FIRFTE BOKE OF MOFES
GENEFIS
CHAPTRE I
1 In the beginning of IAH preparing the heauens and the earthe:
2 the earthe dothe exifte wafte and uoyde, and darkenes is on the face of the depe, and the Fpirit of IAH fluttring on the face of the watres,
3 and IAH faith, “Let lighte be;” and lighte is.
4 And IAH feeth the lighte that it is gode, and IAH feparateth betwene the lighte and the darkness,
5 and IAH calleth to the lighte “Daye,” and to the darkness He dothe call “Nighte;” and there is an euening, and there is a morning: daye one.
6 And IAH faith, “Let an expanfe be in the middes of the watres, and let it be feparating betwene watres and watres.”
7 And IAH maketh the expanfe, and it feparateth betwene the watres whiche are undre the expanfe, and the watres which are aboue the expanfe: and it is fo.
8 And IAH calleth to the expanfe “Heauens;” and there is an euening, and there is a morning: daye feconde.
9 And IAH faith, “Let the watres undre the heauens be collected unto one place, and let y drye lande be fene:” and it is fo.
10 And IAH calleth to the drye lande “Earthe,” and to the collectione of the watres He dothe call “Feas;” and IAH feeth that it is gode.
11 And IAH faith, “Let the earthe yielde tendre graffe, herbe fowing fede, frute tre (whofe sede is in itfelfe) making frute aftre its kinde, on the earthe;” and it is fo.
12 And the earthe bringeth forthe tendre graffe, herbe fowing fede aftre its kinde, and tre making frute (whofe fede is in itfelfe) aftre its kinde; and IAH feeth that it is gode;
13 and there is an euening, and there is a morning: daye thre.
14 And IAH faith, “Let luminaries be in the expanfe of the heauens, to make a feparacione betwene the daye and the night, then thei are being for fighnes and for feafones, and for days and yeres,
15 and thei are being for luminaries in the expanfe of the heauens to give lighte vpon the earthe;” and is is fo.
16 And IAH maketh the twoe greate luminaries, the greate luminarie for the rule of the daye, and the fmal luminarie: and the ftarres: for the rule of the nighte;
17 and IAH giueth them in the expanfe of the heauens to give lighte vpon the earthe,
18 and to rule ovre daye and ovre nighte, and to make a feparacione betwene the lighte the lighte and y darkenes; and IAH feeth that it is gode;
19 and there is an euening, and there is a morning: daye foureth.
20 And IAH faith, “Let the watres teme withe the teming liuing creature, and the foule let flie on the earthe on the face of the expanfe of the heauens.”
21 And IAH prepareth the greate monftres, and euerie liuing creture that is creping, whiche the watres are teming withe, aftre their kinde, and euerie foule withe winge, aftre its kinde, and IAH feeth that it is gode.
22 And IAH bleffeth them, faying, “Be frutfulle, and multiplie, and fil the watres in the feas, and the foule let multiplie in the earthe:”
23 and there is an euening, and there is a morning: daye fift.
24 And IAH faith, “Let the earthe bringe forthe the liuing creture aftre its kinde, cattel and creping things, and beafte of the earthe aftre its kinde:” and it is fo.
25 And IAH maketh the beafte of the earthe aftre its kinde, and the cattel. aftre their kinde, and euerie creping thing of the grounde aftre its kind, and IAH feeth that it is gode.
26 And IAH faith, “Let Vs make man in Our image, according to Our likenes, and let them rule over fifhe of the fea, and ovre foule of the heavens, and ovre euerie creping thing that is creping on the earthe.”
27 And IAH prepareth the man in His image; in the image of IAH He prepareth him, a male and a female He prepareth them.
28 And bleffeth them, and IAH faith to them, “Be frutfulle, and multiplie, and fill the earthe, and fubdue it, and rule ovre fishe of the fea , and ovre foule of the heauens, and ovre cattel, and ovre al the earthe, and ovre euerie creping thing that is creping on the earthe.”
29 And IAH faith, “Lo, I am giuing to you euerie herbe fowing fede, whiche is vpon the face of al the earthe, and euerie tre in whiche is the fruit of a tre fowing fede, to you it is for fode;
30 and to euerie beafte of the earthe, and to euerie foule of the heauens, and to euerie creping thing on the earthe, in whiche is the breth of life, euerie grene herbe is for fode:” and it is fo.
31 And IAH feeth al that He is doing, and lo, uerie gode; and there is an euening, and there is a morning: daye the fixt.
SECONDE BOKE OF MOFES
EXODUS
CHAPTRE I
1 And thefe are the names of the fonnes of Iamiah who are coming into Egypt withe Iaakob; a man and his houfholde dothe thei come;
2 Rueben, Fimeon, Levi, and Iudah,
3 Iffachar, Zebulun, and Beniamin,
4 Dan, & Naphtali, Gad, & Afher.
5 And al the perfones coming out of the thighe of Iaakob are seuentie perfones; as to Jofeph, he is in Egypt.
6 And Iofeph dyeth, and al his brethren, & al that generacione;
7 and the fonnes of Iamiah are being fruteful, and thei teme, & multiplie, and are uerie mightie, and the lande is filled withe them.
8 And there rifestha newe king ovre Egypt, who dothe not knowe Iofeph,
9 And he faith vnto his people, “Lo, the people of the fonnes of Iamiah is more numeroufe and mightie than we;
10 give help! Let vs acte wifelie concerning it, lefte thei multiplie, and it dothe come to paffe, when warre happeneth, that it is ioyned, euen it, vnto those hating vs, & dothe fighte againfte vs, and goeth out vp of the lande.”
11 And thei fette ovre it princes of tribute, so as to afficteit withe their burdens, and it buildeth store cities for Pharaoh, Pithom & Raamfes;
12 and as thei afflicte it, fo it multiplieth, and so it braketh forthe, and then thei are uexed becaufe of the fonnes of Iamiah;
13 and the Egyptians caufe the fonnes of Iamiah to ferue withe rigoure,
14 and make their liues bittre in harde feruice, in claye, and in bricke, and in euerie kinde of feruice in the fielde; al theirferuice in whiche thei ferue is with rigoure.
15 And the king of Egypt speketh to the middewiues, the Ebreweffes, of home the name of the one is Fhiprah, and the name of the feconde Puah,
16 and faith, “When ye caufe the Ebrewe woman to bare, and dothe loke on the children; if it is a fonne: then ye dothe put him to deathe; and if it is a daughtre: then fhe dothe liue.”
17 And the middewiues feare IAH, & dothe not as the king of Egypt dothe fpeke vnto them, and keep the laddes aliue;
18 and the king of Egypt calleth for the middewiues, & faith to them, “Wherefore dothe ye this thing, and keep the laddes aliue?”
19 And the middewiues faye vnto Pharaoh, “Becaufe the Ebrewe women are not as the Egyptian women, for thei are liuelie; before the middewiue commeth in vnto them: the dothe bare!”
20 And IAH dothe gode to the middewiues, and the people multiplie, & are uerie mightie;
21 and it commeth to paffe, becaufe the middewiues dothe feare IAH, that He maketh for them houfholdes;
22 and Pharaoh layeth a charge on al his people, faying, “Euerie fonne who is borne: into the rivre ye dothe cafte him, and euerie daughtre ye dothe kepe aliue.”
THIRDE BOKE OF MOFES
LEVITICVS
CHAPTRE I
1 And IAH calleth vnto Mofes, and speketh vnto him out of the tente of meting, saying,
2 “Fpeke vnto the fonnes of Iamiah, & thou faith vnto thé, Anie man of you when he dothe bring nere an offring to IAH, out of the cattel: out of the herde, or out of the flocke: ye dothe bring nere your offring.
3 ‘If his offring is a burnte offring out of the herde: a male, a perfecte one, he dothe bring nere, vnto the opening of the tente of meting he dothe bring it nere, at his plesure, before IAH;
4 and he dothe Laye his hande on the heade of the burnte offring, and it is being accepted for him to make atonement for him;
5 and he dothe slaughtre the fonne of thee herde before IAH; and the fonnes of Aoron the prieftes , dothe bring the blode nere, and sprinckle the blode on the altar rounde about, whiche is at the opening of the tente of meting.
6 ‘And he dothe strippe the burnte offring, and dothe cutte it into pieces.;
7 and the fonnes of Aaron, the priefte dothe put fyre on the altar, and arrange wode on the fyre;
8 and the fonnes of Aaron, the prieftes dothe arrange the pieces, with the heade and the fatte, on the wode, whiche is on the fire, whiche is on the altar;
9 and its inwardes and its legs he dothe washe withe watre; and the priefte dothe make perfume withe the whole on the altar, a burnte offring, a fyre oblaciõ of swete fragrance to IAH.
10 ‘And if his offríg is out of the flocke: out of the shepe or out of the goates: for a burnte offring, a male, a perfecte one, he dothe bring nere,
11 and he dothe slaughtre it by the side of the altar northwarde, before IAH; & fonnes of Aaron, the prieftes, dothe sprinckle its blode on the altar rounde about;
12 and he dothe cutte into its pieces, and its heade and its fatte, and the priefte dothe arrange them õ the wode, whiche is on the fyre, whiche is on the altar;
13 and the inwardes and the legges he dothe washe withe watre, and the priefte dothe bring the whole nere, & dothe make perfume on the altar; it is a burnte offring, a fyre oblaciõ of swete fragrance to IAH.
14 ‘And if his offring is a burnte offring out of the foule to IAH,, than he dothe bring nere his offring out of the turtle doves or out of the yonge pigeiones,
15 and the prieftes dothe bring it nere vnto the altar, and dothe wringe offe its heade, and dothe make perfume on the altar, and its blode is being wrunge out by the side of the altar;
16 and he dothe turne afide its croppe withe its feathres, and dothe cafte it nere the altar, eaftewarde, vnto the placeod afhes;
17 and he dothe cleave it withe its winges; he dothe not feparate it: and the priefte dothe make it a perfume on the altar, on the wode, whiche is on the fyre; it is a burnte offring, a fyre oblaciõ of swete fragrance to IAH.
FOURTHE BOKE OF MOFES
NOMBRES
1 And IAH fpeketh to Mofes in the wildrenes os Finai, in the tente of meting, on the firfte of the feconde monthe, in the feconde yere of their going out of the land of Egypt, saying:
2 “Take ye vp the fumme of al the companie of the fonnes of Iamiah by their families, by the houfe of their fathers, in the numbre of names: euerie male by their polles:
THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS
These are the hidden sayings that the living Yeshua speketh and Yehuda Toma the twin recordeth .
(1)
And he saith ,
Whoever discoverth what these sayings mean
will not taste death.
(2)
Yeshua saith,
Seek and do not stop seeking until you find.
When you find, you will be troubled.
When you are troubled,
you will marvel and rule over all.
(3)
Yeshua saith ,
If your leaders tell you, “Look, the kingdom is in heaven,”
then the birds of heaven will precede you.
If they say to you, “It’s in the sea,”
then the fish will precede you.
But the kingdom is inside you and it is outside you.
When you know yourselves, then you will be known,
and you will understand that you are children of the living father.
But if you do not know yourselves,
then you dwell in poverty and you are poverty.
(4)
Yeshua saith ,
A person old in days
will not hesitate to ask a little child
seven days old about the place of life,
and the person will live.
For many of the first will be last
and become a single one.
(5)
Yeshua saith,
Know what is in front of your face
and what is hidden from you will be disclosed.
There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.
(6)
His students ask him and saith to him,
Do you want us to fast?
How should we pray?
Should we give to charity?
What diet should we observe?
Yeshua saith,
Do not lie and do not do what you hate.
All things are disclosed before heaven.
There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed,
nothing covered that will remain undisclosed.
(7)
Yeshua saith,
Blessings on the lion if a human eats it,
making the lion human.
Foul is the human if a lion eats it,
making the lion human.
(8)
And he saith,
Humankind is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea
and draweth it up from the sea full of little fish.
Among the fish he findeth a fine large fish.
He throweth all the little fish back into the sea
and easily chooseth the large fish.
Whoever has ears to hear should hear.
(9)
Yeshua saith,
Look, the sower is going out, taking a handful of seeds,
and scattering them.
Some fall on the road
and the birds come and peck them up.
Others fall on rock
and they di not take root in the soil
and do not produce heads of grain.
Others fall on thorns
and they choke the seeds
and worms devour them.
And others fall on good soil
and it bringeth forth a good crop,
yielding sixty per measure and one hundred twenty per measure.
(10)
Yeshua saith,
I throw fire upon the world,
and look, I am watching till it blazes.
(11)
Yeshua saith,
This heaven will pass away
and the one above it will pass away.
The dead are not alive
and the living will not die.
During the days when you eat what is dead
you make it alive.
When you are in the light, what will you do?
On the day when you are one
you become two.
But when you become two, what will you do?
(12)
The students saith to Yeshua,
We know you will leave us.
Who will be our leader?
Yeshua saith to them,
Wherever you are, seek out Iaakob the just.
For his sake heaven and earth come into being.
(13)
Yeshua saith to his students,
Compare me to something
and tell me what I am like.
Shimon Kefa saith to him,
You are like a just messenger.
Matai saith to him,
You are like a wise philosopher.
Toma saith to him,
Rabbi, my mouth is utterly unable to say
what you are like.
Yeshua saith ,
I am not your rabbi.
Because you have drunk, you are intoxicated
from the bubbling spring I tended.
And he took him and withdrew, and spoke three sayings to him.
When Toma came back to his friends, they asked him,
What did Yeshua say to you?
Toma saith to them,
If I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me,
you will pick up rocks and stone me
and fire will come out of the rocks and consume you.
(14)
Yeshua saith to them,
If you fast you will bring sin upon yourselves,
and if you pray you will be condemned,
and if you give to charity you will harm your spirits.
When you go into any region and walk through the countryside,
and people receive you, eat what they serve you
and heal the sick among them.
What goes into your mouth will not defile you,
but what comes out of your mouth will defile you.
(15)
Yeshua saith,
When you see one not born of woman,
fall on your faces and worship.
That is your father.
(16)
Yeshua saith,
People may think I come to impose peace upon the world.
They do not know that I come to impose conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war.
For there will be five in a house.
There will be three against two and two against three,
father against son and son against father,
and they will stand alone.
(17)
Yeshua saith,
I shall give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard,
what no hand has touched, what has not arisen in the human heart.
(18)
The students saith to Yeshua,
Tell us how our end will be.
Yeshua saith,
Have you discovered the beginning and now are seeking the end?
Where the beginning is, the end will be.
Blessings on you who stand at the beginning.
You will know the end and not taste death.
(19)
Yeshua saith,
Blessings on you who come into being
before coming into being.
If you become my students and hear my sayings,
these stones will serve you.
For there are five trees in paradise for you.
Summer or winter they do not change
and their leaves do not fall.
Whoever knows them will not taste death.
(20)
The students saith to Yeshua,
Tell us what the kingdom of heaven is like.
He said to them,
It is like a mustard seed, the tiniest of seeds,
but when it falls on prepared soil,
it produces a great plant
and becomes a shelter for the birds of heaven.
(21)
Miryam saith to Yeshua,
What are your students like?
He saith ,
They are like little children living in a field that is not theirs.
When the owners of the field come, they will say,
“Give our field back to us.”
The children take off their clothes in front of them
to give it back,
and they return their field to them.
So I say, if the owner of a house knows that a thief is coming,
he will be on guard before the thief arrives
and will not let the thief break into the house of his estate
and steal his possessions.
As for you, be on guard against the world.
Arm yourselves with great strength,
or the robbers will find a way to reach you,
for the trouble you expect will come.
Let someone among you understand.
When the crop ripeneth,
the reaper commercial quickly with sickle in hand
and harvesteth it.
Whoever has ears to hear should hear.
(22)
Yeshua seeth some babies nursing. He saith to his students,
These nursing babies
are like those who enter the kingdom.
They saith to him,
Then shall we enter the kingdom as babies?
Yeshua saith to them,
When you make the two into one,
and when you make the inner like the outer
and the outer like the inner
and the upper like the lower,
and when you make male and female into a single one,
so that the male will not be male nor the female be female,
when you make eyes in place of an eye,
a hand in place of a hand,
a foot in place of a foot,
an image in place of an image,
then you will enter the kingdom.
(23)
Yeshua saith,
I shall choose you as one from a thousand
and as two from ten thousand
and they will stand as a single one.
(24)
His students saith,
Show us the place where you are.
We must seek it.
He saith to them,
Whoever has ears should hear.
There is light within a person of light
and it shines on the whole world.
If it does not shine it is dark.
(25)
Yeshua saith,
Love your brother like your soul.
Protect that person like the pupil of your eye.
(26)
Yeshua saith,
You see the speck in your brother’s eye
but not the beam in your own eye.
When you take the beam out of your own eye,
then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
(27)
If you do not fast from the world, you will not find the kingdom.
If you do not observe the Shabbat as Shabbat,
you will not see the father.
(28)
Yeshua saith,
I take my stand in the midst of the world,
and I appear to them in flesh.
I fund them all drunk
yet none of them thirsty.
My soul aches for the human children
because they are blind in their hearts
and do not see.
They come into the world empty
and seek to depart from the world empty.
But now they are drunk.
When they shake off their wine, they will repent.
(29)
Yeshua saith,
If the flesh commeth into being because of spirit,
it is a marvel,
but if spirit commeth into being because of body,
it is a marvel of marvels.
Yet I marvel at how this great wealth commeth to dwell
in this poverty.
(30)
Yeshua saith,
Where there are three deities,
they are divine.
Where there are two or one,
I am with that one.
(31)
Yeshua saith,
A prophet is not accepted in the hometown.
A doctor does not heal those who know the doctor.
(32)
Yeshua saith,
A city built upon a high hill and fortified cannot fall,
nor can it be hidden.
(33)
Yeshua saith,
What you will hear in your ear
in the other ear proclaim from your rooftops.
No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket,
nor in a hidden place.
You put it on a stand
so that all who come and go will see its light.
(34)
Yeshua saith,
If a blind person leads a blind person,
both will fall in a hole.
(35)
Yeshua saith,
You cannot enter the house of the strong
and take it by force without binding the owner’s hands.
Then you can loot the house.
(36)
Yeshua saith,
From morning to evening and from evening to morning,
do not worry about what you will wear.
(37)
His students saith,
When will you appear to us
and when shall we see you?
Yeshua saith,
When you strip naked without being ashamed
and take your clothes and put them under your feet
like small children and trample them,
then you will see the child of the living one
and you will not be afraid.
(38)
Yeshua saith,
Often you want to hear these sayings I am telling you,
and you have no one else from whom to hear them.
There will be days when you will seek me
and you will not find me.
(39)
Yeshua saith,
The Pharisees and the scholars are taking the keys of knowledge
and hiding them.
They are not entering,
nor are they allowing those who want to enter
to go inside.
You should be shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves.
(40)
Yeshua saith,
A grapevine is being planted far from the father.
Since it is not strong
it will be pulled up by the root and perish.
(41)
Yeshua saith,
Whoever has something in hand will be given more
and whoever has nothing will be deprived
of the paltry things of possessions.
(42)
Yeshua saith,
Be passersby.
(43)
His students saith to him,
Who are you to say these things to us?
Yeshua saith,
From what I tell you, you do not know
who I am,
but you become like the Jews.
They love the tree but hate its fruit
or love the fruit but hate the tree.
(44)
Yeshua saith,
Whoever blasphemes against the father
will be forgiven,
and whoever blasphemes against the son
will be forgiven,
but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit will not be forgiven,
either on earth or in heaven.
(45)
Yeshua saith,
Grapes are not harvested from thorn trees,
nor are figs gathered from thistles.
They yield no fruit.
A good person brings forth good from the storehouse.
A bad person brings forth evil things
from the corrupt storehouse in the heart
and saying evil things.
From the abundance of the heart
such a person brings forth evil.
(46)
Yeshua saith,
From Adam to Yohanan the baptizer,
among those born of a woman,
no one of you is so much greater than Yohanan
that your eyes should not avert.
But I saith that whoever among you becomes a child
will know the kingdom
and become greater than Yohanan.
(47)
Yeshua saith,
A person cannot mount two horses or bend two bows,
and a servant cannot serve two masters,
or the servant will honor one and offend the other.
No one who drinks aged wine
suddenly wants to drink new wine.
New wine is not poured into aged wineskins
or they may break,
and aged wine is not poured into a new wineskin
or it may spoil.
An old patch is not sewn onto a new garment
or it may tear.
(48)
Yeshua saith,
If two make peace with each other in one house,
they will tell the mountain, “Move,”
and the mountain will move.
(49)
Yeshua saith,
Blessings on you who are alone and chosen,
for you will find the kingdom.
You have come from it
and will return there again.
(50)
Yeshua saith,
If they say to you, “Where have you come from?”
say to them, “We are coming from the light,
from the place where the light commeth into being by itself,
establishing itself, and appearing in their image.”
If they say to you, “Is it you?”
say, “We are its children and the chosen of the living father.”
If they ask you, “What is the evidence of your father in you?”
say to them, “It is motion and rest.”
(51)
His students said to him,
When will the dead rest?
When will the new world come?
He said to them,
What you look for has come
but you do not know it.
(52)
His students saith to him,
Twenty-four prophets are speaking Israel
and they all speak of you.
He saith to them,
You are disregarding the living one among you
and are speaking of the dead.
(53)
His students saith to him,
Is circumcision useful or not?
He saith to them,
If it is useful, fathers would produce their children
already circumcised from their mothers.
But the true circumcision in spirit
is altogether valuable.
(54)
Yeshua saith,
Blessings on you the poor,
for yours is the kingdom of heaven.
(55)
Yeshua saith,
Those who do not hate their father and mother
cannot be my students,
and those who do not hate their brothers and sisters
and bear the faith as I do
will not be worthy of me.
(56)
Yeshua saith,
Whoever is coming to know the world
and is discovering a carcass,
and whoever is discovering a carcass,
of that person the world is not worthy.
(57)
Yeshua saith,
The father’s kingdom is like someone with good seed.
His enemy is coming in at night and sowing weeds among the good seed.
He dothe not let them pull up the weeds
but saith to them,
“No, or you might go to pull up the weeds
and pull up the wheat along with them.”
On harvest day the weeds will be conspicuous
and will be pulled up and burned.
(58)
Yeshua saith,
Blessings on the person who dothe labor
and find life.
(59)
Yeshua saith,
Look to the living one as long as you live
or you may die and try to see the living one
and you will not be able to see.
(60)
He is seeing a Samaritan carrying a lamb as he is going to the land of Yehuda.
He saith to his students,
That person is carrying
the lamb around.
They saith to him,
Then he may kill it
and eat it.
He saith to them,
He will not eat it while it is alive
but only after he is killing it
and it is become a carcass.
They saith,
Otherwise he cannot do it.
He saith to them,
So with you. Seek a place of rest
or you may become a carcass and be eaten.
(61)
Yeshua saith,
Two will rest on a couch. One will die, one will live.
Salome saith,
Who are you, mister? You dothe climb on my couch
and eat from my table as if you are from someone.
Yeshua saith to her,
I am the one who comes from what is whole.
I am given from the things of my father.
Salome saith,
I am your student.
Yeshua saith,
I say, if you are whole, you will be filled with light,
but if divided, you will be filled with darkness.
(62)
Yeshua saith,
I disclose my mysteries to those who are worthy
of my mysteries.
Do not let your left hand know
what your right hand is doing.
(63)
Yeshua saith,
There is a rich person who is very wealthy.
He saith, “I shall invest my money so I may sow, reap, plant,
and fill my storehouses with produce.
Then I shall lack nothing.”
This is what he is thinking in his heart,
but that very night he died.
Whoever has ears should hear.
(64)
Yeshua saith,
A person is receiving guests. When he prepareth the dinner
he sendeth his servant to invite the guests.
The servant goeth to the first and saith,
“My master invites you.”
That person said,
“Some merchants owe me money.
They are coming tonight.
I must go and give them instructions.
Please excuse me from dinner.”
The servant goeth to another and saith,
“My master invites you.”
He saith to the servant,
“I have bought a house
and I am being called away for a day.
I have no time.”
The servant goeth to another and saith,
“My master invites you.”
He saith to the servant,
“My friend is to be married
and I am to arrange the banquet.
I can’t come. Please excuse me from dinner.”
The servant goeth to another and saith,
“My master invites you.”
He saith to the servant,
“I have bought an estate
and I am going to collect rent.
I shall not be able to come. Please excuse me.”
The servant returneth and saith to his master,
“Those you invite to dinner dothe ask to be excused.”
The master saith to his servant,
“Go out into the streets and invite whomever you find for the dinner.
Buyers and merchants will not enter the places of my father.”
(65)
He saith,
A usurer owns a vineyard and renteth it
to some farmers to work it
and from them he collected its produce.
He sendeth his servant for the farmers to give him
the produce of the vineyard. They seize, beat,
and almost kill his servant, who returneth
and telleth his master. His master saith,
“Perhaps he dothe not know them.” And he sendeth
another servant, but they beat him as well.
Then the master sendeth his son and saith,
“Perhaps they will respect my son.”
Since the farmers know the son is the heir
of the vineyard, they seize him and kill him.
Whoever has ears should hear.
(66)
Yeshua saith
Show me the stone that the builders reject.
That is the cornerstone.
(67)
Yeshua saith,
One who knows all but lacks within
is utterly lacking.
(68)
Yeshua saith,
Blessings on you when you are hated and persecuted,
and no place will be found,
wherever you are persecuted.
(69)
Yeshua saith,
Blessings on you who are being persecuted in your hearts.
Only you truly know the father.
Blessings on you who are hungry
that the stomach of someone else in want may be filled.
(70)
Yeshua saith,
If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you.
If you have nothing within you,
what you do not have within you will kill you.
(71)
Yeshua saith,
I shall destroy this house
and no one will be able to rebuild it.
(72)
Someone saith to him,
Tell my brothers to divide my father’s possessions with me.
He saith to the person,
Mister, who made me a divider?
He turneth to his students and saith to them,
I am not a divider, am I?
(73)
Yeshua saith,
The harvest is large but the workers are few.
Beg the master to send out workers to the harvest.
(74)
He saith,
Master, there are many around the drinking trough
but nothing in the well.
(75)
Yeshua saith,
There are many standing at the door
but those who are alone will enter the wedding chamber.
(76)
Yeshua saith,
The father’s kingdom is like a merchant
who owns a supply of merchandise and findeth a pearl.
The merchant is prudent.
He selleth his goods and bringeth the single pearl
for himself.
So with you. Seek his treasure that is unfailing
and enduring,
where no moth is coming to devour and no worm destroys.
(77)
Yeshua saith ,
I am the light over all things.
I am all.
From me all dothe come forth,
and to me all is reached.
Split a piece of wood.
I am there.
Lift up the stone
and you will find me there.
(78)
Yeshua saith,
Why have you come out to the countryside?
To see a reed shaken by the wind?
Or to see a person dressed in soft clothes
like your rulers and your people of power?
They are dressed in soft clothes
and cannot understand truth.
(79)
A woman in the crowd saith to him,
Blessings on the womb that bareth you
and the breasts that feed you.
He saith to her,
Blessings on those who dothe hear the word of the father
and dothe truly keep it. Days will come when you will say,
“Blessings on the womb that dothe not conceive
and the breasts that dothe not give milk.”
(80)
Yeshua saith,
Whoever dothe come to know the world
dothe discover the body,
and whoever dothe discover the body,
of that person the world is not worthy.
(81)
Yeshua saith,
Let a person of wealth rule,
and a person of power renounce it.
(82)
Yeshua saith,
Whoever is near me is near fire,
and whoever is far from me is far from the kingdom.
(83)
Yeshua said,
You see images,
but the light within them is hidden in the image
of the father’s light.
He will be disclosed,
but his image is hidden by his light.
(84)
Yeshua saith,
When you see your likeness you are happy.
But when you see your images that come into being before you
and that neither die nor become visible,
how much you will bear!
(85)
Yeshua saith,
Adam commeth from great power and great wealth,
but he is not worthy of you.
Had he been worthy,
he would not have tasted death.
(86)
Yeshua saith,
Foxes have their dens and birds have their nests,
but the human child has no place to lay his head and rest.
(87)
Yeshua saith,
How miserable is the body that depends on a body,
and how miserable is the soul that depends on both.
(88)
Yeshua saith ,
The messengers and the prophets will come to you
and give you what is yours.
You give them what you have and wonder,
“When will they come and take what is theirs?”
(89)
Yeshua saith,
Why do you wash the outside of the cup?
Don’t you understand that the one who made the inside
also made the outside?
(90)
Yeshua saith,
Come to me, for my yoke is easy and my mastery gentle,
and you will find rest for yourselves.
(91)
They saith to him,
Tell us who you are so that we may believe in you.
He saith to them,
You examine the face of heaven and earth
but you are not coming to know the one who is in your presence,
and you do not know how to examine this moment.
(92)
Yeshua saith,
Seek and you will find.
In the past I did not tell you the things about which you asked me.
Now I am willing to tell you, but you do not seek them.
(93)
Do not give what is holy to dogs.
They might throw them upon the manure pile.
Do not throw pearls to swine.
They might make mud of it.
(94)
Yeshua saith,
One who seeks will find.
For one who knocks it will be opened.
(95)
Yeshua saith,
If you have money, do not lend it at interest,
but give it to someone
from whom you will not get it back.
(96)
Yeshua saith,
The father’s kingdom is like a woman
who took a little yeast, hid it in dough,
and made large loaves of bread.
Whoever has ears should hear.
(97)
Yeshua saith,
The father’s kingdom is like a woman
who is carrying a jar full of meal.
While she is walking along a distant road,
the handle of the jar broke
and the meal spilleth behind her along the road.
She dothe not know it.
She noticeth no problem.
When she reacheth her house she is putting the jar down
and finding it empty.
(98)
Yeshua saith,
The father’s kingdom is like a person
who is wanting to put someone powerful to death.
While at home he is drawing his sword
and thrusting it into the wall
to find out whether his hand will go in.
Then he dothe kill the powerful person.
(99)
The students saith to him,
Your brothers and your mother are standing outside.
He saith to them,
Those here who do the will of my father
are my brothers and my mother.
They will enter my father’s kingdom.
(100)
They show Yeshua a gold coin and saith to him,
Caesar’s people demand taxes from us.
He saith to them,
Give Caesar the things that are Caesar’s,
give IAH the things that are of IAH,
and give me what is mine.
(101)
Those who do not hate their father and mother as I do
cannot be my students,
and those who do not love their father and mother as I do
cannot be my students.
For my mother giveth me falsehood,
but my true mother giveth me life.
(102)
Yeshua saith
Shame on the Pharisees.
They are like a dog sleeping in the cattle manger.
It does not eat or let the cattle eat.
(103)
Yeshua saith,
Blessings on you if you know where the robbers will enter
so you can wake up, rouse your estate,
and arm yourself before they break in.
(104)
They saith to Yeshua,
Come let us pray today and fast.
Yeshua saith,
What sin dothe I commit
or how am I being undone?
When the bridegroom leaves the wedding chamber,
then let the people fast and pray.
(105)
Yeshua saith,
Whoever knows the father and the mother
will be called the child of a whore.
(106)
Yeshua saith,
When you make two into one,
you will become human children.
When you say, “Mountain, move,”
the mountain will move.
(107)
Yeshua saith,
The kingdom is like a shepherd who has
a hundred sheep.
One of them, the largest, goeth astray.
He is leaving the ninety-nine and looking for the one until he dothe find it.
After so much trouble he saith to the sheep,
“I love you more than the ninety-nine.”
(108)
Yeshua saith,
Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me.
I myself shall become that person,
and the hidden things will be revealed to that one.
(109)
Yeshua saith,
The kingdom is like a person who had a treasure hidden in his field.
He dothe not know it, and when he die then, he is leaving it to his son.
The son dothe not know about it.
He taketh over the field and selleth it.
The buyer is plowing and dothe find the treasure,
and beginneth to lend money at interest to whomever he is wishing.
(110)
Yeshua saith,
You who dothe find the world
and become wealthy,
renounce the world.
(111)
Yeshua saith,
The heavens and earth will roll up in your presence
and you who live from the living one will not see death.
Doesn’t Yeshua say this?
Whoever dothe find oneself,
of that person the world is not worthy.
(112)
Yeshua saith,
Shame on the flesh that depends on the soul.
Shame on the soul that depends on the flesh.
(113)
His students saith to him,
When will the kingdom come?
Yeshua saith,
It will not come because you are watching for it.
No one will announce, “Look, here it is,”
or “Look, there it is.”
The father’s kingdom is spread out upon the earth
and people do not see it.
(114)
Shimon Kefa saith to them,
Miryam should leave us.
Females are not worthy of life.
Yeshua saith,
Look, I shall guide her to make her male,
so she too may become a living spirit resembling you males.
For every female who makes herself male
will enter the kingdom.
THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS
33 The hidden discourse of the pronouncement in which Ieshua is speaking with Judas
Iscariot for eight days, three days before he celebrateth Passover.
I. JESUS’ DIALOGUES WITH THE DISCIPLES AND JUDAS
Ieshua’s appearances on earth
When he dothe appear on earth, he is performing signs and great wonders for the salvation of humanity. And as some people are [walking] in the way of righteousness and others are walking in their transgression, twelve disciples are called. He beginneth to speak with them about the mysteries that are above the universe and the things that will happen at the end.
Frequently he does not appear to his disciples, but you find him as a child among them.
Knowing Ieshua
He is coming to his disciples in Judea one day and finding them seated, gathered, and training for piety. When he [is coming upon] his disciples gathering, sitting, and offering thanksgiving over the bread, he is laughing.
The disciples saith to him, “Teacher, why are you laughing at our prayer of thanksgiving? What are we doing? [This] is what’s right.”
He answereth and saith to them, “I’m not laughing at you—you don’t do this by your own will. Rather, by this your god receives praise.”
They said, “Teacher, It is you [ . . . ] the son of our god.”
Ieshua saith to them, “How do [you] know me? Truly I say to you, no race from the people among you will know me.”
When his disciples hear this, they begin to get irritated and angry and to blaspheme against him in their heart. But when Ieshua seeth their foolishness, [he saith] to them, “Why dothe agitation bring anger (to you)? Your god who is within you and [his . . . ] dothe become irritated, along with your souls. Let whoever is [strong] among you people represent the perfect human being and stand before my face.”
And they all saith, “We are strong!” But their spirit dothe not dare to stand before him—except for Judas Iscariot. He is able to stand before him, but he can not look him in the eyes. Instead, he is turning his face away.
Judas saith to him, “I know who you are and where you dothe come from.
You have come from the immortal aeon of the Barbēlō. But as for the one who sent you, I am
not worthy to say his name.”
Ieshua knowing that he is thinking about the rest of the exalted matters as well,
saith to him, “Separate from them, and I will tell you the mysteries of the kingdom, not so that you will go there, but so that you will be much grieved. 36 For someone else will take your place, so that the twelve [elements] might be complete in their god.”
And Judas saith to him, “When will you tell me these things? And (when) will the great day of light dawn for the [ . . . ] race?” But when he is saying this, Ieshua dothe leave him.
The strong and holy race
When morning commeth , he is appearing to his disciples, and they say to him, “Teacher, where did you go? What do you do after you leave us?”
Ieshua saith to them, “I went to another great and holy race.”
His disciples say to him, “Master, what is the great race that is more exalted and holier than we but not now in these aeons?”
When Ieshua heareth these things, he is laughing and saying to them, “Why are you thinking in your heart about the strong and holy race? Truly I say to you, no offspring
[of] this aeon will see that race, nor will any angelic army of the stars rule over that race, nor will any mortal human offspring be able to go with it. For that race does not come from [this aeon] that commeth into being, [ . . . ] the race of the human beings that are among them, but it is from the race of Those Great People. [ . . . ] the powerful authorities that [ . . . ] nor any power [ . . . ] , those by which you rule.”
When his disciples hear these things, they are disturbed in their spirit, each one, and they are at a loss for words.
The disciples’ vision
On another day Ieshua is coming to them, and they say to him, “Teacher, we see you in a vision, for we see great dreams in [this] night that passeth.”
He said, “Why dothe you [ . . . ] hide yourselves?”
For their part, [they saith,“We] see a great house [in which] there is a great altar, twelve men that we say are priests, and a name. A multitude is devoting
themselves to that altar until the priests [finish presenting] the offerings. We too are devoting ourselves.”
Ieshua [saith,] “What kind [ . . . ]?
And they say, “[Some] fast for two weeks; others sacrifice their own children, others their wives, as they bless and are humble to one another; others sleep with males; others work at slaughtering; others perform a multitude of sins and lawless deeds. And the men who stand [beside] the altar invoke your [name]. 39 And because they are engaged in all the labors of their sacrifice, that altar is full.” After they say these things, they fall silent because they are disturbed.
Ieshua saith to them, “Why have you become disturbed? Truly I say to you, all the priests that stand beside that altar invoke my name. And even more, I say to you that they are writing my name upon the [ . . . ] of the races of the stars through the races of the human beings, and in my name they shamefully plant fruitless trees.”
Ieshua saith to them, “It is you who present the sacrifices at that altar that you saw. That is the god you serve, and you are the twelve men whom you see . The cattle that are brought in are the sacrifices that you see , that is, the multitude that you lead astray upon that altar. [The . . . ] will stand; in this way he will use my name; and the races of the pious will devote themselves to him. Next another man will stand in attendance upon [the fornicators], and another will stand in attendance upon the killers of children, and
another upon those who sleep with men, those who fast, and the rest of impurity, lawlessness, and error, and those who say, ‘We are equal to angels.’ And they are the stars that bring everything to completion. For it is being said to the races of the human beings, ‘Look, IAH is receiving your sacrifice from the hands of a priest’—that is, the deacon of error. But it is IAH who is commanding who is master over all things. On the last day they will be put to shame.”
Ieshua saith [to them,] “Stop sacrificing animals, which you are lifting up on the altar. Because they are over your stars and your angels, having previously come to completion there, consider them of no use, and let [ . . . ] be manifest to you.”
His disciples [say, “Master,] purify us of the [ . . . ] that we are doing by the deceit of the angels.”
Ieshua saith,“It is impossible [ . . . ] them [ . . . ] nor can a fountain extinguish the [ . . . ] of the entire inhabited world, nor can a spring in a [city] satisfy all the races, except the great one that is destined. And a single lamp will not illumine all the aeons, except the second generation, nor can a baker feed the entire creation under [heaven].”
And [when the disciples hear these things,] they say to him, “Master, help us, and save us!”
Ieshua saith to them, “Stop contending with me. Each of you has his own star, and [ . . . ] of the stars will [ . . . ] what is his. It is not to the corruptible race that I am sent, but to the strong and incorruptible race. For no enemy can rule [over] that race, nor any of the stars. Truly I say to you (pl.), the fiery pillar will fall suddenly, and that generation will not move [ . . . ] star(s).”
The race that will endure
And when Ieshua dothe say these things, he is leaving and [is taking] Judas Iscariot with him and saith to him, “The water [ . . . ] of the high mountain, that from [ . . . ] [“. . . ] that
has not come [ . . . ] the spring of the tree of [ . . . time] of this aeon [ . . . ] after a time [ . . . ] rather, he dothe come to water the paradise of IAH and the race that will endure, for he will not defile the [conduct] of that race, but [ . . . ] forever.”
Judas saith to him, “Rabbi, what fruit dothe this race possess?”
Ieshua saith, “As for every human race, their souls will die, but as for them, when the time of the kingdom is being completed and the spirit separates from them, their bodies will die, but their souls will live and be taken up.”
Judas saith , “And so what will the remaining race of the human beings do?”
Ieshua saith , “It’s impossible to sow seed on [rock] and get their fruit. So too [ . . . ] the defiled race and corruptible wisdom. [ . . . ] the hand that creates mortal human beings, and their souls go up to the aeons on high. Truly I say to you (pl.), [no ruler] or angel or power will be able to see those [places] that [this great] holy race will see.”
After Ieshua saith these things, he departeth.
Judas’s vision
Judas saith, “Teacher, just as you have listened to all of them, listen now to me as well. For I dothe see a great vision.”
But when Ieshua is hearing , he dothe laugh and say to him, “Why are you training yourself, you thirteenth demon? But speak, and I will put up with you.”
Judas saith to him, “I see myself in the vision, with the twelve disciple stoning me and persecuting [me severely.] And I come also to the place where [ . . . ] after you. I
see [a house . . . ], and my eyes can not [comprehend] its size. Great people surround it, and that house hathe a roof of greenery. And within the house a [multitude . . . ]. Teacher, take me in along with those people.”
[Ieshua] answereth and saith, “Your star dothe lead you astray, Judas, because no mortal human offspring is worthy to enter the house that you see. For it is that place that is kept for the holy ones, the place where neither the sun nor the moon will rule, nor the day, but they will stand at rest always in the aeon with the holy angels. Look, I dothe tell you the mysteries of the kingdom, and I dothe teach you about the error of the stars, and [ . . . ] send [ . . . ] upon the twelve aeons.”
Judas saith, “Teacher, could it be that my seed is subject to the rulers?”
Ieshua answereth , “Come, and I will [ . . . ] you [ . . . ] but you will grieve much when you see the kingdom and its entire race.”
When Judas is hearing these things, he saith, “What advantage dothe I receive because you dothe separate me from that race?”
Ieshua answereth and saith, “You will become the thirteenth, and you will be cursed by the rest of the races, and you will be ruling over them. In the last days they <will . . . > you, so that you might not go on high to the holy race.”
II. JESUS’ REVELATION TO JUDAS
The great and infinite aeon and the great Invisible Spirit
Ieshua saith: “[Come,] and I will teach you about the [ . . . ] that no human being will see. For there exists a great and infinite aeon, the extent of which no angelic race has seen. [In] it is the great Invisible Spirit, which no angelic eye has seen nor inner thought comprehended and which has not been called by any name. And a luminous cloud is appearing there.
