THE BOOK OF JUBILEES
THIS is the history of the division of the days of the law and of the testimony, of the events of the years, of their (year) weeks, of their Jubilees throughout all the years of the world, as the Lord spake to Moses on Mount Sinai when he went up to receive the tables of the law and of the commandment, according to the voice of God as he said unto him, 'Go up to the top of the Mount.'
[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, [2410 Anno
Mundi] that God spake to Moses, saying: 'Come up to Me on the Mount, and I will
give thee two tables of stone of the law and of the commandment, which
2 I have written, that thou mayst teach them.' And Moses went up into the mount
of God, and the
3 glory of the Lord abode on Mount Sinai, and a cloud overshadowed it six days.
And He called to Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud, and
the appearance of the glory of the
4 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
5 of the law and of the testimony. And He said: 'Incline thine heart to every
word which I shall speak to thee 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 wrought in transgressing the covenant
6 which I establish between Me and thee for their generations this day on Mount
Sinai. 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
7 I have been truly with them. And do thou write for thyself all these words
which I declare unto, thee this day, for I know their rebellion and their stiff
neck, before I bring them into the land of which I sware to their fathers, to
Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob, saying: ' Unto your seed
8 will I give a land flowing with milk and honey. And they will eat and be satisfied,
and they will turn to strange gods, to (gods) which cannot deliver them from
aught of their tribulation: and this witness shall be heard for a witness against
them. For they will forget all My commandments, (even) all that I command them,
and they will walk after the Gentiles, and after their uncleanness, and after
their shame, and will serve their gods, and these will
10 prove unto them an offence and a tribulation and an affliction and a snare.
And many will perish and they will be taken captive, and will fall into the
hands of the enemy, because they have forsaken My ordinances and My commandments,
and the festivals of My covenant, and My sabbaths, and My holy place which I
have hallowed for Myself in their midst, and My tabernacle, and My sanctuary,
which I have hallowed for Myself in the midst of the land, that I should set
my name
11 upon it, and that it should dwell (there). 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
12 will sacrifice their children to demons, and to all the works of the error
of their hearts. And I will send witnesses unto 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
13 everything so as to work evil before My eyes. 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 midst 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
15 astray as to new moons, and sabbaths, and festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances.
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
16 that I shall be found of them, when they seek me with all their heart and
with all their soul. And I will disclose to them abounding peace with righteousness,
and I will remove them the plant of uprightness, with all My heart and with
all My soul, and they shall be for a blessing and not for
17 a curse, and they shall be the head and not the tail. And I will build My
sanctuary in their midst, and I will dwell with them, and I will be their God
and they shall be My people in truth and
18, 19 righteousness. And I will not forsake them nor fail them; for I am the
Lord their God.' And Moses fell on his face and prayed and said, 'O Lord my
God, do not forsake Thy people and Thy 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
20 Thee. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be lifted up upon Thy people, and create in
them an upright spirit, and let not the spirit of Beliar rule over them to accuse
them before Thee, and to ensnare them
21 from all the paths of righteousness, so that they may perish from before
Thy face. But they are Thy people and Thy inheritance, which thou hast delivered
with thy 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
22 their sins from henceforth until eternity.' And the Lord said unto Moses:
'I know their contrariness and their thoughts and their stiffneckedness, and
they will not be obedient till they confess
23 their own sin and the sin of their fathers. And after this they will turn
to Me in all uprightness and with all (their) heart and with all (their) soul,
and I will circumcise the foreskin of their heart and the foreskin of the heart
of their seed, and I will create in them a holy spirit, and I will cleanse them
so that they shall not turn away from Me from that day unto eternity.
24 And their souls will cleave to Me and to all My commandments, and they will
fulfil My
25 commandments, and I will be their Father and they shall be My children. 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
26 I love them. And do thou write down for thyself all these words which I declare
unto thee 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 unto eternity, until I descend and dwell
27 with them throughout eternity.' And He said to the angel of the presence:
Write for Moses from
28 the beginning of creation till My sanctuary has been built among them for
all eternity. 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
29 be holy.' 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 unto all the days of the earth.
