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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 (a year-week = seven years (cf. Lev 25:8)), 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.” (cf. Exod. 24:12) Chapter 1 1. And it came to pass in the first year of the exodus (2450 A.M.) (A.M. = Anno Mundi “Year After Creation”) of the sons of Israel out of Egypt, in the third month, (cf. Exod. 19:1) on the sixteenth day of the month, that God spake to Moses, saying: “Come up to Me on the Mount, and I will give thee two tables of stone of

The Book of Jubilees with Biblical References

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CHAPTER 84 1. And I raised my hands in righteousness and I blessed the Holy and Great One. And I spoke with the breath of my mouth, and with the tongue of flesh, which God has made for men born of flesh so that they might speak with it; and he has given them breath, and a tongue, and a mouth, so that they might speak with them. 2. “Blessed are you, Oh Lord King, and great and powerful in your majesty, Lord of the whole Creation of Heaven, King of Kings, and God of the whole world! And your kingly authority, and your Sovereignty and your Majesty will last forever, and forever and ever, and your power, for all generations. And all the Heavens are your throne, forever, and the whole Earth your footstool forever, and ever and ever. 3. For you made, and you rule, everything, and nothing is too hard for you, and no wisdom escapes you;

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CHAPTER 83 1. And now, my son Methuselah, I will show you all the visions that I saw, recounting them before you. 2. Two visions I saw, before I took a woman, and neither one was like the other. For the first time, when I learnt the art of writing, and for the second time, before I took your mother. I saw a terrible vision and concerning this I made supplication to the Lord. 3. I had lain down in the house of my grandfather, Malalel, when I saw in a vision how Heaven was thrown down, and removed, and it fell upon the Earth. 4. And when it fell upon the Earth, I saw how the earth was swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down upon hills, and tall trees were torn up by their roots, and were thrown down, and sank into the abyss. 5. And then speech fell

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CHAPTER 82 1. And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I recount to you, and write down for you. I have revealed everything to you, and have given you books about all these things. Keep, my son Methuselah, the books from the hand of your father so that you may pass them on to the generations of eternity. 2. I have given wisdom to you, and to your children, and to those who will be your children, that they may give it to their children, for all the generations, forever, this wisdom that is beyond their thoughts. 3. And those who understand it will not sleep, but will incline their ears that they may learn this wisdom, and it will be better for those who eat from it than good food. 4. Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who walk in the way of righteousness and do not sin like the sinners. In the numbering of

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CHAPTER 81 1. And he said to me: “Oh Enoch, look at the book of the Tablets of Heaven and read what is written upon them, and note every individual fact.” 2. And I looked at everything that was written and I noted everything. And I read the book and everything that was written in it, all the deeds of men, and all the children of flesh who will be upon the Earth, for all the generations of eternity. 3. And then I immediately blessed the Lord, the Eternal King of Glory, in that he has made all the works of the world, and I praised the Lord because of his patience, and I blessed him on account of the sons of Adam. 4. And at that time I said: “Blessed is the man who dies righteous and good, concerning whom no book of iniquity has been written, and against whom no guilt has been found.” (Psalm 1:1), (Daniel 7:10),

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CHAPTER 80 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, And all things on the earth shall alter, And shall not appear in their time: And the rain shall be kept back And the heaven shall withhold (it). 3. 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. 4. And the moon shall alter her order, And not appear at her time. 5. [And

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CHAPTER 79 1. And now, my son, I have shown thee everything, and the law of all the stars of the heaven is completed. 2. 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: 3. And the waning of the moon which takes place in the sixth portal: for in this 4 sixth portal her light is accomplished, and after that there is the beginning of the waning: 4. (And 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 (weeks) and two days. 5. 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

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CHAPTER 78 1. The names of the Sun are as follows: The first Oryares, and the second Tomases. 2. The Moon has four names: The first name is Asonya, and the second Ebla, and the third Benase, and the fourth Era’e. 3. These are the two great lights; their disc is like the disc of Heaven and in size the two are equal. 4. In the disc of the Sun, are seven parts of light, which are added to it more than to the Moon, and in fixed measure light is transferred to the Moon until a seventh part of the Sun is exhausted. 5. And they set, go into the Gates of the west, go round through the north, and rise through the Gates of the east, on the face of Heaven. 6. And when the Moon rises, it appears in the sky, and has a half of a seventh part of light, and on the fourteenth day it

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CHAPTER 77 1. They called the first quarter eastern because it is the first, and they call the second the south because there the Most High descends, and there especially the one who is blessed forever descends. 2. And the western quarter is called waning because there all the lights of Heaven wane and go down. 3. And the fourth quarter, named the north, is divided into three parts. And the first of them is the dwelling place for men; and the second contains seas of water, and the deeps, and the forests, and rivers, and darkness and mist; and the third part contains the Garden of Righteousness. 4. I saw seven high mountains, which were higher than all other mountains on the earth; and from them snow comes. And days and times and years, pass away and go by. 5. I saw seven rivers on the earth, larger than all the other rivers; one of them comes from the