continually,
and that Levi and his sons may be Baruk forever, for he was zealous to execute righteousness and judgment and vengeance on all those who arose against Israel.
And so they inscribe as a testimony in his favor on the heavenly tables blessing and righteousness before the ALUAH of all, and we remember the righteousness which the man fulfilled during his life. For all periods of the year until a thousand generations they will record it,
and it will come to him and to his descendants after him, and he has been recorded on the heavenly tables as a friend and a righteous man.
All this account I have written for you and have commanded you to say to the children of Israel that they should not commit sin nor transgress the ordinances nor break the covenant which has been ordained for them, but that they should fulfill it and be recorded as friends.
But if they transgress and work uncleanness in every way, they will be recorded on the heavenly tables as adversaries, and they will be destroyed out of the book of life and recorded in the book of those who will be destroyed and with those who will be rooted out of the earth.
And on the day when the sons of Jacob slew Shechem a writing was recorded in their favor in the Shamayim, that they had executed righteousness and uprightness and vengeance on the sinners, and it was written for a blessing.
And they brought Dinah their sister out of the house of Shechem,
and they took captive everything that was in Shechem, their sheep and their oxen and their asses and all their wealth and all their flocks, and brought them all to Jacob their father.
And he reproached them because they had put the city to the sword, for he feared those who dwelt in the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
And the dread of YAHUAH was upon all the cities around Shechem, and they did not rise to pursue after the sons of Jacob, for terror had fallen upon them.
Chapter 31
☆Jacob Visits Isaac and Isaac's Prophecy over Levi and Judah
Jacob Commands His Household to Purify Themselves
And on the new moon of the month Jacob spoke to all the people of his house, saying, "Purify yourselves and change your garments,
and let us arise and go up to Bethel where I vowed a vow to Him on the day when I fled from the face of Esau my brother, because He has been with me and brought me into this land in peace,
and put away the strange gods that are among you." And they gave up the strange gods and that which was in their ears and which was on their necks, and the idols which Rachel stole from Laban her brother
she gave wholly to Jacob, and he burned them and broke them to pieces and destroyed them and hid them under an oak which is in the land of Shechem.
And he went up on the new moon of the seventh month to Bethel, and he built an altar at the place where he had slept and he set up a pillar there,
and he sent word to his father Isaac to come to him to his sacrifice and to his mother Rebecca.
And Isaac said, "Let my son Jacob come, and let me see him before I die."
Jacob Visits Isaac and Rebecca
And Jacob went to his father Isaac and to his mother Rebecca, to the house of his father Abraham, and he took two of his sons with him, Levi and Judah, and he came to his father Isaac and to his mother Rebecca.
And Rebecca came forth from the tower to the front of it to kiss Jacob and embrace him, for her Ruach had revived when she heard, "Behold, Jacob your son has come,"
and she kissed him. And she saw his two sons and she recognized them and said to him, "Are these your sons, my son?"
And she embraced them and kissed them and Baruk them, saying, "In you shall the seed of Abraham become illustrious, and you will be a Barakah on the earth."
And Jacob went in to Isaac his father, to the chamber where he lay, and his two sons were with him,
and he took the hand of his father and stooping down he kissed him, and Isaac clung to the neck of Jacob his son and wept upon his neck.
And the darkness left the eyes of Isaac and he saw the two sons of Jacob, Levi and Judah, and he said, "Are these your sons, my son, for they are like you."
And he said to him that they were truly his sons, "And you have truly seen that they are truly my sons."
And they came near to him and he turned and kissed them and embraced them both together.
Isaac Prophesies over Levi and Judah
And the Ruach of prophecy came down into his mouth and he took Levi by his right hand and Judah by his left, and he turned to Levi first and Baruk him first,
and said to him, "May the ALUAH of all, the very YAHUAH of all the ages, Barak you and your children throughout all the ages.
And may YAHUAH give to you and to your seed greatness and great esteem and cause you and your seed from among all flesh to approach Him to serve in His sanctuary
as the messengers of the presence and as the set apart ones. Even as they, so will the seed of your sons be for esteem and greatness and holiness,
and may He make them great unto all the ages. And they will be princes and judges and chiefs of all the seed of the sons of Jacob.
They will speak the word of YAHUAH in righteousness and they will judge all His judgments in righteousness, and they will declare My ways to Jacob and My paths to Israel.
The Barakah of YAHUAH will be given in their mouths to Barak all the seed of the beloved.
Your mother has called your name Levi, and justly has she called your name. You will be joined to YAHUAH and be the companion of all the sons of Jacob.
Let His table be yours, and you and your sons will eat thereof, and may your table be full unto all generations, and your food fail not unto all the ages.
And let all who hate you fall down before you, and let all your adversaries be rooted out and perish.
And Baruk be he that Barak you, and cursed be every nation that curses you."
And to Judah he said, "May YAHUAH give you strength and power to tread down all that hate you.
A prince shall you be, you and one of your sons, over the sons of Jacob. May your name and the name of your sons go forth and traverse every land and region.
Then will the Gentiles fear before your face and all the nations will quake.
In you shall be the help of Jacob and in you shall be found the salvation of Israel.
And when you sit on the throne of the honor of your righteousness there will be great peace for all the seed of the sons of the beloved.
And Baruk will he be that Barak you, and all that hate you and afflict you and curse you will be rooted out and destroyed from the earth and accursed."
Jacob Departs and Remembers the Blessing
And turning he kissed him again and embraced him and rejoiced greatly, for he had seen the sons of Jacob his son in very truth.
And he went forth from between his feet and fell down and worshiped him. And he Baruk them. And Jacob rested there with Isaac his father that night and they ate and drank with joy.
And he made the two sons of Jacob sleep, the one on his right hand and the other on his left, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
And Jacob told his father everything during the night, how YAHUAH had shown him great mercy and how He had prospered him in all his ways and protected him from all evil.
And Isaac Baruk the ALUAH of his father Abraham who had not withdrawn His mercy and His righteousness from the sons of His servant Isaac.
And in the morning Jacob told his father Isaac the vow which he had vowed to YAHUAH and the vision which he had seen, and that he had built an altar and that everything was ready for the sacrifice to be made before YAHUAH as he had vowed, and that he had come to set him on an ass.
And Isaac said to Jacob his son, "I am not able to go with you, for I am old and not able to bear the way.
Go, my son, in peace, for I am one hundred and sixty-five years this day. I am no longer able to journey.
Set your mother on an ass and let her go with you. And I know, my son, that you have come on my account, and may this day be Baruk on which you have seen me alive, and I also have seen you, my son.
May you prosper and fulfill the vow which you have vowed and do not put off your vow, for you will be called to account for the vow you have vowed.
Now therefore make haste to perform it, and may He be pleased who has made all things, to whom you have vowed the vow."
And he said to Rebecca, "Go with Jacob your son." And Rebecca went with Jacob her son and Deborah with her, and they came to Bethel.
And Jacob remembered the prayer with which his father had Baruk him and his two sons, Levi and Judah, and he rejoiced and Baruk the ALUAH of his fathers, Abraham and Isaac, and he said,
"Now I know that I have an eternal hope and my sons also before the ALUAH of all." And thus is it ordained concerning the two, and they record it as an eternal testimony to them on the heavenly tablets how Isaac Baruk them.
Chapter 32
☆Levi's Ordination, Jacob's Tithe, and Jacob Becomes Israel
Levi Is Ordained in a Dream
And he abode that night at Bethel, and Levi dreamed that they had ordained and made him the priest of the Most High ALUAH, him and his sons forever.
And he awoke from his sleep and Baruk YAHUAH.
And Jacob rose early in the morning on the fourteenth of this month, and he gave a tithe of all that came with him, both of men and cattle, both of gold and every vessel and garment. Yes, he gave tithes of all.
And in those days Rachel became pregnant with her son Benjamin. And Jacob counted his sons from him upward, and Levi fell to the portion of YAHUAH,
and his father clothed him in the garments of the priesthood and filled his hands.
Jacob Fulfills His Vow with Seven Days of Offerings
And on the fifteenth of this month he brought to the altar fourteen oxen from among the cattle and twenty-eight rams and forty-nine sheep and seven lambs and twenty-one kids of the goats as a burnt offering on the altar of sacrifice, well pleasing for a sweet savor before ALUAH.
This was his offering in consequence of the vow which he had vowed, that he would give a tenth, with their fruit-offerings and their drink-offerings.