The self-originate and his four attendants
“And he (the Invisible Spirit) saith, ‘Let an angel come into being as my attendant.’ And a great angel, the self-originate, the master of light, is coming forth from the cloud. And for his sake four angels are coming into being from another cloud, and they are coming into being for the attendance of the angelic self-originate.
Adamas and additional aeons of light
“And the self-originate is saying , ‘Let [Adamas] come into being.’ And [the
emanation] is coming into being, and he [createth] the first luminary to rule over it. And he saith, ‘Let angels come into being to serve [it].’ And innumerable [myriads] come into being.
“And he saith, ‘[Let] a luminous aeon come into being.’ And it is coming into being, and he createth the second luminary to rule over it, along with innumerable angelic myriads serving.
“And this is how he is creating the rest of the aeons of light, and he is establishing (luminaries) to rule over them, and he is creating innumerable angelic myriads for their service.
The incorruptible race of Seth and the luminaries, heavens, and firmaments
“And Adamas is dwelling in the first cloud of light, which no angel among all those called divine dothe see. And he [ . . . ] that [ . . . ] the image [ . . . ] and according
to the likeness of [these] angel[s]. He is causing the incorruptible [race] of Seth to appear [ . . . ] the twelve [ . . . ] the [ . . . ] By the will of the spirit, he is causing luminaries to appear in the incorruptible race. By the will of the spirit, the 72 luminaries for their part cause 360 luminaries to appear in the incorruptible race, so that their number might be five for each.
“Their parent is the twelve aeons of the twelve luminaries, and for each heaven there are six aeons, so that there might be 72 heavens for the 72 luminaries. And for each 50 [of them] there are [five] firmaments, [so that there might be] 360 [firmaments.] As for them, they are given authority and an innumerable angelic military [greatness] for glory and service, and [also] virgin spirits for glory and service to all the aeons and the heavens and their firmaments.
The corruptible universe: Nebrō and the rulers
“The multitude of those immortals is called ‘universe’—that is, ‘ruin’—by the parent and the 72 luminaries that are with the self-originate and his 72 aeons, the place where the first human being is appearing with his incorruptible powers. And the aeon that appeared with its race, the one in which there is the cloud of acquaintance and the angel,
is called 51 Ēl[ēlēth (?) . . . ]
“Afterwards [ Ēlēlēth (?) ] said, ‘Let twelve angels come into being to rule over
the chaos and [Hades].’ And look, from the cloud there is appearing an angel whose face is pouring forth fire and whose likeness is defiled with blood. He has [a] name, Nebrō,
which is being interpreted as ‘apostate,’ but others say ‘Ialdabaōth.’ And another angel is coming forth from the cloud as well: Saklas. Nebrō is creating six angels with Saklas for
attendance, and these produce twelve angels in the heavens, and each one is receiving a portion in the heavens.
“And the twelve rulers, along with the twelve angels, say, ‘Let each one of you [ . . . ] race [ . . . five] angels.’
The first is Seth, who is called ‘Christ.’ The second is Harmathōth, who [ . . . ]. The third is Galila.
The fourth is Iōbēl.
The fifth is Adōnaios.
These are the five that ruled over Hades and beforehand over chaos.
The origin of human beings
“Next Saklas saith to his angels, ‘Let us create a human being according to the likeness and according to the image’ (Gen. 1:26). Then they form Adam and his wife
Eve. But she is called in the cloud ‘Life’ (Zōē), for it is in this name that all the races seek him, and each one of them is calling her by their names.
“But Saklas dothe not command [ . . . ] produce, except [ . . . ] in the generations [ . . . ] which [ . . . ]
“And the [angel] saith to him, ‘Your life will be for a finite time, along with your children.’”
And Judas saith to Ieshua, “What is the longest that a human being might live?”
Ieshua saith, “Why are you amazed that Adam and his race receive a limited time? It is in this place that he is receiving his kingdom for a limited time with his ruler.”
Judas saith to Ieshua , “Does the human spirit die?”
Ieshua saith, “Thus IAH[?] ordereth Mikhaēl to lend the spirits of the human beings to
them so that they might serve. But the great one commandeth Gabriēl to give the spirits to the great undominated race—the spirit along with the soul. Therefore, the rest of the
souls [ . . . ] mountain [ . . . ] light [ . . . ] seek the spirit within you (pl.), which you are causing to dwell in this flesh among the races of the angels. But IAH [?] causeth
acquaintance to be [given] to Adam and those with him, in order that the kings of chaos and Hades might not rule over them.”
Human beings and their stars
And Judas saith to Ieshua , “What, then, will those races do?”
Ieshua saith, “Truly I say to you (pl.), it is the stars that bring completion upon all these things. When Saklas is completing the time that is being assigned to him, their star will come with the races, and what has being said will be brought to completion. Next, they will fornicate in my name and kill their children, and [ . . . ] the aeons, bringing their races that attend them to Saklas. And next Iamiah will come, bringing the twelve tribes of Iamiah from [ . . . ], and all the races will serve Saklas, [also] sinning in my name, and your (sg.) star will rule over the thirteenth aeon.” But next Ieshua is laughing.
[Judas] saith, “Teacher, why [are you laughing at us?”]
[Ieshua] answereth [and saith] “I am laughing not at you (pl.), but at the error of the stars, because these six stars go astray with these five combatants, and they all will be destroyed with their creations.”
And Judas saith to Ieshua , “What will those who are being baptized in your name do?”
Ieshua saith, “Truly I say [to you (sg.)], this baptism [ . . . in] my name[ . . . ] will destroy the entire race of Adam, the earthly man. Tomorrow the one who bears me
will be tortured. Truly I [say] to you (pl.), no hand of a mortal human being [will] sin against me. Truly [I] say to you, Judas, those who offer sacrifice to Saklas [ . . . ] god [ . . .]
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[ . . . ] everything that is evil. But you will exceed them all, for you will sacrifice the human being who bears me.
Already your horn is being raised, and your anger is being filled, and your star dothe pass by,
and your heart dothe prevail.
“Truly [I say to you,] your [ . . . the thrones] of the aeon are [defeated,] and the kings dothe become weak, and the races of the angels dothe grieved, and the evil
ones [ . . . ] the ruler is destroyed. And next, the [place] of the great race of Adam will be exalted, for prior to heaven, the earth, and the angels, that generation exists through the aeons.
Conclusion of the revelation
“Look, you are being told everything. Look up, and see the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it. And the star that leads the way is your star.”
And Judas looketh up and dothe see the luminous cloud, and he (Ieshua ) is entering it.
Those standing on the ground hear a voice coming from the cloud, saying, [“ . . . the] great race [ . . . ] image [ . . .” ] And Judas no longer dothe see Ieshua .
III. JUDAS HANDS Ieshua OVER
Outside the upper room
And at once there is a disturbance among the Jews, more than [ . . . and] their high priests is grumbling because [ . . . ] dothe go into the guest room for his prayer. But some of the scribes are there watching closely so that they might seize him during the prayer. For they are afraid of the people because they all hold him to be a prophet.
And they approach Judas and say to him, “What are you doing here? You are Ieshua’s disciple.”
For his part, he answereth them as they wish. And Judas take the money and handeth him over to them.
CHAPTER I.
1. The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blesseth the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and unholy are to be removed. 2. And he is taking up his parable and saying –Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes are opened by IAH , seeth the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels show me, and from them I hear everything, and from them I understand as I see , but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come. 3. Concerning the elect I say , and take up my parable concerning them:
The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling,
4. And the eternal IAH will tread upon the earth, even on Mount Sinai,
And appear from His camp
And appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of heavens.
5. And all shall be smitten with fear
And the Watchers shall quake,
And great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of the earth.
6. And the high mountains shall be shaken,
And the high hills shall be made low,
And shall melt like wax before the flame
7. And the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder,
And all that is upon the earth shall perish,
And there shall be a judgement upon all men.
8. But with the righteous He will make peace.
And will protect the elect,
And mercy shall be upon them.
And they shall all belong to IAH,
And they shall be prospered,
And they shall all be blessed.
And He will help them all,
And light shall appear unto them,
And He will make peace with them.
9. And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones
To execute judgement upon all,
And to destroy all the unholy:
And to convict all flesh
Of all the works of their unholiness which they have unholy committed,
And of all the hard things which unholy sinners dothe speak against Him.
CHAPTER II.
- Observe ye everything that takes place in the heaven, how they do not change their orbits, and the luminaries which are in the heavens, how they all rise and set in order each in its season, and transgress not against their appointed order. 2. Behold ye the earth, and give heed to the things which take place upon it from first to last, how steadfast they are, how none of the things upon earth change, but all the works of IAH appear to you. 3. Behold the summer and the winter, how the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew and rain lie upon it.
CHAPTER III.
Observe and see how in the winter all the trees seem as though they are withered and shed all their leaves, except fourteen trees, which do not lose their foliage but retain the old foliage from two to three years till the new comes.
CHAPTER IV.
And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the earth over against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and the earth also burns with growing heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.
CHAPTER V.
- Observe ye how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed and know with regard to all His works,
- and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so.
2. And all His works go on thus from year to year for ever, and all the tasks which they accomplish for Him, and their tasks change not, but according as IAH dothe ordain so is it done.
3. And behold how the sea and the rivers in like manner accomplish and change not their tasks from His commandments.
4. But ye: ye are not being steadfast, nor dothe the commandments of IAH,
But ye do turn away and are speaking proud and hard words
With your impure mouths against His greatness.
Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.
5. Therefore shall ye execrate your days,
And the years of your life shall perish,
And the years of your destruction shall be multiplied in eternal execration,
And ye shall find no mercy.
6a. In those days ye shall make your names an eternal execration unto all the righteous,
b. And by you shall all who curse, curse,
And all the sinners and unholy shall imprecate by you, And for you the unholy there shall be a curse. And all shall rejoice, And there shall be forgiveness of sins, And every mercy and peace and forbearance: There shall be salvation unto them, a goodly light. And for all of you sinners there shall be no salvation, But on you all shall abide a curse. But for the elect there shall be light and joy and peace, And they shall inherit the earth.
8 And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom,
And they shall all live and never again sin,
Either through unholiness or through pride:
But they who are wise shall be humble.
9 And they shall not again transgress,
Nor shall they sin all the days of their life,
Nor shall they die of the divine anger or wrath,
But they shall complete the number of the days of their life.
And their lives shall be increased in peace,
And the years of their joy shall be multiplied,
In eternal gladness and peace,
All the days of their life.
CHAPTER VI.
1. And it is coming to pass when the children of men dothe multiply that in those days are born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. 2. And the angels, the children of the heavens , see and lust after them, and say to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.’ 3. And Semjâzâ, who is their leader, saith unto them: ‘I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.’ 4. And they all answer him and say: ‘Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.’ 5. Then sware they all together and bind themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. 6. And they are in all two hundred; who descend in the day of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they call it Mount Hermon, because they dothe swear and bind themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. 7. And these are the names of their leaders: Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl. 8. These are their chiefs of tens.
CHAPTER VII.
- And all the others together with them take unto themselves wives, and each choose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they teach them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and make them acquainted with plants. 2. And they become pregnant, and they bear great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: 3. Who consume all the acquisitions of men. And when men can no longer sustain them, 4. the giants turn against them and devoured mankind. 5. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood. 6. Then the earth is laying accusation against the lawless ones.
CHAPTER VIII.
1. And Azâzêl is teaching men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and making known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures. 2. And is arising much unholiness, and they are committing fornication, and they are being led astray, and becoming corrupt in all their ways. Semjâzâ is teaching enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl, teacheth astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun, and Sariêl the course of the moon. And as men perish, they cry, and their cry is going up to heaven . . .
CHAPTER IX.
1. And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel look down from heaven and see much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. 2. And they say one to another: ‘The earth made †without inhabitant cries the voice of their crying up to the gates of the heavens . 3 And now to you, the holy ones of the heavens , the souls of men make their suit, saying, “Bring our cause before the Most High.”.’ 4. And they say to the IAH of the ages: ‘ IAH O Holy IAH , IAH O Holy IAH , King of kings, and IAH of the ages, the throne of Thy glory standeth unto all the generations of the ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the ages! 5. Thou dothe make all things, and power over all things hathe Thou: and all things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seeth all things, and nothing can hide itself from Thee. 6. Thou seeth what Azâzêl is dothing, who dothe teach all unrighteousness on earth and is revealing the eternal secrets which are preserved in the heavens , which men are striving to learn: 7. And Semjâzâ, to whom Thou dothe give authority to bear rule over his associates. 8. And they are going to the daughters of men upon the earth, and dothe sleep with the women, and are defiling themselves, and revealing to them all kinds of sins. 9. And the women are bearing giants, and the whole earth is thereby being filled with blood and unrighteousness. 10. And now, behold, the souls of those who die are crying and making their suit to the gates of the heavens, and their lamentations are ascending: and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are being wrought on the earth. 11. And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and
Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.’
CHAPTER X.
1. Then saith the Most High, the Holy and Great One is speaking , and sending Uriel to the son of Lamech, and saying to him: 2. ‘Go to Noah〉 and tell him in my name “Hide thyself!” and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it. 3. And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world.’ 4. And again IAH saith to Raphael: ‘Bind Azâzêl hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dûdâêl, and cast him therein. 5. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he may not see light. 6. And on the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the fire. And heal the earth which the angels dothe corrupt, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers dothe discloseand are teaching their sons. 8. And the whole earth is being corrupted through the works that are taught by Azâzêl: to him ascribe all sin.’ 9. And to Gabriel saith IAH : ‘Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and destroy the children of fornication and the children of the Watchers from amongst men and cause them to go forth: send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in battle: for length of days shall they not have. 10. And no request that they, their fathers, make of thee shall be granted unto their fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal life, and that each one of them will live five hundred years.’ 11. And IAH saith unto Michael: ‘Go, bind Semjâzâ and his associates who dothe unite themselves with women so as to defile themselves with them in all their uncleanness. 12. And when their sons are slaying one another, and they dothe see the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is for ever and ever is consummated. 13. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever. And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all generations. 15. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because they are wronging mankind. Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear: and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore.
17 And then shall all the righteous escape,
And shall live till they beget thousands of children,
And all the days of their youth and their old age Shall they complete in peace.
18 And then shall the whole earth be tilled in righteousness, and shall all be planted with trees and be full of blessing. 19. And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it: and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown thereon each measure of it shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield ten presses of oil. 20. And cleanse thou the earth from all oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all unholiness: and all the uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth destroy from off the earth. 21. And all the children of men shall become righteous, and all nations shall offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me. And the earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will not ever again send them upon it from generation to generation and for ever.
CHAPTER XI.
- And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heavens, so as to send them down upon the earth over the work and labour of the children of men. 2. And truth and peace shall be associated together throughout all the days of the world and throughout all the generations of men.’
CHAPTER XII.
1. Before these things Enoch is hidden, and no one of the children of men know where he is hiding and where he is abiding, and what is becoming of him. 2. And his activities hathe to do with the Watchers, and his days are with the holy ones.
3. And I, Enoch am blessing IAH of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers call me–Enoch the scribe–and say to me: 4. ‘Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who dothe leave the high heavens, the holy eternal places, and dothe defile themselves with women, and are doing as the children of earth do, and are taking unto themselves wives: “Ye have wreaking great destruction on the earth: 5. And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children, 6. The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain.”‘
CHAPTER XIII.
1. And Enoch is going and saying : ‘Azâzêl thou shalt have no peace: a severe sentence is going forth against thee to put thee in bonds: 2. And thou shalt not have toleration nor request granted to thee, because of the unrighteousness which thou dothe teach, and because of all the works of unholiness and unrighteousness and sin which thou art showing to men.’ 3. Then I go and speak to them all together, and they are all afraid, and fear and trembling is seizing them. 4. And they beseech me to draw up a petition for them that they might find forgiveness, and to read their petition in the presence of IAH of the heavens . 5. For from thenceforward they can not speak with Him nor lift up their eyes to the heavens for shame of their sins for which they are being condemned. 6. Then I write out their petition, and the prayer in regard to their spirits and their deeds individually and in regard to their requests that they should have forgiveness and length of days. 7. And I go off and sit down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the south of the west of Hermon: I read their petition till I fall asleep. 8. And behold a dream cometh to me, and visions fall down upon me, and I see visions of chastisement, and a voice is coming, bidding me I to tell it to the sons of the heavens , and reprimand them. 9. And when I awake, I come unto them, and they are all sitting gathered together, weeping in ’Abelsjâîl, which is between Lebanon and Sênêsêr, with their faces covered. 10. And I recount before them all the visions which I dothe see in sleep, and I begin to speak the words of righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly Watchers.
CHAPTER XIV.
1. The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the eternal Watchers in accordance with the command of the Holy Great One in that vision. 2. I see in my sleep what I will now say with a tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which the Great One is giving to men to converse therewith and understand with the heart. 3. As He is creating and giving to man the power of understanding the word of wisdom, so is He creating me also and giving me the power of reprimanding the Watchers, the children of heaven. 4. I write out your petition, and in my vision it appeareth thus, that your petition will not be granted unto you throughout all the days of eternity, and that judgement has been finally passed upon you: yea your petition will not be granted unto you. 5. And from henceforth you shall not ascend into the heavens unto all eternity, and in bonds of the earth the decree is going forth to bind you for all the days of the world. 6. And that previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons and ye shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before you by the sword. 7. And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on your own: even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the writing which I dothe write. 8. And the vision is shown to me thus: Behold, in the vision clouds invite me and a mist summoneth me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings speed and hasten me, and the winds in the vision cause me to fly and lift me upward, and bare me into heaven. 9. And I go in till I draw nigh to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire: and it is beginning to affright me. And I go into the tongues of fire and draw nigh to a large house which is built of crystals: and the walls of the house are like a tesselated floor (made) of crystals, and its groundwork is of crystal. 11. Its ceiling is like the path of the stars and the lightnings, and between them are fiery cherubim, and their heavens are (clear as) water. 12. A flaming fire is surrounding the walls, and its portals blaze with fire. 13. And I enter into that house, and it is hot as fire and cold as ice: there are no delights of life therein: fear is covering me, and trembling gets hold upon me. 14. And as I quake and tremble, I fall upon my face. 15. And I behold a vision, And lo! there is a second house, greater than the former, and the entire portal is standing open before me, and it is built of flames of fire. 16. And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to you its splendour and its extent. 17. And its floor is of fire, and above it are lightnings and the path of the stars, and its ceiling also is flaming fire. 18. And I look and see therein a lofty throne: its appearance is as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there is the vision of cherubim. 19. And from underneath the throne is coming streams of flaming fire so that I cannot not look thereon. 20. And the Great Glory is sitting thereon, and His raiment is shining more brightly than the sun and is whiter than any snow. 21. None of the angels can enter and can behold His face by reason of the magnificence and glory and no flesh can behold Him. 22. The flaming fire is round about Him, and a great fire is standing before Him, and none around can draw nigh Him: ten thousand times ten thousand stand before Him, yet He is needing no counselor. 23. And the most holy ones who are nigh to Him dothe not leave by night nor depart from Him. 24. And until then I am being prostrate on my face, trembling: and IAH calleth me with His own mouth, and saith to me: ‘Come hither, Enoch, and hear my word.’ 25. And one of the holy ones come to me and wake me, and He maketh me rise up and approach the door: and I bow my face downwards.
CHAPTER XV.
1. And He answereth and saith to me, and I hear His voice: ‘Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous man and scribe of righteousness: approach hither and hear my voice. 2. And go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who dothe send thee to intercede for them: “You should intercede” for men, and not men for you: 3. Wherefore have ye leave the high, holy, and eternal heavens, and lay with women, and defile yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and dothe like the children of earth, and begotten giants as your sons? 4. And though ye are aforesaid holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you dothe defile yourselves with the blood of women, and dothe beget children with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, dothe lust after flesh and blood as those also dothe who die and perish. 5. Therefore dothe I give them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth. 6. But you are formerly spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world. 7. And therefore I dothe not appoint wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heavens , in the heavens is their dwelling. 8. And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. 9. Evil spirits dothe proceed from their bodies; because they are born from men, and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. 10. As for the spirits of the heavens , in the heavens shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which are born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling. 11. And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, dothe battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they dothe proceed from them.
CHAPTER XVI.
1. From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, that dothe go forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement–thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great judgement in which the age shall be consummated, over the Watchers and the unholy , yea, shall be wholly consummated.” 2. And now as to the Watchers who dothe send thee to intercede for them, who are being aforetime in the heavens , (say to
them): “You have been in the heavens , but all the mysteries are not yet been revealed to you, and you know worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you dothe make known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth.” 4. Say to them therefore: “You have no peace.”‘
CHAPTER XVII.
- And they take and bring me to a place in which those who are there are like flaming fire, and, when they wish, they appear as men. 2. And they bring me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reaches to the heavens . 3. And I see the places of the luminaries and the treasuries of the stars and of the thunder and in the uttermost depths, where there is a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and all the lightnings. 4. And they take me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west, which receiveth every setting of the sun. 5. And I come to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the great sea towards the west. 6. I see the great rivers and come to the great river and to the great darkness, and it is going to the place where no flesh walks. 7. I see the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place whence all the waters of the deep flow. 8. I see the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.
CHAPTER XVIII
- I see the treasuries of all the winds: I see how He dothe furnish with them the whole creation and the firm foundations of the earth. 2. And I see the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four winds which bear the earth and the firmament of the heavens . 3. And I see how the winds stretch out the vaults of the heavens , and have their station between the heavens and earth: these are the pillars of the heavens . 4. I see the winds of the heavens which turn and bring the circumference of the sun and all the stars to their setting. 5. I see the winds on the earth carrying the clouds: I see the paths of the angels. I see at the end of the earth the firmament of the heavens above. And I proceed and see a place which burns day and night, where there are seven mountains of magnificent stones, three towards the east, and three towards the south. 7. And as for those towards the east, one is of coloured stone, and one of pearl, and one of jacinth, and those towards the south of red stone. 8. But the middle one is reaching to heavens like the throne of IAH , of alabaster, and the summit of the throne is of sapphire. 9. And I see a flaming fire. And beyond these mountains 10. is a region the end of a waste and horrible place. 13. I see there seven stars like great burning mountains, and to me, when I inquire regarding them, 14. The angel saith: ‘This place is the end of the heavens and earth: this has become a prison for the stars and the host of the heavens . 15. And the stars which roll over the fire are they which are transgressing the commandment of IAH in the beginning of their rising, because they dothe not come forth at their appointed times. 16. And He is wroth with them, and is binding them till the time when their guilt shall be consummated even for ten thousand years.’
CHAPTER XIX.
1. And Uriel saith to me: ‘Here shall stand the angels who dothe connect themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods, here shall they stand, till the day of the great judgement in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of. 2. And the women also of the angels who are going astray shall become sirens.’ 3. And I, Enoch, alone see the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have seen.
CHAPTER XX.
- And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. 2. Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus. 3. Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men. 4. Raguel, one of the holy angels who taketh vengeance on the world of the luminaries. 5. Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind and over chaos. 6. Saraqâêl, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit. 7. Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim. 8. Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom IAH setteth over those who rise.
CHAPTER XXI.
1. And I proceed to where things are chaotic. 2. And I see there something horrible: I see neither heavens above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. 3. And there I see seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire. 4. Then I saith : ‘For what sin are they bound, and on what account have they being cast in hither?’ 5. Then saith Uriel, one of the holy angels, who has been with me, and is being chief over them, and saith : ‘Enoch, why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth? 6. These are of the number of the stars of the heavens, which are transgressing the commandment of IAH , and are bound here till ten thousand years, the time entailed by their sins, are consummated.’ 7. And from thence I go to another place, which is still more horrible than the former, and I see a horrible thing: a great fire there which is burning and blazing , and the place is cleft as far as the abyss, being full of great descending columns of fire: neither its extent or magnitude can I see, nor can I conjecture. 8. Then I saith: ‘How fearful is the place and how terrible to look upon!’ 9. Then Uriel answereth me, one of the holy angels who is with me, and saith unto me: ‘Enoch, why dothe thou such fear and affright?’ And I answer: ‘Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain.’ 10. And he saith unto me: ‘This place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.’
CHAPTER XXII.
1. And thence I go to another place, and he is showing me in the west another great and high mountain an] of hard rock. 2. And there are four hollow places in it, deep and very smooth: three of them are dark and one bright; and there is a fountain of water in its midst. And I say: ‘How smooth are these hollow places, and deep and dark to view.’
3. Then Raphael answereth , one of the holy angels who is with me, and saith unto me: ‘These hollow places are being created for this very purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the dead should assemble therein, yea that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here. 4. And these places are being made to receive them till the day of their judgement and till their appointed period till the period appointed, till the great judgement cometh upon them.’ 5. I see the spirit of a dead man making suit, and his voice is going forth to the heavens and making suit. 6. And I ask Raphael the angel who is with me, and I say to him: ‘This spirit which maketh suit, whose is it, whose voice is going forth and making suit to the heavens? 7. And he answered me saying: ‘This is the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of men.’ 8. Then I ask regarding it, and regarding all the hollow places: “Why as one separated from the other?’ 9. And he answereth me and saith unto me: ‘These three are being made that the spirits of the dead might be separated. And such a division is being made for the spirits of the righteous, in which there is as the bright spring of water. 10. And such is being made for sinners when they die and are buried in the earth and judgment is not yet being executed on them in their lifetime. 11. Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain, till the great day of judgement, scourgings, and torments of the accursed for ever, so that there may be retribution for their spirits. There he shall bind them forever. 12. And such a division is being made for the spirits of those who make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their destruction, when they are slain in the days of the sinners. 13. Such is being made for the spirits of men who are not righteous but sinners, who are complete in transgression, and of the transgressors, they shall be companions, but their spirits shall not be punished in the day of judgement nor shall they be raised from thence.’ 14. Then I bless IAH of Glory and say: ‘Blessed art Thou, IAH of righteousness who is ruling over the world for ever.’
CHAPTER XXIII.
- From thence I go to another place to the west of the ends of the earth. 2. And I see a burning fire which is running without resting, and pausing not from its course day or night but runneth regularly. 3. And I ask saying: ‘What is this which resteth not?’ 4. Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who is with me, answereth me and saith unto me: ‘This course of fire which thou dothe see is the fire in the west which is persecuting all the luminaries of heaven.’
CHAPTER XXIV.
- And from thence I go to another place of the earth, and he sheweth me a mountain range of fire which is burning day and night. 2. And I go beyond it and see seven magnificent mountains all differing each from the other, and the stones thereof are magnificent and beautiful, magnificent as a whole, of glorious appearance and fair exterior: three towards the east, one founded on the other, and three towards the south, one upon the other, and deep rough ravines, not one of which joined with any other. 3. And the seventh mountain is in the midst of these, and it excelleth them in height, resembling the seat of a throne: and fragrant trees encircle the throne. 4. And amongst them is a tree such as I have not ever yet smelt, neither is any amongst them nor were others like it: it has a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves and blooms and wood wither not for ever: and its fruit is beautiful, and its fruit resembles the dates of a palm. 5. Then I saith : ‘How beautiful is this tree, and fragrant, and its leaves are fair, and its blooms very delightful in appearance.’ 6. Then answereth Michael, one of the holy and honoured angels who is with me, and is their leader.
CHAPTER XXV.
1. And he saith unto me: ‘Enoch, why dost thou ask me regarding the fragrance of the tree, and why dost thou wish to learn the truth?’ Then I answer him saying: ‘I wish to know about everything, but especially about this tree.’ And he answereth saying: ‘This high mountain which thou dothe see, whose summit is like the throne of IAH, is His throne, where the Holy Great One, IAH of Glory, the Eternal King, will sit, when He shall come down to visit the earth with goodness. 4. And as for this fragrant tree no mortal is permitted to touch it till the great judgement, when He shall take vengeance on all and bring everything to its consummation for ever. It shall then be given to the righteous and holy. 5. Its fruit shall be for food to the elect: it shall be transplanted to the holy place, to the temple of IAH , the Eternal King.
6 Then shall they rejoice with joy and be glad,
And into the holy place shall they enter;
And its fragrance shall be in their bones,
And they shall live a long life on earth,
Such as thy fathers lived:
And in their days shall no sorrow or plague
Or torment or calamity touch them.’
7 Then blessed I IAH of Glory, the Eternal King, who dothe prepare such things for the righteous, and dothe create them and promiseth to give to them.
CHAPTER XXVI.
1. And I go from thence to the middle of the earth, and I see a blessed place in which there are trees with branches abiding and blooming of a dismembered tree. 2. And there I see a holy mountain, and underneath the mountain to the east there is a stream and it is flowing towards the south. 3. And I see towards the east another mountain higher than this, and between them a deep and narrow ravine: in it also is running a stream underneath the mountain. 4. And to the west thereof there is another mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and a ravine deep and dry between them: and another deep and dry ravine is at the extremities of the three mountains. 5. And all the ravines are deep and narrow, being formed of hard rock, and trees are not planted upon them. 6. And I marvel at the rocks, and I marvel at the ravine, yea, I marvel very much.
CHAPTER XXVII.
1. Then saith I: ‘For what object is this blessed land, which is entirely filled with trees, and this accursed valley between?’ 2. Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who is with me, answereth and saith : ‘This accursed valley is for those who are accursed for ever: Here shall all the accursed be gathered together who utter with their lips against IAH unseemly words and of His glory speak hard things. Here they shall be gathered together, and here shall be their place of judgement. 3. In the last times, in the days upon them of the true spectacle of righteous judgement in the presence of the righteous for ever, here shall the merciful and holy bless IAH of Glory, the eternal king.
4. In the days of judgement over the former, they shall bless Him for the mercy in accordance with which He dothe assign them their lot. 5. Then I bless IAH of Glory and set forth His glory and laud Him gloriously.
CHAPTER XXVIII
1. And thence I go towards the east, into the midst of the mountain range of the desert, and I see a wilderness and it is solitary, full of trees and plants. 2. And water gusheth forth from above. 3. Rushing like a copious watercourse which is flowing towards the north-west it causing clouds and dew to ascend on every side.
CHAPTER XXIX.
- And thence I go to another place in the desert, and approach to the east of this mountain range. 2. And there I see aromatic trees exhaling the fragrance of frankincense and myrrh, and the trees also are similar to the almond tree.
CHAPTER XXX.
1 .And beyond these, I go afar to the east, and I see another place, a valley full of water. 2. And therein there is a tree, the colour of fragrant trees such as the mastic. 3. And on the sides of those valleys I see fragrant cinnamon. And beyond these I proceed to the east.
CHAPTER XXXI.
- And I see other mountains, and amongst them are groves of trees, and there flow forth from them nectar, which is named sarara and galbanum. 2. And beyond these mountains I see another mountain to the east of the ends of the earth, whereon are aloe trees, and all the trees were full of starve, being like almond-trees. 3. And when one burneth it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
CHAPTER XXXII.
1. And after these fragrant odours, as I look towards the north over the mountains I see seven mountains full of choice nard and fragrant trees and cinnamon and pepper.
2. And thence I go over the summits of all these mountains, far towards the east of the earth, and pass above the Erythraean sea and go far from it, and pass over the angel Zotîêl. 3. And I come to the garden of Righteousness, and see beyond those trees from afar off many large very great trees more numerous and of goodly fragrance, magnificently beautiful and glorious, and the tree of wisdom and knowledge, whose holy fruit whereof they eat and know great wisdom.
4. That tree is in height like the fir, and its leaves are like those of the Carob tree: and its fruit is like the clusters of the vine, very beautiful: and the fragrance of the tree penetrates afar. 5. Then I saith : ‘How beautiful is the tree, and how attractive is its look!’ 6. Then Raphael the holy angel, who is with me, answereth me and saith : ‘This is the tree of wisdom, of which thy father old in years and thy aged mother, who are before thee, dothe eat, and they learn wisdom and their eyes are opened, and they know that they are naked and they are driven out of the garden.’
CHAPTER XXXIII.
1. And from thence I go to the ends of the earth and see there great beasts, and each differing from the other; and I see birds also differing in appearance and beauty and voice, the one differing from the other. 2. And to the east of those beasts I see the ends of the earth whereon the heavens resteth , and the portals of the heavens open. 3. And I see how the stars of the heavens come forth, and I count the portals out of which they proceed, and write down all their outlets, of each individual star by itself, according to their number and their names, their courses and their positions, and their times and their months, as Uriel the holy angel who is with me showeth me. 4. He showeth all things to me
and is writing them down for me: also their names he is writing for me, and their laws and their companies
.CHAPTER XXXIV.
- And from thence I go towards the north to the ends of the earth, and there I see a great and glorious device at the ends of the whole earth. 2. And here I see three portals of the heavens open in the heavens: through each of them proceed north winds: when they blow there is cold, hail, frost, snow, dew, and rain. 3. And out of one portal they blow for good: but when they blow through the other two portals, it is with violence and affliction on the earth, and they blow with violence.
CHAPTER XXXV.
- And from thence I go towards the west to the ends of the earth, and see there three portals of the heavens open such as I dothe seen in the east, the same number of portals, and the same number of outlets.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
- And from thence I go to the south to the ends of the earth, and see there three open portals of the heavens : and thence there come dew, rain, and wind. 2. And from thence I go to the east to the ends of the heavens , and see here the three eastern portals of the heavens open and small portals above them. 3. Through each of these small portals pass the stars of heaven and run their course to the west on the path which is shown to them. 4. And as often as I see I bless always IAH of Glory, and I continued to bless IAH of Glory who is forming great and glorious wonders, to show the greatness of His work to the angels and to spirits and to men, that they might praise His work and all His creation: that they might see the work of His might and praise the great work of His hands and bless Him for ever.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
- The second vision which he see, the vision of wisdom–which Enoch the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, see. 2. And this is the beginning of the words of wisdom which I lift up my voice to speak and say to those which dwell on earth: Hear, ye men of old time, and see, ye that come after, the words of the Holy One which I will speak before IAH of Spirits. 3. It is better to declare them only to the men of old time, but even from those that come after we will not wmithhold the beginning of wisdom. 4. Till the present day such wisdom is never being given by IAH of Spirits as I am receiving according to my insight, according to the good pleasure of IAH of Spirits by whom the lot of eternal life is being given to me. 5. Now three parables are imparted to me, and I lift up my voice and recount them to those that dwell on the earth.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
1. The First Parable.
When the congregation of the righteous shall appear,
And sinners shall be judged for their sins,
And shall be driven from the face of the earth:
2. And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the righteous,
Whose elect works hang upon IAH of Spirits,
And light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on the earth, Where then will be the dwelling of the sinners,
And where the resting-place of those who dothe deny IAH of Spirits?
It is being good for them if they had not been born.
3. When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the sinners judged,
And the unholy driven from the presence of the righteous and elect,
4. From that time those that possess the earth shall no longer be powerful and exalted:
And they shall not be able to behold the face of the holy,
For IAH of Spirits is causing His light to appear On the face of the holy, righteous, and elect.
5. Then shall the kings and the mighty perish
And be given into the hands of the righteous and holy.
6. And thenceforward none shall seek for themselves mercy from IAH of Spirits
For their life is at an end.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
1. And it shall come to pass in those days that elect and holy children will descend from the high heavens , and their seed will become one with the children of men. 2. And in those days Enoch receiveth books of zeal and wrath, and books of disquiet and expulsion. And mercy shall not be according to them, saith IAH of Spirits.
3. And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth, And set me down at the end of the heavens. 4. And there I see another vision, the dwelling-places of the holy, And the resting-places of the righteous. 5. Here mine eyes see their dwellings with His righteous angels, And their resting-places with the holy. And they petition and intercede and pray for the children of men, And righteousness is flowing before them as water, And mercy like dew upon the earth:
Thus it is amongst them for ever and ever.
6. And in that place mine eyes saw the Elect One of righteousness and of faith, And righteousness shall prevail in his days, 7. And I saw his dwelling-place under the wings of the Lord of Spirits. And the righteous and elect shall be without number before Him for ever and ever. 7. And all the righteous and elect before Him shall be strong as fiery lights,
And their mouth shall be full of blessing, And their lips extol the name of IAH of Spirits,
And righteousness before Him shall never fail,
And uprightness shall never fail before Him 8. There I wish to dwell, And my spirit is longing for that dwelling-place: And there heretofore is being my portion, For so has it is being established concerning me before IAH of Spirits.
9. In those days I praise and extoll the name of IAH of Spirits with blessings and praises, because He dothe destine me for blessing and glory according to the good pleasure of IAH of Spirits. 10. For a long time my eyes regard that place, and I bless Him and praise Him, saying: ‘Blessed is He, and may He be blessed from the beginning and for evermore. 11. And before Him there is no ceasing. He knows before the world is created what is for ever and what will be from generation unto generation. 12. Those who sleep not bless Thee: they stand before Thy glory and bless, praise, and extol, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, is IAH of Spirits: He filleth the earth with spirits.”‘ 13. And here my eyes see all those who sleep not: they stand before Him and bless and say: ‘Blessed be Thou, and blessed be the name of IAH for ever and ever.’ 14. And my face is changed; for I can no longer behold.
CHAPTER XL.
1. And after that I see thousands of thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand, I see a multitude beyond number and reckoning, who stand before IAH of Spirits. 2. And on the four sides of IAH of Spirits I see four presences, different from those that sleep not, and I learn their names: for the angel that is going with me maketh known to me their names, and showeth me all the hidden things.
3. And I hear the voices of those four presences as they uttered praises before IAH of glory. 4. The first voice is blessing IAH of Spirits for ever and ever. 5. And the second voice I hear is blessing the Elect One and the elect ones who hang upon IAH of Spirits. 6. And the third voice I hear pray and intercede for those who dwell on the earth and supplicate in the name of IAH of Spirits. 7. And I hear the fourth voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them to come before IAH of Spirits to accuse them who dwell on the earth. 8. After that I ask the angel of peace who is going with me, who is showing me everything that is hidden: ‘Who are these four presences which I dothe see and whose words I am hearing and writing down?’ 9. And he saith to me: ‘This first is Michael, the merciful and long-suffering: and the second, who is set over all the diseases and all the wounds of the children of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is set over all the powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel.’ And these are the four angels of IAH of Spirits and the four voices I hear in those days
CHAPTER XLI.
1. And after that I see all the secrets of the heavens, and how the kingdom is divided, and how the actions of men are weighed in the balance. 2. And there I see the mansions of the elect and the mansions of the holy, and mine eyes see there all the sinners being driven from thence which deny the name of IAH of Spirits, and being dragged off: and they can not abide because of the punishment which proceeds from the IAH of Spirits. 3. And there mine eyes see the secrets of the lightning and of the thunder, and the secrets of the winds, how they are divided to blow over the earth, and the secrets of the clouds and dew, and there I see from whence they proceed in that place and from whence they saturate the dusty earth. 4. And there I see closed chambers out of which the winds are divided, the chamber of the hail and winds, the chamber of the mist, and of the clouds, and the cloud thereof hovers over the earth from the beginning of the world. 5. And I see the chambers of the sun and moon, whence they proceed and whither they come again, and their glorious return, and how one is superior to the other, and their stately orbit, and how they do not leave their orbit, and they add nothing to their orbit and they take nothing from it, and they keep faith with each other, in accordance with the oath by which they are bound together. 6. And first the sun goes forth and traverses his path according to the commandment of IAH of Spirits, and mighty is His name for ever and ever. 7. And after that I see the hidden and the visible path of the moon, and she accomplishes the course of her path in that place by day and by night–the one holding a position opposite to the other before IAH of Spirits.
And they give thanks and praise and rest not;
For unto them is their thanksgiving rest.
8. For the sun changes oft for a blessing or a curse,
And the course of the path of the moon is light to the righteous
And darkness to the sinners in the name of IAH,
Who maketh a separation between the light and the darkness,
And divideth the spirits of men,
And strengtheneth the spirits of the righteous,
In the name of His righteousness.
9. For no angel hinders and no power is able to hinder; for He appoints a judge for them all and He judges them all before Him.
CHAPTER XLII.
1. Wisdom is finding no place where she might dwell;
Then a dwelling-place is assigned her in the heavens.
2 Wisdom dothe go forth to make her dwelling among the children of men,
And is finding no dwelling-place:
Wisdom returneth to her place,
And taketh her seat among the angels.
3 And unrighteousness is going forth from her chambers:
Whom she is seeking not she is finding ,
And dwelling with them, As rain in a desert
And dew on a thirsty land.
CHAPTER XLIII.
- And I see other lightnings and the stars of the heavens , and I see how He is calling them all by their names and they hearken unto Him. 2. And I see how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light: I saw the width of their spaces and the day of their appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and I see their revolution according to the number of the angels, and how they keep faith with each other. 3. And I ask the angel who is going with me who is showing me what is hidden: ‘What are these?’ 4. And he saith to me: ‘IAH of Spirits is showing thee their parabolic meaning ‘their parable’: these are the names of the holy who dwell on the earth and believe in the name of IAH of Spirits for ever and ever.’
CHAPTER XLIV.
Also another phenomenon I see in regard to the lightnings: how some of the stars arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their new form.
CHAPTER XLV.
1. And this is the Second Parable concerning those who deny the name of the dwelling of the holy ones and IAH of Spirits.
2. And into the heavens they shall not ascend,
And on the earth they shall not come:
Such shall be the lot of the sinners
Who dothe deny the name of IAH of Spirits,
Who are thus preserved for the day of suffering and tribulation. 3. On that day Mine Elect One shall sit on the throne of glory
And shall try their works,
And their places of rest shall be innumerable.
And their souls shall grow strong within them when they see Mine Elect Ones,
And those who dothe call upon My glorious name:
4. Then will I cause Mine Elect One to dwell among them.
And I will transform the heavens and make them an eternal blessing and light
5. And I will transform the earth and make it a blessing:
And I will cause Mine elect ones to dwell upon it:
But the sinners and evil-doers shall not set foot thereon.
6. For I dothe provide and satisfy with peace My righteous ones
And dothe cause them to dwell before Me:
But for the sinners there is judgement impending with Me,
So that I shall destroy them from the face of the earth.
CHAPTER XLVI.
1. And there I see One who has a head of days,
And His head is white like wool,
And with Him is another being whose countenance has the appearance of a man,
And his face is full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.
