Book of Jubilees 50

JUBILEES 50

Remember the Shabbats

1 And after this Torah I made known to you the days of the Shabbats in the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.
2 And I told you of the Shabbats of the land on Mount Sinai, and I told you of the jubilee years in the Shabbats of years: but the year thereof have I not told you till you enter the land which you are to possess.
3 And the land also shall keep its Shabbats while they dwell upon it, and they shall know the jubilee year.
4 Wherefore I have ordained for you the year-weeks and the years and the jubilees: there are forty-nine jubilees from the days of Adam until this day, [2410 A.M.] and one week and two years: and there are yet forty years to come (lit. 'distant') for learning the [2450 A.M.] commandments of YAHWEH, until they pass over into the land of Canaan, crossing the Jordan to the west.
5 And the jubilees shall pass by, until Yisrael is cleansed from all guilt of fornication, and uncleanness, and pollution, and sin, and error, and dwells with confidence in all the land, and there shall be no more a Satan or any evil one, and the land shall be clean from that time forevermore.
6 And behold the commandment regarding the Shabbats -I have written them down for you- and all the judgments of its laws.
7 Six days shall you labour, but on the seventh day is the Shabbat of YAHWEH your Sovereign Ruler. In it you shall do no manner of work, you and your sons, and your men- servants and your maid-servants, and all your cattle and the sojourner also who is with you.
8 And the man that does any work on it shall die: whoever desecrates that day, whoever lies with (his) wife, or whoever says he will do something on it, that he will set out on a journey thereon in regard to any buying or selling: and whoever draws water thereon which he had not prepared for himself on the sixth day, and whoever takes up any burden to carry it out of his tent or out of his house shall die.
9 You shall do no work whatever on the Shabbat day save what you have prepared for yourselves on the sixth day, so as to eat, and drink, and rest, and keep Shabbat from all work on that day, and to bless YAHWEH your Sovereign Ruler, who has given you a day of festival and a kodesh day: and a day of the kodesh kingdom for all Yisrael is this day among their days forever.
10 For great is the honor which YAHWEH has given to Yisrael that they should eat and drink and be satisfied on this festival day, and rest thereon from all labour which belongs to the labour of the children of men save burning frankincense and bringing oblations and sacrifices before YAHWEH for days and for Shabbats.
11 This work alone shall be done on the Shabbat-days in the sanctuary of YAHWEH your Sovereign Ruler; that they may atone for Yisrael with sacrifice continually from day to day for a memorial well-pleasing before YAHWEH, and that He may receive them always from day to day according as you have been commanded.
12 And every man who does any work thereon, or goes a journey, or tills (his) farm, whether in his house or any other place, and whoever lights a fire, or rides on any beast, or travels by ship on the sea, and whoever strikes or kills anything, or slaughters a beast or a bird, or whoever catches an animal or a bird or a fish, or whoever fasts or makes war on the Shabbats:
13 The man who does any of these things on the Shabbat shall die, so that the children of Yisrael shall observe the Shabbats according to the commandments regarding the Shabbats of the land, as it is written in the tablets, which He gave into my hands that I should write out for you the laws of the seasons, and the seasons according to the division of their days. Herewith is completed the account of the division of the days.