And when the fire had consumed it, he burned incense on the fire over the fire,
and for a thank-offering two oxen and four rams and four sheep, four he-goats, and two sheep of a year old, and two kids of the goats.
And thus he did daily for seven days. And he and all his sons and his men were eating this with joy there during seven days
and blessing and thanking YAHUAH, who had delivered him out of all his tribulation and had given him his vow.
And he tithed all the clean animals and made a burnt sacrifice, but the unclean animals he did not give to Levi his son, and he gave him all the souls of the men.
And Levi discharged the priestly office at Bethel before Jacob his father in preference to his ten brothers, and he was a priest there.
And Jacob gave his vow, and he tithed again the tithe to YAHUAH and sanctified it, and it became set apart to Him.
The Law of the Second Tithe
And for this reason it is ordained on the heavenly tables as a law for the tithing again the tithe, to eat before YAHUAH from year to year in the place where it is chosen that His name should dwell,
and to this law there is no limit of days forever. This ordinance is written so that it may be fulfilled from year to year in eating the second tithe before YAHUAH in the place where it has been chosen.
And nothing shall remain over from it from this year to the next. For in its year the seed shall be eaten until the days of the gathering of the seed of the year, and the wine until the days of the wine, and the oil until the days of its season.
And all that is left thereof and becomes old, let it be regarded as polluted. Let it be burned with fire, for it is unclean.
And thus let them eat it together in the sanctuary and let them not allow it to become old.
And all the tithes of the oxen and sheep shall be set apart to YAHUAH and shall belong to His priests, which they will eat before Him from year to year, for thus it is ordained and engraved regarding the tithe on the heavenly tables.
YAHUAH Appears and Changes Jacob's Name
And on the following night, on the twenty-second day of this month, Jacob resolved to build that place and to surround the court with a wall and to sanctify it and make it set apart forever for himself and his children after him.
And YAHUAH appeared to him by night and Baruk him and said to him, "Your name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name."
And He said to him again, "I am YAHUAH who created the Shamayim and the earth, and I shall increase you and multiply you exceedingly, and kings will come forth from you, and they will judge everywhere wherever the foot of the sons of men has trodden.
And I shall give to your seed all the earth which is under the Shamayim, and they will judge all the nations according to their desires, and after that they will get possession of the whole earth and inherit it forever."
And He finished speaking with him and went up from him, and Jacob looked until He had ascended into the Shamayim.
And he saw in a vision of the night, and behold, a messenger descended from the Shamayim with seven tablets in his hands, and he gave them to Jacob, and he read them and knew all that was written in them that would befall him and his sons throughout all the ages.
And he showed him all that was written on the tablets and said to him, "Do not build this place and do not make it an eternal sanctuary and do not dwell here, for this is not the place.
Go to the house of Abraham your father and dwell with Isaac your father until the day of the death of your father.
For in Egypt you will die in peace, and in this land you will be buried with honor in the sepulcher of your fathers, with Abraham and Isaac.
Fear not, for as you have seen and read it, thus will it all be, and write down everything as you have seen and read."
And Jacob said, "YAHUAH, how can I remember all that I have read and seen?" And he said to him, "I will bring all things to your remembrance." And he went up from him,
and he awoke from his sleep and remembered everything which he had read and seen, and he wrote down all the words which he had read and seen.
The Feast of Addition, Deborah's Death, and Rachel's Death
And he celebrated there yet another day and sacrificed on it according to all that he sacrificed on the former days and called its name Addition,
for this day was added, and the former days he called The Feast. And thus it was manifested that it should be, and it is written on the heavenly tables.
Therefore it was revealed to him that he should celebrate it and add it to the seven days of the feast, and its name was called Addition because it was recorded among the days of the feast days according to the number of the days of the year.
And in the night on the twenty-third of this month, Deborah Rebecca's nurse died, and they buried her beneath the city under the oak of the river, and he called the name of this place The River of Deborah and the oak The Oak of the Mourning of Deborah.
And Rebecca went and returned to her house to his father Isaac, and Jacob sent by her hand rams and sheep and he-goats that she should prepare a meal for his father such as he desired.
And he went after his mother until he came to the land of Kabratan, and he dwelt there.
And Rachel bore a son in the night and called his name "Son of my sorrow," for she suffered in giving him birth, but his father called his name Benjamin, on the eleventh of the eighth month in the first of the sixth week of this jubilee.
And Rachel died there, and she was buried in the land of Ephrath, the same is Bethlehem,
and Jacob built a pillar on the grave of Rachel on the road above her grave.
Chapter 33
☆Reuben's Sin and the Law Against Uncovering the Father's Skirt
Reuben's Sin and the Law Against Uncovering the Father's Skirt
And Jacob went and dwelt to the south of Magdaladra'ef.
And he went to his father Isaac, he and Leah his wife, on the new moon of the tenth month.
And Reuben saw Bilhah, Rachel's maid, the concubine of his father, bathing in water in a secret place, and he loved her. And he hid himself at night and entered the house of Bilhah at night and found her sleeping alone on a bed in her house.
And he lay with her, and she awoke and saw, and behold, Reuben was lying with her in the bed, and she uncovered the border of her covering and seized him and cried out.
And she discovered that it was Reuben. And she was ashamed because of him and released her hand from him, and he fled. And she lamented exceedingly because of this thing and did not tell it to anyone.
And when Jacob returned and sought her, she said to him, "I am not clean for you, for I have been defiled as regards you, for Reuben has defiled me and has lain with me in the night, and I was asleep and did not discover until he uncovered my skirt and slept with me." And Jacob was exceedingly wroth with Reuben because he had lain with Bilhah and uncovered his father's skirt.
And Jacob did not approach her again because Reuben had defiled her. And as for any man who uncovers his father's skirt,
his deed is exceedingly wicked, for he is abominable before YAHUAH.
For this reason it is written and ordained on the heavenly tables that a man should not lie with his father's wife and should not uncover his father's skirt, for this is unclean.
They shall surely die together, the man who lies with his father's wife and the woman also, for they have wrought uncleanness on the earth.
And there shall be nothing unclean before our ALUAH in the nation which He has chosen for Himself as a possession.
And again it is written a second time, "Cursed be he who lies with the wife of his father, for he has uncovered his father's shame," and all the set apart ones of YAHUAH said, "So be it, so be it."
And do you, Moses, command the children of Israel that they observe this word, for it entails a punishment of death and it is unclean, and there is no atonement forever to atone for the man who has committed this. He is to be put to death and slain and stoned with stones and rooted out from the midst of the people of our ALUAH.
For no man who does this in Israel is permitted to remain alive a single day on the earth, for he is abominable and unclean.
And let them not say, "To Reuben was granted life and forgiveness after he had lain with his father's concubine, and to her also though she had a husband, and her husband Jacob his father was still alive."
For until that time there had not been revealed the ordinance and judgment and law in its completeness for all.
But in your days it has been revealed as a law of seasons and days and an everlasting law for everlasting generations.
And for this law there is no consummation of days and no atonement for it, but they must both be rooted out from the midst of the nation. On the day they committed it they shall slay them.
And do you, Moses, write it down for Israel that they may observe it and do according to these words and not commit a sin unto death, for YAHUAH our ALUAH is judge, who respects not persons and accepts no gifts.
And tell them these words of the covenant that they may hear and observe and be on their guard with respect to them and not be destroyed and rooted out of the land.
For all who commit it on the earth before our ALUAH are an uncleanness and an abomination and a contamination and a pollution.
And there is no greater sin than the fornication which they commit on earth, for Israel is a set apart nation unto YAHUAH its ALUAH, and a nation of inheritance and a priestly and royal nation and His possession.
And no such uncleanness shall appear in the midst of the set apart nation.
Jacob's Family Gathers Near Isaac and Rebecca
And in the third year of this sixth week Jacob and all his sons went and dwelt in the house of Abraham near Isaac his father and Rebecca his mother.
And these were the names of the sons of Jacob: the firstborn Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon, the sons of Leah,
and the sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin,
and the sons of Bilhah, Dan and Naphtali, and the sons of Zilpah, Gad and Asher, and Dinah the daughter of Leah, the only daughter of Jacob.
And they came and bowed themselves to Isaac and Rebecca, and when they saw them they Baruk Jacob and all his sons.
And Isaac rejoiced exceedingly, for he saw the sons of Jacob his younger son, and he Baruk them.
