The Book of Jubilees: Complete edition

By Moses Moses

Considered as the little Genesis, the book of Jubilees or of the distribution of the days of the law; it is an ancient religious text of Hebrew origin, written around the year 100 b.c., and it relates in a deeper and more detailed way the events and facts of Genesis until culminating with the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.  It is worth mentioning that it is a canonical text for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, although for most Protestant religions it is not. 
A large part of the compendium of the Book of Jubilees was discovered at the end of 1947 in the Cumran caves.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Noe
• Release date: Apr 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9791221323481

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Chapter 3

Adam names everything that was on Earth

And on the six days of the second week, according to the word of the Lord; we brought to Adam all the beasts and all the cattle, and all the birds, and everything that moves on all the earth, and everything that moves in the waters according to their kinds, and according to their kinds, the beasts in the first day; cattle on the second day; the birds on the third day; and everything that moves on the earth on the fourth day; and what moves in the water on the fifth day.

Then Adam named them all by their respective names, and as he called them, so was his name. And in these five days Adam saw all these, male and female, according to every species that was on the earth, but he was alone and found no helper suitable for him.

So the Lord told us: It is not good for the man to be alone, let us make a special help for him.

And the Lord our Sovereign Ruler caused a deep sleep to fall upon him and he slept, and took for the woman a rib from between his ribs, and this rib was the origin of the woman from between his ribs, and He built the flesh in her place, and built the woman.

Then he awoke Adam from his sleep and when he awoke he arose on the sixth day, and brought it to him, and recognized it, and said to him: This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she will be called my wife; because she was taken away from her husband.

Therefore husband and wife will be one, and therefore a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will be one flesh.

In the first week Adam was created, and the rib his wife showed him in the second week. And for this reason the commandment was given to keep the man seven days in his uncleanness, and the woman twice seven days.

And after Adam was forty days old on the earth where he was created, we took him to the Garden of Eden to till it and keep it, but his wife was brought on the eightieth day, and after that she entered the Garden of Eden.

And that is why the commandment is written on the heavenly tablets regarding her who gives birth: If she gives birth to a boy, she will remain in her uncleanness seven days according to the first week of days, and thirty-three days she will remain in the blood of his purification, and he shall not touch any kodesh thing, nor shall he enter the sanctuary until he fulfills these days which are prescribed in the case of a male child.

But if she gives birth to a girl, she will remain in her uncleanness two weeks of days, according to the first two weeks, and sixty-six days in her blood.

of their purification, and they will be in total eighty days.

So, when she fulfilled these eighty days, we took her to the Garden of Eden, because it is more kodesh than all the earth and every tree that is planted in it is kodesh.

Therefore, it was ordered regarding the one who gives birth to a boy or a girl, the statute of those days that she should not touch anything kodesh, nor enter the sanctuary until these days are fulfilled for the boy or girl. This is the Torah and the testimony that was written for Yisrael, so that they observe it every day.

And in the first week of the first jubilee; Adam and his wife were in the Garden of Eden for seven years, tilling it and taking care of it. And we gave him work and instructed him to do whatever is convenient for him.

And he tilled the Garden of Eden. He was naked and he didn't know it, and he wasn't ashamed. And he protected the garden from the birds and the beasts and the cattle, and gathered their fruit, and ate, and set aside what was left over for himself and his wife, and set aside what was being kept.

And after the seven years that he had served there had been completed, seven years exactly, and in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the cunning serpent came and approached the woman, and the serpent said to the woman: Do you The Lord has commanded, saying, Will you not eat of all the trees of the garden?'

In response she replied: Of all the fruit of the trees of the garden he has told us: they can eat; more of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden he has told us not to eat from it, nor touch it, so that we do not die.' Then the serpent cunningly said to the woman: You will certainly not die: for He knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, and you will know good and evil.

And the woman saw that the tree was very pleasing to the eye, and that its fruit was good to eat, so she took from it and ate.

And when he had first covered his shame with fig leaves, he gave them to Adam and he ate the same, and his eyes were opened, and he saw that he was naked. And she took fig leaves and sewed them together, and made an apron for herself, and covered her shame.

Then the Lord cursed the serpent, and was angry with it forever.

And he was also angry with the woman, because she heard the voice of the serpent, and ate; and He then said to her: I will greatly multiply your pains: with pain you will give birth to children, and your return will be to your husband, and he will rule over you.

And to Adam he also said: Because you obeyed the voice of your wife, and ate from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; thorns and thistles will be what will sprout, and you will eat your bread with the sweat of your face, until you return to the land from which you were taken; because you are earth, and to earth you will return.'

And he made them coats of skins, and clothed them, and cast them out of the Garden of Eden. And on that day that Adam came out of the Garden, he offered as a sweet savior an offering, frankincense, galbanum, stacte and aromatic spices in the morning at sunrise from the day he covered his shame.

And on that day the mouths of all the beasts, and of the beasts, and of the birds, and of everything that walks, and of everything that moves, were closed, so that they could no longer speak because they had all spoken to one another. with others with a single lip and with a tongue.

And he drove out of the Garden of Eden all flesh that was in the Garden of Eden, and all flesh was scattered after its kind, and after its kinds in the places that had been created for them.

And to Adam alone he gave the means to cover his shame, from all the beasts and cattle. For this reason, it is prescribed in the heavenly tables for all those who know the judgment of the Torah, that they should cover their shame and should not reveal themselves as the Gentiles reveal themselves.

And in the new month of the fourth month, Adam and his wife left the Garden of Eden and dwelt in the land of Elda in the land of their creation.

Then Adam called his wife's name; Eve. And they had no child until the first jubilee,] and after this he knew her.

Now he tilled the land as he had been instructed in the Garden of Eden.

Chapter 4

Cain and Abel

And on the third septenary of the second jubilee Eve gave birth to Cain, and on the fourth she gave birth to Abel, and on the fifth she gave birth to her daughter Awan.

And in the first year of the third jubilee, Cain killed Abel because the Lord accepted Abel's sacrifice, and did not accept Cain's