[Chapter 2]
1 And the angel of the presence spake 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
2 appointed it as a sign for all His works. 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 the angels] 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 night), and the light, dawn and day, which He
hath
3 prepared in the knowledge of his heart. And thereupon we saw His works, and
praised Him, and lauded before Him on account of all His works; for seven great
works did He create on the first day.
4 And on the second day He created the firmament in the midst 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 (that was) in the midst over the face
of the whole earth. And this was the only work (God) created
5 on the second day. And on the third day He commanded the waters to pass from
off the face of
6 the whole earth into one place, and the dry land to appear. And the waters
did so as He commanded them, and they retired from off the face of the earth
into one place outside of this firmament,
7 and the dry land appeared. And on that day He created for them all the seas
according to their separate gathering-places, and all the rivers, and the gatherings
of the waters in the mountains and on all the earth, and all the lakes, and
all the dew of the earth, and the seed which is sown, and all sprouting things,
and fruit-bearing trees, and trees of the wood, and the garden of Eden, in Eden
8 and all
9 light from the darkness. And God appointed the sun to be a great sign on the
earth for days and
10 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. And it divideth
the light from the darkness [and] for prosperity, that all things may prosper
which shoot and grow on the earth. These three kinds He made on the fourth day.
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
12 waters, and everything that flies, the birds and all their kind. And the
sun rose above them to prosper (them), and above everything that was on the
earth, everything that shoots out of the earth, and all
13 fruit-bearing trees, and all flesh. These three kinds He created on the fifth
day. And on the sixth day
14 He created all the animals of the earth, and all cattle, and everything that
moves on the earth. And after all this He created man, a man and a woman created
He 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
15 him dominion. And these four kinds He created on the sixth day. And there
were altogether
16 two and twenty kinds. 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
17 everything. And He gave us a great sign, the Sabbath day, that we should
work six days, but
18 keep Sabbath on the seventh day from all work. And all the angels of the
presence, and all the angels of sanctification, these two great classes -He
hath bidden us to keep the Sabbath with Him
19 in heaven and on earth. And He said unto us: 'Behold, I will separate unto
Myself a people from among all the peoples, and these shall keep the Sabbath
day, and I will sanctify them unto Myself as My people, and will bless them;
as I have sanctified the Sabbath day and do sanctify (it) unto
20 Myself, even so will I bless them, and they shall be My people and I will
be their God. 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
unto Myself for ever and ever; and I will teach them the
21 Sabbath day, that they may keep Sabbath thereon from all work.' 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 unto Himself
22 a peculiar people above all peoples, and that they should keep Sabbath together
with us. 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
24 holy; and this one serves with that one for sanctification and blessing.
And to this (Jacob and his seed) it was granted that they should always be the
blessed and holy ones of the first testimony
25 and law, even as He had sanctified and blessed the Sabbath day on the seventh
day. 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
26 shall die, and that he who defiles it shall surely die. Wherefore do thou
command the children of Israel to observe this day that they may keep it holy
and not do thereon any work, and not to
27 defile it, as it is holier than all other days. 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
28 day. And every one who observes it and keeps Sabbath thereon from all his
work, will be holy and
29 blessed throughout all days like unto us. 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,
30 which they had not prepared for themselves on the sixth day in their dwellings.
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
31 known to any flesh to keep Sabbath thereon on the earth. 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
32 alone he permitted to eat and drink and to keep Sabbath thereon on the earth.
And the Creator of all things blessed this day which He had created for blessing
and holiness and glory above all
33 days. This law and testimony was given to the children of Israel as a law
for ever unto their generations.