Chapter 34
☆The Amorite Kings, Joseph Sold, and the Day of Atonement
The Amorite Kings Attack Jacob's Sons
And in the sixth year of this week of this forty-fourth jubilee Jacob sent his sons to pasture their sheep, and his servants with them, to the pastures of Shechem.
And the seven kings of the Amorites assembled themselves together against them to slay them, hiding themselves under the trees, and to take their cattle as prey.
And Jacob and Levi and Judah and Joseph were in the house with Isaac their father, for his Ruach was sorrowful, and they could not leave him, and Benjamin was the youngest, and for this reason remained with his father.
And there came the kings of Taphu and the kings of Aresa and the kings of Seragan and the kings of Selo and the kings of Gaas and the king of Bethoron and the king of Ma'anisakir, and all those who dwell in these mountains and who dwell in the woods in the land of Canaan.
And they announced this to Jacob, saying, "Behold, the kings of the Amorites have surrounded your sons and plundered their herds."
And he arose from his house, he and his three sons and all the servants of his father, and his own servants, and he went against them with six thousand men who carried swords.
And he slew them in the pastures of Shechem and pursued those who fled, and he slew them with the edge of the sword, and he slew Aresa and Taphu and Saregan and Selo and Amanisakir and Gaagas,
and he recovered his herds. And he prevailed over them and imposed tribute on them that they should pay him tribute, five fruit products of their land,
and he built Robel and Tamnatares.
And he returned in peace and made peace with them, and they became his servants until the day that he and his sons went down into Egypt.
Joseph Sold into Egypt
And in the seventh year of this week he sent Joseph to learn about the welfare of his brothers from his house to the land of Shechem,
and he found them in the land of Dothan. And they dealt treacherously with him and formed a plot against him to slay him,
but changing their minds they sold him to Ishmaelite merchants,
and they brought him down into Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, the eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief of the cooks, priest of the city of Elew.
And the sons of Jacob slaughtered a kid and dipped the coat of Joseph in the blood and sent it to Jacob their father on the tenth of the seventh month.
And he mourned all that night, for they had brought it to him in the evening, and he became feverish with mourning for his death, and he said, "An evil beast has devoured Joseph."
And all the members of his house mourned with him that day, and they were grieving and mourning with him all that day.
And his sons and his daughter rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted for his son.
And on that day Bilhah heard that Joseph had perished and she died mourning him, and she had been living in Qafratef,
and Dinah also his daughter died after Joseph had perished. And there came these three mournings upon Israel in one month.
And they buried Bilhah over against the tomb of Rachel, and Dinah also his daughter they buried there.
And he mourned for Joseph one year and did not cease, for he said, "Let me go down to the grave mourning for my son."
The Ordinance of the Tenth Day of the Seventh Month and the Marriages of Jacob's Sons
For this reason it is ordained for the children of Israel that they should afflict themselves on the tenth of the seventh month, on the day that the news which made him weep for Joseph came to Jacob his father,
that they should make atonement for themselves thereon with a young goat on the tenth of the seventh month once a year for their sins, for they had grieved the affection of their father regarding Joseph his son.
And this day has been ordained that they should grieve thereon for their sins and for all their transgressions and for all their errors so that they might cleanse themselves on that day once a year.
And after Joseph perished, the sons of Jacob took to themselves wives.
The name of Reuben's wife is Ada, and the name of Simeon's wife is Adiba'a, a Canaanite,
and the name of Levi's wife is Melka of the daughters of Aram, of the seed of the sons of Terah, and the name of Judah's wife is Betasuel, a Canaanite,
and the name of Issachar's wife is Hezaqa, and the name of Zebulon's wife is Ni'iman, and the name of Dan's wife is Egla,
and the name of Naphtali's wife is Rasu'u of Mesopotamia,
and the name of Gad's wife is Maka, and the name of Asher's wife is Ijona,
and the name of Joseph's wife is Asenath the Egyptian, and the name of Benjamin's wife is Ijasaka.
And Simeon repented and took a second wife from Mesopotamia as his brothers.
Chapter 35
☆Rebecca's Last Instructions and Death
Rebecca's Last Instructions to Jacob
And in the first year of the first week of the forty-fifth jubilee Rebecca called Jacob her son and commanded him regarding his father and regarding his brother, that he should honor them all the days of his life.
And Jacob said, "I will do everything as you have commanded me, for this thing will be honor and greatness to me, and righteousness before YAHUAH, that I should honor them.
And you also, mother, know from the time I was born until this day all my deeds and all that is in my heart, that I always think good concerning all.
And how should I not do this thing which you have commanded me, that I should honor my father and my brother? Tell me, mother, what perversity you have seen in me, and I shall turn away from it, and mercy will be upon me."
And she said to him, "My son, I have not seen in you all my days any perverse but only upright deeds. And yet I shall tell you the truth, my son. I shall die this year,
and I shall not survive this year in my life, for I have seen in a dream the day of my death, that I should not live beyond one hundred and fifty-five years, and behold, I have completed all the days of my life which I am to live."
And Jacob laughed at the words of his mother because she had said to him that she should die, and she was sitting opposite him in the fullness of her strength and was not infirm in her strength,
for she went in and out and saw, and her teeth were strong, and no ailment had touched her all the days of her life.
And Jacob said to her, "Barak am I, mother, if my days approach the days of your life and my strength remains with me as your strength. And you will not die, for you are jesting idly with me regarding your death."
And she went in to Isaac and said to him, "One petition I make to you: make Esau swear that he will not injure Jacob nor pursue him with enmity,
for you know Esau's thoughts, that they are perverse from his youth, and there is no goodness in him, for he desires after your death to kill him.
And you know all that he has done since the day Jacob his brother went to Haran until this day,
how he has forsaken us with his whole heart and has done evil to us. Your flocks he has taken to himself and carried off all your possessions from before your face.
And when we implored and besought him for what was our own, he did as a man taking pity on us.
And he is bitter against you because you Baruk Jacob your perfect and upright son, for there is no evil but only goodness in him,
and since he came from Haran until this day he has not robbed us of anything, for he brings us everything in its season always,
and rejoices with all his heart when we take at his hands, and he blesses us, and he has not parted from us since he came from Haran until this day,
and he remains with us continually at home, honoring us."
Isaac's Prophecy about Esau and Jacob
And Isaac said to her, "I also know and see the deeds of Jacob who is with us, how with all his heart he honors us.
But I loved Esau formerly more than Jacob because he was the firstborn, but now I love Jacob more than Esau, for Esau has done manifold evil deeds and there is no righteousness in him,
for all his ways are unrighteousness and violence, and there is no righteousness around him.
And now my heart is troubled because of all his deeds, and neither he nor his seed is to be saved, for they are those who will be destroyed from the earth and rooted out from under the Shamayim,
for he has forsaken the ALUAH of Abraham and gone after his wives and after their uncleanness and after their error, he and his children.
And you ask me to make him swear that he will not slay Jacob his brother. Even if he swear, he will not abide by his oath, and he will not do good but evil only.
But if he desires to slay Jacob his brother, into Jacob's hands will he be given, and he will not escape from his hands.
And do not fear for Jacob, for the guardian of Jacob is great and powerful and honored and praised more than the guardian of Esau."
And Rebecca sent and called Esau, and he came to her, and she said to him, "I have a petition, my son, to make to you, and do you promise to do it, my son."
And he said, "I will do everything that you say to me and I will not refuse your petition."
And she said to him, "I ask you that on the day I die you will take me in and bury me near Sarah your father's mother,
and that you and Jacob will love each other and that neither will desire evil against the other but mutual love only,
and thus you will prosper, my sons, and be honored in the midst of the land, and no enemy will rejoice over you, and you will be a Barakah and a mercy in the eyes of all who love you."
And he said, "I will do all that you have told me, and I shall bury you on the day you die near Sarah my father's mother, as you have desired, that her bones may be near your bones.
And Jacob my brother also I shall love above all flesh, for I have no brother in all the earth but him only,
and it is no great merit for me if I love him, for he is my brother, and we were sown together in your body, and together came forth from your womb.
And if I do not love my brother, whom shall I love? And I ask you also to exhort Jacob concerning me and concerning my sons, for I know that he will surely be king over me and my sons,
for on the day my father Baruk him he made him the higher and me the lower.
And I swear to you that I shall love him and not desire evil against him all the days of my life but good only."