2. And I ask the angel who is going with me and showing me all the hidden things, concerning that Son of Man, who he is , and whence he is, and why he is going with the Head of Days? And he answereth and saith unto me:
This is the son of Man who hath righteousness,
With whom dwelleth righteousness,
And who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden,
Because IAH of Spirits doo choose him,
And whose lot hath the pre-eminence before IAH of Spirits in uprightness for ever.
4, And this Son of Man whom thou dothe see
Shall raise up the kings and the mighty from their seats, And the strong from their thrones And shall loosen the reins of the strong,
And break the teeth of the sinners.
5. And he shall put down the kings from their thrones and kingdoms Because they do not extol and praise Him,
Nor humbly acknowledge whence the kingdom is bestowed upon them.
6. And he shall put down the countenance of the strong,
And shall fill them with shame.
And darkness shall be their dwelling,
And worms shall be their bed,
And they shall have no hope of rising from their beds,
Because they do not extol the name of IAH of Spirits.
7. And these are they who judge the stars of the heavens, And raise their hands against the Most High, And tread upon the earth and dwell upon it. And all their deeds manifest unrighteousness, And their power rests upon their riches, And their faith is in the gods which they dothe make with their hands,
And they deny the name of IAH of Spirits,
8. And they persecute the houses of His congregations,
And the faithful who hang upon the name of IAH of Spirits.
CHAPTER XLVII.
1. And in those days shall ascend the prayer of the righteous,
And the blood of the righteous from the earth before IAH of Spirits.
2. In those days the holy ones who dwell above in the heavens
Shall unite with one voice
And supplicate and pray and praise,
And give thanks and bless the name of IAH of Spirits On behalf of the blood of the righteous which has been shed,
And that the prayer of the righteous may not be in vain before IAH of Spirits,
That judgement may be done unto them,
And that they may not have to suffer for ever.
3. In those days I see the Head of Days when He is seating himself upon the throne of His glory,
And the books of the living are opened before Him:
And all His host which is in the heavens above and His counselors stand before Him,
4 And the hearts of the holy are filled with joy;
Because the number of the righteous is being offered, And the prayer of the righteous is being heard, And the blood of the righteous is being required before IAH of Spirits.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
1. And in that place I see the fountain of righteousness
Which is inexhaustible:
And around it are many fountains of wisdom;
And all the thirsty drink of them,
And are filled with wisdom,
And their dwellings are with the righteous and holy and elect.
2. And at that hour that Son of Man is named In the presence of IAH of Spirits,
And his name before the Head of Days.
3. Yea, before the sun and the signs are created,
Before the stars of the heavens are made,
His name is named before IAH of Spirits.
4. He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay themselves and not fall,
And he shall be the light of the Gentiles,
And the hope of those who are troubled of heart.
5. All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before him,
And will praise and bless and celebrate with song IAH of Spirits.
6. And for this reason is he being chosen and hidden before Him,
Before the creation of the world and for evermore.
7. And the wisdom of IAH of Spirits dothe reveal him to the holy and righteous;
For he is preserving the lot of the righteous,
Because they dothe hate and despise this world of unrighteousness,
And dothe hate all its works and ways in the name of IAH of Spirits: For in his name they are saved,
And according to his good pleasure it is being in regard to their life.
8. In these days downcast in countenance shall the kings of the earth become, And the strong who possess the land because of the works of their hands;
For on the day of their anguish and affliction they shall not be able to save themselves.
9. And I will give them over into the hands of Mine elect:
As straw in the fire so shall they burn before the face of the holy:
As lead in the water shall they sink before the face of the righteous,
And no trace of them shall any more be found.
10. And on the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the earth,
And before them they shall fall and not rise again:
And there shall be no one to take them with his hands and raise them:
For they dothe deny IAH of Spirits and His Anointed.
The name of IAH of Spirits be blessed.
CHAPTER XLIX.
l. For wisdom is poured out like water,
And glory faileth not before him for evermore.
2. For he is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness,
And unrighteousness shall disappear as a shadow,
And have no continuance;
Because the Elect One standeth before IAH of Spirits,
And his glory is for ever and ever,
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3. And in him dwelleth the spirit of wisdom,
And the spirit which gives insight,
And the spirit of understanding and of might,
And the spirit of those who dothe fall asleep in righteousness.
4. And he shall judge the secret things,
And none shall be able to utter a lying word before him;
For he is the Elect One before IAH of Spirits according to His good pleasure.
CHAPTER L.
1. And in those days a change shall take place for the holy and elect,
And the light of days shall abide upon them,
And glory and honour shall turn to the holy,
2. On the day of affliction on which evil are being treasured up against the sinners.
And the righteous shall be victorious in the name of IAH of Spirits:
And He will cause the others to witness this That they may repent
And forgo the works of their hands.
3. They shall have no honour through the name of IAH of Spirits,
Yet through His name shall they be saved,
And IAH of Spirits will have compassion on them,
For His compassion is great.
4. And He is righteous also in His judgement,
And in the presence of His glory unrighteousness also shall not maintain itself:
At His judgement the unrepentant shall perish before Him.
5. And from henceforth I will have no mercy on them, saith IAH is the of Spirits.
CHAPTER LI.
1. And in those days shall the earth also give back that which has been entrusted to it,
And Sheol also shall give back that which it has received,
And hell shall give back that which it owes.,
2. And he shall choose the righteous and holy from among them:
For the day is drawn nigh that they should be saved.
3. And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne,
And his mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and counsel:
For IAH of Spirits is giving them to him and is glorifying him.
4. And in those days shall the mountains leap like rams,
And the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk,
And the faces of all the angels in the heavens shall be lighting up with joy.
For in those days the Elect One shall arise
And the earth shall rejoice,
And the righteous shall dwell upon it,
And the elect shall walk thereon.
CHAPTER LII.
l. And after those days in that place where I am seeing all the visions of that which is hidden–for I am being carried off in a whirlwind and they are bearing me towards the west– 2. There mine eyes see all the secret things of the heavens that shall be, a mountain of iron, and a mountain of copper, and a
mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft metal, and a mountain of lead.
3. And I ask the angel who is going with me, saying, ‘What things are these which I am seeing in secret?’ 4. And he saith unto me: ‘All these things which thou dothe see shall serve the dominion of His Anointed that he may be potent and mighty on the earth.’
5. And that angel of peace answereth , saying unto me: ‘Wait a little, and there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things which surround IAH of Spirits.
6. And these mountains which thine eyes have seen,
The mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver,
And the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the mountain of lead,
All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One
As wax: before the fire,
And like the water which streams down from above upon those mountains, And they shall become powerless before his feet.
7. And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved,
Either by gold or by silver,
And none be able to escape.
8 And there shall be no iron for war,
Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate.
Bronze shall be of no service,
And tin shall be of no service and shall not be esteemed,
And lead shall not be desired.
9 And all these things shall be denied and destroyed from the surface of the earth,
When the Elect One shall appear before the face of IAH of Spirits.’
CHAPTER LIII.
1. There mine eyes see a deep valley with open mouths, and all who dwell on the earth and sea and islands shall bring to him gifts and presents and tokens of homage, but that deep valley shall not become full.
2. And their hands commit lawless deeds,
And the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly oppress:
Yet the sinners shall be destroyed before the face of IAH of Spirits,
And they shall be banished from off the face of His earth, And they shall perish for ever and ever.
3. For I see all the angels of punishment abiding there and preparing all the instruments of Satan. 4. And I ask the angel of peace who is going with me: ‘For whom are they preparing these instruments?’ 5. And he saith unto me: ‘They prepare these for the kings and the mighty of this earth, that they may thereby be destroyed.
6. And after this the Righteous and Elect One shall cause the house of his congregation to appear: henceforth they shall be no more hindered in the name of IAH of Spirits.
7. And these mountains shall not stand as the earth before his righteousness,
But the hills shall be as a fountain of water,
And the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of sinners.’
CHAPTER LIV.
1 And I look and turn to another part of the earth, and see there a deep valley with burning fire. 2. And they bring the kings and the mighty, and begin to cast them into this deep valley. 3. And there mine eyes see how they make these their instruments, iron chains of immeasurable weight. 4. And I ask the angel of peace who is going with me, saying: ‘For whom are these chains being prepared?’
5. And he saith unto me: ‘These are being prepared for the hosts of Azâzêl, so that they may take them and cast them into the abyss of complete condemnation, and they shall cover their jaws with rough stones as IAH of Spirits commandeth.
6. And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of them on that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace, that IAH of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading astray those who dwell on the earth.’
7. ‘And in those days shall punishment come from IAH of Spirits, and he will open all the chambers of waters which are above the heavens, and of the fountains which are beneath the earth. 8. And all the waters shall be joined with the waters: that which is above the heavens is the masculine, and the water which is beneath the earth is the feminine. 9. And they shall destroy all who dwell on the earth and those who dwell under the ends of the heavens . 10. And when they are recognizing their unrighteousness which they are forming on the earth, then by these shall they perish.
CHAPTER LV.
1. And after that the Head of Days repenteth and saith : ‘In vain dothe I destroy all who dwell on the earth.’ 2. And He is swearing by His great name: ‘Henceforth I will not do so to all who dwell on the earth, and I will set a sign in the heavens : and this shall be a pledge of good faith between Me and them for ever, so long as the heavens are above the earth. And this is in accordance with My command.’
3. When I dothe desire to take hold of them by the hand of the angels on the day of tribulation and pain because of this, I will cause My chastisement and My wrath to abide upon them, saith IAH , IAH of Spirits. 4. Ye †mighty kings† who dwell on the earth, ye shall have to behold Mine Elect One, how he sitteth on the throne of glory and is judging Azâzêl, and all his associates, and all his hosts in the name of IAH of Spirits.’
CHAPTER LVI.
1. And I see there the hosts of the angels of punishment going, and they hold scourges and chains of iron and bronze. 2. And I ask the angel of peace who is going with me, saying: ‘To whom are these who hold the scourges going?’ 3. And he saith unto me: ‘To their elect and beloved ones, that they may be cast into the chasm of the abyss of the valley.
4. And then that valley shall be filled with their elect and beloved,
And the days of their lives shall be at an end,
And the days of their leading astray shall not thenceforward be reckoned.
5. And in those days the angels shall return
And hurl themselves to the east upon the Parthians and Medes:
They shall stir up the kings, so that a spirit of unrest shall come upon them,
And they shall rouse them from their thrones,
That they may break forth as lions from their lairs,
And as hungry wolves among their flocks.
6. And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His elect ones, And the land of His elect ones shall be before them a threshing-floor and a highway:
7 But the city of my righteous shall be a hindrance to their horses.
And they shall begin to fight among themselves,
And their right hand shall be strong against themselves,
And a man shall not know his brother,
Nor a son his father or his mother,
Till there be no number of the corpses through their slaughter,
And their punishment be not in vain.
8 In those days Sheol shall open its jaws,
And they shall be swallowed up therein
And their destruction shall be at an end;
Sheol shall devour the sinners in the presence of the elect.’
CHAPTER LVII.
- And it cometh to pass after this that I see another host of wagons, and men riding thereon, and coming on the winds from the east, and from the west to the south. 2. And the noise of their wagons is heard, and when this turmoil is taking place the holy ones from the heavens remark it, and the pillars of the earth are moved from their place, and the sound thereof is heard from the one end of the heavens to the other, in one day. 3. And they shall all fall down and worship IAH of Spirits. And this is the end of the second Parable.
CHAPTER LVIII.
1. And I begin to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and elect.
2. Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect,
For glorious shall be your lot.
3. And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun.
And the elect in the light of eternal life:
The days of their life shall be unending,
And the days of the holy without number.
4. And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with IAH of Spirits:
There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal IAH.
5. And after this it shall be said to the holy in the heavens That they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of faith:
For it has become bright as the sun upon earth,
And the darkness is past.
6. And there shall be a light that never endeth,
And to a limit of number of days they shall not come,
For the darkness shall first be destroyed, And the light established before IAH of Spirits,
And the light of uprightness established for ever before IAH of Spirits.
CHAPTER LIX.
1. In those days mine eyes see the secrets of the lightnings, and of the lights, and the judgements they executing their judgement: and they lighten for a blessing or a curse as IAH of Spirits willeth. 2. And there I see the secrets of the thunder, and how when it resounds above in the heavens , the sound thereof is heard, and he is causing me to see the judgements executed on the earth, whether they be for well-being and blessing, or for a curse according to the word of IAH of Spirits. 3. And after that all the secrets of the lights and lightnings are shown to me, and they lighten for blessing and for satisfying.
CHAPTER LX.
1. In the year five hundred, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the life of Enoch. In that Parable I see how a mighty quaking made the heavens of heavens to quake, and the host of the Most High, and the angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand, are disquieted with a great disquiet. 2. And the Head of Days sat on the throne of His glory, and the angels and the righteous stand around Him.
3. And a great trembling is seizing me,
And fear is taking hold of me,
And my loins give way,
And dissolved are my reins,
And I fall upon my face.
4 And Michael sendeth another angel from among the holy ones and he is raising me up, and when he dothe raise me up my spirit returneth; for I have not been able to endure the look of this host, and the commotion and the quaking of the heavens. And Michael saith unto me: ‘Why art thou disquieted with such a vision? Until this day is lasting the day of His mercy; and He is being merciful and long-suffering towards those who dwell on the earth. 6. And when the day, and the power, and the punishment, and the judgement come, which IAH of Spirits dothe prepare for those who worship not the righteous law, and for those who deny the righteous judgement, and for those who take His name in vain–that day is prepared, for the elect a covenant, but for sinners an inquisition.
25. When the punishment of IAH of Spirits shall rest upon them, it shall rest in order that the punishment of IAH of Spirits may not come, in vain, and it shall slay the children with their mothers and the children with their fathers. Afterwards the judgement shall take place according to His mercy and His patience.’
7. And on that day are two monsters parted, a female monster named Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the waters. 8. But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named Dûidâin, on the east of the garden where the elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather is taken up, the seventh from Adam, the first man whom IAH of Spirits createth . 9. And I beseech the other angel that he should show me the might of those monsters, how they are parting on one day and cast, the one into the abysses of the sea, and the other unto the dry land of the wilderness. 10. And he saith to me: ‘Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to know what is hidden.’
11. And the other angel who is going with me and showing me what is hidden telleth me what is first and last in the heavens in the height, and beneath the earth in the depth, and at the ends of the heavens, and on the foundation of the heavens. 12. And the chambers of the winds, and how the winds are divided, and how they are weighed, and how the portals of the winds are reckoned, each according to the power of the wind, and the power of the lights of the moon, and according to the power that is fitting: and the divisions of the stars according to their names, and how all the divisions are divided. 13. And the thunders according to the places where they fall, and all the divisions that are made among the lightnings that it may lighten, and their host that they may at once obey. 14. For the thunder has places of rest which are assigned to it while it is waiting for its peal; and the thunder and lightning are inseparable, and although not one and undivided, they both go together through the spirit and separate not. 15. For when the lightning lightens, the thunder utters its voice, and the spirit enforces a pause during the peal, and divides equally between them; for the treasury of their peals is like the sand, and each one of them as it peals is held in with a bridle, and is turning back by the power of the spirit, and pushing forward according to the many quarters of the earth. And the spirit of the sea is masculine and strong, and according to the might of his strength he draweth it back with a rein, and in like manner it is driven forward and disperseth amid all the mountains of the earth. 17. And the spirit of the hoar-frost is his own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a good angel. 18. And the spirit of the snow does forsake his chambers on account of his strength–There is a special spirit therein, and that which ascends from it is like smoke, and its name is frost. 19. And the spirit of the mist is not uniting with them in their chambers, but it has a special chamber; for its course is glorious both in light and in darkness, and in winter and in summer, and in its chamber is an angel. 20. And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the heavens, and is connected with the chambers of the rain, and its course is in winter and summer: and its clouds and the clouds of the mist are connected, and the one gives to the other. 21. And when the spirit of the rain goes forth from its chamber, the angels come and open the chamber and lead it out, and when it is diffused over the whole earth it unites with the water on the earth. And whensoever it unites with the water on the earth. 22. For the waters are for those who dwell on the earth; for they are nourishment for the earth from the Most High who is in the heavens: therefore there is a measure for the rain, and the angels take it in charge. 23. And these things I see towards the Garden of the Righteous. 24. And the angel of peace who is with me saith to me: ‘These two monsters, prepared conformably to the greatness of IAH , shall feed . . .
CHAPTER LXI.
1. And I see in those days how long cords are given to those angels, and they take to themselves wings and fly, and they go towards the north.
2. And I ask the angel, saying unto him: ‘Why dothe those angels take these cords and go off?’ And he saith unto me: ‘They are going to measure.’
3. And the angel who is going with me saith unto me:
‘These shall bring the measures of the righteous,
And the ropes of the righteous to the righteous,
That they may stay themselves on the name of IAH of Spirits for ever and ever.
4. The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect,
And those are the measures which shall be given to faith
And which shall strengthen righteousness.
5. And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the earth,
And those who have been destroyed by the desert,
And those who have been devoured by the beasts,
And those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea,
That they may return and stay themselves
On the day of the Elect One;
For none shall be destroyed before IAH of Spirits,
And none can be destroyed.
6. And all who dwell above in the heavens receiveth – a command and power and one voice and one light like unto fire.
7. And that One with their first words they bless,
And extol and laud with wisdom,
And they are wise in utterance and in the spirit of life.
8. And IAH of Spirits placeth the Elect one on the throne of glory.
And he shall judge all the works of the holy above in the heavens,
And in the balance shall their deeds be weighed
9. And when he shall lift up his countenance
To judge their secret ways according to the word of the name of IAH of Spirits,
And their path according to the way of the righteous judgement of IAH of Spirits,
Then shall they all with one voice speak and bless,
And glorify and extol and sanctify the name of IAH of Spirits.
10. And He will summon all the host of the heavens, and all the holy ones above, and the host of IAH, the Cherubic, Seraphin and Ophannin, and all the angels of power, and all the angels of principalities, and the Elect One, and the other powers on the earth and over the water. 11. On that day shall raise one voice, and bless and glorify and exalt in the spirit of faith, and in the spirit of wisdom, and in the spirit of patience, and in the spirit of mercy, and in the spirit of judgement and of peace, and in the spirit of goodness, and shall all say with one voice: “Blessed is He, and may the name of IAH of Spirits be blessed for ever and ever.”
12. All who sleep not above in the heavens shall bless Him:
All the holy ones who are in the heavens shall bless Him,
And all the elect who dwell in the garden of life:
And every spirit of light who is able to bless, and glorify, and extol, and hallow Thy blessed name,
And all flesh shall beyond measure glorify and bless Thy name for ever and ever.
13. For great is the mercy of IAH of Spirits, and He is long-suffering,
And all His works and all that He is creating He dothe reveal to the righteous and elect
In the name of IAH of Spirits.
CHAPTER LXII.
1. And thus IAH is commanding the kings and the mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, and saying: ‘Open your eyes and lift up your horns if ye are able to recognize the Elect One.’
2. And IAH of Spirits is seating him on the throne of His glory,
And the spirit of righteousness is pouring out upon him,
And the word of his mouth slays all the sinners,
And all the unrighteous are destroyed from before his face.
3. And there shall stand up in that day all the kings and the mighty,
And the exalted and those who hold the earth,
And they shall see and recognize How he sits on the throne of his glory,
And righteousness is judged before him,
And no lying word is spoken before him.
4. Then shall pain come upon them as on a woman in travail,
And she has pain in bringing forth
When her child enters the mouth of the womb,
And she has pain in bringing forth.
5. And one portion of them shall look on the other,
And they shall be terrified,
And they shall be downcast of countenance,
And pain shall seize them,
When they see that Son of Man Sitting on the throne of his glory.
6. And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the earth shall bless and glorify and extol him who rules over all, who is hidden.
7. For from the beginning the Son of Man is hidden,
And the Most High preserveth him in the presence of His might,
And revealeth him to the elect.
8. And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown,
And all the elect shall stand before him on that day.
9. And all the kings and the mighty and the exalted and those who rule the earth
Shall fall down before him on their faces,
And worship and set their hope upon that Son of Man,
And petition him and supplicate for mercy at his hands.
10. Nevertheless IAH of Spirits will so press them
That they shall hastily go forth from His presence,
And their faces shall be filled with shame,
And the darkness grow deeper on their faces.
11. And He will deliver them to the angels for punishment,
To execute vengeance on them because they have oppressed His children and His elect
12. And they shall be a spectacle for the righteous and for His elect:
They shall rejoice over them,
Because the wrath of IAH of Spirits resteth upon them,
And His sword is drunk with their blood.
13. And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day,
And they shall not ever thenceforward see the face of the sinners and unrighteous.
14. And IAH of Spirits will abide over them,
And with that Son of Man shall they eat
And lie down and rise up for ever and ever.
15. And the righteous and elect shall rise from the earth,
And cease to be of downcast countenance.
And they shall be clothed with garments of glory,
16. And these shall be the garments of life from IAH of Spirits:
And your garments shall not grow old,
Nor your glory pass away before IAH of Spirits.
CHAPTER LXIII.
1. In those days shall the mighty and the kings who possess the earth implore Him to grant them a little respite from His angels of punishment to whom they are delivered, that they might fall down and worship before IAH of Spirits, and confess their sins before Him. 2. And they shall bless and glorify IAH of Spirits, and say:
‘Blessed is IAH of Spirits and IAH of kings,
And IAH of the mighty and IAH of the rich,
And IAH of glory and IAH of wisdom,
3. And splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from generation to generation,
And Thy glory for ever and ever:
Deep are all Thy secrets and innumerable,
And Thy righteousness is beyond reckoning.
4. We dothe now learn that we should glorify
And bless IAH of kings and Him who is king over all kings.’
5. And they shall say:
‘Would that we have rest to glorify and give thanks
And confess our faith before His glory!
6. And now we long for a little rest but find it not:
We follow hard upon and obtain it not:
And light is vanished from before us,
And darkness is our dwelling-place for ever and ever:
7. For we dothe not believe before Him
Nor glorify the name of IAH of Spirits, nor glorify our IAH.
But our hope is in the sceptre of our kingdom,
And in our glory.
8. And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saveth us not,
And we find no respite for confession
That IAH is true in all His works, and in His judgements and His justice,
And His judgements have no respect of persons.
9. And we pass away from before His face on account of our works,
And all our sins are reckoned up in righteousness.’
10. Now they shall say unto themselves: ‘Our souls are full of unrighteous gain, but it does not prevent us from descending from the midst thereof into the burden of Sheol.’
11. And after that their faces shall be filled with darkness
And shame before that Son of Man,
And they shall be driven from his presence,
And the sword shall abide before his face in their midst.
12. Thus spake IAH of Spirits: ‘This is the ordinance and judgement with respect to the mighty and the kings and the exalted and those who possess the earth before IAH AS of Spirits.’
CHAPTER LXIV.
- And other forms I see hidden in that place. 2. I hear the voice of the angel saying: ‘These are the angels who descend to the earth, and reveal what is hidden to the children of men and seduce the children of men into committing sin.’
CHAPTER LXV.
1. And in those days Noah seeth the earth that it is sunk down and its destruction is nigh. 2. And he ariseth from thence and goeth to the ends of the earth, and cryeth aloud to his grandfather Enoch: and Noah saith three times with an embittered voice: Hear me, hear me, hear me.’ 3. And I say unto him: ‘Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth that the earth is in such evil plight and shaken, lest perchance I shall perish with it?’ 4. And thereupon there is a great commotion, on the earth, and a voice is heard from the heavens , and I fall on my face. 5. And Enoch my grandfather cometh and is standing by me, and saying unto me: ‘Why dothe thou cry unto me with a bitter cry and weeping?
6. And a command dothe go forth from the presence of IAH concerning those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because they dothe learn all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their powers–the most secret ones–and all the power of those who practice sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images for the whole earth: 7. And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal originates in the earth. 8. For lead and tin are not produced from the earth like the first: it is a fountain that produces them, and an angel stands therein, and that
angel is pre-eminent.’ 9. And after that my grandfather Enoch taketh hold of me by my hand and is raising me up, and saith unto me: ‘Go, for I dothe ask IAH of Spirits as touching this commotion on the earth. 10. And He saith unto me: “Because of their unrighteousness their judgement is being determined upon and shall not be withheld by Me for ever. Because of the sorcereries which they dothe searched out and learn, the earth and those who dwell upon it shall be destroyed.” 11. And these–they have no place of repentance for ever, because they are showing them what is hidden, and they are the damned: but as for thee, my son, IAH of Spirits knows that thou art pure, and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets.
12. And He dothe destin thy name to be among the holy,
And will preserve thee amongst those who dwell on the earth,
And dothe destine thy righteous seed both for kingship and for great honours,
And from thy seed shall proceed a fountain of the righteous and holy without number for ever.
CHAPTER LXVI.
- And after that he is showing me the angels of punishment who are prepared to come and let loose all the powers of the waters which are beneath in the earth in order to bring judgement and destruction on all who abide and dwell on the earth. 2. And IAH of Spirits is giving commandment to the angels who are going forth, that they should not cause the waters to rise but should hold them in check; for those angels are over the powers of the waters. 3. And I go away from the presence of Enoch.
CHAPTER LXVII.
1. And in those days the word of IAH is coming unto me, and He saith unto me: ‘Noah, thy lot is coming up before Me, a lot without blame, a lot of love and uprightness. 2. And now the angels are making a wooden building, and when they are completing that task I will place My hand upon it and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of life, and a change shall set in so that the earth will not remain without inhabitant. 3. And I will make fast thy seed before me for ever and ever, and I will spread abroad those who dwell with thee: it shall not be unfruitful on the face of the earth, but it shall be blessed and multiply on the earth in the name of IAH .’
4. And He will imprison those angels, who are showing unrighteousness, in that burning valley which my grandfather Enoch dothe formerly show to me in the west among the mountains of gold and silver and iron and soft metal and tin. 5. And I see that valley in which there is a great convulsion and a convulsion of the waters. 6. And when all this is taking place, from that fiery molten metal and from the convulsion thereof in that place, there is produced a smell of sulphur, and it is connected with those waters, and that valley of the angels who dothe lead astray mankind burning beneath that land. 7. And through its valleys proceed streams of fire, where these angels are punished who dothe lead astray those who dwell upon the earth.
8. But those waters shall in those days serve for the kings and the mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, for the healing of the body, but for the punishment of the spirit; now their spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their body, for they dothe deny IAH of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and yet believe not in His name. 9. And in proportion as the burning of their bodies becomes severe, a corresponding change shall take place in their spirit for ever and ever; for before IAH of Spirits none shall utter an idle word. 10. For the judgement shall come upon them, because they believe in the lust of their body and deny IAH of IAH. 11. And those same waters will undergo a change in those days; for when those angels are punished in these waters, these water-springs shall change their temperature, and when the angels ascend, this water of the springs shall change and become cold. 12. And I hear Michael answering and saying: ‘This judgement wherewith the angels are judged is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who possess the earth.’ 13. Because these waters of judgement minister to the healing of the body of the kings and the lust of their body; therefore they will not see and will not believe that those waters will change and become a fire which burns for ever.
CHAPTER LXVIII.
1. And after that my grandfather Enoch is giving me the teaching of all the secrets in the book in the Parables which are being given to him, and he put them together for me in the words of the book of the Parables. 2. And on that day Michael answereth Raphael and saith : ‘The power of the spirit transports and makes me to tremble because of the severity of the judgement of the secrets, the judgement of the angels: who can endure the severe judgement which is being executed, and before which they melt away?’ 3. And Michael answereth again, and saith to Raphael: ‘Who is he whose heart is not softened concerning it, and whose reins are not troubled by this word of judgement that is going forth upon them because of those who dothe thus lead them out?’ 4. And it cometh to pass when he is standing before IAH of Spirits, Michael saith thus to Raphael: ‘I will not take their part under the eye of IAH ; for IAH of Spirits is being angry with them because they do as if they are IAH . Therefore all that is hidden shall come upon them for ever and ever; for neither angel nor man shall have his portion in it, but alone they dothe receive their judgement for ever and ever.’
CHAPTER LXIX.
1 And after this judgement they shall terrify and make them to tremble because they dothe show this to those who dwell on the earth.
2 And behold the names of those angels and these are their names: the first of them is Samjâzâ, the second Artâqîfâ, and the third Armên, the fourth Kôkabêl, the fifth Tûrâêl, the sixth Rûmjâl, the seventh Dânjâl, the eighth Nêqâêl, the ninth Barâqêl, the tenth Azâzêl, the eleventh Armârôs, the twelfth Batarjâl, the thirteenth Busasêjal, the fourteenth Hanânêl, the fifteenth Tûrêl, and the sixteenth Sîmâpêsîêl, the seventeenth Jetrêl, the eighteenth Tûmâêl, the nineteenth Tûrêl, the twentieth Rumâêl, the twenty-first Azâzêl. 3. And these are the chiefs of their angels and their names, and their chief ones over hundreds and over fifties and over tens.
4. The name of the first Jeqôn: that is, the one who is leading astray all the sons of IAH, and bringing them down to the earth, and leading them astray through the daughters of men. 5. And the second is named Asbeêl: he imparteth the holy sons of IAH evil counsel, and leading them astray so that they defile their bodies with the daughters of men. 6. And the third is named Gâdreêl: he it is who sheweth the children of men all the blows of death, and he leadeth astray Eve, and sheweth the weapons of death to the sons of men the shield and the coat of mail, and the sword for battle, and all the weapons of death to the children of men. 7. And from his hand they dothe proceed against those who dwell on the earth from that day and for evermore. 8. And the fourth is named Pênêmûe: he teacheth the children of men the bitter and the sweet, and he teacheth them all the secrets of their wisdom. 9. And he instructeth mankind in writing with ink and paper, and thereby many sin from eternity to eternity and until this day. 10. For men are not created for such a purpose, to give confirmation to their good faith with pen and ink. 11. For men are created exactly like the angels, to the intent that they should continue pure and righteous, and death, which destroys everything, could not take hold of them, but through this their knowledge they are perishing, and through this power it is consuming me. 12. And the fifth was named Kâsdejâ: this is he who sheweth the children of men all the wicked smitings of spirits and demons, and the smitings of the embryo in the womb, that it may pass away, and the smitings of the soul the bites of the serpent, and the smitings which befall through the noontide heat, the son of the serpent named Tabââ‘ĕt. 13. And this is the task of Kâsbeêl, the chief of the oath which he sheweth to the holy ones when he is dwelling high above in glory, and its name is Bîqâ. 14. This angel requesteth Michael to show him the hidden name, that he might enunciate it in the oath, so that those might quake before that name and oath who are revealing all that is in secret to the children of men. 15. And this is the power of this oath, for it is powerful and strong, and he is placing this oath Akâe in the hand of Michael. 16 And these are the secrets of this oath . . .
And they are strong through his oath:
And the heavens are suspended before the world is created,
And for ever.
17. And through it the earth is founded upon the water, And from the secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters,
From the creation of the world and unto eternity.
18. And through that oath the sea is created,
And as its foundation He set for it the sand against the time of its anger,
And it dare not pass beyond it from the creation of the world unto eternity.
19. And through that oath are the depths made fast,
And abide and stir not from their place from eternity to eternity.
20. And through that oath the sun and moon complete their course,
And deviate not from their ordinance from eternity to eternity.
21. And through that oath the stars complete their course,
And He calls them by their names,
And they answer Him from eternity to eternity.
22. And in like manner the spirits of the water, and of the winds, and of all zephyrs, and their paths from all the quarters of the winds. 23. And there are preserved the voices of the thunder and the light of the lightnings: and there are preserved the chambers of the hail and the chambers of the hoarfrost, and the chambers of the mist, and the chambers of the rain and the dew. 24. And all these believe and give thanks before IAH of Spirits, and glorify Him with all their power, and their food is in every act of thanksgiving: they thank and glorify and extol the name of IAH of Spirits for ever and ever.
25. And this oath is mighty over them
And through it they are preserved and their paths are preserved,
And their course is not destroyed.
26. And there is great joy amongst them,
And they bless and glorify and extoll
Because the name of that Son of Man being revealed unto them.
27. And he is sitting on the throne of his glory,
And the sum of judgement is given unto the Son of Man,
And he is causing the sinners to pass away and be destroyed from off the face of the earth,
And those who dothe lead the world astray.
28. With chains shall they be bound,
And in their assemblage-place of destruction shall they be imprisoned,
And all their works vanish from the face of the earth.
29. And from henceforth there shall be nothing corruptible;
For that Son of Man has appeared,
And is seating himself on the throne of his glory,
And all evil shall pass away before his face,
And the word of that Son of Man shall go forth
And be strong before IAH of Spirits.
CHAPTER LXX.
1. And it is coming to pass after this that his name during his lifetime is raised aloft to that Son of Man and to IAH of Spirits from amongst those who dwell on the earth. 2. And he is raised aloft on the chariots of the spirit and his name vanisheth among them. 3. And from that day I am no longer numbered amongst them: and he setteth me between the two winds, between the North and the West, where the angels are taking the cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous. 4. And there I see the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning dwell in that place.
CHAPTER LXXI.
1. And it cometh to pass after this that my spirit is translated
And it ascendeth into the heavens:
And I see the holy sons of IAH.
They are stepping on flames of fire:
Their garments are white and their raiment,
And their faces shine like snow.
2. And I see two streams of fire,
And the light of that fire shineth like hyacinth,
And I fall on my face before IAH of Spirits.
3. And the angel Michael one of the archangels seize me by my right hand,
And lift me up and lead me forth into all the secrets,
And he sheweth me all the secrets of righteousness.
4. And he sheweth me all the secrets of the ends of the heavens ,
And all the chambers of all the stars, and all the luminaries,
Whence they proceed before the face of the holy ones.
5. And he translateth my spirit into the heavens of heavens,
And I see there as it is a structure built of crystals,
And between those crystals tongues of living fire.
6. And my spirit seeth the girdle which girt that house of fire,
And on its four sides are streams full of living fire,
And they girt that house.
7. And round about are Seraphin, Cherubic, and Ophannin:
And these are they who sleep not
And guard the throne of His glory.
8. And I see angels who can not be counted,
A thousand thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand,
Encircling that house.
And Michael, and Raphael, and Gabriel, and Phanuel,
And the holy angels who are above the heavens,
Go in and out of that house.
9. And they come forth from that house,
And Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel,
And many holy angels without number.
10. And with them the Head of Days,
His head white and pure as wool,
And His raiment indescribable.
11. And I fall on my face,
And my whole body becometh relaxed,
And my spirit is transfigured;
And I cry with a loud voice,
. . .with the spirit of power,
And bless and glorify and extoll.
12. And these blessings which go forth out of my mouth are well pleasing before that Head of Days. 13. And that Head of Days cometh with Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel, thousands and ten thousands of angels without number. Wherein the Son of Man is described as accompanying the Head of Days, and Enoch asketh one of the angels concerning the Son of Man as to who he is .
14. And he,the angel, is coming to me and greeting me with His voice, and saying unto me:
This is the Son of Man who is born unto righteousness; And righteousness abides over him,
And the righteousness of the Head of Days forsakes him not.’
15. And he saith unto me:
‘He proclaims unto thee peace in the name of the world to come;
For from hence dothe proceed peace since the creation of the world,
And so shall it be unto thee for ever and for ever and ever.
16. And all shall walk in his ways since righteousness dothe not ever forsake him:
With him will be their dwelling-places, and with him their heritage,
And they shall not be separated from him for ever and ever and ever.
17. And so there shall be length of days with that Son of Man,
And the righteous shall have peace and an upright way
In the name of IAH of Spirits for ever and ever.’
CHAPTER LXXII.
1. The book of the courses of the luminaries of the heavens , the relations of each, according to their classes, their dominion and their seasons, according to their names and places of origin, and according to their months, which Uriel, the holy angel, who is with me, who is their guide, is shewing me; and he sheweth me all their laws exactly as they are, and how it is with regard to all the years of the world and unto eternity, till the new creation is accomplished which dureth till eternity. 2. And this is the first law of the luminaries: the luminary the Sun has its rising in the eastern portals of the heavens , and its setting in the western portals of the heavens. 3. And I see six portals in which the sun rises, and six portals in which the sun sets and the moon rises and sets in these portals, and the leaders of the stars and those whom they lead: six in the east and six in the west, and all following each other in accurately corresponding order: also many windows to the right and left of these portals. 4. And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his circumference is like the circumference of the heavens, and he is quite filled with illuminating and heating fire. 5. The chariot on which he ascends, the wind drives, and the sun goes down from the heavens and returns through the north in order to reach the east, and is so guided that he comes to the appropriate portal and shines in the face of the heavens. 6. In this way he rises in the first month in the great portal, which is the fourth of those six portals in the cast. 7. And in that fourth portal from which the sun rises in the first month are twelve window-openings, from which proceed a flame when they are opened in their season. 8. When the sun rises in the heavens, he comes forth through that fourth portal thirty mornings in succession, and sets accurately in the fourth portal in the west of the heavens. 9. And during this period the day becomes daily longer and the night nightly shorter to the thirtieth morning. 10. On that day the day is longer than the night by a ninth part, and the day amounts exactly to ten parts and the night to eight parts. 11. And the sun rises from that fourth portal, and sets in the fourth and returns to the fifth portal of the east thirty mornings, and rises from it and sets in the fifth portal. 12. And then the day becomes longer by two parts and amounts to eleven parts, and the night becomes shorter and amounts to seven parts. 13. And it returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises and sets in the sixth portal one-and-thirty mornings on account of its sign. 14. On that day the day becomes longer than the night, and the day becomes double the night, and the day becomes twelve parts, and the night is shortened and becomes six parts. 15. And the sun mounts up to make the day shorter and the night longer, and the sun returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises from it and sets thirty mornings. 16. And when thirty mornings are accomplished, the day decreases by exactly one part, and becomes eleven parts, and the night seven. 17. And the sun goes forth from that sixth portal in the west, and goes to the east and rises in the fifth portal for thirty mornings, and sets in the west again in the fifth western portal. 18. On that day the day decreases by two parts, and amounts to ten parts and the night to eight parts. 19. And the sun goes forth from that fifth portal and sets in the fifth portal of the west, and rises in the fourth portal for one-and-thirty mornings on account of its sign, and sets in the west. 20. On that day the day is equalized with the night, and becomes of equal length, and the night amounts to nine parts and the day to nine parts. 21. And the sun rises from that portal and sets in the west, and returns to the east and rises thirty mornings in the third portal and sets in the west in the third portal. 22. And on that day the night becomes longer than the day, and night becomes longer than night, and day shorter than day till the thirtieth morning, and the night amounts exactly to ten parts and the day to eight parts. 23. And the sun rises from that third portal and sets in the third portal in the west and returns to the east, and for thirty mornings rises in the second portal in the east, and in like manner sets in the second portal in the west of the heavens. 24. And on that day the night amounts to eleven parts and the day to seven parts. 25. And the sun rises on that day from that second portal and sets in the west in the second portal, and returns to the east into the first portal for one-and-thirty mornings, and sets in the first portal in the west of the heavens. 26. And on that day the night becomes longer and amounts to the double of the day: and the night amounts exactly to twelve parts and the day to six. 27. And the sun has therewith traversed the divisions of his orbit and turns again on those divisions of his orbit, and enters that portal thirty mornings and sets also in the west opposite to it. 28. And on that night dothe the night decrease in length by a ninth part, and the night has become eleven parts and the day seven parts. 29. And the sun dothe return and enter into the second portal in the east, and returneth on those his divisions of his orbit for thirty mornings, rising and setting. 30. And on that day the night decreases in length, and the night amounts to ten parts and the day to eight. 31. And on that day the sun rises from that portal, and sets in the west, and returns to the east, and rises in the third portal for one-and-thirty mornings, and sets in the west of the heavens. 32. On that day the night decreases and amounts to nine parts, and the day to nine parts, and the night is equal to the day and the year is exactly as to its days three hundred and sixty-four. 33. And the length of the day and of the night, and the shortness of the day and of the night arise–through the course of the sun these distinctions are made; they are separated. 34. So it comes that its course becomes daily longer, and its course nightly shorter. 35. And this is the law and the course of the sun, and his return as often as he returns sixty times and rises,. the great luminary which is named the sun, for ever and ever. 36. And that which thus rises is the great luminary, and is so named according to its appearance, according as IAH commandeth . 37. As he is rising, so he is setting and decreasing not, and is resting not, but running day and night, and his light is sevenfold brighter than that of the moon; but as regards size they are both equal.
CHAPTER LXXIII.
- And after this law I see another law dealing with the smaller luminary, which is named the Moon. 2. And her circumference is like the circumference of the heavens, and her chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind, and light is given to her in definite measure. 3. And her rising and setting change every month: and her days are like the days of the sun, and when her light is uniform and full, it amounts to the seventh part of the light of the sun. 4. And thus she rises. And her first phase in the east comes forth on the thirtieth morning: and on that day she becomes visible, and constitutes for you the first phase of the moon on the thirtieth day together with the sun in the portal where the sun rises. 5. And the one half of her goes forth by a seventh part, and her whole circumference is empty, without light, with the exception of one-seventh part of it, and the fourteenth part of her light. 6. And when she receives one-seventh part of the half of her light, her light amounts to one-seventh part and the half thereof. 7. And she sets with the sun, and when the sun rises the moon rises with him and receives the half of one part of light, and in that night in the beginning of her morning in the commencement of the lunar day the moon sets with the sun, and is invisible that night with the fourteen parts and the half of one of them. 8. And she rises on that day with exactly a seventh part, and comes forth and recedes from the rising of the sun, and in her remaining days she becomes bright in the remaining thirteen parts.
CHAPTER LXXIV.