[Chapter 3]
1 And on the six days of the second week we brought, according to the word of
God, unto Adam all the beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and everything
that moves on the earth, and everything that moves in the water, according to
their kinds, and according to their types: the beasts on the first day; the
cattle on the second day; the birds on the third day; and all that which moves
on the earth on the fourth day; and that which 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
4 the earth, but he was alone and found no helpmeet for him. And the Lord said
unto us: 'It is not
5 good that the man should be alone: let us make a helpmeet for him.' And the
Lord our God caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and he slept, and He took
for the woman one rib from amongst
6 his ribs, and this rib was the origin of the woman from amongst his ribs,
and He built up the flesh in its stead, and built the woman. And He awaked 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 unto her: 'This is now bone of my bones and
flesh of my flesh; she shall be called
7 [my] wife; because she was taken from her husband.' Therefore shall man and
wife be one and therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave
unto his wife, and they shall be
8 one flesh. In the first week was Adam created, and the rib -his wife: in the
second week He showed her unto him: and for this reason the commandment was
given to keep in their defilement,
9 for a male seven days, and for a female twice seven days. And after Adam had
completed forty days in the land where he had been created, we brought him into
the garden of Eden to till and keep it, but his wife they brought in on the
eightieth day, and after this she entered into the garden
10 of Eden. 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
11 days which (are enjoined) in the case of a male child. 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
12 in the blood of her purification, and they will be in all eighty days.' 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
13 every tree that is planted in it is holy. 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
14 enter into the sanctuary until these days for the male or female child are
accomplished. This is the law and testimony which was written down for Israel,
in order that they should observe (it) all the
15 days. And in the first week of the first jubilee, [1-7 A.M.] 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
16 that is suitable for tillage. And he tilled (the garden), and was naked and
knew it not, and was not ashamed, and he protected the garden from the birds
and beasts and cattle, and gathered its fruit, and eat, and put aside the residue
for himself and for his wife [and put aside that which was
17 being kept]. And after the completion of the seven years, which he had completed
there, seven years exactly, [8 A.M.] 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,
18 saying, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?' And she said to it,
'Of all the fruit of the trees of the garden God hath said unto us, Eat; but
of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God hath said unto
us, Ye shall not eat thereof, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.' And the
serpent said unto the woman, 'Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that
on the day ye shall eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as
gods, and ye will know good and
20 evil. And the woman saw the tree that it was agreeable and pleasant to the
eye, and that its fruit
21 was good for food, and she took thereof and eat. And when she had first covered
her shame with figleaves, she gave thereof to Adam and he eat, and his eyes
were opened, and he saw that he was
22 naked. And he took figleaves and sewed (them) together, and made an apron
for himself, and
23, 24 covered his shame. And God cursed the serpent, and was wroth with it
for ever . . . And He was wroth with the woman, because she harkened to the
voice of the serpent, and did eat; and He said unto her: 'I will greatly multiply
thy sorrow and thy pains: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth
25 children, and thy return shall be unto thy husband, and he will rule over
thee.' And to Adam also he said, ' Because thou hast harkened unto the voice
of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee that thou
shouldst not eat thereof, cursed be the ground for thy sake: thorns and thistles
shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat thy bread in the sweat of thy
face, till thou returnest to the earth from whence thou wast taken; for earth
thou art, and unto earth shalt
26 thou return.' And He made for them coats of skin, and clothed them, and sent
them forth from
27 the Garden of Eden. And on that day on which Adam went forth from the Garden,
he offered as a sweet savour an offering, frankincense, galbanum, and stacte,
and spices in the morning with the
28 rising of the sun from the day when he covered his shame. And on that day
was closed the mouth of all beasts, and of cattle, and of birds, and of 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 unto the places which had been created
30 for them. And to Adam alone did He give (the wherewithal) to cover his shame,
of all the beasts and
31 cattle. 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
32 Gentiles uncover themselves. And on the new moon of the fourth month, Adam
and his wife went
33 forth from the Garden of Eden, and they dwelt in the land of Elda in the
land of their creation. And
34 Adam called the name of his wife Eve. And they had no son till the first
jubilee, [8 A.M.] and after this he
35 knew her. 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. And in the first (year) of the third jubilee, Cain slew Abel because (God)
accepted the sacrifice of Abel, and did not accept
3 the offering of Cain. And he slew him in the field: and his blood cried from
the ground to heaven,
4 complaining because he had slain him. 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
5 cursed him upon the earth. 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
6 the man who has seen and not declared (it), let him be accursed as the other.'