And he swore to her regarding all this matter.
Rebecca's Death and the Brothers' Oath
And she called Jacob before the eyes of Esau and gave him commandment according to the words which she had spoken to Esau.
And he said, "I shall do your pleasure. Believe me that no evil will proceed from me or from my sons against Esau, and I shall be first in nothing except in love only."
And they ate and drank, she and her sons that night, and she died, three jubilees and one week and one year old, on that night,
and her two sons Esau and Jacob buried her in the double cave near Sarah their father's mother.
Chapter 36
☆Isaac's Final Commands, Death, and Leah's Death
Isaac's Final Commands to Esau and Jacob
And in the sixth year of this week Isaac called his two sons, Esau and Jacob, and they came to him, and he said to them, "My sons, I am going the way of my fathers, to the eternal house where my fathers are.
Therefore bury me near Abraham my father, in the double cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, where Abraham purchased a sepulcher to bury in. In the sepulcher which I dug for myself, there bury me.
And this I command you, my sons, that you practice righteousness and uprightness on the earth so that YAHUAH may bring upon you all that YAHUAH said He would do to Abraham and to his seed.
And love one another, my sons, your brothers, as a man loves his own soul, and let each seek in what he may benefit his brother, and act together on the earth, and let them love each other as their own souls.
And concerning the question of idols, I command and admonish you to reject them and hate them and love them not, for they are full of deception for those that worship them and for those that bow down to them.
Remember, my sons, YAHUAH ALUAH of Abraham your father, and how I also worshiped Him and served Him in righteousness and in joy,
that He might multiply you and increase your seed as the stars of the Shamayim in multitude, and establish you on the earth as the plant of righteousness which will not be rooted out unto all the generations forever.
And now I shall make you swear a great oath, for there is no oath which is greater than it, by the name glorious and honored and great and splendid and wonderful and mighty, which created the Shamayim and the earth and all things together,
that you will fear Him and worship Him, and that each will love his brother with affection and righteousness, and that neither will desire evil against his brother from henceforth forever, all the days of your life, so that you may prosper in all your deeds and not be destroyed.
And if either of you devises evil against his brother, know that from henceforth everyone that devises evil against his brother will fall into his hand and will be rooted out of the land of the living, and his seed will be destroyed from under the Shamayim.
But on the day of turbulence and execration and indignation and anger, with flaming devouring fire as He burnt Sodom, so likewise will He burn his land and his city and all that is his,
and he will be blotted out of the book of the discipline of the children of men and not be recorded in the book of life,
but in that which is appointed to destruction, and he will depart into eternal execration, so that their condemnation may be always renewed in hate and in execration and in wrath and in torment and in indignation and in plagues and in disease forever.
I say and testify to you, my sons, according to the judgment which will come upon the man who wishes to injure his brother."
And he divided all his possessions between the two on that day, and he gave the larger portion to him that was the firstborn, and the tower and all that was about it, and all that Abraham possessed at the Well of the Oath.
And he said, "This larger portion I shall give to the firstborn." And Esau said, "I have sold to Jacob and given my birthright to Jacob. To him let it be given, and I have not a single word to say regarding it, for it is his."
And Isaac said, "May a blessing rest upon you, my sons, and upon your seed this day, for you have given me rest, and my heart is not pained concerning the birthright, lest you should work wickedness on account of it.
May the Most High ALUAH Barak the man that works righteousness, him and his seed forever."
And he ended commanding them and Blessing them, and they ate and drank together before him, and he rejoiced because there was one mind between them, and they went forth from him and rested that day and slept.
Isaac's Death and Burial
And Isaac slept on his bed that day rejoicing, and he slept the eternal sleep, and died one hundred and eighty years old. He completed twenty-five weeks and five years.
And his two sons Esau and Jacob buried him. And Esau went to the land of Edom, to the mountains of Seir, and dwelt there.
And Jacob dwelt in the mountains of Hebron, in the tower of the land of the sojournings of his father Abraham, and he worshiped YAHUAH with all his heart and according to the visible commands, according as He had divided the days of his generations.
Leah's Death and Jacob's Mourning
And Leah his wife died in the fourth year of the second week of the forty-fifth jubilee, and he buried her in the double cave near Rebecca his mother, to the left of the grave of Sarah his father's mother.
And all her sons and his sons came to mourn over Leah his wife with him and to comfort him regarding her, for he was lamenting her, for he loved her exceedingly after Rachel her sister died,
for she was perfect and upright in all her ways and honored Jacob, and all the days that she lived with him he did not hear from her mouth a harsh word, for she was gentle and peaceable and upright and honorable.
And he remembered all her deeds which she had done during her life, and he lamented her exceedingly, for he loved her with all his heart and with all his soul.
Chapter 37
☆The Sons of Esau Prepare for War Against Jacob
The Sons of Esau Prepare for War Against Jacob
And on the day that Isaac the father of Jacob and Esau died, the sons of Esau heard that Isaac had given the portion of the elder to his younger son Jacob, and they were very angry.
And they strove with their father, saying, "Why has your father given Jacob the portion of the elder and passed over you, although you are the elder and Jacob the younger?"
And he said to them, "Because I sold my birthright to Jacob for a small mess of lentils,
and on the day my father sent me to hunt and catch and bring him something that he should eat and Barak me, he came with guile and brought my father food and drink, and my father Barak him and put me under his hand.
And now our father has caused us to swear, me and him, that we shall not mutually devise evil, either against his brother, and that we shall continue in love and in peace each with his brother and not make our ways corrupt."
And they said to him, "We will not listen to you to make peace with him, for our strength is greater than his strength and we are more powerful than he.
We shall go against him and slay him and destroy him and his sons. And if you will not go with us, we shall hurt you also.
And now listen to us. Let us send to Aram and Philistia and Moab and Ammon and let us choose for ourselves chosen men who are ardent for battle, and let us go against him and do battle with him and exterminate him from the earth before he grows strong."
And their father said to them, "Do not go and do not make war with him lest you fall before him."
And they said to him, "This too is exactly your mode of action from your youth until this day, and you are putting your neck under his yoke. We will not listen to these words."
And they sent to Aram and to Aduram the friend of their father, and they hired along with them one thousand fighting men, chosen men of war.
And there came to them from Moab and from the children of Ammon those who were hired, one thousand chosen men, and from Philistia one thousand chosen men of war, and from Edom and from the Horites one thousand chosen fighting men, and from the Kittim mighty men of war.
And they said to their father, "Go forth with them and lead them, else we shall slay you." And he was filled with wrath and indignation on seeing that his sons were forcing him to go before them to lead them against Jacob his brother.
But afterward he remembered all the evil which lay hidden in his heart against Jacob his brother, and he remembered not the oath which he had sworn to his father and to his mother that he would devise no evil all his days against Jacob his brother.
Jacob Learns of Esau's Approach
And notwithstanding all this Jacob did not know that they were coming against him to battle, and he was mourning for Leah his wife, until they approached very near to the tower with four thousand warriors and chosen men of war.
And the men of Hebron sent to him, saying, "Behold, your brother has come against you to fight you with four thousand men girded with the sword, and they carry shields and weapons,"
for they loved Jacob more than Esau. So they told him, for Jacob was a more liberal and merciful man than Esau.
But Jacob would not believe until they came very near to the tower.
And he closed the gates of the tower, and he stood on the battlements and spoke to his brother Esau and said, "Noble is the comfort with which you have come to comfort me for my wife who has died.
Is this the oath that you swore to your father and again to your mother before they died? You have broken the oath, and on the moment you swore to your father you were condemned."
Esau Rejects Brotherhood with Jacob
And Esau answered and said to him, "Neither the children of men nor the beasts of the earth have any oath of righteousness which, in swearing, they have sworn as an oath valid forever, but every day they devise evil one against another, and how each may slay his adversary and foe.
And you hate me and my children forever, and there is no observing the tie of brotherhood with you.
Hear these words which I declare to you. If the boar can change its skin and make its bristles as soft as wool, or if it can cause horns to sprout forth on its head like the horns of a stag or of a sheep, then shall I observe the tie of brotherhood with you.
And if the wolves make peace with the lambs so as not to devour or do them violence, and if their hearts are toward them for good, then there will be peace in my heart toward you.
And if the lion becomes the friend of the ox and makes peace with him and is bound under one yoke with him and plows with him, then shall I make peace with you.