1. And I see another course, a law for her, and how according to that law she performs her monthly revolution. 2. And all these Uriel, the holy angel who is the leader of them all, is shewing to me, and their positions, and I write down their positions as he is shewing them to me, and I write down their months as they are, and the appearance of their lights till fifteen days are accomplished. 3. In single seventh parts she is accomplishing all her light in the east, and in single seventh parts is accomplishing all her darkness in the west. 4. And in certain months she is altering her settings, and in certain months she is pursuing her own peculiar course. 5. In two months the moon sets with the sun: in those two middle portals the third and the fourth. 6. She goes forth for seven days, and turns about and returns again through the portal where the sun rises, and accomplishes all her light: and she recedes from the sun, and in eight days enters the sixth portal from which the sun goes forth. 7. And when the sun goes forth from the fourth portal she goes forth seven days, until she goes forth from the fifth and turns back again in seven days into the fourth portal and accomplishes all her light: and she recedes and enters into the first portal in eight days. 8. And she returns again in seven days into the fourth portal from which the sun goes forth. 9. Thus I see their position–how the moons rise and the sun setteth in those days. 10. And if five years are added together the sun has an overplus of thirty days, and all the days which accrue to it for one of those five years, when they are full, amount to 364 days. 11. And the overplus of the sun and of the stars amounts to six days: in 5 years 6 days every year come to 30 days: and the moon falls behind the sun and stars to the number of 30 days. 12. And the sun and the stars bring in all the years exactly, so that they do not advance or delay their position by a single day unto eternity; but complete the years with perfect justice in 364 days. 13. In 3 years there are 1092 days, and in 5 years 1820 days, so that in 8 years there are 2912 days. 14. For the moon alone the days amount in 3 years to 1062 days, and in 5 years she falls 50 days behind:. to the sum of 1770 there is to be added 1000 and 62 days. 15. And in 5 years there are 1770 days, so that for the moon the days in 8 years amount to 2832 days. 16. For in 8 years she falls behind to the amount of 80 days, all the days she falls behind in 8 years are 80. 17. And the year is accurately completed in conformity with their world-stations and the stations of the sun, which rise from the portals through which the sun rises and sets 30 days.
CHAPTER LXXV.
1. And the leaders of the heads of the thousands, who are placed over the whole creation and over all the stars, have also to do with the four intercalary days, being inseparable from their office, according to the reckoning of the year, and these render service on the four days which are not reckoned in the reckoning of the year. 2. And owing to them men go wrong therein, for those luminaries truly render service on the world-stations, one in the first portal, one in the third portal of the heavens, one in the fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and the exactness of the year is accomplished through its separate three hundred and sixty-four stations. 3. For the signs and the times and the years and the days the angel Uriel sheweth to me, whom IAH of Glory dothe set for ever over all the luminaries of the heavens, in the heavens and in the world, that they should rule on the face of the heavens and be seen on the earth, and be leaders for the day and the night, the sun, moon, and stars, and all the ministering creatures which make their revolution in all the chariots of the heavens. 4. In like manner twelve doors Uriel sheweth me, open in the circumference of the sun’s chariot in the heavens, through which the rays of the sun break forth: and from them is warmth diffused over the earth, when they are opened at their appointed seasons. 5. And for the winds and the spirit of the dew when they are opened, standing open in the heavens at the ends.6. As for the twelve portals in the heavens, at the ends of the earth, out of which go forth the sun, moon, and stars, and all the works of the heavens in the east and in the west. 7. There are many windows open to the left and right of them, and one window at its appointed season produces warmth, corresponding as these do to those doors from which the stars come forth according as He dothe command them, and wherein they set corresponding to their number. 8. And I see chariots in the heavens, running in the world, above those portals in which revolve the stars that never set. 9. And one is larger than all the rest, and it is that which makes its course through the entire world.
CHAPTER LXXVI.
1 And at the ends of the earth I see twelve portals open to all the quarters of the heavens, from which the winds go forth and blow over the earth. 2. Three of them are open on the face at the east of the heavens, and three in the west, and three at the right on the south of the heavens, and three on the left at the north. 3. And the three first are those of the east, and three are of the north, and three after those at the left of the south, and three of the west. 4. Through four of these come winds of blessing and prosperity, and from those eight come hurtful winds: when they are sent, they bring destruction on all the earth and on the water upon it, and on all who dwell thereon, and on everything which is in the water and on the land.
5. And the first wind from those portals, called the east wind, comes forth through the first portal which is in the east, inclining towards the south: from it come forth desolation, drought, heat, and destruction. 6. And through the second portal in the middle comes what is fitting, and from it there come rain and fruitfulness and prosperity and dew; and through the third portal which lies toward the north come cold and drought.
7. And after these come forth the south winds through three portals: through the first portal of
them inclining to the east comes forth a hot wind. 8. And through the middle portal next to it there come forth fragrant smells, and dew and rain, and prosperity and health. 9. And through the third portal lying to the west come forth dew and rain, locusts and desolation.
10. And after these the north winds: from the seventh portal in the east come dew and rain, locusts and desolation. 11. And from the middle portal come in a direct direction health and rain and dew and prosperity; and through the third portal in the west come cloud and hoar-frost, and snow and rain, and dew and locusts.
12. And after these four are the west winds: through the first portal adjoining the north come forth dew and hoar-frost, and cold and snow and frost. And from the middle portal come forth dew and rain, and prosperity and blessing; and through the last portal which adjoins the south come forth drought and desolation, and burning and destruction. 14. And the twelve portals of the four quarters of the heavens are therewith completed, and all their laws and all their plagues and all their benefactions dothe I shew to thee, my son Methuselah.
CHAPTER LXXVII.
1. And the first quarter is called the east, because it is the first: and the second, the south, because the Most High will descend there, yea, there in quite a special sense will He who is blessed for ever descend. 2. And the west quarter is named the diminished, because there all the luminaries of the heavens wane and go down. 3. And the fourth quarter, named the north, is divided into three parts: the first of them is for the dwelling of men: and the second contains seas of water, and the abysses and forests and rivers, and darkness and clouds; and the third part contains the garden of righteousness.
4. I see seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains which are on the earth: and thence comes forth hoar-frost, and days, seasons, and years pass away. 5. I see seven rivers on the earth larger than all the rivers: one of them coming from the west pours its waters into the Great Sea. 6. And these two come from the north to the sea and pour their waters into the Erythraean Sea in the east. 7. And the remaining four come forth on the side of the north to their own sea, two of the to the Erythraean Sea, and two into the Great Sea and discharge themselves there, and some say: into the desert. 8. Seven great islands I see in the sea and in the mainland: two in the mainland and five in the Great Sea.
CHAPTER LXXVIII.
1. And the names of the sun are the following: the first Orjârês, and the second Tômâs. 2. And the moon has four names: the first name is Asônjâ, the second Eblâ, the third Benâsê, and the fourth Erâe. 3. These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the circumference of the heavens, and the size of the circumference of both is alike. 4. In the circumference of the sun there are seven portions of light which are added to it more than to the moon, and in definite measures it is transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is exhausted. 5. And they set and enter the portals of the west, and make their revolution by the north, and come forth through the eastern portals on the face of the heavens. 6. And when the moon rises one-fourteenth part appears in the heaven: the light becomes full in her: on the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light. 7. And fifteen parts of light are transferred to her till the fifteenth day when her light is accomplished, according to the sign of the year, and she becomes fifteen parts, and the moon grows by the addition of fourteenth parts. 8. And in her waning the moon decreases on the first day to fourteen parts of her light, on the second to thirteen parts of light, on the third to twelve, on the fourth to eleven, on the fifth to ten, on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to eight, on the eighth to seven, on the ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the eleventh to four, on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two, on the fourteenth to the half of a seventh, and all her remaining light disappears wholly on the fifteenth. 9. And in certain months the month has twenty-nine days and once twenty-eight. 10. And Uriel sheweth me another law: when light is transferring to the moon, and on which side it is transferring to her by the sun. 11. During all the period during which the moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when opposite to the sun during fourteen days her light is accomplished in the heavens, and when she is illuminating throughout, her light is accomplishing full in the heavens. 12. And on the first day she is called the new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her. 13. She becomes full moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and from the east she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night through till the sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over against the sun. 14. On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again she wanes till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are at an end, and her circumference is empty, void of light. 15. And three months she makes of thirty days, and at her time she makes three months of twenty-nine days each, in which she accomplishes her waning in the first period of time, and in the first portal for one hundred and seventy-seven days. 16. And in the time of her going out she appears for three months of thirty days each, and for three months she appears of twenty-nine each. 17. At night she appears like a man for twenty days each time, and by day she appears like the heavens, and there is nothing else in her save her light
days. 16. And in the time of her going out she appears for three months of thirty days each, and for three months she appears of twenty-nine each. 17. At night she appears like a man for twenty days each time, and by day she appears like
CHAPTER LXXIX.
- And now, my son, I dothe shew thee everything, and the law of all the stars of the heavens is complete. 2. And he sheweth me all the laws of these for every day, and for every season of bearing rule, and for every year, and for its going forth, and for the order prescribing to it every month and every week: 3. And the waning of the moon which takes place in the sixth portal: for in this sixth portal her light is accomplished, and after that there is the beginning of the waning: 4. And the waning which takes place in the first portal in its season, till one hundred and seventy-seven days are accomplished: reckoned according to weeks, twenty-five weeks and two days. 5. She falls behind the sun and the order of the stars exactly five days in the course of one period, and when this place which thou seest is being traversed. 6. Such is the picture and sketch of every luminary which Uriel the archangel, who is their leader, sheweth unto me.
CHAPTER LXXX.
1. And in those days the angel Uriel answereth and saith to me: ‘Behold, I dothe shew thee everything, Enoch, and I dothe reveal everything to thee that thou shouldst see this sun and this moon, and the leaders of the stars of the heavens and all those who turn them, their tasks and times and departures.
2. And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened,
And their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields,
And all things on the earth shall alter,
And shall not appear in their time:
And the rain shall be kept back
And the heavens shall withhold it.
3. And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward,
And shall not grow in their time,
And the fruits of the trees shall be withheld in their time.
4. And the moon shall alter her order,
And not appear at her time.
5. And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening on the extremity of the great chariot in the west
And shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.
6. And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order prescribed.
And these shall alter their orbits and tasks,
And not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
7. And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners,
And the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them,
And they shall be altered from all their ways,
Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods.
8. And evil shall be multiplied upon them,
And punishment shall come upon them So as to destroy all.’
CHAPTER LXXXI.
1. And he said unto me:
‘Observe, Enoch, these heavenly tablets,
And read what is written thereon,
And mark every individual fact.’
2 And I observe the heavenly tablets, and read everything which is written thereon and understand everything, and read the book of all the deeds of mankind, and of all the children of flesh that shall be upon the earth to the remotest generations. 3. And forthwith I bless the great IAH the King of glory for ever, in that He dothe make all the works of the world,
And I extoll IAH because of His patience,
And bless Him because of the children of men.
4. And after that I say :
‘Blessed is the man who dies in righteousness and goodness,
Concerning whom there is no book of unrighteousness written,
And against whom no day of judgement shall be found.’
5. And those seven holy ones bring me and place me on the earth before the door of my house, and say to me: ‘Declare everything to thy son Methuselah, and show to all thy children that no flesh is righteous in the sight of IAH , for He is their Creator. 6. One year we will leave thee with thy son, till thou givest thy last commands, that thou mayest teach thy children and record it for them, and testify to all thy children; and in the second year they shall take thee from their midst.
7. Let thy heart be strong,
For the good shall announce righteousness to the good;
The righteous with the righteous shall rejoice,
And shall offer congratulation to one another.
8. But the sinners shall die with the sinners,
And the apostate go down with the apostate.
9. And those who practice righteousness shall die on account of the deeds of men,
And be taken away on account of the doings of the unholy.’
10. And in those days they cease to speak to me, and I come to my people, blessing IAH of the world.
CHAPTER LXXXII.
1. And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I am recounting to thee and writing down for thee, and I dothe reveal to thee everything, and given thee books concerning all these: so preserve, my son Methuselah, the books from thy father’s hand, and see that thou deliver them to the generations of the world.
2. I have given Wisdom to thee and to thy children,
And thy children that shall be to thee,
That they may give it to their children for generations,
This wisdom namely that passeth their thought.
3. And those who understand it shall not sleep,
But shall listen with the ear that they may learn this wisdom,
And it shall please those that eat thereof better than good food.
4. Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who walk in the way of righteousness and sin not as the sinners, in the reckoning of all their days in which the sun traverses the heavens, entering into and departing from the portals for thirty days with the heads of thousands of the order of the stars, together with the four which are intercalated which divide the four portions of the year, which lead them and enter with them four days. 5. Owing to them men shall be at fault and not reckon them in the whole reckoning of the year: yea, men shall be at fault, and not recognize them accurately. 6. For they belong to the reckoning of the year and are truly recorded thereon for ever, one in the first portal and one in the third, and one in the fourth and one in the sixth, and the year is completed in three hundred and sixty-four days.
7. And the account thereof is accurate and the recorded reckoning
thereof exact; for the luminaries, and months and festivals, and years and days, dothe Uriel shew and reveal to me, to whom IAH of the whole creation of the world dothe subject the host of the heavens. 8. And he has power over night and day in the heavens to cause the light to give light to men–sun, moon, and stars, and all the powers of the heavens which revolve in their circular chariots. 9. And these are the orders of the stars, which set in their places, and in their seasons and festivals and months.
10. And these are the names of those who lead them, who watch that they enter at their times, in their orders, in their seasons, in their months, in their periods of dominion, and in their positions. 11. Their four leaders who divide the four parts of the year enter first; and after them the twelve leaders of the orders who divide the months; and for the three hundred and sixty days there are heads over thousands who divide the days; and for the four intercalary days there are the leaders which sunder the four parts of the year. 12. And these heads over thousands are intercalated between leader and leader, each behind a station, but their leaders make the division. And these are the names of the leaders who divide the four parts of the year which are ordained: Mîlkî’êl, Hel’emmêlêk, and Mêl’êjal, and Nârêl. 13. And the names of those who lead them: Adnâr’êl, and Îjâsûsa’êl, and ’Elômê’êl–these three follow the leaders of the orders, and there is one that follows the three leaders of the orders which follow those leaders of stations that divide the four parts of the year.
15. In the beginning of the year Melkejâl rises first and rules, who is named Tam’âinî and sun, and all the days of his dominion whilst he is bearing rule are ninety-one days. 16. And these are the signs of the days which are to be seen on earth in the days of his dominion: sweat, and heat, and calms; and all the trees bear fruit, and leaves are produced on all the trees, and the harvest of wheat, and the rose-flowers, and all the flowers which come forth in the field, but the trees of the winter season become withered. 17. And these are the names of the leaders which are under them: Berka’êl, Zêlebs’êl, and another who is added a head of a thousand, called Hîlûjâsĕph: and the days of the dominion of this leader are at an end.
18. The next leader after him is Hêl’emmêlêk, whom one names the shining sun, and all the days of his light are ninety-one days. 19. And these are the signs of his days on the earth: glowing heat and dryness, and the trees ripen their fruits and produce all their fruits ripe and ready, and the sheep pair and become pregnant, and all the fruits of the earth are gathered in, and everything that is in the fields, and the winepress: these things take place in the days of his dominion. 20. These are the names, and the orders, and the leaders of those heads of thousands: Gîdâ’îjal, Kê’êl, and Hê’êl, and the name of the head of a thousand which is added to them, Asfâ’êl’: and the days of his dominion are at an end
CHAPTER LXXXIII.
1. And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions which I dothe see, recounting them before thee. 2. Two visions I see before I take a wife, and the one was quite unlike the other: the first when I am learning to write: the second before I take thy mother, when I see a terrible vision. And regarding them I pray to IAH. 3. I dothe lay me down in the house of my grandfather Mahalalel, when I see in a vision how the heavens collapse and is borne off and falleth to the earth. 4. And when it falleth to the earth I see how the earth is swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains are suspended on mountains, and hills sink down on hills, and high trees are rent from their stems, and hurled down and sink in the abyss. 5. And thereupon a word falleth into my mouth, and I lift up my voice to cry aloud, and say: ‘The earth is destroyed.’ 6. And my grandfather Mahalalel waketh me as I lay near him, and saith unto me: ‘Why dost thou cry so, my son, and why dost thou make such lamentation?’ 7. And I recount to him the whole vision which I dothe see, and he saith unto me: ‘A terrible thing dothe thou see, my son, and of grave moment is thy dream-vision as to the secrets of all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss and be destroyed with a great destruction. 8. And now, my son, arise and make petition to IAH of glory, since thou art a believer, that a remnant may remain on the earth, and that He may not destroy the whole earth. 9. My son, from the heavens all this will come upon the earth, and upon the earth there will be great destruction. 10. After that I arise and pray and implore and beseech , and write down my prayer for the generations of the world, and I will show everything to thee, my son Methuselah. 11. And when I am going forth below and seeing the heavens, and the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few stars, and the whole earth, and everything as He dothe know it in the beginning, then I bless IAH of judgement and extoll Him because He dothe make the sun to go forth from the windows of the east, and he is ascending and rising on the face of the heavens, and setting out and keepeth traversing the path shown unto him.
CHAPTER LXXXIV.
1. And I lift up my hands in righteousness and bless the Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of my mouth, and with the tongue of flesh, which IAH dothe make for the children of the flesh of men, that they should speak therewith, and He giveth them breath and a tongue and a mouth that they should speak therewith:
2. ‘Blessed be Thou, O IAH , King, IAH
Great and mighty in Thy greatness,
of the whole creation of the heavens,
King of kings and IAH of the whole world.
And Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever and ever,
And throughout all generations Thy dominion;
And all the heavens are Thy throne for ever,
And the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever.
3. For Thou dothe make and Thou rulest all things,
And nothing is too hard for Thee,
Wisdom departs not from the place of Thy throne, Nor turns away from Thy presence.
And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything,
And there is nothing hidden from Thee for Thou seest everything.
4. And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass,
And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the great day of judgement.
5. And now, O IAH and IAH and Great King,
I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer,
To leave me a posterity on earth,
And not destroy all the flesh of man,
And make the earth without inhabitant,
So that there should be an eternal destruction.
6. And now, my IAH, destroy from the earth the flesh which dothe arouse Thy wrath,
But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant of the eternal seed,
And hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O IAH ‘
CHAPTER LXXXV.
1. And after this I see another dream, and I will show the whole dream to thee, my son. 2. And Enoch lifteth up his voice and speketh to his son Methuselah: ‘To thee, my son, will I speak: hear my words–incline thine ear to the dream-vision of thy father. 3. Before I take thy mother Edna, I see in a vision on my bed, and behold a bull is coming forth from the earth, and that bull is white; and after it is coming forth a heifer, and along with this latter is coming forth two bulls, one of them black and the other red. 4. And that black bull is goring the red one and pursuing him over the earth, and thereupon I can no longer see that red bull. 5. But that black bull is growing grown and that heifer is going with him, and I see that many oxen proceed from him which resemble and follow him. 6. And that cow, that first one, is going from the presence of that first bull in order to seek that red one, but is finding him not, and lamenting with a great lamentation over him and seeking him. 7. And I look till that first bull is coming to her and quieting her, and from that time onward she cryeth no more. 8. And after that she is bearing another white bull, and after him she is bearing many bulls and black cows.
9. And I see in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a great white bull, and from Him is proceeding many white bulls, and they resemble him. And they begin to beget many white bulls, which resemble them, one following the other, even many.
CHAPTER LXXXVI.
1. And again I see with mine eyes as I sleep, and I see the heavens above, and behold a star fall from the heavens, and it ariseth and is eating and pasturing amongst those oxen. 2. And after that I see the large and the black oxen, and behold they all change their stalls and pastures and their cattle, and began to live with each other. 3. And again I see in the vision, and looked toward the heavens, and behold I see many stars descend and cast themselves down from the heavens to that first star, and they become bulls amongst those cattle and pasture with them amongst them. 4. And I look at them and see , and behold they all let out their privy members, like horses, and began to cover the cows of the oxen, and they all become pregnant and bare elephants, camels, and asses. 5. And all the oxen fear them and are affrighted at them, and begin to bite with their teeth and to devour, and to gore with their horns. 6. And they begin, moreover, to devour those oxen; and behold all the children of the earth begin to tremble and quake before them and to flee from them.
CHAPTER LXXXVII.
- And again I saw how they begin to gore each other and to devour each other, and the earth beginneth to cry aloud. 2. And I raise mine eyes again to the heavens, and I see in the vision, and behold there is coming forth from the heavens beings who are like white men: and four go forth from that place and three with them. 3. And those three that dothe last come forth grasp me by my hand and take me up, away from the generations of the earth, and raise me up to a lofty place, and show me a tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills are lower. 4. And one saith unto me: ‘Remain here till thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.’
CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
1. And I see one of those four who had dothe come forth first, and he is seizing that first star which dothe fallen from the heavens, and bindeth it hand and foot and casteth it into an abyss: now that abyss is narrow and deep, and horrible and dark. 2. And one of them is drawing a sword, and giving it to those elephants and camels and asses: then they began to smite each other, and the whole earth is quaking because of them. 3. And as I am beholding in the vision, lo, one of those four who dothe come forth stone them from the heavens, and is gathering and taking all the great stars whose privy members are like those of horses, and binding them all hand and foot, and casting them in an abyss of the earth.
CHAPTER LXXXIX.
1. And one of those four is going to that white bull and instructing him in a secret, without his being terrified: he is born a bull and is becoming a man, and building for himself a great vessel and dwelling thereon; and three bulls dwell with him in that vessel and they are covered in. 2. And again I raise mine eyes towards the heavens and see a lofty roof, with seven water torrents thereon, and those torrents flow with much water into an enclosure. 3. And I see again, and behold fountains are opened on the surface of that great enclosure, and that water is beginning to swell and rise upon the surface, and I see that enclosure till all its surface is covering with water. 4. And the water, the darkness, and mist is increasing upon it; and as I look at the height of that water, that water dothe rise above the height of that enclosure, and is streaming over that enclosure, and it is standing upon the earth. 5. And all the cattle of that enclosure are gathering together until I see how they sink and are swallowed up and perished in that water. 6. But that vessel is floating on the water, while all the oxen and elephants and camels and asses sink to the bottom with all the animals, so that I can no longer see them, and they are not able to escape, but perish and sink into the depths. 7. And again I see in the vision till those water torrents are removed from that high roof, and the chasms of the earth are leveling up and other abysses are opened. 8. Then the water is beginning to run down into these, till the earth becometh visible; but that vessel is settling on the earth, and the darkness is retiring and light appearing. 9. But that white bull which dothe become a man is coming out of that vessel, and the three bulls with him, and one of those three is white like that bull, and one of them is red as blood, and one black: and that white bull departeth from them.
10. And they begin to bring forth beasts of the field and birds, so that there is arising different genera: lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild boars, foxes, squirrels, swine, falcons, vultures, kites, eagles, and ravens; and among them is born a white bull. 11. And they begin to bite one another; but that white bull which is born amongst them begetteth a wild ass and a white bull with it, and the wild asses multiply. 12. But that bull which is born from him begetteth a black wild boar and a white sheep; and the former begetteth many boars, but that sheep begetteth twelve sheep. 13. And when those twelve sheep are grown, they give up one of them to the asses, and those asses again give up that sheep to the wolves, and that sheep groweth up among the wolves. 14. And IAH bringeth the eleven sheep to live with it and to pasture with it among the wolves: and they multiply and become many flocks of sheep. 15. And the wolves begin to fear them, and they oppress them until they destroy their little ones, and they cast their young into a river of much water: but those sheep begin to cry aloud on account of their little ones, and to complain unto IAH . 16. And a sheep which is being saved from the wolves is fleeing and escaping to the wild asses; and I see the sheep how they lament and cry, and beseech their IAH with all their might, till that IAH of the sheep dothe descend at the voice of the sheep from a lofty abode, and is coming to them and pasturing them. 17. And He is calling that sheep which dothe escape the wolves, and speking with it concerning the wolves that it should admonish them not to touch the sheep. 18. And the sheep go to the wolves according to the word of IAH , and another sheep meteth it and is going with it, and the two are going and entering together into the assembly of those wolves, and speking with them and admonishing them not to touch the sheep from henceforth. 19. And thereupon I see the wolves, and how they are oppressing the sheep exceedingly with all their power; and the sheep cry aloud. 20. And IAH cometh to the sheep and they begin to smite those wolves: and the wolves begin to make lamentation; but the sheep become quiet and forthwith cease to cry out. 21. And I see the sheep till they depart from amongst the wolves; but the eyes of the wolves are blinded, and those wolves depart in pursuit of the sheep with all their power. 22. And IAH of the sheep is going with them, as their leader, and all His sheep follow Him: and his face is dazzling and glorious and terrible to behold. 23. But the wolves begin to pursue those sheep till they reach a sea of water. 24. And that sea is divided, and the water is standing on this side and on that before their face, and IAH is leading them and placing Himself between them and the wolves. 25. And as those wolves dothe not yet see the sheep, they proceed into the midst of that sea, and the wolves follow the sheep, and those wolves run after them into that sea. 26. And when they see IAH of the sheep, they turn to flee before His face, but that sea is gathering itself together, and becoming as it is being created, and the water is swelling and rising till it is covering those wolves. 27. And I see till all the wolves who pursue those sheep perish and are drowned.
28. But the sheep escape from that water and go forth into a wilderness, where there is no water and no grass; and they begin to open their eyes and to see; and I see IAH of the sheep pasturing them and giving them water and grass, and that sheep going and leading them. 29. And that sheep is ascending to the summit of that lofty rock, and IAH of the sheep is sending it to them. 30. And after that I see IAH of the sheep who is standing before them, and His appearance is great and terrible and majestic, and all those sheep see Him and are afraid before His face. 31. And they all fear and tremble because of Him, and they cry to that sheep with them which is amongst them: “We are not able to stand before IAH or to behold Him.” 32. And that sheep which is leding them again is ascending to the summit of that rock, but the sheep begin to be blinded and to wander from the way which he is shewing them, but that sheep know not thereof. 33. And IAH of the sheep is wrathful exceedingly against them, and that sheep discovereth it, and is going down from the summit of the rock, and is coming to the sheep, and finding the greatest part of them blinded and fallen away. 34. And when they see it they fear and tremble at its presence, and desire to return to their folds. 35. And that sheep is taking other sheep with it, and coming to those sheep which are fallen away, and is beginning to slay them; and the sheep fear its presence, and thus that sheep bring back those sheep that are fallen away, and they return to their folds. 36. And I see in this vision till that sheep become a man and is building a house for IAH of the sheep, and placing all the sheep in that house. 37. And I see till this sheep which dothe mete that sheep which led them fall asleep: and I see till all the great sheep perish and little ones arise in their place, and they come to a pasture, and approach a stream of water. 38. Then that sheep, their leader which dothe become a man, withdraweth from them and falleth asleep, and all the sheep seek it and cry over it with a great crying. 39. And I see till they leave off crying for that sheep and cross that stream of water, and there ariseth the two sheep as leaders in the place of those which is leding them and falling asleep 40. And I see till the sheep come to a goodly place, and a pleasant and glorious land, and I see till those sheep are satisfied; and that house is standing amongst them in the pleasant land.
41. And sometimes their eyes are open, and sometimes blind, till another sheep is arising and leding them and bringing them all back, and their eyes are opened.
42. And the dogs and the foxes and the wild boars begin to devour those sheep till IAH of the sheep is raised up another sheep a ram from their midst, which is leding them. 43. And that ram is beginning to butt on either side those dogs, foxes, and wild boars till he is destroying them all. 44. And that sheep whose eyes are open see that ram, which is amongst the sheep, till it is forsaking its glory and is beginning to butt those sheep, and is trampling upon them, and behaving itself unseemly. 45. And IAH of the sheep is sending the lamb to another lamb and raising it to being a ram and leader of the sheep instead of that ram which dothe forsake its glory. 46. And it is going to it and speking to it alone, and raising it to being a ram, and making it the prince and leader of the sheep; but during all these things those dogs oppress the sheep. 47. And the first ram is pursuing that second ram, and that second ram is arising and fleeing before it; and I see till those dogs pulling down the first ram. 48. And that second ram is arising and leding the little sheep. And that ram is begetting many sheep and falling asleep; and a little sheep becometh a ram in its stead, and is becoming prince and leader of those sheep.
49. And those sheep are growing and multiplying; but all the dogs, and foxes, and wild boars fear and flee before it, and that ram is butting and killing the wild beasts, and those wild beasts dothe no longer any power among the sheep and rob them no more of ought.
50. And that house becometh great and broad, and it is built for those sheep: and a tower lofty and great is built on the house for IAH of the sheep, and that house is low, but the tower is elevated and lofty, and IAH of the sheep is standing on that tower and they offer a full table before Him.
51. And again I see those sheep that they again err and go many ways, and forsake that their house, and IAH of the sheep is calling some from amongst the sheep and sending them to the sheep, but the sheep begin to slay them. 52. And one of them is saved and is not slain, and it is speding away and crying aloud over the sheep; and they seek to slay it, but IAH of the sheep saveth it from the sheep, and is bringing it up to me, and causing it to dwell there. 53. And many other sheep He is sending to those sheep to testify unto them and lament over them. 54. And after that I see that when they forsake the house of IAH and His tower they fall away entirely, and their eyes are blinded; and I see IAH of the sheep how He is forming much slaughter amongst them in their herds until those sheep invite that slaughter and betray His place. 55. And He is giving them over into the hands of the lions and tigers, and wolves and hyenas, and into the hand of the foxes, and to all the wild beasts, and those wild beasts begin to tear in pieces those sheep. 56. And I see that He is forsaking that their house and their tower and giving them all into the hand of the lions, to tear and devour them, into the hand of all the wild beasts. 57. And I begin to cry aloud with all my power, and to appeal to IAH of the sheep, and to represent to Him in regard to the sheep that they are devoured by all the wild beasts. 58. But He is remaining unmoved, though He dothe see it, and is rejoicing that they are devoured and swallowed and robbed, and is leaving them to be devoured in the hand of all the beasts. 59. And He is calling seventy shepherds, and casting those sheep to them that they might pasture them, and He speketh to the shepherds and their companions: “Let each individual of you pasture the sheep henceforward, and everything that I shall command you that do ye. 60. And I will deliver them over unto you duly numbered, and tell you which of them are to be destroyed–and them destroy ye.” And He giveth over unto them those sheep. 61. And He calleth another and is speaking unto him: “Observe and mark everything that the shepherds will do to those sheep; for they will destroy more of them than I have commanded them. 62. And every excess and the destruction which is being formed through the shepherds, record, namely how many they destroy according to my command, and how many according to their own caprice: record against every individual shepherd all the destruction he effects. 63. And read out before me by number how many they destroy, and how many they deliver over for destruction, that I may have this as a testimony against them, and know every deed of the shepherds, that I may comprehend and see what they do, whether or not they abide by my command which I dothe command them. 64. But they shall not know it, and thou shalt not declare it to them, nor admonish them, but only record against each individual all the destruction which the shepherds effect each in his time and lay it all before me.” 65. And I see till those shepherds pasture in their season, and they begin to slay and to destroy more than they were bidden, and they deliver those sheep into the hand of the lions. 66. And the lions and tigers eat and devour the greater part of those sheep, and the wild boars eat along with them; and they burn that tower and demolish that house. 67. And I become exceedingly sorrowful over that tower because that house of the sheep is demolished, and afterwards I am unable to see if those sheep entered that house.
68. And the shepherds and their associates deliver over those sheep to all the wild beasts, to devour them, and each one of them is receiving in his time a definite number: it is written by the other in a book how many each one of them is destroyed of them. 69. And each one is slaying and destroying many more than is prescribed; and I begin to weep and lament on account of those sheep. 70. And thus in the vision I see that one who is writing, how he is writing down every one that is destroyed by those shepherds, day by day, and is carrying up and laying down and showing actually the whole book to IAH of the sheep–even everything that they are doing, and all that each one of them is making away with, and all that they are given over to destruction. 71. And the book is read before IAH of the sheep, and He is taking the book from his hand and reading it and sealing it and laying it down.
72. And forthwith I see how the shepherds are pasturing for twelve hours, and behold three of those sheep are turning back and coming and entering and beginning to build up all that dothe fall down of that house; but the wild boars try to hinder them, but they are not able. 73. And they begin again to build as before, and they rear up that tower, and it is named the high tower; and they begin again to place a table before the tower, but all the bread on it is polluted and not pure. 74. And as touching all this the eyes of those sheep are blinded so that they see not, and the eyes of their shepherds likewise and they deliver them in large numbers to their shepherds for destruction, and they trampl the sheep with their feet and devour them. 75. And IAH of the sheep remain unmoved till all the sheep are dispersed over the field and mingled withthe beasts, andthe shepherds dothe not save them out of the hand of the beasts. 76. And this one who is writing the book is carrying it up, and showing it and reading it before IAH of the sheep, and imploring Him on their account, and beseeching Him on their account as he is showing Him all the doings of the shepherds, and giving testimony before Him against all the shepherds. And he dothe take the actual book and laith it down beside Him and departeth.
CHAPTER XC.
1. And I see till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertake the pasturing of the sheep, and they severally complete their periods as dothe the first; and others receive them into their hands, to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period. 2. And after that I see in my vision all the birds of the heavens coming, the eagles, the vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the eagles lead all the birds; and they begin to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh. 3. And the sheep is crying out because their flesh is being devoured by the birds, and as for me I look and lament in my sleep over that shepherd who is pasturing the sheep. 4. And I see until those sheep are devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they leave neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stand there: and their bones too fall to the earth and the sheep become few. 5. And I see until that twenty-three dothe undertaken the pasturing and complete in their several periods fifty-eight times..
6. But behold lambs are borne by those white sheep, and they begin to open their eyes and to see, and to cry to the sheep. 7. Yea, they cry to them, but they dothe not hearken to what they say to them, but are exceedingly deaf, and their eyes are very exceedingly blind. 8. And I see in the vision how the ravens fly upon those lambs and take one of those lambs, and dash the sheep in pieces and devour them. 9. And I see till horns grow upon those lambs, and the ravens cast down their horns; and I see till there is sprouting a great horn of one of those sheep, and their eyes are opened. 10. And it is looking at them and their eyes open, and it is crying to the sheep, and the rams see it and all run to it. 11. And notwithstanding all this those eagles and vultures and ravens and kites still keep tearing the sheep and swooping down upon them and devouring them: still the sheep remain silent, but the rams lament and cry out. 12. And those ravens fight and battle with it and seek to lay low its horn, but they have no power over it. 13. And I se till the shepherds and eagles and those vultures and kites come, and they cry to the ravens that they should break the horn of that ram, and they battle and fight with it, and it is battling with them and crying that its help might come. 14. And I see that man who is writing down the names of the shepherds and carrying up into the presence of IAH of the sheep: coming and helping it and showing it everything; he is coming down for the help of that ram. 15. And I see till IAH of the sheep is coming unto them in wrath, and all who see Him flee, and they all fall into His shadow from before His face. 16. All the eagles and vultures and ravens and kites are gathering together, and there is coming with them all the sheep of the field, yea, they all are coming together, and helping each other to break that horn of the ram. 17. And I see that man who is writing the book according to the command of IAH, till he is opening that book concerning the destruction which those twelve last shepherds are forming, and showing that they are destroying much more than their predecessors, before the IAH of sheep. 18. And I see till the IAH of sheep is coming unto them and taking in His hand the staff of His wrath, and smiting the earth is cleaving asunder, and all the beasts and all the birds of the heavens fall from among those sheep, and are swallowed up in the earth and it is covering them.
19. And I see till a great sword is given to the sheep, and the sheep proceed against all the beasts of the field to slay them, and all the beasts and the birds of the heavens are fleeing before their face. 20. And I see till a throne is erected in the pleasant land, and IAH of the sheep is sitting Himself thereon, and the other take the sealed books and open those books before IAH of the sheep. 21. And IAH is calling those men the seven first white ones, and commanding that they should bring before Him, beginning with the first star which is leding the way, all the stars whose privy members are like those of horses, and they are bringing them all before Him. 22. And He saith to that man who is writing before Him, being one of those seven white ones, and saying unto him: “Take those seventy shepherds to whom I deliver the sheep, and who taking them on their own authority is slaying more than I command them.” 23. And behold they are all bound, I see , and they all stand before Him. 24. And the judgement is being held first over the stars, and they are judged and found guilty, and going to the place of condemnation, and they are cast into an abyss, full of fire and flaming, and full of pillars of fire. 25. And those seventy shepherds are judged and found guilty, and they are cast into that fiery abyss. 26. And I see at that time how a like abyss is opened in the midst of the earth, full of fire, and they are bringing those blinded sheep, and they are all judged and found guilty and cast into this fiery abyss, and they are burning; now this abyss is to the right of that house. 27. And I see those sheep burning and their bones burning. 28. And I stand up to see till they fold up that old house; and carry off all the pillars, and all the beams and ornaments of the house are at the same time are folding up with it, and they carry it off and lay it in a place in the south of the land. 29. And I see till IAH of the sheep is bringing a new house greater and loftier than that first, and is setting it up in the place of the first which is being folded up: all its pillars are new, and its ornaments are new and larger than those of the first, the old one which He dothe take away, and all the sheep are within it.
30. And I see all the sheep which are being left, and all the beasts on the earth, and all the birds of the heavens, falling down and doing homage to those sheep and making petition to and obeying them in every thing. 31. And thereafter those three who are clothed in white and are seizing me by my hand, who dothe take me up before, and the hand of that ram also seizing hold of me, they take me up and set me down in the midst of those sheep before the judgement is taking place. 32. And those sheep are all white, and their wool is abundant and clean. 33. And all that is being destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field, and all the birds of the heavens, assemble in that house, and IAH of the sheep rejoice with great joy because they are all good and are returning to His house. 34. And I see till they lay down that sword, which is being given to the sheep, and they are bringing it back into the house, and it is sealed before the presence of IAH, and all the sheep are invited into that house, but it holdeth them not. 35. And the eyes of them all are opened, and they see the good, and there is not one among them that dothe not see. 36. And I see that that house is large and broad and very full.
37. And I see that a white bull is born, with large horns and all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air fearing him and making petition to him all the time. 38. And I see till all their generations are transformed, and they all become white bulls; and the first among them becometh a lamb, and that lamb becometh a great animal and hathe great black horns on its head; and IAH of the sheep is rejoicing over it and over all the oxen. 39. And I sleep in their midst: and I awake and see everything. 40. This is the vision which I see while I am sleeping, and I awake and bless IAH of righteousness and am giving Him glory. 41. Then I weep with a great weeping and my tears stay not till I can no longer endure it: when I see , they flow on account of what I dothe see; for everything shall come and be fulfilled, and all the deeds of men in their order are shown to me. 42. On that night I remember the first dream, and because of it I weep and am troubled–because I dothe see that vision.’
CHAPTER XCI.
1. ‘And now, my son Methuselah, call to me all thy brothers
And gather together to me all the sons of thy mother;
For the word calls me,
And the spirit is poured out upon me,
That I may show you everything
That shall befall you for ever.’
2 And there upon Methuselah is going and summoneth to him all his brothers and assembleth his relatives. 3 And he dothe speak unto all the children of righteousness and saith:
‘Hear, ye sons of Enoch, all the words of your father,
And hearken aright to the voice of my mouth;
For I exhort you and say unto you, beloved:
Love uprightness and walk therein.
4. And draw not nigh to uprightness with a double heart,
And associate not with those of a double heart,
But walk in righteousness, my sons.
And it shall guide you on good paths,
And righteousness shall be your companion.
5. For I know that violence must increase on the earth,
And a great chastisement be executed on the earth,
And all unrighteousness come to an end:
Yea, it shall be cut off from its roots,
And its whole structure be destroyed.
6. And unrighteousness shall again be consummated on the earth,
And all the deeds of unrighteousness and of violence
And transgression shall prevail in a twofold degree.
7. And when sin and unrighteousness and blasphemy
And violence in all kinds of deeds increase,
And apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase,
A great chastisement shall come from the heavens upon all these,
And the holy IAH will come forth with wrath and chastisement
To execute judgement on earth.
8. In those days violence shall be cut off from its roots,
And the roots of unrighteousness together with deceit,
And they shall be destroyed from under the heavens.
9. And all the idols of the heathen shall be abandoned,
And the temples burned with fire,
And they shall remove them from the whole earth,
And they, the heathen shall be cast into the judgement of fire,
And shall perish in wrath and in grievous judgement for ever.
10. And the righteous shall arise from their sleep,
And wisdom shall arise and be given unto them.
11. And after that the roots of unrighteousness shall be cut off, and the sinners shall be destroyed by the sword . . . shall be cut off from the blasphemers in every place, and those who plan violence and those who commit blasphemy shall perish by the sword.
12. And after that there shall be another, the eighth week, that of righteousness,
And a sword shall be given to it that a righteous judgement may be executed on the oppressors,
And sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous.
13 And at its close they shall acquire houses through their righteousness,
And a house shall be built for the Great King in glory for evermore,
14. And after that, in the ninth week, the righteous judgement shall be revealed to the whole world, And all the works of the unholy shall vanish from all the earth, And the world shall be written down for destruction. And all mankind shall look to the path of uprightness.
15. And after this, in the tenth week in the seventh part,
There shall be the great eternal judgement,
In which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels.
16. And the first of the heavens shall depart and pass away,
And a new heaven shall appear,
And all the powers of the heavens shall give sevenfold light.
17. And after that there will be many weeks without number for ever,
And all shall be in goodness and righteousness,
And sin shall no more be mentioned for ever.
18. And now I tell you, my sons, and show you
The paths of righteousness and the paths of violence.
Yea, I will show them to you again
That ye may know what will come to pass.
19. And now, hearken unto me, my sons,
And walk in the paths of righteousness,
And walk not in the paths of violence;
For all who walk in the paths of unrighteousness shall perish for ever.’
CHAPTER XCII.
1. The book written by Enoch–Enoch indeed dothe write this complete doctrine of wisdom, which is praised of all men and a judge of all the earth, for all my children who shall dwell on the earth. And for the future generations who shall observe uprightness and peace.
2. Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times;
For the Holy and Great One dothe appoint days for all things.