And for this reason we announce when we come before the Lord our God all the
sin which is committed in heaven and
7 on earth, and in light and in darkness, and everywhere. And Adam and his wife
mourned for Abel four weeks of years, [99-127 A.M] and in the fourth year of
the fifth week [130 A.M.] they became joyful, and Adam knew his wife again,
and she bare him a son, and he called his name Seth; for he said 'GOD has
8 raised up a second seed unto us on the earth instead of Abel; for Cain slew
him.' And in the sixth
9 week [134-40 A.M.] he begat his daughter Azura. And Cain took Awan his sister
to be his wife and she bare him Enoch at the close of the fourth jubilee. [190-196
A.M.] And in the first year of the first week of the fifth jubilee, [197 A.M.]
houses were built on the earth, and Cain built a city, and called its name after
the name of
10, 11 his son Enoch. And Adam knew Eve his wife and she bare yet nine sons.
And in the fifth week of the fifth jubilee [225-31 A.M.] Seth took Azura his
sister to be his wife, and in the fourth (year of the sixth
12,13 week) [235 A.M.] she bare him Enos. He began to call on the name of the
Lord on the earth. And in the seventh jubilee in the third week [309-15 A.M.]
Enos took Noam his sister to be his wife, and she bare him a son
14 in the third year of the fifth week, and he called his name Kenan. And at
the close of the eighth jubilee [325, 386-3992 A.M.] Kenan took Mualeleth his
sister to be his wife, and she bare him a son in the ninth jubilee,
15 in the first week in the third year of this week, [395 A.M] and he called
his name Mahalalel. And in the second week of the tenth jubilee [449-55 A.M.]
Mahalalel took unto him to wife DinaH, the daughter of Barakiel the daughter
of his father's brother, and she bare him a son in the third week in the sixth
year, [461 A.M.] 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
16 judgment and uprightness on the earth. And in the eleventh jubilee [512-18
A.M.] 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,
[522 A.M.] and she bare him a son in the fifth week, in the fourth year of the
jubilee, and
17 he called his name Enoch. 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
18 their separate months. And he was the first to write a testimony and he testified
to the sons of men among the generations of the earth, and recounted the weeks
of the jubilees, and made known to them the days of the years, and set in order
the months and recounted the Sabbaths of the years
19 as we made (them), known to him. And what was and what will be he saw in
a vision of his sleep, as it will happen to the children of men throughout their
generations until the day of judgment; he saw and understood everything, and
wrote his testimony, and placed the testimony on earth for all
20 the children of men and for their generations. And in the twelfth jubilee,
[582-88] in the seventh week thereof, 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 [587 A.M.] she bare him a son and he called his
name
21 Methuselah. 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
22 everything. 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
23 testified against (them) all. 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 con-
24 demnation and judgment of the world, and all the wickedness of the children
of men. 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
25 deeds of the generations until the day of condemnation. And he burnt the
incense of the sanctuary,
26 (even) sweet spices acceptable before the Lord on the Mount. For the Lord
has four places on the earth, the Garden of Eden, and the Mount of the East,
and this mountain on which thou art 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 through-
27 out the generations of the world. And in the fourteenth jubilee [652 A.M.]
