A Prophecy of Esau and Jacob

Chapter 37

¹ 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.

² 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?’

³ 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 bless me, he came with guile and brought my father food and drink, and my father blessed him and put me under his hand.

⁴ 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.’

⁵ And they said to him, ‘We shall 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 must not go with us, we shall do hurt to you also.

⁶ 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 let us exterminate him from the earth before he grows strong.’

⁷ And their father said to them, ‘Do not go and do not make war with him lest you fall before him.’

⁸ 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.

⁹ We shall not listen to these words.’ And they sent to Aram, and to ‘Aduram to the friend of their father, and they hired along with them one thousand fighting men, chosen men of war.

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ And they said to their father: Go forth with them and lead them, else we shall slay you.’

¹² 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;

¹³ and he did not remember the oath which he had sworn to his father and to his mother to devise no evil all his days against Jacob his brother.

¹⁴ And notwithstanding all this, Jacob knew not 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.

¹⁵ And the men of Hebron sent to him saying, ‘Behold your brother has come against you, to fight you, with four thousand girt with the sword, and they carry shields and weapons’; for they loved Jacob more than Esau.

¹⁶ 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.

¹⁷ 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 wherewith 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 that you swore to your father were you condemned.’

¹⁸ And then Esau answered and said to him, ‘Neither the children of men nor the beasts of the earth have any oath of righteousness sworn for all time; but every day they devise evil one against another, and how each may slay his adversary and foe.

¹⁹ And you do hate me and my children for ever. And there is no observing the tie of brotherhood with you.

²⁰ 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 will I observe the tie of brotherhood with you
And if the breasts separated themselves from their mother, for you have not been a brother to me.

²¹ And if the wolves make peace with the lambs so as not to devour or do them violence,

And if their hearts are towards them for good,
Then there shall be peace in my heart towards you.

²² And if the lion becomes the friend of the ox and makes peace with him

And if he is bound under one yoke with him and ploughs with him,
Then will I make peace with you.

²³ 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.’

²⁴ And when Jacob saw that he was (so) evilly disposed towards him with his heart, and with all his soul as to slay him, and that he had come springing like the 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.

Chapter 38

¹ 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) honour.’

² Then Jacob bent his bow and sent forth the arrow and struck Esau, his brother (on his right breast) and slew him.

³ And again he sent forth an arrow and struck ‘Adoran the Aramaean, on the left breast, and drove him backward and slew him.

⁴ And then went out the sons of Jacob, they and their servants, dividing themselves into companies on the four sides of the tower.

⁵ And Judah went out 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.

⁶ And Levi and Dan and Asher went out on the east side of the tower, and fifty (men) with them, and they slew the fighting men of Moab and Ammon.

⁷ And Reuben and Issachar and Zebulon went out on the north side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slew the fighting men of the Philistines.

⁸ And Simeon and Benjamin and Enoch, Reuben’s son, went out 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.

⁹ And the sons of Jacob pursued them to the mountains of Seir.

¹⁰ And Jacob buried his brother on the hill which is in ‘Aduram, and he returned to his house.

¹¹ 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 ask if they should make peace with them or slay them.

— “sent to their father to ask” which father, Esau or Jacob; it doesn’t make sense if he is Esau, since he’s already buried; so he has to be Jacob, meaning; the sons of Esau, instead of begging for mercy, still have the cheek to ask whether to make peace with them or slay them;

¹² 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.

¹³ And they continued to pay tribute to Jacob until the day that he went down into Egypt.

¹⁴ And the sons of Edom have not got quit of the yoke of servitude which the twelve sons of Jacob had imposed on them until this day.

¹⁵ And these are the kings that reigned in Edom before there reigned any king over the children of Israel [until this day] in the land of Edom.

¹⁶ And Balaq, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Danaba.

¹⁷ And Balaq died, and Jobab, the son of Zara of Boser, reigned in his stead.

¹⁸ And Jobab died, and ‘Asam, of the land of Teman, reigned in his stead.

¹⁹ 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.

²⁰ And ‘Adath died, and Salman, from ‘Amaseqa, reigned in his stead.

²¹ And Salman died,and Saul of Ra’aboth (by the) river, reigned in his stead.

²² And Saul died, and Ba’elunan, the son of Achbor, reigned in his stead.

²³ And Ba’elunan, 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 Metabedza’ab. These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom.

Chapter 39

¹ And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojournings in the land of Canaan.

² 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.

³ And he set Joseph over all his house and the blessing of the Lord came upon the house of the Egyptian on account of Joseph, and the Lord prospered him in all that he did.

⁴ And the Egyptian committed everything into the hands of Joseph; for he saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord prospered him in all that he did.

⁵ And Joseph’s appearance was comely [and very beautiful was his appearance], and his master’s wife lifted up her eyes and saw Joseph, and she loved him and besought him to lie with her.

⁶ But he did not surrender his soul, and he remembered the Lord 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; that for him the punishment of death has been ordained in the heavens before the Most High God, and the sin will be recorded against him in the eternal books continually before the Lord.

⁷ And Joseph remembered these words and refused to lie with her.

⁸ And she besought him for a year, but he refused and would not listen.

⁹ 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 without from her presence.

¹⁰ And the woman saw that he would not lie with her, and she calumniated him in the presence of his lord, saying ‘Your Hebrew servant, whom you lovest, 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 brake through the door.’

¹¹ 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.

¹² And he was there in the prison; and the Lord gave Joseph favour in the sight of the chief of the prison guards and compassion before him, for he saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper.

¹³ And he committed all things into his hands, and the chief of the prison guards knew of nothing that was with him, for Joseph did every thing, and the Lord perfected it.

¹⁴ And he remained there two years. And in those days Pharaoh, king of Egypt was angry 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.

¹⁵ And the chief of the prison guards appointed Joseph to serve them; and he served before them.

¹⁶ And they both dreamed a dream, the chief butler and the chief baker, and they told it to Joseph.

¹⁷ 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.

¹⁸ But the chief butler forgot Joseph in the prison, although he had informed him what would befall him, and did not remember to inform Pharaoh how Joseph had told him, for he forgot.

Chapter 40

¹ 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).

² And then the chief butler remembered Joseph and spoke of him to the king, and he brought him forth from the prison, and he to]d his two dreams before him.

³ And he said before Pharaoh that his two dreams were one, and he said to him: ‘Seven years shall come (in which there shall 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.

⁴ 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.’

⁵ And the Lord gave Joseph favour 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 spirit of the Lord is with him.’

⁶ 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.

⁷ 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 placed a ring on his hand and made him ruler over all his house, and magnified him, and said to him.

⁸ ‘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 he judged in uprightness all the people of the land.

⁹ And the land of Egypt was at peace before Pharaoh because of Joseph, for the Lord was with him, and gave him favour 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).

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ And on the day that Joseph stood before Pharaoh he was thirty years old [when he stood before Pharaoh].

¹² And in that year Isaac died. 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 abundantly produced, one measure (producing) eighteen hundred measures.

¹³ And Joseph gathered food into every city until they were full of corn until they could no longer count and measure it for its multitude.

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Chapter 33

¹ 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.

² And Reuben saw Bilhah, Rachel’s maid, the concubine of his father, bathing in water in a secret place, and he loved her.

³ And he hid himself at night, and he entered the house of Bilhah [at night], and he found her sleeping alone on a bed in her house.

⁴ 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 discovered that it was Reuben.

⁵ And she was ashamed because of him, and released her hand from him, and he fled.

⁶ And she lamented because of this thing exceedingly, and did not tell it to any one.

⁷ 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.’

⁸ And Jacob was exceedingly angry with Reuben because he had lain with Bilhah, because he had uncovered his father’s skirt.

⁹ 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 wicked exceedingly, for he is abominable before the Lord.

¹⁰ For this reason it is written and ordained on the heavenly tablets 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 done uncleanness on the earth.

¹¹ And there shall be nothing unclean before our God in the nation which He has chosen for Himself as a possession.

¹² And again, it is written a second time: ‘Cursed be he who lieth with the wife of his father, for he has uncovered his father’s shame;’ and all the holy ones of the Lord said ‘So be it; so be it.’

¹³ 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 for ever to atone for the man who has committed this, but he is to be put to death and slain, and stoned with stones, and rooted out from the middle of the people of our God.

¹⁴ For to no man who does so in Israel is it permitted to remain alive a single day on the earth, for he is abominable and unclean.

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ 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 of days, and an everlasting law for the everlasting generations.

¹⁷ And for this law there is no consummation of days, and no atonement for it, but they must both be rooted out in the middle of the nation: on the day whereon they committed it they shall slay them.

¹⁸ 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 to death; for the Lord our God is judge, who respects not persons and accepts not gifts.

¹⁹ 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 an uncleanness, and an abomination, and a contamination, and a pollution are all they who commit it on the earth before our God.

²⁰ And there is no greater sin than the fornication which they commit on earth; for Israel is a holy nation to the Lord its God, and a nation of inheritance, and a priestly and royal nation and for (His own) possession; and there shall no such uncleanness appear in the middle of the holy nation.

²¹ 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.

²² And these were the names of the sons of Jacob: the first-born Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, 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.

²³ And they came and bowed themselves to Isaac and Rebecca, and when they saw them they blessed Jacob and all his sons, and Isaac rejoiced exceedingly, for he saw the sons of Jacob, his younger son and he blessed them.

Chapter 34

¹ 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.

² 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 a prey.

³ And Jacob and Levi and Judah and Joseph were in the house with Isaac their father; for his spirit was sorrowful, and they could not leave him: and Benjamin was the youngest, and for this reason remained with his father.

⁴ And there came the king[s] of Taphu and the king[s] of ‘Aresa, and the king[s] of Seragan, and the king[s] of Selo, and the king[s] of Ga’as, 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.

⁵ And they announced this to Jacob saying: ‘Behold, the kings of the Amorites have surrounded your sons, and plundered their herds.’

⁶ 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.

⁷ 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 ‘Amani-sakir and Ga[ga]’as, and he recovered his herds.

⁸ 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.

⁹ 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.

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ 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 they sold him to Potiphar, the eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief of the cooks, priest of the city of ‘Elew.

¹² 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.

¹³ 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.

¹⁴ And his sons and his daughter rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted for his son.

¹⁵ And on that day Bilhah heard that Joseph had perished, and she died mourning him, and she was living in Qafratef, and Dinah also, his daughter, died after Joseph had perished.

¹⁶ And there came these three mournings upon Israel in one month. And they buried Bilhah over against the tomb of Rachel, and they buried also his daughter, Dinah, there.

¹⁷ 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.’

¹⁸ 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.

— “it is ordained for the children of Israel” who ordained this? Jacob and all the other sons? the Lord? “the tenth of the seventh month” is Yom Kippur; is this a co-incidence?

¹⁹ 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.

²⁰ 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, Betasu’el, a Canaanite; and the name of Issachar’s wife, Hezaqa: and the name of Zabulon’s wife, Ni’iman; and the name of Dan’s wife, ‘Egla; and the name of Naphtali’s wife, Rasu’u, of Mesopotamia; and the name of Gad’s wife, Maka; and the name of Asher’s wife, ‘Ijona; and the name of Joseph’s wife, Asenath, the Egyptian; and the name of Benjamin’s wife, ‘Ijasaka.

— names of their wives and of their tribes are largely different from that of the Book of Jasher in chapter 45; not just different but both are incomplete.

— and here is a summary from Chapter 45

— Reuben took for a wife Eliuram, a Canaanite
— Simeon took Dinah for a wife; and Bunah a Canaanite
— Judah went to Adulam, her name Aliyath, also a Canaanite
— Levi took Adinah; Issachar took Aridah, from the son of Eber
— Dan went to the Moabites and took for a wife Aphlaleth
— Gad and Naphtali to Haran and took from the son of Nahor
— and Naphtali took Merimah, and Gad took Uzith, for wives
— Asher took Adon, an Ishmaelite for a wife; but no child
— Asher then took Hadurah the daughter of the son of Eber
— Zebulun Midian, and took for a wife Merishah, a Midianite
— Jacob took for Benjamin Mechalia the daughter of Terah
— Benjamin took another wife Aribath, a daughter of Abraham
— Judah, by Tamar, had twins: first Perez; second Zarah

²¹ And Simeon repented, and took a second wife from Mesopotamia as his brothers. — if he had taken another from Mesopotamia, he would be following Naphtali, and perhaps Levi.

Chapter 35

¹ 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 honour them all the days of his life.

² And Jacob said: ‘I will do everything as you have commanded me; for this thing will be honour and greatness to me, and righteousness before the Lord, that I should honour them.

³ And you too, 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.

⁴ And how should I not do this thing which you have commanded me, that I should honour my father and my brother! Tell me, mother, what 6 perversity have you seen in me and I shall turn away from it, and mercy will be upon me.’

⁵ And she said to him: ‘My son, I have not seen in you all my days any perverse but (only) upright deeds.

⁶ And yet I will 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 a hundred and fifty-five years: and behold I have completed all the days of my life which I am to live.’

⁷ And Jacob laughed at the words of his mother. because his mother had said to him that she should die; and she was sitting opposite to him in possession of her strength, and she 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.

⁸ And Jacob said to her: ‘Blessed am I, mother, if my days approach the days of your life, and my strength remain with me thus as your strength: and you must not die, for you are jesting idly with me regarding your death.’

⁹ 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.

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ And when we implored and besought him for what was our own, he did as a man who was taking pity on us.

¹² And he is bitter against you because you blessed Jacob your perfect and upright son; for there is no evil but only goodness in him, and since he came from Haran to 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 has not parted from us since he came from Haran until this day, and he remains with us continually at home honouring us.’

¹³ And Isaac said to her: ‘I, too, know and see the deeds of Jacob who is with us, how that with all his heart he honours us; but I loved Esau formerly more than Jacob, because he was the firstborn; but now I love Jacob more than Esau, for he 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.

¹⁴ 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 who will be rooted out from under heaven, for he has forsaken the God of Abraham and gone after his wives and after their uncleanness and after their error, he and his children.

¹⁵ And you do bid me 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.

¹⁶ 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, [for he will descend into his hands.]

¹⁷ And fear you not on account of Jacob; for the guardian of Jacob is great and powerful and honoured, and praised more than the guardian of Esau.’

¹⁸ 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.’

¹⁹ And he said: ‘I will do everything that you sayest to me, and I will not refuse your petition.’

²⁰ And she said to him: ‘I ask you that the day I die, you must 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 (so) you will prosper, my sons, and be honoured in the middle of the land, and no enemy will rejoice over you, and you will be a blessing and a mercy in the eyes of all those that love you.’

²¹ And he said: ‘I will do all that you have told me, and I shall bury you on the day you diest near Sarah, my father’s mother, as you have desired that her bones may be near your bones.

²² And Jacob, my brother, also, I shall love above all flesh; for I have not a brother in all the earth but him only: and this 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 we forth from your womb, and if I do not love my brother, whom shall I love?

²³ And I, myself, beg you to exhort Jacob concerning me and concerning my sons, for I know that he will assuredly be king over me and my sons, for on the day my father blessed him he made him the higher and me the lower.

²⁴ 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.’

²⁵ And he swore to her regarding all this matter. And she called Jacob before the eyes of Esau, and gave him commandment according to the words which she had spoken to Esau.

²⁶ 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 naught save in love only.’

²⁷ And they eat 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. — Rebecca died at the age of 155 (49 x 3 + 7 + 1 = 155)

Chapter 36

¹ 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.

² Wherefore bury me near Abraham my father, in the double cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, where Abraham purchased a sepulchre to bury in; in the sepulchre which I dug for myself, there bury me.

³ And this I command you, my sons, to practise righteousness and uprightness on the earth, so that the Lord may bring upon you all that the Lord said that he would do to Abraham and to his seed.

⁴ And love one another, my sons, your brothers as a man who 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.

⁵ 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.

⁶ Remember ye, my sons, the Lord God of Abraham your father, and how I too worshipped Him and served Him in righteousness and in joy, that He might multiply you and increase your seed as the stars of heaven in multitude, and establish you on the earth as the plant of righteousness which will not be rooted out to all the generations for ever.

⁷ 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 honoured and great and splendid and wonderful and mighty, which created the heavens and the earth and all things together, that you will fear Him and worship Him.

⁸ And that each will love his brother with affection and righteousness, and that neither will desire evil against his brother from henceforth for ever all the days of your life so that you may prosper in all your deeds and not be destroyed.

⁹ And if either of you devises evil against his brother, know that from henceforth everyone that devises evil against his brother shall fall into his hand, and shall be rooted out of the land of the living, and his seed shall be destroyed from under heaven.

¹⁰ 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 shall be blotted out of the book of the discipline of the children of men, and not be recorded in the book of life,

¹¹ but in that is appointed to destruction, and he shall 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 for ever. I say and testify to you, my sons, according to the judgment which shall come upon the man who wishes to injure his brother.

¹² And he divided all his possessions between the two on that day and he gave the larger portion to him that was the first-born, and the tower and all that was about it, and all that Abraham possessed at the Well of the Oath.

¹³ And he said: ‘This larger portion I will give to the firstborn.’

¹⁴ 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.’

¹⁵ 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 shouldest work wickedness on account of it.

¹⁶ May the Most High God bless the man that worketh righteousness, him and his seed for ever.’

¹⁷ And he ended commanding them and blessing them, and they eat and drank together before him, and he rejoiced because there was one mind between them, and they went out from him and rested that day and slept.

¹⁸ 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.

¹⁹ And Esau went to the land of Edom, to the mountains of Seir, and dwelt there.

²⁰ And Jacob dwelt in the mountains of Hebron, in the tower of the land of the sojournings of his father Abraham, and he worshipped the Lord with all his heart and according to the visible commands according as He had divided the days of his generations.

²¹ 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,

²² 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;

²³ for she was perfect and upright in all her ways and honoured 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 honourable.

²⁴ 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.

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Chapter 29

¹ And it came to pass when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Laban went to shear his sheep; for they were distant from him a three days’ journey.

² 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.

³ 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 wherever you go we will go with you.’

⁴ And Jacob blessed the God of Isaac his father, and the God 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 told him not.

⁵ And in the seventh year of the fourth week Jacob turned (his face) toward Gilead in the first month, on the twenty-first of it. And Laban pursued after him and overtook Jacob in the mountain of Gilead in the third month, on the thirteenth of it.

⁶ And the Lord did not suffer him to injure Jacob; for he appeared to him in a dream by night. And Laban spoke to Jacob.

⁷ 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 to Jacob, that neither should cross the mountain of Gilead to the other with evil purpose.

⁸ And he made there a heap for a witness; wherefore the name of that place is called: ‘The Heap of Witness,’ after this heap.

⁹ But before 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.

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ And the Lord 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 to-day which has wrought to the full all their sins, and they have no longer length of life on the earth.

¹² And Jacob sent away Laban, and he departed into Mesopotamia, the land of the East, and Jacob returned to the land of Gilead.

¹³ And he passed over the Jabbok in the ninth month, on the eleventh of it. 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.

¹⁴ 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.

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ 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.

¹⁷ For Isaac had returned from the Well of the Oath and gone up to the tower of his father Abraham, and he dwelt there apart from his son Esau.

¹⁸ 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.

¹⁹ And Isaac went up from the Well of the Oath and dwelt in the tower of Abraham his father on the mountains of Hebron,

²⁰ And there Jacob sent all that he sent to his father and his mother from time to time, all they needed, and they blessed Jacob with all their heart and with all their soul.

Chapter 30

¹ 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.

² 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.

³ And he besought his father and her brothers that she might be given to him to wife. And Jacob and his sons were angry 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.

⁴ 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 dishonoured their sister Dinah.

⁵ And thus let it not again be done from henceforth that a daughter of Israel be defiled; for judgment is ordained in heaven against them that they should destroy with the sword all the men of the Shechemites because they had brought shame in Israel.

⁶ And the Lord 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 thus again be done in Israel that a virgin of Israel should be defiled.

⁷ 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 brought shame in Israel; and they shall burn the woman with fire, because she has dishonoured the name of the house of her father, and she shall be rooted out of Israel.

⁸ And let not an adulteress and no uncleanness be found in Israel throughout all the days of the generations of the earth; for Israel is holy to the Lord, and every man who has defiled (it) shall surely die: they shall stone him with stones.

⁹ For thus has it been ordained and written in the heavenly tablets regarding all the seed of Israel: he who defileth (it) shall surely die, and he shall be stoned with stones.

¹⁰ 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 in the middle of all Israel, because he has given of his seed to Moloch, and done impiously so as to defile it.

¹¹ 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 the Lord.

¹² For this reason I have written for you in the words of the Law all the deeds of the Shechemites, which they did against Dinah, and how the sons of Jacob spoke, saying: ‘We will not give our daughter to a man who is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach to us.’

¹³ And it is a reproach to Israel, to those who live, and to those that take the daughters of the Gentiles; for this is unclean and abominable to Israel.

¹⁴ 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 any of the Gentiles.

¹⁵ For there will be plague upon plague, and curse upon curse, and every judgment and plague and curse will come : if he do this thing, or hide his eyes from those who commit uncleanness, or those who defile the sanctuary of the Lord, or those who profane His holy name, (then) will the whole nation together be judged for all the uncleanness and profanation of this man.

¹⁶ And there will be no respect of persons [and no consideration of persons] and no receiving at his hands of fruits and offerings and burnt-offerings and fat, nor the fragrance of sweet savour, so as to accept it: and so fare every man or woman in Israel who defiles the sanctuary.

¹⁷ 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 tortures, and it was (reckoned) to them for righteousness, and it is written down to them for righteousness.

¹⁸ And the seed of Levi was chosen for the priesthood, and to be Levites, that they might minister before the Lord, as we, continually, and that Levi and his sons may be blessed for ever; for he was zealous to execute righteousness and judgment and vengeance on all those who arose against Israel.

¹⁹ And so they inscribe as a testimony in his favour on the heavenly tablets blessing and righteousness before the God of all:

²⁰ And we remember the righteousness which the man fulfilled during his life, at 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 tablets as a friend and a righteous man.

²¹ 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 fulfil it and be recorded as friends. — who is the narrator here, the ‘I’?

²² But if they transgress and work uncleanness in every way, they will be recorded on the heavenly tablets as adversaries, and they will be destroyed out of the book of life, and they will be recorded in the book of those who will be destroyed and with those who will be rooted out of the earth.

²³ And on the day when the sons of Jacob slew Shechem a writing was recorded in their favour in heaven that they had executed righteousness and uprightness and vengeance on the sinners, and it was written for a blessing.

²⁴ 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 donkeys, and all their wealth, and all their flocks, and brought them all to Jacob their father.

²⁵ 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.

²⁶ And the dread of the Lord was upon all the cities which are around about Shechem, and they did not rise to pursue after the sons of Jacob; for terror had fallen upon them.

Chapter 31

¹ 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 you away the strange gods that arc among you.’

² And they gave up the strange gods and that was in their ears and which was on their necks and the idols which Rachel stole from Laban her father she gave wholly to Jacob. And he burnt and brake them to pieces and destroyed them, and hid them under an oak which is in the land of Shechem.

³ 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.

⁴ And Isaac said: ‘Let my son Jacob come, and let me see him before I die.’

⁵ 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.

⁶ And Rebecca came forth from the tower to the front of it to kiss Jacob and embrace him; for her spirit had revived when she heard: ‘Behold Jacob your son has come;’ and she kissed him.

⁷ And she saw his two sons, and she recognised them, and said to him: ‘Are these your sons, my son?’ and she embraced them and kissed them, and blessed them, saying: ‘In you shall the seed of Abraham become illustrious, and you shall prove a blessing on the earth.’

⁸ 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.

⁹ 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.’

¹⁰ And he said to him that they were truly his sons: ‘And you have truly seen that they are truly my sons.’

11 And they came near to him, and he turned and kissed them and embraced them both together.

¹² And the spirit of prophecy came down into his mouth, and he took Levi by his right hand and Judah by his left.

¹³ And he turned to Levi first, and began to bless him first, and said to him: May the God of all, the very Lord of all the ages, bless you and your children throughout all the ages.

¹⁴ And may the Lord give to you and to your seed greatness and great glory, and cause you and your seed, from among all flesh, to approach Him to serve in His sanctuary as the angels of the presence and as the holy ones. (Even) as they, shall the seed of your sons be for glory and greatness and holiness, and may He make them great to all the ages.

¹⁵ And they shall be judges and princes, and chiefs of all the seed of the sons of Jacob;

They shall speak the word of the Lord in righteousness,
And they shall judge all His judgments in righteousness.
And they shall declare My ways to Jacob
And My paths to Israel.
The blessing of the Lord shall be given in their mouths
To bless all the seed of the beloved.

¹⁶ Your mother has called your name Levi,

And justly has she called your name;
You shall be joined to the Lord
And be the companion of all the sons of Jacob;
Let His table be your,
And and your sons eat of it;
And may your table be full to all generations,
And your food fail not to all the ages.

¹⁷ And let all who hate you fall down before you,

And let all your adversaries be rooted out and perish;
And blessed be he that blesses you,
And cursed be every nation that curses you.’

¹⁸ And to Judah he said:

‘May the Lord give you strength and power
To tread down all that hate you;

¹⁹ 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 shall the Gentiles fear before your face,
And all the nations shall quake
[And all the peoples shall quake].
In you shall be the help of Jacob,
And in you be found the salvation of Israel.

²⁰ And when you sittest on the throne of honour of your righteousness

There shall be great peace for all the seed of the sons of the beloved;
Blessed be he that blesseth you,
And all that hate you and afflict you and curse you
Shall be rooted out and destroyed from the earth and be accursed.’

²¹ 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.

²² And he went out from between his feet and fell down and bowed down to him, and he blessed them and rested there with Isaac his father that night, and they eat and drank with joy.

²³ 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.

— despite the birthright holder, I Chronicles 5:2 Joseph wasn’t in this blessings by Isaac, which seems unusual; second, as Jacob love Joseph more than any of the other sons, it is unbelievable that Jacob didnt bring him along with him; and

— third, that Jacob showed no feeling or reflection for having Joseph missed out this blessings by Isaac. Hence the biasness of the writer of the Book of Jubilees.

²⁴ And Jacob told his father everything during the night, how the Lord had shown him great mercy, and how he had prospered (him in) all his ways, and protected him from all evil.

²⁵ And Isaac blessed the God of his father Abraham, who had not withdrawn his mercy and his righteousness from the sons of his servant Isaac.

²⁶ And in the morning Jacob told his father Isaac the vow which he had vowed to the Lord, 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 the Lord as he had vowed, and that he had come to set him on an ass.

²⁷ 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.

²⁸ And I know, my son, that you have come on my account, and may this day be blessed on which you have seen me alive, and I also have seen you, my son.

²⁹ May you prosper and fulfil the vow which you have vowed; and put not off your vow; for you shall be called to account as touching the vow; now therefore make haste to perform it, and may He be pleased who has made all things, to whom you have vowed the vow.’

³⁰ 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.

³¹ And Jacob remembered the prayer with which his father had blessed him and his two sons, Levi and Judah, and he rejoiced and blessed the God of his fathers, Abraham and Isaac.

³² And he said: ‘Now I know that I have an eternal hope, and my sons also, before the God 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 blessed them.

Chapter 32

¹ And he abode that night at Bethel, and Levi dreamed that they had ordained and made him the priest of the Most High God, him and his sons for ever; and he awoke from his sleep and blessed the Lord.

² 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, yea, he gave tithes of all.

³ And in those days Rachel became pregnant with her son Benjamin. And Jacob counted his sons from him upwards and Levi fell to the portion of the Lord, and his father clothed him in the garments of the priesthood and filled his hands. — counting backward or upward would make Levi the tenth in the lineage of sonship, hence a tenth as tithe, but why counting backward or upward?

⁴ And on the fifteenth of this month, he brought to the altar fourteen oxen from amongst 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 savour before God.

⁵ 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.

⁶ And when the fire had consumed it, he burnt 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.

⁷ And he and all his sons and his men were eating (this) with joy there during seven days and blessing and thanking the Lord, who had delivered him out of all his tribulation and had given him his vow.

⁸ And he tithed all the clean animals, and made a burnt sacrifice, but the unclean animals he gave (not) to Levi his son, and he gave him all the souls of the men

⁹ 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: thus he tithed again the tithe to the Lord and sanctified it, and it became holy to Him.

¹⁰ And for this reason it is ordained on the heavenly tablets as a law for the tithing again the tithe to eat before the Lord 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 for ever.

¹¹ This ordinance is written that it may be fulfilled from year to year in eating the second tithe before the Lord in the place where it has been chosen, and nothing shall remain over from it from this year to the year following.

¹² For in its year shall the seed be eaten till the days of the gathering of the seed of the year, and the wine till the days of the wine, and the oil till the days of its season.

¹³ And all that is left of it and becomes old, let it be regarded as polluted: let it be burnt with fire, for it is unclean.

¹⁴ And thus let them eat it together in the sanctuary, and let them not suffer it to become old.

¹⁵ And all the tithes of the oxen and sheep shall be holy to the Lord, and shall belong to his priests, which they will eat before Him from year to year; for thus is it ordained and engraven regarding the tithe on the heavenly tablets.

¹⁶ 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 holy for ever, for himself and his children after him.

¹⁷ And the Lord appeared to him by night and blessed him and said to him: ‘Your name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel shall they name your name.’

¹⁸ And He said to him again: ‘I am the Lord who created the heaven and the earth, and I will increase you and multiply you exceedingly, and kings shall come forth from you, and they shall judge everywhere wherever the foot of the sons of men has trodden.

¹⁹ And I will give to your seed all the earth which is under heaven, and they shall judge all the nations according to their desires, and after that they shall get possession of the whole earth and inherit it for ever.’

²⁰ And He finished speaking with him, and He went up from him.

²¹ And Jacob looked till He had ascended into heaven. And he saw in a vision of the night, and behold an angel descended from heaven with seven tablets in his hands, and he gave them to Jacob, and he read them and knew all that was written therein which would befall him and his sons throughout all the ages.

²² 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.

²³ For in Egypt you shall die in peace, and in this land you shall be buried with honour in the sepulchre of your fathers, with Abraham and Isaac.

²⁴ Fear not, for as you have seen and read it, thus shall it all be; and write down everything as you have seen and read.’

²⁵ And Jacob said: ‘Lord, how can I remember all that I have read and seen? ‘And he said to him: ‘I will bring all things to your remembrance.’

²⁶ And he went up from him, and he awoke from his sleep, and he remembered everything which he had read and seen, and he wrote down all the words which he had read and seen.

²⁷ And he celebrated there yet another day, and he sacrificed thereon 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.’ — is this the 22nd “of the seventh month” (Chapter 31:3)? if so this would be added after the Last Great Day, or Shemini Atzeret.

²⁸ And thus it was manifested that it should be, and it is written on the heavenly tablets: wherefore it was revealed to him that he should celebrate it, and add it to the seven days of the feast.

²⁹ And its name was called ‘Addition,’ because that it was recorded amongst the days of the feast days, according to the number of the days of the year. — is this ‘Addition,’ feast celebrated by the Essenes?

³⁰ 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.’

³¹ 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.

³² And he went after his mother till he came to the land of Kabratan, and he dwelt there.

³³ 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.

³⁴ 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.

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Chapter 25

¹ And 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 you a wife of the daughters of Canaan, as Esau, your brother, who took him two wives of the daughters of Canaan, 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.

² And I, my son, love you exceedingly, and my heart and my affection bless you every hour of the day and watch of the night.

³ And now, my son, listen to my voice, and do the will of your mother, and do not take you a wife of the daughters of this land, but only of the house of my father, and of my father’s kindred. You shall take you a wife of the house of my father, and the Most High God will bless you, and your children shall be a righteous generation and a holy seed.’

⁴ And then spoke Jacob to Rebecca, his mother, and said to her: ‘Behold, mother, I am nine weeks of years old, and I neither know nor have I touched any woman, nor have I betrothed myself to any, nor even think of taking me a wife of the daughters of Canaan. — 9 times 7 = 63 years old;

⁵ For I remember, mother, the words of Abraham, our father, for he commanded me not to take a wife of the daughters of Canaan, but to take me a wife from the seed of my father’s house and from my kindred.

⁶ 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 amongst them. — so Jacob had already heard of Laban’s daughters;

⁷ And for this reason I have guarded myself in my spirit against sinning or being corrupted in all my ways throughout all the days of my life; for with regard to lust and fornication, Abraham, my father, gave me many commands.

⁸ And, despite all that he has commanded me, these two and twenty years my brother has striven with me, and spoken frequently to me and said: ‘My brother, take to wife a sister of my two wives’; but I refuse to do as he has done. — the tone expressed here doesn’t show any of the brother’s animosity for each other; but this was before Jacob had stolen Esau’s birthright by deceit, which comes up the next chapter;

⁹ I swear before you, mother, that all the days of my life I will not take me a wife from the daughters of the seed of Canaan, and I will not act wickedly as my brother has done.

¹⁰ Fear not, mother; be assured that I shall do your will and walk in uprightness, and not corrupt my ways for ever.’

¹¹ And thereupon she lifted up her face to heaven and extended the fingers of her hands, and opened her mouth and blessed the Most High God, who had created the heaven and the earth, and she gave Him thanks and praise.

¹² And she said: ‘Blessed be the Lord God, and may His holy name be blessed for ever and ever, who has given me Jacob as a pure son and a holy seed; for he is Your, and Your shall his seed be continually and throughout all the generations for evermore.

¹³ Bless him, O Lord, and place in my mouth the blessing of righteousness, that I may bless him.’

¹⁴ And at that hour, when the spirit of righteousness descended into her mouth, she placed both her hands on the head of Jacob, and said:

¹⁵ Blessed are you, Lord of righteousness and God of the ages

And may He bless you beyond all the generations of men.
May He give you, my Son, the path of righteousness,
And reveal righteousness to your seed.

¹⁶ 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 heaven,
And their numbers be more than the sand of the sea.

^17-18 And may He give them this goodly land, as He said He would give it to Abraham and to his seed after him always-

And may they hold it as a possession for ever.

And may I see (born) to you, my son, blessed children during my life,
And a blessed and holy seed may all your seed be.

¹⁹ And as you have refreshed your mother’s spirit during her life,

The womb of her that bore you blesses you thus,
[My affection] and my breasts bless you
And my mouth and my tongue praise you greatly.

²⁰ Increase and spread over the earth,

And may your seed be perfect in the joy of heaven and earth for ever;
And may your seed rejoice,
And on the great day of peace may it have peace.

²¹ And may your name and your seed endure to all the ages,

And may the Most High God be their God,
And may the God of righteousness dwell with them,
And by them may His sanctuary be built to all the ages.

²² Blessed be he that blesseth you,

And all flesh that curseth you falsely, may it be cursed.’

²³ And she kissed him, and said to him;

‘May the Lord of the world love you
As the heart of your mother and her affection rejoice in you and bless you.’

And she ceased from blessing.

Chapter 26

¹ And in the seventh year of this week Isaac called Esau, his elder Son, and said to him: ‘I am old, my son, and behold my eyes are dim in seeing, and I know not the day of my death.

² 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 savoury meat, such as my soul loves, and bring it to me that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.’

³ But Rebecca heard Isaac speaking to Esau.

⁴ And Esau went out early to the field to hunt and catch and bring home to his father.

⁵ And Rebecca called Jacob, her son, and said to him: ‘Behold, I heard Isaac, your father, speak to Esau, your brother, saying: “Hunt for me, and make me savoury meat, and bring (it) to me that I may eat and bless you before the Lord before I die.”

⁶ And now, my son, obey my voice in that I command you: Go to your flock and fetch me two good kids of the goats, and I will make them savoury meat for your father, such as he loves, and you shall bring (it) to your father that he may eat and bless you before the Lord before he die, and that you may be blessed.’

⁷ And Jacob said to Rebecca his mother: ‘Mother, I shall not withhold anything which my father would eat, and which would please him: only I fear, my mother, that he will recognise my voice and wish to touch me.

⁸ And you know that I am smooth, and Esau, my brother, is hairy, and I shall appear before his eyes as an evildoer, and shall do a deed which he had not commanded me, and he will be angry with me, and I shall bring upon myself a curse, and not a blessing.’

⁹ And Rebecca, his mother, said to him: ‘Upon me be your curse, my son, only obey my voice.’

¹⁰ 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 ~savoury meat~ such as he loved.

¹¹ And Rebecca took the goodly rainment 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.