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Book of Jubilees 48

JUBILEES 48

Mosheh returns from Midian to Egypt

1 And in the sixth year of the third week of the forty-ninth jubilee you did depart and dwell (in [2372 A.M.] the land of Midian, five weeks and one year. And you did return into Egypt in the second week in the second year in the fiftieth jubilee.
2 And you yourself know what He spoke to you on [2410 A.M.] Mount Sinai, and what prince Mastema desired to do with you when you were returning into Egypt.
3 Did he not with all his power seek to slay you and deliver the Egyptians out of your hand when he saw that you were sent to execute judgment and vengeance on the Egyptians?
4 And I delivered you out of his hand, and you didst perform the signs and wonders which you were sent to perform in Egypt against Pharaoh, and against all his house, and against his servants and his people.
5 And YAHWEH executed a great vengeance on them for Yisrael's sake, and smote them through (the plagues of) blood and frogs, lice and dog-flies, and malignant boils breaking forth in blains; and their cattle by death; and by hail- stones, thereby He destroyed everything that grew for them; and by locusts which devoured the residue which had been left by the hail, and by darkness; and (by the death) of the first-born of men and animals, and on all their idols YAHWEH took vengeance and burned them with fire.
6 And everything was sent through your hand, that you should declare (these things) before they were done, and you did speak with the king of Egypt before all his servants and before his people.
7 And everything took place according to your words; ten great and terrible judgments came on the land of Egypt that you might execute vengeance on it for Yisrael.
8 And YAHWEH did everything for Yisrael's sake, and according to His covenant, which he had ordained with Abraham that He would take vengeance on them as they had brought them by force into bondage.
9 And the prince Mastema stood up against you, and sought to cast you into the hands of Pharaoh, and he helped the Egyptian sorcerers,
10 And they stood up and wrought before you the evils indeed we permitted them to work, but the remedies we did not allow to be wrought by their hands.
11 And YAHWEH smote them with malignant ulcers, and they were not able to stand, for we destroyed them so that they could not perform a single sign.
12 And notwithstanding all (these) signs and wonders the prince Mastema was not put to shame because he took courage and cried to the Egyptians to pursue after you with all the powers of the Egyptians, with their chariots, and with their horses, and with all the hosts of the peoples of Egypt.
13 And I stood between the Egyptians and Yisrael, and we delivered Yisrael out of his hand, and out of the hand of his people, and YAHWEH brought them through the midst of the sea as if it were dry land.
14 And all the peoples whom he brought to pursue after Yisrael, YAHWEH our Sovereign Ruler cast them into the midst of the sea, into the depths of the abyss beneath the children of Yisrael, even as the people of Egypt had cast their children into the river He took vengeance on 1,000,000 of them, and one thousand strong and energetic men were destroyed on account of one suckling of the children of your people which they had thrown into the river.
15 And on the fourteenth day and on the fifteenth and on the sixteenth and on the seventeenth and on the eighteenth the prince Mastema was bound and imprisoned behind the children of Yisrael that he might not accuse them.
16 And on the nineteenth we let them loose that they might help the Egyptians and pursue the children of Yisrael.
17 And he hardened their hearts and made them stubborn, and the device was devised by YAHWEH our Sovereign Ruler that He might smite the Egyptians and cast them into the sea.
18 And on the fourteenth we bound him that he might not accuse the children of Yisrael on the day when they asked the Egyptians for vessels and garments, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze, in order to despoil the Egyptians in return for the bondage in which they had forced them to serve.
19 And we did not lead forth the children of Yisrael from Egypt empty handed.

