Job of the Land of Uz ?

Job 1

1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.
2 And seven sons and three daughters were born to him.
3 Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.
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8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?”
9 So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
10 Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
11 But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!”
12 And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person.”

Every Christian (Old Testament) or Jew (Tanakh) knows the rest of the story, right?
Was the Book of Job writen after 2363 ?
Was Job written before Genesis? That what most scholars seem to say. And I believe they are correct. Moses was born in the year 2368.
Why would God suggest Satan to consider Job? I am not certain why, but is Jasher 66 a coincidence?
We know God is just and merciful. He blesses as well as curses (Deuteronomy 28 is a valid example).

Jasher 10

Where was the Land of Uz? Who lived there?
32 And Ashur son of Shem and his children and household went forth at that time, a very large body of them, and they went to a distant land that they found, and they met with a very extensive valley in the land that they went to, and they built themselves four cities, and they called them after their own names and occurrences.
33 And these are the names of the cities which the children of Ashur built, Ninevah, Resen, Calach and Rehobother; and the children of Ashur dwell there unto this day.
34 And the children of Aram also went and built themselves a city, and they called the name of the city Uz after their eldest brother, and they dwell therein; that is the land of Uz to this day.

Jasher 66

Male Israelite Babies Killed (year 2363)
15 And an officer, one of the king's counsellors, whose name was Job, from Mesopotamia, in the land of Uz, answered the king, saying,
16 If it please the king, let him hear the counsel of his servant; and the king said unto him, Speak.
17 And Job spoke before the king, the princes, and before all the elders of Egypt, saying,
18 Behold the counsel of the king which he advised formerly respecting the labor of the children of Yisrael is very good, and you must not remove from them that labor forever.
19 But this is the advice counselled by which you may lessen them, if it seems good to the king to afflict them.
20 Behold we have feared war for a long time, and we said, When Yisrael becomes fruitful in the land, they will drive us from the land if a war should take place.
21 If it please the king, let a royal decree go forth, and let it be written in the laws of Egypt which shall not be revoked, that every male child born to the Yisraelites, his blood shall be spilled upon the ground.
22 And by your doing this, when all the male children of Yisrael shall have died, the evil of their wars will cease; let the king do so and send for all the Hebrew midwives and order them in this matter to execute it; so the thing pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Job.

Is Jasher 66 speaking of the same Job of the Land of Uz? The year matches a sin that could have justified God.
Remember, God is just and merciful.

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EVOLUTION is not a theory, it's a Fact.

Noah was born with white/pinkish skin, white hair (like wool). Source book of Enoch.

Noah had 3 sons who had each a wife: Japheth; Ham; and Shem.

Shem's descendants populated what we call today the Middle East.

Ham (the cursed one), his descendants populated part of the Middle East and Africa.

Japheth's descendants populated Northern Europe all the way to the East, and Asia as a whole.

(source the book of Jasher)

The Descendants of Japheth worshipped the same God as the descendants of Shem. (Ham is another story.)
Proof is in the Chinese writing or Chinese characters. Also in their worship traditions. they worshipped the Creator God they called ShangDi.

The People of the Middle East have white to slightly tanned skin.

The people of Europe all the way to Russia have whitish skin.

The people of Asia have (depending on the area) white to yellowish skin, in some areas they resemble Middle Easterners.

The people of Africa tend to have dark skin, from brown to literally black in some areas.

Jacob had children with 4 different women. 2 were sisters. The other 2 were servants of the sisters. Possibly 3 different ethnicity.

The Kingdom of Israel was invaded 1st. (700 BC)

Then the Kingdom of Judah was invaded (500 BC)

God's punishment by using Assyria and later the Babylonians.

But the punishments did end there, they were under the curses of Deuteronomy 28.

They were killed, taken captive, fled, hid from the invaders, were enslaved, sold, taken by ships to far away lands.

From life in Africa (for more than a thousand of years), to slave trade to the Caribbeans and the American continents.

Their Middle Eastern appearance changed to African appearance over the years.

Some fled and migrated to coasts of the Mediterranean Sea.

Let's back track, more than likely Asians populated the Americas. Europeans called them the Red man. National Geographic (Genome Project) traced the migration from Asia, crossing to today's Alaska, all the way down the American continents.

European sea farers were short probably as short as most Europeans. Have you ever been in a ship that crossed the Atlantic? I have. I'm 5'10", and couldn't stand up when inside.

Now look at Americans in general of European ancestry, 6 feet is normal for a man.

Why? the abundance of food more than likely, the life style, the activities...

So what is Evolution? Not the one described by Indoctrination Science, but the real Evolution.

Valid for the animal world, and mankind: It's the evolution of appearance, strength, skin color, etc...

Depending on climate, hardship, foods, etc...

We all come from the same Patriarch, yet we can look so different.

Note: the Genographic Project (2005), does not account for the World wide flood, or ignores it. Our ancestors landed at Mt Ararat Turkey. The Garden of Eden was in Africa, and that's their starting point.

Jesus Christ Came to Fulfill The LAW.

Read the LAW, know the LAW. and I am not talking about men's laws.
I am speaking of GOD's LAW. Did Jesus Christ observe the LAW?
Yes he did.
Don't reason like the Pharisees, that critisized him for breaking Shabbat, by eating fruits in the fields, and healing.
How many Laws are there in the Bible? 613.
And am not talking about what's in the Talmud or the elaborate practices and traditions of today's Jews.
No, just the Laws written in the Bible.
Not observing The LAW because you deny them, does not make you innocent.
Be sure to read Leviticus and Deuteronomy, in addition to Exodus 19 and 20.

The Seven Deadly sins of the Catholic church, is a fable, it's not in the Bible.
It's an excuse to make all the other sins minor sins.
Is Lust a sin? Yes, Jesus equated Lust in your mind as bad as Adultery.
Hence, if you are not married, a form of Fornication.