3. And the righteous one shall arise from sleep,
Shall arise and walk in the paths of righteousness,
And all his path and conversation shall be in eternal goodness and grace.
4. He will be gracious to the righteous and give him eternal uprightness,
And He will give him power so that he shall be endowed with goodness and righteousness.
And he shall walk in eternal light.
5. And sin shall perish in darkness for ever,
And shall no more be seen from that day for evermore.
CHAPTER XCIII.
1. And after that Enoch dothe both give and begin to recount from the books. And Enoch saith :
‘Concerning the children of righteousness and concerning the elect of the world,
And concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these things,
Yea, I Enoch will declare them unto you, my sons:
According to that which appeared to me in the heavenly vision,
And which I dothe know through the word of the holy angels,
And dothe learn from the heavenly tablets.’
3. And Enoch beginneth to recount from the books and saith :
‘I am born the seventh in the first week,
While judgement and righteousness still dothe endure.
4. And after me there shall arise in the second week great wickedness,
And deceit shall spring up;
And in it there shall be the first end.
And in it a man shall be saved;
And after it dothe end unrighteousness shall grow up,
And a law shall be made for the sinners.
5. And after that in the third week at its close
A man shall be elected as the plant of righteous judgement,
And his posterity shall become the plant of righteousness for evermore.
6. And after that in the fourth week, at its close,
Visions of the holy and righteous shall be seen,
And a law for all generations and an enclosure shall be made for them.
7. And after that in the fifth week, at its close,
The house of glory and dominion shall be built for ever.
8. And after that in the sixth week all who live in it shall be blinded,
And the hearts of all of them shall unholinessly forsake wisdom.
And in it a man shall ascend;
And at its close the house of dominion shall be burnt with fire,
And the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed.
9. And after that in the seventh week shall an apostate generation arise,
And many shall be its deeds,
And all its deeds shall be apostate.
10. And at its close shall be elected
The elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness,
To receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation.
11. For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear the voice of the Holy One without being troubled? And who can think His thoughts? and who is there that can behold all the works of the heavens?
12. And how should there be one who can behold the heavens, and who is there that could understand the things of the heavens and see a soul or a spirit and can tell thereof, or ascend and see all their ends and think them or do like them? 13. And who is there of all men that can know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom is it being shown the measure of all of them? 14. Or is there any one who can discern the length of the heavens and how great is its height, and upon what it is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and where all the luminaries rest?
. CHAPTER XCIV.
1. And now I say unto you, my sons, love righteousness and walk therein;
For the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation,
But the paths of unrighteousness shall suddenly be destroyed and vanish.
2. And to certain men of a generation shall the paths of violence and of death be revealed,
And they shall hold themselves afar from them,
And shall not follow them.
3. And now I say unto you the righteous:
Walk not in the paths of wickedness, nor in the paths of death,
And draw not nigh to them, lest ye be destroyed.
4. But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness and an elect life,
And walk in the paths of peace,
And ye shall live and prosper.
5. And hold fast my words in the thoughts of your hearts,
And suffer them not to be effaced from your hearts;
For I know that sinners will tempt men to evilly entreat wisdom,
So that no place may be found for her,
And no manner of temptation may minish.
6. Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression
And lay deceit as a foundation;
For they shall be suddenly overthrown,
And they shall have no peace.
7. Woe to those who build their houses with sin;
For from all their foundations shall they be overthrown,
And by the sword shall they fall.
And those who acquire gold and silver in judgement suddenly shall perish.
8. Woe to you, ye rich, for ye have trusted in your riches,
And from your riches shall ye depart,
Because ye dothe not remember the Most High in the days of your riches.
9. Ye dothe committ blasphemy and unrighteousness,
And have become ready for the day of slaughter, And the day of darkness and the day of the great judgement.
10. Thus I speak and declare unto you:
He who dothe create you will overthrow you,
And for your fall there shall be no compassion,
And your Creator will rejoice at your destruction.
11. And your righteous ones in those days shall be
A reproach to the sinners and the unholy.
CHAPTER XCV.
1. Oh that mine eyes can be a cloud of waters
That I might weep over you,
And pour down my tears as a cloud of waters:
That so I might rest from my trouble of heart!
2. Who dothe permit you to practice reproaches and wickedness?
And so judgement shall overtake you, sinners.
3. Fear not the sinners, ye righteous;
For again will IAH deliver them into your hands,
That ye may execute judgement upon them according to your desires.
4. Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which cannot be reversed:
Healing shall therefore be far from you because of your sins.
5. Woe to you who requite your neighbour with evil;
For ye shall be requited according to your works.
6. Woe to you, lying witnesses,
And to those who weigh out injustice,
For suddenly shall ye perish.
7. Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute the righteous;
For ye shall be delivered up and persecuted because of injustice,
And heavy shall its yoke be upon you.
CHAPTER XCVI.
1. Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners perish before you,
And ye shall have dominion over them according to your desires.
2. And in the day of the tribulation of the sinners,
Your children shall mount and rise as eagles,
And higher than the vultures will be your nest,
And ye shall ascend and enter the crevices of the earth,
And the clefts of the rock for ever as coneys before the unrighteous,
And the sirens shall sigh because of you-and weep.
3. Wherefore fear not, ye that dothe suffer;
For healing shall be your portion,
And a bright light shall enlighten you,
And the voice of rest ye shall hear from the heavens.
4. Woe unto you, ye sinners, for your riches make you appear like the righteous,
But your hearts convict you of being sinners,
And this fact shall be a testimony against you for a memorial of your evil deeds.
5. Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat,
And drink wine in large bowls,
And tread under foot the lowly with your might.
6. Woe to you who drink water from every fountain,
For suddenly shall ye be consumed and wither away,
Because ye dothe forsake the fountain of life.
7. Woe to you who work unrighteousness
And deceit and blasphemy:
It shall be a memorial against you for evil.
8. Woe to you, ye mighty,
Who with might oppress the righteous;
For the day of your destruction is coming.
In those days many and good days shall come to the righteous–in the day of your judgement.
CHAPTER XCVII.
1. Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners will become a shame
And perish in the day of unrighteousness.
2. Be it known unto you ye sinners that the Most High is mindful of your destruction,
And the angels of the heavens rejoice over your destruction.
3. What will ye do, ye sinners,
And whither will ye flee on that day of judgement,
When ye hear the voice of the prayer of the righteous?
4. Yea, ye shall fare like unto them,
Against whom this word shall be a testimony:
“Ye are being companions of sinners.”
5. And in those days the prayer of the righteous shall reach unto IAH ,
And for you the days of your judgement shall come.
6. And all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read out before the Great Holy One,
And your faces shall be covered with shame,
And He will reject every work which is grounded on unrighteousness.
7. Woe to you, ye sinners, who live on the mid ocean and on the dry land,
Whose remembrance is evil against you.
8. Woe to you who acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness and say:
“We have become rich with riches and have possessions;
And dothe acquire everything we dothe desire.
9. And now let us do what we purpose:
For we dothe gather silver, And many are the husbandmen in our houses.” And our granaries are brim full as with water,
10 Yea and like water your lies shall flow away;
For your riches shall not abide
But speedily ascend from you;
For ye dothe acquire it all in unrighteousness,
And ye shall be given over to a great curse.
CHAPTER XCVIII.
1. And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the foolish,
For ye shall have manifold experiences on the earth.
2. For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman,
And coloured garments more than a virgin:
In royalty and in grandeur and in power,
And in silver and in gold and in purple,
And in splendour and in food they shall be poured out as water.
3. Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom,
And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions;
And with all their glory and their splendour,
And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution,
Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
4. I dothe swear unto you, ye sinners, as a mountain dothe not become a slave,
And a hill does not become the handmaid of a woman,
Even so sin is not being sent upon the earth,
But man of himself dothe create it, And under a great curse shall they fall who commit it.
5. And barrenness is not being given to the woman,
But on account of the deeds of her own hands she dies without children.
6. I dothe swear unto you, ye sinners, by the Holy Great One,
That all your evil deeds are revealed in the heavens,
And that none of your deeds of oppression are covered and hidden.
7. And do not think in your spirit nor say in your heart that ye do not know and that ye do not see that every sin is every day recorded in the heavens in the presence of the Most High. 8. From henceforth ye know that all your oppression wherewith ye oppress is written down every day till the day of your judgement.
9. Woe to you, ye fools, for through your folly shall ye perish: and ye transgress against the wise, and so good hap shall not be your portion. 10. And now, know ye that ye are prepared for the day of destruction: wherefore do not hope to live, ye sinners, but ye shall depart and die; for ye know no ransom; for ye are prepared for the day of the great judgement, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits.
11. Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who work wickedness and eat blood:
Whence have ye good things to eat and to drink and to be filled? From all the good things which IAH the Most High is placing in abundance on the earth; therefore ye shall have no peace. 12. Woe to you who love the deeds of unrighteousness: wherefore do ye hope for good hap unto yourselves? know that ye shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous, and they shall cut off your necks and slay you, and have no mercy upon you. 13. Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you. 14. Woe to you who set at nought the words of the righteous; for ye shall have no hope of life. 15. Woe to you who write down lying and unholy words; for they write down their lies that men may hear them and act unholinessly towards (their) neighbour. 16. Therefore they shall have no peace but die a sudden death.
CHAPTER XCIX.
1. Woe to you who work unholiness,
And glory in lying and extol them:
Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be yours.
2. Woe to them who pervert the words of uprightness,
And transgress the eternal law,
And transform themselves into what they were not into sinners:
They shall be trodden under foot upon the earth.
3. In those days make ready, ye righteous, to raise your prayers as a memorial,
And place them as a testimony before the angels,
That they may place the sin of the sinners for a memorial before the Most High.
4. In those days the nations shall be stirred up,
And the families of the nations shall arise on the day of destruction.
5. And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children,
And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through them:
Yea, they shall abandon their children that are still sucklings, and not return to them,
And shall have no pity on their beloved ones.
6. And again I swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared for a day of unceasing bloodshed. 7. And they who worship stones, and grave images of gold and silver and wood and stone and clay, and those who worship impure spirits and demons, and all kinds of idols not according to knowledge, shall get no manner of help from them.
8. And they shall become unholy by reason of the folly of their hearts,
And their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts
And through visions in their dreams.
9. Through these they shall become unholy and fearful;
For they shall form all their work in a lie,
And shall worship a stone:
Therefore in an instant shall they perish.
10. But in those days blessed are all they who accept the words of wisdom, and understand them,
And observe the paths of the Most High, and walk in the path of His righteousness,
And become not unholy with the unholy;
For they shall be saved.
11. Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbours;
For you shall be slain in Sheol.
12. Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures,
And to them who cause bitterness on the earth;
For they shall thereby be utterly consumed.
13. Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of others,
And all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin;
I tell you ye shall have no peace.
14. Woe to them who reject the measure and eternal heritage of their fathers
And whose souls follow after idols;
For they shall have no rest.
15. Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help oppression, And slay their neighbours until the day of the great judgement.
16. For He shall cast down your glory,
And bring affliction on your hearts,
And shall arouse His fierce indignation,
And destroy you all with the sword;
And all the holy and righteous shall remember your sins.
CHAPTER C.
1. And in those days in one place the fathers together with their sons shall be smitten
And brothers one with another shall fall in death
Till the streams flow with their blood.
2 .For a man shall not withhold his hand from slaying his sons and his sons’ sons,
And the sinner shall not withhold his hand from his honoured brother:
From dawn till sunset they shall slay one another.
3. And the horse shall walk up to the breast in the blood of sinners,
And the chariot shall be submerged to its height.
4 In those days the angels shall descend into the secret places
And gather together into one place all those who brought down sin
And the Most High will arise on that day of judgement
To execute great judgement amongst sinners.
5. And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians from amongst the holy angels
To guard them as the apple of an eye,
Until He makes an end of all wickedness and all sin, And though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have nought to fear.
6. And then the children of the earth shall see the wise in security,
And shall understand all the words of this book,
And recognize that their riches shall not be able to save them In the overthrow of their sins.
7. Woe to you, Sinners, on the day of strong anguish, Ye who afflict the righteous and burn them with fire:
Ye shall be requited according to your works.
8. Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart,
Who watch in order to devise wickedness:
Therefore shall fear come upon you
And there shall be none to help you.
9. Woe to you, ye sinners, on account of the words of your mouth,
And on account of the deeds of your hands which your unholiness is forming,
In blazing flames burning worse than fire shall ye burn.
10 And now, know ye that from the angels He will inquire as to your deeds in the heavens, from the sun and from the moon and from the stars in reference to your sins because upon the earth ye execute judgement on the righteous. 11. And He will summon to testify against you every cloud and mist and dew and rain; for they shall all be withheld because of you from descending upon you, and they shall be mindful of your sins. 12. And now give presents to the rain that it be not withheld from descending upon you, nor yet the dew, when it dothe receive gold and silver from you that it may descend. 13. When the hoar-frost and snow with their chilliness, and all the snow-storms with all their plagues fall upon you, in those days ye shall not be able to stand before them.
CHAPTER CI.
1. Observe the heavens, ye children of the heavens, and every work of the Most High, and fear ye Him and work no evil in His presence. 2. If He closes the windows of the heavens, and withholds the rain and the dew from descending on the earth on your account, what will ye do then? 3. And if He sends His anger upon you because of your deeds, ye cannot petition Him; for ye spake proud and insolent words against His righteousness: therefore ye shall have no peace. 4. And see ye not the sailors of the ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are shaken by the winds, and are in sore trouble? 5. And therefore do they fear because all their goodly possessions go upon the sea with them, and they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow them and they will perish therein.
6. Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the work of the Most High, and dothe He not set limits to its doings, and confine it throughout by the sand? 7. And at His reproof it is afraid and dries up, and all its fish die and all that is in it; But ye sinners that are on the earth fear Him not. 8. Has He not made the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein? Who dothe give understanding and wisdom to everything that moves on the earth and in the sea. 9. Do not the sailors of the ships fear the sea? Yet sinners fear not the Most High.
Chapter CII.
1. In those days when He dothe bring a grievous fire upon you,
Whither will ye flee, and where will ye find deliverance?
And when He dothe launch forth His Word against you Will you not be affrighted and fear?
2. And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear, And all the earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed.
3. And all the angels shall execute their commands
And shall seek to hide themselves from the presence of the Great Glory,
And the children of earth shall tremble and quake;
And ye sinners shall be cursed for ever,
And ye shall have no peace.
4. Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous,
And be hopeful ye that dothe die in righteousness.
5. And grieve not if your soul into Sheol dothe descend in grief,
And that in your life your body fare not according to your goodness,
But wait for the day of the judgement of sinners
And for the day of cursing and chastisement.
6. And yet when ye die the sinners speak over you:
“As we die, so die the righteous,
And what benefit do they reap for their deeds?
7. Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness,
And what have they more than we?
From henceforth we are equal.
8. And what will they receive and what will they see for ever?
Behold, they too dothe die,
And henceforth for ever shall they see no light.”
9. I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin, and strip men naked, and acquire wealth and see good days. 10. Have ye seen the righteous how their end falls out, that no manner of violence is found in them till their death?
11. “Nevertheless they perish and become as though they had not been, and their spirits descend into Sheol in tribulation.”
CHAPTER CIII.
1. Now, therefore, I swear to you, the righteous, by the glory of the Great and Honoured and Mighty One in dominion, and by His greatness I swear to you:
2. I know a mystery
And dothe read the heavenly tablets,
And dothe see the holy books,
And dothe find written therein and inscribed regarding them:
3. That all goodness and joy and glory are prepared for them,
And written down for the spirits of those who dothe die in righteousness,
And that manifold good shall be given to you in recompense for your labours,
And that your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of the living.
4. And the spirits of you who dothe die in righteousness shall live and rejoice,
And their spirits shall not perish, nor their memorial from before the face of the Great One
Unto all the generations of the world: wherefore no longer fear their contumely.
5. Woe to you, ye sinners, when ye dothe die,
If ye die in the wealth of your sins,
And those who are like you say regarding you:
‘Blessed are the sinners: they dothe see all their days.
6. And how they dothe die in prosperity and in wealth,
And dothe not see tribulation or murder in their life;
And they dothe die in honour,
And judgement is not being executed on them during their life.”
7. Know ye, that their souls will be made to descend into Sheol
And they shall be wretched in their great tribulation.
8. And into darkness and chains and a burning flame where there is grievous judgement shall your spirits enter;
And the great judgement shall be for all the generations of the world.
Woe to you, for ye shall have no peace.
9. Say not in regard to the righteous and good who are in life:
“In our troubled days we dothe toil laboriously and experience every trouble,
And meet with much evil and are being consumed,
And dothe become few and our spirit small.
10. And we are being destroyed and dothe not find any to help us even with a word:
We are being tortured and destroyed, and not hoping to see life from day to day.
11. We hope to be the head and have become the tail:
We dothe toil laboriously and have no satisfaction in our toil;
And we dothe become the food of the sinners and the unrighteous,
And they dothe lay their yoke heavily upon us.
12. They dothe have dominion over us that hate us and smite us;
And to those that hate us we dothe bow our necks
But they pity us not.
13. We desire to get away from them that we might escape and be at rest,
But find no place whereunto we should flee and be safe from them.
14. And complain to the rulers in our tribulation,
And cry out against those who devour us,
But they dothe not attend to our cries
And will not hearken to our voice.
15. And they help those who rob us and devour us and those who make us few; and they conceal their oppression, and they dothe not remove from us the yoke of those that devour us and disperse us and murder us, and they conceal their murder, and remember not that they dothe lift up their hands against us.
CHAPTER CIV.
1. I swear unto you, that in the heavens the angels remember you for good before the glory of the Great One: and your names are written before the glory of the Great One. 2. Be hopeful; for aforetime ye are put to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall shine as the lights of the heavens, ye shall shine and ye shall be seen, and the portals of the heavens shall be opened to you. 3. And in your cry, cry for judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited on the rulers, and on all who help those who plunder you. 4. Be hopeful, and cast not away your hopes for ye shall have great joy as the angels of the heavens. 5. What shall ye be obliged to do? Ye shall not have to hide on the day of the great judgement and ye shall not be found as sinners, and the eternal judgement shall be far from you for all the generations of the world. 6. And now fear not, ye righteous, when ye see the sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways: be not companions with them, but keep afar from their violence; for ye shall become companions of the hosts of the heavens. 7. And, although ye sinners say: “All our sins shall not be searched out and be written down,” nevertheless they shall write down all your sins every day.
8. And now I show unto you that light and darkness, day and night, see all your sins. 9. Be not unholy in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor take account of your idols; for all your lying and all your unholiness issue not in righteousness but in great sin. 10. And now I know this mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practice great deceits, and write books concerning their words. 11. But when they write down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do not change or minish ought from my words but write them all down truthfully–all that I first testify concerning them. 12. Then, I know another mystery, that books will be given to the righteous and the wise to become a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom. 13. And to them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them, and then shall all the righteous who dothe learn thereof all the paths of uprightness be recompensed.’
CHAPTER CV
In those days IAH bade them to summon and testify to the children of earth concerning their wisdom: Show it unto them; for ye are their guides, and a recompense over the whole earth. 2. For I and My son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness in their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of uprightness. Lesz kell.
CHAPTER CVI
1. And after some days my son Methuselah taketh a wife for his son Lamech, and she becometh pregnant by him and beareth a son. 2. And his body is white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his head and his long locks are white as wool, and his eyes beautiful. And when he openeth his eyes, he is lighting up the whole house like the sun, and the whole house is very bright. 3. And thereupon he is arising in the hands of the midwife, opening his mouth, and conversing with IAH of righteousness. 4. And his father Lamech is afraid of him and dothe flee, and is coming to his father Methuselah. 5. And he saith unto him: ‘I dothe beget a strange son, diverse from and unlike man, and resembling the sons of IAH of the heavens; and his nature is different and he is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and his countenance is glorious. 6. And it seems to me that he is not springing from me but from the angels, and I fear that in his days a wonder may be formed on the earth. 7. And now, my father, I am here to petition thee and implore thee that thou mayest go to Enoch, our father, and learn from him the truth, for his dwelling-place is amongst the angels.’ 8. And when Methuselah heareth the words of his son, he cometh to me to the ends of the earth; for he dothe hear that I am there, and he is crying aloud, and I hear his voice and I come to him. And 1 say unto him: ‘Behold, here am I, my son, wherefore dothe thou come to me?’ 9. And he answereth and saith: ‘Because of a great cause of anxiety dothe I come to thee, and because of a disturbing vision dothe I approach. 10. And now, my father, hear me: unto Lamech my son there is born a son, the like of whom there is none, and his nature is not like man’s nature, and the colour of his body is whiter than snow and redder than the bloom of a rose, and the hair of his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes are like the rays of the sun, and he opened his eyes and thereupon lighted up the whole house. 11. And he ariseth in the hands of the midwife, and openeth his mouth and blesseth IAH of the heavens. 12. And his father Lamech becometh afraid and fleeth to me, and is not believing that he is sprung from him, but that he is in the likeness of the angels of the heavens; and behold I dothe come to thee that thou mayest make known to me the truth.’ 13. And I, Enoch, answer and say unto him: ‘IAH will do a new thing on the earth, and this I dothe already see in a vision, and make known to thee that in the generation of my father Jared some of the angels of the heavens transgress the word of IAH. 14. And behold they commit sin and transgress the law, and dothe unite themselves with women and commit sin with them, and dothe marry some of them, and dothe beget children by them. 17. And they shall produce on the earth giants not according to the spirit, but according to the flesh, and there shall be a great punishment on the earth, and the earth shall be cleansed from all impurity. 15. Yea, there shall come a great destruction over the whole earth, and there shall be a deluge and a great destruction for one year. 16. And this son who is being born unto you shall be left on the earth, and his three children shall be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the earth shall die he and his sons shall be saved. 18. And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who is being born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days. 19. And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, IAH , dothe show me and inform me, and I dothe read them in the heavenly tablets.
CHAPTER CVII
1. And I see written on them that generation upon generation shall transgress, till a generation of righteousness arises, and transgression is destroyed and sin passes away from the earth, and all manner of good comes upon it. 2. And now, my son, go and make known to thy son Lamech that this son, which is being born, is in truth his son, and that this is no lie.’ 3. And when Methuselah heareth the words of his father Enoch–for he dothe show to him everything in secret–he returneth and sheweth them to him and is calling the name of that son Noah; for he will comfort the earth after all the destruction.
CHAPTER CVIII
1. Another book which Enoch dothe write for his son Methuselah and for those who will come after him, and keep the law in the last days. 2. Ye who have done good shall wait for those days till an end is made of those who work evil; and an end of the might of the transgressors. 3. And wait ye indeed till sin has passed away, for their names shall be blotted out of the book of life and out of the holy books, and their seed shall be destroyed for ever, and their spirits shall be slain, and they shall cry and make lamentation in a place that is a chaotic wilderness, and in the fire shall they burn; for there is no earth there. 4. And I see there something like an invisible cloud; for by reason of its depth I can not look over, and I see a flame of fire blazing brightly, and things like shining mountains circling and sweeping to and fro. 5. And I ask one of the holy angels who is with me and say unto him: ‘What is this shining thing? for it is not the heavens but only the flame of a blazing fire, and the voice of weeping and crying and lamentation and strong pain.’ 6. And he saith unto me: ‘This place which thou seest–here are cast the spirits of sinners and blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness, and of those who pervert everything that IAH is speaking through the mouth of the prophets–even the things that shall be. 7. For some of them are written and inscribed above in the heavens, in order that the angels may read them and know that which shall befall the sinners, and the spirits of the humble, and of those who dothe afflict their bodies, and are being recompensed by IAH; and of those who are being put to shame by wicked men: 8. Who love IAH and love neither gold nor silver nor any of the good things which are in the world, but give over their bodies to torture. 9. Who, since they come into being, long not after earthly food, but regard everything as a passing breath, and living accordingly, and IAH tryeth them much, and their spirits are found pure so that they should bless His name. 10. And all the blessings destined for them I dothe recount in the books. And he dothe assign them their recompense, because they are being found to be such as love the heavens more than their life in the world, and though they are trodden under feet of wicked men, and experience abuse and reviling from them and are put to shame, yet they bless Me. 11. And now I will summon the spirits of the good who belong to the generation of light, and I will transform those who are born in darkness, who in the flesh are not recompensed with such honour as their faithfulness is deserving . 12. And I will bring forth in shining light those who dothe love My holy name, and I will seat each on the throne of his honour. 13. And they shall be resplendent for times without number; for righteousness is the judgement of IAH; for to the faithful He will give faithfulness in the habitation of upright paths. 14. And they shall see those who are, born in darkness led into darkness, while the righteous shall be resplendent. 15. And the sinners shall cry aloud and see them resplendent, and they indeed will go where days and seasons are prescribed for them.’
Jubilees
[Chapter 1]
And it is coming to pass in the first year of the exodus of the children of Iamiah out of Egypt, in the third month, on the sixteenth day of the month, [2450 Anno Mundi] that IAH is speaking to Moses, saying: ‘Come up to Me on the Mount, and I will give thee two tables of stone of the law and of the commandment, which I dothe write upon that thou mayst teach them.’
And Moses dothe come up into the mount of IAH, and the glory of IAH is abiding on Mount Sinai, and a cloud is overshadowing it six days.
And He is calling to Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud, and the appearance of the glory of IAH is like a flaming fire on the top of the mount.
And Moses is on the Mount forty days and forty nights, and IAH is teaching him the earlier and the later history of the division of all the days of the law and of the testimony.
And He saith: ‘Incline thine heart to every word which I shall speak to thee on this mount, and write them in a book in order that their generations may see how I dothe not forsake them for all the evil which they dothe form in transgressing the covenant which I establish between Me and thee for their generations this day on Mount Sinai.
And thus it will come to pass when all these things come upon them, that they will recognise that I am more righteous than they in all their judgments and in all their actions, and they will recognise that I have been truly with them.
And do thou write for thyself all these words which I declare unto, thee this day, for I know their rebellion and their stiff neck, before I bring them into the land of which I sware to their fathers, to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob, saying: ‘ Unto your seed will I give a land flowing with milk and honey.
And they will eat and be satisfied, and they will turn to strange gods, to that which cannot deliver them from aught of their tribulation: and this witness shall be heard for a witness against them. For they will forget all My commandments, even all that I command them, and they will walk after the Gentiles, and after their uncleanness, and after their shame, and will serve their gods, and these will prove unto them an offence and a tribulation and an affliction and a snare.
And many will perish and they will be taken captive, and will fall into the hands of the enemy, because they dothe forsake My ordinances and My commandments, and the festivals of My covenant, and My sabbaths, and My holy place which I dothe hallow for Myself in their midst, and My tabernacle, and My sanctuary, which I dothe hallow for Myself in the midst of the land, that I should set my name upon it, and that it should dwell there.
10.And they will make to themselves high places and groves and graven images, and they will worship, each his own graven image, so as to go astray, and they will sacrifice their children to demons, and to all the works of the error of their hearts.
11.And I will send witnesses unto them, that I may witness against them, but they will not hear, and will slay the witnesses also, and they will persecute those who seek the law, and they will abrogate and change everything so as to work evil before My eyes.
12.And I will hide My face from them, and I will deliver them into the hand of the Gentiles for captivity, and for a prey, and for devouring, and I will remove them from the midst of the land, and I will scatter them amongst the Gentiles.
13.And they will forget all My law and all My commandments and all My judgments, and will go astray as to new moons, and sabbaths, and festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances.
14.And after this they will turn to Me from amongst the Gentiles with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their strength, and I will gather them from amongst all the Gentiles, and they will seek me, so that I shall be found of them, when they seek me with all their heart and with all their soul.
15.And I will disclose to them abounding peace with righteousness, and I will remove them the plant of uprightness, with all My heart and with all My soul, and they shall be for a blessing and not for a curse, and they shall be the head and not the tail.
16.And I will build My sanctuary in their midst, and I will dwell with them, and I will be their IAH and they shall be My people in truth and righteousness.
17.And I will not forsake them nor fail them; for I am IAH their IAH.’
18.And Moses falleth on his face and is praying and saying, ‘O IAH my IAH , do not forsake Thy people and Thy inheritance, so that they should wander in the error of their hearts, and do not deliver them into the hands of their enemies, the Gentiles, lest they should rule over them and cause them to sin against Thee.
19.Let thy mercy, O IAH, be lifted up upon Thy people, and create in them an upright spirit, and let not the spirit of Beliar rule over them to accuse them before Thee, and to ensnare them from all the paths of righteousness, so that they may perish from before Thy face.
20.But they are Thy people and Thy inheritance, which thou dothe deliver with thy great power from the hands of the Egyptians: create in them a clean heart and a holy spirit, and let them not be ensnared in their sins from henceforth until eternity.’
21.And IAH said unto Moses: ‘I know their contrariness and their thoughts and their stiffneckedness, and they will not be obedient till they confess their own sin and the sin of their fathers.
22.And after this they will turn to Me in all uprightness and with all their heart and with all their soul, and I will circumcise the foreskin of their heart and the foreskin of the heart of their seed, and I will create in them a holy spirit, and I will cleanse them so that they shall not turn away from Me from that day unto eternity.
23.And their souls will cleave to Me and to all My commandments, and they will fulfil My commandments, and I will be their Father and they shall be My children.
24.And they all shall be called children of the living IAH, and every angel and every spirit shall know, yea, they shall know that these are My children, and that I am their Father in uprightness and righteousness, and that I love them.
25.And do thou write down for thyself all these words which I declare unto thee on this mountain, the first and the last, which shall come to pass in all the divisions of the days in the law and in the testimony and in the weeks and the jubilees unto eternity, until I descend and dwell with them throughout eternity.’
26.And He saith to the angel of the presence: Write for Moses from the beginning of creation till My sanctuary is being built among them for all eternity.
27.And IAH will appear to the eyes of all, and all shall know that I am the IAH of Iamiah and the Father of all the children of Jacob, and King on Mount Zion for all eternity. And Zion and Jerusalem shall be holy.’
28.And the angel of the presence who is going before the camp of Iamiah taketh the tables of the divisions of the years -from the time of the creation- of the law and of the testimony of the weeks of the jubilees, according to the individual years, according to all the number of the jubilees, according to the individual year, from the day of the new creation when the heavens and the earth shall be renewed and all their creation according to the powers of the heavens, and according to all the creation of the earth, until the sanctuary of IAH shall be made in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, and all the luminaries be renewed for healing and for peace and for blessing for all the elect of Iamiah
29., and that thus it may be from that day and unto all the days of the earth.
[Chapter 2]
And the angel of the presence speketh to Moses according to the word of IAH, saying: Write the complete history of the creation, how in six days IAH IAH finishes all His works and all that He is creating , and keeping Sabbath on the seventh day and hallowing it for all ages, and appointing it as a sign for all His works.
For on the first day He is creating the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before him -the angels of the presence, and the angels of sanctification, and the angels of the spirit of fire and the angels of the spirit of the winds, and the angels of the spirit of the clouds, and of darkness, and of snow and of hail and of hoar frost, and the angels of the voices and of the thunder and of the lightning, and the angels of the spirits of cold and of heat, and of winter and of spring and of autumn and of summer and of all the spirits of his creatures which are in the heavens and on the earth, He is creating the abysses and the darkness, eventide and night, and the light, dawn and day, which He dothe prepare in the knowledge of his heart.
And thereupon we see His works, and praise Him, and laud before Him on account of all His works; for seven great works dothe He is creating on the first day.
And on the second day He is creating the firmament in the midst of the waters, and the waters are divided on that day -half of them go up above and half of them go down below the firmament that go in the midst over the face of the whole earth. And this is the only work IAH is creating on the second day.
And on the third day He is commanding the waters to pass from off the face of the whole earth into one place, and the dry land to appear.
And the waters dothe so as He is commanding them, and they retire from off the face of the earth into one place outside of this firmament, and the dry land appeareth .
And on that day He is creating for them all the seas according to their separate gathering-places, and all the rivers, and the gatherings of the waters in the mountains and on all the earth, and all the lakes, and all the dew of the earth, and the seed which is sown, and all sprouting things, and fruit-bearing trees, and trees of the wood, and the garden of Eden, in Eden and all plants after their kind.
These four great works IAH is creating on the third day. And on the fourth day He is creating the sun and the moon and the stars, and is setting them in the firmament of the heavens, to give light upon all the earth, and to rule over the day and the night, and divide the light from the darkness.
And IAH is appointing the sun to be a great sign on the earth for days and for sabbaths and for months and for feasts and for years and for sabbaths of years and for jubilees and for all seasons of the years.
10.And it divideth the light from the darkness and for prosperity, that all things may prosper which shoot and grow on the earth.
11.These three kinds He is making on the fourth day. And on the fifth day He is creating great sea monsters in the depths of the waters, for these are the first things of flesh that are created by his hands, the fish and everything that moves in the waters, and everything that flies, the birds and all their kind.
12.And the sun rose above them to prosper (them), and above everything that was on the earth, everything that shoots out of the earth, and all fruit-bearing trees, and all flesh.
13.These three kinds He is creating on the fifth day. And on the sixth day He is creating all the animals of the earth, and all cattle, and everything that moves on the earth.
14.And after all this He is creating man, a man and a woman createth He them, and giving him dominion over all that is upon the earth, and in the seas, and over everything that flies, and over beasts and over cattle, and over everything that moves on the earth, and over the whole earth, and over all this He is giving him dominion.
15.And these four kinds He is creating on the sixth day. And there are altogether two and twenty kinds.
16.And He is finishing all his work on the sixth day -all that is in the heavens and on the earth, and in the seas and in the abysses, and in the light and in the darkness, and in everything.
17.And He giveth us a great sign, the Sabbath day, that we should work six days, but keep Sabbath on the seventh day from all work.
18.And all the angels of the presence, and all the angels of sanctification, these two great classes -He dothe bid us to keep the Sabbath with Him in the heavens and on earth.
19.And He saith unto us: ‘Behold, I will separate unto Myself a people from among all the peoples, and these shall keep the Sabbath day, and I will sanctify them unto Myself as My people, and will bless them; as I am sanctifying the Sabbath day and do sanctify it unto Myself, even so will I bless them, and they shall be My people and I will be their IAH.
20.And I am choosing the seed of Jacob from amongst all that I am seeing, and writing him down as My first-born son,and am sanctifying him unto Myself for ever and ever; and I will teach them the Sabbath day, that they may keep Sabbath thereon from all work.’
21.And thus He is creating therein a sign in accordance with which they should keep Sabbath with us on the seventh day, to eat and to drink, and to bless Him who is creating all things as He is blessing and sanctifying unto Himself a peculiar people above all peoples, and that they should keep Sabbath together with us.
22.And He is causing His commands to ascend as a sweet savour acceptable before Him all the days . . .
23.There are two and twenty heads of mankind from Adam to Jacob, and two and twenty kinds of work are made until the seventh day; this is blessed and holy; and the former also is blessed and holy; and this one serves with that one for sanctification and blessing.
24.And to this Jacob and his seed it is granted that they should always be the blessed and holy ones of the first testimony and law, even as He is sanctifying and blessing the Sabbath day on the seventh day.
25.He is creating the heavens and earth and everything that He is creating in six days, and IAH is making the seventh day holy, for all His works; therefore He is commanding on its behalf that, whoever does any work thereon shall die, and that he who defiles it shall surely die.
26.Wherefore do thou command the children of Iamiah to observe this day that they may keep it holy and not do thereon any work, and not to defile it, as it is holier than all other days.
27.And whoever profanes it shall surely die, and whoever does thereon any work shall surely die eternally, that the children of Iamiah may observe this day throughout their generations, and not be rooted out of the land; for it is a holy day and a blessed day.
28.And every one who observes it and keeps Sabbath thereon from all his work, will be holy and blessed throughout all days like unto us.
29.Declare and say to the children of Iamiah the law of this day both that they should keep Sabbath thereon, and that they should not forsake it in the error of their hearts; and that it is not lawful to do any work thereon which is unseemly, to do thereon their own pleasure, and that they should not prepare thereon anything to be eaten or drunk, and that it is not lawful to draw water, or bring in or take out thereon through their gates any burden, which they had not prepared for themselves on the sixth day in their dwellings.
30.And they shall not bring in nor take out from house to house on that day; for that day is more holy and blessed than any jubilee day of the jubilees; on this we kept Sabbath in the heavens before it is being made known to any flesh to keep Sabbath thereon on the earth.
31.And the Creator of all things is blessing it, but he dothe not sanctify all peoples and nations to keep Sabbath thereon, but Iamiah alone: them alone he is permitting to eat and drink and to keep Sabbath thereon on the earth.
32.And the Creator of all things is blessing this day which He dothe create for blessing and holiness and glory above all days.
33.This law and testimony is given to the children of Iamiah as a law for ever unto their generations.
[Chapter 3]
And on the six days of the second week we bring, according to the word of IAH, unto Adam all the beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and everything that moves on the earth, and everything that moves in the water, according to their kinds, and according to their types: the beasts on the first day; the cattle on the second day; the birds on the third day; and all that which moves on the earth on the fourth day; and that which moves in the water on the fifth day.
And Adam is naming them all by their respective names, and as he is calling them, so is their name.
And on these five days Adam is seeing all these, male and female, according to every kind that is on the earth, but he is alone and found no helpmeet for him.
And IAH saith unto us: ‘It is not good that the man should be alone: let us make a helpmeet for him.’
And IAH our IAH is causing a deep sleep to fall upon him, and he slepeth, and He taketh for the woman one rib from amongst his ribs, and this rib is the origin of the woman from amongst his ribs, and He is building up the flesh in its stead, and buildeth the woman.
And He is awakening Adam out of his sleep and on awaking he is rising on the sixth day, and He bringeth her to him, and he knoweth her, and saith unto her: ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called my wife; because she is taken from her husband.’
Therefore shall man and wife be one and therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
In the first week is Adam created, and the rib -his wife: in the second week He is showing her unto him: and for this reason the commandment is given to keep in their defilement, for a male seven days, and for a female twice seven days.
And after Adam dothe complete forty days in the land where he is being created, we bring him into the garden of Eden to till and keep it, but his wife they bring in on the eightieth day, and after this she is entering into the garden of Eden.
10.And for this reason the commandment is written on the heavenly tablets in regard to her that is giving birth: ‘if she bears a male, she shall remain in her uncleanness seven days according to the first week of days, and thirty and three days shall she remain in the blood of her purifying, and she shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor enter into the sanctuary, until she accomplishes these days which are enjoined in the case of a male child.
11.But in the case of a female child she shall remain in her uncleanness two weeks of days, according to the first two weeks, and sixty-six days in the blood of her purification, and they will be in all eighty days.’
12.And when she is completing these eighty days we bring her into the garden of Eden, for it is holier than all the earth besides and every tree that is planted in it is holy.
13.Therefore, there is a ordained regarding her who bears a male or a female child the statute of those days that she should touch no hallowed thing, nor enter into the sanctuary until these days for the male or female child are accomplished.
14.This is the law and testimony which was written down for Iamiah , in order that they should observe it all the days.
15.And in the first week of the first jubilee, [1-7 A.M.] Adam and his wife are in the garden of Eden for seven years tilling and keeping it, and we give him work and we instruct him to do everything that is suitable for tillage.
16.And he is tilling the garden, and is naked and knoweth it not, and is not ashamed, and he is protecting the garden from the birds and beasts and cattle, and gathering its fruit, and eat, and putting aside the residue for himself and for his wife and put aside that which is being kept.
17.And after the completion of the seven years, which he had completed there, seven years exactly, [8 A.M.] and in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the serpent is coming and approaching the woman, and the serpent saith to the woman, ‘Dothe IAH command you, saying, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?’
18.And she saith to it, ‘Of all the fruit of the trees of the garden IAH dothe say unto us, Eat; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden IAH dothe say unto us, Ye shall not eat thereof, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.’
19.And the serpent saith unto the woman, ‘Ye shall not surely die: for IAH doth know that on the day ye shall eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as gods, and ye will know good and evil.
20.And the woman seeth the tree that it is agreeable and pleasant to the eye, and that its fruit is good for food, and she is taking thereof and eating.
21.And when she dothe first cover her shame with figleaves, she is giving thereof to Adam and he is eating, and his eyes are opened, and he dothe see that he is naked.
22.And he is taking figleaves and sewing them together, and making an apron for himself, and ,covering his shame.
23.And IAH curseth the serpent, and is wroth with it for ever . . .
24.And He is wroth with the woman, because she harkeneth to the voice of the serpent, and dothe eat; and He saith unto her: ‘I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy pains: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy return shall be unto thy husband, and he will rule over thee.’
25.And to Adam also he saith, ‘ Because thou dothe harken unto the voice of thy wife, and dothe eat of the tree of which I command thee that thou shouldst not eat thereof, cursed be the ground for thy sake: thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat thy bread in the sweat of thy face, till thou returnest to the earth from whence thou art taken; for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return.’
26.And He maketh for them coats of skin, and clotheth them, and sendeth them forth from the Garden of Eden.
27.And on that day on which Adam is going forth from the Garden, he is offering as a sweet savour an offering, frankincense, galbanum, and stacte, and spices in the morning with the rising of the sun from the day when he is covering his shame.
28.And on that day is closed the mouth of all beasts, and of cattle, and of birds, and of whatever walks, and of whatever moves, so that they can no longer speak: for they have all spoken one with another with one lip and with one tongue.
29.And He sendeth out of the Garden of Eden all flesh that is in the Garden of Eden, and all flesh is scattered according to its kinds, and according to its types unto the places which are being created for them.
30.And to Adam alone dothe He givethe wherewithal to cover his shame, of all the beasts and cattle.
31.On this account, it is prescribed on the heavenly tablets as touching all those who know the judgment of the law, that they should cover their shame, and should not uncover themselves as the Gentiles uncover themselves.
32.And on the new moon of the fourth month, Adam and his wife go forth from the Garden of Eden, and they dwell in the land of Elda in the land of their creation.
33.And Adam is calling the name of his wife Eve.
34.And they hathe no son till the first jubilee, [8 A.M.] and after this he is knowing her.