¹² And she gave the meat and the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.

¹³ And Jacob went in to his father and said: ‘I am your son: I have done according as you badest me: arise and sit and eat of that I have caught, father, that your soul may bless me.’

¹⁴ And Isaac said to his son: ‘How have you found meat so quickly, my son?

¹⁵ ‘And Jacob said: ‘Because the Lord your God caused me to find it.’

¹⁶ And Isaac said to him: Come near, that I may feel you, my son, if you are my son Esau or not.’

¹⁷ 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,’

¹⁸ and he discerned him not, because it was a dispensation from heaven to remove his power of perception and Isaac discerned not, for his hands were hairy as his brother Esau’s, so that he blessed him.

¹⁹ And he said: ‘Are you my son Esau? ‘ and he said: ‘I am your son’: and he said, ‘Bring near to me that I may eat of that you have caught, my son, that my soul may bless you.’

²⁰ And he brought near to him, and he did eat, and he brought him wine and he drank.

²¹ And Isaac, his father, said to him: ‘Come near and kiss me, my son.

²² And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his raiment, and he blessed him and said: ‘Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a (full) field which the Lord has blessed.

²³ And may the Lord give you of the dew of heaven

And of the dew of the earth, and plenty of corn and oil:
Let nations serve you,
And peoples bow down to you.

²⁴ Be lord over your brethren,

And let your mother’s sons bow down to you;
And may all the blessings wherewith the Lord has blessed me and blessed Abraham, my father;
Be imparted to you and to your seed for ever:
Cursed be he that curseth you,
And blessed be he that blesseth you.’

²⁵ 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.

²⁶ And he also made savoury meat, and brought (it) to his father, and said to his father: ‘Let my father arise, and eat of my venison that your soul may bless me.’

²⁷ And Isaac, his father, said to him: ‘Who are you? ‘And he said to him: ‘I am your first born, your son Esau: I have done as you have commanded me.’

²⁸ 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 camest, and have blessed him: (and) he shall be blessed, and all his seed for ever.’

²⁹ And it came to pass when Esau heard the words of his father Isaac that he cried with an wonderful and bitter cry, and said to his father:

³⁰ ‘Bless me, (even) me also, father.’ And he said to him: ‘Your brother came with guile, 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.’

³¹ And he said: ‘Hast you not reserved a blessing for me, father?’ and Isaac answered and said to Esau:

‘Behold, I have made him your lord,
And all his brethren have I given to him for servants,
And with plenty of corn and wine and oil have I strengthened him:
And what now shall I do for you, my son?’

³² And Esau said to Isaac, his father:

‘Hast you but one blessing, O father?
Bless me, (even) me also, father: ‘

³³ And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

And Isaac answered and said to him:
‘Behold, far from the dew of the earth shall be your dwelling,
And far from the dew of heaven from above.

³⁴ And by your sword must you live,

And you must serve your brother.
And it shall come to pass when you becomest great,
And do shake his yoke from off your neck,
You shall sin a complete sin to death,
And your seed shall be rooted out from under heaven.’

³⁵ And Esau kept threatening Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed 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

¹ 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:

² ‘Behold Esau your brother will take vengeance on you so as to kill you.

³ Now, therefore, my son, obey my voice, and arise and flee you to Laban, my brother, to Haran, and tarry with him a few days until your brother’s anger turns away, and he remove his anger from you, and forget all that you have done; then I will send and fetch you from thence.’

⁴ And Jacob said: ‘I am not afraid; if he wishes to kill me, I will kill him.’

⁵ But she said to him: ‘Let me not be bereft of both my sons on one day.’

⁶ 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.’

⁷ And Rebecca said to Jacob: ‘I will go in and speak to him, and he will send you away.’

⁸ And Rebecca went in and said to Isaac: ‘I loathe my life because of the two daughters of Heth, whom Esau has taken him as wives; and if Jacob take 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.’

⁹ And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and admonished him and said to him: ‘Do not take you a wife of any of the daughters of Canaan;

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ And God Almighty bless you and increase and multiply you 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 God gave to Abraham: go, my son, in peace.’

¹² 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.

¹³ And it came to pass after Jacob had arisen to go to Mesopotamia that the spirit of Rebecca was grieved after her son, and she wept.

¹⁴ And Isaac said to Rebecca: ‘My sister, Do not weep on account of Jacob, my son; for he goeth in peace, and in peace will he return.

¹⁵ The Most High God will preserve him from all evil, and will be with him; for He will not forsake him all his days;

¹⁶ For I know that his ways will be prospered in all things wherever he goes, until he return in peace to us, and we see him in peace.

¹⁷ 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.’

¹⁸ And Isaac comforted Rebecca on account of her son Jacob, and blessed him.

¹⁹ And Jacob went from the Well of the Oath to go to Haran on 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.

²⁰ 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 under the tree, and he was journeying alone, and he slept.

²¹ And he dreamt that night, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven, and behold, the angels of the Lord ascended and descended on it: and behold, the Lord stood upon it.

²² And he spoke to Jacob and said: ‘I am the Lord God of Abraham, your father, and the God of Isaac; the land whereon you are sleeping, to you will I give it, and to your seed after you.

²³ And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall increase to the west and to the east, to the north and the south, and in you and in your seed shall all the families of the nations be blessed.

²⁴ And behold, I will be with you, and will keep you whithersoever you go, and I will bring you again into this land in peace; for I will not leave you until I do everything that I told you of.’

²⁵ And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and said, ‘Truly this place is the house of the Lord, and I knew it not.’ And he was afraid and said: ‘Dreadful is this place which is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.’

²⁶ 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 upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of the place was Luz at the first.

²⁷ And Jacob vowed a vow to the Lord, saying: ‘If the Lord 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 shall the Lord be my God, and this stone which I have set up as a pillar for a sign in this place, shall be the Lord’s house, and of all that you give me, I shall give one tenth of it to you, my God.’

Chapter 28

¹ 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.

² 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.’ — it should be “in the first year of the second week?”

³ 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 maidservant; and Jacob did not know, for he thought that she was Rachel.

⁴ 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 not I serve you for Rachel and not for Leah? Why have you wronged me?

⁵ 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; but Rachel had beautiful eyes and a beautiful and very handsome form.

⁶ 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 tablets, that no one should give his younger daughter before the elder; but the elder, one gives first and after her the younger, and the man who does so, they set down guilt against him in heaven, and none is righteous that does this thing, for this deed is evil before the Lord.

⁷ And command you the children of Israel that they do not this thing; let them neither take nor give the younger before they have given the elder, for it is very wicked.

⁸ 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.’

⁹ And on the day when the seven days of the feast of Leah had passed, Laban gave Rachel to Jacob, that he might serve him another seven years, and he gave to Rachel Bilhah, the sister of Zilpah, as a handmaid.

¹⁰ And he served yet other seven years for Rachel, for Leah had been given to him for nothing.

¹¹ And the Lord 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.

¹² But the womb of Rachel was closed, for the Lord saw that Leah was hated and Rachel loved.

¹³ 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, and in the third year of this week.

¹⁴ And again Jacob went in to Leah, and she conceived, and bore him a third son, and he called his name Levi, in the new moon of the first month in the sixth year of this week.

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ 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?’

¹⁷ 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 to me.’

¹⁸ (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.

¹⁹ And Jacob went in again to Bilhah a second time, and she conceived, and bore Jacob another son, and Rachel called his name Napthali, on the fifth of the seventh month, in the second year of the fourth week.

²⁰ 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 to 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.

²¹ 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.

²² 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.

²³ 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 Zabulon, and the name of the daughter Dinah, in the seventh of the seventh month, in the sixth year of the fourth week.

²⁴ And the Lord 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 in this fourth week.

²⁵ And in the days when Joseph was born, Jacob said to Laban: ‘Give me my wives and sons, and let me go to my father Isaac, and let me make me an 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.’

²⁶ And Laban said to Jacob: ‘Tarry with me for your wages, and pasture my flock for me again, and take your wages.’

²⁷ And they agreed with one another that he should give him as his wages those of the lambs and kids which were born black and spotted and white, (these) were to be his wages.

²⁸ 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.

²⁹ And Jacob’s possessions multiplied exceedingly, and he possessed oxen and sheep and donkeys and camels, and menservants and maid-servants.

³⁰ And Laban and his sons envied Jacob, and Laban took back his sheep from him, and he observed him with evil intent.

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Chapter 21

¹ And in the sixth year of the seventh week of this jubilee Abraham called Isaac his son, and [2057 (2050?) AM] commanded him: saying, ‘I am become old, and know not the day of my death, and am full of my days.

² And behold, I am one hundred and seventy-five years old, and throughout all the days of my life I have remembered the Lord, and sought with all my heart to do His will, and to walk uprightly in all His ways.

³ My soul has hated idols, that I might observe to do the will of Him who created me.

⁴ For He is the living God, and He is holy and faithful, and He is righteous beyond all, and there is with Him no accepting of (men’s) persons and no accepting of gifts; for God is righteous, and does judgment on all those who transgress His commandments and despise His covenant.

⁵ And do you, my son, observe His commandments and His ordinances and His judgments, and walk not after the abominations and after the graven images and after the molten images.

⁶ And eat no blood at all of animals or cattle, or of any bird which flies in the heaven.

⁷ And if you do slay a victim as an acceptable peace offering, slay you it, and pour out its blood upon the altar, and all the fat of the offering offer on the altar with fine flour and the meat offering mingled with oil, with its drink offering, offer them all together on the altar of burnt offering; it is a sweet savour before the Lord.

⁸ And you must offer the fat of the sacrifice of thank offerings on the fire which is upon the altar, and the fat which is on the belly, and all the fat on the inwards and the two kidneys, and all the fat that is upon them, and upon the loins and liver you shall remove, together with the kidneys.

⁹ And offer all these for a sweet savour acceptable before the Lord, with its meat-offering and with its drink- offering, for a sweet savour, the bread of the offering to the Lord.

¹⁰ And eat its meat on that day and on the second day, and let not the sun on the second day go down upon it till it is eaten, and let nothing be left over for the third day; for it is not acceptable [for it is not approved] and let it no longer be eaten, and all who eat of it will bring sin upon themselves; for thus I have found it written in the books of my forefathers, and in the words of Enoch, and in the words of Noah.

¹¹ And on all your oblations you shall strew salt, and let not the salt of the covenant be lacking in all your oblations before the Lord.

¹² And as regards the wood of the sacrifices, beware lest you bring (other) wood for the altar in addition to these: cypress, bay, almond, fir, pine, cedar, savin, fig, olive, myrrh, laurel, aspalathus.

¹³ And of these kinds of wood lay upon the altar under the sacrifice, such as have been tested as to their appearance, and do not lay (thereon) any split or dark wood, (but) hard and clean, without fault, a sound and new growth; and do not lay (thereon) old wood, [for its fragrance is gone] for there is no longer fragrance in it as before.

¹⁴ Besides these kinds of wood there is none other that you shall place (on the altar), for the fragrance is dispersed, and the smell of its fragrance goes not up to heaven.

¹⁵ Observe this commandment and do it, my son, that you may be upright in all your deeds.

¹⁶ 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 done sacrificing, wash again your hands and your feet.

¹⁷ And let no blood appear upon you nor upon your clothes; be on your guard, my son, against blood, be on your guard exceedingly; cover it with dust.

¹⁸ And do not eat any blood for it is the soul; eat no blood whatever.

¹⁹ And take no gifts for the blood of man, lest it be shed with impunity, without judgment; for it is the blood that is shed that causes the earth to sin, and the earth cannot be cleansed from the blood of man save by the blood of him who shed it.

²⁰ And take no present or gift for the blood of man: blood for blood, that you may be accepted before the Lord, the Most High God; for He is the defence of the good: and that you may be preserved from all evil, and that He may save you from every kind of death.

²¹ I see, my son,

That all the works of the children of men are sin and wickedness,
And all their deeds are uncleanness and an abomination and a pollution,
And there is no righteousness with them.

²² Beware, lest you shouldest walk in their ways

And tread in their paths,
And sin a sin to death before the Most High God.
Else He will [hide His face from you
And] give you back into the hands of your transgression,
And root you out of the land, and your seed likewise from under heaven,
And your name and your seed shall perish from the whole earth.

²³ Turn away from all their deeds and all their uncleanness,

And observe the ordinance of the Most High God,
And do His will and be upright in all things.

²⁴ And He will bless you in all your deeds,

And will raise up from you a plant of righteousness through all the earth, throughout all generations of the earth,

And my name and your name shall not be forgotten under heaven for ever.

²⁵ Go, my son in peace.

May the Most High God, my God and your God, strengthen you to do His will,
And may He bless all your seed and the residue of your seed for the generations for ever, with all righteous blessings,
That you may be a blessing on all the earth.’

²⁶ And he went out from him rejoicing.

Chapter 22

¹ And it came to pass in the first week in the forty-fourth jubilee, in the second year, that is, the year in which Abraham died, that 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-to Abraham, their father, and Abraham rejoiced because his two sons had come. — the Essenes celebrate their “feast of the first fruits” at the midst of their third month as expressed elsewhere (15:1; 16:13) in Jubilees;

² For Isaac had many possessions in Beersheba, and Isaac was wont to go and see his possessions and to return to his father.

³ And in those days Ishmael came to see his father, and they both came together, and Isaac offered a sacrifice for a burnt offering, and presented it on the altar of his father which he had made in Hebron.

⁴ 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 them to Abraham, his father, from the first fruits of the land, that he might eat and bless the Creator of all things before he died.

⁵ And Isaac, too, sent by the hand of Jacob to Abraham a best thank offering, that he might eat and drink.

⁶ And he ate and drank, and blessed the Most High God,

Who has created heaven and earth,
Who has made all the fat things of the earth,
And given them to the children of men
That they might eat and drink and bless their Creator.

⁷ ‘And now I give thanks to You, my God, because you have caused me to see this day: behold, I am one hundred three score and fifteen years, an old man and full of days, and all my days have been to me peace. — the narrative “I” is now Abraham, who then was 175 years when he died;

⁸ The sword of the adversary has not overcome me in all that You have given me and my children all the days of my life until this day. — the narrative is now Abraham;

⁹ My God, may Your mercy and Your peace be upon Your servant, and upon the seed of his sons, that they may be to You a chosen nation and an inheritance from amongst all the nations of the earth from henceforth to all the days of the generations of the earth, to all the ages.’

¹⁰ And he called Jacob and said: ‘My son Jacob, may the God of all bless you and strengthen you to do righteousness, and His will before Him, and may He choose you and your seed that you may become a people for His inheritance according to His will always. — the narrative “he” is now Abraham;

¹¹ And now Jacob, my son, draw near and kiss me.’ And he drew near and kissed him, and he said:

‘Blessed be my son Jacob
And all the sons of God Most High, to all the ages:
May God give to you a seed of righteousness;
And some of your sons may He sanctify in the middle of the whole earth;
May nations serve you,
And all the nations bow themselves before your seed. — may his (Judah) brothers bow before Judah is in the Masoretic Text, but all nations bow before Jacob isn’t;

¹² Be strong in the presence of men,

And exercise authority over all the seed of Seth. — his would involve all humanity;

Then your ways and the ways of your sons will be justified,

So that they shall become a holy nation. — a holy nation comes about only after being sanctified, but not when they exercise authority over all the seed of Seth! This is because often they exercise wickedness than doing good over the Gentiles; as history had shown;

¹³ May the Most High God give you all the blessings

Wherewith He has blessed me
And wherewith He blessed Noah and Adam;
May they rest on the sacred head of your seed from generation to generation for ever.

¹⁴ And may He cleanse you from all unrighteousness and impurity,

That you may be forgiven all the transgressions; which you have committed ignorantly.
And may He strengthen you,
And bless you.
And may you inherit the whole earth, — over the choisest part of the earth, yes, but surely not “the whole earth” because Noah had other sons, Ham and Japheth and each were allocated their own portion;

¹⁵ And may He renew His covenant with you.

That you may be to Him a nation for His inheritance for all the ages,
And that He may be to you and to your seed a God in truth and righteousness throughout all the days of the earth.

¹⁶ And, my son Jacob, remember my words,

And observe the commandments of Abraham, your father:
Separate yourself from the nations,
And eat not with them: — the Essenes sect do not mix with other people; they lived on their isolated community; like the Amish today;
And do not according to their works,
And become not their associate;
For their works are unclean,
And all their ways are a Pollution and an abomination and uncleanness.

¹⁷ 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.

¹⁸ They have no heart to understand

And their eyes do not see what their works are,
And how they err in saying to a piece of wood: ‘You are my God,’
And to a stone: ‘You are my Lord and you are my deliverer.’
[And they have no heart.

¹⁹ And as for you, my son Jacob,

May the Most High God help you

And the God of heaven bless you

And remove you from their uncleanness and from all their error.

²⁰ Beware, my son Jacob, of taking a wife from any seed of the daughters of Canaan;

For all his seed is to be rooted out of the earth.

²¹ For, owing to the transgression of Ham, Canaan erred,

And all his seed shall be destroyed from off the earth and all the residue of it,
And none springing from him shall be saved on the day of judgment.

²² And as for all the worshippers of idols and the profane

(b) There shall be no hope for them in the land of the living;
(c) And there shall be no remembrance of them on the earth;
(c) For they shall descend into Sheol,
(d) And into the place of condemnation shall they go,

As the children of Sodom were taken away from the earth
So will all those who worship idols be taken away.

²³ Fear not, my son Jacob,

And be not dismayed, O son of Abraham:
May the Most High God preserve you from destruction,
And from all the paths of error may he deliver you.

²⁴ This house have I built for myself that I might put my name upon it in the earth: [it is given to you and to your seed for ever], and it will be named the house of Abraham; it is given to you and to your seed for ever; for you must build my house and establish my name before God for ever: your seed and your name will stand throughout all generations of the earth.’

²⁵ And he ceased commanding him and blessing him.

²⁶ 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.

²⁷ And he blessed him with all his heart and said: ‘The Most High God, the God of all, and Creator of all, who brought me forth from Ur of the Chaldees that he might give me this land to inherit it for ever, and that I might establish a holy seed-blessed be the Most High for ever.’

²⁸ And he blessed Jacob and said: ‘My son, over whom with all my heart and my affection I rejoice, may Your grace and Your mercy be lift up upon him and upon his seed always.

²⁹ And do not forsake him, nor set him at nought from henceforth to the days of eternity, and may Your eyes be opened upon him and upon his seed, that You may preserve him, and bless him, and may sanctify him as a nation for Your inheritance;

³⁰ And bless him with all Your blessings from henceforth 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 to all the generations of the earth.’

Chapter 23

¹ And he placed two fingers of Jacob on his eyes, and he blessed the God of gods, and he covered his face and stretched out his feet and slept the sleep of eternity, and was gathered to his fathers.

² And Jacob was still lying in his bosom, and did not know that Abraham, his father’s father, was dead.

³ And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and behold Abraham was cold as ice, and he said ‘Father, father’; but there was none to reply, and he knew that he was dead.

⁴ 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 had gone in they found Abraham lying dead.

⁵ And Isaac fell on the face of his father and wept and kissed him.

⁶ 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.

⁷ 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 were ended.

⁸ And he lived three jubilees and four weeks of years, one hundred and seventy-five years, and completed the days of his life, being old and full of days. — Abraham lived 175 years (49 + 49 + 49 + 28 = 175 years; establishing their Jubilee as 49 years, and not 50);

— this 49 years cycle contradicts Leviticus 25:10:

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. It shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. Leviticus 25:10

— today the Jubilee year is neither designated nor observed; and the reason given by Chabad is this:

Although the laws of shemittah are observed in Israel to this very day, the Jubilee year is not designated or observed. There are many reasons for this. Some of them: a) The Jubilee only affected the shemittah cycle when the shemittah was established and declared by the Sanhedrin, as opposed to today when it is automatically programmed into the perpetual Jewish calendar. b) The observance of shemittah today is only a rabbinic decree, and therefore the Jubilee year does not affect its cycle. c) No commemoration is in order when there is no Sanhedrin, whose participation in the declaration of the Jubilee year was integral. In fact, it was the Sanhedrin’s blast of the shofar (ram’s horn) on Yom Kippur which signaled the entry of the Jubilee year. Chabad 

⁹ For the days of the forefathers, of their life, were nineteen jubilees; and after the Flood they began to grow less than nineteen jubilees, and to decrease in jubilees, and to grow old quickly, and to be full of their days by reason of manifold tribulation and the wickedness of their ways, with the exception of Abraham.

¹⁰ For Abraham was perfect in all his deeds with the Lord, and well-pleasing in righteousness all the days of his life; and behold, he did not complete four jubilees in his life, when he had grown old by reason of the wickedness, and was full of his days.

¹¹ And all the generations which shall arise from this time until the day of the great judgment shall grow old quickly, before they complete two jubilees, and their knowledge shall forsake them by reason of their old age Land all their knowledge shall vanish away].

¹² And in those days, if a man live a jubilee and a-half of years, they shall say regarding him: ‘He has lived long, and the greater part of his days are pain and sorrow and tribulation, and there is no peace:

¹³ For calamity follows on calamity, and wound on wound, and tribulation on tribulation, and evil tidings on evil tidings, and illness on illness, and all evil judgments such as these, one with another, illness and overthrow, and snow and frost and ice, and fever, and chills, and torpor, and famine, and death, and sword, and captivity, and all kinds of calamities and pains.’

¹⁴ And all these shall come on an evil generation, which transgresses on the earth: their works are uncleanness and fornication, and pollution and abominations.

¹⁵ Then they shall say: ‘The days of the forefathers were many (even), to a thousand years, and were good; but behold, the days of our life, if a man has lived many, are three score years and ten, and, if he is strong, four score years, and those evil, and there is no peace in the days of this evil generation.’

¹⁶ And in that generation the sons shall convict their fathers and their elders of sin and unrighteousness, and of the words of their mouth and the great wickednesses which they perpetrate, and concerning their forsaking the covenant which the Lord made between them and Him, that they should observe and do all His commandments and His ordinances and all His laws, without departing either to the right hand or the left.

¹⁷ For all have done evil, and every mouth speaks iniquity and all their works are an uncleanness and an abomination, and all their ways are pollution, uncleanness and destruction.

¹⁸ Behold the earth shall be destroyed on account of all their works, and there shall be no seed of the vine, and no oil; for their works are altogether faithless, and they shall all perish together, beasts and cattle and birds, and all the fish of the sea, on account of the children of men.

¹⁹ And they shall strive one with another, the young with the old, and the old with the young, the poor with the rich, the lowly with the great, and the beggar with the prince, on account of the law and the covenant; for they have forgotten commandment, and covenant, and feasts, and months, and Sabbaths, and jubilees, and all judgments.

²⁰ And they shall stand swords and war to turn them back into the way; but they shall not return until much blood has been shed on the earth, one by another.

²¹ And those who have escaped shall not return from their wickedness to the way of righteousness, but they shall all exalt themselves to deceit and wealth, that they may each take all that is his neighbour’s, and they shall name the great name, but not in truth and not in righteousness, and they shall defile the holy of holies with their uncleanness and the corruption of their pollution.

²² And a great punishment shall befall the deeds of this generation from the Lord, and He will give them over to the sword and to judgment and to captivity, and to be plundered and devoured.

²³ And He will wake up against them the sinners of the Gentiles, who have neither mercy nor compassion, and who shall respect the person of none, neither old nor young, nor any one, for they are more wicked and strong to do evil than all the children of men.

And they shall use violence against Israel and transgression against Jacob,
And much blood shall be shed upon the earth,
And there shall be none to gather and none to bury.

²⁴ In those days they shall cry aloud,

And call and pray that they may be saved from the hand of the sinners, the Gentiles;
But none shall be saved.

²⁵ And the heads of the children shall be white with grey hair,

And a child of three weeks shall appear old like a man of one hundred years,
And their stature shall be destroyed by tribulation and oppression.

²⁶ And in those days the children shall begin to study the laws,

And to seek the commandments,
And to return to the path of righteousness.

²⁷ And the days shall begin to grow many and increase amongst those children of men

Till their days draw nigh to one thousand years.
And to a greater number of years than (before) was the number of the days.

²⁸ And there shall be no old man

Nor one who is satisfied with his days,
For all shall be (as) children and youths.

²⁹ And all their days they shall complete and live in peace and in joy,

And there shall be no Satan nor any evil destroyer;
For all their days shall be days of blessing and healing.

³⁰ And at that time the Lord will heal His servants,

And they shall rise up and see great peace,
And drive out their adversaries.
And the righteous shall see and be thankful,
And rejoice with joy for ever and ever,
And shall see all their judgments and all their curses on their enemies.

³¹ And their bones shall rest in the earth,

And their spirits shall have much joy,
And they shall know that it is the Lord who executes judgment,
And shows mercy to hundreds and thousands and to all that love Him

³² And do you, Moses, write down these words; for thus are they written, and they record (them) on the heavenly tablets for a testimony for the generations for ever.

Chapter 24

¹ And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that the Lord blessed Isaac his son, and he arose from Hebron and went and dwelt at the Well of the Vision in the first year of the third week of this jubilee, seven years.

² 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.

³ And Jacob made lentil pottage, and Esau came from the field hungry. And he said to Jacob his brother: ‘Give me of this red pottage.’ And Jacob said to him: ‘Sell to me your [primogeniture, this] birthright and I will give you bread, and also some of this lentil pottage.’

⁴ And Esau said in his heart: ‘I shall die; of what profit to me is this birthright? ‘And he said to Jacob: ‘I give it to you.’

⁵ And Jacob said: ‘Swear to me, this day,’ and he swore to him.

⁶ And Jacob gave his brother Esau bread and pottage, and he ate till he was satisfied, and Esau despised his birthright; for this reason was Esau’s name called Edom, on account of the red pottage which Jacob gave him for his birthright.

⁷ And Jacob became the elder, and Esau was brought down from his dignity. — in other words, Shem, who was technically the younger, became the elder on account that the line of Abraham and others, were from Shem?

⁸ And the famine was over the land, and Isaac departed to go down into Egypt in the second year of this week, and went to the king of the Philistines to Gerar, to Abimelech.

⁹ And the Lord appeared to him and said to him: ‘Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land that I shall tell you of, and sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you.

¹⁰ For to you and to your seed will I 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 heaven, and will give to your seed all this land.

¹¹ And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, 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 dwell in this land.’

¹² And he dwelt in Gelar three weeks of years.

¹³ And Abimelech charged concerning him, and concerning all that was his, saying: ‘Any man that shall touch him or anything that is his shall surely die.’

¹⁴ And Isaac waxed strong among the Philistines, and he got many possessions, oxen and sheep and camels and donkeys and a great household.

¹⁵ And he sowed in the land of the Philistines and brought in a hundred-fold, and Isaac became exceedingly great, and the Philistines envied him.

¹⁶ Now all the wells which 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.

¹⁷ And Abimelech said to Isaac: ‘Go from us, for you are much mightier than we’, and Isaac departed thence in the first year of the seventh week, and sojourned in the valleys of Gerar.

¹⁸ 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 named them.

¹⁹ And the servants of Isaac dug a well in the valley, and found living water, and the shepherds of Gerar strove 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 us.

²⁰ And they dug a second well, and they strove for that also, and he called its name ‘Enmity.’ And he arose from thence and they dug another well, and for that they strove not, and he called the name of it ‘Room,’ and Isaac said: ‘Now the Lord has made room for us, and we have increased in the land.’

²¹ And he went up from thence to the Well of the Oath in the first year of the first week in the forty-fourth jubilee.

²² And the Lord appeared to him that night, on the new moon of the first month, and said to him: ‘I am the God of Abraham your father; fear not, for I am with you, and shall bless you and shall surely multiply your seed as the sand of the earth, for the sake of Abraham my servant.’

²³ And he built an altar there, which Abraham his father had first built, and he called upon the name of the Lord, and he offered sacrifice to the God of Abraham his father.

²⁴ And they dug a well and they found living water.

²⁵ 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 announced to us.’

²⁶ 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 prefect or his host.

²⁷ And Isaac knew that day that under constraint he had sworn to them to make peace with them.

²⁸ And Isaac on that day cursed the Philistines and said: ‘Cursed be the Philistines to the day of wrath and indignation from the middle of all nations; may God make them a derision and a curse and an object of wrath and indignation in the hands of the sinners the Gentiles and in the hands of the Kittim.

²⁹ And whoever escapes the sword of the enemy and the Kittim, may the righteous nation root out in judgment from under heaven; for they shall be the enemies and foes of my children throughout their generations upon the earth.

³⁰ And no remnant shall be left to them,

Nor one that shall be saved on the day of the wrath of judgment;
For destruction and rooting out and expulsion from the earth is the whole seed of the Philistines (reserved),
And there shall no longer be left for these Caphtorim a name or a seed on the earth.

³¹ For though he ascend to heaven,

Thence shall he be brought down,
And though he make himself strong on earth,
Thence shall he be dragged forth,
And though he hide himself amongst the nations,
Even from thence shall he be rooted out;
And though he descend into Sheol,
There also shall his condemnation be great,
And there also he shall have no peace.

³² And if he go into captivity,

By the hands of those that seek his life shall they slay him on the way,
And neither name nor seed shall be left to him on all the earth;
For into eternal malediction shall he depart.’

³³ And thus is it 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.

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The Book of Jubilees covers much of the same ground as Genesis, but with the central them of the Jubilees.

Chapter 17

¹ And in the first year of the fifth week Isaac was weaned in this jubilee, and Abraham made a great banquet in the third month, on the day his son Isaac was weaned.

² And Ishmael, the son of Hagar, the Egyptian, was before the face of Abraham, his father, in his place, and Abraham rejoiced and blessed God because he had seen his sons and had not died childless.

³ And he remembered the words which He had spoken to him on the day on which Lot had parted from him, and he rejoiced because the Lord had given him seed upon the earth to inherit the earth, and he blessed with all his mouth the Creator of all things.

⁴ 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.’

⁵ And it was a grief to Abraham to have to drive his maidservant and his son away from him.

⁶ And God 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 shall your name and seed be called.

⁷ But as for the son of this bondwoman I will make him a great nation, because he is of your seed.’

⁸ And Abraham rose up 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.

⁹ And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba, and the water in the bottle was spent, and the child thirsted, and was not able to go on, and fell down.

¹⁰ And his mother took him and cast him under an olive tree, and went and sat her down over against him, at the distance of a bow-shot; for she said, ‘Let me not see the death of my child,’ and as she sat she wept.

¹¹ And an angel of God, one of the holy ones, said to her, ‘Why weepest you, Hagar? Arise take the child, and hold him in your hand; for God has heard your voice, and has seen the child.’

¹² And she opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and she went and filled her bottle with water, and she gave her child to drink, and she arose and went towards the wilderness of Paran.

¹³ And the child grew and became an archer, and God was with him, and his mother took him a wife from among the daughters of Egypt.

¹⁴ And she bore him a son, and he called his name Nebaioth; for she said, ‘The Lord was nigh to me when I called upon him.’

¹⁵ 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 of this month, there were voices in heaven regarding Abraham, that he was faithful in all that He told him, and that he loved the Lord, and that in every affliction he was faithful.

¹⁶ And the prince Mastema came and said before God, ‘Behold, Abraham loves Isaac his son, and he delights in him above all things else; bid him offer him as a burnt-offering on the altar, and You must see if he will do this command, and You must know if he is faithful in everything wherein You do try him.

¹⁷ And the Lord knew that Abraham was faithful in all his afflictions; for He had tried him through his country and with famine, and had tried him with the wealth of kings, and had tried him again through his wife, when she was torn (from him), and with circumcision; and had tried him through Ishmael and Hagar, his maid-servant, when he sent them away.

¹⁸ And in everything wherein He had tried 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 the Lord.

Chapter 18

¹ And God said to him, ‘Abraham, Abraham’; and he said, Behold, (here) am I.’

² And he said, Take your beloved son whom you lovest, (even) Isaac, and go to the high country, and offer him on one of the mountains which I will point out to you.’

³ And he rose early in the morning and saddled his ass, and took his two young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood of the burnt offering, and he went to the place on the third day, and he saw the place afar off.

⁴ And he came to a well of water, and he said to his young men, ‘Abide you here with the ass, and I and the lad shall go (yonder), and when we have worshipped we shall come again to you.’

⁵ And he took the wood of the burnt-offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife, and they went both of them together to that place.

⁶ And Isaac said to his father, ‘Father;’ and he said, ‘Here am I, 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, ‘God will provide for himself a sheep for a burnt-offering, my son.’

⁷ And he drew near to the place of the mount of God.

⁸ And he built an altar, and he placed the wood on the altar, and bound Isaac his son, and placed him on the wood which was upon the altar, and stretched forth his hand to take the knife to slay Isaac his son.

⁹ And I stood before him, and before the prince Mastema, and the Lord said, ‘Bid him not to lay his hand on the lad, nor to do anything to him, for I have shown that he fears the Lord.’ — who is the ‘I’? another angel, seems like the writer of Jubilees regards Abraham met the “prince Mastema” supposedly an angel; but now there is another angel! and yet he spoke on the Lord’s behalf? A bit confusing.

¹⁰ And I called to him from heaven, and said to him: ‘Abraham, Abraham;’ and he was terrified and said: ‘Behold, (here) am I.’

¹¹ And I said to him: ‘Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither anything to him; for now I have shown that you fearest the Lord, and have not withheld your son, your first-born son, from me.’

¹² And the prince Mastema was put to shame; and Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold a ram caught . . . by his horns, and Abraham went and took the ram and offered it for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son. — why was the prince Mastema put to shame? He acted like Satan before Job where Job refused to succum to his scheme; so is Satan having another name as prince Mastema here?

¹³ And Abraham called that place ‘The Lord has seen,’ so that it is said the Lord has seen: that is Mount Sion.

¹⁴ And the Lord called Abraham by his name a second time from heaven, as he caused us to appear to speak to him in the name of the Lord. — if this is the second time, then the preceding encounter would logically be the first time; and there were no second angel. So why did the writer of the Book of Jubilee placed the ‘I’ as the Lord in the first person?

¹⁵ And he said:

‘By Myself have I sworn, says the Lord,
Because you have done this thing,
And have not withheld your son, your beloved son, from Me,
That in blessing I will bless you,
And in multiplying I will multiply your seed
As the stars of heaven, And as the sand which is on the seashore;
And your seed shall inherit the cities of its enemies.

¹⁶ And in your seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed;

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.’

¹⁷ And Abraham went to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba, and Abraham dwelt by the Well of the Oath.

¹⁸ And he celebrated this festival every year, seven days with joy, and he called it the festival of the Lord according to the seven days during which he went and returned in peace. — what is the name of this feast, ‘the festival of the Lord,’ we wonder, and for seven days?

¹⁹ And accordingly has it been ordained and written on the heavenly tablets regarding Israel and its seed that they should observe this festival seven days with the joy of festival.

— if indeed “this festival” is ordained and to be celebrated by “Israel and its seed,” for seven days, then it is not supported by the Masoretic Text; hence the writer of Jubilees, whoever he was, could had gone overboard.

Chapter 19

¹ And in the first year of the first week in the forty-second jubilee, Abraham returned and dwelt opposite Hebron, that is Kirjath Arba, two weeks of years.

² And in the first year of the third week of this jubilee the days of the life of Sarah were accomplished, and she died in Hebron. — why was Abraham not living with Sarah?

³ And Abraham went to mourn over her and bury her, and we tried him [to see] if his spirit were patient and he were not indignant in the words of his mouth; and he was found patient in this, and was not disturbed. — who are the component of the ‘we’ above?

⁴ For in patience of spirit he conversed with the children of Heth, to the intent that they should give him a place in which to bury his dead.

⁵ And the Lord gave him grace before all who saw him, and he besought in gentleness the sons of Heth, and they gave him the land of the double cave over against Mamre, that is Hebron, for four hundred pieces of silver.

⁶ And they besought him saying, We shall give it to you for nothing; but he would not take it from their hands for nothing, for he gave the 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.

⁷ And all the days of the life of Sarah were one hundred and twenty-seven years, that is, two jubilees and four weeks and one year: these are the days of the years of the life of Sarah. — how would “two jubilees and four weeks and one year” arrive at 127 years unless a Jubilee is just 49 years?

⁸ This is the tenth trial wherewith Abraham was tried, and he was found faithful, patient in spirit.

⁹ And he said not a single word regarding the rumour in the land how that God had said that 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 God.