Methuselah took unto himself a wife, Edna the daughter of Azrial, the daughter
of his father's brother, in the third week, in the
28 first year of this week, [701-7 A.M.] and he begat a son and called his name
Lamech. And in the fifteenth jubilee in the third week Lamech took to himself
a wife, and her name was Betenos the daughter of Baraki'il, the daughter of
his father's brother, and in this week she bare 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
29 which the Lord hath cursed.' And at the close of the nineteenth jubilee,
in the seventh week in the sixth year [930 A.M.] thereof, Adam died, and all
his sons buried him in the land of his creation, and he
30 was the first to be buried in the earth. And he lacked seventy years of one
thousand years; for one thousand years are as one day in the testimony of the
heavens and therefore was it written concerning the tree of knowledge: 'On the
day that ye eat thereof ye shall die.' For this reason he
31 did not complete the years of this day; for he died during it. 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 midst 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
32 righteous judgment. 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
33 he wounded him, in like manner shall they deal with him.' And in the twenty-fifth
[1205 A.M.] 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 [1207 A.M.]: and in the third year thereof she bare him Shem,
in the fifth year thereof [1209 A.M.] she bare him Ham, and in the first year
in the sixth week [1212 A.M.] she bare him Japheth.
[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 unto 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
2 chose, and they bare unto them sons and they were giants. And lawlessness
increased on the earth and all flesh corrupted its way, alike men and cattle
and beasts and birds and everything that walks on the earth -all of them corrupted
their ways and their orders, and they began to devour each other, and lawlessness
increased on the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of all men
3 (was) thus evil continually. 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 wrought all manner of evil
4 before His eyes. And He said that He would destroy man and all flesh upon
the face of the earth
5,6 which He had created. But Noah found grace before the eyes of the Lord.
And against the angels whom He had sent upon the earth, He was exceedingly wroth,
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
7 behold they are bound in the midst of them, and are (kept) separate. And against
their sons went forth a command from before His face that they should be smitten
with the sword, and be removed
8 from under heaven. And He said 'My spirit shall not always abide on man; for
they also are flesh
9 and their days shall be one hundred and twenty years'. And He sent His sword
into their midst that each should slay his neighbour, and they began to slay
each other till they all fell by the sword
10 and were destroyed from the earth. And their fathers were witnesses (of their
destruction), and after this they were bound in the depths of the earth 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
11 the Lord. And He destroyed all from their places, and there was not left
one of them whom
12 He judged not according to all their wickedness. 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
13 righteous each in his kind alway. 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
14 for every kind. 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
15 ordained and written and engraved. In regard to all He will judge,the great
according to his
16 greatness, and the small according to his smallness, and each according to
his way. And He is not one who will regard the person (of 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
17 gifts or the person (of any), nor accept anything at his hands, for He is
a righteous judge. [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. It is written and ordained that
19 He will show mercy to all who turn from all their guilt once each year.]
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 com-
20 manded regarding him, and he had not departed from aught that was ordained
for him. And the Lord said that he would destroy everything which was upon the
earth, both men and cattle, and
21 beasts, and fowls of the air, and that which moveth on the earth. And He
commanded Noah to
22 make him an ark, that he might save himself from the waters of the flood.
And Noah made the ark in all respects as He commanded him, in the twenty-seventh
jubilee of years, in the fifth week
23 in the fifth year (on the new moon of the first month). [1307 A.M.] And he
entered in the sixth (year) thereof, [1308 A.M.] 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, 29 And the ark went and rested on the top of Lubar, one of the mountains
of Ararat. 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
30 of the earth were opened, and the water began to descend into the deep below.
And on the new moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen,
and on the new moon of the first 31 month the earth became visible. And the
waters disappeared from above the earth in the fifth week in the seventh year
[1309 A.M.] thereof, and on the seventeenth day in the second month the earth
was dry.