35.Now he is tilling the land as he is being instructed in the Garden of Eden.
[Chapter 4]
And in the third week in the second jubilee [64-70 A.M.] she is giving birth to Cain, and in the fourth [71-77 A.M.] she is giving birth to Abel, and in the fifth [78-84 A.M.] she gave birth to her daughter Âwân.
And in the first year of the third jubilee [99-105 A.M.], Cain dothe slay Abel because IAH is accepting the sacrifice of Abel, and dothe not accept the offering of Cain.
And he slayeth him in the field: and his blood is crying from the ground to the heavens, complaining because he dothe slain him.
And IAH reproveth Cain because of Abel, because he dothe slay him, and he is making him a fugitive on the earth because of the blood of his brother, and he curseth him upon the earth.
And on this account it is written on the heavenly tables, ‘Cursed is, he who smites his neighbour treacherously, and let all who dothe see and hear say, So be it; and the man who is seeing and not declaring it, let him be accursed as the other.’
And for this reason we announce when we come before IAH our IAH all the sin which is committed in the heavens and on earth, and in light and in darkness, and everywhere.
And Adam and his wife mourn for Abel four weeks of years, [99-127 A.M] and in the fourth year of the fifth week [130 A.M.] they become joyful, and Adam knoweth his wife again, and she bareth him a son, and he is calling his name Seth; for he saith ‘IAH dothe raise up a second seed unto us on the earth instead of Abel; for Cain dothe slay him.’
And in the sixth week [134-40 A.M.] he dothe beget his daughter Azûrâ.
And Cain is taking Âwân his sister to be his wife and she bareth him Enoch at the close of the fourth jubilee. [190-196 A.M.] And in the first year of the first week of the fifth jubilee, [197 A.M.] houses are built on the earth, and Cain buildeth a city, and he is calling its name after the name of his son Enoch.
10.And Adam dothe know Eve his wife and she is baring yet nine sons.
11.And in the fifth week of the fifth jubilee [225-31 A.M.] Seth is taking Azûrâ his sister to be his wife, and in the fourth (year of the sixth week) [235 A.M.] she bareth him Enos.
12.He is beginning to call on the name of IAH on the earth.
13.And in the seventh jubilee in the third week [309-15 A.M.] Enos is taking Nôâm his sister to be his wife, and she bareth him a son in the third year of the fifth week, and he is calling his name Kenan.
14.And at the close of the eighth jubilee Kenan is taking Mûalêlêth his sister to be his wife, and she bareth him a son in the ninth jubilee, in the first week in the third year of this week, [395 A.M] and he is calling his name Mahalalel.
15.And in the second week of the tenth jubilee [449-55 A.M.] Mahalalel is taking unto him to wife Dinah, the daughter of Barakiel the daughter of his father’s brother, and she bareth him a son in the third week in the sixth year, [461 A.M.] and he is calling his name Jared, for in his days the angels of IAH descend on the earth, those who are named the Watchers, that they should instruct the children of men, and that they should do judgment and uprightness on the earth.
16.And in the eleventh jubilee [512-18 A.M.] Jared is taking to himself a wife, and her name is Baraka, the daughter of Râsûjâl, a daughter of his father’s brother, in the fourth week of this jubilee, [522 A.M.] and she bareth him a son in the fifth week, in the fourth year of the jubilee, and he is calling his name Enoch.
17.And he is is the first among men that is born on earth who is learning writing and knowledge and wisdom and who is writing down the signs of the heavens according to the order of their months in a book, that men might know the seasons of the years according to the order of their separate months.
18.And he is the first to write a testimony and he is testifying to the sons of men among the generations of the earth, and recounting the weeks of the jubilees, and making known to them the days of the years, and set in order the months and recounting the Sabbaths of the years as we make them, known to him.
19.And what is and what will be he is seeing in a vision of his sleep, as it will happen to the children of men throughout their generations until the day of judgment; he dothe see and understand everything, and writing his testimony, and placing the testimony on earth for all the children of men and for their generations.
20.And in the twelfth jubilee, [582-88] in the seventh week thereof, he is taking to himself a wife, and her name is Edna, the daughter of Danel, the daughter of his father’s brother, and in the sixth year in this week [587 A.M.] she is baring him a son and he is calling his name Methuselah.
21.And he is moreover with the angels of IAH these six jubilees of years, and they show him everything which is on earth and in the heavens, the rule of the sun, and he is writing down everything.
22.And he testified to the Watchers, who are sinning with the daughters of men; for these dothe begin to unite themselves, so as to be defiled, with the daughters of men, and Enoch is testifying against them all.
23.And he is taken from amongst the children of men, and we conduct him into the Garden of Eden in majesty and honour, and beholding there he writes down the condemnation and judgment of the world, and all the wickedness of the children of men.
24.And on account of it IAH is bringing the waters of the flood upon all the land of Eden; for there he is setting as a sign and that he should testify against all the children of men, that he should recount all the deeds of the generations until the day of condemnation.
25.And he is burning the incense of the sanctuary, even sweet spices acceptable before IAH on the Mount.
26.For IAH has four places on the earth, the Garden of Eden, and the Mount of the East, and this mountain on which thou art this day, Mount Sinai, and Mount Zion which will be sanctified in the new creation for a sanctification of the earth; through it will the earth be sanctified from all its guilt and its uncleanness through- out the generations of the world.
27.And in the fourteenth jubilee [652 A.M.] Methuselah taketh unto himself a wife, Edna the daughter of Azrial, the daughter of his father’s brother, in the third week, in the first year of this week, [701-7 A.M.] and he begetteth a son and called his name Lamech.
28.And in the fifteenth jubilee in the third week Lamech taketh to himself a wife, and her name is Betenos the daughter of Baraki’il, the daughter of his father’s brother, and in this week she bareth him a son and he is calling his name Noah, saying, ‘This one will comfort me for my trouble and all my work, and for the ground which IAH dothe curse.’
29.And at the close of the nineteenth jubilee, in the seventh week in the sixth year [930 A.M.] thereof, Adam dieth , and all his sons burry him in the land of his creation, and he is the first to be buried in the earth.
30.And he is lacking seventy years of one thousand years; for one thousand years are as one day in the testimony of the heavens and therefore is it written concerning the tree of knowledge: ‘On the day that ye eat thereof ye shall die.’ For this reason he is not completing the years of this day; for he dieth during it.
31.At the close of this jubilee Cain is killed after him in the same year; for his house falleth upon him and he dieth in the midst of his house, and he is killed by its stones; for with a stone he dothe kill Abel, and by a stone is he killed in righteous judgment.
32.For this reason it is ordained on the heavenly tablets: With the instrument with which a man kills his neighbour with the same shall he be killed; after the manner that he is wounding him, in like manner shall they deal with him.’
33.And in the twenty-fifth [1205 A.M.] jubilee Noah is taking to himself a wife, and her name is `Emzârâ, the daughter of Râkê’êl, the daughter of his father’s brother, in the first year in the fifth week [1207 A.M.]: and in the third year thereof she bareth him Shem, in the fifth year thereof [1209 A.M.] she bareth him Ham, and in the first year in the sixth week [1212 A.M.] she bareth him Japheth.
Chapter 5]
And it is coming to pass when the children of men begin to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters are born unto them, that the angels of IAH see them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they are beautiful to look upon; and they take themselves wives of all whom they chose, and they bare unto them sons and they are giants.
And lawlessness is increased on the earth and all flesh corrupting its way, alike men and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walks on the earth -all of them corrupting their ways and their orders, and they begin to devour each other, and lawlessness is increased on the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of all men is thus evil continually.
And IAH is looking upon the earth, and behold it is corrupt, and all flesh dothe corrupt its orders, and all that are upon the earth dothe wrought all manner of evil before His eyes.
And He saith that He will destroy man and all flesh upon the face of the earth which He dothe create.
But Noah is finding grace before the eyes of IAH .
And against the angels whom He dothe send upon the earth, He is exceedingly wroth, and He giveth commandment to root them out of all their dominion, and He dothe bid us to bind them in the depths of the earth, and behold they are bound in the midst of them, and are kept separate.
And against their sons is going forth a command from before His face that they should be smitten with the sword, and be removed from under the heavens.
And He saith ‘My spirit shall not always abide on man; for they also are flesh and their days shall be one hundred and twenty years’.
And He sendeth His sword into their midst that each should slay his neighbour, and they begin to slay each other till they all fall by the sword and are destroyed from the earth.
10.And their fathers are witnesses of their destruction, and after this they are bound in the depths of the earth for ever, until the day of the great condemnation, when judgment is executed on all those who are corrupting their ways and their works before IAH .
11.And He is destroying all from their places, and there is not left one of them whom He is judging not according to all their wickedness.
12.And He is making for all his works a new and righteous nature, so that they should not sin in their whole nature for ever, but should be all righteous each in his kind alway.
13.And the judgment of all is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets in righteousness -even the judgment of all who depart from the path which is ordained for them to walk in; and if they walk not therein, judgment is written down for every creature and for every kind.
14.And there is nothing in the heavens or on earth, or in light or in darkness, or in Sheol or in the depth, or in the place of darkness which is not judged; and all their judgments are ordained and written and engraved.
15.In regard to all He will judge, the great according to his greatness, and the small according to his smallness, and each according to his way.
16.And He is not one who will regard the person of any, nor is He one who will receive gifts, if He says that He will execute judgment on each: if one is giving everything that is on the earth, He will not regard the gifts or the person of any, nor accept anything at his hands, for He is a righteous judge.
17.And of the children of Iamiah it is being written and ordained: If they turn to him in righteousness He will forgive all their transgressions and pardon all their sins.
18.It is written and ordained that He will show mercy to all who turn from all their guilt once each year.
19.And as for all those who corrupted their ways and their thoughts before the flood, no man’s person is accepted save that of Noah alone; for his person is accepted in behalf of his sons, whom IAH is saving from the waters of the flood on his account; for his heart is righteous in all his ways, according as it is commanded regarding him, and he is not departing from aught that is ordained for him.
20.And IAH saith that he would destroy everything which was upon the earth, both men and cattle, and
21.beasts, and fowls of the air, and that which moveth on the earth. And He commandeth Noah to make him an ark, that he might save himself from the waters of the flood.
22.And Noah maketh the ark in all respects as He is commanding him, in the twenty-seventh jubilee of years, in the fifth week in the fifth year on the new moon of the first month. [1307 A.M.]
23.And he is entering in the sixth year thereof, [1308 A.M.] in the second month, on the new moon of the second month, till the sixteenth; and he is entering, and all that we bring to him, into the ark, and IAH is closing it from without on the seventeenth evening.
24.And IAH openeth seven flood-gates of the heavens,
25.And the mouths of the fountains of the great deep, seven mouths in number.
26.And the flood-gates begin to pour down water from the heavens forty days and forty nights,
27.And the fountains of the deep also are sending up waters, until the whole world is full of water.
28.And the waters increase upon the earth:
29.Fifteen cubits dothe the waters rise above all the high mountains,
30.And the ark is lifted up above the earth,
31.And it is moving upon the face of the waters.
32.And the water is prevailing on the face of the earth five months -one hundred and fifty days.
33.And the ark is going and resting on the top of Lubar, one of the mountains of Ararat.
34.And on the new moon in the fourth month the fountains of the great deep are closed and the flood-gates of the heavens are restrained; and on the new moon of the seventh month all the mouths of the abysses of the earth are opened, and the water is beginning to descend into the deep below.
35.And on the new moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains are seen, and on the new moon of the first month the earth become visible.
36.And the waters disappear from above the earth in the fifth week in the seventh year [1309 A.M.] thereof, and on the seventeenth day in the second month the earth is dry.
37.And on the twenty-seventh thereof he is opening the ark, and sending forth from it beasts, and cattle, and birds, and every moving thing.
[Chapter 6]
And on the new moon of the third month he is going forth from the ark, and building an altar on that mountain.
And he is making atonement for the earth, and taking a kid and making atonement by its blood for all the guilt of the earth; for everything that is being on it is being destroyed, saving those that are in the ark with Noah.
And he is placing the fat thereof on the altar, and he taking an ox, and a goat, and a sheep and kids, and salt, and a turtle-dove, and the young of a dove, and placing a burnt sacrifice on the altar, and pouring thereon an offering mingled with oil, and sprinkling wine and strewing frankincense over everything, and causing a goodly savour to arise, acceptable before IAH.
And IAH dothe smell the goodly savour, and He maketh a covenant with him that there should not be any more a flood to destroy the earth; that all the days of the earth seed-time and harvest should not ever cease; cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night should not change their order, nor cease for ever.
‘And you, increase ye and multiply upon the earth, and become many upon it, and be a blessing upon it. The fear of you and the dread of you I will inspire in everything that is on earth and in the sea.
And behold I am giving unto you all beasts, and all winged things, and everything that moves on the earth, and the fish in the waters, and all things for food; as the green herbs, I am giving you all things to eat.
But flesh, with the life thereof, with the blood, ye shall not eat; for the life of all flesh is in the blood, lest your blood of your lives be required. At the hand of every man, at the hand of every beast will I require the blood of man.
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of IAH is making He man.
And you, increase ye, and multiply on the earth.’
10.And Noah and his sons swear that they will not eat any blood that is in any flesh, and he maketh a covenant before IAH IAH for ever throughout all the generations of the earth in this month.
11.On this account He is speaking to thee that thou shouldst make a covenant with the children of Iamiah in this month upon the mountain with an oath, and that thou shouldst sprinkle blood upon them because of all the words of the covenant, which IAH maketh with them for ever.
12.And this testimony is written concerning you that you should observe it continually, so that you should not eat on any day any blood of beasts or birds or cattle during all the days of the earth, and the man who eats the blood of beast or of cattle or of birds during all the days of the earth, he and his seed shall be rooted out of the land.
13.And do thou command the children of Iamiah to eat no blood, so that their names and their seed may be before IAH our IAH continually.
14.And for this law there is no limit of days, for it is for ever. They shall observe it throughout their generations, so that they may continue supplicating on your behalf with blood before the altar; every day and at the time of morning and evening they shall seek forgiveness on your behalf perpetually before IAH that they may keep it and not be rooted out.
15.And He giveth to Noah and his sons a sign that there should not again be a flood on the earth.
16.He set His bow in the cloud for a sign of the eternal covenant that there should not again be a flood on the earth to destroy it all the days of the earth.
17.For this reason it is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets, that they should celebrate the feast of weeks in this month once a year, to renew the covenant every year.
18.And this whole festival is celebrated in the heavens from the day of creation till the days of Noah -twenty-six jubilees and five weeks of years [1309-1659 A.M.]: and Noah and his sons observe it for seven jubilees and one week of years, till the day of Noah’s death, and from the day of Noah’s death his sons dothe away with it until the days of Abraham, and they eat blood.
19.But Abraham is observing it, and Isaac and Jacob and his children observe it up to thy days, and in thy days the children of Iamiah forget it until ye celebrate it anew on this mountain.
20.And do thou command the children of Iamiah to observe this festival in all their generations for a commandment unto them: one day in the year in this month they shall celebrate the festival.
21.For it is the feast of weeks and the feast of first fruits: this feast is twofold and of a double nature: according to what is written and engraven concerning it, celebrate it.
22.For I dothe write in the book of the first law, in that which I dothe write for thee, that thou shouldst celebrate it in its season, one day in the year, and I explain to thee its sacrifices that the children of Iamiah should remember and should celebrate it throughout their generations in this month, one day in every year.
23.And on the new moon of the first month, and on the new moon of the fourth month, and on the new moon of the seventh month, and on the new moon of the tenth month are the days of remembrance, and the days of the seasons in the four divisions of the year. These are written and ordained as a testimony for ever.
24.And Noah is ordaining them for himself as feasts for the generations for ever, so that they dothe become thereby a memorial unto him.
25.And on the new moon of the first month he is bidden to make for himself an ark, and on that day the earth become dry and he is opening the ark and seeing the earth.
26.And on the new moon of the fourth month the mouths of the depths of the abyss beneath are closed. And on the new moon of the seventh month all the mouths of the abysses of the earth are opened, and the waters begin to descend into them.
27.And on the new moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains are seen, and Noah is glad.
28.And on this account he is ordaining them for himself as feasts for a memorial for ever, and thus are they ordained.
29.And they place them on the heavenly tablets, each has thirteen weeks; from one to another passing their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth.
30.And all the days of the commandment will be two and fifty weeks of days, and these will make the entire year complete. Thus it is engraven and ordained on the heavenly tablets.
31.And there is no neglecting this commandment for a single year or from year to year.
32.And command thou the children of Iamiah that they observe the years according to this reckoning- three hundred and sixty-four days, and these will constitute a complete year, and they will not disturb its time from its days and from its feasts; for everything will fall out in them according to their testimony, and they will not leave out any day nor disturb any feasts.
33.But if they do neglect and do not observe them according to His commandment, then they will disturb all their seasons and the years will be dislodged from this order, and they will disturb the seasons and the years will be dislodged and they will neglect their ordinances.
34.And all the children of Iamiah will forget and will not find the path of the years, and will forget the new moons, and seasons, and sabbaths and they will go wrong as to all the order of the years.
35.For I know and from henceforth will I declare it unto thee, and it is not of my own devising; for the book lies written before me, and on the heavenly tablets the division of days is ordained, lest they forget the feasts of the covenant and walk according to the feasts of the Gentiles after their error and after their ignorance.
36.For there will be those who will assuredly make observations of the moon -how it disturbs the seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon.
37.For this reason the years will come upon them when they will disturb the order, and make an abominable day the day of testimony, and an unclean day a feast day, and they will confound all the days, the holy with the unclean, and the unclean day with the holy; for they will go wrong as to the months and sabbaths and feasts and jubilees.
38.For this reason I command and testify to thee that thou mayst testify to them; for after thy death thy children will disturb them, so that they will not make the year three hundred and sixty-four days only, and for this reason they will go wrong as to the new moons and seasons and sabbaths and festivals, and they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.
[Chapter 7]
And in the seventh week in the first year [1317 A.M.] thereof, in this jubilee, Noah is planting vines on the mountain on which the ark is resting, named Lubar, one of the Ararat Mountains, and they produce fruit in the fourth year, [1320 A.M.] and he is guarding their fruit, and gathering it in this year in the seventh month.
And he is making wine therefrom and putting it into a vessel, and keeping it until the fifth year, [1321 A.M.] until the first day, on the new moon of the first month.
And he is celebrating with joy the day of this feast, and he is making a burnt sacrifice unto IAH, 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.
And he is preparing the kid first, and placing some of its blood on the flesh that is on the altar which he dothe make, and all the fat he is laying on the altar where he is making the burnt sacrifice, and the ox and the ram and the sheep, and he is laying all their flesh upon the altar.
And he is placing all their offerings mingling with oil upon it, and afterwards he is sprinkling wine on the fire which he dothe previously make on the altar, and he is placing incense on the altar and causing a sweet savour to ascend acceptable before IAH his IAH.
And he is rejoicing and drinking of this wine, he and his children with joy.
And it is evening, and he is going into his tent, and being drunken he is laying down and sleeping, and is uncovered in his tent as he is sleeping.
And Ham dothe see Noah his father naked, and goeth forth and is telling his two brethren without.
And Shem taketh his garment and ariseth, he and Japheth, and they place the garment on their shoulders and go backward and cover the shame of their father, and their faces are backward.
10.And Noah awaketh from his sleep and knoweth all that his younger son dothe unto him, and he curseth his son and saith: ‘Cursed be Canaan; an enslaved servant shall he be unto his brethren.’
11.And he blesseth Shem, and saith: ‘Blessed be IAH, IAH of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.
12.IAH shall enlarge Japheth, and IAH shall dwell in the dwelling of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.’
13.And Ham knoweth that his father is cursing his younger son, and he is displeased that he is cursing his son. and he parteth from his father, he and his sons with him, Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
14.And he is building for himself a city and calling its name after the name of his wife Ne’elatama’uk.
15.And Japheth is seeing it, and becometh envious of his brother, and he too is building for himself a city, and he is calling its name after the name of his wife ‘Adataneses.
16.And Shem is dwelling with his father Noah, and he is building a city close to his father on the mountain, and he too is calling 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 is 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 is beginning to enjoin upon his sons’ sons the ordinances and commandments, and all the judgments that he dothe know, and he is exhorting his sons to observe righteousness, and to cover the shame of their flesh, and to bless their Creator, and honour father and mother, and love their neighbour, and guard their souls from fornication and uncleanness and all iniquity.
21.For owing to these three things come the flood upon the earth, namely, owing to the fornication wherein the Watchers against the law of their ordinances are going a whoring after the daughters of men, and taking themselves wives of all which they choose: and they make the beginning of uncleanness.
22.And they beget sons the Naphidim, and they are all unlike, and they devour one another: and the Giants slay the Naphil, and the Naphil slay the Eljo, and the Eljo mankind, and one man another.
23.And every one is selling himself to work iniquity and to shed much blood, and the earth is filled with iniquity.
24.And after this they sin against the beasts and birds, and all that moves and walks on the earth: and much blood is shed on the earth, and every imagination and desire of men is imagining vanity and evil continually.
25.And IAH is destroying everything from off the face of the earth; because of the wickedness of their deeds, and because of the blood which they shed in the midst of the earth He is destroying everything.
26.’And we are left, I and you, my sons, and everything that is entering with us into the ark, and behold I see your works before me that ye do not walk in righteousness: for in the path of destruction ye dothe begin to walk, and ye are parting one from another, and are envious one of another, and so it comes that ye are not in harmony, my sons, each with his brother.
27.For I see, and behold the demons begin their seductions against you and against your children and now I fear on your behalf, that after my death ye will shed the blood of men upon the earth, and that ye, too, will be destroyed from the face of the earth.
28.For whoso sheddeth man’s blood, and whoso eateth the blood of any flesh, shall all be destroyed from the earth.
29.And there shall not be left any man that eateth blood, or that sheddeth the blood of man on the earth, Nor shall there be left to him any seed or descendants living under the heavens; For into Sheol shall they go, And into the place of condemnation shall they descend, And into the darkness of the deep shall they all be removed by a violent death.
30.There shall be no blood seen upon you of all the blood there shall be all the days in which ye kill any beasts or cattle or whatever flies upon the earth, and work ye a good work to your souls by covering that which has been shed on the face of the earth.
31.And ye shall not be like him who eats with blood, but guard yourselves that none may eat blood before you: cover the blood, for thus am I being 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 is being 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, harken: work judgment and righteousness that ye maybe planted in righteousness over the face of the whole earth, and your glory lifted up before my IAH, who saveth me from the waters of the flood.
35.And behold, ye 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 holy and they will offer the first-fruits, acceptable before the Most High IAH, who is creating the heavens and earth and all things. Let them offer in abundance the first of the wine and oil as first-fruits on the altar of IAH , who receives it, and what is left let the servants of the house of IAH eat before the altar which receives it.
37.And in the fifth year make ye the release so that ye release it in righteousness and uprightness, and ye shall be righteous, and all that you plant shall prosper.
38.For thus is Enoch, the father of your father commanding Methuselah, his son, and Methuselah his son Lamech, and Lamech is commanding me all the things which his fathers command him.
39.And I also will give you commandment, my sons, as Enoch commandeth his son in the first jubilees: whilst still living, the seventh in his generation, he commandeth and testifieth to his son and to his son’s sons until the day of his death.’
[Chapter 8]
In the twenty-ninth jubilee, in the first week, [1373 A.M.] in the beginning thereof Arpachshad is taking to himself a wife and her name is Rasu’eja, the daughter of Susan, the daughter of Elam, and she bareth him a son in the third year in this week, [1375 A.M.] and he is calling his name Kainam.
And the son is growing, and his father is teaching him writing, and he is going to seek for himself a place where he might seize for himself a city.
And he findeth a writing which former generations carve on the rock, and he is reading what is thereon, and he is transcribing it and sinning owing to it; for it is containing the teaching of the Watchers in accordance with which they dothe observe the omens of the sun and moon and stars in all the signs of the heavens.
And he is writing it down and saying nothing regarding it; for he is afraid to speak to Noah about it lest he should be angry with him on account of it.
And in the thirtieth jubilee, [1429 A.M.] in the second week, in the first year thereof, he is taking to himself a wife, and her name is Melka, the daughter of Madai, the son of Japheth, and in the fourth year [1432 A.M.] he begetteth a son, and is calling his name Shelah; for he said: ‘Truly I am being sent.’
[And in the fourth year he is born], and Shelah is growing up and taking to himself a wife, and her name is 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.
And she bareth him a son in the fifth year [1503 A.M.] thereof, and he is calling his name Eber: and he is taking unto himself a wife, and her name is ‘Azûrâd, the daughter of Nebrod, in the thirty-second jubilee, in the seventh week, in the third year thereof. [1564 A.M.]
And in the sixth year [1567 A.M.] thereof, she bareth him son, and he is calling his name Peleg; for in the days when he is born the children of Noah begin to divide the earth amongst themselves: for this reason he is calling his name Peleg.
And they divide it secretly amongst themselves, and tell it to Noah.
10.And it cometh to pass in the beginning of the thirty-third jubilee [1569 A.M.] that they divide 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 is being sent, is with them.
11.And he is calling his sons, and they draw nigh to him, they and their children, and he is dividing the earth into the lots, which his three sons are to take in possession, and they reach forth their hands, and take the writing out of the bosom of Noah, their father.
12.And there is coming 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 is coming forth by lot for Shem and his sons, that they should possess it for ever unto his generations for evermore.
18.And Noah is rejoicing that this portion is coming forth for Shem and for his sons, and he is remembering all that he dothe speak with his mouth in prophecy; for he saith: ‘Blessed be IAH IAH of Shem And may IAH dwell in the dwelling of Shem.’
19.And he knoweth that the Garden of Eden is the holy of holies, and the dwelling of IAH , and Mount Sinai the centre of the desert, and Mount Zion -the centre of the navel of the earth: these three are created as holy places facing each other.
20.And he blessed the IAH of IAH , who is putting the word of IAH into his mouth, and IAH for evermore.
21.And he knoweth that a blessed portion and a blessing dothe come to Shem and his sons unto the generations for ever -the whole land of Eden and the whole land of the Red Sea, and the whole land of the east and India, and on the Red Sea and the mountains thereof, and all the land of Bashan, and all the land of Lebanon and the islands of Kaftur, and all the mountains of Sanir and ‘Amana, and the mountains of Asshur in the north, and all the land of Elam, Asshur, and Babel, and Susan and Ma’edai, and all the mountains of Ararat, and all the region beyond the sea, which is beyond the mountains of Asshur towards the north, a blessed and spacious land, and all that is in it is very good.
22.And for Ham is coming 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 is coming forth for Ham as the portion which he is to occupy for ever for himself and his sons unto their generations for ever.
25.And for Japheth is coming 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 is coming forth for Japheth and his sons as the portion of his inheritance which he should possess for himself and his sons, for their generations for ever; 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.
[Chapter 9]
And Ham is dividing amongst his sons, and the first portion is coming 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.
And Shem also is dividing amongst his sons, and the first portion are coming 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.
And for Asshur is coming 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.
And for Arpachshad is coming 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.
And for Aram there is coming 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.
And there is coming 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.
And Japheth is also dividing the land of his inheritance amongst his sons.
And the first portion is coming forth for Gomer to the east from the north side to the river Tina; and in the north there is coming forth for Magog all the inner portions of the north until it reaches to the sea of Me’at.
And for Madai is coming forth as his portion that he should possess from the west of his two brothers to the islands, and to the coasts of the islands.
10.And for Javan is coming forth the fourth portion every island and the islands which are towards the border of Lud.
11.And for Tubal there is coming 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 is coming forth the sixth portion, all the region beyond the third tongue till it approaches the east of Gadir.
13.And for Tiras there is coming 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 divide unto their sons in the presence of Noah their father, and he is binding them all by an oath, imprecating a curse on every one that seketh to seize the portion which is not falling to him by his lot.
15.And they all say, ‘So be it; so be it ‘ for themselves and their sons for ever throughout their generations till the day of judgment, on which IAH IAH shall judge them with a sword and with fire for all the unclean wickedness of their errors, wherewith they are filling the earth with transgression and uncleanness and fornication and sin.
[Chapter 10]
And in the third week of this jubilee the unclean demons begin to lead astray the children of the sons of Noah, and to make to err and destroy them.
And the sons of Noah come to Noah their father, and they tell him concerning the demons which are leading astray and blinding and slaying his sons’ sons.
And he is praying before IAH his IAH , and saith: ‘IAH of the spirits of all flesh, who dothe show mercy unto me
And dothe save me and my sons from the waters of the flood,
And dothe not cause me to perish as Thou didst the sons of perdition;
For Thy grace is being great towards me,
And great is being Thy mercy to my soul;
Let Thy grace be lifting up upon my sons,
And let not wicked spirits rule over them
Lest they should destroy them from the earth.
But do Thou bless me and my sons, that we may increase and Multiply and replenish the earth.
And Thou knowest how Thy Watchers, the fathers of these spirits, act 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 thy servant, my IAH; for these are malignant, and created in order to destroy.
And let them not rule over the spirits of the living; for Thou alone canst exercise dominion over them. And let them not have power over the sons of the righteous from henceforth and for evermore.’
And IAH our IAH is bidding us to bind all.
And the chief of the spirits, Mastêmâ, cometh and saith: ‘IAH , Creator, let some of them remain before me, and let them harken 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.’
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 is commanding that we should teach Noah all their medicines; for He knoweth that they will not walk in uprightness, nor strive in righteousness.
11.And we dothe according to all His words: all the malignant evil ones we bind 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 explain 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 is writing down all things in a book as we instruct him concerning every kind of medicine. Thus the evil spirits are precluded from hurting the sons of Noah.
14.And he is giving all that he is writing to Shem, his eldest son; for he loveth him exceedingly above all his sons.
15.And Noah is sleeping with his fathers, and is buried on Mount Lubar in the land of Ararat.
16.Nine hundred and fifty years he dothe complete in his life, nineteen jubilees and two weeks and five years. [1659 A.M.]
17.And in his life on earth he is excelling the children of men save Enoch because of the righteousness, wherein he is perfect. For Enoch’s office is 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 is taking to himself a wife, whose name is Lomna the daughter of Sina’ar, and she bareth him a son in the fourth year of this week, and he is calling his name Reu; for he saith: ‘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 depart from the land of Ararat eastward to Shinar; for in his days they build the city and the tower, saying, ‘Go to, let us ascend thereby into the heavens.’
20.And they begin to build, and in the fourth week they make brick with fire, and the bricks serve them for stone, and the clay with which they cement them together is asphalt which comes out of the sea, and out of the fountains of water in the land of Shinar.
21.And they build it: forty and three years [1645-1688 A.M.] were are building it; its breadth is 203 bricks, and the height of a brick is the third of one; its height amounteth to 5433 cubits and 2 palms, and the extent of one wall is thirteen stades and of the other thirty stades.
22.And IAH our IAH saith unto us: Behold, they are one people, and this they begin to do, and now nothing will be withholden 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 IAH is descending , and we descend with him to see the city and the tower which the children of men dothe build.
24.And he is confounding their language, and they no longer understand one another’s speech, and they cease then to build the city and the tower.
25.For this reason the whole land of Shinar is called Babel, because IAH dothe there confound all the language of the children of men, and from thence they are dispersed into their cities, each according to his language and his nation.
26.And IAH sendeth a mighty wind against the tower and overthroweth it upon the earth, and behold it is between Asshur and Babylon in the land of Shinar, and they call 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, are they dispersed from the land of Shinar.
28.And Ham and his sons go into the land which he is to occupy, which he is acquiring as his portion in the land of the south.
29.And Canaan seeth the land of Lebanon to the river of Egypt, that it is very good, and he is going not into the land of his inheritance to the west that is to the sea, and he is dwelling 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 say unto him: ‘Thou dothe settle in a land which is not thine, and which dothe not fall to us by lot: do not do so; for if thou dost do so, thou and thy sons will fall in the land and be accursed through sedition; for by sedition ye dothe settle, and by sedition will thy children fall, and thou shalt be rooted out for ever.
31.Dwell not in the dwelling of Shem; for to Shem and to his sons dothe it come by their lot.
32.Cursed art thou, and cursed shalt thou be beyond all the sons of Noah, by the curse by which we bind ourselves by an oath in the presence of the holy judge, and in the presence of Noah our father.’
33.But he dothe not harken unto them, and is dwelling 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 go towards the sea and dwell in the land of their portion, and Madai seeth the land of the sea and it dothe not please him, and he is begging a portion from Ham and Asshur and Arpachshad, his wife’s brother, and he is dwelling in the land of Media, near to his wife’s brother until this day.
36.And he is calling his dwelling-place, and the dwelling-place of his sons, Media, after the name of their father Madai.
Chapter 11]
And in the thirty-fifth jubilee, in the third week, in the first year [1681 A.M.] thereof, Reu is taking to himself a wife, and her name is ‘Ôrâ, the daughter of ‘Ûr, the son of Kesed, and she bareth him a son, and he is calling his name Sêrôh, in the seventh year of this week in this jubilee. [1687 A.M.]
And the sons of Noah began to war on each other, to take captive and to slay each other, and to shed the blood of men on the earth, and to eat blood, and to build strong cities, and walls, and towers, and individuals began to exalt themselves above the nation, and to find the beginnings of kingdoms, and to go to war people against people, and nation against nation, and city against city, and all begin to do evil, and to acquire arms, and to teach their sons war, and they begin to capture cities, and to sell male and female slaves.
And ‘Ûr, the son of Kesed, buildeth the city of ‘Ara of the Chaldees, and is calling its name after his own name and the name of his father. And they make for themselves molten images, and they worship each the idol, the molten image which they dothe make for themselves, and they begin to make graven images and unclean simulacra, and malignant spirits assisting and seducing them into committing transgression and uncleanness.
And the prince Mastêmâ is exerting himself to do all this, and he is sending forth other spirits, those which are put under his hand, to do all manner of wrong and sin, and all manner of transgression, to corrupt and destroy, and to shed blood upon the earth.
For this reason he is calling the name of Sêrôh, Serug, for every one is turning to do all manner of sin and transgression.
And he is growing up, and dwelling in Ur of the Chaldees, near to the father of his wife’s mother, and he is worshipping idols, and he taketh to himself a wife in the thirty-sixth jubilee, in the fifth week, in the first year thereof, [1744 A.M.] and her name is Melka, the daughter of Kaber, the daughter of his father’s brother.
And she bareth him Nahor, in the first year of this week, and he is growing and dwelling in Ur of the Chaldees, and his father is teaching him the researches of the Chaldees to divine and augur, according to the signs of the heavens.
And in the thirty-seventh jubilee in the sixth week, in the first year thereof, [1800 A.M.] he taketh to himself a wife, and her name is ‘Ijaska, the daughter of Nestag of the Chaldees.
And she bareth him Terah in the seventh year of this week. [1806 A.M.]
10.And the prince Mastêmâ is sending ravens and birds to devour the seed which is sown in the land, in order to destroy the land, and rob the children of men of their labours. Before they can plough in the seed, the ravens pick it from the surface of the ground.
11.And for this reason he is calling his name Terah because the ravens and the birds reduce them to destitution and devour their seed.
12.And the years begin to be barren, owing to the birds, and they devour all the fruit of the trees from the trees: it is only with great effort that they can save a little of all the fruit of the earth in their days.
13.And in this thirty-ninth jubilee, in the second week in the first year, [1870 A.M.] Terah is taking to himself a wife, and her name is ‘Edna, the daughter of ‘Abram, the daughter of his father’s sister. And in the seventh year of this week [1876 A.M.] she bareth him a son, and he is calling his name Abram, by the name of the father of his mother;
14.for he dothe die before his daughter can conceive a son.
15.And the child is beginning to understand the errors of the earth that all go astray after graven images and after uncleanness, and his father is teaching him writing, and he is two weeks of years old, [1890 A.M.] and he is separating himself from his father, that he might not worship idols with him.
16.And he is beginning to pray to the Creator of all things that He might save him from the errors of the children of men, and that his portion should not fall into error after uncleanness and vileness.
17.And the seed time is coming for the sowing of seed upon the land, and they all go forth together to protect their seed against the ravens, and Abram is going forth with those that go, and the child is a lad of fourteen years.
18.And a cloud of ravens is coming to devour the seed, and Abram is running to meet them before they settle on the ground, and crying to them before they settle on the ground to devour the seed, and saying, ‘ Descend not: return to the place whence ye came,’ and they proceed to turn back.
19.And he causeth the clouds of ravens to turn back that day seventy times, and of all the ravens throughout all the land where Abram is there settleth there not so much as one.
20.And all who are with him throughout all the land see him cry out, and all the ravens turn back, and his name becometh great in all the land of the Chaldees.
21.And there is coming to him this year all those that wish to sow, and he is going went with them until the time of sowing ceaseth: and they sow their land, and that year they bring enough grain home and eat and are satisfied.
22.And in the first year of the fifth week [1891 A.M.] Abram is teaching those who make implements for oxen, the artificers in wood, and they make a vessel above the ground, facing the frame of the plough, in order to put the seed thereon, and the seed is falling down therefrom upon the share of the plough, and is hidden in the earth, and they no longer fear the ravens.
23.And after this manner they make vessels above the ground on all the frames of the ploughs, and they sow and till all the land, according as Abram is commanding them, and they no longer fear the birds.
[Chapter 12]
And it is coming to pass in the sixth week, in the seventh year thereof, [1904 A.M.] that Abram saith to Terah his father, saying, ‘Father!’
And he saith, ‘Behold, here am I, my son.’ And he saith, ‘What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship,
And before which thou dost bow thyself?
For there is no spirit in them,
For they are dumb forms, and a misleading of the heart.
Worship them not:
Worship IAH of the heavens,
Who causes the rain and the dew to descend on the earth
And does everything upon the earth, And dothe create everything by His word,
And all life is from before His face.
Why do ye worship things that have no spirit in them?
10.For they are the work of men’s hands, And on your shoulders do ye bear them,
And ye have no help from them,
But they are a great cause of shame to those who make them,
And a misleading of the heart to those who worship them:
Worship them not.’
11.And his father saith unto him, I also know it, my son, but what shall I do with a people who dothe make me to serve before them?
12.And if I tell them the truth, they will slay me; for their soul cleaves to them to worship them and honour them.
13.Keep silent, my son, lest they slay thee.’ And these words he spake to his two brothers, and they are angry with him and he is keeping silent.
14.And in the fortieth jubilee, in the second week, in the seventh year thereof, [1925 A.M.] Abram is taking to himself a wife, and her name is Sarai, the daughter of his father, and she becometh his wife.
15.And Haran, his brother, is taking to himself a wife in the third year of the third week, [1928 A.M.] and she bareth him a son in the seventh year of this week, [1932 A.M.] and he is calling his name Lot.
16.And Nahor, his brother, took to himself a wife.
17.And in the sixtieth year of the life of Abram, that is, in the fourth week, in the fourth year thereof, [1936 A.M.] Abram is arising by night, and burning the house of the idols, and he is burning all that is in the house and no man knoweth it.
18.And they arise in the night and seek to save their gods from the midst of the fire.
19.And Haran is hasting to save them, but the fire is flaming over him, and he is burning in the fire, and he dieth in Ur of the Chaldees before Terah his father, and they bury him in Ur of the Chaldees.
20.And Terah is going forth from Ur of the Chaldees, he and his sons, to go into the land of Lebanon and into the land of Canaan, and he is dwelling in the land of Haran, and Abram is dwelling with Terah his father in Haran two weeks of years.
21.And in the sixth week, in the fifth year thereof, [1951 A.M.] Abram is sitting up throughout the night on the new moon of the seventh month to observe the stars from the evening to the morning, in order to see what will be the character of the year with regard to the rains, and he is alone as he is sitting and observing.
22.And a word is coming into his heart and he saith: All the signs of the stars, and the signs of the moon and of the sun are all in the hand of IAH. Why do I search them out?
23.If He desires, He causes it to rain, morning and evening;
24.And if He desires, He withholds it,
25.And all things are in his hand.’
26.And he is praying that night and saying,
27.’My IAH, IAH Most High, Thou alone art my IAH,
28.And Thee and Thy dominion dothe I choose.
29.And Thou dothe create all things,
30.And all things that are the work of thy hands.
31.Deliver me from the hands of evil spirits who have dominion over the thoughts of men’s hearts,
32.And let them not lead me astray from Thee, my IAH. And stablish Thou me and my seed for ever
That we go not astray from henceforth and for evermore.’
33.And he said, ‘Shall I return unto Ur of the Chaldees who seek my face that I may return to them, am I to remain here in this place? The right path before Thee prosper it in the hands of Thy servant that he may fulfil it and that I may not walk in the deceitfulness of my heart, O my IAH.’
34.And he is making an end of speaking and praying, and behold the word of IAH is sent to him through me, saying: ‘Get thee up from thy country, and from thy kindred and from the house of thy father unto a land which I will show thee, and I shall make thee a great and numerous nation.
35.And I will bless thee
36.And I will make thy name great,
37.And thou shalt be blessed in the earth,
38.And in Thee shall all families of the earth be blessed,
39.And I will bless them that bless thee,
40.And curse them that curse thee.
41.And I will be IAH to thee and thy son, and to thy son’s son, and to all thy seed: fear not, from henceforth and unto all generations of the earth I am thy IAH.’
42.And IAH IAH saith: ‘Open his mouth and his ears, that he may hear and speak with his mouth, with the language which is being revealed’; for it dothe cease from the mouths of all the children of men from the day of the overthrow of Babel.
43.And I open his mouth, and his ears and his lips, and I begin to speak with him in Hebrew in the tongue of the creation.
44.And he is taking the books of his fathers, and these are written in Hebrew, and he is transcribing them, and he is beginning from henceforth to study them, and I make known to him that which he can not understand, and he is studying them during the six rainy months.
45.And it is coming to pass in the seventh year of the sixth week [1953 A.M.] that he is speaking to his father and informing him, that he will leave Haran to go into the land of Canaan to see it and return to him.
46.And Terah his father saith unto him; Go in peace: May the eternal IAH make thy path straight.