¹⁰ And in the fourth year of it he took a wife for his son Isaac and her name was Rebecca [the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, the brother of Abraham] the sister of Laban and daughter of Bethuel; and Bethuel was the son of Melca, who was the wife of Nahor, the brother of Abraham.

¹¹ And Abraham took to 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 Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah, in the two weeks of years.

¹² 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 dwelt in tents.

¹³ And the youths grew, and Jacob learned to write;

¹⁴ but Esau did not learn, for he was a man of the field and a hunter, and he learnt war, and all his deeds were fierce.

¹⁵ And Abraham loved Jacob, but Isaac loved Esau.

¹⁶ And Abraham saw the deeds of Esau, and he knew that in Jacob should his name and seed be called; and he called Rebecca and gave commandment regarding Jacob, for he knew that she (too) loved Jacob much more than Esau.

¹⁷ And he said to her:

My daughter, watch over my son Jacob,
For he shall be in my stead on the earth,
And for a blessing in the middle of the children of men,
And for the glory of the whole seed of Shem.

¹⁸ For I know that the Lord will choose him to be a people for possession to Himself, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

¹⁹ And behold, Isaac my son loves Esau more than Jacob, but I see that you truly lovest Jacob.

²⁰ Add still further to your kindness to him,

And let your eyes be upon him in love;
For he shall be a blessing to us on the earth from henceforth to all generations of the earth.

²¹ 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 shall be blessed for ever,
And his seed shall fill the whole earth.

²² If a man can number the sand of the earth,

His seed also shall be numbered.

²³ And all the blessings wherewith the Lord has blessed me and my seed shall belong to Jacob and his seed always.

²⁴ And in his seed shall my name be blessed, and the name of my fathers, Shem, and Noab, and Enoch, and Mahalalel, and Enos, and Seth, and Adam.

²⁵ And these shall serve

To lay the foundations of the heaven,
And to strengthen the earth,
And to renew all the luminaries which are in the firmament.

²⁶ And he called Jacob before the eyes of Rebecca his mother, and kissed him, and blessed him, and said: ‘Jacob, my beloved son, whom my soul loves, may God bless you from above the firmament,

²⁷ and may He give you all the blessings wherewith He blessed 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 to cleave to you and to your seed for ever, according to the days of heaven above the earth.

²⁸ And the Spirits of Mastema shall not rule over you or over your seed to turn you from the Lord, who is your God from henceforth for ever.

²⁹ And may the Lord God be a father to you and you the first-born son, and to the people always.

³⁰ Go in peace, my son.’ And they both went out together from Abraham.

³¹ And Rebecca loved Jacob, with all her heart and with all her soul, very much more than Esau; but Isaac loved Esau much more than Jacob.

Chapter 20

¹ And in the forty-second jubilee, in the first year of the seventh week, Abraham called Ishmael, [2052 (2045?) AM] and his twelve sons, and Isaac and his two sons, and the six sons of Keturah, and their sons.

² And he commanded them that they should observe the way of the Lord; that they should work righteousness, and love each his neighbour, and act on this manner amongst all men; that they should each so walk with regard to them as to do judgment and righteousness on the earth.

³ That they should circumcise their sons, according to the covenant which He had made with them, and not deviate to the right hand or the left of all the paths which the Lord had commanded us; and that we should keep ourselves from all fornication and uncleanness, [and renounce from amongst us all fornication and uncleanness].

⁴ And if any woman or maid commit fornication amongst you, burn her with fire and let them not commit fornication with her after their eyes and their heart; and let them not take to themselves wives from the daughters of Canaan; for the seed of Canaan will be rooted out of the land.

⁵ 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 mutual corruption through fornication.

⁶ ‘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 to be destroyed by the sword,
And you become accursed like Sodom,
And all your remnant as the sons of Gomorrah.

⁷ I implore you, my sons, love the God of heaven

And cleave you to all His commandments.
And walk not after their idols, and after their uncleannesses,

⁸ And make not for yourselves molten or graven gods;

For they are vanity,
And there is no spirit in them;
For they are work of (men’s) hands,
And all who trust in them, trust in nothing.

⁹ Serve them not, nor worship them,

But serve you the most high God, and worship Him continually:
And hope for His countenance always,
And work uprightness and righteousness before Him,
That He may have pleasure in you and grant you His mercy,
And send rain upon you morning and evening,
And bless all your works which you have done upon the earth,
And bless your bread and your water,
And bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land,
And the herds of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep.

¹⁰ And you will be for a blessing on the earth,

And all nations of the earth will desire you,
And bless your sons in my name,
That they may be blessed as I am.

¹¹ 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.

¹² And Ishmael and his sons, and the sons of Keturah and their sons, went together and dwelt from Paran to the entering in of Babylon in all the land which is towards the East facing the desert.

¹³ And these mingled with each other, and their name was called Arabs, and Ishmaelites.

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Chapter 13

¹ And Abram journeyed from Haran, and he took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother Haran’s son, to the land of Canaan, and he came into Asshur, and proceeded to Shechem, and dwelt near a lofty oak.

² And he saw, and, behold, the land was very pleasant from the entering of Hamath to the lofty oak.

³ And the Lord said to him: ‘To you and to your seed will I give this land.’

⁴ And he built an altar there, and he offered thereon a burnt sacrifice to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

5 And he removed from thence to the mountain . . . Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and pitched his tent there.

⁶ And he saw and behold, the land was very wide and good, and everything grew thereon, vines and figs and pomegranates, oaks and ilexes, and terebinths and oil trees, and cedars and cypresses and date trees, and all trees of the field, and there was water on the mountains.

⁷ And he blessed the Lord who had led him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and had brought him to this land.

⁸ And it came to pass in the first year, in the seventh week, on the new moon of the first month, that he built an altar on this mountain, and called on the name of the Lord: ‘You, the eternal God, are my God.’

⁹ And he offered on the altar a burnt sacrifice to the Lord that He should be with him and not forsake him all the days of his life.

¹⁰ And he removed from thence and went towards the south, and he came to Hebron and Hebron was built at that time, and he dwelt there two years, and he went (thence) into the land of the south, to Bealoth, and there was a famine in the land.

¹¹ And Abram went into Egypt in the third year of the week, and he dwelt in Egypt five years before his wife was torn away from him.

¹² Now Tanais in Egypt was at that time built – seven years after Hebron.

¹³ And it came to pass when Pharaoh seized Sarai, the wife of Abram that the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

¹⁴ And Abram was very glorious by reason of possessions in sheep, and cattle, and donkeys, and horses, and camels, and menservants, and maidservants, and in silver and gold exceedingly. And Lot also his brother’s son, was wealthy.

¹⁵ And Pharaoh gave back Sarai, the wife of Abram, and he sent him out of the land of Egypt, and he journeyed to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, to the place of the altar, with Ai on the east, and Bethel on the west, and he blessed the Lord his God who had brought him back in peace.

¹⁶ 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 thereon a burnt sacrifice, and called on the name of the Lord, and said: ‘You, the most high God, are my God for ever and ever.’

¹⁷ And in the fourth year of this week Lot parted from him, and Lot dwelt in Sodom, and the men of Sodom were sinners exceedingly.

¹⁸ And it grieved him in his heart that his brother’s son had parted from him; for he had no children.

¹⁹ In that year when Lot was taken captive, the Lord said to Abram, after that Lot had parted from him, in the fourth year of this week: ‘Lift up your eyes from the place where you are dwelling, northward and southward, and westward and eastward.

²⁰ For all the land which you seest I will give to you and to your seed for ever, 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 shall not be numbered.

21 Arise, walk (through the land) in the length of it and the breadth of it, and see it all; for to your seed will I give it.’ And Abram went to Hebron, and dwelt there.

²² And in this year came Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Sellasar, and Tergal, king of nations, and slew the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Sodom fled, and many fell through wounds in the vale of Siddim, by the Salt Sea.

²³ And they took captive Sodom and Adam and Zeboim, and they took captive Lot also, the son of Abram’s brother, and all his possessions, and they went to Dan.

²⁴ And one who had escaped came and told Abram that his brother’s son had been taken captive and (Abram) armed his household servants . . .

²⁵ who served before Him, that they should possess it for ever.

. . . . for Abram, and for his seed, a tenth of the first fruits to the Lord, and the Lord ordained it as an ordinance for ever that they should give it to the priests

²⁶ And to this law there is no limit of days; for He has ordained it for the generations for ever that they should give to the Lord the tenth of everything, of the seed and of the wine and of the oil and of the cattle and of the sheep.

²⁷ And He gave (it) to His priests to eat and to drink with joy before Him.

²⁸ And the king of Sodom came to him and bowed himself before him, and said: ‘Our Lord Abram, give to us the souls which you have rescued, but let the booty be your.’

²⁹ And Abram said to him: ‘I lift up my hands to the Most High God, that from a thread to a shoe-latchet I shall not take anything that is your lest you should say, I have made Abram rich; save only what the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eschol, and Mamre. These shall take their portion.’

Chapter 14

¹ After these things, in the fourth year of this week, on the new moon of the third month, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a dream, saying: ‘Fear not, Abram; I am your defender, and your reward will be wonderful.’

² And he said: ‘Lord, Lord, what must you give me, seeing I go hence childless, and the son of Maseq, the son of my handmaid, is the Dammasek Eliezer: he will be my heir, and to me you have given no seed.’

³ And He said to him: ‘This (man) will not be your heir, but one that will come out of your own bowels; he will be your heir.’

⁴ And He brought him forth abroad, and said to him: ‘Look toward heaven and number the stars if you are able to number them.’

⁵ And he looked toward heaven, and beheld the stars. And He said to him: ‘So shall your seed be.’

⁶ And he believed in the Lord, and it was counted to him for righteousness.

⁷ And He said to him: ‘I am the Lord that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you the land of the Canaanites to possess it for ever; and I will be God to you and to your seed after you.’

⁸ And he said: ‘Lord, Lord, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit (it)?’

⁹ And He said to him: ‘Take Me an heifer of three years, and a goat of three years, and a sheep of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a pigeon.’

¹⁰ And he took all these in the middle of the month and he dwelt at the oak of Mamre, which is near Hebron. — “the middle of the month” or the fifteenth of Sivan (14:1), the feast of firstfruits;

¹¹ And he built there an altar, and sacrificed all these; and he poured their blood upon the altar, and divided them in the middle, and laid them over against each other; but the birds divided he not.

¹² And birds came down upon the pieces, and Abram drove them away, and did not suffer the birds to touch them.

¹³ And it came to pass, when the sun had set, that an ecstasy fell upon Abram, and lo! an horror of great darkness fell upon him, and it was said to Abram: ‘Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land (that is) not theirs, and they shall bring them into bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.

¹⁴ And the nation also to whom they will be in bondage will I judge, and after that they shall come forth thence with much substance.

¹⁵ And you shall go to your fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.

¹⁶ But in the fourth generation they shall return hither; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.’

¹⁷ And he awoke from his sleep, and he arose, and the sun had set; and there was a flame, and behold! a furnace was smoking, and a flame of fire passed between the pieces.

¹⁸ And on that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: ‘To your seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Perizzites, and the Rephaim, the Phakorites, and the Hivites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

¹⁹ And the day passed, and Abram offered the pieces, and the birds, and their fruit offerings, and their drink offerings, and the fire devoured them.

²⁰ And on that day we made a covenant with Abram, according as we had covenanted with Noah in this month; and Abram renewed the festival and ordinance for himself for ever.

²¹ And Abram rejoiced, and made all these things known to Sarai his wife; and he believed that he would have seed, but she did not bear.

²² And Sarai advised her husband Abram, and said to him: ‘Go in to Hagar, my Egyptian maid: it may be that I shall build up seed to you by her.’

²³ And Abram harkened to the voice of Sarai his wife, and said to her, ‘Do (so).’ And Sarai took Hagar, her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to Abram, her husband, to be his wife.

²⁴ And he went in 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

¹ And 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.

² And he offered new offerings on the altar, the first-fruits of the produce, to the Lord, an heifer and a goat and a sheep on the altar as a burnt sacrifice to the Lord; their fruit offerings and their drink offerings he offered upon the altar with frankincense.

³ And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: ‘I am God Almighty; approve yourself before me and be you perfect.

⁴ And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.’

⁵ And Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, and said:

⁶ ‘Behold my ordinance is with you,
And you shall be the father of many nations.

⁷ Neither shall your name any more be called Abram,
But your name from henceforth, even for ever, shall be Abraham.
For the father of many nations have I made you.

⁸ And I will make you very great,
And I will make you into nations,
And kings shall come forth from you.

⁹ And I shall establish My covenant between Me and you, and your seed after you, throughout their generations, for an eternal covenant, so that I may be a God to you, and to your seed after you.

¹⁰ the land where you have been a sojourner, the land of Canaan, that you may possess it for ever, and I will be their God.’

¹¹ And the Lord said to Abraham: ‘And as for you, keep my covenant, you and your seed after you: and circumcise you every male among you, and circumcise your foreskins, and it shall be a token of an eternal covenant between Me and you.

¹² And the child on the eighth day you shall circumcise, every male throughout your generations, him that is born in the house, or whom you have bought with money from any stranger, whom you have acquired who is not of your seed.

¹³ He that is born in your house shall surely be circumcised, and those whom you have bought with money shall be circumcised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an eternal ordinance.

¹⁴ And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul shall be cut off from his people, for he has broken My covenant.’

¹⁵ And God said to Abraham: ‘As for Sarai your wife, her name shall no more be called Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

¹⁶ And I will bless her, and give you a son by her, and I will bless him, and he shall become a nation, and kings of nations shall proceed from him.’

¹⁷ And Abraham fell on his face, and rejoiced, and said in his heart: ‘Shall a son be born to him that is a hundred years old, and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bring forth?’

¹⁸ And Abraham said to God: ‘O that Ishmael might live before you!.’

¹⁹ And God said: ‘Yea, and Sarah also shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac, and I will establish My covenant with him, an everlasting covenant, and for his seed after him.

— note that ‘for his seed after him’ that is, collectively, Esau and Jacob could be regarded as a single seed; they are, today, the core nations of the Catholic and Protestant countries; or roughly or collectively, the “Christian” nations;

— for an indepth analysis on Esau, see Obadiah

²⁰ And as for Ishmael also have I heard you, and behold I will bless him, and make him great, and multiply him exceedingly, and he shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. — the core religion for Ishmael is Islam;

²¹ But My covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you, in these days, in the next year.’

²² And He left off speaking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

²³ And Abraham did according as God had said to him, and he took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and whom he had bought with his money, every male in his house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin.

²⁴ And on the selfsame day Abraham was circumcised, and all the men of his house . . . and all those whom he had bought with money from the children of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

²⁵ This law is for all the generations for ever, and there is no circumcision of the days, and no omission of one day out of the eight days; for it is an eternal ordinance, ordained and written on the heavenly tablets.

²⁶ And every one that is born, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised on the eighth day, belongs not to the children of the covenant which the Lord made with Abraham, but to the children of destruction; nor is there, moreover, any sign on him that he is the Lord’s, but (he is destined) to be destroyed and slain from the earth, and to be rooted out of the earth, for he has broken the covenant of the Lord our God.

²⁷ For all the angels of the presence and all the angels of sanctification have been so created from the day of their creation, and before the angels of the presence and the angels of sanctification He has sanctified Israel, that they should be with Him and with His holy angels.

²⁸ And command the children of Israel and let them observe the sign of this covenant for their generations as an eternal ordinance, and they will not be rooted out of the land.

²⁹ For the command is ordained for a covenant, that they should observe it for ever among all the children of Israel.

³⁰ For Ishmael and his sons and his brothers and Esau, the Lord did not cause to approach Him, and he chose them not because they are the children of Abraham, because He knew them, but He chose Israel to be His people.

³¹ And He sanctified it, and gathered it from amongst all the children of men; for there are many nations and many peoples, and all are His, and over all has He placed spirits in authority to lead them astray from Him.

³² But over Israel He did not appoint any angel or spirit, for He alone is their ruler, and He will preserve them and require them at the hand of His angels and His spirits, and at the hand of all His powers in order that He may preserve them and bless them, and that they may be His and He may be theirs from henceforth for ever.

³³ And now I announce to you that the children of Israel will not keep true to this ordinance, and they will not circumcise their sons according to all this law; for in the flesh of their circumcision they will omit this circumcision of their sons, and all of them, sons of Beliar, will leave their sons uncircumcised as they were born.

³⁴ And there will be great wrath from the Lord against the children of Israel. because they have forsaken His covenant and turned aside from His word, and provoked and blasphemed, not observing the ordinance of this law; for they have treated their members like the Gentiles, so that they may be removed and rooted out of the land. And there will no more be pardon or forgiveness to them [so that there should be forgiveness and pardon] for all the sin of this eternal error.

Chapter 16

¹ And on the new moon of the fourth month we appeared to Abraham, at the oak of Mamre, and we talked with him, and we announced to him that a son would be given to him by Sarah his wife. — who are the component of the “we”? ~ an angel among three sent from the Lord, an angel of the presence? In the Genesis 18-19, it was the three “angels.”

² And Sarah laughed, for she heard that we had spoken these words with Abraham, and we admonished her, and she became afraid, and denied that she had laughed on account of the words.

³ And we told her the name of her son, as his name is ordained and written in the heavenly tablets (i.e.) Isaac,

⁴ And (that) when we returned to her at a set time, she would have conceived a son.

⁵ And in this month the Lord executed his judgments on Sodom and Gomorrah, and Zeboim, and all the region of the Jordan, and He burned them with fire and brimstone, and destroyed them until this day, even as [lo] I have declared 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.

⁶ And, in like manner, God will execute judgment on the places where they have done according to the uncleanness of the Sodomites, like to the judgment of Sodom.

⁷ But Lot we saved; for God remembered Abraham, and sent him out from the middle of the overthrow.

⁸ And he and his daughters committed sin upon the earth, such as had not been on the earth since the days of Adam till his time; for the man lay with his daughters.

⁹ And, behold, it was commanded and engraven 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.

¹⁰ And in this month Abraham moved from Hebron, and departed and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur in the mountains of Gerar.

¹¹ And in the middle of the fifth month he moved from thence, and dwelt at the Well of the Oath.

¹² And in the middle of the sixth month the Lord visited Sarah and did to her as He had spoken and she conceived.

¹³ And she bore a son in the third month, and in the middle of the month, at the time of which the Lord had spoken to Abraham, on the festival of the first fruits of the harvest, Isaac was born.

¹⁴ And Abraham circumcised his son on the eighth day: he was the first that was circumcised according to the covenant which is ordained for ever.

¹⁵ And in the sixth year of the fourth week we came to Abraham, to the Well of the Oath, and we appeared to him [as we had told Sarah that we should return to her, and she would have conceived a son.

¹⁶ And we returned in the seventh month, and found Sarah with child before us; and we blessed him, and we announced to him that it had been decreed for him not to die till he had begotten six more sons, and seen them before he died; but (that) in Isaac should his name and seed be called: — these “six more sons” would be from Keturah;

¹⁷ And (that) all the seed of his sons should be Gentiles, and be reckoned with the Gentiles; but from the sons of Isaac one should become a holy seed, and should not be reckoned among the Gentiles. — all the sons of Keturah are Gentiles; and the author seemed to indicate they are of no hope, despite they also being sons of Abraham;

¹⁸ For he should become the portion of the Most High, and all his seed had fallen into the possession of God, that it should be to the Lord a people for (His) possession above all nations and that it should become a kingdom and priests and a holy nation.

¹⁹ And we went our way, and we announced to Sarah all that we had told him, and they both rejoiced with wonderful joy.

²⁰ And he built there an altar to the Lord who had delivered him, and who was making him rejoice in the land of his sojourning, and he celebrated a festival of joy in this month seven days, near the altar which he had built at the Well of the Oath.

²¹ And he built booths for himself and for his servants on this festival, and he was the first to celebrate the feast of tabernacles on the earth.

²² And during these seven days he brought each day to the altar a burnt offering to the Lord, two oxen, two rams, seven sheep, one he-goat, for a sin offering, that he might atone thereby for himself and for his seed.

²³ And, as a thank-offering, seven rams, seven kids, seven sheep, and seven he-goats, and their fruit offerings and their drink offerings; and he burnt all the fat of it on the altar, a chosen offering to the Lord for a sweet smelling savour.

²⁴ And morning and evening he burnt fragrant substances, frankincense and galbanum, and stackte, and nard, and myrrh, and spice, and costum; all these seven he offered, crushed, mixed together in equal parts (and) pure.

²⁵ And he celebrated this feast during seven days, rejoicing with all his heart and with all his soul, he and all those who were in his house, and there was no stranger with him, nor any that was uncircumcised.

²⁶ And he blessed his Creator who had created him in his generation, for He had created him according to His good pleasure; for He knew and perceived that from him would arise the plant of righteousness for the eternal generations, and from him a holy seed, so that it should become like Him who had made all things.

²⁷ And he blessed and rejoiced, and he called the name of this festival the festival of the Lord, a joy acceptable to the Most High God.

²⁸ And we blessed him for ever, and all his seed after him throughout all the generations of the earth, because he celebrated this festival in its season, according to the testimony of the heavenly tablets.

²⁹ For this reason it is ordained on the heavenly tablets concerning Israel, that they shall celebrate the feast of tabernacles seven days with joy, in the seventh month, acceptable before the Lord, a statute for ever throughout their generations every year.

³⁰ And to this there is no limit of days; for it is ordained for ever regarding Israel that they should celebrate it and dwell in booths, and set wreaths upon their heads, and take leafy boughs, and willows from the brook.

³¹ And Abraham took branches of palm trees, and the fruit of goodly trees, and every day going round the altar with the branches seven times [a day] in the morning, he praised and gave thanks to his God for all things in joy.

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Chapter 9

¹ And Ham divided amongst his sons, and the first portion came forth for Cush towards the east, and to the west of him for Mizraim, and to the west of him for Put, and to the west of him [and to the west of it] on the sea for Canaan.

² And Shem also divided amongst his sons, and the first portion came forth for Ham and his sons, to the east of the river Tigris till it approaches the east, the whole land of India, and on the Red Sea on its coast, 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 Pharnak to the Red Sea and the river Tina.

— perhaps there is an error: “the first portion came forth for Ham” should be “the first portion came forth for Elam” since Elam was the firstborn, and his portion is missing in these allocation? This is proven correct, as the Sefaria says “Elam and his sons”!

— note, too, that the “whole land of India” is also allocated to Shem through Elam, later evolved as Persia!

³ 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.

⁴ 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 towards Egypt, all the land of Lebanon and Sanir and ‘Amana to the border of the Euphrates.

⁵ 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.

⁶ And there came forth for Lud the fifth portion, the mountains of Asshur and all appertaining to them till it reaches the Great Sea, and till it reaches the east of Asshur his brother.

⁷ And Japheth also divided the land of his inheritance amongst his sons.

⁸ 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 portions of the north until it reaches to the sea of Me’at.

⁹ And for Madai came forth as his portion that he should posses from the west of his two brothers to the islands, and to the coasts of the islands.

¹⁰ And for Javan came forth the fourth portion every island and the islands which are towards the border of Lud.

¹¹ And for Tubal there came forth the fifth portion in the middle of the tongue which approaches towards the border of the portion of Lud to the second tongue, to the region beyond the second tongue to the third tongue.

¹² And for Meshech came forth the sixth portion, all the region beyond the third tongue till it approaches the east of Gadir.

¹³ And for Tiras there came forth the seventh portion, four great islands in the middle of the sea, which reach to the portion of Ham [and the islands of Kamaturi came out by lot for the sons of Arpachshad as his inheritance].

¹⁴ And thus the sons of Noah divided to their sons in the presence of Noah their father, and he bound them all by an oath, imprecating a curse on every one that sought to seize the portion which had not fallen (to him) by his lot.

¹⁵ And they all said, ‘So be it; so be it’ for themselves and their sons for ever throughout their generations till the day of judgment, on which the Lord God shall judge them with a sword and with fire for all the unclean wickedness of their errors, wherewith they have filled the earth with transgression and uncleanness and fornication and sin.

Chapter 10

¹ And in the third week of this jubilee the unclean demons began to lead astray the children of the sons of Noah, and to make to err and destroy them.

— as in Jubilees 7:27, unclean demons seem to be another set of offsprings of the Watchers; they maybe of the ‘spirits’ beings just as giants were of the physical? Or, they may have became demons after their deaths as Nephilim or the giants. These were the spirits of the dead Nephilim to remain on Earth, so that they can corrupt and lead men astray prior to judgement.

² 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.

³ And he prayed before the Lord his God, and said:

‘God of the spirits of all flesh, who have shown mercy to me
And have saved me and my sons from the waters of the flood,
And have not caused me to perish as You did the sons of perdition;
For Your grace has been great towards me,
And great has been Your mercy to my soul;
Let Your grace be lift up upon my sons,
And let not wicked spirits rule over them
Lest they should destroy them from the earth.

⁴ But bless me and my sons, that we may increase and Multiply and replenish the earth.

⁵ And You know how Your Watchers, the fathers of these spirits, acted in my day: and as for these spirits which 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 God; for these are malignant, and created in order to destroy.

⁶ And let them not rule over the spirits of the living; for You alone canst exercise dominion over them. And let them not have power over the sons of the righteous from henceforth and for evermore.’

⁷ And the Lord our God bade us to bind all.

⁸ And the chief of the spirits, Mastema, came and said: ‘Lord, 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 shall not be able to execute 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.’

— some identify Mastema as the fallen angels, others as chief of the Watchers; here he is beseeching God to allow him to retain and control some of the demons in order to exercise his authority because they are “intended to corrupt and lead astray before his judgement because the evil of the sons of men is great.”

⁹ And He said: Let the tenth part of them remain before him, and let nine parts descend into the place of condemnation.’ — here, Mastema had succeed in his pleading for some, but allowed ten percent, of the demons to continue on to led mankind astray; the other nine tenth would be bound;

¹⁰ 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. — what is his name wasn’t disclosed here;

¹¹ And we did according to all His words: all the malignant evil ones we bound in the place of condemnation and a tenth part of them we left that they might be subject before Satan on the earth. — here the “we” indicates Mastema was speaking, and he even helped in binding his fellow demons; and here he refers to Satan as a third person. Can we then assume they are two seperate beings?

¹² 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.

¹³ And Noah wrote down all things in a book as we instructed him concerning every kind of medicine. Thus the evil spirits were precluded from (hurting) the sons of Noah.

¹⁴ And he gave all that he had written to Shem, his eldest son; for he loved him exceedingly above all his sons.

¹⁵ And Noah slept with his fathers, and was buried on Mount Lubar in the land of Ararat.

¹⁶ Nine hundred and fifty years he completed in his life, nineteen jubilees and two weeks and five years. — in this calculation, a Jubilee is only 49 years; as 19 x 49 + 19 = 950 years

¹⁷ And in his life on earth he excelled the children of men save Enoch because of the righteousness, wherein he was perfect. For Enoch’s office was ordained for a testimony to the generations of the world, so that he should recount all the deeds of generation to generation, till the day of judgment.

¹⁸ And in the three and thirtieth jubilee, in the first year in the second week, Peleg took to 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.’

¹⁹ For they departed from the land of Ararat eastward to Shinar; for in his days they built the city and the tower, saying, ‘Go to, let us ascend thereby into heaven.’

²⁰ 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.

²¹ And they built it: forty and three years were they building it; its breadth was 203 bricks, and the height (of a brick) was the third of one; its height amounted to 5433 cubits and 2 palms, and (the extent of one wall was) thirteen stades (and of the other thirty stades).

²² And the Lord our God said to us: Behold, they are one people, and (this) they begin to do, and now nothing will be withholden from them. Go to, 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 till the day of judgment.’

²³ And the Lord descended, and we descended with him to see the city and the tower which the children of men had built. — here Mastema appears as if he is a good being;

²⁴ 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.

²⁵ For this reason the whole land of Shinar is called Babel, because the Lord did there confound all the language of the children of men, and from thence they were dispersed into their cities, each according to his language and his nation.

²⁶ And the Lord 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.’

²⁷ In the fourth week in the first year in the beginning of it in the four and thirtieth jubilee, were they dispersed from the land of Shinar.

²⁸ 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.

²⁹ And Canaan saw the land of Lebanon to the river of Egypt, that it was very good, and he went not into the land of his inheritance to the west (that is to) the sea, and he dwelt in the land of Lebanon, eastward and westward from the border of Jordan and from the border of the sea.

³⁰ And Ham, his father, and Cush and Mizraim his brothers said to him: ‘You have settled in a land which is not your, 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) accursed through sedition; for by sedition you have settled, and by sedition will your children fall, and you shall be rooted out for ever.

³¹ Dwell not in the dwelling of Shem; for to Shem and to his sons did it come by their lot.

³² Cursed are you, and cursed shall you be beyond all the sons of Noah, by the curse by which we bound ourselves by an oath in the presence of the holy judge, and in the presence of Noah our father.’

³³ But he did not listen to them, and dwelt in the land of Lebanon from Hamath to the entering of Egypt, he and his sons until this day.

³⁴ And for this reason that land is named Canaan.

³⁵ And Japheth and his sons went towards the sea and dwelt in the land of their portion, and Madai saw the land of the sea and it did not please him, and he begged a (portion) from Ham and Asshur and Arpachshad, his wife’s brother, and he dwelt in the land of Media, near to his wife’s brother until this day.

³⁶ And he called his dwelling-place, and the dwelling-place of his sons, Media, after the name of their father Madai.

Chapter 11

¹ And in the thirty-fifth jubilee, in the third week, in the first year of it, Reu took to 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.

² And the sons of Noah began to war on each other, to take captive and to slay each other, and to shed the blood of men on the earth, and to eat blood, and to build strong cities, and walls, and towers, and individuals (began) to exalt themselves above the nation, and to found the beginnings of kingdoms, and to go to war people against people, and nation against nation, and city against city, and all (began) to do evil, and to acquire arms, and to teach their sons war, and they began to capture cities, and to sell male and female slaves.

³ 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.

⁴ And they made for themselves molten images, and they worshipped each the idol, the molten image which they had made for themselves, and they began to make graven images and unclean idols, and malignant spirits assisted and seduced (them) into committing transgression and uncleanness.

⁵ And the prince Mastema exerted himself to do all this, and he sent forth other spirits, those which were put under his hand, to do all manner of wrong and sin, and all manner of transgression, to corrupt and destroy, and to shed blood upon the earth.

⁶ For this reason he called the name of Seroh, Serug, for every one turned to do all manner of sin and transgression.

⁷ And he grew up, and dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees, near to the father of his wife’s mother, and he worshipped idols, and he took to 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.

⁸ And she bore him Nahor, in the first year of this week, and he grew and dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees, and his father taught him the researches of the Chaldees to divine and augur, according to the signs of heaven.

⁹ And in the thirty-seventh jubilee in the sixth week, in the first year of it, he took to himself a wife, and her name was ‘Ijaska, the daughter of Nestag of the Chaldees.

¹⁰ And she bore him Terah in the seventh year of this week.

¹¹ And the prince Mastema sent ravens and birds to devour the seed which was sown in the land, in order to destroy the land, and rob the children of men of their labours. Before they could plough in the seed, the ravens picked (it) from the surface of the ground.

¹² And for this reason he called his name Terah because the ravens and the birds reduced them to destitution and devoured their seed.

¹³ And the years began to be barren, owing to the birds, and they devoured all the fruit of the trees from the trees: it was only with great effort that they could save a little of all the fruit of the earth in their days.

¹⁴ And in this thirty-ninth jubilee, in the second week in the first year, Terah took to himself a wife, and her name was ‘Edna, the daughter of ‘Abram, the daughter of his father’s sister.

¹⁵ And in the seventh year of this week she bore him a son, and he called his name Abram, by the name of the father of his mother; for he had died before his daughter had conceived a son.

¹⁶ And the child began to understand the errors of the earth that all went astray after graven images and after uncleanness, and his father taught him writing, and he was two weeks of years old, and he separated himself from his father, that he might not worship idols with him.

¹⁷ And he began to pray to the Creator of all things that He might save him from the errors of the children of men, and that his portion should not fall into error after uncleanness and vileness.

¹⁸ And the seed time came for the sowing of seed upon the land, and they all went out together to protect their seed against the ravens, and Abram went out with those that went, and the child was a lad of fourteen years.

¹⁹ And a cloud of ravens came to devour the seed, and Abram ran to meet them before they settled on the ground, and cried to them before they settled on the ground to devour the seed, and said, ‘Do not come down: return to the place from which you came,’ and they proceeded to turn back.

²⁰ And he caused the clouds of ravens to turn back that day seventy times, and of all the ravens throughout all the land where Abram was there settled there not so much as one.

²¹ And all who were with him throughout all the land saw him cry out, and all the ravens turn back, and his name became great in all the land of the Chaldees.

²² And there came to him this year all those that wished to sow, and he went with them until the time of sowing ceased: and they sowed their land, and that year they brought enough grain home and eat and were satisfied.

²³ And in the first year of the fifth week Abram taught those who made implements for oxen, the artificers in wood, and they made a vessel above the ground, facing the frame of the plough, in order to put the seed thereon, and the seed fell down therefrom upon the share of the plough, and was hidden in the earth, and they no longer feared the ravens.

²⁴ And after this manner they made (vessels) above the ground on all the frames of the ploughs, and they sowed and tilled all the land, according as Abram commanded them, and they no longer feared the birds.

Chapter 12

¹ And it came to pass in the sixth week, in the seventh year of it, that Abram said to Terah his father, saying, ‘Father!’

² And he said, ‘Behold, here am I, my son.’ And he said,

‘What help and profit have we from those idols which you worship, And before which you bow down?

^3-5 For there is no spirit in them,

For they are dumb forms, and a misleading of the heart.
Do not worship them:

Worship the God of heaven,
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 spirit in them?
For they are the work of (men’s) hands,
And on your shoulders do you bear them,
And you have no help from them,
But they are a great cause of shame to those who make them,
And a misleading of the heart to those who worship them: Do not worship them.’

⁶ And his father said to him, I also know it, my son, but what shall I do with a people who have made me to serve before them?

⁷ And if I tell them the truth, they will slay me; for their soul cleaves to them to worship them and honour them. Keep silent, my son, lest they slay you.’

⁸ And these words he spoke to his two brothers, and they were angry with him and he kept silent. — fearing fellow men, Abram’s brothers were not having the type of spirits that Abram was imbued with;

⁹ And in the fortieth jubilee, in the second week, in the seventh year of it, Abram took to himself a wife, and her name was Sarai, the daughter of his father, and she became his wife. — a “daughter of his father” would mean Abram and Sarai were brother and sister; but a deeper analysis is that Sarai was a daughter of Haran: she and Lot were brother and sister; hence it is more accurate to say Abram married a niece of his;

¹⁰ And Haran, his brother, took to 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.

¹¹ And Nahor, his brother, took to himself a wife.

¹² And in the sixtieth year of the life of Abram, that is, in the fourth week, in the fourth year of it, Abram arose by night, and burned the house of the idols, and he burned all that was in the house and no man knew it.

¹³ And they arose in the night and sought to save their gods from the middle of the fire.

¹⁴ And Haran hasted to save them, but the fire flamed over him, and he was burnt in the fire, and he died in Ur of the Chaldees before Terah his father, and they buried him in Ur of the Chaldees.

¹⁵ 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 Canaan, and he dwelt in the land of Haran, and Abram dwelt with Terah his father in Haran two weeks of years.

¹⁶ And in the sixth week, in the fifth year of it, Abram sat up throughout the night on the new moon of the seventh month to observe the stars from the evening to the morning, in order to see what would be the character of the year with regard to the rains, and he was alone as he sat and observed.

¹⁷ And a word came into his heart and he said: All the signs of the stars, and the signs of the moon and of the sun are all in the hand of the Lord. Why do I search (them) out?

¹⁸ If He desires, He causes it to rain, morning and evening;

And if He desires, He withholds it,
And all things are in his hand.’

¹⁹ And he prayed that night and said,

My God, God Most High, You alone are my God,
And You and Your dominion have I chosen.
And You have created all things,
And all things that are the work of your hands.

²⁰ Deliver me from the hands of evil spirits who have dominion over the thoughts of men’s hearts,

And let them not lead me astray from You, my God.
And establish You me and my seed for ever
That we go not astray from henceforth and for evermore.’