Remove all sin from your life. We only have one life on Earth. Let's use it to be ready for Judgement Day.
Work daily to remove sin from your life, so you can Repent of them before you die.
We don't know when we'll die.
Jesus Christ made the ultimate blood scrifice for the forgiveness of our sins.
Descendants of Japheth and Shem used animal blood sacrifice for Repentance of sin.
Yes, even before the LAW was handed down to Moses.
They are no longer needed since Jesus' sacrifice. Repentance is.
His Blood and Repentance, make us cleansed and ready to be before God the Father.

Accept The LAW, accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, Sin no more, and Repent.
God knows your heart, knows if you trully Repent. Our lips are not enough, our hearts say it all.
Become partaker of God's Covenant to Abraham.
Become part of Spiritual Isarel.

Repenting to a priest, or a man, is not true Repentance.

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Book of Jubilees 10

JUBILEES 10

Unclean Demons Began To Lead The Sons Of Noah Astray

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.
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 YAHWEH his Sovereign Ruler, and said: 'YAHWEH of the spirits of all flesh, who have shown mercy unto 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 free unmerited pardon has been great towards me, And great has been Your mercy to my soul;
Let Your free unmerited pardon be lift up upon my sons, And let not wicked spirits rule over them
Lest they should destroy them from the earth.
4 But do You 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 Sovereign Ruler; 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 can exercise dominion over them. And let them not have power over the sons of the righteous from henceforth and forevermore.'
7 And YAHWEH our Sovereign Ruler bade us to bind all.
8 And the chief of the spirits, Mastema, came and said: 'YAHWEH, Creator, let some of them remain before me, and let them listen to my voice, and do all that I shall say unto 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.'
9 And He said: Let the tenth part of them remain before him, and let nine parts descend into the place of condemnation.'
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.
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.
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. [1659 A.M.]
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 unto 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 bare 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 [1645-1688 A.M.] 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 YAHWEH our Sovereign Ruler said to us: Behold, they are one people, and (this) they begin to do, and now nothing will be withheld 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 YAHWEH descended, and we descended with him to see the city and the tower which the children of men had built.
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 YAHWEH 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 YAHWEH 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 [1688 A.M.] in the beginning thereof 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 yours, and which did not fall to us by lot: do not do so; for if you do, 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 forever.
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 kodesh 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.

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Book of Jubilees 9

JUBILEES 9

The Earth Divided Into Three Parts For Shem And Ham And Japheth (part 2)

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 thereof] 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.
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 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 approaches the east of Gadir.
13 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 came out by lot for the sons of Arpachshad as his inheritance].
14 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 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 forever throughout their generations till the day of judgment, on which YAHWEH ALMIGHTY 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.

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Book of Jubilees 8

JUBILEES 8

The Earth Divided Into Three Parts For Shem And Ham And Japheth

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 bare him a son in the third year in this week, [1375 A.M.] 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, [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 called his name Shelah; for he said: 'Truly I have been sent.'
6 [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.] thereof.
7 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 jubilee, in the seventh week, in the third year thereof. [1564 A.M.]
8 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 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 [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 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 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 south belongs to Shem.
13 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 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 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 forever unto his generations forevermore.
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 YAHWEH ALMIGHTY of Shem And may YAHWEH dwell in the dwelling of Shem.'
19 And he knew that the Garden of Eden is the kodesh of kodeshim, and the dwelling of YAHWEH, and Mount Sinai the centre of the desert, and Mount Zion -the centre of the navel of the earth: these three were created as kodesh places facing each other.
20 And he blessed the ALMIGHTY of gods, who had put the Word of YAHWEH into his mouth, and YAHWEH forevermore.
21 And he knew that a blessed portion and a blessing had come to Shem and his sons unto the generations forever -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 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 forever for himself and his sons unto their generations forever.
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 thereof.
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 forever; 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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Book of Jubilees 7

JUBILEES 7

After the Flood Noah Planted A Vine

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 seventh month.
2 And he made wine there from and put it into a vessel, and kept it until the fifth year, [1321 A.M.] until the first day, on the new month of the first month.
3 And he celebrated with joy the day of this feast, and he made a burnt sacrifice unto YAHWEH, 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.
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 savoir to ascend acceptable before YAHWEH his Sovereign Ruler.
6 And he rejoiced and drank of this wine, he and his children with joy.
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.
8 And Ham saw Noah his father naked, and went forth and told his two brethren without.
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 unto him, and he cursed his son and said: 'Cursed be Canaan; an enslaved servant shall he be unto his brethren.'
11 And he blessed Shem, and said: 'Blessed be the YAHWEH ALMIGHTY of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.
12 YAHWEH shall enlarge Japheth, and YAHWEH 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 [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 honor 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 Torah 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.
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 YAHWEH destroyed everything from off the face of the earth; because of the wickedness of their deeds, and because of the blood which they had shed in the midst of the earth He destroyed everything.
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 you, too, will be destroyed from the face of the earth.
28 For whoso sheds man's blood, and whoso 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 which 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 praise lifted up before YAHWEH my ALMIGHTY, 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.
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 kodesh [and they will offer the first-fruits], acceptable before the Most High YAHWEH, 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 YAHWEH, who receives it, and what is left let the servants of the house of YAHWEH eat before the altar which receives it.
37 And in the fifth year make you the release so that you release it in righteousness and uprightness, and you shall be 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: while 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.'