32 And on the twenty-seventh thereof 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 forth from the ark, and built
an altar on
2 that mountain. And he made atonement for the earth, and took a kid and made
atonement by its blood for all the guilt of the earth; for everything that had
been on it had been destroyed, save
3 those that were in the ark with Noah. And he placed the fat thereof 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
4 the Lord. 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
5 change their order, nor cease for ever. 'And you, increase ye 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
6 inspire in everything that is on earth and in the sea. And behold I have given
unto you all beasts, and all winged things, and everything that moves on the
earth, and the fish in the waters, and all
7 things for food; as the green herbs, I have given you all things to eat. But
flesh, with the life thereof, with the blood, ye 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
8 blood of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed, for
in the image of
9,10 God made He man. And you, increase ye, and multiply on the earth.' 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
11 Lord God for ever throughout all the generations of the earth in this month.
On this account He spake to thee that thou shouldst make a covenant with the
children of Israel in this month upon the mountain with an oath, and that thou
shouldst sprinkle blood upon them because of all the words
12 of the covenant, which the Lord made with them for ever. 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 do thou command the children of Israel to eat no blood, so that their
names and their seed
14 may be before the Lord our God continually. 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
15 it and not be rooted out. And He gave to Noah and his sons a sign that there
should not again
16 be a flood on the earth. He set His bow in the cloud for a sign of the eternal
covenant that there
17 should not again be a flood on the earth to destroy it all the days of the
earth. For this reason it is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets, that
they should celebrate the feast of weeks in this
18 month once a year, to renew the covenant every year. 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 [1309-1659 A.M.]: 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
19 they eat blood. But Abraham observed it, and Isaac and Jacob and his children
observed it up to thy days, and in thy days the children of Israel forgot it
until ye celebrated it anew on this mountain.
20 And do thou command the children of Israel to observe this festival in all
their generations for a
21 commandment unto them: one day in the year in this month they shall celebrate
the festival. For it is the feast of weeks and the feast of first fruits: this
feast is twofold and of a double nature:
22 according to what is written and engraven concerning it, celebrate it. For
I have written in the book of the first law, in that which I have written for
thee, that thou shouldst celebrate it in its season, one day in the year, and
I explained to thee 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
24 as a testimony for ever. And Noah ordained them for himself as feasts for
the generations for ever,
25 so that they have become thereby a memorial unto him. 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
26 (the ark) and saw the earth. 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
27 the abysses of the earth were opened, and the waters began to descend into
them. And on the new
28 moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen, and Noah was
glad. 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
30 third to the fourth. 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
31 tablets. And there is no neglecting (this commandment) for a single year
or from year to year.
32 And command thou 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
33 their testimony, and they will not leave out any day nor disturb any feasts.
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
34 will be dislodged] and they will neglect their ordinances. 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
35 and they will go wrong as to all the order of the years. For I know and from
henceforth will I declare it unto thee, 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
36 and walk according to the feasts of the Gentiles after their error and after
their ignorance. For there will be those who will assuredly make observations
of the moon -how (it) disturbs the
37 seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon. 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
38 jubilees. For this reason I command and testify to thee that thou mayst testify
to them; for after thy death thy 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 [1317 A.M.] thereof, 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, [1320
A.M.] and he guarded their fruit, and gathered it in this year in the
2 seventh month. And he made wine therefrom and put it into a vessel, and kept
it until the fifth
3 year, [1321 A.M.] until the first day, on the new moon of the first month.
And he celebrated with joy the day of this feast, and he made a burnt sacrifice
unto 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
4 and his sons. And he prepared the kid first, and placed some of its blood
on the flesh that was on the altar which he had made, and all the fat he laid
on the altar where he made the burnt sacrifice,
5 and the ox and the ram and the sheep, and he laid all their flesh upon the
altar. 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
6 ascend acceptable before the Lord his God. And he rejoiced and drank of this
wine, he and his
7 children with joy. And it was evening, and he went into his tent, and being
drunken he lay down
8 and slept, and was uncovered in his tent as he slept. And Ham saw Noah his
father naked, and
9 went forth and told his two brethren without. 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
10 of their father, and their faces were backward. And Noah awoke from his sleep
and knew all that his younger son had done unto him, and he cursed his son and
said: 'Cursed be Canaan; an
11 enslaved servant shall he be unto his brethren.' And he blessed Shem, and
said: 'Blessed be the
12 Lord God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth,
and God shall
13 dwell in the dwelling of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.' And Ham
knew that his father had cursed his younger son, and he was displeased that
he had cursed his son. and he parted from
14 his father, he and his sons with him, Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
And he built for
15 himself a city and called its name after the name of his wife Ne'elatama'uk.