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Book of Jubilees 23

JUBILEES 23

And Abraham Died

1 And he placed two fingers of Yacob on his eyes, and he blessed the ALMIGHTY of gods, and he covered his face and stretched out his feet and slept the sleep of eternity, and was gathered to his fathers.
2 And notwithstanding all this Yacob was lying in his bosom, and knew not that Abraham, his father's father, was dead.
3 And Yacob awoke from his sleep, and behold Abraham was cold as ice, and he said 'Father, father'; but there was none that spoke, and he knew that he was dead.
4 And he arose from his bosom and ran and told Rebecca, his mother; and Rebecca went to Yitschaq in the night, and told him; and they went together, and Yacob with them, and a lamp was in his hand, and when they had gone in they found Abraham lying dead.
5 And Yitschaq fell on the face of his father and wept and kissed him.
6 And the voices were heard in the house of Abraham, and Ishmael his son arose, and went to Abraham his father, and wept over Abraham his father, he and all the house of Abraham, and they wept with a great weeping.
7 And his sons Yitschaq and Ishmael buried him in the double cave, near Sarah his wife, and they wept for him forty days, all the men of his house, and Yitschaq and Ishmael, and all their sons, and all the sons of Keturah in their places; and the days of weeping for Abraham were ended.
8 And he lived three jubilees and four weeks of years, one hundred
9 and seventy-five years, and completed the days of his life, being old and full of days. For the days of the forefathers, of their life, were nineteen jubilees; and after the Flood they began to grow less than nineteen jubilees, and to decrease in jubilees, and to grow old quickly, and to be full of their days by reason of manifold tribulation and the wickedness of their ways, with the exception of Abraham.
10 For Abraham was perfect in all his deeds with YAHWEH, and well-pleasing in righteousness all the days of his life; and behold, he did not complete four jubilees in his life, when he had grown old by reason of the wickedness, and was full of his days
11. And all the generations which shall arise from this time until the day of the great judgment shall grow old quickly, before they complete two jubilees, and their knowledge shall forsake them by reason of their old age, and all their knowledge shall vanish away.
12 And in those days, if a man live a jubilee and a-half of years, they shall say regarding him: 'He has lived long, and the greater part of his days are pain and sorrow and tribulation, and there is no shalom:
13 For calamity follows on calamity, and wound on wound, and tribulation on tribulation, and evil tidings on evil tidings, and illness on illness, and all evil judgments such as these, one with another, illness and overthrow, and snow and frost and ice, and fever, and chills, and torpor, and famine, and death, and sword, and captivity, and all kinds of calamities and pains.'
14 And all these shall come on an evil generation, which transgresses on the earth: their works are uncleanness and fornication, and pollution and abominations.
15 Then they shall say: 'The days of the forefathers were many (even), unto a thousand years, and were good; but behold, the days of our life, if a man has lived many, are three score years and ten (70), and, if he is strong, four score (80) years, and those evil, and there is no shalom in the days of this evil generation.'
16 And in that generation the sons shall convict their fathers and their elders of sin and unrighteousness, and of the words of their mouth and the great wickednesses which they perpetrate, and concerning their forsaking the covenant which YAHWEH made between them and Him, that they should observe and do all His commandments and His ordinances and all His Torah, without departing either to the right hand or the left.
17 For all have done evil, and every mouth speaks iniquity and all their works are an uncleanness and an abomination, and all their ways are pollution, uncleanness and destruction.
18 Behold the earth shall be destroyed on account of all their works, and there shall be no seed of the vine, and no oil; for their works are altogether faithless, and they shall all perish together, beasts and cattle and birds, and all the fish of the sea, on account of the children of men.
19 And they shall strive one with another, the young with the old, and the old with the young, the poor with the rich, the lowly with the great, and the beggar with the prince, on account of the Torah and the covenant; for they have forgotten commandment, and covenant, and feasts, and months, and Shabbats, and jubilees, and all judgments.
20 And they shall stand swords and war to turn them back into the way; but they shall not return until much blood has been shed on the earth, one by another.
21 And those who have escaped shall not return from their wickedness to the way of righteousness, but they shall all exalt themselves to deceit and wealth, that they may each take all that is his neighbor’s, and they shall name the great NAME of YAHWEH, but not in truth and not in righteousness, and they shall defile the kodesh of ha kodeshim with their uncleanness and the corruption of their pollution.
22 And a great punishment shall befall the deeds of this generation from YAHWEH, and He will give them over to the sword and to judgment and to captivity, and to be plundered and devoured.
23 And He will wake up against them the sinners of the Gentiles, who have neither mercy nor compassion, and who shall respect the person of none, neither old nor young, nor any one, for they are more wicked and strong to do evil than all the children of men. And they shall use violence against Yisrael and transgression against Yacob, And much blood shall be shed upon the earth, And there shall be none to gather and none to bury.
24 In those days they shall cry aloud, And call and pray that they may be saved from the hand of the sinners, the Gentiles; But none shall be saved.
25 And the heads of the children shall be white with grey hair, And a child of three weeks shall appear old like a man of one hundred years, And their stature shall be destroyed by tribulation and oppression.
26 And in those days the children shall begin to study the laws, And to seek the commandments, And to return to the path of righteousness.
27 And the days shall begin to grow many and increase amongst those children of men till their days draw nigh to one thousand years. And to a greater number of years than (before) was the number of the days.
28 And there shall be no old man Nor one who is satisfied with his days, For all shall be as children and youths.
29 And all their days they shall complete and live in shalom and in joy, And there shall be no Satan nor any evil destroyer; For all their days shall be days of blessing and healing.
30 And at that time YAHWEH will heal His servants, And they shall rise up and see great shalom, And drive out their adversaries. And the righteous shall see and be thankful, And rejoice with joy forever and ever, And shall see all their judgments and all their curses on their enemies.
31 And their bones shall rest in the earth, And their spirits shall have much joy, And they shall know that it is YAHWEH who executes judgment, And shows mercy to hundreds and thousands and to all that love Him
32 And do you, Mosheh, write down these words; for thus are they written, and they record them on the heavenly tablets for a testimony for the generations forever.