And IAH be with thee, and protect thee from all evil,
And grant unto thee grace, mercy and favour before those who see thee,
And may none of the children of men have power over thee to harm thee;
Go in peace.
47.And if thou seest a land pleasant to thy eyes to dwell in, then arise and take me to thee and take Lot with thee, the son of Haran thy brother as thine own son: IAH be with thee.
48.And Nahor thy brother leave with me till thou returnest in peace, and we go with thee all together.’
[Chapter 13]
And Abram is journeying from Haran, and he is taking Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother Haran’s son, to the land of Canaan, and he is coming into Asshur, and proceeding to Shechem, and dwelling near a lofty oak.
And he dothe see, and, behold, the land is very pleasant from the entering of Hamath to the lofty oak.
And IAH saith to him: ‘To thee and to thy seed will I give this land.’
And he is building an altar there, and he is offering thereon a burnt sacrifice to IAH , who dothe appear to him.
And he is removing from thence unto the mountain . . . Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and pitching his tent there.
And he dothe see and behold, the land is very wide and good, and everything is growing thereon -vines and figs and pomegranates, oaks and ilexes, and terebinths and oil trees, and cedars and cypresses and date trees, and all trees of the field, and there is water on the mountains.
And he is blessing IAH who dothe lead him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and is bringing him to this land.
And it is coming to pass in the first year, in the seventh week, on the new moon of the first month, [1954 A.M.] that he is building an altar on this mountain, and calling on the name of IAH: ‘Thou, the eternal IAH, art my IAH.’
And he offereth on the altar a burnt sacrifice unto IAH that He should be with him and not forsake him all the days of his life.
10.And he is removing from thence and going towards the south, and he cometh to Hebron and Hebron is built at that time, and he is dwelling there two years, and he goeth thence into the land of the south, to Bealoth, and there is a famine in the land.
11.And Abram is going into Egypt in the third year of the week, and he is dwelling in Egypt five years before his wife is torn away from him.
12.Now Tanais in Egypt was at that time built- seven years after Hebron.
13.And it cometh to pass when Pharaoh is seizing Sarai, the wife of Abram that IAH is plaguing Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
14.And Abram is very glorious by reason of possessions in sheep, and cattle, and asses, and horses, and camels, and menservants, and maidservants, and in silver and gold exceedingly. And Lot also his brother’s son, is wealthy.
15.And Pharaoh giveth back Sarai, the wife of Abram, and he is sending him out of the land of Egypt, and he is journeying to the place where he dothe pitch his tent at the beginning, to the place of the altar, with Ai on the east, and Bethel on the west, and he is blessing IAH his IAH who dothe bring him back in peace.
16.And it cometh to pass in the forty-first jubilee in the third year of the first week, [1963 A.M.] that he is returning to this place and offering thereon a burnt sacrifice, and calling on the name of IAH, and saying: ‘Thou, the most high IAH, art my IAH for ever and ever.’
17.And in the fourth year of this week [1964 A.M.] Lot is parting from him, and Lot is dwelling in Sodom, and the men of Sodom are sinners exceedingly.
18.And it is grieving him in his heart that his brother’s son dothe part from him; for he hathe no children.
19.In that year when Lot is taken captive, IAH saith unto Abram, after that Lot dothe part from him, in the fourth year of this week: ‘Lift up thine eyes from the place where thou art dwelling, northward and southward, and westward and eastward.
20.For all the land which thou seest I will give to thee and to thy seed for ever, and I will make thy seed as the sand of the sea: though a man may number the dust of the earth, yet thy seed shall not be numbered.
21.Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and the breadth of it, and see it all; for to thy seed will I give it.’ And Abram goeth to Hebron, and is dwelling there.
22.And in this year cometh Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Sellasar, and Tergal, king of nations, and slay the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Sodom fleeth , and many fall through wounds in the vale of Siddim, by the Salt Sea.
23.And they take captive Sodom and Adam and Zeboim, and they take captive Lot also, the son of Abram’s brother, and all his possessions, and they go to Dan.
24.And one who dothe escape cometh and telleth Abram that his brother’s son is being taken captive and Abram armeth his household servants . . .
25.. . . . for Abram, and for his seed, a tenth of the first fruits to IAH, and IAH ordaining it as an ordinance for ever that they should give it to the priests who serve before Him, that they should possess it for ever.
26.And to this law there is no limit of days; for He dothe ordain it for the generations for ever that they should give to IAH the tenth of everything, of the seed and of the wine and of the oil and of the cattle and of the sheep.
27.And He is giving it unto His priests to eat and to drink with joy before Him.
28.And the king of Sodom cometh to him and is bowing himself before him, and saying: ‘Our Master Abram, give unto us the souls which thou dothe rescue, but let the booty be thine.’
29.And Abram saith unto him: ‘I lift up my hands to the Most High IAH, that from a thread to a shoe-latchet I shall not take aught that is thine lest thou shouldst say, I have made Abram rich; save only what the young men are eating, and the portion of the men who go with me -Aner, Eschol, and Mamre. These shall take their portion.’
[Chapter 14]
After these things, in the fourth year of this week, on the new moon of the third month, the word of IAH is coming to Abram in a dream, saying: ‘Fear not, Abram; I am thy defender, and thy reward will be exceeding great.’
And he said: ‘IAH, IAH, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go hence childless, and the son of Maseq, the son of my handmaid, is the Dammasek Eliezer: he will be my heir, and to me thou hast given no seed.’
And he saith unto him: ‘This man will not be thy heir, but one that will come out of thine own bowels; he will be thine heir.’
And He bringeth him forth abroad, and saith unto him: ‘Look toward the heavens and number the stars if thou art able to number them.’
And he is looking toward the heavens, and beholding the stars. And He saith unto him: ‘So shall thy seed be.’
And he is believing in IAH, and it is counted to him for righteousness.
And He saidt unto him: ‘I am IAH that is bringing thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee the land of the Canaanites to possess it for ever; and I will be IAH unto thee and to thy seed after thee.’
And he saith: ‘IAH, IAH, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?’
And He saith unto him: ‘Take Me an heifer of three years, and a goat of three years, and a sheep of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a pigeon.’
10.And he is taking all these in the middle of the month and he is dwelling at the oak of Mamre, which is near Hebron.
11.And he is building there an altar, and sacrificing all these; and he is pouring their blood upon the altar, and dividing them in the midst, and laying them over against each other; but the birds divide he not.
12.And birds come down upon the pieces, and Abram is driving them away, and dothe not suffer the birds to touch them.
13.And it is coming to pass, when the sun dothe set, that an ecstasy is falling upon Abram, and lo ! an horror of great darkness is falling upon him, and it is saying unto Abram: ‘Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and they shall bring them into bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.
14.And the nation also to whom they will be in bondage will I judge, and after that they shall come forth thence with much substance.
15.And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.
16.But in the fourth generation they shall return hither; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.’
17.And he awaketh from his sleep, and he ariseth, and the sun dothe set; and there is a flame, and behold ! a furnace is smoking, and a flame of fire is passing between the pieces.
18.And on that day IAH is making a covenant with Abram, saying: ‘To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates, the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Perizzites, and the Rephaim, the Phakorites, and the Hivites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
19.And the day dothe pass, and Abram is offering the pieces, and the birds, and their fruit offerings, and their drink offerings, and the fire is devouring them.
20.And on that day we make a covenant with Abram, according as we are covenanting with Noah in this month; and Abram is renewing the festival and ordinance for himself for ever.
21.And Abram is rejoicing , and making all these things known to Sarai his wife; and he believeth that he will have seed, but she dothe not bear.
22.And Sarai is advising her husband Abram, and saying unto him: ‘Go in unto Hagar, my Egyptian maid: it may be that I shall build up seed unto thee by her.’
23.And Abram is harkening unto the voice of Sarai his wife, and saying unto her, ‘Do so.’ And Sarai is taking Hagar, her maid, the Egyptian, and giving her to Abram, her husband, to be his wife.
24.And he is going in unto her, and she conceiveth and bareth him a son, and he is calling his name Ishmael, in the fifth year of this week [1965 A.M.]; and this is the eighty-sixth year in the life of Abram.
Chapter 15]
And in the fifth year of the fourth week of this jubilee, [1979 A.M.] in the third month, in the middle of the month, Abram is celebrating the feast of the first-fruits of the grain harvest.
And he is offering new offerings on the altar, the first-fruits of the produce, unto IAH, an heifer and a goat and a sheep on the altar as a burnt sacrifice unto IAH; their fruit offerings and their drink offerings he is offering upon the altar with frankincense.
And IAH is appearing to Abram, and saying unto him: ‘I am IAH Almighty; approve thyself before me and be thou perfect.
And I will make My covenant between Me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly.’
And Abram falleth on his face, and IAH is talking with him, and saith:
‘Behold my ordinance is with thee,
And thou shalt be the father of many nations.
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram,
But thy name from henceforth, even for ever, shall be Abraham.
10.For the father of many nations dothe I make thee.
11.And I will make thee very great,
12.And I will make thee into nations,
13.And kings shall come forth from thee.
14.And I shall establish My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, throughout their generations, for an eternal covenant, so that I may be IAH unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
15.And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land where thou art being a sojourner, the land of Canaan, that thou mayst possess it for ever, and I will be their IAH.’
16.And IAH said unto Abraham: ‘And as for thee, do thou keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee: and circumcise ye every male among you, and circumcise your foreskins, and it shall be a token of an eternal covenant between Me and you.
17.And the child on the eighth day ye shall circumcise, every male throughout your generations, him that is born in the house, or whom ye dothe buy with money from any stranger, whom ye dothe acquire who is not of thy seed.
18.He that is born in thy house shall surely be circumcised, and those whom thou dothe buy with money shall be circumcised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an eternal ordinance.
19.And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul shall be cut off from his people, for he has broken My covenant.’
20.And IAH saith unto Abraham: ‘As for Sarai thy wife, her name shall no more be called Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
21.And I will bless her, and give thee a son by her, and I will bless him, and he shall become a nation, and kings of nations shall proceed from him.’
22.And Abraham falleth on his face, and is rejoicing , and saying in his heart: ‘Shall a son be born to him that is a hundred years old, and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bring forth?’
23.And Abraham saith unto IAH : ‘O that Ishmael might live before thee!’
24.And IAH saith: ‘Yea, and Sarah also shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish My covenant with him, an everlasting covenant, and for his seed after him.
25.And as for Ishmael also dothe I hear thee, and behold I will bless him, and make him great, and multiply him exceedingly, and he shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
26.But My covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee, in these days, in the next year.’
27.And He left off speaking with him, and IAH goeth up from Abraham.
28.And Abraham dothe according as IAH dothe say unto him, and he is taking Ishmael his son, and all that are born in his house, and whom he dothe buy with his money, every male in his house, and is circumcising the flesh of their foreskin.
29.And on the selfsame day is Abraham circumcising , and all the men of his house, and those born in the house, and all those, whom he dothe buy with money from the children of the stranger, are circumcised with him.
30.This law is for all the generations for ever, and there is no circumcision of the days, and no omission of one day out of the eight days; for it is an eternal ordinance, ordained and written on the heavenly tablets.
31.And every one that is born, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised on the eighth day, belongs not to the children of the covenant which IAH made with Abraham, but to the children of destruction; nor is there, moreover, any sign on him that he is IAH’s, but he is destined to be destroyed and slain from the earth, and to be rooted out of the earth, for he is breaking the covenant of IAH our IAH.
32.For all the angels of the presence and all the angels of sanctification are being so created from the day of their creation, and before the angels of the presence and the angels of sanctification He is sanctifying Iamiah, that they should be with Him and with His holy angels.
33.And do thou command the children of Iamiah and let them observe the sign of this covenant for their generations as an eternal ordinance, and they will not be rooted out of the land.
34.For the command is ordained for a covenant, that they should observe it for ever among all the children of Iamiah.
35.For Ishmael and his sons and his brothers and Esau, IAH is not causing to approach Him, and he is choosing them not because they are the children of Abraham, because He is knowing them, but He is choosing Iamiah to be His people.
36.And He is sanctifying it, and gathering it from amongst all the children of men; for there are many nations and many peoples, and all are His, and over all is He placing spirits in authority to lead them astray from Him.
37.But over Iamiah He is not appointing any angel or spirit, for He alone is their ruler, and He will preserve them and require them at the hand of His angels and His spirits, and at the hand of all His powers in order that He may preserve them and bless them, and that they may be His and He may be theirs from henceforth for ever.
38.And now I announce unto thee that the children of Iamiah will not keep true to this ordinance, and they will not circumcise their sons according to all this law; for in the flesh of their circumcision they will omit this circumcision of their sons, and all of them, sons of Beliar, will leave their sons uncircumcised as they are born.
39.And there will be great wrath from IAH against the children of Iamiah. because they dothe forsake His covenant and turned aside from His word, and provoke and blasphemy, inasmuch as they do not observe the ordinance of this law; for they are treating their members like the Gentiles, so that they may be removed and rooted out of the land. And there will no more be pardon or forgiveness unto them so that there should be forgiveness and pardon
40. for all the sin of this eternal error.
[Chapter 16]
And on the new moon of the fourth month we appear unto Abraham, at the oak of Mamre, and we talk with him, and we announce to him that a son will be given to him by Sarah his wife.
And Sarah is laughing, for she heareth that we dothe speak these words with Abraham, and we admonish her, and she becometh afraid, and is denying that she dothe laugh on account of the words.
And we tell her the name of her son, as his name is ordained and written in the heavenly tablets; Isaac,
And that when we return to her at a set time, she will have conceived a son.
And in this month IAH is executing his judgments on Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Zeboim, and all the region of the Jordan, and He is burning them with fire and brimstone, and destroying them until this day, even as, lo, I dothe declare unto thee all their works, that they are wicked and sinners exceedingly, and that they defile themselves and commit fornication in their flesh, and work uncleanness on the earth.
And, in like manner, IAH will execute judgment on the places where they are dothing according to the uncleanness of the Sodomites, like unto the judgment of Sodom.
But Lot we save; for IAH is remembering Abraham, and sending him out from the midst of the overthrow.
And he and his daughters are committing sin upon the earth, such as is not being on the earth since the days of Adam till his time; for the man lay with his daughters.
And, behold, it is commanded and engraven concerning all his seed, on the heavenly tablets, to remove them and root them out, and to execute judgment upon them like the judgment of Sodom, and to leave no seed of the man on earth on the day of condemnation.
10.And in this month Abraham is moving from Hebron, and departing and dwelling between Kadesh and Shur in the mountains of Gerar.
11.And in the middle of the fifth month he is moving from thence, and dwelling at the Well of the Oath.
12.And in the middle of the sixth month IAH is visiting Sarah and dothing unto her as He dothe speak and she conceiveth.
13.And she bareth a son in the third month, and in the middle of the month, at the time of which IAH dothe speak to Abraham, on the festival of the first fruits of the harvest, Isaac is born.
14.And Abraham is circumcising his son on the eighth day: he is the first that is circumcised according to the covenant which is ordained for ever.
15.And in the sixth year of the fourth week we come to Abraham, to the Well of the Oath, and we appear unto him as we dothe tell Sarah that we should return to her, and she will conceive a son.
16.And we return in the seventh month, and find Sarah with child before us and we bless him, and we announce to him all the things which are being decreed concerning him, that he should not die till he should beget six sons more, and should see them before he died; but that in Isaac should his name and seed be called:
17.And that all the seed of his sons should be Gentiles, and be reckoned with the Gentiles; but from the sons of Isaac one should become a holy seed, and should not be reckoned among the Gentiles.
18.For he should become the portion of the Most High, and all his seed is falling into the possession of IAH, that it should be unto IAH a people for His possession above all nations and that it should become a kingdom and priests and a holy nation.
19.And we go our way, and we announce to Sarah all that we dothe tell him, and they both rejoice with exceeding great joy.
20.And he buildeth there an altar to IAH who is delivering him, and who is making him rejoice in the land of his sojourning, and he is celebrating a festival of joy in this month seven days, near the altar which he is building at the Well of the Oath.
21.And he is building booths for himself and for his servants on this festival, and he is the first to celebrate the feast of tabernacles on the earth.
22.And during these seven days he is bringing each day to the altar a burnt offering to IAH, two oxen, two rams, seven sheep, one he-goat, for a sin offering, that he might atone thereby for himself and for his seed.
23.And, as a thank-offering, seven rams, seven kids, seven sheep, and seven he-goats, and their fruit offerings and their drink offerings; and he is burning all the fat thereof on the altar, a chosen offering unto IAH for a sweet smelling savour.
24.And morning and evening he is burning fragrant substances, frankincense and galbanum, and stackte, and nard, and myrrh, and spice, and costum; all these seven he is offering, crushing, mixing together in equal parts and pure.
25.And he is celebrating this feast during seven days, rejoicing with all his heart and with all his soul, he and all those who are in his house, and there is no stranger with him, nor any that is uncircumcised.
26.And he is blessing his Creator who is creating him in his generation, for He is creating him according to His good pleasure; for He knoweth and is perceiving that from him will arise the plant of righteousness for the eternal generations, and from him a holy seed, so that it should become like Him who dothe make all things.
27.And he is blessing and rejoicing, and he is calling the name of this festival the festival of IAH, a joy acceptable to the Most High IAH.
28.And we are blessing him for ever, and all his seed after him throughout all the generations of the earth, because he is celebrating this festival in its season, according to the testimony of the heavenly tablets.
29.For this reason it is ordained on the heavenly tablets concerning Iamiah, that they shall celebrate the feast of tabernacles seven days with joy, in the seventh month, acceptable before IAH -a statute for ever throughout their generations every year.
30.And to this there is no limit of days; for it is ordained for ever regarding Iamiah that they should celebrate it and dwell in booths, and set wreaths upon their heads, and take leafy boughs, and willows from the brook.
31.And Abraham is taking branches of palm trees, and the fruit of goodly trees, and every day going round the altar with the branches seven times a day in the morning, he is praising and giving thanks to his IAH for all things in joy.
[Chapter 17]
And in the first year of the fifth week Isaac is weaned in this jubilee, [1982 A.M.] and Abraham is making a great banquet in the third month, on the day his son Isaac is weaned.
And Ishmael, the son of Hagar, the Egyptian, is before the face of Abraham, his father, in his place, and Abraham is rejoicing and blessing IAH because he dothe see his sons and is not dying childless.
And he is remembering the words which He is speaking to him on the day on which Lot dothe part from him, and he is rejoicing because IAH dothe give him seed upon the earth to inherit the earth, and he is blessing with all his mouth the Creator of all things.
And Sarah seeth Ishmael playing and dancing, and Abraham rejoicing with great joy, and she becometh jealous of Ishmael and saith to Abraham, ‘Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman will not be heir with my son, Isaac.’
And the thing is grievous in Abraham’s sight, because of his maidservant and because of his son, that he should drive them from him.
And IAH said to Abraham ‘Let it not be grievous in thy sight, because of the child and because of the bondwoman; in all that Sarah is saying unto thee, harken to her words and do them; for in Isaac shall thy name and seed be called.
But as for the son of this bondwoman I will make him a great nation, because he is of thy seed.’
And Abraham is rising up early in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, and placing them on the shoulders of Hagar and the child, and sending her away.
And she departeth and is wandering in the wilderness of Beersheba, and the water in the bottle is spent, and the child is thirsting , and is not able to go on, and falleth down.
10.And his mother taketh him and casteth him under an olive tree, and is going and sitting her down over against him, at the distance of a bow-shot; for she saith, ‘Let me not see the death of my child,’ and as she is sitting she is weeping.
11.And an angel of IAH, one of the holy ones, saith unto her, ‘Why weepest thou, Hagar? Arise take the child, and hold him in thine hand; for IAH dothe hear thy voice, and dothe see the child.’
12.And she openeth her eyes, and she is seeing a well of water, and she is going and filling her bottle with water, and she is giving her child to drink, and she ariseth and is going towards the wilderness of Paran.
13.And the child is growing and becoming an archer, and IAH is with him, and his mother is taking him a wife from among the daughters of Egypt.
14.And she bareth him a son, and he is calling his name Nebaioth; for she saith, ‘IAH is nigh to me when I call upon him.’
15.And it is coming to pass in the seventh week, in the first year thereof, [2003 A.M.] in the first month in this jubilee, on the twelfth of this month, there are voices in the heavens regarding Abraham, that he is faithful in all that He is telling him, and that he loveth IAH, and that in every affliction he is faithful.
16.And the prince Mastêmâ is coming and saying before IAH, ‘Behold, Abraham loves Isaac his son, and he delights in him above all things else; bid him offer him as a burnt-offering on the altar, and Thou wilt see if he will do this command, and Thou wilt know if he is faithful in everything wherein Thou dost try him.
17.And IAH knoweth that Abraham is faithful in all his afflictions; for He is trying him through his country and with famine, and dothe try him with the wealth of kings, and dothe try him again through his wife, when she is torn from him, and with circumcision; and dothe try him through Ishmael and Hagar, his maid-servant, when he is sending them away.
18.And in everything wherein He is trying him, he is found faithful, and his soul is not impatient, and he is not slow to act; for he is faithful and a lover of IAH .
Chapter 18]
And IAH saith to him, ‘Abraham, Abraham’; and he saith, Behold, here am I.’
And he saith, Take thy beloved son whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and go unto the high country, and offer him on one of the mountains which I will point out unto thee.’
And he is rising early in the morning and saddling his ass, and taking his two young men with him, and Isaac his son, and cleaving the wood of the burnt offering, and he is going to the place on the third day, and he is seeing the place afar off.
And he is coming to a well of water, and he saith to his young men, ‘Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad shall go yonder, and when we have worshipped we shall come again to you.’
And he is taking the wood of the burnt-offering and laying it on Isaac his son, and he is taking in his hand the fire and the knife, and they are going both of them together to that place.
And Isaac saith to his father, ‘Father;’ and he saith, ‘Here am I, my son.’ And he saith unto him, ‘Behold the fire, and the knife, and the wood; but where is the sheep for the burnt-offering, father?’
And he said, ‘IAH will provide for himself a sheep for a burnt-offering, my son.’ And he is drawing near to the place of the mount of IAH.
And he is building an altar, and he is placing the wood on the altar, and binding Isaac his son, and placing him on the wood which is upon the altar, and stretching forth his hand to take the knife to slay Isaac his son.
And I stand before him, and before the prince Mastêmâ, and IAH saith, ‘Bid him not to lay his hand on the lad, nor to do anything to him, for I dothe show that he fears IAH.’
10.And I call to him from the heavens, and say unto him: ‘Abraham, Abraham;’ and he is terrified and saith: ‘Behold, here am I.’
11.And I say unto him: ‘Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything to him; for now I dothe show that thou fearest IAH, and dothe not withhold thy son, thy first-born son, from me.’
12.And the prince Mastêmâ is put to shame; and Abraham is lifting up his eyes and looking, and, behold a ram caught . . . by his horns, and Abraham goeth and taketh the ram and offereth it for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.
13.And Abraham is calling that place ‘IAH is seeing’, so that it is the saying in the mount IAH is seeing: that is Mount Sion.
14.And IAH is calling Abraham by his name a second time from the heavens, as he is causing us to appear to speak to him in the name of IAH.
15.And he saith: ‘By Myself dothe I swear, saith IAH, Because thou art dothing this thing,
And art not withholding thy son, thy beloved son, from Me,
That in blessing I will bless thee,
And in multiplying I will multiply thy seed
As the stars of the heavens, And as the sand which is on the seashore.
And thy seed shall inherit the cities of its enemies,
16.And in thy seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed; Because thou art obeying My voice,
And I am showing to all that thou art faithful unto Me in all that I am saying unto thee:
Go in peace.’
17.And Abraham is going to his young men, and they arise and go together to Beersheba, and Abraham [2010 A.M.] is dwelling by the Well of the Oath.
18.And he is celebrating this festival every year, seven days with joy, and he is calling it the festival of IAH according to the seven days during which he is going and returning in peace.
19.And accordingly it is being ordained and written on the heavenly tablets regarding Iamiah and its seed that they should observe this festival seven days with the joy of festival.
Chapter 19]
And in the first year of the first week in the forty-second jubilee, Abraham is returning and dwelling opposite Hebron, that is Kirjath Arba, two weeks of years.
And in the first year of the third week of this jubilee the days of the life of Sarah are accomplished, and she dieth in Hebron.
And Abraham is going to mourn over her and bury her, and we try him to see if his spirit is patient and he is not indignant in the words of his mouth; and he is found patient in this, and is not disturbed.
For in patience of spirit he is conversing with the children of Heth, to the intent that they should give him a place in which to bury his dead.
And IAH is giving him grace before all who see him, and he is beseeching in gentleness the sons of Heth, and they give him the land of the double cave over against Mamre, that is Hebron, for four hundred pieces of silver.
And they beseech him saying, We shall give it to thee for nothing; but he would not take it from their hands for nothing, for he is giving the price of the place, the money in full, and he is bowing down before them twice, and after this he is burying his dead in the double cave.
And all the days of the life of Sarah are one hundred and twenty-seven years, that is, two jubilees and four weeks and one year: these are the days of the years of the life of Sarah.
This is the tenth trial wherewith Abraham is tried, and he is found faithful, patient in spirit.
And he is saying not a single word regarding the rumour in the land how that IAH dothe say that He will give it to him and to his seed after him, and he is begging a place there to bury his dead; for he is found faithful, and is recorded on the heavenly tablets as the friend of IAH.
10.And in the fourth year thereof he is taking a wife for his son Isaac and her name is Rebecca [2020 A.M.] the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, the brother of Abraham, the sister of Laban and daughter of Bethuel; and Bethuel is the son of Melca, who is the wife of Nahor, the brother of Abraham.
11.And Abraham is taking to himself a third wife, and her name is Keturah, from among the daughters of his household servants, for Hagar dothe die before Sarah. And she bareth him six sons, Zimram, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah, in the two weeks of years.
12.And in the sixth week, in the second year thereof, Rebecca bareth to Isaac two sons, Jacob and Esau,
13.and [2046 A.M.] Jacob is a smooth and upright man, and Esau is fierce, a man of the field, and hairy, and Jacob is dwelling in tents.
14.And the youths grow, and Jacob is learning to write; but Esau is not learning, for he was a man of the field and a hunter, and he is learning war, and all his deeds are fierce.
15.And Abraham is loving Jacob, but Isaac is loving Esau.
16.And Abraham dothe see the deeds of Esau, and he is knowing that in Jacob should his name and seed be called; and he calleth Rebecca and giveth
17.commandment regarding Jacob, for he knoweth that she too loveth Jacob much more than Esau.
18.And he saith unto her: My daughter, watch over my son Jacob,
For he shall be in my stead on the earth,
And for a blessing in the midst of the children of men,
And for the glory of the whole seed of Shem.
19.For I know that IAH will choose him to be a people for possession unto Himself, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
20.And behold, Isaac my son loves Esau more than Jacob, but I see that thou truly lovest Jacob.
21.Add still further to thy kindness to him,
22.And let thine eyes be upon him in love;
23.For he shall be a blessing unto us on the earth from henceforth unto all generations of the earth.
24.Let thy hands be strong
25.And let thy heart rejoice in thy son Jacob;
26.For I dothe love him far beyond all my sons. He shall be blessed for ever,
And his seed shall fill the whole earth.
27.If a man can number the sand of the earth,
28.His seed also shall be numbered.
29.And all the blessings wherewith IAH dothe blessed me and my seed shall belong to Jacob and his seed alway.
30.And in his seed shall my name be blessed, and the name of my fathers, Shem, and Noab, and Enoch, and Mahalalel, and Enos, and Seth, and Adam.
31.And these shall serve To lay the foundations of the heavens,
And to strengthen the earth,
And to renew all the luminaries which are in the firmament.
32.And he is calling Jacob before the eyes of Rebecca his mother, and kissing him, and blessing him, and saying:
33.’Jacob, my beloved son, whom my soul loveth, may IAH bless thee from above the firmament, and may He give thee all the blessings wherewith He dothe bless Adam, and Enoch, and Noah, and Shem; and all the things of which He dothe tell me, and all the things which He dothe promise to give me, may he cause to cleave to thee and to thy seed for ever, according to the days of the heavens above the earth.
34.And the Spirits of Mastêmâ shall not rule over thee or over thy seed to turn thee from IAH, who is thy IAH from henceforth for ever.
35.And may IAH, IAH be a father to thee and thou the first-born son, and to the people alway.
36.Go in peace, my son.’ And they both go forth together from Abraham.
37.And Rebecca is loving Jacob, with all her heart and with all her soul, very much more than Esau; but Isaac is loving Esau much more than Jacob.
[Chapter 20]
And in the forty-second jubilee, in the first year of the seventh week, Abraham is calling Ishmael, [2052 (2045?) A.M.] and his twelve sons, and Isaac and his two sons, and the six sons of Keturah, and their sons.
And he is commanding them that they should observe the way of IAH ; that they should work righteousness, and love each his neighbour, and act on this manner amongst all men; that they should each so walk with regard to them as to do judgment and righteousness on the earth.
That they should circumcise their sons, according to the covenant which He dothe make with them, and not deviate to the right hand or the left of all the paths which IAH is commanding us; and that we should keep ourselves from all fornication and uncleanness, and renounce from amongst us all fornication and uncleanness.
And if any woman or maid commit fornication amongst you, burn her with fire and let them not commit fornication with her after their eyes and their heart; and let them not take to themselves wives from the daughters of Canaan; for the seed of Canaan will be rooted out of the land.
And he dothe tell them of the judgment of the giants, and the judgment of the Sodomites, how they are being judged on account of their wickedness, and dothe die on account of their fornication, and uncleanness, and mutual corruption through fornication.
‘And guard yourselves from all fornication and uncleanness,
And from all pollution of sin, Lest ye make our name a curse,
And your whole life a hissing,
And all your sons to be destroyed by the sword,
And ye become accursed like Sodom,
And all your remnant as the sons of Gomorrah.
I implore you, my sons, love IAH of the heavens
And cleave ye to all His commandments. And walk not after their idols, and after their uncleannesses,
10.And make not for yourselves molten or graven gods; For they are vanity,
And there is no spirit in them;
For they are work of men’s hands,
And all who trust in them, trust in nothing.
11.Serve them not, nor worship them,
12.But serve ye the most high IAH, and worship Him continually:
13.And hope for His countenance always,
14.And work uprightness and righteousness before Him, That He may have pleasure in you and grant you His mercy,
And send rain upon you morning and evening,
And bless all your works which ye are forming upon the earth,
And bless thy bread and thy water,
And bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy land,
And the herds of thy cattle, and the flocks of thy sheep.
15.And ye will be for a blessing on the earth,
16.And all nations of the earth will desire you, And bless your sons in my name,
That they may be blessed as I am.
17.And he is giving to Ishmael and to his sons, and to the sons of Keturah, gifts, and sending them away from Isaac his son, and he is giving everything to Isaac his son.
18.And Ishmael and his sons, and the sons of Keturah and their sons, go together and dwell from Paran to the entering in of Babylon in all the land which is towards the East facing the desert.
19.And these are mingling with each other, and their name is called Arabs, and Ishmaelites.
[Chapter 21]
And in the sixth year of the seventh week of this jubilee Abraham is calling Isaac his son, and [2057 (2050?) A.M.] commanding him: saying, ‘I am become old, and know not the day of my death, and am full of my days.
And behold, I am one hundred and seventy-five years old, and throughout all the days of my life I am remembering IAH , and seeking with all my heart to do His will, and to walk uprightly in all His ways.
My soul dothe hate idols, and I dothe despise those that served them, and I dothe give my heart and spirit that I might observe to do the will of Him who createth me.
For He is the living IAH, and He is holy and faithful, and He is righteous beyond all, and there is with Him no accepting of men’s persons and no accepting of gifts; for IAH is righteous, and executeth judgment on all those who transgress His commandments and despise His covenant.
And do thou, my son, observe His commandments and His ordinances and His judgments, and walk not after the abominations and after the graven images and after the molten images.
And eat no blood at all of animals or cattle, or of any bird which flies in the heavens.
And if thou dost slay a victim as an acceptable peace offering, slay ye it, and pour out its blood upon the altar, and all the fat of the offering offer on the altar with fine flour and the meat offering mingling with oil, with its drink offering -offer them all together on the altar of burnt offering; it is a sweet savour before IAH.
And thou wilt offer the fat of the sacrifice of thank offerings on the fire which is upon the altar, and the fat which is on the belly, and all the fat on the inwards and the two kidneys, and all the fat that is upon them, and upon the loins and liver thou shalt remove, together with the kidneys.
And offer all these for a sweet savour acceptable before IAH, with its meat-offering and with its drink- offering, for a sweet savour, the bread of the offering unto IAH.
10.And eat its meat on that day and on the second day, and let not the sun on the second day go down upon it till it is eaten, and let nothing be left over for the third day; for it is not acceptable for it is not approved and let it no longer be eaten, and all who eat thereof will bring sin upon themselves; for thus I have found it written in the books of my forefathers, and in the words of Enoch, and in the words of Noah.
11.And on all thy oblations thou shalt strew salt, and let not the salt of the covenant be lacking in all thy oblations before IAH.
12.And as regards the wood of the sacrifices, beware lest thou bring other wood for the altar in addition to these: cypress, bay, almond, fir, pine, cedar, savin, fig, olive, myrrh, laurel, aspalathus.
13.And of these kinds of wood lay upon the altar under the sacrifice, such as have been tested as to their appearance, and do not lay thereon any split or dark wood, but hard and clean, without fault, a sound and new growth; and do not lay thereon old wood, for its fragrance is gone for there is no longer fragrance in it as before.
14.Besides these kinds of wood there is none other that thou shalt place on the altar, for the fragrance is dispersed, and the smell of its fragrance goes not up to the heavens.
15.Observe this commandment and do it, my son, that thou mayst be upright in all thy deeds.
16.And at all times be clean in thy body, and wash thyself with water before thou approachest to offer on the altar, and wash thy hands and thy feet before thou drawest near to the altar; and when thou art done sacrificing, wash again thy hands and thy feet.
17.And let no blood appear upon you nor upon your clothes; be on thy guard, my son, against blood, be on thy guard exceedingly; cover it with dust.
18.And do not eat any blood for it is the soul; eat no blood whatever.
19.And take no gifts for the blood of man, lest it be shed with impunity, without judgment; for it is the blood that is shed that causes the earth to sin, and the earth cannot be cleansed from the blood of man save by the blood of him who shed it.
20.And take no present or gift for the blood of man: blood for blood, that thou mayest be accepted before IAH, the Most High IAH; for He is the defence of the good: and that thou mayest be preserved from all evil, and that He may save thee from every kind of death.
21.I see, my son,
22.That all the works of the children of men are sin and wickedness,
23.And all their deeds are uncleanness and an abomination and a pollution,
24.And there is no righteousness with them.
25.Beware, lest thou shouldest walk in their ways
26.And tread in their paths,
27.And sin a sin unto death before the Most High IAH. Else He will hide His face from thee
And give thee back into the hands of thy transgression,
And root thee out of the land, and thy seed likewise from under the heavens,
And thy name and thy seed shall perish from the whole earth.
28.Turn away from all their deeds and all their uncleanness,
29.And observe the ordinance of the Most High IAH,
30.And do His will and be upright in all things.
31.And He will bless thee in all thy deeds,
32.And will raise up from thee a plant of righteousness through all the earth, throughout all generations of the earth,
33.And my name and thy name shall not be forgotten under the heavens for ever.
34.Go, my son in peace.
35.May the Most High IAH, my IAH and thy IAH, strengthen thee to do His will,
36.And may He bless all thy seed and the residue of thy seed for the generations for ever, with all righteous blessings,
37.That thou mayest moo be a blessing on all the earth.’
38.And he is going out from him rejoicing.
[Chapter 22]
And it came to pass in the first week in the forty-fourth jubilee, in the second year, that is, the year in which Abraham dieth, that Isaac and Ishmael come from the Well of the Oath to celebrate the feast of weeks -that is, the feast of the first fruits of the harvest-to Abraham, their father, and Abraham is rejoicing because his two sons dothe come.
For Isaac hathe many possessions in Beersheba, and Isaac is wont to go and see his possessions and to return to his father.
And in those days Ishmael is coming to see his father, and they both come together, and Isaac is offering a sacrifice for a burnt offering, and presenting it on the altar of his father which he dothe make in Hebron.
And he is offering a thank offering and making a feast of joy before Ishmael, his brother: and Rebecca is making new cakes from the new grain, and giving them to Jacob, her son, to take them to Abraham, his father, from the first fruits of the land, that he might eat and bless the Creator of all things before he dieth.
And Isaac, too, sendeth by the hand of Jacob to Abraham a best thank offering, that he might eat and drink.
And he is eating and drinking, and blessing the Most High IAH, Who dothe create the heavens and earth,
Who dothe make all the fat things of the earth,
And giving them to the children of men
That they might eat and drink and bless their Creator.
‘And now I give thanks unto Thee, my IAH, because thou dothe cause me to see this day: behold, I am one hundred three score and fifteen years, an old man and full of days, and all my days are being unto me peace.
The sword of the adversary dothe not overcome me in all that Thou art giving me and my children all the days of my life until this day.
My IAH, may Thy mercy and Thy peace be upon Thy servant, and upon the seed of his sons, that they may be to Thee a chosen nation and an inheritance from amongst all the nations of the earth from henceforth unto all the days of the generations of the earth, unto all the ages.’
10.And he is calling Jacob and saying: ‘My son Jacob, may the IAH of all bless thee and strengthen thee to do righteousness, and His will before Him, and may He choose thee and thy seed that ye may become a people for His inheritance according to His will alway.
11.And do thou, my son, Jacob, draw near and kiss me.’ And he is drawing near and kisseth him, and he saith: ‘Blessed be my son Jacob
And all the sons of IAH Most High, unto all the ages:
May IAH give unto thee a seed of righteousness;
And some of thy sons may He sanctify in the midst of the whole earth;
May nations serve thee,
And all the nations bow themselves before thy seed.
12.Be strong in the presence of men,
13.And exercise authority over all the seed of Seth. Then thy ways and the ways of thy sons will be justified,
So that they shall become a holy nation.
14.May the Most High IAH give thee all the blessings
15.Wherewith He is blessing me And wherewith He is blessing Noah and Adam;
May they rest on the sacred head of thy seed from generation to generation for ever.
16.And may He cleanse thee from all unrighteousness and impurity,
17.That thou mayest be forgiven all the transgressions; which thou dothe commit ignorantly. And may He strengthen thee,
And bless thee.
And mayest thou inherit the whole earth,
18.And may He renew His covenant with thee.
19.That thou mayest be to Him a nation for His inheritance for all the ages,
20.And that He may be to thee and to thy seed a IAH in truth and righteousness throughout all the days of the earth.
21.And do thou, my son Jacob, remember my words,
22.And observe the commandments of Abraham, thy father: Separate thyself from the nations,
And eat not with them:
And do not according to their works,
And become not their associate;
For their works are unclean,
And all their ways are a Pollution and an abomination and uncleanness.
23.They offer their sacrifices to the dead
24.And they worship evil spirits, And they eat over the graves,
And all their works are vanity and nothingness.
25.They have no heart to understand
26.And their eyes do not see what their works are, And how they err in saying to a piece of wood: ‘Thou art my IAH,’
And to a stone: ‘Thou art IAH and thou art my deliverer.’
And they have no heart.
27.And as for thee, my son Jacob,
28.May the Most High IAH help thee
29.And the IAH of the heavens bless thee
30.And remove thee from their uncleanness and from all their error.
31.Be thou ware, my son Jacob, of taking a wife from any seed of the daughters of Canaan; For all his seed is to be rooted out of the earth.
32.For, owing to the transgression of Ham, Canaan err,
33.And all his seed shall be destroyed from off the earth and all the residue thereof,
34.And none springing from him shall be saved on the day of judgment.
35.And as for all the worshippers of idols and the profane
36. There shall be no hope for them in the land of the living;
37.And there shall be no remembrance of them on the earth;
38.For they shall descend into Sheol,
39. And into the place of condemnation shall they go, As the children of Sodom are taken away from the earth
So will all those who worship idols be taken away.
40.Fear not, my son Jacob,
41.And be not dismayed, O son of Abraham: May the Most High IAH preserve thee from destruction,
And from all the paths of error may he deliver thee.
42.This house I build for myself that I might put my name upon it in the earth: it is given to thee and to thy seed for ever, and it will be named the house of Abraham; it is given to thee and to thy seed for ever; for thou wilt build my house and establish my name before IAH for ever: thy seed and thy name will stand throughout all generations of the earth.’
43.And he ceaseth commanding him and blessing him.
44.And the two lay together on one bed, and Jacob is sleeping in the bosom of Abraham, his father’s father and he is kissing him seven times, and his affection and his heart is rejoicing over him.
45.And he is blessing him with all his heart and saying: ‘The Most High IAH , the IAH of all, and Creator of all, who bring me forth from Ur of the Chaldees that he might give me this land to inherit it for ever, and that I might establish a holy seed-blessed be the Most High for ever.’
46.And he is blessing Jacob and saying: ‘My son, over whom with all my heart and my affection I rejoice, may Thy grace and Thy mercy be lift up upon him and upon his seed alway.
47.And do not forsake him, nor set him at nought from henceforth unto the days of eternity, and may Thine eyes be opened upon him and upon his seed, that Thou mayst preserve him, and bless him, and mayest sanctify him as a nation for Thine inheritance;
48.And bless him with all Thy blessings from henceforth unto all the days of eternity, and renew Thy covenant and Thy grace with him and with his seed according to all Thy good pleasure unto all the generations of the earth.’
[Chapter 23]
And he is placing two fingers of Jacob on his eyes, and he is blessing the IAH the only IAH , and he is covering his face and stretching out his feet and sleeping the sleep of eternity, and is gathering
to his fathers.
And notwithstanding all this Jacob was lying in his bosom, and knew not that Abraham, his father’s father, was dead.
And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and behold Abraham was cold as ice, and he said ‘Father, father’; but there was none that spake, and he knew that he was dead.