And Japheth saw it, and became envious of his brother, and he too built for
himself a city, and he called its name after
16 the name of his wife 'Adataneses. 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
18 east; and Na'eltama'uk on the south; 'Adatan'eses towards the west. And these
are the sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad -this (son) was born
two years after the flood- and
19 Lud, and Aram. The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan,
Tubal and
20 Meshech and Tiras: these are the sons of Noah. And in the twenty-eighth jubilee
[1324-1372 A.M.] 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
21 from fornication and uncleanness and all iniquity. 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
22 chose: and they made the beginning of uncleanness. And they begat sons the
Naphidim, and they were all unlike, and they devoured one another: and the Giants
slew the Naphil, and the
23 Naphil slew the Eljo, and the Eljo mankind, and one man another. And every
one sold himself
24 to work iniquity and to shed much blood, and the earth was filled with iniquity.
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
25 continually. 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 midst of the earth
26 He destroyed everything. '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
ye do not walk in righteousness: for in the path of destruction ye have begun
to walk, and ye are parting one from another, and are envious one of another,
and (so it comes) that ye 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
ye will shed the blood of men upon the earth,
28 and that ye, too, will be destroyed from the face of the earth. For whoso
sheddeth man's blood, and whoso eateth the blood of any flesh, shall all be
destroyed from the earth.
29 And there shall not be left any man that eateth blood,
or that sheddeth 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 ye have killed any beasts or cattle or whatever flies upon
the earth, and work ye a good work to your
31 souls by covering that which has been shed on the face of the earth. And
ye shall not be like him who eats with blood, but guard yourselves that none
may eat blood before you: cover the blood,
32 for thus have I been commanded to testify to you and your children, together
with all flesh. And suffer not the soul to be eaten with the flesh, that your
blood, which is your life, may not be required
33 at the hand of any flesh that sheds (it) on the earth. For the earth will
not be clean from the blood which has been shed upon it; for (only) through
the blood of him that shed it will the earth be
34 purified throughout all its generations. And now, my children, harken: work
judgment and righteousness that ye maybe planted in righteousness over the face
of the whole earth, and your
35 glory lifted up before my God, who saved me from the waters of the flood.
And behold, ye will go and build for yourselves cities, and plant in them all
the plants that are upon the earth, and moreover
36 all fruit-bearing trees. 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
37 what is left let the servants of the house of the Lord eat before the altar
which receives (it). And in the fifth year
make ye the
release so that ye release it in righteousness and uprightness, and ye shall
bc righteous,
38 and all that you plant shall prosper. For thus did Enoch, the father of your
father command Methuselah, his son, and Methuselah his son Lamech, and Lamech
commanded me all the things
39 which his fathers commanded him. 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, [1373 A.M.] in the beginning
thereof Arpachshad took to himself a wife and her name was Rasu'eja, the daughter
of Susan, the daughter of Elam, and she
2 bare him a son in the third year in this week, [1375 A.M.] and he called his
name Kainam. And the son grew, and his father taught him writing, and he went
to seek for himself a place where he might seize for
3 himself a city. 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
4 stars in all the signs of heaven. And he wrote it down and said nothing regarding
it; for he was
5 afraid to speak to Noah about it lest he should be angry with him on account
of it. And in the thirtieth jubilee, [1429 A.M.] in the second week, in the
first year thereof, he took to himself a wife, and her name was Melka, the daughter
of Madai, the son of Japheth, and in the fourth year [1432 A.M.] he begat a
son, and
6 called his name Shelah; for he said: 'Truly I have been sent.' [And in the
fourth year he was born], and Shelah grew up and took 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 [1499 A.M.]
7 thereof.