²¹ And he said, ‘Shall I return to Ur of the Chaldees who seek my face that I may return to them, am I to remain here in this place? The right path before You prosper it in the hands of Your servant that he may fulfil (it) and that I may not walk in the deceitfulness of my heart, O my God.’

²² And he made an end of speaking and praying, and behold the word of the Lord was sent to him through me, saying: ‘Get you 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 shall make you a great and numerous nation.

²³ And I will bless you

And I will make your name great,
And you shall be blessed in the earth,
And in You shall all families of the earth be blessed,
And I will bless them that bless you,
And curse them that curse you.

²⁴ And I will be a God to you and your son, and to your son’s son, and to all your seed: fear not, from henceforth and to all generations of the earth I am your God.’

²⁵ And the Lord God said: ‘Open his mouth and his ears, that he may hear and speak with his mouth, with the language which has been revealed’; for it had ceased from the mouths of all the children of men from the day of the overthrow (of Babel).

²⁶ And I opened his mouth, and his ears and his lips, and I began to speak with him in Hebrew in the tongue of the creation. — God restored the Hebrew language to Abram and his children; which is “the tongue of the creation”

²⁷ And he took the books of his fathers, and these were written in Hebrew, and he transcribed them, and he began from henceforth to study them, and I made known to him that he could not (understand), and he studied them during the six rainy months. — he took the books of his fathers, which would be that of Enoch; and these were also written in Hebrew;

²⁸ And it came to pass in the seventh year of the sixth week that he spoke to his father and informed him, that he would leave Haran to go into the land of Canaan to see it and return to him.

²⁹ And Terah his father said to him;

Go in peace: May the eternal God make your path straight.
And the Lord [(be) with you, and] protect you from all evil,
And grant to you grace, mercy and favour before those who see you,
And may none of the children of men have power over you to harm you; Go in peace.

³⁰ And if you seest a land pleasant to your eyes to dwell in, then arise and take me to you and take Lot with you, the son of Haran your brother as your own son: the Lord be with you.

³¹ And Nahor your brother leave with me till you returnest in peace, and we go with you all together.’

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The Book of Jubilees, or, as it is sometimes called, “the little Genesis,” purports to be a revelation given by God to Moses through the medium of an angel (“the Angel of the Presence,” Ch 1:27) and containing a history, divided up into jubilee-periods of forty-nine years, from the creation to the coming of Moses.

Chapter 5

¹ And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives of all whom they chose, and they bore to them sons and they were giants.

² And lawlessness increased on the earth and all flesh corrupted its way, alike men and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walks on the earth, all of them corrupted their ways and their orders, and they began to devour each other, and lawlessness increased on the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of all men (was) thus evil continually.

³ And God looked upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt, and all flesh had corrupted its orders, and all that were upon the earth had done all manner of evil before His eyes.

⁴ And He said that He would destroy man and all flesh upon the face of the earth which He had created.

⁵ But Noah found grace before the eyes of the Lord.

⁶ And against the angels whom He had sent upon the earth, He was exceedingly angry, and He gave commandment to root them out of all their dominion, and He bade us to bind them in the depths of the earth, and behold they are bound in the middle of them, and are (kept) separate.

⁷ And against their sons went out a command from before His face that they should be smitten with the sword, and be removed from under heaven.

⁸ And He said ‘My spirit shall not always abide on man; for they also are flesh and their days shall be one hundred and twenty years.’

⁹ And He sent His sword into their middle that each should slay his neighbour, and they began to slay each other till they all fell by the sword and were destroyed from the earth.

¹⁰ And their fathers were witnesses (of their destruction), and after this they were bound in the depths of the earth for ever, until the day of the great condemnation, when judgment is executed on all those who have corrupted their ways and their works before the Lord.

¹¹ And He destroyed all from their places, and there was not left one of them whom He judged not according to all their wickedness.

¹² And he made for all his works a new and righteous nature, so that they should not sin in their whole nature for ever, but should be all righteous each in his kind always.

¹³ And the judgment of all is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets in righteousness, even (the judgment of) all who depart from the path which is ordained for them to walk in; and if they walk not therein, judgment is written down for every creature and for every kind.

¹⁴ And there is nothing in heaven or on earth, or in light or in darkness, or in Sheol or in the depth, or in the place of darkness (which is not judged); and all their judgments are ordained and written and engraved.

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ And He is not one who will regard the person (of any), nor is He one who will receive gifts, if He says that He will execute judgment on each: if one gave everything that is on the earth. He will not regard the gifts or the person (of any), nor accept anything at his hands, for He is a righteous judge.

¹⁷ And of the children of Israel it has been written and ordained: If they turn to him in righteousness He will forgive all their transgressions and pardon all their sins.

¹⁸ It is written and ordained that He will show mercy to all who turn from all their guilt once each year. — inferred here might be the Day of Atonement, the Day of Jubilees;

¹⁹ And as for all those who corrupted their ways and their thoughts before the flood, no man’s person was accepted save that of Noah alone; for his person was accepted in behalf of his sons, whom (God) saved from the waters of the flood on his account; for his heart was righteous in all his ways, according as it was commanded regarding him, and he had not departed from anything that was ordained for him.

²⁰ And the Lord said that he would destroy everything upon the earth, both men and cattle, and beasts, and fowls of the air, and that moves on the earth.

²¹ And He commanded Noah to make him an ark, that he might save himself from the waters of the flood.

²² 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).

²³ And he entered in the sixth (year) of it, in the second month, on the new moon of the second month, till the sixteenth; and he entered, and all that we brought to him, into the ark, and the Lord closed it from without on the seventeenth evening.

²⁴ And the Lord opened seven flood-gates of heaven; and the mouths of the fountains of the great deep, seven mouths in number.

²⁵ And the flood-gates began to pour down water from the heaven forty days and forty nights, And the fountains of the deep also sent up waters, until the whole world was full of water.

²⁶ And the waters increased upon the earth: Fifteen cubits did the waters rise above all the high mountains, And the ark was lift up above the earth, And it moved upon the face of the waters.

²⁷ And the water prevailed on the face of the earth five months, one hundred and fifty days.

²⁸ And the ark went and rested on the top of Lubar, one of the mountains of Ararat.

²⁹ And (on the new moon) in the fourth month the fountains of the great deep were closed and the flood-gates of heaven were restrained; and on the new moon of the seventh month all the mouths of the abysses of the earth were opened, and the water began to descend into the deep below.

³⁰ 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.

³¹ 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.

³² And on the twenty-seventh of it he opened the ark, and sent forth from it beasts, and cattle, and birds, and every moving thing.

Chapter 6

¹ And on the new moon of the third month he went out from the ark, and built an altar on that mountain.

² And he made atonement for the earth, and took a kid and made atonement by its blood for all the guilt of the earth; for everything that had been on it had been destroyed, save those that were in the ark with Noah.

³ 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 turtle-dove, and the young of a dove, and placed a burnt sacrifice on the altar, and poured thereon an offering mingled with oil, and sprinkled wine and strewed frankincense over everything, and caused a goodly savour to arise, acceptable before the Lord.

⁴ And the Lord smelt the goodly savour, and He made a covenant with him that there should not be any more a flood to destroy the earth; that all the days of the earth seed-time and harvest should never cease; cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night should not change their order, nor cease for ever.

⁵ ‘And you, increase and multiply upon the earth, and become many upon it, and be a blessing upon it. The fear of you and the dread of you I will inspire in everything that is on earth and in the sea.

⁶ 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 herbs, I have given you all things to eat.

⁷ But flesh, with the life of it, with the blood, you shall not eat; for the life of all flesh is in the blood, lest your blood of your lives be required. At the hand of every man, at the hand of every (beast) will I require the blood of man.

⁸ Whoever sheds man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made He man.

⁹ And you, increase ye, and multiply on the earth.’

¹⁰ And Noah and his sons swore that they would not eat any blood that was in any flesh, and he made a covenant before the Lord God for ever throughout all the generations of the earth in this month.

¹¹ On this account He spoke to you that you should make a covenant with the children of Israel in this month upon the mountain with an oath, and that you should sprinkle blood upon them because of all the words of the covenant, which the Lord made with them for ever.

¹² And this testimony is written concerning you that you should observe it continually, so that you should not eat on any day any blood of beasts or birds or cattle during all the days of the earth, and the man who eats the blood of beast or of cattle or of birds during all the days of the earth, he and his seed shall be rooted out of the land.

¹³ And command the children of Israel to eat no blood, so that their names and their seed may be before the Lord our God continually.

¹⁴ And for this law there is no limit of days, for it is for ever. They shall observe it throughout their generations, so that they may continue supplicating on your behalf with blood before the altar; every day and at the time of morning and evening they shall seek forgiveness on your behalf perpetually before the Lord that they may keep it and not be rooted out.

¹⁵ And He gave to Noah and his sons a sign that there should not again be a flood on the earth.

¹⁶ He set His bow in the cloud for a sign of the eternal covenant that there should not again be a flood on the earth to destroy it all the days of the earth.

¹⁷ 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.

¹⁸ And this whole festival was celebrated in heaven from the day of creation till the days of Noah, twenty-six jubilees and five weeks of years: and Noah and his sons observed it for seven jubilees and one week of years, till the day of Noah’s death, and from the day of Noah’s death his sons did away with (it) until the days of Abraham, and they eat blood.

¹⁹ But Abraham observed it, and Isaac and Jacob and his children observed it up to your days, and in your days the children of Israel forgot it until you celebrated it anew on this mountain.

²⁰ And command the children of Israel to observe this festival in all their generations for a commandment to them: one day in the year in this month they shall celebrate the festival.

²¹ 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 engraven concerning it, celebrate it.

²² For I have written in the book of the first law, in that I have written for you, that you should celebrate it in its season, one day in the year, and I explained to you its sacrifices that the children of Israel should remember and should celebrate it throughout their generations in this month, one day in every year.

²³ And on the new moon of the first month, and on the new moon of the fourth month, and on the new moon of the seventh month, and on the new moon of the tenth month are the days of remembrance, and the days of the seasons in the four divisions of the year. These are written and ordained as a testimony for ever.

²⁴ And Noah ordained them for himself as feasts for the generations for ever, so that they have become thereby a memorial to him.

²⁵ And on the new moon of the first month he was bidden to make for himself an ark, and on that (day) the earth became dry and he opened (the ark) and saw the earth.

²⁶ And on the new moon of the fourth month the mouths of the depths of the abyss beneath were closed. And on the new moon of the seventh month all the mouths of the abysses of the earth were opened, and the waters began to descend into them.

²⁷ And on the new moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen, and Noah was glad.

²⁸ And on this account he ordained them for himself as feasts for a memorial for ever, and thus are they ordained.

²⁹ And they placed them on the heavenly tablets, each had thirteen weeks; from one to another (passed) their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth. — the writer provoking the term “they placed them on the heavenly tablets” for authenticity and authorization; but is this true?

³⁰ And all the days of the commandment will be two and fifty weeks of days, and (these will make) the entire year complete. Thus it is engraven and ordained on the heavenly tablets. — again, the author provokes the term “engraven and ordained on the heavenly tablets” for authenticity and authorization;

³¹ And there is no neglecting (this commandment) for a single year or from year to year.

³² And command the children of Israel that they observe the years according to this reckoning, three hundred and sixty-four days, and (these) will constitute a complete year, and they will not disturb its time from its days and from its feasts; for everything will fall out in them according to their testimony, and they will not leave out any day nor disturb any feasts.

³³ But if they do neglect and do not observe them according to His commandment, then they will disturb all their seasons and the years will be dislodged from this (order), [and they will disturb the seasons and the years will be dislodged] and they will neglect their ordinances.

³⁴ And all the children of Israel will forget and will not find the path of the years, and will forget the new moons, and seasons, and sabbaths and they will go wrong as to all the order of the years. — this seems to be trying to invalidating the Calendar used by the Pharisees then, whom they later emerged as the Rabbinic Jews today;

³⁵ For I know and from henceforth will I declare it to you, and it is not of my own devising; for the book (lies) written before me, and on the heavenly tablets the division of days is ordained, lest they forget the feasts of the covenant and walk according to the feasts of the Gentiles after their error and after their ignorance.

³⁶ For there will be those who will assuredly make observations of the moon, how (it) disturbs the seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon. — “ten days too soon” this is a criticism of the Rabbinic Calendar; for more about the Essense Calendar, see Sects During Biblical Times — the Essenes

³⁷ For this reason the years will come upon them when they will disturb (the order), and make an abominable (day) the day of testimony, and an unclean day a feast day, and they will confound all the days, the holy with the unclean, and the unclean day with the holy; for they will go wrong as to the months and sabbaths and feasts and jubilees.

³⁸ 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 as to the new moons and seasons and sabbaths and festivals, and they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.

Chapter 7

¹ And in the seventh week in the first year of it, in this jubilee, Noah planted vines on the mountain on which the ark had rested, named Lubar, one of the Ararat Mountains, and they produced fruit in the fourth year, and he guarded their fruit, and gathered it in this year in the seventh month.

² And he made wine therefrom 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. — there is an emphasis on “the new moon of the first month”

³ And he celebrated with joy the day of this feast, and he made a burnt sacrifice to the Lord, one young ox and one ram, and seven sheep, each a year old, and a kid of the goats, that he might make atonement thereby for himself and his sons. — atonement is normally conducted on the tenth of the seventh month;

⁴ And he prepared the kid first, and placed some of its blood on the flesh that was on the altar which he had made, and all the fat he laid on the altar where he made the burnt sacrifice, and the ox and the ram and the sheep, and he laid all their flesh upon the altar.

⁵ And he placed all their offerings mingled with oil upon it, and afterwards he sprinkled wine on the fire which he had previously made on the altar, and he placed incense on the altar and caused a sweet savour to ascend acceptable before the Lord his God.

⁶ And he rejoiced and drank of this wine, he and his children with joy. — surely this is fermented true wine, not grape juice;

⁷ And it was evening, and he went into his tent, and being drunken he lay down and slept, and was uncovered in his tent as he slept. — if it was just grape juice, he shouldn’t be drunk;

⁸ And Ham saw Noah his father naked, and went out and told his two brethren outside.

⁹ 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 backward.

¹⁰ 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; an enslaved servant shall he be to his brethren.’

¹¹ And he blessed Shem, and said: ‘Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.

¹² God shall enlarge Japheth, and God shall dwell in the dwelling of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.’

¹³ And Ham knew that his father had cursed his younger son, and he was displeased that he had cursed his son. and he parted from his father, he and his sons with him, Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

¹⁴ And he built for himself a city and called its name after the name of his wife Ne’elatama’uk.

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ And Shem dwelt with his father Noah, and he built a city close to his father on the mountain, and he too called its name after the name of his wife Sedeqetelebab.

¹⁷ And behold these three cities are near Mount Lubar; Sedeqetelebab fronting the mountain on its east; and Na’eltama’uk on the south; ‘Adatan’eses towards the west.

¹⁸ And these are the sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, this (son) was born two years after the flood, and Lud, and Aram.

¹⁹ The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan, Tubal and Meshech and Tiras: these are the sons of Noah.

²⁰ And in the twenty-eighth jubilee Noah began to enjoin upon his sons’ sons the ordinances and commandments, and all the judgments that he knew, and he exhorted his sons to observe righteousness, and to cover the shame of their flesh, and to bless their Creator, and honour father and mother, and love their neighbour, and guard their souls from fornication and uncleanness and all iniquity.

²¹ For owing to these three things came the flood upon the earth, namely, owing to the fornication wherein the Watchers against the law of their ordinances went a whoring after the daughters of men, and took themselves wives of all which they chose: and they made the beginning of uncleanness.

— although this is a flashback, the Watchers seem to be around even after the Flood; and hence their sins and perversion continued; because giants were still around during Moses and Joshua’s times, even until King David’s;

²² And they begat sons the Naphidim, and they were all unlike, and they devoured one another: and the Giants slew the Naphil, and the Naphil slew the Eljo, and the Eljo mankind, and one man another.

²³ And every one sold himself to work iniquity and to shed much blood, and the earth was filled with iniquity.

²⁴ 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.

²⁵ And the Lord destroyed everything from off the face of the earth; because of the wickedness of their deeds, and because of the blood which they had shed in the middle of the earth He destroyed everything.

²⁶ ‘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 parting one from another, and are envious one of another, and (so it comes) that you are not in harmony, my sons, each with his brother.

²⁷ For I see, and behold the demons have begun (their) seductions against you and against your children and now I fear on your behalf, that after my death you will shed the blood of men upon the earth, and that ye, too, will be destroyed from the face of the earth.

— the demons seem to be another set of offsprings of the Watchers; they maybe of the ‘spirits’ beings just as giants were of the physical? Or, they may have became demons after their deaths as giants?

²⁸ For whoever sheds man’s blood, and whoever eats the blood of any flesh, shall all be destroyed from the earth.

²⁹ And there shall not be left any man that eats blood, or that sheds the blood of man on the earth, Nor shall there be left to him any seed or descendants living under heaven; For into Sheol shall they go, And into the place of condemnation shall they descend, And into the darkness of the deep shall they all be removed by a violent death.

³⁰ There shall be no blood seen upon you of all the blood there shall be all the days in which you have killed any beasts or cattle or whatever flies upon the earth, and work you a good work to your souls by covering that has been shed on the face of the earth.

³¹ And you shall not be like him who eats with blood, but guard yourselves that none may eat blood before you: cover the blood, for thus have I been commanded to testify to you and your children, together with all flesh.

³² And suffer not the soul to be eaten with the flesh, that your blood, which is your life, may not be required at the hand of any flesh that sheds (it) on the earth.

³³ For the earth will not be clean from the blood which has been shed upon it; for (only) through the blood of him that shed it will the earth be purified throughout all its generations.

³⁴ And now, my children, listen: work judgment and righteousness that you maybe planted in righteousness over the face of the whole earth, and your glory lifted up before my God, who saved me from the waters of the flood.

³⁵ And behold, you will go and build for yourselves cities, and plant in them all the plants that are upon the earth, and moreover all fruit-bearing trees.

— “go and build for yourselves cities” is not in, nor implied in the Masoretic Text; that is, these are not the words or will of Noah, but the words of their children: “And they said, “Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:4

³⁶ For three years the fruit of everything that is eaten will not be gathered: and in the fourth year its fruit will be accounted holy [and they will offer the first-fruits], acceptable before the Most High God, who created heaven and earth and all things. Let them offer in abundance the first of the wine and oil (as) first-fruits on the altar of the Lord, who receives it, and what is left let the servants of the house of the Lord eat before the altar which receives (it).

— “For three years the fruit of everything that is eaten will not be gathered” seems new and unique in the Book of Jubilees; if for three years they shouldn’t eat of such fruits, then what else should they eat?

³⁷ And in the fifth year grant the release so that you release it in righteousness and uprightness, and you shall bc righteous, and all that you plant shall prosper.

³⁸ 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.

³⁹ And I also will give you commandment, my sons, as Enoch commanded his son in the first jubilees: whilst still living, the seventh in his generation, he commanded and testified to his son and to his son’s sons until the day of his death.’

Chapter 8

¹ In the twenty-ninth jubilee, in the first week, in the beginning of it Arpachshad took to himself a wife and her name was Rasu’eja, the daughter of Susan, the daughter of Elam, and she bore him a son in the third year in this week, and he called his name Kainam.

² 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.

³ And he found a writing which former (generations) had carved on the rock, and he read what was thereon, and he transcribed it and sinned owing to 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 heaven.

⁴ And he wrote it down and said nothing regarding it; for he was afraid to speak to Noah about it lest he should be angry with him on account of it.

⁵ And in the thirtieth jubilee, in the second week, in the first year of it, he took to himself a wife, and her name was Melka, the daughter of Madai, the son of Japheth, and in the fourth year he begat a son, and called his name Shelah; for he said:

⁶ ‘Truly I have been sent.’ [And in the fourth year he was born], and Shelah grew up and took to himself a wife, and her name was Mu’ak, the daughter of Kesed, his father’s brother, in the one and thirtieth jubilee, in the fifth week, in the first year of it.

⁷ And she bore him a son in the fifth year of it, and he called his name Eber: and he took to 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.

⁸ And in the sixth year of it, she bore him son, and he called his name Peleg; for in the days when he was born the children of Noah began to divide the earth amongst themselves: for this reason he called his name Peleg.

⁹ And they divided (it) secretly amongst themselves, and told it to Noah.

¹⁰ And it came to pass in 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.

¹¹ And he called his sons, and they drew nigh 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 forth their hands, and took the writing out of the bosom of Noah, their father.

¹² 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 from the river Tina, and his portion goes towards the west through the middle of this river, and it extends till it reaches the water of the abysses, out of which this river goes forth and pours its waters into the sea Me’at, and this river flows into the great sea.

¹³ And all that is towards the north is Japheth’s, and all that is towards the south belongs to Shem. And it extends till it reaches Karaso: this is in the bosom of the tongue which looks towards the south.

¹⁴ And his portion extends along the great sea, and it extends in a straight line till it reaches the west of the tongue which looks towards the south: for this sea is named the tongue of the Egyptian Sea.

¹⁵ And it turns from here towards the south towards the mouth of the great sea on the shore of (its) waters, and it extends to the west to ‘Afra, and it extends till it reaches the waters of the river Gihon, and to the south of the waters of Gihon, to the banks of this river.

¹⁶ And it extends towards the east, till it reaches the Garden of Eden, to the south of it, [to the south] and from the east of the whole land of Eden and of the whole east, it turns to the east and proceeds till it reaches the east of the mountain named Rafa, and it descends to the bank of the mouth of the river Tina.

¹⁷ This portion came forth by lot for Shem and his sons, that they should possess it for ever to his generations for evermore.

¹⁸ And Noah rejoiced that this portion came forth for Shem and for his sons, and he remembered all that he had spoken with his mouth in prophecy; for he had said: ‘Blessed be the Lord God of Shem And may the Lord dwell in the dwelling of Shem.’

¹⁹ And he knew that the Garden of Eden is the holy of holies, and the dwelling of the Lord, and Mount Sinai the centre of the desert, and Mount Zion, the centre of the navel of the earth: these three were created as holy places facing each other.

²⁰ And he blessed the God of gods, who had put the word of the Lord into his mouth, and the Lord for evermore.

²¹ And he knew that a blessed portion and a blessing had come to Shem and his sons to the generations for ever, 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 Ma’edai, and all the mountains of Ararat, and all the region beyond the sea, which is beyond the mountains of Asshur towards the north, a blessed and spacious land, and all that is in it is very good.

²² And for Ham came forth the second portion, beyond the Gihon towards the south to the right of the Garden, and it extends towards the south and it extends to all the mountains of fire, and it extends towards the west to the sea of ‘Atel and it extends towards the west till it reaches the sea of Ma’uk, that (sea) into which everything which is not destroyed descends.

²³ And it goes forth towards the north to the limits of Gadir, and it goes forth to the coast of the waters of the sea to the waters of the great sea till it draws near to the river Gihon, and goes along the river Gihon till it reaches the right of the Garden of Eden.

²⁴ And this is the land which came forth for Ham as the portion which he was to occupy for ever for himself and his sons to their generations for ever.

²⁵ And for Japheth came forth the third portion beyond the river Tina to the north of the outflow of its waters, and it extends north- easterly to the whole region of Gog, and to all the country east of it.

²⁶ And it extends northerly to the north, and it extends to the mountains of Qelt towards the north, and towards the sea of Ma’uk, and it goes forth to the east of Gadir as far as the region of the waters of the sea.

²⁷ And it extends until it approaches the west of Fara and it returns towards ‘Aferag, and it extends easterly to the waters of the sea of Me’at.

²⁸ And it extends to the region of the river Tina in a north-easterly direction until it approaches the boundary of its waters towards the mountain Rafa, and it turns round towards the north.

²⁹ 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 for ever; five great islands, and a great land in the north.

³⁰ 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.

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The Book of Jubilees, or, as it is sometimes called, “the little Genesis,” purports to be a revelation given by God to Moses through the medium of an angel (“the Angel of the Presence,” Ch 1:27) and containing a history, divided up into jubilee-periods of forty-nine years, from the creation to the coming of Moses.

Chapter 1

¹ And it came to pass in the first year of the exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the third month, on the sixteenth day of the month, that God spoke to Moses, saying:

² ‘Come up to Me on the Mount, and I will give you two tables of stone of the law and of the commandment, which I have written, that you may teach them.’ — Rabbinic Jewish writings have that day as the feast of firstfruits when the law was given, around Sivan 6; rather than after Sivan sixteenth;

³ And Moses went up into the mount of God, and the glory of the Lord abode on Mount Sinai, and a cloud overshadowed it six days.

⁴ And He called to Moses on the seventh day out of the middle of the cloud, and the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a flaming fire on the top of the mount. And Moses was on the Mount forty days and forty nights, and God taught him the earlier and the later history of the division of all the days of the law and of the testimony.

⁵ And God said: ‘Incline your heart to every word which I shall speak to you on this mount, and write them in a book in order that their generations may see how I have not forsaken them for all the evil which they have done in transgressing the covenant which I establish between Me and you for their generations this day on Mount Sinai.

⁶ And thus it will come to pass when all these things come upon them, that they will recognise that I am more righteous than they in all their judgments and in all their actions, and they will recognise that I have been truly with them.

⁷ And 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 of which I swore to their fathers, to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob, saying:

⁸ ‘To your seed will I give a land flowing with milk and honey. And they will eat and be satisfied, but they will turn to strange gods, which cannot deliver them from aught of their tribulation: and this witness shall be heard for a witness against them.

⁹ For they will forget all My commandments, (even) all that I command them, and they will walk after the Gentiles, and after their uncleanness, and after their shame, and will serve their gods, and these will prove to them an offence and a tribulation and an affliction and a snare.

¹⁰ And many will perish and they will be taken captive, and will fall into the hands of the enemy, because they have forsaken My ordinances and My commandments, and the festivals of My covenant, and My sabbaths, and My holy place which I have hallowed for Myself in their middle, and My tabernacle, and My sanctuary, which I have hallowed for Myself in the middle of the land, that I should set my name upon it, and that it should dwell (there).

¹¹ And they will make to themselves high places and groves and graven images, and they will worship, each his own (graven image), so as to go astray, and they will sacrifice their children to demons, and to all the works of the error of their hearts.

¹² And I will send witnesses to them, that I may witness against them, but they will not hear, and will slay the witnesses also, and they will persecute those who seek the law, and they will abrogate and change everything so as to work evil before My eyes.

¹³ And I will hide My face from them, and I will deliver them into the hand of the Gentiles for captivity, and for a prey, and for devouring, and I will remove them from the middle of the land, and I will scatter them amongst the Gentiles.

¹⁴ And they will forget all My law and all My commandments and all My judgments, and will go astray as to new moons, and sabbaths, and festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances.

¹⁵ And after this they will turn to Me from amongst the Gentiles with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their strength, and I will gather them from amongst all the Gentiles, and they will seek me, so that I shall be found of them, when they seek me with all their heart and with all their soul.

— “from amongst all the Gentiles” must be refering to the endtime, for those that were carried by the Assyrians, they never came back, and from from Babylon, they were only from one Gentile nation;

¹⁶ And I will disclose to them abounding peace with righteousness, and I will remove them the plant of uprightness, with all My heart and with all My soul, and they shall be for a blessing and not for a curse, and they shall be the head and not the tail.

¹⁷ And I will build My sanctuary in their middle, and I will dwell with them, and I will be their God and they shall be My people in truth andrighteousness.

¹⁸ And I will not forsake them nor fail them; for I am the Lord their God.’

¹⁹ And Moses fell on his face and prayed and said, ‘O Lord my God, do not forsake 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 Gentiles, lest they should rule over them and cause them to sin against You.

²⁰ Let your mercy, O Lord, be lifted up upon Your people, and create in them an upright spirit, and let not the spirit 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.

²¹ But they are Your people and Your inheritance, which you have delivered with your great power from the hands of the Egyptians: create in them a clean heart and a holy spirit, and let them not be ensnared in their sins from henceforth until eternity.’

²² And the Lord said to Moses: ‘I know their contrariness and their thoughts and their stiffneckedness, and they will not be obedient till they confess their own sin and the sin of their fathers.

²³ And after this they will turn to Me in all uprightness and with all (their) heart and with all (their) soul, and I will circumcise the foreskin of their heart and the foreskin of the heart of their seed, and I will create in them a holy spirit, and I will cleanse them so that they shall not turn away from Me from that day to eternity.

²⁴ 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 shall be My children.

²⁵ And they all shall be called children of the living God, and every angel and every spirit shall know, yea, they shall know that these are My children, and that I am their Father in uprightness and righteousness, and that I love them.

²⁶ And write down for yourself all these words which I declare to you on this mountain, the first and the last, which shall come to pass in all the divisions of the days in the law and in the testimony and in the weeks and the jubilees to eternity, until I descend and dwell with them throughout eternity.’

²⁷ And He said to the angel of the presence: Write for Moses from the beginning of creation till My sanctuary has been built among them for all eternity. — “the angel of the presence” should have a specific name, rather than a generic name. Is he “the prince Mastema?” in Ch 18:9,12?

²⁸ And the Lord will appear to the eyes of all, and all shall know that I am the God of Israel and the Father of all the children of Jacob, and King on Mount Zion for all eternity. And Zion and Jerusalem shall be holy.’

²⁹ And the angel of the presence who went before the camp of Israel took the tables of the divisions of the years, from the time of the creation of the law and of the testimony of the weeks of the jubilees, according to the individual years, according to all the number of the jubilees [according, to the individual years], from the day of the [new] creation when the heavens and the earth shall be renewed and all their creation according to the powers of the heaven, and according to all the creation of the earth, until the sanctuary of the Lord shall be made in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, and all the luminaries be renewed for healing and for peace and for blessing for all the elect of Israel, and that thus it may be from that day and to all the days of the earth.

Chapter 2

¹ And the angel of the presence spoke to Moses according to the word of the Lord, saying: Write the complete history of the creation, how in six days the Lord God finished all His works and all that He created, and kept Sabbath on the seventh day and hallowed it for all ages, and appointed it as a sign for all His works.

² For on the first day He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before him, the angels of the presence, and the angels of sanctification, and the angels [of the spirit of fire and] of the spirit of the winds, and the angels of the spirit of the clouds, and of darkness, and of snow and of hail and of hoar frost, and the angels of the voices and of the thunder and of the lightning, and the angels of the spirits of cold and of heat, and of winter and of spring and of autumn and of summer and of all the spirits of his creatures which are in the heavens and on the earth. He created the abysses and the darkness, eventide and the light, dawn and day, which He has prepared in the knowledge of his heart.

— the Book of Jubilees speaks of seven kinds of angels; the top two, angels of presence and angels of sanctification or holiness officiates in the heavenly sanctuary; the rest, of the earth;

³ And therein we saw His works, and praised Him on account of all His works; for seven great works did He create on the first day. — the angel of the presence has taken over the narrative as “we” and in the plural; hence the “angels of the presence.” Note also, there is no reference of the Second Being, the Son; as the term God, Elohim, would.

⁴ And on the second day He created the firmament in the middle of the waters, and the waters were divided on that day; half of them went up above and half of them went down below the firmament in the middle, over the face of the whole earth. And this was the only work created on the second day. — the emphasize on “He” in this Jubilees’ creation, rather than “we” or “our” and “us” as in Genesis 1:26 “And God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness;”

⁵ And on the third day He commanded the waters to depart off the face of the whole earth into one place, and the dry land to appear.

⁶ And the waters did as He commanded them, and they retired from the face of the earth into one place outside of this firmament, and the dry land appeared.

⁷ And on that day He created for them all the seas according to their separate pooling-places, and all the rivers, and the poolings 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, and all in it. These four great works God created on the third day.

⁸ And on the fourth day He created the sun and the moon and the stars, and set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon all the earth, and to rule over the day and the night, and divide the light from the darkness.

⁹ And God appointed the sun to be a great sign on the earth for days and for sabbaths and for months and for feasts and for years and for sabbaths of years and for jubilees and for all seasons of the years.

¹⁰ And it divides the light from the darkness, that all things may prosper which shoot and grow on the earth. These three kinds He made on the fourth day.

¹¹ And on the fifth day He created great sea monsters in the depths of the waters, for these were the first things of flesh that were created by his hands, the fish and everything that moves in the waters, and everything that flies, the birds and all their kind.

¹² And the sun rose above them to make them prosper, and above everything that was on the earth, everything that grows from the earth, and all fruit-bearing trees, and all flesh. These three kinds He created on the fifth day.

¹³ And on the sixth day He created all the animals of the earth, and all cattle, and everything that moves on the earth.

¹⁴ And after all this He created man, man and woman He created them, and gave him dominion over all that is upon the earth, and in the seas, and over everything that flies, and over beasts and over cattle, and over everything that moves on the earth, and over the whole earth, and over all this He gave him dominion. And these four kinds He created on the sixth day.

¹⁵ And there were altogether two and twenty kinds.

¹⁶ And He finished all his work on the sixth day, all that is in the heavens and on the earth, and in the seas and in the abysses, and in the light and in the darkness, and in everything.

¹⁷ And He gave us a great sign, the Sabbath day, that we should work six days, but keep Sabbath on the seventh day from all work.

¹⁸ And all the angels of the presence, and all the angels of sanctification, these two great classes. He has bidden us to keep the Sabbath with Him in heaven and on earth. — the Book of Jubilees speaks of seven kinds of angels; the top two, angels of presence and angels of sanctification or holiness officiates in the heavenly sanctuary;

¹⁹ And He said to us: ‘Behold, I will separate to Myself a people from among all the peoples, and these shall keep the Sabbath day, and I will sanctify them to Myself as My people, and will bless them; as I have sanctified the Sabbath day and do sanctify (it) to Myself, even so will I bless them, and they shall be My people and I will be their God.

²⁰ And I have chosen the seed of Jacob from amongst all that I have seen, and have written him down as My first-born son,and have sanctified him to Myself for ever and ever; and I will teach them the Sabbath day, that they may keep Sabbath thereon from all work.’

²¹ And thus He created therein a sign in accordance with which they should keep Sabbath with us on the seventh day, to eat and to drink, and to bless Him who has created all things as He has blessed and sanctified to Himself a peculiar people above all peoples, and that they should keep Sabbath together with us.

²² And He caused His commands to ascend as a sweet savour acceptable before Him all the days . . .

²³ There (were) two and twenty heads of mankind from Adam to Jacob, and two and twenty kinds of work were made until the seventh day; this is blessed and holy; and the former also is blessed and holy; and this one serves with that one for sanctification and blessing.

²⁴ And to this (Jacob and his seed) it was granted that they should always be the blessed and holy ones of the first testimony and law, even as He had sanctified and blessed the Sabbath day on the seventh day.

²⁵ He created heaven and earth and everything that He created in six days, and God made the seventh day holy, for all His works; therefore He commanded on its behalf that, whoever does any work thereon shall die, and that he who defiles it shall surely die.

²⁶ Wherefore command the children of Israel to observe this day that they may keep it holy and not do thereon any work, and not to defile it, as it is holier than all other days.

²⁷ And whoever profanes it shall surely die, and whoever does thereon any work shall surely die eternally, that the children of Israel may observe this day throughout their generations, and not be rooted out of the land; for it is a holy day and a blessed day.

²⁸ And every one who observes it and keeps Sabbath thereon from all his work, will be holy and blessed throughout all days like to us. — the “we”and “us” refers inclusive to the angels as well;

²⁹ Declare and say to the children of Israel the law of this day both that they should keep Sabbath thereon, and that they should not forsake it in the error of their hearts; (and) that it is not lawful to do any work thereon which is unseemly, to do thereon their own pleasure, and that they should not prepare thereon anything to be eaten or drunk, and (that it is not lawful) to draw water, or bring in or take out thereon through their gates any burden, which they had not prepared for themselves on the sixth day in their dwellings.

³⁰ And they shall not bring in nor take out from house to house on that day; for that day is more holy and blessed than any jubilee day of the jubilees; on this we kept Sabbath in the heavens before it was made known to any flesh to keep Sabbath thereon on the earth. — the “we”and “us” refers inclusive to the angels as well;

³¹ And the Creator of all things blessed it, but he did not sanctify all peoples and nations to keep Sabbath thereon, but Israel alone: them alone he permitted to eat and drink and to keep Sabbath thereon on the earth.

³² And the Creator of all things blessed this day which He had created for blessing and holiness and glory above all days.

³³ This law and testimony was given to the children of Israel as a law for ever to their generations.