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Jasher, Chapter 28

1 And in those days, after the death of Abraham, in that year YAHWEH brought a heavy famine in the land, and while the famine was raging in the land of Canaan, Yitschaq rose up to go down to Egypt on account of the famine, as his father Abraham had done.
2 And YAHWEH appeared that night to Yitschaq and he said to him, Do not go down to Egypt but rise and go to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines, and remain there till the famine shall cease.
3 And Yitschaq rose up and went to Gerar, as YAHWEH commanded him, and he remained there a full year.
4 And when Yitschaq came to Gerar, the people of the land saw that Rebecca his wife was of a beautiful appearance, and the people of Gerar asked Yitschaq concerning his wife, and he said, She is my sister, for he was afraid to say she was his wife lest the people of the land should slay him on account of her.
5 And the princes of Abimelech went and praised the woman to the king, but he answered them not, neither did he attend to their words.
6 But he heard them say that Yitschaq declared her to be his sister, so the king reserved this within himself.
7 And when Yitschaq had remained three months in the land, Abimelech looked out at the window, and he saw, and behold Yitschaq was sporting with Rebecca his wife, for Yitschaq dwelt in the outer house belonging to the king, so that the house of Yitschaq was opposite the house of the king.
8 And the king said unto Yitschaq, What is this you hast done to us in saying of your wife, She is my sister? how easily might one of the great men of the people have lain with her, and you wouldst then have brought guilt upon us.
9 And Yitschaq said unto Abimelech, Because I was afraid lest I die on account of my wife, therefore I said, She is my sister.
10 At that time Abimelech gave orders to all his princes and great men, and they took Yitschaq and Rebecca his wife and brought them before the king.
11 And the king commanded that they should dress them in princely garments, and make them ride through the streets of the city, and proclaim before them throughout the land, saying, This is the man and this is his wife; whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely die. And Yitschaq returned with his wife to the king's house, and YAHWEH was with Yitschaq and he continued to wax great and lacked nothing.
12 And YAHWEH caused Yitschaq to find favor in the sight of Abimelech, and in the sight of all his subjects, and Abimelech acted well with Yitschaq, for Abimelech remembered the oath and the covenant that existed between his father and Abraham.
13 And Abimelech said unto Yitschaq, Behold the whole earth is before you; dwell wherever it may seem good in your sight until you shall return to your land; and Abimelech gave Yitschaq fields and vineyards and the best part of the land of Gerar, to sow and reap and eat the fruits of the ground until the days of the famine should have passed by.
14 And Yitschaq sowed in that land, and received a hundred-fold in the same year, and YAHWEH blessed him.
15 And the man waxed great, and he had possession of flocks and possession of herds and great store of servants.
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16 And when the days of the famine had passed away YAHWEH appeared to Yitschaq and said unto him, Rise up, go forth from this place and return to your land, to the land of Canaan; and Yitschaq rose up and returned to Hebron which is in the land of Canaan, he and all belonging to him as YAHWEH commanded him.
17 And after this Shelach the son at Arpachshad died in that year, which is the eighteenth year of the lives of Yacob and Esau; and all the days that Shelach lived were four hundred and thirty-three years and he died.
18 At that time Yitschaq sent his younger son Yacob to the house of Shem and Eber, and he learned the instructions of YAHWEH, and Yacob remained in the house of Shem and Eber for thirty-two years, and Esau his brother did not go, for he was not willing to go, and he remained in his father's house in the land of Canaan.
19 And Esau was continually hunting in the fields to bring home what he could get, so did Esau all the days.
20 And Esau was a designing and deceitful man, one who hunted after the hearts of men and inveigled them, and Esau was a valiant man in the field, and in the course of time went as usual to hunt; and he came as far as the field of Seir, the same is Edom.
21 And he remained in the land of Seir hunting in the field a year and four months.
22 And Esau there saw in the land of Seir the daughter of a man of Canaan, and her name was Jehudith, the daughter of Beeri, son of Epher, from the families of Heth the son of Canaan.
23 And Esau took her for a wife, and he came unto her; forty years old was Esau when he took her, and he brought her to Hebron, the land of his father's dwelling place, and he dwelt there.
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24 And it came to pass in those days, in the hundred and tenth year of the life of Yitschaq, that is in the fiftieth year of the life of Yacob, in that year died Shem the son of Noah; Shem was six hundred years old at his death.
25 And when Shem died Yacob returned to his father to Hebron which is in the land of Canaan.
26 And in the fifty-sixth year of the life of Yacob, people came from Haran, and Rebecca was told concerning her brother Laban the son of Bethuel.
27 For the wife of Laban was barren in those days, and bare no children, and also all his handmaids bare none to him.
28 And YAHWEH afterward remembered Adinah the wife of Laban, and she conceived and bare twin daughters, and Laban called the names of his daughters, the name of the elder Leah, and the name of the younger Rachel.
29 And those people came and told these things to Rebecca, and Rebecca rejoiced greatly that YAHWEH had visited her brother and that he had got children.