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Jasher, Chapter 87

1 At that time YAHWEH said to Mosheh, Behold your days are approaching to an end, take now Yohushua the son of Nun your servant and place him in the tabernacle, and I will command him, and Mosheh did so.
2 And YAHWEH appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood at the entrance of the tabernacle.
3 And YAHWEH commanded Yohushua the son of Nun and said unto him, Be strong and courageous, for you shall bring the children of Yisrael to the land which I swore to give them, and I will be with you.
4 And Mosheh said to Yohushua, Be strong and courageous, for you wilt make the children of Yisrael inherit the land, and YAHWEH will be with you, he will not leave you nor forsake you, be not afraid nor disheartened.
5 And Mosheh called to all the children of Yisrael and said to them, You have seen all the good which YAHWEH your ALMIGHTY has done for you in the wilderness.
6 Now therefore observe all the words of this law, and walk in the way of YAHWEH your ALMIGHTY, turn not from the way which YAHWEH has commanded you, either to the right or to the left.
7 And Mosheh taught the children of Yisrael statutes and judgments and laws to do in the land as YAHWEH had commanded him.
8 And he taught them the way of YAHWEH and his laws; behold they are written upon the book of the law of YAHWEH which he gave to the children of Yisrael by the hand of Mosheh.
9 And Mosheh finished commanding the children of Yisrael, and YAHWEH said to him, saying, Go up to the Mount Abarim and die there, and be gathered unto your people as Aaron your brother was gathered.
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10 And Mosheh went up as YAHWEH had commanded him, and he died there in the land of Moab by the order of YAHWEH, in the fortieth year from the Yisraelites going forth from the land of Egypt.
11 And the children of Yisrael wept for Mosheh in the plains of Moab for thirty days, and the days of weeping and mourning for Mosheh were completed.