And when the raven becomes white as the raza, then know that I have loved you and shall make peace with you.
You shall be rooted out, and your sons shall be rooted out, and there shall be no peace for you."
And when Jacob saw that he was so evilly disposed toward him with all his heart and with all his soul as to slay him, and that he had come springing like a wild boar which comes upon the spear that pierces and kills it and recoils not from it,
then he spoke to his own and to his servants that they should attack him and all his companions.
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☆The Battle at Aduram: Jacob Kills Esau
The Battle at Aduram: Jacob Kills Esau
And after that Judah spoke to Jacob his father and said to him, "Bend your bow, father, and send forth your arrows and cast down the adversary and slay the enemy.
And may you have the power, for we shall not slay your brother, for he is such as you and he is like you. Let us give him this honor."
Then Jacob bent his bow and sent forth the arrow and struck Esau his brother on his right breast and slew him.
And again he sent forth an arrow and struck Adoran the Aramean on the left breast and drove him backward and slew him.
And then went forth the sons of Jacob, they and their servants, dividing themselves into companies on the four sides of the tower.
And Judah went forth in front, and Naphtali and Gad with him and fifty servants with him on the south side of the tower, and they slew all they found before them and not one individual of them escaped.
And Levi and Dan and Asher went forth on the east side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slew the fighting men of Moab and Ammon.
And Reuben and Issachar and Zebulon went forth on the north side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slew the fighting men of the Philistines.
And Simeon and Benjamin and Enoch, Reuben's son, went forth on the west side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slew of Edom and of the Horites four hundred men, stout warriors, and six hundred fled,
and four of the sons of Esau fled with them and left their father lying slain as he had fallen on the hill which is in Aduram.
And the sons of Jacob pursued after them to the mountains of Seir. And Jacob buried his brother on the hill which is in Aduram, and he returned to his house.
The Subjugation of Edom
And the sons of Jacob pressed hard upon the sons of Esau in the mountains of Seir and bowed their necks so that they became servants of the sons of Jacob.
And they sent to their father to inquire whether they should make peace with them or slay them. And Jacob sent word to his sons that they should make peace,
and they made peace with them and placed the yoke of servitude upon them so that they paid tribute to Jacob and to his sons always.
And they continued to pay tribute to Jacob until the day that he went down into Egypt. And the sons of Edom have not gotten free from the yoke of servitude which the twelve sons of Jacob imposed upon them until this day.
The Kings Who Reigned in Edom Before Any King Reigned in Israel
And these are the kings that reigned in Edom before there reigned any king over the children of Israel in the land of Edom.
And Balaq the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Danaba.
And Balaq died, and Jobab the son of Zara of Boser reigned in his stead.
And Jobab died, and Asam of the land of Teman reigned in his stead. And Asam died, and Adath the son of Barad, who slew Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead, and the name of his city was Avith.
And Adath died, and Salman from Amaseqah reigned in his stead.
And Salman died, and Saul of Raaboth by the river reigned in his stead.
And Saul died, and Baelunan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
And Baelunan the son of Achbor died, and Adath reigned in his stead, and the name of his wife was Maitabith, the daughter of Matarat, the daughter of Metabedzaab.
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom.
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☆Joseph in Potiphar's House and Prison
Joseph in Potiphar's House
And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings in the land of Canaan.
These are the generations of Jacob. And Joseph was seventeen years old when they took him down into the land of Egypt, and Potiphar, an eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief cook, bought him. And he set Joseph over all his house, and the Barakah of YAHUAH came upon the house of the Egyptian on account of Joseph, and YAHUAH prospered him in all that he did.
And the Egyptian committed everything into the hands of Joseph, for he saw that YAHUAH was with him and that YAHUAH prospered him in all that he did. And Joseph's appearance was comely, and very beautiful was his appearance.
Joseph Resists Potiphar's Wife
And his master's wife lifted up her eyes and saw Joseph, and she loved him and besought him to lie with her.
But he did not surrender his soul and he remembered YAHUAH and the words which Jacob his father used to read from amongst the words of Abraham,
that no man should commit fornication with a woman who has a husband, for for him the punishment of death has been ordained in the heavens before the Most High ALUAH,
and the sin will be recorded against him in the eternal books continually before YAHUAH. And Joseph remembered these words and refused to lie with her.
And she besought him for a year, but he refused and would not listen. But she embraced him and held him fast in the house in order to force him to lie with her, and closed the doors of the house
and held him fast, but he left his garment in her hands and broke through the door and fled from her presence.
And the woman saw that he would not lie with her, and she calumniated him in the presence of her lord, saying,
"Your Hebrew servant, whom you love, sought to force me so that he might lie with me, and it came to pass when I lifted up my voice that he fled and left his garment in my hands when I held him, and he broke through the door."
Joseph Imprisoned but Shown Favor
And the Egyptian saw the garment of Joseph and the broken door and heard the words of his wife, and cast Joseph into prison, into the place where the prisoners were kept whom the king imprisoned. And he was there in the prison,
and YAHUAH gave Joseph favor in the sight of the chief of the prison guards and compassion before him, for he saw that YAHUAH was with him and that YAHUAH made all that he did to prosper.
And he committed all things into his hands, and the chief of the prison guards knew nothing that was with him, for Joseph did everything, and YAHUAH perfected it. And he remained there two years.
The Dreams of the Butler and the Baker
And in those days Pharaoh king of Egypt was wroth against his two eunuchs, against the chief butler and against the chief baker,
and he put them in ward in the house of the chief cook, in the prison where Joseph was kept.
And the chief of the prison guards appointed Joseph to serve them, and he served before them.
And they both dreamed a dream, the chief butler and the chief baker, and they told it to Joseph, and as he interpreted to them so it befell them,
and Pharaoh restored the chief butler to his office, and the chief baker he slew, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
But the chief butler forgot Joseph in the prison, although Joseph had informed him what would befall him, and he did not remember to inform Pharaoh, for he forgot.
Chapter 40
☆Pharaoh's Dreams and Joseph Made Ruler over Egypt
Pharaoh's Dreams and Joseph's Interpretation
And in those days Pharaoh dreamed two dreams in one night concerning a famine which was to be in all the land.
And he awoke from his sleep and called all the interpreters of dreams that were in Egypt, and magicians, and told them his two dreams, and they were not able to declare them.
And then the chief butler remembered Joseph and spoke of him to the king,
and Pharaoh brought him forth from the prison, and he told his two dreams before him.
And he said before Pharaoh that his two dreams were one,
and he said to him, "Seven years will come in which there will be plenty over all the land of Egypt, and after that seven years of famine, such a famine as has not been in all the land.
And now let Pharaoh appoint overseers in all the land of Egypt and let them store up food in every city throughout the days of the years of plenty, and there will be food for the seven years of famine, and the land will not perish through the famine, for it will be very severe."
Joseph Is Made Ruler over Egypt
And YAHUAH gave Joseph favor and mercy in the eyes of Pharaoh, and Pharaoh said to his servants, "We shall not find such a wise and discreet man as this man, for the Ruach of YAHUAH is with him."
And he appointed him the second in all his kingdom and gave him authority over all Egypt,
and caused him to ride in the second chariot of Pharaoh. And he clothed him with byssus garments, and he put a gold chain upon his neck, and a herald proclaimed before him, "El El wa Abirer."
And he placed a ring on his hand and made him ruler over all his house and magnified him, and said to him, "Only on the throne shall I be greater than you."
And Joseph ruled over all the land of Egypt, and all the princes of Pharaoh and all his servants and all who did the king's business loved him,
for he walked in uprightness, for he was without pride and arrogance, and he had no respect of persons and did not accept gifts, but judged in uprightness all the people of the land.
And the land of Egypt was at peace before Pharaoh because of Joseph, for YAHUAH was with him and gave him favor and mercy for all his generations before all those who knew him and those who heard concerning him,
and Pharaoh's kingdom was well ordered, and there was no Satan and no evil person therein.
And the king called Joseph's name Sephantiphans and gave Joseph to wife the daughter of Potiphar, the daughter of the priest of Heliopolis, the chief cook.
And on the day that Joseph stood before Pharaoh he was thirty years old, and in that year Isaac died.
The Years of Plenty Begin
And it came to pass as Joseph had said in the interpretation of his two dreams, according as he had said it, there were seven years of plenty over all the land of Egypt, and the land of Egypt produced abundantly, one measure producing eighteen hundred measures.