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Jasher, Chapter 26

1 And in the fifty-ninth year of the life of Yitschaq the son of Abraham, Rebecca his wife was still barren in those days.
2 And Rebecca said unto Yitschaq, Truly I have heard, my lord, that your mother Sarah was barren in her days until my lord Abraham, your father, prayed for her and she conceived by him.
3 Now therefore stand up, pray you also to YAHWEH and he will hear your prayer and remember us through his mercies.
4 And Yitschaq answered his wife Rebecca, saying, Abraham has already prayed for me to YAHWEH to multiply his seed, now therefore this barrenness must proceed to us from you.
5 And Rebecca said unto him, But arise now you also and pray, that YAHWEH may hear your prayer and grant me children, and Yitschaq hearkened to the words of his wife, and Yitschaq and his wife rose up and went to the land of Moriah to pray there and to seek YAHWEH, and when they had reached that place Yitschaq stood up and prayed to YAHWEH on account of his wife because she was barren.
6 And Yitschaq said, O YAHWEH the ALMIGHTY of heaven and earth, whose goodness and mercies fill the earth, you who didst take my father from his father's house and from his birthplace, and didst bring him unto this land, and didst say unto him, To your seed will I give the land, and you didst promise him and didst declare unto him, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand of the sea, now may your words be verified which you didst speak unto my father.
7 For you are YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY, our eyes are toward you to give us seed of men, as you didst promise us, for you are YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY and our eyes are directed toward you only.
8 And YAHWEH heard the prayer of Yitschaq the son of Abraham, and YAHWEH was entreated of him and Rebecca his wife conceived.
9 And in about seven months after the children struggled together within her, and it pained her greatly that she was wearied on account of them, and she said to all the women who were then in the land, Did such a thing happen to you as it has to me? and they said unto her, No.
10 And she said unto them, Why am I alone in this amongst all the women that were upon earth? and she went to the land of Moriah to seek YAHWEH on account of this; and she went to Shem and Eber his son to make inquiries of them in this matter, and that they should seek YAHWEH in this thing respecting her.
11 And she also asked Abraham to seek and inquire of YAHWEH about all that had befallen her.
12 And they all inquired of YAHWEH concerning this matter, and they brought her word from YAHWEH and told her, Two children are in your womb, and two nations shall rise from them; and one nation shall be stronger than the other, and the greater shall serve the younger.
13 And when her days to be delivered were completed, she knelt down, and behold there were twins in her womb, as YAHWEH had spoken to her.
14 And the first came out red all over like a hairy garment, and all the people of the land called his name Esau, saying, That this one was made complete from the womb.
15 And after that came his brother, and his hand took hold of Esau's heel, therefore they called his name Yacob.
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16 And Yitschaq, the son of Abraham, was sixty years old when he begat them.
17 And the boys grew up to their fifteenth year, and they came amongst the society of men. Esau was a designing and deceitful man, and an expert hunter in the field, and Yacob was a man perfect and wise, dwelling in tents, feeding flocks and learning the instructions of YAHWEH and the commands of his father and mother.
18 And Yitschaq and the children of his household dwelt with his father Abraham in the land of Canaan, as YAHWEH had commanded them.
19 And Ishmael the son of Abraham went with his children and all belonging to them, and they returned there to the land of Havilah, and they dwelt there.
20 And all the children of Abraham's concubines went to dwell in the land of the east, for Abraham had sent them away from his son, and had given them presents, and they went away.
21 And Abraham gave all that he had to his son Yitschaq, and he also gave him all his treasures.
22 And he commanded him saying, Dost you not know and understand YAHWEH is ALMIGHTY in heaven and in earth, and there is no other beside him?
23 And it was he who took me from my father's house, and from my birth place, and gave me all the delights upon earth; who delivered me from the counsel of the wicked, for in him did I trust.
24 And he brought me to this place, and he delivered me from Ur Casdim; and he said unto me, To your seed will I give all these lands, and they shall inherit them when they keep my commandments, my statutes and my judgments that I have commanded you, and which I shall command them.
25 Now therefore my son, hearken to my voice, and keep the commandments of YAHWEH your ALMIGHTY, which I commanded you, do not turn from the right way either to the right or to the left, in order that it may be well with you and your children after you forever.
26 And remember the wonderful works of YAHWEH, and his kindness that he has shown toward us, in having delivered us from the hands of our enemies, and YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY caused them to fall into our hands; and now therefore keep all that I have commanded you, and turn not away from the commandments of your ALMIGHTY, and serve none beside him, in order that it may be well with you and your seed after you.
27 And teach you your children and your seed the instructions of YAHWEH and his commandments, and teach them the upright way in which they should go, in order that it may be well with them forever.
28 And Yitschaq answered his father and said unto him, That which my lord has commanded that will I do, and I will not depart from the commands of YAHWEH my ALMIGHTY, I will keep all that he commanded me; and Abraham blessed his son Yitschaq, and also his children; and Abraham taught Yacob the instruction of YAHWEH and his ways.
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29 And it was at that time that Abraham died, in the fifteenth year of the life of Yacob and Esau, the sons of Yitschaq, and all the days of Abraham were one hundred and seventy-five years, and he died and was gathered to his people in good old age, old and satisfied with days, and Yitschaq and Ishmael his sons buried him.
30 And when the inhabitants of Canaan heard that Abraham was dead, they all came with their kings and princes and all their men to bury Abraham.
31 And all the inhabitants of the land of Haran, and all the families of the house of Abraham, and all the princes and grandees, and the sons of Abraham by the concubines, all came when they heard of Abraham's death, and they requited Abraham's kindness, and comforted Yitschaq his son, and they buried Abraham in the cave which he bought from Ephron the Hittite and his children, for the possession of a burial place.
32 And all the inhabitants of Canaan, and all those who had known Abraham, wept for Abraham a whole year, and men and women mourned over him.
33 And all the little children, and all the inhabitants of the land wept on account of Abraham, for Abraham had been good to them all, and because he had been upright with YAHWEH and men.
34 And there arose not a man who feared YAHWEH like unto Abraham, for he had feared his ALMIGHTY from his youth, and had served YAHWEH, and had gone in all his ways during his life, from his childhood to the day of his death.
35 And YAHWEH was with him and delivered him from the counsel of Nimrod and his people, and when he made war with the four kings of Elam he conquered them.
36 And he brought all the children of the earth to the service of YAHWEH, and he taught them the ways of YAHWEH, and caused them to know YAHWEH.
37 And he formed a grove and he planted a vineyard therein, and he had always prepared in his tent meat and drink to those that passed through the land, that they might satisfy themselves in his house.
38 And YAHWEH the ALMIGHTY delivered the whole earth on account of Abraham.
39 And it was after the death of Abraham that YAHWEH blessed his son Yitschaq and his children, and YAHWEH was with Yitschaq as he had been with his father Abraham, for Yitschaq kept all the commandments of YAHWEH as Abraham his father had commanded him; he did not turn to the right or to the left from the right path which his father had commanded him.