Chapter 3

¹ And on the six days of the second week we brought, according to the word of God, 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 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 moves in the water on the fifth day.

² And Adam named them all by their respective names, and as he called them, so was their name.

³ And on these five days Adam saw all these, male and female, according to every kind that was on the earth, but he was alone and found no helpmeet for him. — but woman were already created in chapter 2:14 “He created man, man and woman He created them” so why was Eve only now created?

⁴ And the Lord said to us: ‘It is not good that the man should be alone: let us make a helpmeet for him.’ — although “us” is referenced here, it refers to God the Father and His hosts, that is, His angels;

⁵ And the Lord our God caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and he slept, and for the woman He took one rib from amongst his ribs, and this rib from amongst his ribs was the origin of the woman, and He built up the flesh in its place, and built the woman.

⁶ And He wakened Adam out of his sleep and on awaking he rose on the sixth day, and He brought her to him, and he knew her, and said to her: ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called [my] wife; because she was taken from her husband.’

⁷ Therefore shall man and wife be one and a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

⁸ In the first week Adam was created, and the rib, his wife: in the second week He showed her to him: and for this reason the commandment was given to keep in their defilement, for a male seven days, and for a female twice seven days.

⁹ And after Adam had completed forty days in the land where he had been created, we brought him into the Garden of Eden to till and keep it, but his wife they brought in on the eightieth day, and after this she entered into the Garden of Eden.

¹⁰ And for this reason the commandment is written on the heavenly tablets in regard to her that gives birth: ‘if she bears a male, she shall remain in her uncleanness seven days according to the first week of days, and thirty and three days shall she remain in the blood of her purifying, and she shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor enter into the sanctuary, until she accomplishes these days which (are enjoined) in the case of a male child.

¹¹ But in the case of a female child she shall remain in her uncleanness two weeks of days, according to the first two weeks, and sixty-six days in the blood of her purification, and they will be in all eighty days.’

¹² And when she had completed these eighty days we brought her into the Garden of Eden, for it is holier than all the earth besides and every tree that is planted in it is holy.

¹³ Therefore, there was ordained regarding her who bears a male or a female child the statute of those days that she should touch no hallowed thing, nor enter into the sanctuary until these days for the male or female child are accomplished.

¹⁴ This is the law and testimony which was written down for Israel, in order that they should observe (it) all the days.

¹⁵ And in the first week 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.

¹⁶ And he tilled (the garden), and was naked and knew it not, and was not ashamed, and he protected the garden from the birds and beasts and cattle, and gathered its fruit, and eat, and put aside the residue for himself and for his wife [and put aside that was being kept].

¹⁷ And after the completion of the seven years, which he had completed there, seven years exactly, and in the second month, on the seventeenth day (of the month), the serpent came and approached the woman, and the serpent said to the woman, ‘Hath God commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?’

¹⁸ And she said to it, ‘Of all the fruit of the trees of the garden God has said to us, Eat; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden God has said to us, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’

¹⁹ And the serpent said to the woman, ‘You shall not surely die: for God knows that on the day you shall eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be as gods, and you will know good and evil.

²⁰ And the woman saw the tree that it was agreeable and pleasant to the eye, and that its fruit was good for food, and she took of it and eat.

²¹ And when she had first covered her shame with figleaves, she gave of it to Adam and he eat, and his eyes were opened, and he saw that he was naked.

²² And he took figleaves and sewed (them) together, and made an apron for himself, and covered his shame.

²³ And God cursed the serpent, and was angry with it for ever . . .

²⁴ And He was angry with the woman, because she harkened to the voice of the serpent, and did eat; and He said to her: ‘I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your pains: in sorrow you shall bring forth children, and your return shall be to your husband, and he will rule over you.’

²⁵ And to Adam also he said, ‘Because you have harkened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat of it, cursed be the ground for your sake: thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shall eat your bread in the sweat of your face, till you returnest to the earth from from which you were taken; for earth you are, and to earth shall you return.’

²⁶ And He made for them coats of skin, and clothed them, and sent them forth from the Garden of Eden. — this “coats of skin” that God made for Adam and Eve, played a significant role in the Book of Jasher.

²⁷ And on that day on which Adam went out from the Garden, he offered as a sweet savour an offering, frankincense, galbanum, and stacte, and spices in the morning with the rising of the sun from the day when he covered his shame.

²⁸ And on that day was closed the mouth of all beasts, and of cattle, and of birds, and of whatever walks, and of whatever moves, so that they could no longer speak: for they had all spoken one with another with one lip and with one tongue.

²⁹ And He sent out of the Garden of Eden all flesh that was in the Garden of Eden, and all flesh was scattered according to its kinds, and according to its types to the places which had been created for them.

³⁰ And to Adam alone did He give (the wherewithal or the means) to cover his shame, of all the beasts and cattle.

³¹ On this account, it is prescribed on the heavenly tablets as touching all those who know the judgment of the law, that they should cover their shame, and should not uncover themselves as the Gentiles uncover themselves.

³² And on the new moon of the fourth month, Adam and his wife went forth from the Garden of Eden, and they dwelt in the land of Elda in the land of their creation.

³³ And Adam called the name of his wife Eve.

³⁴ And they had no son till the first jubilee, and after this he knew her.

³⁵ Now he tilled the land as he had been instructed in the Garden of Eden.

Chapter 4

¹ And in the third week in the second jubilee she gave birth to Cain, and in the fourth she gave birth to Abel, and in the fifth she gave birth to her daughter Awan.

² And in the first (year) of the third jubilee, Cain slew Abel because (God) accepted the sacrifice of Abel, but did not accept the offering of Cain.

³ And he slew him in the field: and his blood cried from the ground to heaven, complaining because he had slain him.

⁴ And the Lord reproved Cain because of Abel, because he had slain him, and he made him a fugitive on the earth because of the blood of his brother, and he cursed him upon the earth. — and God cursed Cain and made him a fugitive on the earth.

⁵ And on this account it is written on the heavenly tables, ‘Cursed is he who smites his neighbour treacherously, and let all who have seen and heard say, So be it; and the man who has seen and not declared (it), let him be accursed as the other. — “the heavenly tables” it is from these heavenly tablets that the angel of the presence reads and dictates to Moses the Book of Jubilees itself; so it is claimed.

⁶ And for this reason we announce when we come before the Lord our God all the sin which is committed in heaven and on earth, and in light and in darkness, and everywhere. — the “we” here seems to refer only to the angels;

⁷ 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 bore him a son, and he called his name Seth; for he said ‘GOD has raised up a second seed to us on the earth instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.’

⁸ And in the sixth week he begat his daughter Azura.

⁹ And Cain took Awan his sister to be his wife and she bore him Enoch at the close 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 the name of his son Enoch.

¹⁰ And Adam knew Eve his wife and she bore yet nine sons.

¹¹ 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 bore him Enos.

¹² He began to call on the name of the Lord on the earth.

¹³ And in the seventh jubilee in the third week Enos took Noam his sister to be his wife, and she bore him a son in the third year of the fifth week, and he called his name Kenan.

¹⁴ And at the close of the eighth jubilee, Kenan took Mualeleth his sister to be his wife, and she bore him a son in the ninth jubilee, in the first week in the third year of this week, and he called his name Mahalalel.

¹⁵ And in the second week of the tenth jubilee Mahalalel took to him to wife Dinah, the daughter of Barakiel the daughter of his father’s brother, and she bore him a son in the third week in the sixth year, and he called his name Jared, for in his days the angels of the Lord descended on the earth, those who are named the Watchers, that they should instruct the children of men, and that they should do judgment and uprightness on the earth.

— “for in his (Jared) days the angels of the Lord descended on the earth” the angels sinned from the generation of Jared to that of Noah; that is, five (Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah) generations;

— after descending from heaven, how long do they “do judgment and uprightness on the earth” before they sinned, we are not told here.

¹⁶ 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 bore him a son in the fifth week, in the fourth year of the jubilee, and he called his name Enoch.

¹⁷ And he was the first among men that are born on earth who learnt writing and knowledge and wisdom and who wrote down the signs of heaven according to the order of their months in a book, that men might know the seasons of the years according to the order of their separate months. — “he” in reference to Enoch;

¹⁸ And he was the first to write a testimony and he testified to the sons of men among the generations of the earth, and recounted the weeks of the jubilees, and made known to them the days of the years, and set in order the months and recounted the Sabbaths of the years as we made (them), known to him. — again, “he” in reference to Enoch;

¹⁹ 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.

²⁰ And in the twelfth jubilee, [582-88] in the seventh week of it, he took to himself a wife, and her name was Edna, the daughter of Danel, the daughter of his father’s brother, and in the sixth year in this week she bore him a son and he called his name Methuselah.

²¹ And he was moreover with the angels of God these six jubilees of years, and they showed him everything which is on earth and in the heavens, the rule of the sun, and he wrote down everything.

²² And he testified to the Watchers, who had sinned with the daughters of men; for these had begun to unite themselves, so as to be defiled, with the daughters of men, and Enoch testified against (them) all.

²³ And he was taken from amongst the children of men, and we conducted him into the Garden of Eden in majesty and honour, and behold there he writes down the condemnation and judgment of the world, and all the wickedness of the children of men.

²⁴ And on account of it (God) brought the waters of the flood upon all the land of Eden; for there he was set as a sign and that he should testify against all the children of men, that he should recount all the deeds of the generations until the day of condemnation.

²⁵ And he burnt the incense of the sanctuary, (even) sweet spices acceptable before the Lord on the Mount.

²⁶ For the Lord has four places on the earth, the Garden of Eden, and the Mount of the East, and this mountain on which you are this day, Mount Sinai, and Mount Zion (which) will be sanctified in the new creation for a sanctification of the earth; through it will the earth be sanctified from all (its) guilt and its uncleanness throughout the generations of the world.

²⁷ And in the fourteenth jubilee Methuselah took to himself a wife, Edna the daughter of Azrial, the daughter of his father’s brother, in the third week, in the first year of this week, and he begat a son and called his name Lamech.

²⁸ And in the fifteenth jubilee in the third week Lamech took to himself a wife, and her name was Betenos the daughter of Baraki’il, the daughter of his father’s brother, and in this week she bore him a son and he called his name Noah, saying, ‘This one will comfort me for my trouble and all my work, and for the ground which the Lord has cursed.’

²⁹ And at the close of the nineteenth jubilee, in the seventh week in the sixth year of it, Adam died [930], and all his sons buried him in the land of his creation, and he was the first to be buried in the earth.

³⁰ And he lacked seventy years of one thousand years; for one thousand years are as one day in the testimony of the heavens and therefore was it written concerning the tree of knowledge: ‘On the day that you eat of it you shall die.’ For this reason he did not complete the years of this day; for he died during it.

³¹ At the close of this jubilee Cain was killed after him in the same year; for his house fell upon him and he died in the middle of his house, and he was killed by its stones; for with a stone he had killed Abel, and by a stone was he killed in righteous judgment.

³² For this reason it was ordained on the heavenly tablets: With the instrument with which a man kills his neighbour with the same shall he be killed; after the manner that he wounded him, in like manner shall they deal with him.’

³³ And in the twenty-fifth jubilee Noah took to himself a wife, and her name was Emzara, the daughter of Rake’el, the daughter of his father’s brother, in the first year in the fifth week: and in the third year of it she bore him Shem, in the fifth year of it she bore him Ham, and in the first year in the sixth week she bore him Japheth.

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A Study Index of the Book of Enoch

Book 1 (the Watchers)

Chapter 1 (the Blessing of Enoch)

— the blessing of Enoch to those in the days of tribulation
— when all the wicked and impious are to be removed
— “I saw the vision for a distant generation that is to come”
— all shall be smitten with fear and the Watchers shall quake
— behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones 

Chapter 2 (the Creation)

— everything that takes place in the heavens
— how they do not change their orbits
— how they all rise and set in order each in its season
— the righteous shall have peace and inherit the earth

Chapter 3 (the Fallen Angels)

— and the angels lusted after beautiful daughters of men
— “Come, let us choose us wives from among
— the children of men and beget us children.”
— and said: “Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves
— by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan”
— they became pregnant, and they bare great giants
— Azazel taught to make swords, knives and breastplates
— and bracelets, ornaments, eyelids and of antimony
— Semjaza taught enchantments and root−cuttings
— Armaros the resolving of enchantments
— Baraqijal taught astrology, Kokabel the constellations,
— Ezeqeel the knowledge of clouds, Araqiel the earth
— Shamsiel the signs of the sun, Sariel the moon

Chapter 4 (Intercession of Angels)

— Michael, Uriel, Raphael and Gabriel responded
— saying, “Bring our cause before the Most High”
— the Most High warms a deluge to come upon the earth
— to Raphael, “Bind Azazel and cast him into darkness”
— the whole earth has been corrupted by Azazel
— bind them for seventy generations till judgement day
— eprimanded by Enoch, they became afraid and repented
— asking Enoch to petition for forgiveness for their sins

Chapter 5 (visions of Heavenly Throne)

— in vision, Enoch taken to heaven, to intercede
— “I wrote out your petition, and that may not be granted
— the decree has gone forth to bind you of the world”
— the Great Glory sat there and His raiment shone
— and He said: “Come hither, Enoch, and hear my word”
— ‘You should intercede for men, and not men for you”
— the giants, from both spirits and flesh, are evil spirits
— and evil spirits they are, and shall they be called

Chapter 6 (brought to see the Abyss)

— and the angels took Enoch to a place like flaming fire
— to a place of darkness of thunders in uttermost depths
— and a mountain whose summit reached heaven
— where fiery bow and arrows and all lightnings
— and I saw a deep abyss, with columns of heavenly fire
— beyond that abyss it was a waste and horrible place
— where demons are bound and women become sirens

Chapter 7 (the Holy Angels)

— Uriel, Raphael, Raguel, Michael, Saraqael, Gabriel, Remiel,
— there I saw seven stars of the heaven bound together
— “Enoch, why hast thou such fear and affright?”
— “This place is the prison of the angels,
— and here they will be imprisoned for ever”
— “This accursed valley is for those who are accursed forever
— here shall they be gathered; their place of judgement”

A Study of Book 1 (the Watchers) ~ HERE ~ —— ~

Book 2 (the Parables)

Chapter 1 (the First Parable)

— Enoch identifies himself in his second vision
— as to what he saw and what he said
— “Hear, ye men of old time, and see, ye that come after”
— “by whom the lot of eternal life has been given to me”
— they petitioned and interceded for the children of men
— and righteousness and mercy rains like dew upon the earth
— the Elect One of righteousness and of faith
— “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Spirits”
— thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand
— four angels: Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Phanuel
— secrets of lightning and of thunder and of the winds

Chapter 2 (the Second Parable)

— for those who deny the name of the Lord of Spirits
— not into heaven neither on earth shall they come
— Mine Elect Ones will dwell in heaven and on the earth
— the “Son of Man” different from the “Head of Days”
— the Head of Days seated upon the throne of His glory
— the “Head of Days” expressed as if He is
— a different Being from the “Lord of Spirits”
— the Head of Days ”shall be the light of the Gentiles“
— chosen and hidden before the creation of the world
— these chains being prepared for the hosts of Azazel
— subject to Satan who led them astray on earth
— the Head of Days repented and said:
— “In vain have I destroyed all who dwell on earth”
— Mine Elect One shall judge Azazel and his associates
— and in those days the angels shall hurl themselves
— to the east upon the Parthians and Medes

Chapter 3 (the Third Parable)

— the third Parable concerning the righteous and elect
— they shall be in light of the sun and light of eternal life
— the third Parable in the year 500 in the life of Enoch
— and two monsters, a female monster named Leviathan
— to dwell in the abysses of the ocean but the male
— is named Behemoth who occupied a waste wilderness
— “Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits created”
— thunder and lightning are inseparable and undivided
— the Lord of Spirits slays all the sinners with His word
— from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden
— the garments of life to be given by the Lord of Spirits
— and His judgements have no respect of persons
— “Our souls are full of unrighteous gain, but it does not
— prevent us from descending into the burden of Sheol”

A Study of Book 2 (the Parables) ~ HERE ~ —— ~

Book 3 (Noah & Enoch)

Chapter 1 (the Birth of Noah)

— the birth of Noah: son of Lamech; Methuselah; Enoch
— his body as white as snow and red as a rose
— his hair of his head and long locks as white as wool
— when his eyes are opened, he lighted up like the sun
— and his father Lamech was afraid and fled
— and came to his father Methuselah; Enoch
— since Jared, the angels of heaven sinned and
— have united with women and begot giants
— and his three children shall be saved with him

Chapter 2 (the Calling Enoch)

— Noah saw the earth sinned and its destruction nigh
— and he cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch
— “Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth
— as it is in such evil plight and shall I perish with it?”
— earth is in ruin because of all the violence of Satans
— those who dwell upon the earth shall be destroyed
— thy seed shall bring forth a fountain of righteous

Chapter 3 (the Judgement of Angels)

— “Noah, thy lot has come up before Me”
— the earth will not remain without its inhabitants
— they shall be blessed and multiply upon the earth
— judgement shall come upon them because they
— believe in the lust of their body
— and deny the Spirit of the Lord, and Michael said:
— “This judgement whereby the angels are judged”

Chapter 4 (the Secrets of the Parables)

— Enoch taught Noah the secrets of the Parables
— Michael discussed with Raphael the secrets
— and severity of the judgement of the angels
— behold the names of those angels that sinned
— the tenth Azazel, the twenty−first also Azazel
— and they blessed, glorified and extolled because
— the name of that Son of Man had been revealed
— with chains those who have led the world astray
— they shall be imprisoned; all their works destroyed
— the Son of Man shall sit on the throne of Glory

A Study of Book 3 (Noah & Enoch) ~ HERE ~ —— ~

Book 4 (the Kingdom of Heaven)

Chapter 1 (Enoch is Taken)

— Enoch raised aloft on the chariots of the spirit
— to the “Son of Man” then to the “Lord of Spirits”
— saw the first fathers and the righteous
— Enoch saw the holy sons of God
— the angel Michael showed Enoch all the secrets
— secrets of the heavens, the stars and the luminaries
— around him were Seraphin, Cherubic, and Ophannin
— Michael, and Raphael, and Gabriel, and Phanuel
— the Head of Days, His head white and pure as wool

Chapter 2 (the Luminaries of Heaven)

— the courses of the luminaries of the heaven
— the angel Uriel, who is their guide, showed me
— the sun has its rising in the eastern portals and
— its setting in the western portals of heaven
— six portals the sun rises; six portals the sun sets
— Enoch saw how the moons rose and the sun set
— the days for each of those five years, are 364 days
— the sun has two names: first Orjares, second Tomas
— the moon has four names: the first name is Asonja
— the second Ebla, third Benase, and fourth Erae
— in certain months the month has twenty−nine days
— and once twenty−eight
— three months she makes of thirty days,
— and three months of twenty−nine days each
— these, Uriel the archangel, shown unto Enoch

Chapter 3 (the Heavenly Tablets)

— in the days of sinners the years shortened
— the rain shall be kept back; the fruits of the earth
— shall be backward and shall not grow in their time
— And evil shall be multiplied upon them
— and punishment shall come upon them”
— “Observe, Enoch, these heavenly tablets and read
— what is written thereon, and mark every fact.”
— that what shall be to “the remotest generations”
— and those seven holy ones placed me on the earth
— “Declare everything to thy son Methuselah”

Chapter 4 (One Year to Record)

— now, my son Methuselah, all these recordings for thee
— so preserve, my books for the generations of the world
— the year is in three hundred and sixty−four days
— in their seasons and festivals and months
— ordained: Milkiel, Helemmelek, Melejal and Narel
— names who lead them: Adnarel, Ijasusael and Elomeel
— heads of thousands: Gidaljal, Keel, Heel, and Asfael

Chapter 5 (Visions)

— my son, Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions
— in the house of my grandfather Mahalaleel 
— I saw in a vision how the heaven collapsed
— and now the angels are guilty of trespass
— they wrath on hold until the great day of judgement
— my prayer to leave me a posterity on earth but destroy
— from the earth the flesh which aroused thy wrath 
— after this I saw another dream, behold a bull
— and that bull was white; a heifer
— and along with this came forth two bulls
— I saw with mine eye, and I saw the heaven above
— behold a star fell from heaven, many stars descend
— and they bare elephants, camels, and asses
— that abyss was narrow, deep, horrible and dark
— so there arose different genera: lions, tigers, wolves
— dogs, hyenas, wild boars, foxes, squirrels, swine
— falcons, vultures, kites, eagles, and ravens
— a ram butt at those dogs, foxes and wild boars
— He called seventy shepherds to pasture those sheep
— the lions and tigers eat and devoured those sheep
— all the birds of heaven coming, the eagles
— the vultures, kites, ravens; but the eagles led
— and they began to devour those sheep
— a great sword was given to the sheep
— and the beasts and birds fled before their face
— those seventy shepherd were judged and found guilty
— and they were cast into that fiery abyss
— for everything shall come and be fulfilled
— and all the deeds of men were shown to me

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Book 5 (Epistle)

Chapter 1 (the Guidance of Enoch)

— Enoch: draw not nigh to uprightness with a double heart
— and ssociate not with those of a double heart
— for I know that violence must increase on the earth,
— and apostasy, transgression and uncleanness increase
— the holy Lord will come forth with wrath and chastisement
— to execute judgement on earth and will come to pass

Chapter 2 (Wisdom of Enoch)

— “Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times
— for the Holy and Great has appointed days for all things
— I Enoch will declare unto you, my sons:
— what I have learnt from the heavenly tablets:
— in the first week: judgement and righteousness
— in the second week: wickedness and deceit
— in third week: a righteous man shall be elected
— in fourth week: a law for all generations be made
— in fifth week: the house of glory be built forever
— in sixth week: all who live in it shall be blinded
— in seventh week: an apostate generation arise
— a day of darkness in judgement shall they perish
— woe to you rich and mighty, for destruction is near

Chapter 3 (Wisdom of Enoch)

— be known the Most High is mindful of your destruction
— and the angels of heaven rejoice over your destruction
— “Ye have been companions of sinners”
— woe to you who acquire silver and gold unrighteousnessly
— their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire
— woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, ye shall have no peace
— woe to you who work glory in lying and extol them
— will appoint holy angels to guard as the apple of an eye
— in blazing flames burning worse than fire shall ye burn

Chapter 4 (Wisdom of Enoch)

— observe the heaven, ye children of heaven
— He closes the heaven and withholds rain and dew
— Do not the sailors of the ships fear the sea?
— ships are tossed to and fro by the waves,
— and are shaken by the winds, and in sore trouble?
—  their spirits descended into Sheol in tribulation

Chapter 5  (Wisdom of Enoch)

— another book Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah
— and for those who come after him, and in the last days
— an end is made of those who work evil;
— and an end of the might of the transgressors
— abyss: “the flame of a blazing fire, and the voice of
— weeping and crying and lamentation and strong pain”

Chapter 6 (Revelation of Enoch)

— the angels remember you for good your names
— which are written before the glory of the Great One
— ye shall shine as the lights of heaven
— ye shall not have to hide on the day of judgement
— and ye shall not be found as sinners
— fear not, when ye see the sinners growing strong
— and prospering in all their ways
— be not companions with them
— sins of being godless, lying, and having idols
— sinners speak wicked word and practice deceits

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Chapter 1 (the Guidance of Enoch)

¹ And now, my son Methuselah, call to me all thy brothers and gather together to
me all the sons of thy mother; For the word calls me, and the spirit is poured out
upon me that I may show you everything that shall befall you for ever.
² And there upon Methuselah went and summoned to him all his brothers and
assembled his relatives.
³ And he spake unto all the children of righteousness and said: “Hear, ye sons of
Enoch, all the words of your father, and hearken aright to the voice of my mouth
for I exhort you and say unto you, beloved:
⁴ Love uprightness and walk therein.
And draw not nigh to uprightness with a double heart,
And associate not with those of a double heart,
But walk in righteousness, my sons.
⁵ And it shall guide you on good paths, and righteousness shall be your
companion.
⁶ For I know that violence must increase on the earth,
And a great chastisement be executed on the earth,
And all unrighteousness come to an end:
Yea, it shall be cut off from its roots,
And its whole structure be destroyed.
⁷ And unrighteousness shall again be consummated on the earth,
And all the deeds of unrighteousness and of violence,
And transgression shall prevail in a twofold degree.
⁸ And when sin and unrighteousness and blasphemy,
And violence in all kinds of deeds increase,
And apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase,
A great chastisement shall come from heaven upon all these,
And the holy Lord will come forth with wrath and chastisement,
To execute judgement on earth.
⁹ In those days violence shall be cut off from its roots,
And the roots of unrighteousness together with deceit,
And they shall be destroyed from under heaven.
¹⁰ And all the idols of the heathen shall be abandoned,
And the temples burned with fire,
And they shall remove them from the whole earth,
And they shall be cast into the judgement of fire,
And shall perish in wrath and in grievous judgement for ever.
¹¹ And the righteous shall arise from their sleep,
And wisdom shall arise and be given unto them.
¹² And after that the roots of unrighteousness shall be cut off, and the sinners
shall be destroyed by the sword and the blasphemers destroyed in every place,
and those who plan violence and those who commit blasphemy shall perish by
the sword.
¹³ And now I tell you, my sons, and show you the paths of righteousness and the
paths of violence.
¹⁴ Yea, I will show them to you again that ye may know what will come to pass.
¹⁵ And now, listen to me, my sons,
And walk in the paths of righteousness,
And walk not in the paths of violence;
For all who walk in the paths of unrighteousness shall perish for ever.”

Chapter 2 (Wisdom of Enoch)

¹ The book written by Enoch − Enoch indeed wrote this complete doctrine of
wisdom, praised of all men and a judge of all the earth for all my children who
shall dwell on the earth. And for the future generations who shall observe
uprightness and peace.
² “Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times; For the Holy and
Great One has appointed days for all things.
³ And the righteous one shall arise from sleep, shall arise and walk in the paths
of righteousness and all his path and conversation shall be in eternal goodness
and grace.
⁴ He will be gracious to the righteous and give him eternal uprightness, and He
will give him power so that he shall be with goodness and righteousness.
⁵ And he shall walk in eternal light.
⁶ And sin shall perish in darkness for ever and shall no more be seen from that
day for evermore.”
⁷ And after that Enoch both gave and began to recount from the books.
⁸ And Enoch said: “Concerning the children of righteousness and concerning the
elect of the world, and concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these
things.
⁹ Yea, I Enoch will declare unto you, my sons: According to that which appeared
to me in the heavenly vision, and which I have known through the word of the
holy angels, and have learnt from the heavenly tablets.”
¹⁰ And Enoch began to recount from the books and said:
¹¹ “I was born the seventh in the first week, while judgement and righteousness
still endured.
¹² And after me there shall arise in the second week great wickedness, and
deceit shall have sprung up; and in it there shall be the first end.
¹³ And in it a man shall be saved; and after it is ended unrighteousness shall
grow up, and a law shall be made for the sinners.
¹⁴ And after that in the third week at its close a man shall be elected as the plant
of righteous judgement and his posterity shall become the plant of righteousness
for evermore.
¹⁵ And after that in the fourth week, at its close, Visions of the holy and
righteous shall be seen, and a law for all generations and an enclosure shall be
made for them.
¹⁶ And after that in the fifth week, at its close, the house of glory and dominion
shall be built for ever.
¹⁷ And after that in the sixth week all who live in it shall be blinded, and the
hearts of all of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom.
¹⁸ And in it a man shall ascend; and at its close the house of dominion shall be
burnt with fire, and the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed.
¹⁹ And after that in the seventh week shall an apostate generation arise, and
many shall be its deeds, and all its deeds shall be apostate.
²⁰ And at its close shall be elected, the elect righteous of the eternal plant of
righteousness to receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation.
²¹ For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear the voice of the
Holy One without being troubled?
²² And who can think His thoughts?
²³ And who is there that can behold all the works of heaven?
²⁴ And how should there be one who could behold the heaven, and who is there
that could understand the things of heaven and see a soul or a spirit and could
tell thereof, or ascend and see all their ends and think them or do like them?
²⁵ And who is there of all men that could know what is the breadth and the
length of the earth, and to whom has been shown the measure of all of them?
²⁶ Or is there any one who could discern the length of the heaven and how great
is its height, and upon what it is founded, and how great is the number of the
stars, and where all the luminaries rest?
²⁷ And now I say unto you, my sons, love righteousness and walk therein; for
the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation but the paths of
unrighteousness shall suddenly be destroyed and vanish.
²⁸ And to certain men of a generation shall the paths of violence and of death be
revealed and they shall hold themselves afar from them, and shall not follow
them.
²⁹ And now I say unto you the righteous: Walk not in the paths of wickedness,
nor in the paths of death, and draw not nigh to them, lest ye be destroyed.
³⁰ But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness and an elect life, and walk
in the paths of peace, and ye shall live and prosper.
³¹ And hold fast my words in the thoughts of your hearts and suffer them not to
be effaced from your hearts; For I know that sinners will tempt men to evilly
−entreat wisdom so that no place may be found for her, and no manner of
temptation may minish.
³² Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression and lay deceit as a
foundation; For they shall be suddenly overthrown, and they shall have no peace.
³³ Woe to those who build their houses with sin; For from all their foundations
shall they be overthrown and by the sword shall they fall.
³⁴ And those who acquire gold and silver in judgement suddenly shall perish.
³⁵ Woe to you, ye rich, for ye have trusted in your riches and from your riches
shall ye depart because ye have not remembered the Most High in the days of
your riches.
³⁶ Ye have committed blasphemy and unrighteousness, and have become ready
for the day of slaughter, and the day of darkness and the day of the great
judgement.
³⁷ Thus I speak and declare unto you: He who hath created you will overthrow
you and for your fall there shall be no compassion, and your Creator will rejoice
at your destruction.
³⁸ And your righteous ones in those days shall be a reproach to the sinners and
the godless.
³⁹ Oh that mine eyes were a cloud of waters that I might weep over you, and
pour down my tears as a cloud of waters: That so I might rest from my trouble of
heart!
⁴⁰ Who has permitted you to practice reproaches and wickedness?
⁴¹ And so judgement shall overtake you, sinners.
⁴² Fear not the sinners, ye righteous; For again will the Lord deliver them into
your hands, that ye may execute judgement upon them according to your desires.
⁴³ Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which cannot be reversed: Healing
shall therefore be far from you because of your sins.
⁴⁴ Woe to you who requite your neighbor with evil; For ye shall be requited
according to your works.
⁴⁵ Woe to you, lying witnesses, and to those who weigh out injustice, for
suddenly shall ye perish.
⁴⁶ Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute the righteous; for ye shall be delivered
up and persecuted because of injustice, and heavy shall its yoke be upon you.
⁴⁷ Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners perish before you,
and ye shall have lordship over them according to your desires.
⁴⁸ And in the day of the tribulation of the sinners your children shall mount and
rise as eagles, and higher than the vultures will be your nest, and ye shall ascend
and enter the crevices of the earth, and the clefts of the rock for ever as coneys
before the unrighteous, and the sirens shall sigh because of you and weep.
⁴⁹ Wherefore fear not, ye that have suffered; For healing shall be your portion,
and a bright light shall enlighten you, and the voice of rest ye shall hear from
heaven.
⁵⁰ Woe unto you, ye sinners, for your riches make you appear like the righteous
but your hearts convict you of being sinners, and this fact shall be a testimony
against you for a memorial of evil deeds.
⁵¹ Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat and drink wine in large bowls,
and tread under foot the lowly with your might.
⁵² Woe to you who drink water from every fountain; For suddenly shall ye be
consumed and wither away because ye have forsaken the fountain of life.
⁵³ Woe to you who work unrighteousness and deceit and blasphemy: It shall be
a memorial against you for evil.
⁵⁴ Woe to you, ye mighty, who with might oppress the righteous; For the day of
your destruction is coming.
⁵⁵ In those days many and good days shall come to the righteous−in the day of
your judgement.”

Chapter 3 (Wisdom of Enoch)

¹ Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners will become ashame and perish in the
day of unrighteousness.
² Be it known unto you that the Most High is mindful of your destruction and
the angels of heaven rejoice over your destruction.
³ What will ye do, ye sinners, and whither will ye flee on that day of judgement
when ye hear the voice of the prayer of the righteous?
⁴ Yea, ye shall fare like unto them against whom this word shall be a testimony:
“Ye have been companions of sinners.”
⁵ And in those days the prayer of the righteous shall reach unto the Lord and for
you the days of your judgement shall come.
⁶ And all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read out before the Great
Holy One and your faces shall be covered with shame, and He will reject every
work which is grounded on unrighteousness.
⁷ Woe to you, ye sinners, who live on the mid ocean and on the dry land whose
remembrance is evil against you.
⁸ Woe to you who acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness and say: “We have
become rich with riches and have possessions and have acquired everything we
have desired. And now let us do what we purposed: For we have gathered silver
and many are the husbandmen in our houses. And our granaries are full as with
water.”
⁹ Yea and like water your lies shall flow away for your riches shall not abide but
speedily ascend from you; For ye have acquired it all in unrighteousness and ye
shall be given over to a great curse.
¹⁰ And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the foolish for ye shall have
manifold experiences on the earth.
¹¹ For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman and colored
garments more than a virgin; In royalty and in grandeur and in power, and in
silver and in gold and in purple, and in splendor and in food they shall be poured
out as water.
¹² Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom and they shall perish
thereby together with their possessions.
¹³ And with all their glory and their splendour, and in shame and in slaughter
and in great destitution their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
¹⁴ I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, as a mountain has not become a slave and
a hill does not become the handmaid of a woman.
¹⁵ Even so, sin has not been sent upon the earth but man of himself has created
it, and under a great curse shall they fall who commit it.
¹⁶ And barrenness has not been given to the woman but on account of the deeds
of her own hands she dies without children.
¹⁷ I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, by the Holy Great One; That all your evil
deeds are revealed in the heavens and that none of your deeds of oppression are
covered and hidden.
¹⁸ And do not think in your spirit nor say in your heart that ye do not know and
that ye do not see that every sin is every day recorded in heaven in the presence
of the Most High.
¹⁹ From henceforth ye know that all your oppression wherewith ye oppress is
written down every day till the day of your judgement.
²⁰ Woe to you, ye fools, for through your folly shall ye perish: And ye transgress
against the wise, and so good hap shall not be your portion.
²¹ And now, know ye that ye are prepared for the day of destruction: Wherefore
do not hope to live, ye sinners, but ye shall depart and die; for ye know no
ransom; for ye are prepared for the day of the great judgement, for the day of
tribulation and great shame for your spirits.
²² Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who work wickedness and eat blood:
Whence have ye good things to eat and to drink and to be filled? From all the
good things which the Lord the Most High has placed in abundance on the earth;
therefore ye shall have no peace.
²³ Woe to you who love the deeds of unrighteousness: Wherefore do ye hope for
good hap unto yourselves? Know that ye shall be delivered into the hands of the
righteous, and they shall cut off your necks and slay you, and have no mercy
upon you.
²⁴ Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; For no grave shall
be dug for you.
²⁵ Woe to you who set at nought the words of the righteous; For ye shall have no
hope of life.
²⁶ Woe to you who write down lying and godless words; For they write down
their lies that men may hear them and act godlessly towards neighbors.
²⁷ Therefore they shall have no peace but die a sudden death.
²⁸ Woe to you who work godlessness and glory in lying and extol them: Ye shall
perish, and no happy life shall be yours.
²⁹ Woe to them who pervert the words of uprightness and transgress the eternal
law, and transform themselves into what they were not into sinners: They shall
be trodden under foot upon the earth.
³⁰ In those days make ready, ye righteous, to raise your prayers as a memorial,
and place them as a testimony before the angels that they may place the sin of
the sinners for a memorial before the Most High.
³¹ In those days the nations shall be stirred up and the families of the nations
shall arise on the day of destruction.
³² And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children and
they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through them: Yea,
they shall abandon their children sucklings, and not return to them and shall have
no pity on their beloved ones.
³³ And again I swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared for a day of
unceasing bloodshed.
³⁴ And they who worship stones, and grave images of gold and silver and wood
and clay, and those who worship impure spirits and demons, and all kinds of
idols not according to knowledge, shall get no manner of help from them.
³⁵ And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts and their
eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts and through visions in their
dreams.
³⁶ Through these they shall become godless and fearful; For they shall have
wrought all their work in a lie and shall have worshiped a stone: Therefore in an
instant shall they perish.
³⁷ But in those days blessed are all they who accept the words of wisdom, and
understand them, and observe the paths of the Most High, and walk in the path
of His righteousness, and become not godless with the godless; For they shall be
saved.
³⁸ Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbors; For you shall be slain in
Sheol.
³⁹ Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures, and who cause bitterness
on the earth; For they shall thereby be utterly consumed.
⁴⁰ Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of others, and all
their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin; I tell you ye shall have
no peace.
⁴¹ Woe to them who reject the measure and eternal heritage of their fathers and
whose souls follow after idols; For they shall have no rest.
⁴² Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help oppression, and slay their
neighbours until the day of the great judgement.
⁴³ For He shall cast down your glory and bring affliction on your hearts, and
shall arouse His fierce indignation and destroy you all with the sword; And all
the holy and righteous shall remember your sins.
⁴⁴ And in those days in one place the fathers together with their sons shall be
smitten and brothers one with another shall fall in death till the streams flow
with their blood.
⁴⁵ For a man shall not withhold his hand from slaying his sons and his sons
sons, and the sinner shall not withhold his hand from his honored brother: From
dawn till sunset they shall slay one another.
⁴⁶ And the horse shall walk up to the breast in the blood of sinners and the
chariot shall be submerged to its height.
⁴⁷ In those days the angels shall descend into the secret places and gather
together into one place all those who brought down sin and the Most High will
arise on that day of judgement to execute great judgement amongst sinners.
⁴⁸ And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians from amongst
the holy angels to guard them as the apple of an eye until He makes an end of all
wickedness and all sin, and though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have
nought to fear.
⁴⁹ And the children of the earth shall see the wise in security, and shall
understand all the words of this book, and recognize that their riches shall not be
able to save them in the overthrow of their sins.
⁵⁰ Woe to you, Sinners, on the day of strong anguish, Ye who afflict the
righteous and burn them with fire: Ye shall be requited according to your works.
⁵¹ Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who watch in order to devise wickedness:
Therefore shall fear come upon you and there shall be none to help you.
⁵² Woe to you, ye sinners, on account of the words of your mouth, and on
account of the deeds of your hands which your godlessness as wrought; In
blazing flames burning worse than fire shall ye burn.
⁵³ And now, know ye that from the angels He will inquire as to your deeds in
heaven, from the sun and from the moon and from the stars in reference to your
sins because upon the earth ye execute judgement on the righteous.
⁵⁴ And He will summon to testify against you every cloud and mist and dew and
rain; for they shall all be withheld because of you from descending upon you,
and they shall be mindful of your sins.
⁵⁵ And now give presents to the rain that it be not withheld from descending
upon you, nor yet the dew, when it has received gold and silver from you that it
may descend.
⁵⁶ When the hoarfrost and snow with their chilliness, and all the snow storms
with all their plagues fall upon you, in those days ye shall not be able to stand
before them.