And Joseph gathered food into every city until they were full of grain until they could no longer count and measure it for its multitude.
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☆Judah and Tamar
Er and Onan Slain; Tamar Promised to Shelah
And in the forty-fifth jubilee, in the second week and in the second year, Judah took for his firstborn Er a wife from the daughters of Aram, named Tamar.
But he hated her and did not lie with her, because his mother was of the daughters of Canaan, and he wished to take for him a wife of the kinsfolk of his mother, but Judah his father would not permit him.
And this Er the firstborn of Judah was wicked, and YAHUAH slew him.
And Judah said to Onan his brother, "Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her and raise up seed to your brother."
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 spilled the seed on the ground,
and he was wicked in the eyes of YAHUAH, and He slew him.
And Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain in your father's house as a widow till Shelah my son be grown, and I shall give you to him for a wife."
And he grew up, but Bedsu'el the wife of Judah did not permit her son Shelah to marry.
And Bedsu'el the wife of Judah died in the fifth year of this week. And in the sixth year Judah went up to shear his sheep at Timnah. And they told Tamar, "Behold your father-in-law goes up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
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.
And as Judah was going along he found her and thought her to be a harlot, and he said to her, "Let me come in to you."
And she said to him, "Come in," and he went in. And she said to him, "Give me my hire." And he said, "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."
And she said to him, "Give them to me until you send me my hire." And he said to her, "I will send to you a kid of the goats." And he gave them to her,
and he went in to her, and she conceived by him. And Judah went to his sheep, and she went to her father's house.
Tamar's Proof; Judah's Humbling; the Birth of Perez and Zerah
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 to him, "There is no harlot here with us."
And he returned and informed Judah and said to him that he had not found her. "I asked the people of the place, and they said to me, 'There is no harlot here.'"
And he said, "Let her keep them lest we become a cause of derision."
And when she had completed three months it was manifest that she was with child, and they told Judah, saying, "Behold Tamar your daughter-in-law is with child by whoredom."
And Judah went to the house of her father and said to her father and her brothers, "Bring her forth and let them burn her, for she has wrought uncleanness in Israel."
And it came to pass when they brought her forth to burn her that she sent to her father-in-law the ring and the necklace and the staff, saying, "Discern whose these are, for by him am I with child."
And Judah acknowledged and said, "Tamar is more righteous than I am, therefore let them not burn her." And for that reason she was not given to Shelah, and Judah did not again approach her.
And after that she bore two sons, Perez and Zerah, in the seventh year of this second week. And thereupon the seven years of fruitfulness were accomplished of which Joseph spoke to Pharaoh.
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 YAHUAH because of his transgression. And we told him in a dream that it was forgiven him because he supplicated earnestly and lamented and did not again commit it.
And he received forgiveness because he turned from his sin and from his ignorance, for he had transgressed greatly before our ALUAH.
The Law against Defilement with a Daughter-in-Law or Mother-in-Law
And everyone that acts thus, everyone who lies with his mother-in-law, let them burn him with fire that he may burn therein,
for there is uncleanness and pollution upon them. With fire let them burn them.
And you command the children of Israel that there be no uncleanness among them, for everyone who lies with his daughter-in-law or with his mother-in-law has wrought uncleanness.
With fire let them burn the man who has lain with her, and likewise the woman, and He will turn away wrath and punishment from Israel.
And to 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.
For in singleness of eye he had gone and sought for punishment, namely according to the judgment of Abraham which he had commanded his sons, Judah had sought to burn her with fire.
Chapter 42
☆The Famine and Joseph's Brothers Come to Egypt
The Famine Begins and Joseph Tests His Brothers
And in the first year of the third week of 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, 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.
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.
Now the famine was very sore in the land of Canaan, and Jacob heard that there 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. And Joseph recognized them, but they did not recognize him,
and he spoke to them and questioned them, and said to them, "Are you not spies and have you not come to explore the approaches of the land?"
And he put them in ward. And after that he set them free again and detained Simeon alone and sent off his nine brothers.
And he filled their sacks with grain, and he put their gold in their sacks, and they did not know.
And he commanded them to bring their younger brother, for they had told him their father was living and that they had a younger brother.
And they went up from the land of Egypt and 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.
And Jacob said, "Me have you bereaved of my children. Joseph is not and Simeon also is not, and you will take Benjamin away. On me has your wickedness come."
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 has perished, and this one also you will take from me. If perchance he took a fever on the road, you would bring down my old age with sorrow to death."
For he saw that their money had been returned to every man in his sack, and for this reason he feared to send him.
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 and putting it in storehouses and preserving it for the years of famine.
And the people of Egypt fed themselves on it during the first year of their famine.
Jacob Finally Agrees to Send Benjamin
But when Israel saw that the famine was very sore in the land and there was no deliverance, he said to his sons, "Go again and procure food for us that we die not."
And they said, "We shall not go unless our youngest brother go with us, we shall not go."
And Israel saw that if he did not send him with them, they would all perish by reason of the famine.
And Reuben said, "Give him into my hand, and if I do not bring him back to you, slay my two sons instead of his soul." And he said to him, "He will not go with you."
And Judah came near and said, "Send him with me, and if I do not bring him back to you, let me bear the blame before you all the days of my life."
And he sent him with them in the second year of this 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.
Joseph Sees Benjamin and Sets the Final Test
And they went and stood before Joseph, and he saw Benjamin his brother and knew him, and said to them, "Is this your youngest brother?"
And they said to him, "It is he." And he said, "YAHUAH be gracious to you, my son."
And he sent him into his house and he brought forth Simeon to them and he made a feast for them,
and they presented to him the gift which they had brought in their hands. 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.
And they ate and drank and arose and remained with their asses.
And Joseph devised a plan whereby he might learn their thoughts as to whether thoughts of peace prevailed among them,
and he said to the steward who was over his house, "Fill all their sacks with food and return their money to them into their vessels,
and my cup, the silver cup out of which I drink, put it in the sack of the youngest, and send them away."
Chapter 43
☆Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers
The Silver Cup Test
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.
And early in the morning they departed,
and it came to pass that when they had gone from thence, Joseph said to the steward of his house, "Pursue them, run and seize them, saying, 'For good you 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."
And he ran after them and said to them according to these words.
And they said to him, "ALUAH forbid that your servants should do this thing and steal from the house of your lord any utensil,
and the money also which we found in our sacks the first time, we your servants brought back from the land of Canaan. How then should we steal any utensil?
Behold here are we and our sacks. Search, and wherever you find the cup in the sack of any man among us, let him be slain, and we and our asses will serve your lord."
And he said to them, "Not so. The man with whom I find it, him only shall I take as a servant, and you will return in peace to your house."
And as he was searching in their vessels, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest, it was found in Benjamin's sack.
And they rent their garments and loaded 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.
And Joseph said to them, "You have done evil."
And they said, "What shall we say and how shall we defend ourselves? Our lord has discovered the transgression of his servants. Behold we are the servants of our lord and our asses also."
And Joseph said to them, "I too fear YAHUAH. As for you, go to your homes and let your brother be my servant, for you have done evil.
Do you not know that a man delights in his cup as I with this cup? And yet you have stolen it from me."
Judah Intercedes for Benjamin
And Judah said, "O my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word in my lord's ear.
Two brothers did your servant's mother bear to our father. One went away and was lost and has not been found,
and he alone is left of his mother, and your servant our father loves him, and his life also is bound up with the life of this lad.
And it will come to pass when we go to your servant our father and the lad is not with us that he will die, and we shall bring down our father with sorrow to death.
Now rather let me your servant abide instead of the boy as a bondsman to my lord, and let the lad go with his brothers,
for I became surety for him at the hand of your servant our father, and if I do not bring him back, your servant will bear the blame to our father forever."
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.
And he conversed with them in the Hebrew tongue and fell on their neck and wept. But they knew him not, and they began to weep.
Joseph Reveals Himself and Sends for Jacob
And he said to them, "Weep not over me, but hasten and bring my father to me, and you see that it is my mouth that speaks and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see.
For behold this is the second year of the famine, and there are still five years without harvest or fruit of trees or ploughing.
Come down quickly, you and your households, so that you perish not through the famine, and do not be grieved for your possessions,
for YAHUAH sent me before you to set things in order that many people might live.
And tell my father that I am still alive, and behold, you see that YAHUAH has made me as a father to Pharaoh and ruler over his house and over all the land of Egypt.