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Jasher, Chapter 24

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1 And the life of Sarah was one hundred and twenty-seven years, and Sarah died; and Abraham rose up from before his dead to seek a burial place to bury his wife Sarah; and he went and spoke to the children of Heth, the inhabitants of the land, saying,
2 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you in your land; give me a possession of a burial place in your land, that I may bury my dead from before me.
3 And the children of Heth said unto Abraham, behold the land is before you, in the choice of our sepulchers bury your dead, for no man shall withhold you from burying your dead.
4 And Abraham said unto them, If you are agreeable to this go and entreat for me to Ephron, the son of Zochar, requesting that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which is in the end of his field, and I will purchase it of him for whatever he desire for it.
5 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth, and they went and called for him, and he came before Abraham, and Ephron said unto Abraham, Behold all you require your servant will do; and Abraham said, No, but I will buy the cave and the field which you hast for value, In order that it may be for a possession of a burial place for ever.
6 And Ephron answered and said, Behold the field and the cave are before you, give whatever you desirest; and Abraham said, Only at full value will I buy it from your hand, and from the hands of those that go in at the gate of your city, and from the hand of your seed for ever.
7 And Ephron and all his brethren heard this, and Abraham weighed to Ephron four hundred shekels of silver in the hands of Ephron and in the hands of all his brethren; and Abraham wrote this transaction, and he wrote it and testified it with four witnesses.
8 And these are the names of the witnesses, Amigal son of Abishna the Hittite, Adichorom son of Ashunach the Hivite, Abdon son of Achiram the Gomerite, Bakdil the son of Abudish the Zidonite.
9 And Abraham took the book of the purchase, and placed it in his treasures, and these are the words that Abraham wrote in the book, namely:
10 That the cave and the field Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite, and from his seed, and from those that go out of his city, and from their seed for ever, are to be a purchase to Abraham and to his seed and to those that go forth from his loins, for a possession of a burial place for ever; and he put a signet to it and testified it with witnesses.
11 And the field and the cave that was in it and all that place were made sure unto Abraham and unto his seed after him, from the children of Heth; behold it is before Mamre in Hebron, which is in the land of Canaan.
12 And after this Abraham buried his wife Sarah there, and that place and all its boundary became to Abraham and unto his seed for a possession of a burial place.
13 And Abraham buried Sarah with pomp as observed at the interment of kings, and she was buried in very fine and beautiful garments.
14 And at her bier was Shem, his sons Eber and Abimelech, together with Anar, Ashcol and Mamre, and all the grandees of the land followed her bier.
15 And the days of Sarah were one hundred and twenty-seven years and she died, and Abraham made a great and heavy mourning, and he performed the rites of mourning for seven days.
16 And all the inhabitants of the land comforted Abraham and Yitschaq his son on account of Sarah.
17 And when the days of their mourning passed by Abraham sent away his son Yitschaq, and he went to the house of Shem and Eber, to learn the ways of YAHWEH and his instructions, and Abraham remained there three years.
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18 At that time Abraham rose up with all his servants, and they went and returned homeward to Beersheba, and Abraham and all his servants remained in Beersheba.
19 And at the revolution of the year Abimelech king of the Philistines died in that year; he was one hundred and ninety-three years old at his death; and Abraham went with his people to the land of the Philistines, and they comforted the whole household and all his servants, and he then turned and went home.
20 And it was after the death of Abimelech that the people of Gerar took Benmalich his son, and he was only twelve years old, and they made him lying in the place of his father.
21 And they called his name Abimelech after the name of his father, for thus was it their custom to do in Gerar, and Abimelech reigned instead of Abimelech his father, and he sat upon his throne.
22 And Lot the son of Haran also died in those days, in the thirty-ninth year of the life of Yitschaq, and all the days that Lot lived were one hundred and forty years and he died.
23 And these are the children of Lot, that were born to him by his daughters, the name of the first born was Moab, and the name of the second was Benami.
24 And the two sons of Lot went and took themselves wives from the land of Canaan, and they bare children to them, and the children of Moab were Ed, Mayon, Tarsus, and Kanvil, four sons, these are fathers to the children of Moab unto this day.
25 And all the families of the children of Lot went to dwell wherever they should light upon, for they were fruitful and increased abundantly.
26 And they went and built themselves cities in the land where they dwelt, and they called the names of the cities which they built after their own names.
27 And Nahor the son of Terah, brother to Abraham, died in those days in the fortieth year of the life of Yitschaq, and all the days of Nahor were one hundred and seventy-two years and he died and was buried in Haran.
28 And when Abraham heard that his brother was dead he grieved sadly, and he mourned over his brother many days.
29 And Abraham called for Eliezer his head servant, to give him orders concerning his house, and he came and stood before him.
30 And Abraham said to him, Behold I am old, I do not know the day of my death; for I am advanced in days; now therefore rise up, go forth and do not take a wife for my son from this place and from this land, from the daughters of the Canaanites amongst whom we dwell.
31 But go to my land and to my birthplace, and take from thence a wife for my son, and YAHWEH the ALMIGHTY of Heaven and earth who took me from my father's house and brought me to this place, and said unto me, To your seed will I give this land for an inheritance for ever, he will send his heavenly messenger before you and prosper your way, that you may obtain a wife for my son from my family and from my father's house.
32 And the servant answered his master Abraham and said, Behold I go to your birthplace and to your father's house, and take a wife for your son from there; but if the woman be not willing to follow me to this land, shall I take your son back to the land of your birthplace?
33 And Abraham said unto him, Take heed that you bring not my son hither again, for YAHWEH before whom I have walked he will send his heavenly messenger before you and prosper your way.
34 And Eliezer did as Abraham ordered him, and Eliezer swore unto Abraham his master upon this matter; and Eliezer rose up and took ten camels of the camels of his master, and ten men from his master's servants with him, and they rose up and went to Haran, the city of Abraham and Nahor, in order to fetch a wife for Yitschaq the son of Abraham; and while they were gone Abraham sent to the house of Shem and Eber, and they brought from thence his son Yitschaq.
35 And Yitschaq came home to his father's house to Beersheba, while Eliezer and his men came to Haran; and they stopped in the city by the watering place, and he made his camels to kneel down by the water and they remained there.
36 And Eliezer, Abraham's servant, prayed and said, O YAHWEH of Abraham my master; send me I pray you good speed this day and show kindness unto my master, that you shall appoint this day a wife for my master's son from his family.
37 And YAHWEH hearkened to the voice of Eliezer, for the sake of his servant Abraham, and he happened to meet with the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, brother to Abraham, and Eliezer came to her house.
38 And Eliezer related to them all his concerns, and that he was Abraham's servant, and they greatly rejoiced at him.
39 And they all blessed YAHWEH who brought this thing about, and they gave him Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel, for a wife for Yitschaq.
40 And the young woman was of very comely appearance, she was a virgin, and Rebecca was ten years old in those days. 41 And Bethuel and Laban and his children made a feast on that night, and Eliezer and his men came and ate and drank and rejoiced there on that night. 42 And Eliezer rose up in the morning, he and the men that were with him, and he called to the whole household of Bethuel, saying, Send me away that I may go to my master; and they rose up and sent away Rebecca and her nurse Deborah, the daughter of Uz, and they gave her silver and gold, men servants and maid servants, and they blessed her.
43 And they sent Eliezer away with his men; and the servants took Rebecca, and he went and returned to his master to the land of Canaan.
44 And Yitschaq took Rebecca and she became his wife, and he brought her into the tent.
45 And Yitschaq was forty years old when he took Rebecca, the daughter of his uncle Bethuel, for a wife.