Chapter 4 (Wisdom of Enoch)

¹ Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every work of the Most High,
and fear ye Him and work no evil in His presence.
² If He closes the windows of heaven, and withholds the rain and the dew from
descending on the earth on your account, what will ye do then?
³ And if He sends His anger upon you because of your deeds, ye cannot petition
Him; for ye spake proud and insolent words against His righteousness: therefore
ye shall have no peace.
⁴ And see ye not the sailors of the ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by
the waves, and are shaken by the winds, and are in sore trouble?
⁵ And therefore do they fear because all their goodly possessions go into the sea
with them, and they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow
them and they will perish therein.
⁶ Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the work of the
Most High, and has He not set limits to its doings, and confined it throughout by
the sand?
⁷ And at His reproof it is afraid and dries up, and all its fish die and all that is in
it; But ye sinners that are on the earth fear Him not.
⁸ Has He not made the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein?
⁹ Who has given understanding and wisdom to everything that moves on the
earth and in the sea?
¹⁰ Do not the sailors of the ships fear the sea? Yet sinners fear not the Most
High.
¹¹ In those days when He hath brought a grievous fire upon you, whither will ye
flee, and where will ye find deliverance?
¹² And when He launches forth His Word against you will you not be affrighted
and fear? And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear and all the
earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed.
¹³ And all the angels shall execute their commandst and shall seek to hide
themselves from the presence of the Great Glory, and the children of earth shall
tremble and quake; and ye sinners shall be cursed for ever, and ye shall have no
peace.
¹⁴ Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous and be hopeful ye that have died in
righteousness.
¹⁵ And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended in grief, and that in your
life your body fared not according to your goodness but wait for the day of the
judgement of sinners and for the day of cursing and chastisement.
¹⁶ And yet when ye die the sinners speak over you: “As we die, so die the
righteous, and what benefit do they reap for their deeds? Behold, even as we, so
do they die in grief and darkness and what have they more than we? From
henceforth we are equal. And what will they receive and what will they see for
ever? Behold, they too have died, And henceforth for ever shall they see no
light.”
¹⁷ I tell you, “Ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin, and
strip men naked, and acquire wealth and see good days. Have ye seen the
righteous how their end falls out, that no manner of violence is found in them till
their death?
¹⁸ Nevertheless they perished and became as though they had not been, and their
spirits descended into Sheol in tribulation.”

Chapter 5 (Wisdom of Enoch)

¹ Another book which Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah and for those who
will come after him, and keep the law in the last days.
² Ye who have done good shall wait for those days till an end is made of those
who work evil; and an end of the might of the transgressors.
³ And wait ye indeed till sin has passed away, for their names shall be blotted
out of the book of life and out of the holy books, and their seed shall be
destroyed for ever, and their spirits shall be slain, and they shall cry and make
lamentation in a place that is a chaotic wilderness, and in the fire shall they burn;
for there is no earth there.
⁴ And I saw there something like an invisible cloud; for by reason of its depth I
could not look over, and I saw a flame of fire blazing brightly, and things like
shining mountains circling and sweeping to and fro.
⁵ And I asked one of the holy angels who was with me and said unto him: “What
is this shining thing? For it is not a heaven but only the flame of a blazing fire,
and the voice of weeping and crying and lamentation and strong pain.”
⁶ And he said unto me: “This place which thou seest−here are cast the spirits of
sinners and blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness, and of those who
pervert everything that the Lord hath spoken through the mouth of the prophets
− the things that shall be.
⁷ For some of them are written and inscribed above in the heaven, in order that
the angels may read them and know that which shall befall the sinners, and the
spirits of the humble, and of those who have afflicted their bodies, and been
recompensed by God.
⁸ And of those who have been put to shame by wicked men: Who love God and
loved neither gold nor silver nor any of the good things which are in the world,
but gave over their bodies to torture.
⁹ Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly food, but regarded
everything as a passing breath, and lived accordingly, and the Lord tried them
much, and their spirits were found pure so that they should bless His name.
¹⁰ And all the blessings destined for them I have recounted in the books.
¹¹ And he hath assigned them their recompense, because they have been found
to be such as loved heaven more than their life in the world, and though they
were trodden under foot of wicked men and experienced abuse and reviling from
them and were put to shame, yet they blessed Me.
¹² And now I will summon the spirits of the good who belong to the generation
of light, and I will transform those who were born in darkness, who in the flesh
were not recompensed with such honor as their faithfulness deserved.
¹³ And I will bring forth in shining light those who have loved My holy name,
and I will seat each on the throne of his honor.
¹⁴ And they shall be resplendent for times without number; for righteousness is
the judgement of God; for to the faithful He will give faithfulness in the
habitation of upright paths.
¹⁵ And they shall see those who were, born in darkness led into darkness, while
the righteous shall be resplendent.
¹⁶ And the sinners shall cry aloud and see them resplendent, and they indeed
will go where days and seasons are prescribed for them.”

Chapter 6 (Revelation of Enoch)

¹ I swear unto you that in heaven the angels remember you for good before the
glory of the Great One: and your names are written before the glory of the Great
One.
² Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were put to shame through ill and affliction; but
now ye shall shine as the lights of heaven, ye shall shine and ye shalll be seen,
and the portals of heaven shall be opened to you.
³ And in your cry, cry for judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your
tribulation shall be visited on the rulers, and on all who helped those who
plundered you.
⁴ Be hopeful, and cast not away your hopes for ye shall have great joy as the
angels of heaven.
⁵ What shall ye be obliged to do?
⁶ Ye shall not have to hide on the day of the great judgement and ye shall not be
found as sinners, and the eternal judgement shall be far from you for all the
generations of the world.
⁷ And now fear not, ye righteous, when ye see the sinners growing strong and
prospering in their ways, be not companions with them, but keep afar from their
violence; For ye shall become companions of the hosts of heaven.
⁸ And, although the sinners say: “All our sins shall not be searched out and be
written down,” nevertheless they shall write down all your sins every day.
⁹ And now I show unto you that light and darkness, day and night, see all your
sins.
¹⁰ Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of
uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor take
account of your idols; for all your lying and all your godlessness issue not in
righteousness but in great sin.
¹¹ And now I know this mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of
righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practice
great deceits, and write books concerning their words.
¹² But when they write down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do
not change or minish ought from my words but write them all down truthfully −
all that I first testified concerning them.
¹³ Then, I know another mystery, that books will be given to the righteous and
the wise to become a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom.
¹⁴ And to them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and
rejoice over them and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefrom all
the paths of uprightness be recompensed.
¹⁵ In those days the Lord bade to summon and testify to the children of earth
concerning their wisdom: “Show unto them; for ye are their guides and a
recompense over the whole earth.
¹⁶ For I and My son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness
in their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of uprightness.
Amen.”

THE BOOK OF ENOCH
Standard English Version by Dr Jay Winter

Posted in Books of Ancients

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Chapter 1 (Enoch is Taken)

¹ And it came to pass after this that his name during his lifetime was raised aloft
to that Son of Man and to the Lord of Spirits from amongst those who dwell on
the earth. — reference to the “Son of Man” as a separate Being from the “Lord of Spirits” is a constant theme;
² And he was raised aloft on the chariots of the spirit and his name vanished
among them. — Enoch, the subject, being raised on the chariots of the spirit;
³ And from that day I was no longer numbered amongst them and He set me
between the two winds, between the North and the West, where the angels took
the cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous.
⁴ And there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning
dwell in that place.
⁵ And it came to pass after this that my spirit was translated and it ascended into
the heavens I saw the holy sons of God.
⁶ They were stepping on flames of fire: Their garments were white and their
faces shone like snow.
⁷ And I saw two streams of fire and the light of that fire shone like hyacinth, and
I fell on my face before the Lord of Spirits.
⁸ And the angel Michael seized me by my right hand and lifted me up and led
me forth into all the secrets, and he showed me all the secrets of righteousness.
⁹ And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of the heaven, and all the
chambers of all the stars, and all the luminaries, Whence they proceed before the
face of the holy ones.
¹⁰ And he translated my spirit into the heaven of heavens and I saw there as it
were a structure built of crystals and between those crystals tongues of living
fire.
¹¹ And my spirit saw the girdle which girt that house of fire and on its four sides
were streams full of living fire, and they girt that house.
¹² And round about were Seraphin, Cherubic, and Ophannin: And these are they
who sleep not and guard the throne of His glory.
¹³ And I saw angels who could not be counted. A thousand thousands and ten
thousand times ten thousand encircling that house.
¹⁴ And Michael, and Raphael, and Gabriel, and Phanuel, and the holy angels
who are above the heavens go in and out of that house.
¹⁵ And they came forth from that house, and Michael and Gabriel, Raphael, and
Phanuel, and many holy angels without number.
¹⁶ And with them the Head of Days, His head white and pure as wool, and His
raiment indescribable. — here, again, the Head of Days is being portrayed as a separate Being;
¹⁷ And I fell on my face and my whole body became relaxed, and my spirit was
transfigured; and I cried with a loud voice with the spirit of power and blessed
and glorified and extolled.
¹⁸ And these blessings which went forth out of my mouth were well pleasing
before that Head of Days.
¹⁹ And that Head of Days came with Michael and Gabriel, Raphael, and
Phanuel, thousands and ten thousands of angels without number.
²⁰ And He came to me and greeted me with His voice, and said unto me: “This
is the Son of Man who is born unto righteousness, and righteousness abides over
Him, and the righteousness of the Head of Days forsakes Him not.”
²¹ And he said unto me: “He proclaims unto thee peace in the name of the world
to come; for from hence has proceeded peace since the creation of the world, and
so shall it be unto thee for ever and for ever and ever.
²² And all shall walk in his ways since righteousness never forsaketh Him.
²³ With Him will be their dwelling places, and with Him their heritage, and they
shall not be separated from Him for ever and ever and ever.
²⁴ And so there shall be length of days with that Son of Man and the righteous
shall have peace and an upright way in the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever
and ever.

Chapter 2 (The Luminaries)

¹ The book of the courses of the luminaries of the heaven, the relations of each,
according to their classes, their dominion and their seasons, according to their
names and places of origin, and according to their months, which Uriel, the holy
angel, who was with me, who is their guide showed me.
² And he showed me all their laws exactly as they are, and how it is with regard
to all the years of the world and unto eternity, till the new creation is
accomplished which dureth till eternity.
³ And this is the first law of the luminaries: the luminary the sun has its rising in
the eastern portals of the heaven, and its setting in the western portals of the
heaven.
⁴ And I saw six portals in which the sun rises, and six portals in which the sun
sets and the moon rises and sets in these portals, and the leaders of the stars and
those whom they lead: six in the east and six in the west, and all following each
other in accurately corresponding order: also many windows to the right and left
of these portals.
⁵ And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the sun, and his
circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with
illuminating and heating fire.
⁶ The chariot on which he ascends, the wind drives, and the sun goes down from
the heaven and returns through the north in order to reach the east, and is so
guided that he comes to the appropriate portal and shines in the face of the
heaven.
⁷ In this way he rises in the first month in the great portal, which is the fourth.
And in that fourth portal from which the sun rises in the first month are twelve
window−openings, from which proceed a flame when they are opened in their
season.
⁸ When the sun rises in the heaven, he comes forth through that fourth portal
thirty mornings in succession, and sets accurately in the fourth portal in the west
of the heaven.
⁹ And during this period the day becomes daily longer and the night nightly
shorter to the thirtieth morning.
¹⁰ On that day the day is longer than the night by a ninth part, and the day
amounts exactly to ten parts and the night to eight parts.
¹¹ And the sun rises from that fourth portal, and sets in the fourth and returns to
the fifth portal of the east thirty mornings and rises from it and sets in the fifth
portal.
¹² And then the day becomes longer by two parts and amounts to eleven parts,
and the night becomes shorter and amounts to seven parts.
¹³ And it returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises and sets in
the sixth portal one−and−thirty mornings on account of its sign.
¹⁴ On that day the day becomes longer than the night, and the day becomes
double the night, and the day becomes twelve parts, and the night is shortened
and becomes six parts.
¹⁵ And the sun mounts up to make the day shorter and the night longer, and the
sun returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal and rises from it and sets
thirty mornings.
¹⁶ And when thirty mornings are accomplished, the day decreases by exactly
one part, and becomes eleven parts, and the night seven.
¹⁷ And the sun goes forth from that sixth portal in the west, and goes to the east
and rises in the fifth portal for thirty mornings, and sets in the west again in the
fifth western portal.
¹⁸ On that day the day decreases by two parts, and amounts to ten parts and the
night to eight parts.
¹⁹ And the sun goes forth from that fifth portal and sets in the fifth portal of the
west, and rises in the fourth portal for one−and−thirty mornings on account of its
sign, and sets in the west.
²⁰ On that day the day is equalized with the night, and the night amounts to nine
parts and the day to nine parts.
²¹ And the sun rises from that portal and sets in the west, and returns to the east
and rises thirty mornings in the third portal and sets in the west in the third
portal.
²² And on that day the night becomes longer than the day, and night becomes
longer than night, and day shorter than day till the thirtieth morning, and the
night amounts exactly to ten parts and the day to eight parts.
²³ And the sun rises from that third portal and sets in the third portal in the west
and returns to the east and for thirty mornings rises in the second portal in the
east, and in like manner sets in the second portal in the west of the heaven.
²⁴ And on that day the night amounts to eleven parts and the day to seven parts.
²⁵ And the sun rises on that day from that second portal and sets in the west in
the second portal, and returns to the east into the first portal for one−and−thirty
mornings, and sets in the first portal in the west of the heaven.
²⁶ And on that day the night becomes longer and amounts to the double of the
day: and the night amounts exactly to twelve parts and the day to six.
²⁷ And the sun has traversed the divisions of his orbit and turns again on those
divisions of his orbit, and enters that portal thirty mornings and sets also in the
west opposite to it.
²⁸ And on that night has the night decreased in length by a ninth part, and the
night has become eleven parts and the day seven parts.
²⁹ And the sun has returned and entered into the second portal in the east, and
returns on those his divisions of his orbit for thirty mornings, rising and setting.
³⁰ And on that day the night decreases in length, and the night amounts to ten
parts and the day to eight.
³¹ And on that day the sun rises from that portal, and sets in the west, and
returns to the east, and rises in the third portal for one−and−thirty mornings, and
sets in the west of the heaven.
³² On that day the night decreases and amounts to nine parts, and the day to nine
parts, and the night is equal to the day and the year is exactly as to its days three
hundred and sixty−four.
³³ And the length of the day and of the night, and the shortness of the day and of
the night arise−through the course of the sun these distinctions are made.
³⁴ So it comes that its course becomes daily longer, and its course nightly
shorter.
³⁵ And this is the law and the course of the sun, and his return as often as he
returns sixty times and rises for ever and ever.
³⁶ And that which rises is the great luminary, and is so named according to its
appearance, according as the Lord commanded.
³⁷ As he rises, so he sets and decreases not, and rests not, but runs day and
night, and his light is sevenfold brighter than that of the moon; but as regards
size they are both equal.
³⁸ And after this law I saw another law dealing with the smaller luminary, which
is named the Moon.
³⁹ And her circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and her
chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind, and light is given to her in
measure.
⁴⁰ And her rising and setting change every month and her days are like the days
of the sun, and when her light is uniform it amounts to the seventh part of the
light of the sun.
⁴¹ And thus she rises. And her first phase in the east comes forth on the thirtieth
morning: and on that day she becomes visible and constitutes for you the first
phase of the moon on the thirtieth day together with the sun in the portal where
the sun rises.
⁴² And the one half of her goes forth by a seventh part, and her whole
circumference is empty, without light, with the exception of one−seventh part of
it, the fourteenth part of her light.
⁴³ And when she receives one−seventh part of the half of her light, her light
amounts to one−seventh part and the half thereof.
⁴⁴ And she sets with the sun, and when the sun rises the moon rises with him
and receives the half of one part of light, and in that night in the beginning of her
morning in the commencement of the lunar day the moon sets with the sun, and
is invisible that night with the fourteen parts and the half of one of them.
⁴⁵ And she rises on that day with exactly a seventh part, and comes forth and
recedes from the rising of the sun, and in her remaining days she becomes bright
in the thirteen parts.
⁴⁶ And I saw another course, a law for her, how according to that law she
performs her monthly revolution.
⁴⁷ And all these Uriel, the holy angel who is the leader of them all showed to
me, and their positions, and I wrote down their positions as he showed them to
me, and I wrote down their months as they were, and the appearance of their
lights till fifteen days were accomplished.
⁴⁸ In single seventh parts she accomplishes all her light in the east, and in single
seventh parts accomplishes all her darkness in the west.
⁴⁹ And in certain months she alters her settings, and in certain months she
pursues her own peculiar course.
⁵⁰ In two months the moon sets with the sun: in those two middle portals the
third and the fourth. She goes forth for seven days, and turns about and returns
again through the portal where the sun rises, and accomplishes all her light and
she recedes from the sun, and in eight days enters the sixth portal from which the
sun goes forth.
⁵¹ And when the sun goes forth from the fourth portal she goes forth seven days,
until she goes forth from the fifth and turns back again in seven days into the
fourth portal and accomplishes all her light: and she recedes and enters into the
first portal in eight days.
⁵² And she returns again in seven days into the fourth portal from which the sun
goes forth.
⁵³ Thus I saw their position, how the moons rose and the sun set in those days.
⁵⁴ And if five years are added together the sun has an overplus of thirty days,
and all the days which accrue to it for one of those five years, when they are full,
amount to 364 days.
⁵⁵ And the overplus of the sun and of the stars amounts to six days: in 5 years 6
days every year come to 30 days: and the moon falls behind the sun and stars to
the number of 30 days.
⁵⁶ And the sun and the stars bring in all the years exactly, so that they do not
advance or delay their position by a single day unto eternity; but complete the
years with perfect justice in 364 days.
⁵⁷ In 3 years there are 1,092 days, and in 5 years 1,820 days, so that in 8 years
there are 2,912 days.
⁵⁸ For the moon alone the days amount in 3 years to 1,062 days, and in 5 years
she falls 50 days behind to the sum there is 5 to be added 62 days.
⁵⁹ And in 5 years there are 1,770 days, so that for the moon the days 6 in 8 years
amount to 21,832 days.
⁶⁰ For in 8 years she falls behind to the amount of 80 days, all the 17 days she
falls behind in 8 years are 80.
⁶¹ And the year is accurately completed in conformity with their world−stations
and the stations of the sun, which rise from the portals through which it rises and
sets 30 days.
⁶² And the leaders of the heads of the thousands, who are placed over the whole
creation and over all the stars, have also to do with the four intercalary days,
being inseparable from their office, according to the reckoning of the year, and
these render service on the four days which are not reckoned in the reckoning of
the year.
⁶³ And owing to them men go wrong therein, for those luminaries truly render
service on the world−stations, one in the first portal, one in the third portal of the
heaven, one in the fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and the exactness of
the year is accomplished through its separate three hundred and sixty−four
stations.
⁶⁴ For the signs and the times and the years and the days the angel Uriel showed
to me, whom the Lord of glory hath set for ever over all the luminaries of the
heaven, in the heaven and in the world that they should rule on the face of the
heaven and be seen on the earth and be leaders for the day and the night and all
the ministering creatures which make their revolution in all the chariots of the
heaven.
⁶⁵ In like manner twelve doors Uriel showed me open in the circumference of
the suns chariot in the heaven, through which the rays of the sun break forth: and
from them is warmth diffused over the earth, when they are opened at their
appointed seasons.
⁶⁶ And for the winds and the spirit of the dew when they are opened, standing
open in the heavens at the ends.
⁶⁷ As for the twelve portals in the heaven at the ends of the earth, out of which
go forth the sun, moon, and stars, and all the works of heaven in the east and in
the west.
⁶⁸ There are many windows open to the left and right of them, and one window
at its season produces warmth, corresponding to those doors from which the
stars come forth according as He has commanded them and wherein they set
corresponding to their number.
⁶⁹ And I saw chariots in the heaven, running in the world, above those portals in
which revolve the stars that never set.
⁷⁰ And one is larger than all the rest and it is that that makes its course through
the entire world.
⁷¹ And at the ends of the earth I saw twelve portals open to all the quarters from
which the winds go forth and blow over the earth.
⁷² Three of them are open on the face of the heavens, and three in the west, and
three on the right of the heaven, and three on the left.
⁷³ And the three first are those of the east, and three are of the north, and three
after those on the left of the south, and three of the west.
⁷⁴ Through four of these come winds of blessing and prosperity and from those
eight come hurtful winds: when they are sent, they bring destruction on all the
earth and on the water upon it, and on all who dwell thereon, and on everything
which is in the water and on the land.
⁷⁵ And the first wind from those portals, called the east wind, comes forth
through the first portal which is in the east, inclining towards the south: from it
come forth desolation, drought, heat, and destruction.
⁷⁶ And through the second portal in the middle comes what is fitting, and from it
there come rain and fruitfulness and prosperity and dew; and through the third
portal which lies toward the north come cold and drought.
⁷⁷ And after these come forth the south winds through three portals: through the
first portal of them inclining to the east comes forth a hot wind.
⁷⁸ And through the middle portal next to it there come forth fragrant smells, and
dew and rain, and prosperity and health.
⁷⁹ And through the third portal lying to the west come forth dew and rain,
locusts and desolation.
⁸⁰ And after these the north winds: from the seventh portal in the east come dew
and rain, locusts and desolation.
⁸¹ And from the middle portal come in a direct direction health and rain and
dew and prosperity; and through the third portal in the west come cloud and
hoarfrost, and snow and rain, and dew and locusts.
⁸² And after these four are the west winds: through the first portal adjoining the
north come forth dew and hoarfrost, and cold and snow and frost.
⁸³ And from the middle portal come forth dew and rain, and prosperity and
blessing; and through the last portal which adjoins the south come forth drought
and desolation, and burning and destruction.
⁸⁴ And the twelve portals of the four quarters of the heaven are therewith
completed and all their laws and all their plagues and all their benefactions have
I shown to thee, my son Methuselah.
⁸⁵ And the first quarter is called the east because it is the first. And the second,
the south, because the Most High will descend there, yea, there in quite a special
sense will He who is blessed for ever descend.
⁸⁶ And the west quarter is named the diminished because there all the luminaries
of the heaven wane and go down.
⁸⁷ And the fourth quarter named the north, is divided into three parts: the first of
them is for the dwelling of men: and the second contains seas of water, and the
abysses and forests and rivers, and darkness and clouds; and the third part
contains the garden of righteousness.
⁸⁸ I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains which are on the
earth and thence comes forth hoarfrost, and days, seasons, and years pass away.
⁸⁹ I saw seven rivers on the earth larger than all the rivers: one of them coming
from the west pours its waters into the Great Sea.
⁹⁰ And these two come from the north to the sea and pour their waters into the
Erythraean Sea in the east.
⁹¹ And the remaining, four come forth on the side of the north to their own sea,
two of them to the Erythraean Sea, and two into the Great Sea and discharge
themselves there and some say, into the desert.
⁹² Seven great islands I saw in the sea and in the mainland: two in the mainland
and five in the Great Sea.
⁹³ And the names of the sun are the following: the first Orjares, and the second
Tomas.
⁹⁴ And the moon has four names: the first name is Asonja, the second Ebla, the
third Benase, and the fourth Erae.
⁹⁵ These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the
circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both is alike.
⁹⁶ In the circumference of the sun there are seven portions of light which are
added to it more than to the moon, and in definite measures it is s transferred till
the seventh portion of the sun is exhausted.
⁹⁷ And they set and enter the portals of the west, and make their revolution by
the north, and come forth through the eastern portals on the face of the heaven.
⁹⁸ And when the moon rises one−fourteenth part appears in the heaven: the light
becomes full in her; on the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light.
⁹⁹ And fifteen parts of light are transferred to her till the fifteenth day her light is
accomplished, according to the sign of the year, and she becomes fifteen parts,
and the moon grows by fourteenth parts.
¹⁰⁰ And in her waning decreases on the first day to fourteen parts of her light,
on the second to thirteen parts of light, on the third to twelve, on the fourth to
eleven, on the fifth to ten, on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to eight, on the
eighth to seven, on the ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the eleventh to four,
on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two, on the fourteenth to the half of a
seventh, and all her remaining light disappears wholly on the fifteenth.
¹⁰¹ And in certain months the month has twenty−nine days and once twenty
−eight.
¹⁰² And Uriel showed me another law: when light is transferred to the moon,
and on which side it is transferred to her by the sun.
¹⁰³ During all the period during which the moon is growing in her light, she is
transferring it to herself when opposite to the sun during fourteen days her light is
accomplished in the heaven, and when she is illumined throughout, her light is
accomplished full in the heaven.
¹⁰⁴ And on the first day she is called the new moon, for on that day the light
rises upon her. She becomes full moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in
the west, and from the east she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole
night through till the sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over against
the sun.
¹⁰⁵ On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again she wanes
till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are at an end and her
circumference is empty, void of light.
¹⁰⁶ And three months she makes of thirty days, and at her time she makes three
months of twenty−nine days each, in which she accomplishes her waning in the
first period of time, and in the first portal for one hundred and seventy−seven
days.
¹⁰⁷ And in the time of her going out she appears for three months thirty days
each, and for three months she appears twenty−nine each.
¹⁰⁸ At night she appears like a man for twenty days each time, and by day she
appears like the heaven, and there is nothing else in her save her light.
¹⁰⁹ And now, my son, I have shown thee everything, and the law of all the stars
of the heaven is completed.
¹¹⁰ And he showed me all the laws of these for every day, and for every season
of bearing rule, and for every year, and for its going forth, and for the order
prescribed to it every month and every week: And the waning of the moon which
takes place in the sixth portal: for in this 4 sixth portal her light is accomplished.
¹¹¹ And after that there is the beginning of the waning which takes place in the
first portal in its season, till one hundred and seventy−seven days are
accomplished: reckoned according to weeks, twenty−five and two days.
¹¹² She falls behind the sun and the order of the stars exactly five days in the
course of one period, and when this place which thou seest has been traversed.
¹¹³ Such is the picture and sketch of every luminary which Uriel the archangel,
who is their leader, showed unto me.

Chapter 3 (Heavenly Tablets)

¹ And in those days the angel Uriel answered and said to me: “Behold, I have
shown thee everything Enoch and I have revealed everything to thee that thou
shouldst see this sun and this moon, and the leaders of the stars of the heaven
and all those who turn them, their tasks and times and departures.
² And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened and their seed shall
be tardy on their lands and fields.
³ And all things on the earth shall alter and shall not appear in their time: The
rain shall be kept back and the heaven shall withhold it.
⁴ And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward and shall not grow
in their time, and the fruits of the trees shall be withheld in their time.
⁵ And the moon shall alter her order and not appear at her time.
⁶ And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening on
the extremity of the great chariot in the west and shall shine more brightly than
accords with the order of light.
⁷ And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order and these shall alter
their orbits and tasks and not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
⁸ And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners and the
thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them. And they shall be
altered from all their ways. Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods.
⁹ And evil shall be multiplied upon them, and punishment shall come upon them
so as to destroy all.”
¹⁰ And He said unto me: “Observe, Enoch, these heavenly tablets and read what
is written thereon, and mark every individual fact.”
¹¹ And I observed the heavenly tablets, and read everything which was written
and understood everything, and read the book of all the deeds of mankind, and of
all the children of flesh that shall be upon the earth to the remotest generations.
¹² And forthwith I blessed the great Lord the King of glory for ever, in that He
has made all the works of the world.
¹³ And I extolled the Lord because of His patience and blessed Him because of
the children of men.
¹⁴ And after that I said: “Blessed is the man who dies in righteousness and
goodness concerning whom there is no book of unrighteousness written, and
against whom no day of judgement shall be found.”
¹⁵ And those seven holy ones brought me and placed me on the earth before the
door of my house, and said to me: “Declare everything to thy son Methuselah,
and show to all thy children that no flesh is righteous in the sight of the Lord, for
He is their Creator.
¹⁶ One year we will leave thee with thy son, till thou givest thy commands, that
thou mayest teach thy children and record for them, and testify to all thy
children; and in the second year they shall take thee from their midst.
¹⁷ Let thy heart be strong, for the good shall announce righteousness to the
good; The righteous with the righteous shall rejoice and shall offer
congratulation to one another.
¹⁸ But the sinners shall die with the sinners and the apostate go down with the
apostate.
¹⁹ And those who practice righteousness shall die on account of the deeds of
men and be taken away on account of the doings of the godless.
²⁰ And in those days they ceased to speak to me, and I came to my people,
blessing the Lord of the world.

Chapter 4 (One Year to Record)

¹ And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I am recounting to thee and
writing down for thee! and I have revealed to thee everything, and given thee
books concerning all these: so preserve, my son Methuselah, the books from thy
fathers hand, and see that thou deliver them to the generations of the world.
² I have given wisdom to thee and to thy children and thy children that shall be
to thee, that they may give it to their children for generations, this wisdom that
passeth their thought.
³ And those who understand it shall not sleep but shall listen with the ear that
they may learn this wisdom and it shall please those that eat thereof better than
good food.
⁴ Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who walk in the way of
righteousness and sin not as the sinners.
⁵ In the reckoning of all their days in which the sun traverses the heaven,
entering into and departing from the portals for thirty days with the heads of
thousands of the order of the stars, together with the four which are intercalated
which divide the four portions of the year, which lead them and enter with them
four days.
⁶ Owing to them men shall be at fault and not reckon them in the whole
reckoning of the year: yea, men shall be at fault, and not recognize them
accurately.
⁷ For they belong to the reckoning of the year and are truly recorded for ever,
one in the first portal and one in the third, and one in the fourth and one in the
sixth, and the year is completed in three hundred and sixty−four days.
⁸ And the account thereof is accurate and the recorded reckoning thereof exact;
for the luminaries, and months and festivals, and years and days, has Uriel
shown and revealed to me, to whom the Lord of the whole creation of the world
hath subjected the host of heaven.
⁹ And he has power over night and day in the heaven to cause the light to give
light to men, sun, moon, and stars, and all the powers of the heaven which
revolve in their circular chariots.
¹⁰ And these are the orders of the stars, which set in their places, and in their
seasons and festivals and months.
¹¹ And these are the names of those who lead them, who watch that they enter at
their times, in their orders, in their seasons, in their months, in their periods of
dominion, and in their positions.
¹² Their four leaders who divide the four parts of the year enter first; and after
them the twelve leaders of the orders who divide the months; and for the three
hundred and sixty there are heads over thousands who divide the days; and for
the four intercalary days there are the leaders which sunder the four parts of the
year.
¹³ And these heads over thousands are intercalated between leader and leader,
each behind a station, but their leaders make the division.
¹⁴ And these are the names of the leaders who divide the four parts of the year
which are ordained: Milkiel, Helemmelek, and Melejal, and Narel.
¹⁵ And the names of those who lead them: Adnarel, and Ijasusael, and Elomeel
these three follow the leaders of the orders, and there is one that follows the
three leaders of the orders which follow those leaders of stations that divide the
four parts of the year.
¹⁶ In the beginning of the year Melkejal rises first and rules, who is named
Tamaini and sun, and all the days of his dominion whilst he bears rule are ninety
−one days.
¹⁷ And these are the signs of the days which are to be seen on earth in the days
of his dominion: sweat, and heat, and calms; and all the trees bear fruit, and
leaves are produced on all the trees, and the harvest of wheat, and the rose
−flowers, and all the flowers which come forth in the field, but the trees of the
winter season become withered.
¹⁸ And these are the names of the leaders which are under them: Berkael,
Zelebsel, and another who is added a head of a thousand, called Hilujaseph: and
the days of the dominion of this are at an end.
¹⁹ The next leader after him is Helemmelek, whom one names the shining sun,
and all the days of his light are ninety−one days. And these are the signs of days
on the earth: glowing heat and dryness, and the trees ripen their fruits and
produce all their fruits ripe and ready, and the sheep pair and become pregnant,
and all the fruits of the earth are gathered in, and everything that is in the fields,
and the winepress: these things take place in the days of his dominion.
²⁰ These are the names, and the orders, and the leaders of those heads of
thousands: Gidaljal, Keel, and Heel, and the name of the head of a thousand
which is added to them, Asfael: and the days of his dominion are at an end.