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Jasher, Chapter 82

1 And the children of Yisrael proceeded from Rephidim and they encamped in the wilderness of Sinai, in the third month from their going forth from Egypt.
2 At that time came Reuel the Midianite, the father-in-law of Mosheh, with Zipporah his daughter and her two sons, for he had heard of the wonders of YAHWEH which he had done to Yisrael, that he had delivered them from the hand of Egypt.
3 And Reuel came to Mosheh (Moses) to the wilderness where he was encamped, where was the mountain of YAHWEH.
4 And Mosheh went forth to meet his father-in-law with great honor, and all Yisrael was with him.
5 And Reuel and his children remained amongst the Yisraelites for many days, and Reuel knew YAHWEH from that day forward.
6 And in the third month from the children of Yisrael's departure from Egypt, on the sixth day thereof, YAHWEH gave to Yisrael the ten commandments on Mount Sinai.
7 And all Yisrael heard all these commandments, and all Yisrael rejoiced exceedingly in YAHWEH on that day.
8 And the splendor of YAHWEH rested upon Mount Sinai, and he called to Mosheh, and Mosheh came in the midst of a cloud and ascended the mountain.
9 And Mosheh was upon the mount forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water, and YAHWEH instructed him in the statutes and judgments in order to teach the children of Yisrael.
10 And YAHWEH wrote the ten commandments which he had commanded the children of Yisrael upon two tablets of stone, which he gave to Mosheh to command the children of Yisrael.
11 And at the end of forty days and forty nights, when YAHWEH had finished speaking to Mosheh on Mount Sinai, then YAHWEH gave to Mosheh the tablets of stone, written with the finger of YAHWEH.
12 And when the children of Yisrael saw that Mosheh tarried to come down from the mount, they gathered round Aaron, and said, As for this man Mosheh we know not what has become of him.
13 Now therefore rise up, make unto us a god who shall go before us, so that you shall not die.
14 And Aaron was greatly afraid of the people, and he ordered them to bring him gold and he made it into a molten calf for the people.
15 And YAHWEH said to Mosheh, before he had come down from the mount, Get you down, for your people whom you didst bring forth from Egypt have corrupted themselves.
16 They have made to themselves a molten calf, and have bowed down to it, now therefore leave me, that I may consume them from off the earth, for they are a stiffnecked people.
17 And Mosheh besought the countenance of YAHWEH, and he prayed to YAHWEH for the people on account of the calf which they had made, and he afterward descended from the mount and in his hands were the two tablets of stone, which YAHWEH had given him to command the Yisraelites.
18 And when Mosheh approached the camp and saw the calf which the people had made, the anger of Mosheh was kindled and he broke the tablets under the mount.
19 And Mosheh came to the camp and he took the calf and burned it with fire, and ground it till it became fine dust, and strewed it upon the water and gave it to the Yisraelites to drink.
20 And there died of the people by the swords of each other about three thousand men who had made the calf.
21 And on the morrow Mosheh said to the people, I will go up to YAHWEH, peradventure I may make atonement for your sins which you have sinned to YAHWEH.
22 And Mosheh again went up to YAHWEH, and he remained with YAHWEH forty days and forty nights.
23 And during the forty days did Mosheh entreat YAHWEH in behalf of the children of Yisrael, and YAHWEH hearkened to the prayer of Mosheh, and YAHWEH was entreated of him in behalf of Yisrael.
24 Then spake YAHWEH to Mosheh to hew two stone tablets and to bring them up to YAHWEH, who would write upon them the ten commandments.
25 Now Mosheh did so, and he came down and hewed the two tablets and went up to Mount Sinai to YAHWEH, and YAHWEH wrote the ten commandments upon the tablets.
26 And Mosheh remained yet with YAHWEH forty days and forty nights, and YAHWEH instructed him in statutes and judgments to impart to Yisrael.
27 And YAHWEH commanded him respecting the children of Yisrael that they should make a sanctuary for YAHWEH, that his name might rest therein, and YAHWEH showed him the likeness of the sanctuary and the likeness of all its vessels.
28 And at the end of the forty days, Mosheh came down from the mount and the two tablets were in his hand.
29 And Mosheh came to the children of Yisrael and spoke to them all the words of YAHWEH, and he taught them laws, statutes and judgments which YAHWEH had taught him.
30 And Mosheh told the children of Yisrael the word of YAHWEH, that a sanctuary should be made for him, to dwell amongst the children of Yisrael.
31 And the people rejoiced greatly at all the good which YAHWEH had spoken to them, through Mosheh, and they said, We will do all that YAHWEH has spoken to you.
32 And the people rose up like one man and they made generous offerings to the sanctuary of YAHWEH, and each man brought the offering of YAHWEH for the work of the sanctuary, and for all its service.
33 And all the children of Yisrael brought each man of all that was found in his possession for the work of the sanctuary of YAHWEH, gold, silver and brass, and every thing that was serviceable for the sanctuary.
34 And all the wise men who were practiced in work came and made the sanctuary of YAHWEH, according to all that YAHWEH had commanded, every man in the work in which he had been practiced; and all the wise men in heart made the sanctuary, and its furniture and all the vessels for the holy service, as YAHWEH had commanded Mosheh.
35 And the work of the sanctuary of the tabernacle was completed at the end of five months, and the children of Yisrael did all that YAHWEH had commanded Mosheh.
36 And they brought the sanctuary and all its furniture to Mosheh; like unto the representation which YAHWEH had shown to Mosheh, so did the children of Yisrael.
37 And Mosheh saw the work, and behold they did it as YAHWEH had commanded him, so Mosheh blessed them.

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