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Jasher, Chapter 23

1 At that time the word of YAHWEH came to Abraham, and he said unto him, Abraham, and he said, Here I am.
2 And he said to him, Take now your son, your only son whom you lovest, even Yitschaq, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which shall be shown to you, for there wilt you see a cloud and the splendor of YAHWEH.
3 And Abraham said within himself, How shall I separate my son Yitschaq from Sarah his mother, in order to bring him up for a burnt offering before YAHWEH?
4 And Abraham came into the tent, and he sat before Sarah his wife, and he spoke these words to her,
5 My son Yitschaq is grown up and he has not for some time studied the service of YAHWEH his ALMIGHTY, now tomorrow I will go and bring him to Shem, and Eber his son, and there he will learn the ways of YAHWEH, for they will teach him to know YAHWEH as well as to know that when he prays continually before YAHWEH, he will answer him, therefore there he will know the way of serving YAHWEH his ALMIGHTY.
6 And Sarah said, You hast spoken well, go my lord and do unto him as you hast said, but remove him not at a great distance from me, neither let him remain there too long, for my soul is bound within his soul.
7 And Abraham said unto Sarah, My daughter, let us pray to YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY that he may do good with us.
8 And Sarah took her son Yitschaq and he abode all that night with her, and she kissed and embraced him, and gave him instructions till morning.
9 And she said to him, O my son, how can my soul separate itself from you? And she still kissed him and embraced him, and she gave Abraham instructions concerning him.
10 And Sarah said to Abraham, O my lord, I pray you take heed of your son, and place your eyes over him, for I have no other son nor daughter but him.
11 O forsake him not. If he be hungry give him bread, and if he be thirsty give him water to drink; do not let him go on foot, neither let him sit in the sun.
12 Neither let him go by himself in the road, neither force him from whatever he may desire, but do unto him as he may say to you.
13 And Sarah wept bitterly the whole night on account of Yitschaq, and she gave him instructions till morning.
14 And in the morning Sarah selected a very fine and beautiful garment from those garments which she had in the house, that Abimelech had given to her.
15 And she dressed Yitschaq her son therewith, and she put a turban upon his head, and she enclosed a precious stone in the top of the turban, and she gave them provision for the road, and they went forth, and Yitschaq went with his father Abraham, and some of their servants accompanied them to see them off the road.
16 And Sarah went out with them, and she accompanied them upon the road to see them off, and they said to her, Return to the tent.
17 And when Sarah heard the words of her son Yitschaq she wept bitterly, and Abraham her husband wept with her, and their son wept with them a great weeping; also those who went with them wept greatly.
18 And Sarah caught hold of her son Yitschaq, and she held him in her arms, and she embraced him and continued to weep with him, and Sarah said, Who knows if after this day I shall ever see you again?
19 And they still wept together, Abraham, Sarah and Yitschaq, and all those that accompanied them on the road wept with them, and Sarah afterward turned away from her son, weeping bitterly, and all her men servants and maid servants returned with her to the tent.
20 And Abraham went with Yitschaq his son to bring him up as an offering before YAHWEH, as He had commanded him.
21 And Abraham took two of his young men with him, Ishmael the son of Hagar and Eliezer his servant, and they went together with them, and while they were walking in the road the young men spoke these words to themselves,
22 And Ishmael said to Eliezer, Now my father Abraham is going with Yitschaq to bring him up for a burnt offering to YAHWEH, as He commanded him.
23 Now when he returns he will give unto me all that he possesses, to inherit after him, for I am his first born.
24 And Eliezer answered Ishmael and said, Surely Abraham did cast you away with your mother, and swear that you shouldst not inherit any thing of all he possesses, and to whom will he give all that he has, with all his treasures, but unto me his servant, who has been faithful in his house, who has served him night and day, and has done all that he desired me? To me will he bequeath at his death all that he possesses.
25 And while Abraham was proceeding with his son Yitschaq along the road, Satan came and appeared to Abraham in the figure of a very aged man, humble and of contrite spirit, and he approached Abraham and said to him, Art you silly or brutish, that you go to do this thing this day to your only son?
26 For YAHWEH gave you a son in your latter days, in your old age, and wilt you go and slaughter him this day because he committed no violence, and wilt you cause the soul of your only son to perish from the earth?
27 Dost you not know and understand that this thing cannot be from YAHWEH? for YAHWEH cannot do unto man such evil upon earth to say to him, Go slaughter your child.
28 And Abraham heard this and knew that it was the word of Satan who endeavored to draw him aside from the way of YAHWEH, but Abraham would not hearken to the voice of Satan, and Abraham rebuked him so that he went away.
29 And Satan returned and came to Yitschaq; and he appeared unto Yitschaq in the figure of a young man comely and well favored.
30 And he approached Yitschaq and said unto him, Dost you not know and understand that your old silly father brings you to the slaughter this day for naught?
31 Now therefore, my son, do not listen nor attend to him, for he is a silly old man, and let not your precious soul and beautiful figure be lost from the earth.
32 And Yitschaq heard this, and said unto Abraham, Hast you heard, my father, that which this man has spoken? even thus has he spoken.