And she bare him a son in the fifth year [1503 A.M.] thereof, and he called
his name Eber: and he took unto himself a wife, and her name was 'Azurad, the
daughter of Nebrod, in the thirty-second
8 jubilee, in the seventh week, in the third year thereof. [1564 A.M.] And in
the sixth year [1567 A.M.] thereof, she bare him son, and he called his name
Peleg; for in the days when he was born the children of Noah began
9 to divide the earth amongst themselves: for this reason he called his name
Peleg. And they
10 divided (it) secretly amongst themselves, and told it to Noah. And it came
to pass in the beginning of the thirty-third jubilee [1569 A.M.] 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
11 who had been sent, was with them. 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 midst 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. And all that is towards
the north is Japheth's, and all that is towards the
13 south belongs to Shem. And it extends till it reaches Karaso: this is in
the bosom of the tongue
14 which looks towards the south. 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
15 named the tongue of the Egyptian Sea. 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
16 banks of this river. And it extends towards the east, till it reaches the
Garden of Eden, to the south thereof, [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
17 to the bank of the mouth of the river Tina. This portion came forth by lot
for Shem and his sons,
18 that they should possess it for ever unto his generations for evermore. 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
20 were created as holy places facing each other. And he blessed the God of
gods, who had put the
21 word of the Lord into his mouth, and the Lord for evermore. And he knew that
a blessed portion and a blessing had come to Shem and his sons unto 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 thereof,
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
22 north, a blessed and spacious land, and all that is in it is very good. 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
23 everything which is not destroyed descends. 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
24 of Eden. And this is the land which came forth for Ham as the portion which
he was to occupy
25 for ever for himself and his sons unto their generations for ever. 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-
26 easterly to the whole region of Gog, and to all the country east thereof.
And it extends northerly to the north, and it extends to the mountains of Qelt
towards the north, and towards the sea of
27 Ma'uk, and it goes forth to the east of Gadir as far as the region of the
waters of the sea. And it extends until it approaches the west of Fara and it
returns towards 'Aferag, and it extends easterly
28 to the waters of the sea of Me'at. And it extends to the region of the river
Tina in a north-easterly direction until it approaches the boundary of its waters
towards the mountain Rafa, and it turns
29 round towards the north. This is the land which came forth for Japheth and
his sons as the portion of his inheritance which he should possess for himself
and his sons, for their generations for ever;
30 five great islands, and a great land in the north. But it is cold, and the
land of Ham is hot, and the land of Shem is neither hot nor cold, but it is
of blended cold and heat.
[Chapter 9]
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
2 [and to the west thereof] on the sea for Canaan. 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 approachcs 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
3 to the Red Sea and the river Tina. And for Asshur came forth the second Portion,
all the land of
4 Asshur and Nineveh and Shinar and to the border of India, and it ascends and
skirts the river. 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
5 Euphrates. 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
6 of Asshur and the land of 'Arara. 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
7, 8 Asshur his brother. And Japheth also divided the land of his inheritance
amongst his sons. And the first portion came forth for Gomer to the east from
the north side to the river Tina; and in the north there came forth for Magog
all the inner portions of the north until it reaches to the sea of
9 Me'at. And for Madai came forth as his portion that he should posses from
the west of his two
10 brothers to the islands, and to the coasts of the islands. And for Javan
came forth the fourth
11 portion every island and the islands which are towards the border of Lud.
And for Tubal there came forth the fifth portion in the midst of the tongue
which approaches towards the border of the portion of Lud to the second tongue,
to the region beyond the second tongue unto the third tongue.
12 And for Meshech came forth the sixth portion, all the region beyond the third
tongue till it
13 approaches the east of Gadir. And for Tiras there came forth the seventh
portion, four great islands in the midst of the sea, which reach to the portion
of Ham [and the islands of Kamaturi
14 came out by lot for the sons of Arpachshad as his inheritance]. And thus
the sons of Noah divided unto their sons in the presence of Noah their father,
and he bound them all by an oath, imprecating
15 a curse on every one that sought to seize the portion which had not fallen
(to him) by his lot. And they all said, 'So be it; so be it ' for themselves
and 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.