And tell my father of all my esteem and all the riches and esteem that YAHUAH has given me."
And by the command of the mouth of Pharaoh he gave them chariots and provisions for the way, and he gave them all many-colored raiment and silver.
And to their father he sent raiment and silver and ten asses which carried grain,
and he sent them away. And they went up and told their father that Joseph was alive and was measuring out grain to all the nations of the earth and that he was ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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 Ruach revived,
and he said, "It is enough for me if Joseph lives. I will go down and see him before I die."
Chapter 44
☆Israel Goes Down to Egypt
Israel Prepares to Journey into Egypt
And Israel took his journey from Haran from his house on the new moon of the third month, and he went on the way of the Well of the Oath, and he offered a sacrifice to the ALUAH of his father Isaac on the seventh of this month.
And Jacob remembered the dream that he had seen at Bethel, and he feared to go down into Egypt.
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.
And he celebrated the harvest festival of the first-fruits 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.
And on the sixteenth YAHUAH appeared to him and said to him, "Jacob, Jacob," and he said, "Here am I."
And He said to him, "I am the ALUAH of your fathers, the ALUAH of Abraham and Isaac. Fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will there make of you a great nation.
I shall go down with you, and I shall bring you up again, and in this land will you be buried, and Joseph will put his hands upon your eyes. Fear not. Go down into Egypt."
And his sons rose up, and his sons' sons, and they placed their father and their possessions upon wagons.
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.
And Israel sent Judah before him to his son Joseph to examine the land of Goshen,
for Joseph had told his brothers that they should come and dwell there that they might be near him.
And this was the goodliest land in the land of Egypt and near to him, for all of them and also for the cattle.
The Seventy Souls Who Entered Egypt
And these are the names of the sons of Jacob who went into Egypt with Jacob their father.
Reuben, the first-born of Israel.
And these are the names of his sons: Enoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi, five.
Simeon and his sons. And these are the names of his sons: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of the Zephathite woman, seven.
Levi and his sons. And these are the names of his sons: Gershon and Kohath and Merari, four.
Judah and his sons. And these are the names of his sons: Shela and Perez and Zerah, four.
Issachar and his sons. And these are the names of his sons: Tola and Phua and Jasub and Shimron, five.
Zebulon and his sons. And these are the names of his sons: Sered and Elon and Jahleel, four.
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.
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, the wife of Jacob, whom she bore to Jacob, were Gad and Asher.
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.
And the sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah their one sister, six. All the souls were fourteen, and all those of Leah were forty-four.
And the sons of Rachel the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.
And there were born to Joseph in Egypt before his father came into Egypt, those whom Asenath daughter of Potiphar priest of Heliopolis bore to him, Manasseh and Ephraim, three.
And the sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel and Gera and Naaman and Ehi and Rosh and Muppim and Huppim and Ard, eleven. And all the souls of Rachel were fourteen.
And the sons of Bilhah the handmaid of Rachel the wife of Jacob whom she bore to Jacob were Dan and Naphtali.
And these are the names of their sons who went with them into Egypt. And the sons of Dan were Hushim and Samon and Asudi and Ijaka and Salomon, six.
And they died the year in which they entered into Egypt, and there was left to Dan Hushim alone.
And these are the names of the sons of Naphtali: Jahziel and Guni and Jezer and Shallum and Iv.
And Iv, who was born after the years of famine, died in Egypt. And all the souls of Rachel were twenty-six.
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.
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.
Chapter 45
☆Israel in Egypt and His Death
Israel Arrives in Egypt and Rejoices over Joseph
And Israel went into the country of Egypt, 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.
And Joseph went to meet his father Jacob to the land of Goshen, and he fell on his father's neck and wept.
And Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die since I have seen you,
and now may YAHUAH ALUAH of Israel be Barak, the ALUAH of Abraham and the ALUAH of Isaac who has not withheld His mercy and His grace from His servant Jacob.
It is enough for me that I have seen your face while I am yet alive.
Yes, true is the vision which I saw at Bethel. Barak be YAHUAH my ALUAH forever and ever, and Barak be His name."
And Joseph and his brothers ate bread before their father and drank wine, and Jacob rejoiced with exceedingly great joy because he saw Joseph eating with his brothers and drinking before him,
and he Barak the Creator of all things who had preserved him and had preserved for him his twelve sons.
And 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.
And Joseph nourished his father and his brethren and also their possessions with bread as much as sufficed them for the seven years of the famine.
Joseph Completes the Famine Years and Establishes the Fifth-Part Ordinance
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.
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.
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 grain that year. And this was the first year of the fourth week of the forty-fifth jubilee.
And Joseph took of the grain 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.
Israel's Final Years, Last Prophecies, and the Books Given to Levi
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 fourth year of the fifth week of the forty-fifth jubilee.
And Israel Barak his sons before he died and told them everything 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 Barak them and gave to Joseph two portions in the land.
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.
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.
Chapter 46
☆The Death of Joseph and the Affliction Begins
The Generation of Peace and the Death of Joseph
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 of years, all the days of the life of Joseph.
And there was no Satan nor any evil all the days of the life of Joseph which he lived after his father Jacob,
for all the Egyptians honored the children of Israel all the days of the life of Joseph.
And Joseph died being one hundred and ten years old.
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 of Egypt.
And he died and all his brethren and all that generation.
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.
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,
for Makamaron 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 Ermon.
But he was not able to enter, for another, a new king, had become king of Egypt, 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.
And Joseph died 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.
The Wars between Egypt and Canaan
And the king of Egypt went forth to war with the king of 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.
And most of them returned to Egypt, but a few of them remained in the mountains of Hebron, and Amram your father remained with them.
And the king of Canaan was victorious over the king of Egypt, and he closed the gates of Egypt.
The Affliction of Israel Begins
And he devised an evil device against the children of Israel of afflicting them,
and he said to the people of Egypt, "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 to our enemies and get them up out of our land, for their hearts and faces are toward the land of Canaan."
And he set over them taskmasters to afflict them with slavery, and they built strong cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses,
and they built all the walls and all the fortifications which had fallen in the cities of Egypt. And they made them serve with rigor,
and the more they dealt evilly with them, the more they increased and multiplied. And the people of Egypt abominated the children of Israel.
Chapter 47
☆The Birth and Youth of Moses
The Decree against Israel's Male Children
And in the seventh week, in the seventh year, in the forty-seventh jubilee, your father went forth from the land of Canaan, and you were born in the fourth week, in the sixth year thereof, in the forty-eighth jubilee. This was the time of tribulation on the children of Israel.
And Pharaoh king of Egypt issued a command regarding them that they should cast all their male children which were born into the river.
And they cast them in for seven months until the day that you were born.
The Birth and Preservation of Moses
And your mother hid you for three months, and they told regarding her.
And she made an ark for you and covered it with pitch and asphalt and placed it in the reeds on the bank of the river, and she placed you in it seven days,
and your mother came by night and nursed you, and by day Miriam your sister guarded you from the birds.
And in those days Tharmuth the daughter of Pharaoh came to bathe in the river, and she heard your voice crying, and she told her maidens to bring you forth, and they brought you to her.
And she took you out of the ark, and she had compassion on you. And your sister said to her, "Shall I go and call to you one of the Hebrew women to nurse and suckle this babe for you?"
And she said to her, "Go." And she went and called your mother Jochebed, and she gave her wages, and she nursed you.
And afterwards, when you were grown up, they brought you to the daughter of Pharaoh, and you became her son.
Moses' Youth, Education, and Flight from Egypt
And Amram your father taught you writing, and after you had completed three weeks they brought you into the royal court.
And you were three weeks of years at court until the time when you went forth from the royal court and saw an Egyptian smiting your friend who was of the children of Israel,
and you slew him and hid him in the sand.
And on the second day you found two of the children of Israel striving together, and you said to him who was doing the wrong, "Why do you smite your brother?"
And he was angry and indignant and said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?" And you feared and fled on account of these words.
Chapter 48
☆Moses Returns to Egypt and the Exodus
Moses in Midian and His Return to Egypt
And in the sixth year of the third week of the forty-ninth jubilee you departed and dwelt in the land of Midian five weeks and one year.
And you returned into Egypt in the second week in the second year in the fiftieth jubilee.
And you yourself know what He spoke to you on Mount Sinai and what prince Mastêmâ desired to do with you when you were returning into Egypt on the way when you met him at the lodging place.