33 And Abraham answered his son Yitschaq and said to him, Take heed of him and do not listen to his words, nor attend to him, for he is Satan, endeavoring to draw us aside this day from the commands of YAHWEH.
34 And Abraham still rebuked Satan, and Satan went from them, and seeing he could not prevail over them he hid himself from them, and he went and passed before them in the road; and he transformed himself to a large brook of water in the road, and Abraham and Yitschaq and his two young men reached that place, and they saw a brook large and powerful as the mighty waters.
35 And they entered the brook and passed through it, and the waters at first reached their legs.
36 And they went deeper in the brook and the waters reached up to their necks, and they were all terrified on account of the water; and while they were going over the brook Abraham recognized that place, and he knew that there was no water there before.
37 And Abraham said to his son Yitschaq, I know this place in which there was no brook nor water, now therefore it is this Satan who does all this to us, to draw us aside this day from the commands of YAHWEH.
38 And Abraham rebuked him and said unto him, YAHWEH rebuke you, O Satan, begone from us for we go by the commands of YAHWEH.
39 And Satan was terrified at the voice of Abraham, and he went away from them, and the place again became dry land as it was at first.
40 And Abraham went with Yitschaq toward the place that YAHWEH had told him.
41 And on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place at a distance which YAHWEH had told him of.
42 And a pillar of fire appeared to him that reached from the earth to heaven, and a cloud of splendor upon the mountain, and the splendor of YAHWEH was seen in the cloud.
43 And Abraham said to Yitschaq, My son, dost you see in that mountain, which we perceive at a distance, that which I see upon it?
44 And Yitschaq answered and said unto his father, I see and lo a pillar of fire and a cloud, and the splendor of YAHWEH is seen upon the cloud.
45 And Abraham knew that his son Yitschaq was accepted before YAHWEH for a burnt offering.
46 And Abraham said unto Eliezer and unto Ishmael his son, Do you also see that which we see upon the mountain which is at a distance?
47 And they answered and said, We see nothing more than like the other mountains of the earth. And Abraham knew that they were not accepted before YAHWEH to go with them, and Abraham said to them, Abide ye here with the ass while I and Yitschaq my son will go to yonder mount and worship there before YAHWEH and then return to you.
48 And Eliezer and Ishmael remained in that place, as Abraham had commanded.
49 And Abraham took wood for a burnt offering and placed it upon his son Yitschaq, and he took the fire and the knife, and they both went to that place.
50 And when they were going along Yitschaq said to his father, Behold, I see here the fire and wood, and where then is the lamb that is to be the burnt offering before YAHWEH?
51 And Abraham answered his son Yitschaq, saying, YAHWEH has made choice of you my son, to be a perfect burnt offering instead of the lamb.
52 And Yitschaq said unto his father, I will do all that YAHWEH spoke to you with joy and cheerfulness of heart.
53 And Abraham again said unto Yitschaq his son, Is there in your heart any thought or counsel concerning this, which is not proper? tell me my son, I pray you, O my son conceal it not from me.
54 And Yitschaq answered his father Abraham and said unto him, O my father, as YAHWEH lives and as your soul liveth, there is nothing in my heart to cause me to deviate either to the right or to the left from the word that he has spoken to you.
55 Neither limb nor muscle has moved or stirred at this, nor is there in my heart any thought or evil counsel concerning this.
56 But I am of joyful and cheerful heart in this matter, and I say, Blessed is YAHWEH who has this day chosen me to be a burnt offering before Him.
57 And Abraham greatly rejoiced at the words of Yitschaq, and they went on and came together to that place that YAHWEH had spoken of.
58 And Abraham approached to build the altar in that place, and Abraham was weeping, and Yitschaq took stones and mortar until they had finished building the altar.
59 And Abraham took the wood and placed it in order upon the altar which he had built.
60 And he took his son Yitschaq and bound him in order to place him upon the wood which was upon the altar, to slay him for a burnt offering before YAHWEH.
61 And Yitschaq said to his father, Bind me securely and then place me upon the altar lest I should turn and move, and break loose from the force of the knife upon my flesh and thereof profane the burnt offering; and Abraham did so.
62 And Yitschaq still said to his father, O my father, when you shall have slain me and burnt me for an offering, take with you that which shall remain of my ashes to bring to Sarah my mother, and say to her, This is the sweet smelling savor of Yitschaq; but do not tell her this if she should sit near a well or upon any high place, lest she should cast her soul after me and die.
63 And Abraham heard the words of Yitschaq, and he lifted up his voice and wept when Yitschaq spake these words; and Abraham's tears gushed down upon Yitschaq his son, and Yitschaq wept bitterly, and he said to his father, Hasten you, O my father, and do with me the will of YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY as He has commanded you.
64 And the hearts of Abraham and Yitschaq rejoiced at this thing which YAHWEH had commanded them; but the eye wept bitterly while the heart rejoiced.
65 And Abraham bound his son Yitschaq, and placed him on the altar upon the wood, and Yitschaq stretched forth his neck upon the altar before his father, and Abraham stretched forth his hand to take the knife to slay his son as a burnt offering before YAHWEH.
66 At that time the heavenly messengers of mercy came before YAHWEH and spake to him concerning Yitschaq, saying,