Chapter 5 (Visions)

¹ And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions which I have
seen, recounting them before thee.
² Two visions I saw before I took a wife, and the one was quite unlike the other.
The first when I was learning to write: the second before I took thy mother I saw
a terrible vision.
³ And regarding them I prayed to the Lord. I had laid me down in the house of
my grandfather Mahalaleel I saw in a vision how the heaven collapsed and was
borne off and fell to the earth.
⁴ And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was swallowed up in a great
abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on
hills, and high trees were rent from their stems and hurled down and sunk in the
abyss.
⁵ And thereupon a word fell into my mouth and I lifted up to cry aloud, and said:
“The earth is destroyed!”
⁶ And my grandfather Mahalaleel waked me as I lay near him, and said unto me:
“Why dost thou cry so my son, and why dost thou make such lamentation?”
⁷ And I recounted to him the whole vision which I had seen, and he said unto
me: “A terrible thing hast thou seen, my son, and of grave moment is thy dream
vision as to the secrets if all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss and
be destroyed with a great destruction.
⁸ And now, my son, arise and make petition to the Lord of glory, since thou art a
believer that a remnant may remain on the earth, and that He may not destroy the
whole earth. My son, from heaven all this will come upon the earth, and upon
the earth there will be great destruction.”
⁹ After that I arose and prayed and implored and besought, and wrote down my
prayer for the generations of the world, and I will show everything to thee, my
son Methuselah.
¹⁰ And when I had gone forth below and seen the heaven and the sun rising in
the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few stars, and the whole earth,
and everything as He had known it in the beginning then I blessed the Lord of
judgement and extolled Him because He had made the sun to go forth from the
windows of the east, and He ascended and rose on the face of the heaven, and set
out and kept traversing the path shown unto Him.
¹¹ And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the Holy and Great
One and spake with the breath of my mouth, and with the tongue of flesh which
God has made for the children of the flesh of men that they should speak
therewith, and He gave them breath and a tongue and a mouth that they should
speak therewith:
¹² “Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King, Great and mighty in Thy greatness, Lord of
the whole creation of the heaven, King of kings and God of the whole world.
¹³ And Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever and ever, and
throughout all generations Thy dominion; and all the heavens are Thy throne for
ever, and the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever.
¹⁴ For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things and nothing is too hard for
Thee.
¹⁵ Wisdom departs not from the place of Thy throne nor turns away from Thy
presence.
¹⁶ And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything and there is nothing
hidden from Thee for Thou seest everything.
¹⁷ And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass and upon the flesh
of men abideth Thy wrath until the great day of judgement.
¹⁸ And now, O God and Lord and Great King, I implore and beseech Thee to
fulfil my prayer to leave me a posterity on earth and not destroy all the flesh of
man and make the earth without inhabitant so that there should be an eternal
destruction.
¹⁹ And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which has aroused Thy
wrath but the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant of the
eternal seed and hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.”
²⁰ And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the whole dream to thee,
my son.
²¹ And Enoch lifted up and spake to his son Methuselah: “To thee, my son, will
I speak: hear my words−incline thine ear to the dream−vision of thy father.
²² Before I took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold a bull
came forth from the earth, and that bull was white; and after it came forth a
heifer, and along with this came forth two bulls, one of them black and the other
red.
²³ And that black bull gored the red one and pursued him over the earth, and
thereupon I could no longer see that red bull.
²⁴ But that black bull grew and that heifer went with him, and I saw that many
oxen proceeded from him which resembled and followed him.
²⁵ And that cow, that first one, went from the presence of that first bull in order
to seek that red one, but found him not, and lamented with a great lamentation
over him and sought him.
²⁶ And I looked till that first bull came to her and quieted her, and from that time
onward she cried no more.
²⁷ And after that she bore another white bull, and after him she bore many bulls
and black cows.
²⁸ And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a great
white bull, and from him proceeded many white bulls, and they resembled him.
And they began to beget many white bulls, which resembled them, one
following the other, many.
²⁹ And again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw the heaven above, and
behold a star fell from heaven, and it arose and eat and pastured amongst those
oxen.
³⁰ And after that I saw the large and the black oxen, and behold they all changed
their stalls and pastures and their cattle, and began to live with each other.
³¹ And again I saw in the vision, and looked towards the heaven, and behold I
saw many stars descend and cast themselves down from heaven to that first star,
and they became bulls amongst those cattle and pastured with them amongst
them.
³² And I looked at them and saw, and behold they all let out their privy
members, like horses, and began to cover the cows of the oxen, and they all
became pregnant and bare elephants, camels, and asses.
³³ And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and began to bite
with their teeth and to devour, and to gore with their horns.
³⁴ And they began, moreover, to devour those oxen; and behold all the children
of the earth began to tremble and quake before them and to flee from them.
³⁵ And again I saw how they began to gore each other and to devour each other,
and the earth began to cry aloud.
³⁶ And I raised mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold
there came forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and four went
forth from that place and three with them.
³⁷ And those three that had last come forth grasped me by my hand and took me
up away from the generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty place, and
showed me a tower raised high above the earth and all the hills were lower.
³⁸ And one said unto me: “Remain here till thou seest everything that befalls
those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.”
³⁹ And I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and he seized that first
star which had fallen from the heaven, and bound it hand and foot and cast it into
an abyss.
⁴⁰ Now that abyss was narrow and deep, and horrible and dark.
⁴¹ And one of them drew a sword, and gave it to those elephants and camels and
asses: then they began to smite each other, and the whole earth quaked because
of them.
⁴² And as I was beholding in the vision, lo, one of those four who had come
forth stoned them from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars whose
privy members were like those of horses and bound them all hand and foot, and
cast them in an abyss of the earth.
⁴³ And one of those four went to that white bull and instructed him in a secret
without his being terrified: he was born a bull and became a man, and built for
himself a great vessel and dwelt thereon; and three bulls dwelt with him in that
vessel and they were covered in.
⁴⁴ And again I raised mine eyes towards heaven and saw a lofty roof, with seven
water torrents thereon and those torrents flowed with much water into an
enclosure.
⁴⁵ And I saw again, and behold fountains were opened on the surface of that
great enclosure, and that water began to swell and rise upon the surface and I
saw that enclosure till all its surface was covered with water.
⁴⁶ And the water, the darkness, and mist increased upon it; and as I looked at the
height of that water, that water had risen above the height of that enclosure, and
was streaming over that enclosure, and it stood upon the earth.
⁴⁷ And all the cattle of that enclosure were gathered together until I saw how
they sank and were swallowed up and perished in that water.
⁴⁸ But that vessel floated on the water, while all the oxen and elephants and
camels and asses sank to the bottom with all the animals, so that I could no
longer see them, and they were not able to escape, perished and sank into the
depths.
⁴⁹ And again I saw in the vision till those water torrents were removed from that
high roof, and the chasms of the earth were leveled up and other abysses were
opened.
⁵⁰ Then the water began to run down into these, till the earth became visible; but
that vessel settled on the earth, and the darkness retired and light appeared.
⁵¹ But that white bull which had become a man came out of that vessel, and the
three bulls with him, and one of those three was white like that bull, and one of
them was red as blood, and one black: and that white bull departed from them.
⁵² And they began to bring forth beasts of the field and birds, so that there arose
different genera: lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild boars, foxes, squirrels,
swine, falcons, vultures, kites, eagles, and ravens; and among them was born a
white bull.
⁵³ And they began to bite one another; but that white bull which was born
amongst them begat a wild ass and a white bull with it, and the wild asses
multiplied. But that bull which was born from him begat a black wild boar and a
white sheep; and the former begat many boars, but that sheep begat twelve
sheep.
⁵⁴ And when those twelve sheep had grown, they gave up one of them to the
asses, and those asses again gave up that sheep to the wolves, and that sheep
grew up among the wolves.
⁵⁵ And the Lord brought the eleven sheep to live with it and to pasture with it
among the wolves: and they multiplied and became many flocks of sheep.
⁵⁶ And the wolves began to fear them, and they oppressed them until they
destroyed – cry aloud on account of their little ones, and to complain unto their
Lord.
⁵⁷ And a sheep which had been saved from the wolves fled and escaped to the
wild asses; and I saw the sheep how they lamented and cried, and besought their
Lord with all their might, till that Lord of the sheep descended at the voice of the
sheep from a lofty abode, and came to them and pastured them.
⁵⁸ And He called that sheep which had escaped the wolves, and spake with it
concerning the wolves that it should admonish them not to touch the sheep.
⁵⁹ And the sheep went to the wolves according to the word of the Lord, and
another sheep met it and went with it, and the two went and entered together into
the assembly of those wolves, and spake with them and admonished them not to
touch the sheep from henceforth.
⁶⁰ And thereupon I saw the wolves, and how they oppressed the sheep
exceedingly with all their power; and the sheep cried aloud.
⁶¹ And the Lord came to the sheep and they began to smite those wolves and the
wolves began to make lamentation; but the sheep became quiet and forthwith
ceased to cry out.
⁶² And I saw the sheep till they departed from amongst the wolves; but the eyes
of the wolves were blinded, and those wolves departed in pursuit of the sheep
with all their power.
⁶³ And the Lord of the sheep went with them, as their leader, and all His sheep
followed Him: and his face was dazzling and glorious and terrible to behold.
⁶⁴ But the wolves began to pursue those sheep till they reached a sea of water.
And that sea was divided, and the water stood on this side and on that before
their face, and their Lord led them and placed Himself between them and the
wolves.
⁶⁵ And as those wolves did not yet see the sheep, they proceeded into the midst
of that sea, and the wolves followed the sheep, and those wolves ran after them
into that sea.
⁶⁶ And when they saw the Lord of the sheep, they turned to flee before His face,
but that sea gathered itself together, and became as it had been created, and the
water swelled and rose till it covered those wolves.
⁶⁷ And I saw till all the wolves who pursued those sheep perished and were
drowned.
⁶⁸ But the sheep escaped from that water and went forth into a wilderness,
where there was no water and no grass; and they began to open their eyes and to
see; and I saw the Lord of the sheep pasturing them and giving them water and
grass, and that sheep going and leading them.
⁶⁹ And that sheep ascended to the summit of that lofty rock, and the Lord of the
sheep sent it to them.
⁷⁰ And after that I saw the Lord of the sheep who stood before them, and His
appearance was great and terrible and majestic, and all those sheep saw Him and
were afraid before His face.
⁷¹ And they all feared and trembled because of Him, and they cried to that sheep
with them which was amongst them: “We are not able to stand before our Lord
or to behold Him.”
⁷² And that sheep which led them again ascended to the summit of that rock, but
the sheep began to be blinded and to wander from the way which he had showed
them, but that sheep wot not thereof.
⁷³ And the Lord of the sheep was wrathful exceedingly against them, and that
sheep discovered it, and went down from the summit of the rock, and came to
the sheep, and found the greatest part of them blinded and fallen away.
⁷⁴ And when they saw it they feared and trembled at its presence, and desired to
return to their folds.
⁷⁵ And that sheep took other sheep with it, and came to those sheep which had
fallen away, and began to slay them; and the sheep feared its presence, and thus
that sheep brought back those sheep that had fallen away, and they returned to
their folds.
⁷⁶ And I saw in this vision till that sheep became a man and built a house for the
Lord of the sheep, and placed all the sheep in that house.
⁷⁷ And I saw till this sheep which had met that sheep which led them fell asleep:
and I saw till all the great sheep perished and little ones arose in their place, and
they came to a pasture, and approached a stream of water.
⁷⁸ Then that sheep, their leader which had become a man, withdrew from them
and fell asleep, and all the sheep sought it and cried over it with a great crying.
⁷⁹ And I saw till they left off crying for that sheep and crossed that stream of
water, and there arose the two sheep as leaders in the place of those which had
led them and fallen asleep.
⁸⁰ And I saw till the sheep came to a goodly place, and a pleasant and glorious
land, and I saw till those sheep were satisfied; and that house stood amongst
them in the pleasant land.
⁸¹ And sometimes their eyes were opened, and sometimes blinded, till another
sheep arose and led them and brought them all back, and their eyes were opened.
⁸² And the dogs and the foxes and the wild boars began to devour those sheep
till the Lord of the sheep raised up another sheep a ram from their midst, which
led them. And that ram began to butt on either side those dogs, foxes, and wild
boars till he had destroyed them all.
⁸³ And that sheep whose eyes were opened saw that ram, which was amongst
the sheep, till it forsook its glory and began to butt those sheep and trampled
upon them, and behaved itself unseemly.
⁸⁴ And the Lord of the sheep sent the lamb to another lamb and raised it to being
a ram and leader of the sheep instead of that ram which had forsaken its glory.
⁸⁵ And it went to it and spake to it alone, and raised it to being a ram, and made
it the prince and leader of the sheep; but during all these things those dogs
oppressed the sheep.
⁸⁶ And the first ram pursued that second ram, and that second ram arose and fled
before it; and I saw till those dogs pulled down the first ram.
⁸⁷ And that second ram arose and led the little sheep. And those sheep grew and
multiplied; but all the dogs, and foxes, and wild boars feared and fled before it,
and that ram butted and killed the wild beasts, and those wild beasts had no
longer any power among the 49 sheep and robbed them no more of ought.
⁸⁸ And that ram begat many sheep and fell asleep; and a little sheep became ram
in its stead, and became prince and leader of those sheep and that house became
great and broad, and it was built for those sheep.
⁸⁹ A tower lofty and great was built on the house for the Lord of the sheep, and
that house was low, but the tower was elevated and lofty, and the Lord of the
sheep stood on that tower and they offered a full table before Him.
⁹⁰ And again I saw those sheep that they again erred and went many ways, and
forsook that their house, and the Lord of the sheep called some from amongst the
sheep and sent them to the sheep, but the sheep began to slay them.
⁹¹ And one of them was saved and was not slain, and it sped away and cried
aloud over the sheep; and they sought to slay it, but the Lord of the sheep saved
it from the sheep, and brought it up to me, and caused it to dwell there.
⁹² And many other sheep He sent to those sheep to testify unto them and lament
over them.
⁹³ And after that I saw that when they forsook the house of the Lord and His
tower they fell away entirely, and their eyes were blinded; and I saw the Lord of
the sheep how He wrought much slaughter amongst them in their herds until
those sheep invited that slaughter and betrayed His place.
⁹⁴ And He gave them over into the hands of the lions and tigers, and wolves and
hyenas, and into the hand of the foxes, and to all the wild beasts, and those wild
beasts began to tear in pieces those sheep.
⁹⁵ And I saw that He forsook that their house and their tower and gave them all
into the hand of the lions, to tear and devour them, into the hand of all the wild
beasts.
⁹⁶ And I began to cry aloud with all my power, and to appeal to the Lord of the
sheep, and to represent to Him in regard to the sheep that they were devoured by
all the wild beasts.
⁹⁷ But He remained unmoved, though He saw it, and rejoiced that they were
devoured and swallowed and robbed, and left them to be devoured in the hand of
all the beasts.
⁹⁸ And He called seventy shepherds, and cast those sheep to them that they
might pasture them, and He spake to the shepherds and their companions: “Let
each individual of you pasture the sheep henceforward, and everything that I
shall command you that do ye. And I will deliver them over unto you duly
numbered, and tell you which of them are to be destroyed and them destroy ye.”
⁹⁹ And He gave over unto them those sheep.
¹⁰⁰ And He called another and spake unto him: “Observe and mark everything
that the shepherds will do to those sheep; for they will destroy more of them than
I have commanded them. And every excess and the destruction which will be
wrought through the shepherds, record how many they destroy according to my
command, and how many according to their own caprice: record against every
individual shepherd all the destruction he effects. And read out before me by
number how many they destroy, and how many they deliver over for destruction,
that I may have this as a testimony against them, and know every deed of the
shepherds, that I may comprehend and see what they do, whether or not they
abide by my command which I have commanded them. But they shall not know
it, and thou shalt not declare it to them, nor admonish them, but only record
against each individual all the destruction which the shepherds effect each in his
time and lay it all before me.”
¹⁰¹ And I saw till those shepherds pastured in their season, and they began to
slay and to destroy more than they were bidden, and they delivered those sheep
into the hand of the lions.
¹⁰² And the lions and tigers eat and devoured the greater part of those sheep,
and the wild boars eat along with them; and they burnt that tower and
demolished that house.
¹⁰³ And I became exceedingly sorrowful over that tower because that house of
the sheep was demolished, and afterwards I was unable to see if those sheep
entered that house.
¹⁰⁴ And the shepherds and their associates delivered over those sheep to all the
wild beasts, to devour them, and each one of them received in his time a definite
number: it was written by the other in a book how many each one of them
destroyed of them.
¹⁰⁵ And each one slew and destroyed many more than was prescribed; and I
began to weep and lament on account of those sheep.
¹⁰⁶ And thus in the vision I saw that one who wrote, how he wrote down every
one that was destroyed by those shepherds, day by day, and carried up and laid
down and showed actually the whole book to the Lord of the sheep − everything
that they had done, and all that each one of them had made away with, and all
that they had given over to destruction.
¹⁰⁷ And the book was read before the Lord of the sheep, and He took the book
from his hand and read it and sealed it and laid it down.
¹⁰⁸ And forthwith I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and
behold three of those sheep turned back and came and entered and began to build
up all that had fallen down of that house; but the wild boars tried to hinder them,
but they were not able.
¹⁰⁹ And they began again to build as before, and they reared up that tower, and
it was named the high tower; and they began again to place a table before the
tower, but all the bread on it was polluted and not pure.
¹¹⁰ And as touching all this the eyes of those sheep were blinded so that they
saw not, and their shepherds likewise; and they delivered them in large numbers
to their shepherds for destruction, and they trampled the sheep with their feet and
devoured them.
¹¹¹ And the Lord of the sheep remained unmoved till all the sheep were
dispersed over the field and mingled with them and they did not save them out of
the hand of the beasts.
¹¹² And this one who wrote the book carried it up, and showed it and read it
before the Lord of the sheep, and implored Him on their account, and besought
Him on their account as he showed Him all the doings of the shepherds, and
gave testimony before Him against all the shepherds.
¹¹³ And he took the actual book and laid it down beside Him and departed.
¹¹⁴ And I saw till that in this manner thirty−five shepherds undertook the
pasturing, and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others
receive them into their hands, to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in
his own period.
¹¹⁵ And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of heaven coming, the eagles,
the vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began
to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh.
¹¹⁶ And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds
and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who
pastured the sheep.
¹¹⁷ And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites,
and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their
bones stood there: and their bones too fell to the earth and the sheep became few.
¹¹⁸ And I saw until that twenty−three had undertaken the pasturing and
completed in their several periods fifty−eight times.
¹¹⁹ But behold lambs were borne by those white sheep, and they began to open
their eyes and to see, and to cry to the sheep.
¹²⁰ Yea, they cried to them, but they did not hearken to what they said to them,
but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were very exceedingly blinded.
¹²¹ And I saw in the vision how the ravens flew upon those lambs and took one
of those lambs, and dashed the sheep in pieces and devoured them.
¹²² And I saw till horns grew upon those lambs, and the ravens cast down their
horns; and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of those sheep, and their
eyes were opened.
¹²³ And it looked at them and their eyes opened, and it cried to the sheep, and
the rams saw it and all ran to it.
¹²⁴ And notwithstanding all this those eagles and vultures and ravens and kites
still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down upon them and devouring them:
still the sheep remained silent, but the rams lamented and cried out.
¹²⁵ And those ravens fought and battled with it and sought to lay low its horn,
but they had no power over it.
¹²⁶ All the eagles and vultures and ravens and kites were gathered together and
there came with them all the sheep of the field, yea, they all came together, and
helped each other to break that horn of the ram.
¹²⁷ And I saw till a great sword was given to the sheep, and the sheep proceeded
against all the beasts of the field to slay them, and all the beasts and the birds of
the heaven fled before their face.
¹²⁸ And I saw that man, who wrote the book according to the command of the
Lord, till he opened that book concerning the destruction which those twelve last
shepherds had wrought, and showed that they had destroyed much more than
their predecessors, before the Lord of the sheep.
¹²⁹ And I saw till the Lord of the sheep came unto them and took in His hand
the staff of His wrath, and smote the earth, and the earth clave asunder, and all
the beasts and all the birds of the heaven fell from among those sheep, and were
swallowed up in the earth and it covered them.
¹³⁰ And I saw till a throne was erected in the pleasant land, and the Lord of the
sheep sat Himself thereon, and the other took the sealed books and opened those
books before the Lord of the sheep.
¹³¹ And the Lord called those men the seven first white ones, and commanded
that they should bring before Him, beginning with the first star which led the
way, all the stars whose privy members were like those of horses, and they
brought them all before Him.
¹³² And He said to that man who wrote before Him, being one of those seven
white ones, and said unto him: “Take those seventy shepherds to whom I
delivered the sheep, and who taking them on their own authority slew more than
I commanded them.”
¹³³ And behold they were all bound, I saw, and they all stood before Him.
¹³⁴ And the judgement was held first over the stars, and they were judged and
found guilty, and went to the place of condemnation, and they were cast into an
abyss, full of fire and flaming, and full of pillars of fire.
¹³⁵ And those seventy shepherds were judged and found guilty, and they were
cast into that fiery abyss.
¹³⁶ And I saw at that time how a like abyss was opened in the midst of the earth,
full of fire, and they brought those blinded sheep, and they were all judged and
found guilty and cast into this fiery abyss, and they burned; now this abyss was
to the right of that house.
¹³⁷ And I saw those sheep burning and their bones burning.
¹³⁸ And I stood up to see till they folded up that old house; and carried off all
the pillars, and all the beams and ornaments of the house were at the same time
folded up with it, and they carried it off and laid it in a place in the south of the
land.
¹³⁹ And I saw till the Lord of the sheep brought a new house greater and loftier
than that first, and set it up in the place of the first which had beer folded up: all
its pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and larger than those of the
first, the old one which He had taken away, and all the sheep were within it.
¹⁴⁰ And I saw all the sheep which had been left, and all the beasts on the earth,
and all the birds of the heaven, falling down and doing homage to those sheep
and making petition to and obeying them in every thing.
¹⁴¹ And thereafter those three who were clothed in white and had seized me by
my hand who had taken me up before, and the hand of that ram also seizing hold
of me, they took me up and set me down in the midst of those sheep before the
judgement took place.
¹⁴² And those sheep were all white, and their wool was abundant and clean.
¹⁴³ And all that had been destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field,
and all the birds of the heaven, assembled in that house, and the Lord of the
sheep rejoiced with great joy because they were all good and had returned to His
house.
¹⁴⁴ And I saw till they laid down that sword, which had been given to the sheep,
and they brought it back into the house, and it was sealed before the presence of
the Lord, and all the sheep were invited into that house, but it held them not.
¹⁴⁵ And the eyes of them all were opened, and they saw the good, and there was
not one among them that did not see.
¹⁴⁶ And I saw that that house was large and broad and very full.
¹⁴⁷ And I saw that a white bull was born, with large horns and all the beasts of
the field and all the birds of the air feared him and made petition to him all the
time.
¹⁴⁸ And I saw till all their generations were transformed, and they all became
white bulls; and the first among them became a lamb, and that lamb became a
great animal and had great black horns on its head; and the Lord of the sheep
rejoiced over it and over all the oxen.
¹⁴⁹ And I slept in their midst: and I awoke and saw everything.
¹⁵⁰ This is the vision which I saw while I slept, and I awoke and blessed the
Lord of righteousness and gave Him glory.
¹⁵¹ Then I wept with a great weeping and my tears stayed not till I could no
longer endure it: when I saw, they flowed on account of what I had seen; for
everything shall come and be fulfilled, and all the deeds of men in their order
were shown to me.
¹⁵² On that night I remembered the first dream, and because of it I wept and was
troubled−because I had seen that vision.

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Chapter 1 (the Birth of Noah)

¹ And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and
she became pregnant by him and bore a son.
² And his body was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the
hair of his head and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes beautiful.
And when he opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun, and
the whole house was very bright.
³ And thereupon he arose in the hands of the midwife, opened his mouth, and
conversed with the Lord of righteousness.
⁴ And his father Lamech was afraid of him and fled, and came to his father
Methuselah.
⁵ And he said unto him: “I have begotten a strange son, diverse from and unlike
man, and resembling the sons of the God of heaven; and his nature is different
and he is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and his countenance
is glorious.
⁶ And it seems to me that he is not sprung from me but from the angels, and I
fear that in his days a wonder may be wrought on the earth. And now, my father,
I am here to petition thee and implore thee that thou mayest go to Enoch, our
father, and learn from him the truth, for his dwelling−place is amongst the
angels.”
⁷ And when Methuselah heard the words of his son, he came to me to the ends
of the earth; for he had heard that I was there, and he cried aloud, and I heard his
voice and I came to him.
⁸ And I said unto him: “Behold, here am I, my son, wherefore hast thou come to
me?”
⁹ And he answered and said: “Because of a great cause of anxiety have I come to
thee, and because of a disturbing vision have I approached.
¹⁰ And now, my father, hear me: unto Lamech my son there hath been born a
son, the like of whom there is none, and his nature is not like mans nature, and
the color of his body is whiter than snow and redder than the bloom of a rose,
and the hair of his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes are like the rays
of the sun, and he opened his eyes and thereupon lighted up the whole house.
¹¹ And he arose in the hands of the midwife, and opened his mouth and blessed
the Lord of heaven.
¹² And his father Lamech became afraid and fled to me, and did not believe that
he was sprung from him, but that he was in the likeness of the angels of heaven;
and behold I have come to thee that thou mayest make known to me the truth.”
¹³ And I, Enoch, answered and said unto him: “The Lord will do a new thing on
the earth, and this I have already seen in a vision, and make known to thee that
in the generation of my father Jared some of the angels of heaven transgressed
the word of the Lord.
¹⁴ And behold they commit sin and transgress the law, and have united
themselves with women and commit sin with them, and have married some of
them, and have begot children by them.
¹⁵ And they shall produce on the earth giants not according to the spirit, but
according to the flesh, and there shall be a great punishment on the earth, and the
earth shall be cleansed from all impurity.
¹⁶ Yea, there shall come a great destruction over the whole earth, and there shall
be a deluge and a great destruction for one year.
¹⁷ And this son who has been born unto you shall be left on the earth, and his
three children shall be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the earth
shall die he and his sons shall be saved.
¹⁸ And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in
truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his
sons shall be saved from the destruction which shall come upon the earth on
account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated
on the earth in his days.
¹⁹ And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was
first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for
He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read in the heavenly
tablets.
²⁰ And I saw written on them that generation upon generation shall transgress,
till a generation of righteousness arises, and transgression is destroyed and sin
passes away from the earth, and all manner of good comes upon it.
²¹ And now, my son, go and make known to thy son Lamech that this son,
which has been born, is in truth his son, and that is no lie.”
²² And when Methuselah had heard the words of his father Enoch−for he had
shown to him everything in secret−he returned and showed to him and called the
name of that son Noah; for he will comfort the earth after all the destruction.

Chapter 2 (Calling Enoch)

¹ And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction
was nigh.
² And he arose from thence and went to the ends of the earth, and cried aloud to
his grandfather Enoch.
³ Noah said three times with an embittered voice: “Hear me, hear me, hear me.”
⁴ And I said unto him: “Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth that the
earth is in such evil plight and shaken, lest perchance I shall perish with it?”
⁵ And thereupon there was a great commotion , on the earth, and a voice was
heard from heaven, and I fell on my face.
⁶ And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said unto me: “Why
hast thou cried unto me with a bitter cry and weeping?
⁷ A command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those
who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because they have learnt
all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their
powers, the most secret ones.
⁸ And all the power of those who practice sorcery, and the power of witchcraft,
and the power of those who make molten images. For the whole earth: And how
silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal originates in the
earth. For lead and tin are not produced from the earth like the first: it is a
fountain that produces them, and an angel stands therein, and that angel is
preeminent.”
⁹ And after that my grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised
me up, and said unto me: “Go, for I have asked the Lord of Spirits as touching
this commotion on the earth.
¹⁰ And He said unto me: “Because of their unrighteousness their judgement has
been determined upon and shall not be withheld by Me for ever. Because of the
sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell
upon it shall be destroyed.”
¹¹ And these, they have no place of repentance for ever, because they have
shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned: but as for thee, my son,
the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art pure, and guiltless of this reproach
concerning the secrets.
¹² And He has destined thy name to be among the holy and will preserve thee
amongst those who dwell on the earth. And has destined thy righteous seed both
for kingship and for great honors, and from thy seed shall proceed a fountain of
the righteous and holy without number for ever.”
¹³ And after that he showed me the angels of punishment who are prepared to
come and let loose all the powers of the waters which are beneath in the earth in
order to bring judgement and destruction on all who dwell on the earth.
¹⁴ And the Lord of Spirits gave commandment to the angels who were going
forth that they should not cause the waters to rise but should hold them in check;
for those angels were over the powers of the waters.
¹⁵ And I went away from the presence of Enoch.

Chapter 3 (Judgement of Angels)

¹ And in those days the word of God came unto me, and He said unto me:
“Noah, thy lot has come up before Me, a lot without blame, a lot of love and
uprightness.
² And now the angels are working, and when they have completed their task I
will place My hand upon it and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the
seed of life, and a change shall set in so that the earth will not remain without
inhabitant.
³ And I will make fast thy seed before me for ever and ever, and I will spread
abroad those who dwell with thee: it shall not be unfruitful on the face of the
earth, but it shall be blessed and multiply on the earth in the name of the Lord.”
⁴ And He will imprison those angels, who have shown unrighteousness in that
burning valley which my grandfather Enoch had formerly shown to me in the
west among the mountains of gold and silver and iron and soft metal and tin.
⁵ And I saw that valley in which there was a great convulsion and a convulsion
of the waters.
⁶ And when all this took place, from that fiery molten metal and from the
convulsion thereof in that place, there was produced a smell of sulphur, and it
was connected with those waters, and that valley of the angels who had led
astray burned beneath that land.
⁷ And through its valleys proceed streams of fire where these angels are
punished who had led astray those who dwell upon the earth.
⁸ But those waters shall in those days serve for the kings and the mighty and the
exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, for the healing of the body, but for the
punishment of the spirit; now their spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished
in their body.
⁹ For they have denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and
yet believe not in His name.
¹⁰ And in proportion as the burning of their bodies becomes severe a
corresponding change shall take place in their spirit for ever and ever; for before
the Lord of Spirits none shall utter an idle word.
¹¹ For the judgement shall come upon them because they believe in the lust of
their body and deny the Spirit of the Lord.
¹² And those same waters will undergo a change in those days; for when those
angels are punished in these waters, these water−springs shall change their
temperature, and when the angels ascend, this water of the springs shall change
and become cold.
¹³ And I heard Michael answering and saying: “This judgement wherewith the
angels are judged is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who possess the
earth.
¹⁴ Because these waters of judgement minister to the healing of the body of the
kings and the lust of their body; therefore they will not see and will not believe
that those waters will change and become a fire which burns for ever.”

Chapter 4 (Secrets of the Parables)

¹ And after that my grandfather Enoch gave me the teaching of all the secrets in
the book in the Parables which had been given to him, and he put them together
for me in the words of the book of the Parables.
² And on that day Michael answered Raphael and said: “The power of the spirit
transports and makes me to tremble because of the severity of the judgement of
the secrets, the judgement of the angels: who can endure the severe judgement
which has been executed, and before which they melt away?”
³ And Michael answered again, and said to Raphael: “Who is he whose heart is
not softened concerning it, and whose reins are not troubled by this word of
judgement that has gone forth upon them because of those who have thus led
them out?”
⁴ And it came to pass when he stood before the Lord of Spirits, Michael said
thus to Raphael: “I will not take their part under the eye of the Lord; for the Lord
of Spirits has been angry with them because they do as if they were the Lord.
Therefore all that is hidden shall come upon them for ever and ever; for neither
angel nor man shall have his portion, but alone they have received their
judgement for ever and ever.”
⁵ And after this judgement they shall terrify and make them to tremble because
they have shown this to those who dwell on the earth.
⁶ And behold the names of those angels: the first of them is Samjaza, the second
Artaqifa, and the third Armen, the fourth Kokabel, the fifth Turael, the sixth
Rumjal, the seventh Danjal, the eighth Neqael, the ninth Baraqel, the tenth
Azazel, the eleventh Armaros, the twelfth Batarjal, the thirteenth Busasejal, the
fourteenth Hananel, the fifteenth Turel, and the sixteenth Simapesiel, the
seventeenth Jetrel, the eighteenth Tumael, the nineteenth Turel, the twentieth
Rumael, the twenty−first Azazel.
⁷ And these are the chiefs of their angels and their names, and their chief ones
over hundreds and over fifties and over tens.
⁸ The name of the first Jeqon: that is, the one who led astray the sons of God,
and brought them down to the earth, and led them astray through the daughters
of men.
⁹ And the second was named Asbeel: he imparted to the holy sons of God evil
counsel, and led them astray so that they defiled their bodies with the daughters
of men.
¹⁰ And the third was named Gadreel: he it is who showed the children of men all
the blows of death, and he led astray Eve, and showed the shield and the coat of
mail, and the sword for battle, and all the weapons of death to the children of
men. And from his hand they have proceeded against those who dwell on the
earth from that day and for evermore.
¹¹ And the fourth was named Penemue: he taught the children of men the bitter
and the sweet, and he taught them all the secrets of their wisdom. And he
instructed mankind in writing with ink and paper, and thereby many sinned from
eternity to eternity and until this day. For men were not created for such a
purpose, to give confirmation to their good faith with pen and ink. For men were
created exactly like the angels, to the intent that they should continue pure and
righteous, and death, which destroys everything, could not have taken hold of
them but through this their knowledge they are perishing, and through this power
it is consuming men.
¹² And the fifth was named Kasdeja: this is he who showed the children of men
all the wicked smithings of spirits and demons, and the smitings of the embryo
in the womb, that it may pass away, and the bites of the serpent, and the smitings
which befall through the noontide heat the son of the serpent named Tabaet.
¹³ And this is the task of Kasbeel, the chief of the oath which he showed to the
holy ones when he dwelt high above in glory, and its name is Biqa.
¹⁴ This angel requested Michael to show him the hidden name, that he might
enunciate it in the oath, so that those might quake before that name and oath who
revealed all that was in secret to the children of men.
¹⁵ And this is the power of this oath, for it is powerful and strong, and he placed
this oath Akae in the hand of Michael.
¹⁶ These are the secrets of this oath and they are strong through his oath: The
heaven was suspended before the world was created, and for ever.
¹⁷ And through it the earth was founded upon the water and from the secret
recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters from the creation of the world
and unto eternity.
¹⁸ And through that oath the sea was created and as its foundation He set for it
the sand against the time of anger, and it dare not pass beyond it from the
creation of the world unto eternity.
¹⁹ And through that oath are the depths made fast and abide and stir not from
their place from eternity to eternity.
²⁰ And through that oath the sun and moon complete their course and deviate
not from their ordinance from eternity to eternity.
²¹ And through that oath the stars complete their course and He calls them by
their names, and they answer Him from eternity to eternity.
²² And this oath is mighty over them and through it their paths are preserved
and their course is not destroyed.
²³ And there was great joy amongst them, and they blessed and glorified and
extolled because the name of that Son of Man had been revealed unto them.
²⁴ And he sat on the throne of His glory and the sum of judgement was given
unto the Son of Man, and He caused the sinners to pass away and be destroyed
from off the face of the earth, and those who have led the world astray.
²⁵ With chains shall they be bound and in their assemblage place of destruction
shall they be imprisoned, and all their works vanish from the face of the earth.
²⁶ And from henceforth there shall be nothing corruptible; For that Son of Man
has appeared and has seated himself on the throne of His glory.
²⁷ All evil shall pass away before His face and the word of that Son of Man
shall go forth and be strong before the Lord of Spirits.

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Book 2: The Parables

Chapter 1 – The First Parable

¹ The second vision which he saw, the vision of wisdom, which Enoch the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, saw.
² And this is the beginning of the words of wisdom which I lifted up my voice to speak and say to those which dwell on earth: “Hear, ye men of old time, and see, ye that come after, the words of the Holy One which I will speak before the Lord of Spirits. It were better to declare to the men of old times, but even from those that come after we will not withhold the beginning of wisdom.”
³ Till the present day such wisdom has never been given by the Lord of Spirits as I have received according to my insight, according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits by whom the lot of eternal life has been given to me. Now three Parables were imparted to me, and I lifted up my voice and recounted them to those that dwell on the earth.