Did he not with all his power seek to slay you and deliver the Egyptians out of your hand when he saw that you were sent to execute judgment and vengeance on the Egyptians?
And I delivered you out of his hand and you performed the signs and wonders which you were sent to perform in Egypt against Pharaoh and against all his house and against his servants and his people.
The Ten Plagues and Judgments
And YAHUAH executed a great vengeance on them for Israel's sake and smote them through the plagues of blood and frogs and 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 firstborn of men and animals,
and on all their idols YAHUAH took vengeance and burned them with fire.
And everything was sent through your hand that you should declare these things before they were done, and you spoke with the king of Egypt before all his servants and before his people.
And everything took place according to your words. Ten great and terrible judgments came on the land of Egypt that you might execute vengeance on it for Israel.
And YAHUAH 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 Israel by force into bondage.
Mastêmâ Resists; His Plagues and Limitations
And the prince of Mastêmâ stood up against you and sought to cast you into the hands of Pharaoh, and he helped the Egyptian sorcerers, and they stood up and worked before you.
The evils indeed we permitted them to work, but the remedies we did not allow to be worked by their hands.
And YAHUAH smote them with malignant ulcers and they were not able to stand, for we destroyed them so that they could not perform a single sign.
And notwithstanding all these signs and wonders the prince of Mastêmâ was not put to shame because he took courage and cried to the Egyptians to pursue after you with all the powers of the Egyptians, with their chariots and with their horses and with all the hosts of the peoples of Egypt.
The Red Sea and the Binding of Mastêmâ
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 YAHUAH brought them through the midst of the sea as if it were dry land. And all the peoples whom he brought to pursue after Israel YAHUAH our ALUAH 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. He took vengeance on one million of them, and one thousand strong and energetic men were destroyed on account of one suckling of the children of your people which they had thrown into the river.
And on the fourteenth day and on the fifteenth and on the sixteenth and on the seventeenth and on the eighteenth the prince of Mastêmâ was bound and imprisoned behind the children of Israel that he might not accuse them.
And on the nineteenth we let them loose that they might help the Egyptians and pursue the children of Israel.
And he hardened their hearts and made them stubborn, and the device was devised by YAHUAH our ALUAH that He might smite the Egyptians and cast them into the sea.
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 in return for the bondage in which they had forced them to serve. And we did not lead forth the children of Israel from Egypt empty handed.
Chapter 49
☆The Passover Ordinance
The First Passover in Egypt
Remember the commandment which YAHUAH commanded you concerning the Passover, that you should celebrate it in its season on the fourteenth of the first month,
that you should kill it before it is evening and that they should eat it by night on the evening of the fifteenth from the time of the setting of the sun.
For on this night, the beginning of the festival and the beginning of the joy,
you were eating the Passover in Egypt when all the powers of Mastêmâ had been let loose to slay all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh to the firstborn of the captive maidservant in the mill and to the cattle.
And this is the sign which YAHUAH 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 who were in the house because the sign of the blood was on its lintels.
And the powers of YAHUAH did everything according as YAHUAH commanded them, and they passed by all the children of Israel,
and the plague came not upon them to destroy from among them any soul either of cattle or man or dog.
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.
And all Israel was eating the flesh of the paschal lamb and drinking the wine and was lauding and blessing and giving thanks to YAHUAH ALUAH of their fathers and was ready to go forth from under the yoke of Egypt and from the evil bondage.
The Eternal Ordinance of Passover
And remember this day all the days of your life and observe it from year to year all the days of your 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.
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, and there is no limit of days, for this is ordained forever.
And the man who is free from uncleanness and does not come to observe it on the occasion of its day to bring an acceptable offering before YAHUAH and to eat and to drink before YAHUAH 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 YAHUAH in its appointed season. He will take the guilt upon himself.
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.
That is that which YAHUAH commanded you, that you should observe it between the evenings.
And it is not permissible to slay it during any period of the light but during the period bordering on the evening,
and let them eat it at the time of the evening until the third part of the night, and whatever is left over of all its flesh from the third part of the night and onward let them burn it with fire.
And they shall not cook it with water nor shall they eat it raw but roast on the fire. They shall eat it with diligence,
its head with the inwards thereof and its feet they shall roast with fire, and not break any bone thereof, for of the children of Israel no bone shall be crushed.
For this reason YAHUAH 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 commanded day and 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.
And you 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 YAHUAH, and no plague will come upon them to slay or to smite
in that year in which they celebrate the Passover in its season in every respect according to His command. And they shall not eat it outside the sanctuary of YAHUAH,
but before the sanctuary of YAHUAH, and all the people of the congregation of Israel shall celebrate it in its appointed season. And every man who has come on its day shall eat it in the sanctuary of your ALUAH before YAHUAH from twenty years old and upward,
for thus is it written and ordained that they should eat it in the sanctuary of YAHUAH.
The Passover after Entering the Land
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 YAHUAH in the midst of the land in one of their tribes until the sanctuary of YAHUAH has been built in the land,
let them come and celebrate the Passover in the midst of the tabernacle of YAHUAH and let them slay it before YAHUAH from year to year.
And in the days when the house has been built in the name of YAHUAH 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.
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 which has been sanctified in the name of YAHUAH.
And they may not celebrate the Passover in their cities nor in any place save before the tabernacle of YAHUAH or before His house where His name has dwelt, and they will not go astray from YAHUAH.
And you, Moses, command the children of Israel to observe the ordinances of the Passover as it was commanded to you. Declare to them every year the day of its days,
and 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 YAHUAH on the altar of your ALUAH.
For you celebrated this festival with haste when you went forth from Egypt till you entered into the wilderness of Shur, for on the shore of the sea you completed it.
Chapter 50
☆The Sabbaths and the Jubilees Complete
The Revelation of Sabbaths, Years, and Jubilees
And after this law I made known to you the days of the Sabbaths in the desert of Sinai which is between Elim and Sinai.
And I told you of the Sabbaths of the land on Mount Sinai and I told you of the jubilee years in the Sabbaths of years,
but the year thereof I have not told you until you enter the land which you are to possess.
And the land also will keep its Sabbaths while they dwell upon it and they will know the jubilee year.
Wherefore I have ordained for you the year weeks and the years and the jubilees. There are forty-nine jubilees from the days of Adam until this day and one week and two years,
and there are yet forty years to come for learning the commandments of YAHUAH until they pass over into the land of Canaan crossing the Jordan to the west.
The Future Cleansing of Israel and the End of Satan
And the jubilees will pass by until Israel is cleansed from all guilt of fornication and uncleanness and pollution and sin and error and dwells with confidence in all the land, and there will be no more a Satan nor any evil one, and the land will be clean from that time forevermore.
The Eternal Laws of the Sabbath
And behold the commandment regarding the Sabbaths. I have written them down for you and all the judgments of its laws. Six days you will labor, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath of YAHUAH your ALUAH.
In it you shall do no manner of work, you and your sons and your menservants and your maidservants and all your cattle and the sojourner also who is with you. And the man that does any work on it shall die.
Whoever desecrates that day, whoever lies with his wife, or whoever says he will do something on it, that he will set out on a journey thereon in regard to any buying or selling, and whoever draws water thereon which he had not prepared for himself on the sixth day, and whoever takes up any burden to carry it out of his tent or out of his house, shall die.
You shall do no work whatever on the Sabbath day save that which you 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 Barak YAHUAH your ALUAH who has given you a day of festival
and a set apart day. And a day of the set apart kingdom for all Israel is this day among their days forever.
For great is the honor which YAHUAH has given to Israel that they should eat and drink and be satisfied on this festival day and rest thereon from all labor which belongs to the labor of the children of men, save burning frankincense and bringing oblations and sacrifices before YAHUAH for days and for Sabbaths.
This work alone shall be done on the Sabbath days in the sanctuary of YAHUAH your ALUAH, that they may atone for Israel with sacrifice continually from day to day for a memorial well-pleasing before YAHUAH and that He may receive them always from day to day according as you have been commanded.
And every man who does any work thereon or goes a journey or tills his farm whether in his house or any other place, and whoever lights a fire or rides on any beast or travels by ship on the sea,
and whoever strikes or kills anything or slaughters a beast or a bird or whoever catches an animal or a bird or a fish or whoever fasts or makes war on the Sabbaths,
the man who does 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 you 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.