67 O YAHWEH, you are a merciful and compassionate King over all that you hast created in heaven and in earth, and you support them all; give therefore ransom and redemption instead of your servant Yitschaq, and pity and have compassion upon Abraham and Yitschaq his son, who are this day performing your commands.
68 Hast you seen, O YAHWEH, how Yitschaq the son of Abraham your servant is bound down to the slaughter like an animal? now therefore let your pity be roused for them, O YAHWEH.
69 At that time YAHWEH appeared unto Abraham, and called to him, from heaven, and said unto him, Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither do you any thing unto him, for now I know that you fear YAHWEH in performing this act, and in not withholding your son, your only son, from me.
70 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, a ram was caught in a thicket by his horns; that was the ram which YAHWEH the ALMIGHTY had created in the earth in the day that he made earth and heaven.
71 For YAHWEH had prepared this ram from that day, to be a burnt offering instead of Yitschaq.
72 And this ram was advancing to Abraham when Satan caught hold of him and entangled his horns in the thicket, that he might not advance to Abraham, in order that Abraham might slay his son.
73 And Abraham, seeing the ram advancing to him and Satan withholding him, fetched him and brought him before the altar, and he loosened his son Yitschaq from his binding, and he put the ram in his stead, and Abraham killed the ram upon the altar, and brought it up as an offering in the place of his son Yitschaq.
74 And Abraham sprinkled some of the blood of the ram upon the altar, and he exclaimed and said, This is in the place of my son, and may this be considered this day as the blood of my son before YAHWEH.
75 And all that Abraham did on this occasion by the altar, he would exclaim and say, This is in the room of my son, and may it this day be considered before YAHWEH in the place of my son; and Abraham finished the whole of the service by the altar, and the service was accepted before YAHWEH, and was accounted as if it had been Yitschaq; and YAHWEH blessed Abraham and his seed on that day.
76 And Satan went to Sarah, and he appeared to her in the figure of an old man very humble and meek, and Abraham was yet engaged in the burnt offering before YAHWEH.
77 And he said unto her, Dost you not know all the work that Abraham has made with your only son this day? for he took Yitschaq and built an altar, and killed him, and brought him up as a sacrifice upon the altar, and Yitschaq cried and wept before his father, but he looked not at him, neither did he have compassion over him.
78 And Satan repeated these words, and he went away from her, and Sarah heard all the words of Satan, and she imagined him to be an old man from amongst the sons of men who had been with her son, and had come and told her these things.
79 And Sarah lifted up her voice and wept and cried out bitterly on account of her son; and she threw herself upon the ground and she cast dust upon her head, and she said, O my son, Yitschaq my son, O that I had this day died instead of you. And she continued to weep and said, It grieves me for you, O my son, my son Yitschaq, O that I had died this day in your stead.
80 And she still continued to weep, and said, It grieves me for you after that I have reared you and have brought you up; now my joy is turned into mourning over you, I that had a longing for you, and cried and prayed to YAHWEH till I bare you at ninety years old; and now hast you served this day for the knife and the fire, to be made an offering.
81 But I console myself with you, my son, in its being the word of YAHWEH, for you didst perform the command of your ALMIGHTY; for who can transgress the word of our YAHWEH, in whose hands is the soul of every living creature?
82 You are just, O YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY, for all your works are good and righteous; for I also am rejoiced with your word which you didst command, and while mine eye weeps bitterly my heart rejoiceth.
83 And Sarah laid her head upon the bosom of one of her handmaids, and she became as still as a stone.
84 She afterward rose up and went about making inquiries till she came to Hebron, and she inquired of all those whom she met walking in the road, and no one could tell her what had happened to her son.
85 And she came with her maid servants and men servants to Kireath-arba, which is Hebron, and she asked concerning her Son, and she remained there while she sent some of her servants to seek where Abraham had gone with Yitschaq; they went to seek him in the house of Shem and Eber, and they could not find him, and they sought throughout the land and he was not there.
86 And behold, Satan came to Sarah in the shape of an old man, and he came and stood before her, and he said unto her, I spoke falsely unto you, for Abraham did not kill his son and he is not dead; and when she heard the word her joy was so exceedingly violent on account of her son, that her soul went out through joy; she died and was gathered to her people.
87 And when Abraham had finished his service he returned with his son Yitschaq to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba, and they came home.
88 And Abraham sought for Sarah, and could not find her, and he made inquiries concerning her, and they said unto him, She went as far as Hebron to seek you both where you had gone, for thus was she informed.
89 And Abraham and Yitschaq went to her to Hebron, and when they found that she was dead they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly over her; and Yitschaq fell upon his mother's face and wept over her, and he said, O my mother, my mother, how hast you left me, and where hast you gone? O how, how hast you left me!
90 And Abraham and Yitschaq wept greatly and all their servants wept with them on account of Sarah, and they mourned over her a great and heavy mourning.

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