⁴ The First Parable. When the congregation of the righteous shall appear, and sinners shall be judged for their sins, and shall be driven from the face of the earth:
⁵ And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the righteous, whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits, and light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on the earth, where then will be the dwelling of the sinners, and where the resting−place of those who have denied the Lord of Spirits? It had been good for them if they had not been born.
⁶ When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the sinners judged, and the godless driven from the presence of the righteous and elect.
⁷ From that time those that possess the earth shall no longer be powerful and exalted: And they shall not be able to behold the face of the holy, for the Lord of Spirits has caused His light to appear on the face of the holy, righteous, and elect.
⁸ Then shall the kings and the mighty perish and be given into the hands of the righteous and holy.
⁹ And thenceforward none shall seek for themselves mercy from the Lord of Spirits for their life is at an end.
¹⁰ And it shall come to pass in those days that elect and holy children will descend from the high heaven, and their seed will become one with the children of men.
¹¹ And in those days Enoch received books of zeal and wrath, and books of disquiet and expulsion.
¹² And mercy shall not be accorded to them, saith the Lord of Spirits.
¹³ And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth, and set me down at the end of the heavens.
¹⁴ And there I saw another vision, the dwelling−places of the holy, and the resting−places of the righteous.
¹⁵ Here mine eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous angels and their resting places with the holy.
¹⁶ And they petitioned and interceded and prayed for the children of men, and righteousness flowed before them as water, and mercy like dew upon the earth: Thus it is amongst them for ever and ever.
¹⁷ And in that place mine eyes saw the Elect One of righteousness and of faith, and I saw his dwelling−place under the wings of the Lord of Spirits.
¹⁸ And righteousness shall prevail in his days, and the righteous and elect shall be without number before Him for ever and ever.
¹⁹ And all the righteous and elect before Him shall be strong as fiery lights, and their mouth shall be full of blessing, and their lips extol the name of the Lord of Spirits, and righteousness before Him shall never fail.
²⁰ There I wished to dwell, and my spirit longed for that dwelling place, and there heretofore hath been my portion. For so has it been established concerning me before the Lord of Spirits.
²¹ In those days I praised and extolled the name of the Lord of Spirits with blessings and praises, because He hath destined me for blessing and glory according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits.
²² For a long time my eyes regarded that place, and I blessed Him and praised Him, saying: “Blessed is He, and may He be blessed from the beginning and for evermore. And before Him there is no ceasing. He knows before the world was created what is for ever and what will be from generation unto generation.”
²³ Those who sleep not bless Thee: they stand before Thy glory and bless, praise, and extol, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Spirits: He filleth the earth with spirits.”
²⁴ And here my eyes saw all those who sleep not: they stand before Him and bless and say: “Blessed be Thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and ever.” And my face was changed; for I could no longer behold.
²⁵ And after that I saw thousands of thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand, I saw a multitude beyond number and reckoning, who stood before the Lord of Spirits.
²⁶ And on the four sides of the Lord of Spirits I saw four presences, different from those that sleep not, and I learnt their names: for the angel that went with me made known to me their names, and showed me all the hidden things.
²⁷ And I heard the voices of those four presences as they uttered praises before the Lord of glory.
²⁸ The first voice blesses the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.
²⁹ And the second voice I heard blessing the Elect One and the elect ones who hang upon the Lord of Spirits.
³⁰ And the third voice I heard pray and intercede for those who dwell on the earth and supplicate in the name of the Lord of Spirits.
³¹ And I heard the fourth voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them to come before the Lord of Spirits to accuse them who dwell on the earth. — here it shows that Satan and his agents are not bound; they were the first sinners, as distinct from the Watchers, cast down from heaven; they seem relatively free to roam around;
³² After that I asked the angel of peace who went with me, who showed me everything that is hidden: “Who are these four presences which I have seen and whose words I have heard and written down?”
³³ And he said to me: “This first is Michael, the merciful and long−suffering: and the second, who is set over all the diseases and all the wounds of the children of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is set over all the powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel.”
³⁴ And these are the four angels of the Lord of Spirits and the four voices I heard in those days.
³⁵ And after that I saw all the secrets of the heavens, and how the kingdom is divided, and how the actions of men are weighed in the balance.
³⁶ And there I saw the mansions of the elect and the mansions of the holy, and mine eyes saw there all the sinners being driven from thence which deny the name of the Lord of Spirits, and being dragged off: and they could not abide because of the punishment which proceeds from the Lord of Spirits.
³⁷ And there mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightning and of the thunder, and the secrets of the winds, how they are divided to blow over the earth, and the secrets of the clouds and dew, and these I saw from whence they proceed in that place and from whence they saturate the dusty earth.
³⁸ And there I saw closed chambers out of which the winds are divided, the chamber of the hail and winds, the chamber of the mist, and of the clouds, and the cloud thereof hovers over the earth from the beginning of the world.
³⁹ And I saw the chambers of the sun and moon, whence they proceed and whither they come again, and their glorious return, and how one is superior to the other, and their stately orbit, and how they do not leave their orbit, and they add nothing to their orbit and they take nothing from it, and they keep faith with each other, in accordance with the oath by which they are bound together.
⁴⁰ And first the sun goes forth and traverses his path according to the commandment of the Lord of Spirits, and mighty is His name for ever and ever.
⁴¹ And after that I saw the hidden and the visible path of the moon, and she accomplishes the course of her path in that place by day and by night−the one holding a position opposite to the other before the Lord of Spirits.
⁴² And they give thanks and praise and rest not. For unto them is their thanksgiving rest.
⁴³ For the sun changes oft for a blessing or a curse, and the course of the path of the moon is light to the righteous and darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord. Who made a separation between the light and the darkness, and divided the spirits of men, and strengthened the spirits of the righteous in the name of His righteousness.
⁴⁴ For no angel hinders and no power is able to hinder; for He appoints a judge for them all and He judges them all before Him.
⁴⁵ Wisdom found no place where she might dwell, then a dwelling−place was assigned her in the heavens.
⁴⁶ Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the children of men and found no dwelling−place.
⁴⁷ Wisdom returned to her place and took her seat among the angels.
⁴⁸ And unrighteousness went forth from her chambers: Whom she sought not she found and dwelt with them, as rain in a desert and dew on a thirsty land.
⁴⁹ And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him.
⁵⁰ And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light: the width of their spaces and the day of their appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and their revolution according to the number of the angels, and they keep faith with each other.
⁵¹ And I asked the angel who went with me who showed me what was hidden: “What are these?”
⁵² And he said to me: “The Lord of Spirits hath showed thee their parabolic meaning: these are the names of the holy who dwell on the earth and believe in the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.”
⁵³ Also another phenomenon I saw in regard to the lightnings: how some of the stars arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their new form.

Chapter 2 – The Second Parable

¹ And this is the second Parable concerning those who deny the name of the dwelling of the holy ones and the Lord of Spirits.
² And into the heaven they shall not ascend, and on the earth they shall not come. Such shall be the lot of the sinners who have denied the name of the Lord of Spirits. Who are thus preserved for the day of suffering and tribulation.
³ On that day Mine Elect One shall sit on the throne of glory and shall try their works, and their places of rest shall be innumerable. And their souls shall grow strong within them when they see Mine Elect Ones. — another translation expresses Him as “My Chosen One;” He must be the Son, Yeshua;
⁴ And those who have called upon My glorious name: Then will I cause Mine Elect One to dwell among them.
⁵ And I will transform the heaven and make it an eternal blessing and light and I will transform the earth and make it a blessing: and I will cause Mine Elect Ones to dwell upon it: But the sinners and evil−doers shall not set foot thereon.
⁶ For I have provided and satisfied with peace My righteous ones and have caused them to dwell before Me: But for the sinners there is judgement impending with Me, so that I shall destroy them from the face of the earth.
⁷ And there I saw One who had a head of days, and His head was white like wool, and with Him was another being whose countenance had the appearance of a man, and his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.
⁸ And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and whence he was, and why he went with the Head of Days. — here He is expressed as the “Son of Man,” and would be the same Being;
⁹ And he answered and said unto me: “This is the Son of Man who hath righteousness. With whom dwelleth righteousness, and who reveals all the treasures of that which is hidden. Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him, and whose lot hath preeminence before the Lord of Spirits in uprightness for ever.
¹⁰ And this Son of Man whom thou hast seen shall raise up the kings and the mighty from their seats and shall loosen the reins of the strong, and break the teeth of the sinners. Because they do not extol and praise Him, Nor humbly acknowledge whence the kingdom was bestowed upon them.
¹¹ And he shall put down the countenance of the strong, and shall fill them with shame. Darkness shall be their dwelling and worms shall be their bed. They shall have no hope of rising from their beds because they do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits.
¹² These are they who judge the stars of heaven, tread upon the earth, and dwell upon it.
¹³ All their deeds manifest unrighteousness and their power rests upon their riches.
¹⁴ Their faith is in the gods which they have made with their hands and they deny the name of the Lord of Spirits.
¹⁵ They persecute the houses of His congregations and the faithful who hang upon the name of the Lord of Spirits.
¹⁶ And in those days shall have ascended the prayer of the righteous and the blood of the righteous from the earth before the Lord of Spirits.
¹⁷ In those days the holy ones who dwell above in the heavens shall unite with one voice and supplicate and pray and praise, give thanks and bless the name of the Lord of Spirits on behalf of the blood of the righteous which has been shed.
¹⁸ And that the prayer of the righteous may not be in vain before the Lord of Spirits, that judgement may be done unto them and that they may not have to suffer for ever.”
¹⁹ In those days I saw the Head of Days when He seated himself upon the throne of His glory, and the books of the living were opened before Him, and all His host which is in heaven above and His counselors stood before Him. — could “the Lord of Spirits” expressed here as “the Head of Days”?
²⁰ And the hearts of the holy were filled with joy because the number of the righteous had been offered, and the prayer of the righteous had been heard, and the blood of the righteous been required before the Lord of Spirits.
²¹ And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousness, which was inexhaustible; and around it were many fountains of wisdom. All the thirsty drank of them and were filled with wisdom and their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and elect.
²² And at that hour that Son of Man was named in the presence of the Lord of Spirits, and His name before the Head of Days. — here “the Lord of Spirits” is expressed as if He is a different Being than “the Head of Days”
²³ Yea, before the sun and the signs were created, before the stars of the heaven were made, His name was named before the Lord of Spirits.
²⁴ “He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay themselves and not fall and he shall be the light of the Gentiles, and the hope of those who are troubled of heart.
²⁵ All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before Him, and will praise and bless and celebrate with song the Lord of Spirits.
²⁶ And for this reason hath He been chosen and hidden before Him, before the creation of the world and for evermore.
²⁷ And the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits hath revealed Him to the holy and righteous for He hath preserved the lot of the righteous because they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness and have hated all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of Spirits: For in his name they are saved and according to His good pleasure hath it been in regard to their life.
²⁸ In these days downcast in countenance shall the kings of the earth have become and the strong who possess the land because of the works of their hands. For on the day of their anguish and affliction they shall not save themselves and I will give them over into the hands of Mine Elect.
²⁹ As straw in the fire so shall they burn before the face of the holy: As lead in the water shall they sink before the face of the righteous and no trace of them shall any more be found.
³⁰ And on the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the earth, and before them they shall fall and not rise again. There shall be no one to take them with his hands and raise them for they have denied the Lord of Spirits and His Anointed One. The name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed.
^3l For wisdom is poured out like water, and glory faileth not before Him for evermore.
³² For He is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness and unrighteousness shall disappear as a shadow and have no continuance. Because the Elect One standeth before the Lord of Spirits and His glory is for ever and ever and His might unto all generations.
³³ And in Him dwells the spirit of wisdom, and the spirit which gives insight, and the spirit of understanding and of might, and the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.
³⁴ And He shall judge the secret things and none shall be able to utter a lying word before Him for He is the Elect One before the Lord of Spirits according to His good pleasure.
³⁵ In those days a change shall take place for the Holy and Elect, and the Light of Days shall abide upon them and glory and honor shall turn to the holy.
³⁶ On the day of affliction on which evil shall have been treasured up against the sinners. And the righteous shall be victorious in the name of the Lord of Spirits and He will cause the others to witness that they may repent and forgo the works of their hands.
³⁷ They shall have no honor through the name of the Lord of Spirits yet through His name shall they be saved, and the Lord of Spirits will have compassion on them for His compassion is great.
³⁸ And He is righteous also in His judgement and in the presence of His glory unrighteousness also shall not maintain itself: At His judgement the unrepentant shall perish before Him.
³⁹ And from henceforth, I will have no mercy on them.” saith the Lord of Spirits.
⁴⁰ In those days shall the earth also give back that which has been entrusted to it. Sheol also shall give back that which it has received, and hell shall give back that which it owes.
⁴¹ For in those days the Elect One shall arise and He shall choose the righteous and holy from among them.
⁴² For the day has drawn nigh that they should be saved.
⁴³ And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne and His mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and counsel for the Lord of Spirits hath given to Him and hath glorified Him.
⁴⁴ In those days shall the mountains leap like rams and the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk, and the faces of the angels in heaven shall be lighted up with joy.
⁴⁵ And the earth shall rejoice and the righteous shall dwell upon it and the Elect shall walk thereon.
⁴⁶ And after those days in that place where I had seen all the visions of that which is hidden, for I had been carried off in a whirlwind and they had borne me towards the west.
⁴⁷ There mine eyes saw all the secret things of heaven that shall be, a mountain of iron, and a mountain of copper, and a mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft metal, and a mountain of lead.
⁴⁸ And I asked the angel who went with me, saying, “What things are these which I have seen in secret?”
⁴⁹ And he said unto me: “All these things which thou hast seen shall serve the dominion of His Anointed that He may be potent and mighty on the earth.”
⁵⁰ And that angel of peace answered, saying unto me: “Wait a little, and there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things which surround the Lord of Spirits.
⁵¹ And these mountains which thine eyes have seen, the mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver, and the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the mountain of lead.
⁵² All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One as wax before the fire, and like the water which streams down from above and they shall become powerless before his feet.
⁵³ And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved either by gold or by silver and none be able to escape.
⁵⁴ And there shall be no iron for war. Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate. Bronze shall be of no service, and tin shall not be esteemed, and lead shall not be desired.
⁵⁵ And all these things shall be destroyed from the surface of the earth.”
⁵⁶ And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and saw there a deep valley with burning fire. And they brought the kings and the mighty, and began to cast them into this deep valley.
⁵⁷ And there mine eyes saw how they made these their instruments, iron chains of immeasurable weight.
⁵⁸ And I asked the angel of peace who went with me, saying: “For whom are these chains being prepared?”
⁵⁹ And he said unto me: “These are being prepared for the hosts of Azazel, so that they may take them and cast them into the abyss of complete condemnation, and they shall cover their jaws with rough stones as the Lord of Spirits commanded.”
⁶⁰ And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of them on that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace, that the Lord of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading astray those who dwell on the earth.
⁶¹ And in those days shall punishment come from the Lord of Spirits, and He will open all the chambers of waters which are above the heavens, and of the fountains which are beneath the earth.
⁶² And all the waters shall be joined with the waters: that which is above the heavens is the masculine, and the water which is beneath the earth is the feminine.
⁶³ And they shall destroy all who dwell on the earth and those who dwell under the ends of the heaven. And when they have recognized their unrighteousness which they have wrought on the earth, then by these shall they perish.
⁶⁴ And after that, the Head of Days repented and said: “In vain have I destroyed all who dwell on the earth.”
⁶⁵ And He sware by His great name: “Henceforth I will not do so to all who dwell on the earth and I will set a sign in the heaven and this shall be a pledge of good faith between Me and them for ever. So long as heaven is above the earth and this is in accordance with My command.
⁶⁶ When I have desired to take hold of them by the hand of the angels on the day of tribulation and pain because of this, I will cause My chastisement and My wrath to abide upon them,” saith God, the Lord of Spirits.
⁶⁷ Ye mighty kings who dwell on the earth, ye shall have to behold Mine Elect One. How He sits on the throne of glory and judges Azazel and all his associates, and all his hosts in the name of the Lord of Spirits.
⁶⁸ And I saw there the hosts of the angels of punishment going and they held scourges and chains of iron and bronze.
⁶⁹ And I asked the angel of peace who went with me, saying: “To whom are these who hold the scourges going?”
⁷⁰ And he said unto me: “To their elect and beloved ones, that they may be cast into the chasm of the abyss of the valley.”
⁷¹ And then that valley shall be filled with their elect and beloved, and the days of their lives shall be at an end, and the days of their leading astray shall not thenceforward be reckoned.

⁷² And in those days the angels shall return and hurl themselves to the east upon the Parthians and Medes. — the Parthian, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was the Persian Empire; or the Medes and Persian;
⁷³ They shall stir up the kings, so that a spirit of unrest shall come upon them and they shall rouse them from their thrones that they may break forth as lions from their lairs and as hungry wolves among their flocks. — is this the reason why the Iranian regime today are so adamant about destroying Israel from the Middle East?
⁷⁴ And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His elect ones but the city of the righteous shall be a hindrance to their horses.
⁷⁵ And they shall begin to fight among themselves and their right hand shall be strong against themselves.
⁷⁶ And a man shall not know his brother nor a son his father or his mother till there be no number of the corpses through their slaughter and their punishment be not in vain.
⁷⁷ In those days Sheol shall open its jaws and they shall be swallowed up therein. Their destruction shall be at an end. Sheol shall devour the sinners in the presence of the elect.”
⁷⁸ And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of wagons, and men riding thereon, and coming on the winds from the east, and from the west to the south.
⁷⁹ And the noise of their wagons was heard, and when this turmoil took place the holy ones from heaven remarked it, and the pillars of the earth were moved from their place, and the sound thereof was heard from the one end of heaven to the other, in one day.
⁸⁰ And they shall all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits. And this is the end of the second Parable.

Chapter 3 – The Third Parable

¹ And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and elect.
² Blessed are ye, ye righteous and Elect for glorious shall be your lot.
³ And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun and the elect in the light of eternal life.
⁴ The days of their life shall be unending and the days of the holy without number.
⁵ And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the Lord of Spirits.
⁶ There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal Lord.
⁷ And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven that they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of faith.
⁸ For it has become bright as the sun upon earth and the darkness is past.
⁹ And there shall be a light that never ends and to a limit of days they shall not come.
¹⁰ For the darkness shall first have been destroyed and the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of Spirits.
¹¹ In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings, and of the lights, and the judgements they execute, and they lighten for a blessing or a curse as the Lord of Spirits willeth.
¹² And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, and how when it resounds above in the heaven, the sound thereof is heard.
¹³ And He caused me to see the judgements executed on the earth, whether they be for well−being and blessing, or for a curse according to the word of the Lord of Spirits.
¹⁴ And after that, all the secrets of the lights and lightnings were shown to me, and they lighten for blessing and for satisfying.
¹⁵ In the year 500, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the life of Enoch.
¹⁶ In that parable I saw how a mighty quaking made the heaven of heavens to quake, and the host of the Most High, and the angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand were disquieted with a great disquiet.
¹⁷ And the Head of Days sat on the throne of His glory, and the angels and the righteous stood around Him.
¹⁸ And a great trembling seized me, and fear took hold of me, and my loins gave way, and dissolved were my reins, and I fell upon my face.
¹⁹ And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones and he raised me up, and when he had raised me up my spirit returned; for I had not been able to endure the look of this host, and the commotion and the quaking of the heaven.

²⁰ And Michael said unto me: Why art thou disquieted with such a vision? Until this day lasted the day of His mercy; and He hath been merciful and long−suffering towards those who dwell on the earth.
²¹ And when the day, and the power, and the punishment, and the judgement come, which the Lord of Spirits hath prepared for those who worship not the righteous law, and for those who deny the righteous judgement, and for those who take His name in vain, that day is prepared, for the elect a covenant, but for sinners an inquisition.
²² When the punishment of the Lord of Spirits shall rest upon them, it shall rest in order that the punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not come in vain, and it shall slay the children with their mothers and the children with their fathers.
²³ Afterwards the judgement shall take place according to His mercy and His patience.”
²⁴ And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the waters.
²⁵ But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named Duidain, on the east of the garden where the elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up, the seventh from Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits created.
²⁶ And I besought the other angel that he should show me the might of those monsters, how they were parted on one day and cast, the one into the abysses of the sea and the other unto the dry land of the wilderness.
²⁷ And he said to me: “Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to know what is hidden.”
²⁸ And the other angel who went with me and showed me what was hidden told me what is first and last in the heaven in the height, and beneath the earth in the depth, and at the ends of the heaven, and on the foundation of the heaven.
²⁹ And the chambers of the winds, and how the winds are divided, and how they are weighed, and how the portals of the winds are reckoned, each according to the power of the wind, and the power of the lights of the moon, and according to the power that is fitting: and the divisions of the stars according to their names and how all the divisions are divided.
³⁰ And the thunders according to the places where they fall, and all the divisions that are made among the lightnings that it may lighten, and their host that they may at once obey.
³¹ For the thunder has places of rest assigned to it while it is waiting for its peal; and the thunder and lightning are inseparable, and although not one and undivided, they both go together through the spirit and separate not.
³² For when the lightning lightens, the thunder utters its voice, and the spirit enforces a pause during the peal, and divides equally between them; for the treasury of their peals is like the sand, and each one of them as it peals is held in with a bridle, and turned back by the power of the spirit, and pushed forward according to the many quarters of the earth.
³³ And the spirit of the sea is masculine and strong, and according to the might of his strength he draws it back with a rein, and in like manner it is driven forward and disperses amid all the mountains of the earth.
³⁴ And the spirit of the hoarfrost is his own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a good angel.
³⁵ And the spirit of the snow has forsaken his chambers on account of his strength; there is a special spirit therein, and that which ascends from it is like smoke, and its name is Frost.
³⁶ And the spirit of the mist is not united with them in their chambers, but it has a special chamber; for its course is glorious both in light and in darkness, and in winter and in summer, and in its chamber is an angel.
³⁷ And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the heaven, and is connected with the chambers of the rain, and its course is in winter and summer: and its clouds and the clouds of the mist are connected, and the one gives to the other.
³⁸ And when the spirit of the rain goes forth from its chamber, the angels come and open the chamber and lead it out, and when it is diffused over the whole earth it unites with the water on the earth. And whensoever it unites with the water on the earth.
³⁹ For the waters are for those who dwell on the earth; for they are nourishment for the earth from the Most High who is in heaven: therefore there is a measure for the rain, and the angels take it in charge.
⁴⁰ And these things I saw towards the Garden of the Righteous.
⁴¹ And the angel of peace who was with me said to me: “These two monsters, prepared conformably to the greatness of God, shall feed.”
⁴² And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those angels, and they took to themselves wings and flew, and they went towards the north.
⁴³ And I asked the angel, saying unto him: “Why have those angels taken these cords and gone off?”
⁴⁴ And he said unto me: “They have gone to measure.”
⁴⁵ And the angel who went with me said unto me: “These shall bring the measures of the righteous and the ropes of the righteous to the righteous. That they may stay themselves on the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.
⁴⁶ The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect, and those are the measures which shall be given to faith and which shall strengthen righteousness.
⁴⁷ And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the earth. And those who have been destroyed by the desert, and those who have been devoured by the beasts, and those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea. That they may return and stay themselves on the day of the Elect One; for none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits, and none can be destroyed.”
⁴⁸ And all who dwell above in the heaven received a command and power and one voice and one light like unto fire.
⁴⁹ And that One with their first words they blessed and extolled and lauded with wisdom.
⁵⁰ And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life.
⁵¹ And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect One on the throne of glory. And he shall judge all the works of the holy above in the heaven, and in the balance shall their deeds be weighed.
⁵² And thus the Lord commanded the kings and the mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, and said: “Open your eyes and lift up your horns if ye are able to recognize the Elect One.”
⁵³ And the Lord of Spirits seated him on the throne of His glory and the spirit of righteousness was poured out upon Him.
⁵⁴ And the word of his mouth slays all the sinners, and all the unrighteous are destroyed from before his face.
⁵⁵ And there shall stand up in that day all the kings and the mighty, and the exalted and those who hold the earth, and they shall see and recognize how He sits on the throne of His glory.
⁵⁶ And righteousness is judged before him and no lying word is spoken before him.
⁵⁷ Then shall pain come upon them as on a woman in travail when her child enters the mouth of the womb and she has pain in bringing forth.
⁵⁸ And one portion of them shall look on the other and they shall be terrified, and they shall be downcast of countenance, and pain shall seize them when they see that Son of Man sitting on the throne of his glory.
⁵⁹ And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the earth shall bless and glorify and extol him who rules over all, who was hidden.
⁶⁰ For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden and the Most High preserved Him in the presence of His might, and revealed Him to the elect.
⁶¹ And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown and all the elect shall stand before him on that day.
⁶² And all the kings and the mighty and the exalted and those who rule the earth shall fall down before Him on their faces and worship and set their hope upon that Son of Man, and petition him and supplicate for mercy at his hands. — who is this “Son of Man” be if He isn’t one born as Yeshua, or Jesus Christ?
⁶³ Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will so press them that they shall hastily go forth from His presence, and their faces shall be filled with shame, and the darkness grow deeper on their faces.
⁶⁴ And He will deliver them to the angels for punishment to execute vengeance on them because they have oppressed His children and His elect.
⁶⁵ And they shall be a spectacle for the righteous and for His elect: They shall rejoice over them because the wrath of the Lord of Spirits resteth upon them and His sword is drunk with their blood.
⁶⁶ And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day, and they shall never thence forward see the face of the sinners and unrighteous.
⁶⁷ And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them, and with that Son of Man shall they eat and lie down and rise up for ever and ever.
⁶⁸ And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the earth and ceased to be of downcast countenance.
⁶⁹ And they shall have been clothed with garments of glory and these shall be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits: And your garments shall not grow old. Nor your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.
⁷⁰ In those days shall the mighty and the kings who possess the earth implore to grant them a little respite from His angels of punishment to whom they were delivered, that they might fall down and worship before the Lord of Spirits and confess their sins before Him.
⁷¹ And they shall bless and glorify the Lord of Spirits, and say: “Blessed is the Lord of Spirits and the Lord of kings, and the Lord of the mighty and the Lord of the rich, and the Lord of glory and the Lord of wisdom, and splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from generation to generation, and Thy glory for ever and ever.
⁷² Deep are all Thy secrets and innumerable, and Thy righteousness is beyond reckoning. We have now learnt that we should glorify and bless the Lord of kings and Him who is king over all kings.”
⁷³ And they shall say: “Would that we had rest to glorify and give thanks and confess our faith before His glory! And now we long for a little rest but find it not. We follow hard upon and obtain not, and light has vanished from before us, and darkness is our dwelling−place for ever and ever.
⁷⁴ For we have not believed before Him nor glorified the name of the Lord of Spirits but our hope was in the sceptre of our kingdom, and in our own glory.
⁷⁵ And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saves us not and we find no respite for confession that our Lord is true in all His works, and in His judgements and His justice, and His judgements have no respect of persons.
⁷⁶ And we pass away from before His face on account of our works and all our sins are reckoned up in righteousness.”
⁷⁷ Now they shall say unto themselves: “Our souls are full of unrighteous gain, but it does not prevent us from descending from the midst thereof into the burden of Sheol.”
⁷⁸ And after that their faces shall be filled with darkness and shame before that Son of Man, and they shall be driven from his presence, and the sword shall abide before his face in their midst.
⁷⁹ Thus spake the Lord of Spirits: “This is the ordinance and judgement with respect to the mighty and the kings and the exalted and those who possess the earth before the Lord of Spirits.”
⁸⁰ And other forms I saw hidden in that place. I heard the voice of the angel saying: “These are the angels who descended to the earth, and revealed what was hidden to the children of men and seduced the children of men into committing sin.”

THE BOOK OF ENOCH
Standard English Version by Dr Jay Winter

Posted in Books of Ancients

In our Masoretic Text, it says in Genesis 6:

¹ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them,

² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair; and they took for themselves wives of all whom they chose.

³ And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for he also is flesh; yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”

⁴ There were giants on the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

⁵ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagining of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:1-5

But more details are expounded in the Book of Enoch

Book 1: The Watchers

Chapter 1 – Blessing of Enoch

¹ The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and
righteous, who will be living in the days of tribulation, when all the wicked and
godless are to be removed.
² And Enoch, a righteous man whose eyes were opened by God took up his
parable and said, “I saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the
angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I
understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is
to come.”
³ Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning them: “The
Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling,
⁴ And the eternal God will tread upon the earth, even on Mount Sinai and will
appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of heavens.
⁵ And all shall be smitten with fear and the Watchers shall quake, and great fear
and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of the earth.
⁶ And the high mountains shall be shaken and the high hills shall be made low,
and shall melt like wax before the flame.
⁷ And the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder and all that is upon the earth shall
perish, and there shall be a judgement upon all.
⁸ But with the righteous He will make peace.
And will protect the elect,
And mercy shall be upon them.
And they shall all belong to God,
And they shall be prospered,
And they shall all be blessed.
And He will help them all,
And light shall appear unto them,
And He will make peace with them.
⁹ And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones to execute
judgement upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of
all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of
all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Chapter 2 – The Creation

¹ Observe ye everything that takes place in the heaven, how they do not change
their orbits, and the luminaries which are in the heaven, how they all rise and set
in order each in its season, and transgress not against their appointed order.
² Behold ye the earth, and give heed to the things which take place upon it from
first to last, how steadfast they are, how none of the things upon earth change,
but all the works of God appear to you. Behold the summer and the winter, how
the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew and rain lie upon it.
³ Observe and see how in the winter all the trees seem as though they had
withered and shed all their leaves, except fourteen trees, which do not lose their
foliage but retain the old foliage from two to three years till the new comes.
⁴ And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the earth over
against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and
the earth also burns with growing heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or
on a rock by reason of its heat.
⁵ Observe ye how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit:
wherefore give ye heed and know with regard to all His works, and recognize
how He that liveth for ever hath made them so.
⁶ And all His works go on thus from year to year for ever, and all the tasks
which they accomplish for Him, and their tasks change not, but according as
God hath ordained so is it done.
⁷ And behold how the sea and the rivers in like manner accomplish and change
not their tasks from His commandments.
⁸ But ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord, But
ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words With your impure
mouths against His greatness. Oh, ye hard−hearted, ye shall find no peace.
⁹ Therefore shall ye execrate your days, and the years of your life shall perish,
and the years of your destruction shall be multiplied in eternal abomination, and
ye shall find no mercy.
¹⁰ In those days ye shall make your names an eternal abomination unto all the
righteous, and by you shall all who curse, curse. All the sinners and godless shall
imprecate by you. And for you, the godless there shall be a curse.”
¹¹ And all the righteous shall rejoice, and there shall be forgiveness of sins, and
every mercy and peace and forbearance.
¹² There shall be salvation unto them, a goodly light.
¹³ And for all of you sinners there shall be no salvation but on you all shall
abide the curse of the beast.
¹⁴ But for the elect there shall be light and joy and peace, and they shall inherit
the earth.
¹⁵ And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom, and they shall all
live and never again sin either through ungodliness or through pride: But they
who are wise shall be humble.
¹⁶ And they shall not again transgress, nor shall they sin all the days of their life,
nor shall they die of anger or wrath but they shall complete the number of the
days of their life.
¹⁷ And their lives shall be increased in peace, and the years of their joy shall be
multiplied in eternal gladness and peace all the days of their life.

Chapter 3 – Fallen Angels

¹ And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days
were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.
² And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said
to one another: “Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men
and beget us children.”
³ And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: “I fear ye will not indeed
agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.”
⁴ And they all answered him and said: “Let us all swear an oath, and all bind
ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.”
⁵ Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations
upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared
on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because
they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
⁶ And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba,
Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, Asael, Armaros,
Batarel, Ananel, Zaqlel, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are
their chiefs of tens.
⁷ And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each
chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile
themselves with them.
⁸ And they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and
made them acquainted with plants.
⁹ And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three
thousand ells: Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could
no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind.
¹⁰ And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to
devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation
against the lawless ones.
¹¹ And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and
breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of
working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the
beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring
tinctures.
— today, humans know all these knowledge but at those time, the Watchers then were forbidden to reveal such knowledge to men; antimony compounds have been known since ancient times for use as medicine and cosmetics, as well as metallic alloys with lead and tin, to improve properties for solders, bullets, and plain bearings for weapons of war;

¹² And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they
were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways.
¹³ Semjaza taught enchantments and root−cuttings, Armaros the resolving of
enchantments, Baraqijal taught astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel
the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of
the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon.
¹⁴ And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven.

Chapter 4 – Intercession of Angels

¹ And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and
saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought
upon the earth.
² And they said one to another, “The earth made without inhabitant cries the
voice of their cryingst up to the gates of heaven.”
³ And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men make their suit,
saying, “Bring our cause before the Most High.”
⁴ And they said to the Lord of the ages, “Lord of lords, God of gods, King of
kings, and God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory standeth unto all the
generations of the ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the
ages! Thou hast made all things, and power over all things hast Thou, and all
things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all things, and nothing
can hide itself from Thee.
⁵ Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on
earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were in heaven, which men were
striving to learn; and Samlazaz, to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule
over his associates.
⁶ And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept
with the women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of
sins. And the women have borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been
filled with blood and unrighteousness.
⁷ And now, behold, the souls of those who have died are crying out making their
suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations have ascended and cannot
cease because of the lawless deeds which are wrought on the earth.
⁸ And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and Thou seest these
things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do
to them in regard to these.”
⁹ Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the
son of Lamech and said to him, “Go to Noah and tell him in my name ‘Hide
thyself!’ and reveal to him the end that is approaching, that the whole earth will
be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come upon the whole earth, and will
destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed
may be preserved for all the generations of the world.”
¹⁰ And again the Lord said to Raphael, “Bind Azazel hand and foot, and cast
him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dudael,
and cast him therein. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover
him with darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he
may not see light. And on the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the
fire.
¹¹ And heal the earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the healing
of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the children of men may
not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have
taught their sons. And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that
were taught by Azazel, to him ascribe all sin.”
¹² And to Gabriel said the Lord, “Proceed against the bastards and the
reprobates, and against the children of fornication and destroy the children of the
Watchers from amongst men. Send them one against the other that they may
destroy each other in battle, for length of days shall they not have. And no
request that they make of thee shall be granted unto their fathers on their behalf;
for they hope to live an eternal life, and that each one of them will live five
hundred years.”
¹³ And the Lord said unto Michael, “Go, bind Samlazaz and his associates who
have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them
in all their uncleanness. And when their sons have slain one another, and they
have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy
generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their
consummation, till the judgement that is for ever and ever is consummated. In
those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire and to the torment and the
prison in which they shall be confined for ever.
¹⁴ And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be
bound together with them to the end of all generations. and destroy all the spirits
of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers because they have wronged
mankind.
¹⁵ Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work come to
an end, and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear, and it shall prove a
blessing; the works of righteousness and truth shall be planted in truth and joy
for evermore.
¹⁶ And then shall all the righteous escape and shall live till they beget thousands
of children, and all the days of their youth and their old age shall they complete
in peace.
¹⁷ And then shall the whole earth be tilled in righteousness, and shall all be
planted with trees and be full of blessing.
¹⁸ And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it
and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for
all the seed which is sown thereon each measure shall bear a thousand, and each
measure of olives shall yield ten presses of oil.
¹⁹ And cleanse thou the earth from all oppression, and from all unrighteousness,
and from all sin, and from all godlessness, and all the uncleanness that is
wrought upon the earth destroy from off the earth.
²⁰ And all the children of men shall become righteous, and all nations shall offer
adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me. And the earth shall be
cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and
from all torment, and I will never again send upon it from generation to
generation and for ever.
²¹ And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the
heaven, so as to send them down upon the earth over the work and labour of the
children of men. And truth and peace shall be associated together throughout all
the days of the world and throughout all the generations of men.”
²² Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men
knew where he was hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him.
And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were with the holy
ones.
²³ And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of Majesty and the King of the ages, and
lo! the Watchers called me, Enoch the scribe, and said to me: “Enoch, thou scribe
of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the
high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women,
and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves wives.
²⁴ Say to them: ‘Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth and ye shall
have no peace nor forgiveness of sin.’
²⁵ And inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children the murder of their
beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they
lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye
not attain.”
²⁶ And Enoch went and said: “Azazel, thou shalt have no peace, a severe
sentence has gone forth against thee to put thee in bonds and thou shalt not have
toleration nor request granted to thee, because of the unrighteousness which thou
hast taught, and because of all the works of godlessness and unrighteousness and
sin which thou hast shown to men.”
²⁷ Then I went and spoke to them all together, and they were all afraid, and fear
and trembling seized them. And they besought me to draw up a petition for them
that they might find forgiveness, and to read their petition in the presence of the
Lord of heaven.
²⁸ For from thenceforward they could not speak with Him nor lift up their eyes
to heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been condemned.
²⁹ Then I wrote out their petition, and the prayer in regard to their spirits and
their deeds individually and in regard to their requests that they should have
forgiveness and length. — from third person, Enoch, this jumps to first person “I”;
³⁰ And I went off and sat down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the
south of the west of Hermon, I read their petition till I fell asleep.
³¹ And behold a dream came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and I saw
visions of chastisement, and a voice came bidding me to tell it to the sons of
heaven, and reprimand them.
³² And when I awaked, I came unto them, and they were all sitting gathered
together, weeping in Abelsjail, which is between Lebanon and Seneser, with
their faces covered.
³³ And I recounted before them all the visions which I had seen in sleep, and I
began to speak the words of righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly
Watchers.