And he arose from his bosom and ran and told Rebecca, his mother; and Rebecca went to Isaac in the night, and told him; and they went together, and Jacob with them, and a lamp was in his hand, and when they had gone in they found Abraham lying dead.
And Isaac falleth on the face of his father and is weeping and kissing him.
And the voices are heard in the house of Abraham, and Ishmael his son ariseth, and goeth to Abraham his father, and is weeping over Abraham his father, he and all the house of Abraham, and they are weeping with a great weeping.
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael bury him in the double cave, near Sarah his wife, and they weep for him forty days, all the men of his house, and Isaac and Ishmael, and all their sons, and all the sons of Keturah in their places; and the days of weeping for Abraham are ended.
And he is living three jubilees and four weeks of years, one hundred and seventy-five years, and completing the days of his life, being old and full of days.
10.For the days of the forefathers, of their life, are nineteen jubilees; and after the Flood they begin 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.
11.For Abraham is perfect in all his deeds with IAH , and well-pleasing in righteousness all the days of his life; and behold, he dothe not complete four jubilees in his life, when he is growing old by reason of the wickedness, and is full of his days.
12.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.
13.And in those days, if a man live a jubilee and a-half of years, they shall say regarding him: ‘He is living long, and the greater part of his days are pain and sorrow and tribulation, and there is no peace:
14.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.’
15.And all these shall come on an evil generation, which transgresses on the earth: their works are uncleanness and fornication, and pollution and abominations.
16.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, and, if he is strong, four score years, and those evil, and there is no peace in the days of this evil generation.’
17.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 IAH is making between them and Him, that they should observe and do all His commandments and His ordinances and all His laws, without departing either to the right hand or the left.
18.For all are doing 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.
19.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.
20.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 law and the covenant; for they have forgotten commandment, and covenant, and feasts, and months, and Sabbaths, and jubilees, and all judgments.
21.And they shall stand with bows and 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.
22.And those who are escaping 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 neighbour’s, and they shall name the great name, but not in truth and not in righteousness, and they shall defile the holy of holies with their uncleanness and the corruption of their pollution.
23.And a great punishment shall befall the deeds of this generation from IAH, and He will give them over to the sword and to judgment and to captivity, and to be plundered and devoured.
24.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 Iamiah and transgression against Jacob,
And much blood shall be shed upon the earth,
And there shall be none to gather and none to bury.
25.In those days they shall cry aloud,
26.And call and pray that they may be saved from the hand of the sinners, the Gentiles;
27.But none shall be saved.
28.And the heads of the children shall be white with grey hair,
29.And a child of three weeks shall appear old like a man of one hundred years,
30.And their stature shall be destroyed by tribulation and oppression.
31.And in those days the children shall begin to study the laws,
32.And to seek the commandments,
33.And to return to the path of righteousness.
34.And the days shall begin to grow many and increase amongst those children of men
35.Till their days draw nigh to one thousand years.
36.And to a greater number of years than before was the number of the days.
37.And there shall be no old man
38.Nor one who is not satisfied with his days,
39.For all shall be as children and youths.
40.And all their days they shall complete and live in peace and in joy,
41.And there shall be no Satan nor any evil destroyer;
42.For all their days shall be days of blessing and healing.
43.And at that time will heal His servants,
44.And they shall rise up and see great peace,
45.And drive out their adversaries. And the righteous shall see and be thankful,
And rejoice with joy for ever and ever,
And shall see all their judgments and all their curses on their enemies.
46.And their bones shall rest in the earth,
47.And their spirits shall have much joy,
48.And they shall know that it is IAH who executes judgment,
49.And shows mercy to hundreds and thousands and to all that love Him
[Chapter 24]
And it is coming to pass after the death of Abraham, that IAH is blessing Isaac his son, and he is arising from Hebron and going and dwelling at the Well of the Vision in the first year of the third week [2073 A.M.] of this jubilee, seven years.
And in the first year of the fourth week a famine beginneth in the land, [2080 A.M.] besides the first famine, which is being in the days of Abraham.
And Jacob is sodding lentil pottage, and Esau is coming from the field hungry. And he saith to Jacob his brother: ‘Give me of this red pottage.’ And Jacob saith to him: ‘Sell to me thy primogeniture, this birthright and I will give thee bread, and also some of this lentil pottage.’
And Esau saith in his heart: ‘I shall die; of what profit to me is this birthright?
‘And he saith to Jacob: ‘I give it to thee.’ And Jacob saith: ‘Swear to me, this day,’ and he is swearing unto him.
And Jacob giveth his brother Esau bread and pottage, and he is eating till he is satisfied, and Esau is despising his birthright; for this reason is Esau’s name called Edom, on account of the red pottage which Jacob is giving him for his birthright.
And Jacob becometh the elder, and Esau is brought down from his dignity.
And the famine is over the land, and Isaac is departing to go down into Egypt in the second year of this week, and is going to the king of the Philistines to Gerar, unto Abimelech.
And IAH is appearing unto him and saying unto him: ‘Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of, and sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee and bless thee.
10.For to thee and to thy seed will I give all this land, and I will establish My oath which I swear unto Abraham thy father, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and will give unto thy seed all this land.
11.And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thy father is obeying My voice, and keeping My charge and My commandments, and My laws, and My ordinances, and My covenant; and now obey My voice and dwell in this land.’
12.And he is dwelling in Gelar three weeks of years.
13.And Abimelech is charging concerning him, [2080-2101 A.M.] and concerning all that is his, saying: ‘Any man that shall touch him or aught that is his shall surely die.’
14.And Isaac is waxing strong among the Philistines, and he has many possessions, oxen and sheep and camels and asses and a great household.
15.And he is sowing in the land of the Philistines and bringing in a hundred-fold, and Isaac is becoming exceedingly great, and the Philistines envy him.
16.Now all the wells which the servants of Abraham dothe dig during the life of Abraham, the Philistines are stopping them after the death of Abraham, and filling them with earth.
17.And Abimelech saith unto Isaac: ‘Go from us, for thou art much mightier than we’, and Isaac departeth thence in the first year of the seventh week, and is sojourning in the valleys of Gerar.
18.And they dig again the wells of water which the servants of Abraham, his father, dothe dig, and which the Philistines are closing after the death of Abraham his father, and he is calling their names as Abraham his father dothe name them.
19.And the servants of Isaac dig a well in the valley, and find living water, and the shepherds of Gerar strive with the shepherds of Isaac, saying: ‘The water is ours’; and Isaac is calling the name of the well ‘Perversity’, because they are being perverse with us.
20.And they dig a second well, and they strive for that also, and he is calling its name ‘Enmity’. And he is arising from thence and they dig another well, and for that they strive not, and he is calling the name of it ‘Room’, and Isaac saith: ‘Now IAH dothe make room for us, and we dothe increase in the land.’
21.And he is going up from thence to the Well of the Oath in the first year of the first week in the [2108 A.M.] forty-fourth jubilee.
22.And IAH is appearing to him that night, on the new moon of the first month, and saying unto him: ‘I am IAH of Abraham thy father; fear not, for I am with thee, and shall bless thee and shall surely multiply thy seed as the sand of the earth, for the sake of Abraham my servant.’
23.And he is building an altar there, which Abraham his father dothe first built, and he is calling upon the name of IAH, and he is offering sacrifice to IAH of Abraham his father.
24.And they dig a well and they find living water.
25.And the servants of Isaac dig another well and dothe not find water, and they go and told Isaac that they are not finding water, and Isaac saith: ‘I dothe swear this day to the Philistines and this thing is being announced to us.’
26.And he is calling the name of that place the Well of the Oath; for there he dothe swear to Abimelech and Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol the prefect Or his host.
27.And Isaac is knowing that day that under constraint he dothe swear to them to make peace with them.
28.And Isaac on that day is cursing the Philistines and saying: ‘Cursed be the Philistines unto the day of wrath and indignation from the midst of all nations; may IAH make them a derision and a curse and an object of wrath and indignation in the hands of the sinners the Gentiles and in the hands of the Kittim.
29.And whoever escapes the sword of the enemy and the Kittim, may the righteous nation root out in judgment from under the heavens; for they shall be the enemies and foes of my children throughout their generations upon the earth.
30.And no remnant shall be left to them,
31.Nor one that shall be saved on the day of the wrath of judgment;
32.For destruction and rooting out and expulsion from the earth is the whole seed of the Philistines reserved,
33.And there shall no longer be left for these Caphtorim a name or a seed on the earth.
34.For though he ascend unto the heavens,
35.Thence shall he be brought down, And though he make himself strong on earth,
Thence shall he be dragged forth,
And though he hide himself amongst the nations,
Even from thence shall he be rooted out;
And though he descend into Sheol,
There also shall his condemnation be great,
And there also he shall have no peace.
36.And if he go into captivity,
37.By the hands of those that seek his life shall they slay him on the way,
38.And neither name nor seed shall be left to him on all the earth;
39.For into eternal malediction shall he depart.’
40.And thus is it written and engraved concerning him on the heavenly tablets, to do unto him on the day of judgment, so that he may be rooted out of the earth.
[Chapter 25]
And in the second year of this week in this jubilee, Rebecca is calling Jacob her son, and speaking unto [2109 A.M.] him, saying: ‘My son, do not take thee a wife of the daughters of Canaan, as Esau, thy brother, who is taking him two wives of the daughters of Canaan, and they are embittering my soul with all their unclean deeds: for all their deeds are fornication and lust, and there is no righteousness with them, for their deeds are evil.
And I, my son, love thee exceedingly, and my heart and my affection bless thee every hour of the day and watch of the night.
And now, my son, hearken to my voice, and do the will of thy mother, and do not take thee a wife of the daughters of this land, but only of the house of my father, and of my father’s kindred. Thou shalt take thee a wife of the house of my father, and the Most High IAH will bless thee, and thy children shall be a righteous generation and a holy seed.’
And then speketh Jacob to Rebecca, his mother, and saith unto her: ‘Behold, mother, I am nine weeks of years old, and I neither know nor have I touched any woman, nor have I betrothed myself to any, nor even think of taking me a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
For I remember, mother, the words of Abraham, our father, for he is commanding me not to take a wife of the daughters of Canaan, but to take me a wife from the seed of my father’s house and from my kindred.
I dothe hear before that daughters are being born to Laban, thy brother, and I have set my heart on them to take a wife from amongst them.
And for this reason I am guarding myself in my spirit against sinning or being corrupted in all my ways throughout all the days of my life; for with regard to lust and fornication, Abraham, my father, giveth me many commands.
And, despite all that he is commanding me, these two and twenty years my brother is striving with me, and speaking frequently to me and saying: ‘My brother, take to wife a sister of my two wives’; but I refuse to do as he is dothing.
I swear before thee, mother, that all the days of my life I will not take me a wife from the daughters of the seed of Canaan, and I will not act wickedly as my brother is dothing.
10.Fear not, mother; be assured that I shall do thy will and walk in uprightness, and not corrupt my ways for ever.’
11.And thereupon she is lifting up her face to the heavens and extending the fingers of her hands, and opening her mouth and blessing the Most High IAH, who is creating the heavens and the earth, and she is giving Him thanks and praise.
12.And she saith: ‘Blessed be IAH, IAH, and may His holy name be blessed for ever and ever, who is giving me Jacob as a pure son and a holy seed; for he is Thine, and Thine shall his seed be continually and throughout all the generations for evermore.
13.Bless him, O IAH, and place in my mouth the blessing of righteousness, that I may bless him.’
14.And at that hour, when the spirit of righteousness is descending into her mouth, she placeth both her hands on the head of Jacob, and saith:
15.Blessed art thou, IAH of righteousness and IAH of the ages
16.And may He bless thee beyond all the generations of men. May He give thee, my Son, the path of righteousness,
And reveal righteousness to thy seed.
17.And may He make thy sons many during thy life,
18.And may they arise according to the number of the months of the year.
19.And may their sons become many and great beyond the stars of the heavens,
20.And their numbers be more than the sand of the sea.
21.And may He give them this goodly land -as He saith He will give it to Abraham and to his seed after him alway-
22.And may they hold it as a possession for ever.
23.And may I see born unto thee, my son, blessed children during my life,
24.And a blessed and holy seed may all thy seed be.
25.And as thou dothe refresh thy mother’s spirit during her life,
26.The womb of her that bareth thee is blessing thee thus, My affection and my breasts bless thee
And my mouth and my tongue praise thee greatly.
27.Increase and spread over the earth,
28.And may thy seed be perfect in the joy of the heavens and earth for ever; And may thy seed rejoice,
And on the great day of peace may it have peace.
29.And may thy name and thy seed endure to all the ages,
30.And may the Most High IAH be their IAH, And may IAH of righteousness dwell with them,
And by them may His sanctuary be built unto all the ages.
31.Blessed be he that blesseth thee,
32.And all flesh that curseth thee falsely, may it be cursed.’
33.And she kisseth him, and saith to him;
34.’May IAH of the world love thee
35.As the heart of thy mother and her affection rejoice in thee and bless thee.’
36.And she ceaseth from blessing.
[Chapter 26]
And in the seventh year of this week Isaac called Esau, his elder Son, and saith unto him: ‘ I am [2114 A.M.] old, my son, and behold my eyes are dim in seeing, and I know not the day of my death.
And now take thy hunting weapons thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and hunt and catch me venison, my son, and make me savoury meat, such as my soul loveth, and bring it to me that I may eat, and that my soul may bless thee before I die.’
But Rebecca heard Isaac speaking to Esau.
And Esau is going forth early to the field to hunt and catch and bring home to his father.
And Rebecca is calling Jacob, her son, and saying unto him: ‘Behold, I hear Isaac, thy father, speak unto Esau, thy brother, saying: “Hunt for me, and make me savoury meat, and bring it to me that
I may eat and bless thee before IAH before I die.” And now, my son, obey my voice in that which I command thee: Go to thy flock and fetch me two good kids of the goats, and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loves, and thou shalt bring it to thy father that he may eat and bless thee before IAH before he die, and that thou mayst be blessed.’
And Jacob saith to Rebecca his mother: ‘Mother, I shall not withhold anything which my father would eat, and which would please him: only I fear, my mother, that he will recognise my voice and wish to touch me.
And thou knowest that I am smooth, and Esau, my brother, is hairy, and I shall appear before his eyes as an evildoer, and shall do a deed which he dothe not command me, and he will be wroth with me, and I shall bring upon myself a curse, and not a blessing.’
And Rebecca, his mother, said unto him: ‘Upon me be thy curse, my son, only obey my voice.’
10.And Jacob is obeying the voice of Rebecca, his mother, and is going and fetching two good and fat kids of the goats, and bringing them to his mother, and his mother is making them ~savoury meat~ such as he loveth.
11.And Rebecca taketh the goodly rainment of Esau, her elder son, which is with her in the house, and she clotheth Jacob, her younger son, with them, and she is putting the skins of the kids upon his hands and on the exposed parts of his neck.
12.And she giveth the meat and the bread which she dothe prepare into the hand of her son Jacob.
13.And Jacob goeth in to his father and saith: ‘I am thy son: I am done according as thou bid me: arise and sit and eat of that which I catch, father, that thy soul may bless me.’
14.And Isaac saith to his son: ‘How hast thou found so quickly, my son?
15.’And Jacob said: ‘Because IAH thy IAH causeth me to find.’
16.And Isaac saith unto him: Come near, that I may feel thee, my son, if thou art my son Esau or not.’
17.And Jacob goeth near to Isaac, his father, and he feeleth him and saith: ‘The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau,’
18.and he is discerning him not, because it was a dispensation from the heavens to remove his power of perception and Isaac is discerning not, for his hands are hairy as his brother Esau’s, so that he blesseth him.
19.And he saith: ‘Art thou my son Esau? ‘ and he saith: ‘I am thy son’: and he saith, ‘Bring near to me that I may eat of that which thou catch, my son, that my soul may bless thee.’
20.And he is bringing near to him, and he dothe eat, and he is bringing him wine and he dothe drink.
21.And Isaac, his father, saith unto him: ‘Come near and kiss me, my son.
22.And he cometh near and kisseth him. And he is smelling the smell of his raiment, and he is blessing him and saying: ‘Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a full field which IAH is blessing.
23.And may IAH give thee of the dew of the heavens
24.And of the dew of the earth, and plenty of corn and oil: Let nations serve thee,
And peoples bow down to thee.
25.Be master over thy brethren,
26.And let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee; And may all the blessings wherewith IAH is blessing me and blessing Abraham, my father;
Be imparted to thee and to thy seed for ever:
Cursed be he that curseth thee,
And blessed be he that blesseth thee.’
27.And it is coming to pass as soon as Isaac is making an end of blessing his son Jacob, and Jacob is going forth from Isaac his father he is hiding himself and Esau, his brother, is coming in from his hunting.
28.And he also maketh savoury meat, and is bringing it to his father, and saith unto his father: ‘Let my father arise, and eat of my venison that thy soul may bless me.’
29.And Isaac, his father, saith unto him: ‘Who art thou? ‘And he saith unto him: ‘I am thy first born, thy son Esau: I am dothing as thou dothe command me.’
30.And Isaac is very greatly astonished, and saith: ‘Who is he that dothe hunt and catch and bring it to me, and I dothe eat of all before thou cometh, and dothe blessed him: and he shall be blessed, and all his seed for ever.’
31.And it is coming to pass when Esau is hearing the words of his father Isaac that he is crying with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and saying unto his father: ‘Bless me, even me also, father.’
32.And he saith unto him: ‘Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing.’ And he saith: ‘Now I know why his name is named Jacob: behold, he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birth-right, and now he hath taken away my blessing.’
33.And he saith: ‘Dothe thou not reserve a blessing for me, father?’ and Isaac answereth and saith unto Esau: ‘Behold, I have made him thy master,
And all his brethren dothe I give to him for servants,
And with plenty of corn and wine and oil dothe I strengthen him:
And what now shall I do for thee, my son?’
34.And Esau said to Isaac, his father:
35.’Hast thou but one blessing, O father?
36.Bless me, even me also, father: ‘
37.And Esau is lifting up his voice and weeping. And Isaac answereth and saith unto him: ‘Behold, far from the dew of the earth shall be thy dwelling,
And far from the dew of the heavens from above.
38.And by thy sword wilt thou live,
39.And thou wilt serve thy brother. And it shall come to pass when thou becomest great,
And dost shake his yoke from off thy neck,
Thou shalt sin a complete sin unto death,
And thy seed shall be rooted out from under the heavens.’
40.And Esau kepeth threatening Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father is blessing him, and he saith in his heart: ‘May the days of mourning for my father now come, so that I may slay my brother Jacob.’
[Chapter 27]
And the words of Esau, her elder son, are told to Rebecca in a dream, and Rebecca is sending and calling Jacob her younger son,
and saying unto him: ‘Behold Esau thy brother will take vengeance on thee so as to kill thee.
Now, therefore, my son, obey my voice, and arise and flee thou to Laban, my brother, to Haran, and tarry with him a few days until thy brother’s anger turns away, and he remove his anger from thee, and forget all that thou hast done; then I will send and fetch thee from thence.’
And Jacob saith: ‘I am not afraid; if he wishes to kill me, I will kill him.’
But she saith unto him: ‘Let me not be bereft of both my sons on one day.’
And Jacob saith to Rebecca his mother: ‘Behold, thou knowest that my father has become old, and does not see because his eyes are dull, and if I leave him it will be evil in his eyes, because I leave him and go away from you, and my father will be angry, and will curse me. I will not go; when he sends me, then only will I go.’
And Rebecca saith to Jacob: ‘I will go in and speak to him, and he will send thee away.’
And Rebecca goeth in and saith to Isaac: ‘I loathe my life because of the two daughters of Heth, whom Esau has taken him as wives; and if Jacob take a wife from among the daughters of the land such as these, for what purpose do I further live, for the daughters of Canaan are evil.’
And Isaac is calling Jacob and blessing him, and admonishing him and saying unto him: ‘Do not take thee a wife of any of the daughters of Canaan;
10.arise and go to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel, thy mother’s father, and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban, thy mother’s brother.
11.And IAH Almighty bless thee and increase and multiply thee that thou mayest become a company of nations, and give thee the blessings of my father Abraham, to thee and to thy seed after thee, that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings and all the land which IAH gave to Abraham: go, my son, in peace.’
12.And Isaac is sending Jacob away, and he is going to Mesopotamia, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca, Jacob’s mother.
13.And it cometh to pass after Jacob is arising to go to Mesopotamia that the spirit of Rebecca is grieved after her son, and she is weeping.
14.And Isaac saith to Rebecca: ‘My sister, weep not on account of Jacob, my son; for he goeth in peace, and in peace will he return.
15.The Most High IAH will preserve him from all evil, and will be with him; for He will not forsake him all his days;
16.For I know that his ways will be prospered in all things wherever he goes, until he return in peace to us, and we see him in peace.
17.Fear not on his account, my sister, for he is on the upright path and he is a perfect man: and he is faithful and will not perish. Weep not.’
18.And Isaac is comforting Rebecca on account of her son Jacob, and blessing him.
19.And Jacob is going from the Well of the Oath to go to Haran on the first year of the second week in the forty-fourth jubilee, and he is coming to Luz on the mountains, that is, Bethel, on the new moon of the first month of this week, [2115 A.M.] and he cometh to the place at even and is turning from the way to the west of the road that night: and he is sleeping there; for the sun is set.
20.And he is taking one of the stones of that place and laying it at his head under the tree, and he is journeying alone, and he slepeth .
21.And he is dreaming that night, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it is reaching to the heavens, and behold, the angels of IAH ascend and descend on it: and behold, IAH is standing upon it.
22.And he is speaking to Jacob and saying: ‘I am IAH, IAH of Abraham, thy father, and the IAH of Isaac; the land whereon thou art sleeping, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee.
23.And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt increase to the west and to the east, to the north and the south, and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the nations be blessed.
24.And behold, I will be with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and I will bring thee again into this land in peace; for I will not leave thee until I do everything that I tell thee of.’
25.And Jacob awaketh from his sleep, and saith, ‘Truly this place is the house of IAH, and I know it not.’ And he is afraid and saith: ‘Dreadful is this place which is none other than the house of IAH, and this is the gate of the heavens.’
26.And Jacob is arising early in the morning, and tak the stone which he dothe put under his head and setteth it up as a pillar for a sign, and he is pouring oil upon the top of it. And he is calling the name of that place Bethel; but the name of the place is Luz at the first.
27.And Jacob is vowing a vow unto IAH, saying: ‘If IAH will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and give me bread to eat and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then shall IAH be my IAH, and this stone which I dothe set up as a pillar for a sign in this place, shall be a house of IAH, and of all that thou givest me, I shall give the tenth to thee, my IAH.’
[Chapter 28]
And he is going on his journey, and coming to the land of the east, to Laban, the brother of Rebecca, and he is with him, and serving him for Rachel his daughter one week.
And in the first year of the third week [2122 A.M.] he saith unto him: ‘Give me my wife, for whom I dothe serve thee seven years ‘; and Laban saith unto Jacob: ‘I will give thee thy wife.’
And Laban is making a feast, and taking Leah his elder daughter, and giving her to Jacob as a wife, and giving her Zilpah his handmaid for an hand- maid; and Jacob dothe not know, for he is thinking that she is Rachel.
And he is going in unto her, and behold, she is Leah; and Jacob is angry with Laban, and saith unto him: ‘Why dothe thou dealt thus with me? Dothe not I serve thee for Rachel and not for Leah? Why dothe thou wrong me?
Take thy daughter, and I will go; for thou dothe evil to me.’ For Jacob loveth Rachel more than Leah; for Leah’s eyes are weak, but her form is very handsome; but Rachel hathe beautiful eyes and a beautiful and very handsome form.
And Laban saith to Jacob: ‘It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the elder.’ And it is not right to do this; for thus it is ordained and written in the heavenly tablets, that no one should give his younger daughter before the elder; but the elder, one gives first and after her the younger -and the man who is dothing so, they set down guilt against him in the heavens, and none is righteous that is dothing this thing, for this deed is evil before IAH.
And command thou the children of Iamiah that they do not this thing; let them neither take nor give the younger before they dothe give the elder, for it is very wicked.
And Laban saith to Jacob: ‘Let the seven days of the feast of this one pass by, and I shall give thee Rachel, that thou mayst serve me another seven years, that thou mayst pasture my sheep as thou dothe in the former week.’
And on the day when the seven days of the feast of Leah are passing , Laban giveth Rachel to Jacob, that he might serve him another seven years, and he is giving to Rachel Bilhah, the sister of Zilpah, as a handmaid.
10.And he is serving yet other seven years for Rachel, for Leah is being given to him for nothing.
11.And IAH openeth the womb of Leah, and she conceiveth and bareth Jacob a son, and he is calling his name Reuben, on the fourteenth day of the ninth month, in the first year of the third week. [2122 A.M.]
12.But the womb of Rachel is closed, for IAH dothe see that Leah is hated and Rachel loved.
13.And again Jacob is going in unto Leah, and she conceiveth, and bareth Jacob a second son, and he is calling his name Simeon, on the twenty-first of the tenth month, and in the third year of this week. [2124 A.M.]
14.And again Jacob is going in unto Leah, and she conceiveth, and bareth him a third son, and he is calling his name Levi, in the new moon of the first month in the sixth year of this week. [2127 A.M.]
15.And again Jacob is going in unto her, and she conceiveth, and bareth him a fourth son, and he is calling his name Judah, on the fifteenth of the third month, in the first year of the fourth week. [2129 A.M.]
16.And on account of all this Rachel dothe envy Leah, for she dothe not bear, and she saith to Jacob: ‘Give me children’; and Jacob saith: ‘Dothe I withhold from thee the fruits of thy womb? Dothe I forsake thee?’
17.And when Rachel seeth that Leah dothe bare four sons to Jacob, Reuben and Simeon and Levi and Judah, she saith unto him: ‘Go in unto Bilhah my handmaid, and she will conceive, and bear a son unto me.’ And she is giving him Bilhah her handmaid to wife.
18.And he is going in unto her, and she conceiveth, and bareth him a son, and he is calling his name Dan, on the ninth of the sixth month, in the sixth year of the third week. [2127 A.M.]
19.And Jacob goeth in again unto Bilhah a second time, and she conceiveth, and bareth Jacob another son, and Rachel is calling his name Napthali, on the fifth of the seventh month, in the second year of the fourth week. [2130 A.M.]
20.And when Leah dothe see that she becometh sterile and is not bearing, she envieth Rachel, and she also is giving her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob to wife, and she conceiveth, and bareth a son, and Leah is calling his name Gad, on the twelfth of the eighth month, in the third year of the fourth week. [2131 A.M.]
21.And he is going in again unto her, and she conceiveth, and bareth him a second son, and Leah is calling his name Asher, on the second of the eleventh month, in the fifth year of the fourth week. [2133 A.M.]
22.And Jacob is going in unto Leah, and she conceiveth , and bareth a son, and she is calling his name Issachar, on the fourth of the fifth month, in the fourth year of the fourth week,[2132 A.M.] and she is giving him to a nurse.
23.And Jacob is going in again unto her, and she conceiveth, and bareth two children, a son and a daughter, and she is calling the name of the son Zabulon, and the name of the daughter Dinah, in the seventh of the seventh month, in the sixth year of the fourth week. [2134 A.M.]
24.And IAH is gracious to Rachel, and is opening her womb, and she conceiveth, and bareth a son, and she is calling his name Joseph, on the new moon of the fourth month, in the sixth year in this fourth week. [2134 A.M.]
25.And in the days when Joseph is born, Jacob saith to Laban: ‘Give me my wives and sons, and let me go to my father Isaac, and let me make me an house; for I dothe complete the years in which I am serving thee for thy two daughters, and I will go to the house of my father.’
26.And Laban said to Jacob: ‘Tarry with me for thy wages, and pasture my flock for me again, and take thy wages.’
27.And they agreed with one another that he should give him as his wages those of the lambs and kids which are born black and spotted and white, these are to be his wages.
28.And all the sheep bring forth spotted and speckled and black, variously marked, and they bring forth again lambs like themselves, and all that are spotted are Jacob’s and those which are not are Laban’s.
29.And Jacob’s possessions multiply exceedingly, and he is possessing oxen and sheep and asses and camels, and menservants and maid-servants.
30.And Laban and his sons envy Jacob, and Laban is taking back his sheep from him, and he is observing him with evil intent.
Chapter 29]
And it is coming to pass when Rachel dothe bare Joseph, that Laban is going to shear his sheep; for they are distant from him a three days’ journey.
And Jacob dothe see that Laban is going to shear his sheep, and Jacob is calling Leah and Rachel, and speking kindly unto them that they should come with him to the land of Canaan.
For he is telling them how he dothe see everything in a dream, even all that He is speking unto him that he should return to his father’s house, and they say: ‘To every place whither thou goest we will go with thee.’
And Jacob is blessing IAH of Isaac his father, and IAH of Abraham his father’s father, and he is arising and mounting his wives and his children, and taking all his possessions and crossing the river, and coming to the land of Gilead, and Jacob is hiding his intention from Laban and telling him not.
And in the seventh year of the fourth week Jacob is turning his face toward Gilead in the first month, on the twenty-first thereof. [2135 A.M.] And Laban is pursuing after him and overtaking Jacob in the mountain of Gilead in the third month, on the thirteenth thereof.
And IAH dothe not suffer him to injure Jacob; for he is appearing to him in a dream by night. And Laban is speking to Jacob.
And on the fifteenth of those days Jacob is making a feast for Laban, and for all who come with him, and Jacob is swaring to Laban that day, and Laban also to Jacob, that neither should cross the mountain of Gilead to the other with evil purpose.
And he is making there a heap for a witness; wherefore the name of that place is called: ‘The Heap of Witness,’ after this heap.
But before they are calling the land of Gilead the land of the Rephaim; for it is the land of the Rephaim, and the Rephaim are born there, giants whose height is ten, nine, eight down to seven cubits.
10.And their habitation is from the land of the children of Ammon to Mount Hermon, and the seats of their kingdom are Karnaim and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, and Misur, and Beon.
11.And IAH destroying them because of the evil of their deeds; for they are very malignant, and the Amorites dwell in their stead, wicked and sinful, and there is no people to-day which dothe wreak to the full all their sins, and they have no longer length of life on the earth.
12.And Jacob is sending away Laban, and he is departing into Mesopotamia, the land of the East, and Jacob is returning to the land of Gilead.
13.And he is passing over the Jabbok in the ninth month, on the eleventh thereof. And on that day Esau, his brother, is coming to him, and he is reconciled to him, and departing from him unto the land of Seir, but Jacob is dwelling in tents.
14.And in the first year of the fifth week in this jubilee [2136 A.M.] he is crossing the Jordan, and dwelling beyond the Jordan, and he is pasturing his sheep from the sea of the heap unto Bethshan, and unto Dothan and unto the forest of Akrabbim.
15.And he is sending to his father Isaac of all his substance, clothing, and food, and meat, and drink, and milk, and butter, and cheese, and some dates of the valley.
16.And to his mother Rebecca also four times a year, between the times of the months, between ploughing and reaping, and between autumn and the rain season and between winter and spring, to the tower of Abraham.
17.For Isaac dothe return from the Well of the Oath and is going up to the tower of his father Abraham, and he is dwelling there apart from his son Esau.
18.For in the days when Jacob is going to Mesopotamia, Esau is taking to himself a wife Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, and he is gathering together all the flocks of his father and his wives, and going Up and dwelling on Mount Seir, and leaving Isaac his father at the Well of the Oath alone.
19.And Isaac is going up from the Well of the Oath and dwelling in the tower of Abraham his father on the mountains of Hebron,
20.And thither Jacob is sending all that he is sending to his father and his mother from time to time, all they need, and they bless Jacob with all their heart and with all their soul.
[Chapter 30]
And in the first year of the sixth week [2143 A.M.] he is going up to Salem, to the east of Shechem, in peace, in the fourth month.
And there they carry off Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, into the house of Shechem, the son of Hamor, the Hivite, the prince of the land, and he is laying with her and defiling her, and she is a little girl, a child of twelve years.
And he is beseeching his father and her brothers that she might be given to him to wife. And Jacob and his sons are wroth because of the men of Shechem; for they are defiling Dinah, their sister, and they speak to them with evil intent and dealt deceitfully with them and beguile them.
And Simeon and Levi come unexpectedly to Shechem and execute judgment on all the men of Shechem, and slay all the men whom they find in it, and leave not a single one remaining in it: they slay all in torments because they dothe dishonour their sister Dinah.
And thus let it not again be done from henceforth that a daughter of Iamiah be defiled; for judgment is ordained in the heavens against them that they should destroy with the sword all the men of the Shechemites because they dothe wreak shame in Iamiah.
And IAH is delivering them into the hands of the sons of Jacob that they might exterminate them with the sword and execute judgment upon them, and that it might not thus again be done in Iamiah that a virgin of Iamiah should be defiled.
And if there is any man who wishes in Iamiah to give his daughter or his sister to any man who is of the seed of the Gentiles he shall surely die, and they shall stone him with stones; for he dothe wreak shame in Iamiah; and they shall burn the woman with fire, because she is dishonouring the name of the house of her father, and she shall be rooted out of Iamiah.
And let not an adulteress and no uncleanness be found in Iamiah throughout all the days of the generations of the earth; for Iamiah is holy unto IAH, and every man who is defiling it shall surely die: they shall stone him with stones.
For thus has it is being ordained and written in the heavenly tablets regarding all the seed of Iamiah: he who defileth it shall surely die, and he shall be stoned with stones.
10.And to this law there is no limit of days, and no remission, nor any atonement: but the man who is defiling his daughter shall be rooted out in the midst of all Iamiah, because he is giving of his seed to Moloch, and wreaking impiously so as to defile it.
11.And do thou, Moses, command the children of Iamiah and exhort them not to give their daughters to the Gentiles, and not to take for their sons any of the daughters of the Gentiles, for this is abominable before IAH.
12.For this reason I am writing for thee in the words of the Law all the deeds of the Shechemites, which they wreak against Dinah, and how the sons of Jacob speak, saying: ‘We will not give our daughter to a man who is uncircumcised; for that is an reproach unto us.’
13.And it is a reproach to Iamiah, to those who live, and to those that take the daughters of the Gentiles; for this is unclean and abominable to Iamiah.
14.And Iamiah will not be free from this uncleanness if it has a wife of the daughters of the Gentiles, or is giving any of its daughters to a man who is of any of the Gentiles.
15.For there will be plague upon plague, and curse upon curse, and every judgment and plague and curse will come upon him: if he do this thing, or hide his eyes from those who commit uncleanness, or those who defile the sanctuary of IAH, or those who profane His holy name, then will the whole nation together be judged for all the uncleanness and profanation of this man.
16.And there will be no respect of persons and no consideration of persons and no receiving at his hands of fruits and offerings and burnt-offerings and fat, nor the fragrance of sweet savour, so as to accept it: and so fare every man or woman in Iamiah who defiles the sanctuary.
17.For this reason I am commanding thee, saying: ‘Testify this testimony to Iamiah: see how the Shechemites fare and their sons: how they are delivered into the hands of two sons of Jacob, and they slay them under tortures, and it is reckoned unto them for righteousness, and it is written down to them for righteousness.
18.And the seed of Levi is chosen for the priesthood, and to be Levites, that they might minister before IAH, as we, continually, and that Levi and his sons may be blessed for ever; for he is zealous to execute righteousness and judgment and vengeance on all those who arose against Iamiah.
19.And so they inscribe as a testimony in his favour on the heavenly tablets blessing and righteousness before IAH of all:
20.And we remember the righteousness which the man is fulfilling during his life, at all periods of the year; until a thousand generations they will record it, and it will come to him and to his descendants after him, and he is being recorded on the heavenly tablets as a friend and a righteous man.
21.All this account I am writing for thee, and am commanding thee to say to the children of Iamiah, that they should not commit sin nor transgress the ordinances nor break the covenant which is being ordained for them, but that they should fulfil it and be recorded as friends.
22.But if they transgress and work uncleanness in every way, they will be recorded on the heavenly tablets as adversaries, and they will be destroyed out of the book of life, and they will be recorded in the book of those who will be destroyed and with those who will be rooted out of the earth.
23.And on the day when the sons of Jacob slay Shechem a writing is recorded in their favour in the heavens that they are executing righteousness and uprightness and vengeance on the sinners, and it is written for a blessing.
24.And they bring Dinah, their sister, out of the house of Shechem, and they take captive everything that is in Shechem, their sheep and their oxen and their asses, and all their wealth, and all their flocks, and bring them all to Jacob their father.
25.And he is reproaching them because they had put the city to the sword for he is fearing those who dwell in the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
26.And the dread of IAH is upon all the cities which are around about Shechem, and they dothe not rise to pursue after the sons of Jacob; for terror is fallen upon them.
[Chapter 31]
And on the new moon of the month Jacob is speaking to all the people of his house. saying: ‘Purify yourselves and change your garments, and let us arise and go up to Bethel, where I vow a vow to Him on the day when I am fleeing from the face of Esau my brother, because he is being with me and bringing me into this land in peace, and put ye away the strange gods that arc among you.’
And they give up the strange gods and that which is in their ears and which is on their necks and the idols which Rachel stole from Laban her father she is giving wholly to Jacob. And he is burning and braking them to pieces and destroying them, and hiding them under an oak which is in the land of Shechem.
And he is going up on the new moon of the seventh month to Bethel. And he is building an altar at the place where he had slept, and he is setting up a pillar there, and he sendeth word to his father Isaac to come to him to his sacrifice, and to his mother Rebecca.
And Isaac saith: ‘Let my son Jacob come, and let me see him before I die.’
And Jacob is going to his father Isaac and to his mother Rebecca, to the house of his father Abraham, and he is taking two of his sons with him, Levi and Judah, and he is coming to his father Isaac and to his mother Rebecca.
And Rebecca cometh forth from the tower to the front of it to kiss Jacob and embrace him; for her spirit is revived when she is hearing: ‘Behold Jacob thy son has come’; and she is kissing him.
And she seeth his two sons, and she recognises them, and saith unto him: ‘Are these thy sons, my son?’ and she embraceth them and is kissing them, and blessing them, saying: ‘In you shall the seed of Abraham become illustrious, and ye shall prove a blessing on the earth.’
And Jacob goeth in to Isaac his father, to the chamber where he is laying, and his two sons are with him, and he is taking the hand of his father, and stooping down he kisseth him, and Isaac is clinging to the neck of Jacob his son, and weeping upon his neck.
And the darkness leaveth the eyes of Isaac, and he seeth the two sons of Jacob, Levi, and Judah, and he saith: ‘Are these thy sons, my son? for they are like thee.’
10.And he saith unto him that they are truly his sons: ‘And thou art truly seeing that they are truly my sons’.
11.And they come near to him, and he turneth and is kissing them and embracing them both together.
12.And the spirit of prophecy is coming down into his mouth, and he is taking Levi by his right hand and Judah by his left.
13.And he is turning to Levi first, and beginneth to bless him first, and saying unto him: May IAH of all, the very IAH of all the ages, bless thee and thy children throughout all the ages.
14.And may IAH give to thee and to thy seed greatness and great glory, and cause thee and thy seed, from among all flesh, to approach Him to serve in His sanctuary as the angels of the presence and as the holy ones. Even as they, shall the seed of thy sons be for glory and greatness and holiness, and may He make them great unto all the ages.
15.And they shall be judges and princes, and chiefs of all the seed of the sons of Jacob; They shall speak the word of IAH in righteousness,
And they shall judge all His judgments in righteousness.
And they shall declare My ways to Jacob
And My paths to Iamiah .
The blessing of IAH shall be given in their mouths
To bless all the seed of the beloved.
16.Thy mother has calling thy name Levi,
17.And justly has she is calling thy name; Thou shalt be joined to IAH
And be the companion of all the sons of Jacob;
Let His table be thine,
And do thou and thy sons eat thereof;
And may thy table be full unto all generations,
And thy food fail not unto all the ages.
18.And let all who hate thee fall down before thee,
19.And let all thy adversaries be rooted out and perish; And blessed be he that blesses thee,
And cursed be every nation that curses thee.’
20.And to Judah he saith:
21.’May IAH give thee strength and power To tread down all that hate thee;
A prince shalt thou be, thou and one of thy sons, over the sons of Jacob;
May thy name and the name of thy sons go forth and traverse every land and region.
Then shall the Gentiles fear before thy face,
And all the nations shall quake
And all the peoples shall quake.
22.In thee shall be the help of Jacob,
23.And in thee be found the salvation of Iamiah.
24.And when thou art sitting on the throne of honour of thy righteousness
25.There shall be great peace for all the seed of the sons of the beloved; Blessed be he that blesseth thee,
And all that hate thee and afflict thee and curse thee
Shall be rooted out and destroyed from the earth and be accursed.’
26.And turning he is kissing him again and embracing him, and rejoicing greatly; for he dothe see the sons of Jacob his son in very truth.
27.And he went forth from between his feet and falling down and bowing down to him, and he is blessing them and resting there with Isaac his father that night, and they eat and drank with joy.
28.And he is making the two sons of Jacob sleep, the one on his right hand and the other on his left, and it is counted to him for righteousness.
29.And Jacob is telling his father everything during the night, how IAH is showing him great mercy, and how he is prospering him in all his ways, and protecting him from all evil.
30.And Isaac is blessing IAH of his father Abraham, who is not withdrawing his mercy and his righteousness from the sons of his servant Isaac.
31.And in the morning Jacob is telling his father Isaac the vow which he is vowing to IAH , and the vision which he is seeing, and that he dothe build an altar, and that everything is ready for the sacrifice to be made before IAH as he is vowing, and that he dothe come to set him on an ass.
32.And Isaac saith unto Jacob his son: ‘I am not able to go with thee; for I am old and not able to bear the way: go, my son, in peace; for I am one hundred and sixty-five years this day; I am no longer able to journey; set thy mother on an ass and let her go with thee.
33.And I know, my son, that thou hast come on my account, and may this day be blessed on which thou art seeing me alive, and I also am seeing thee, my son.
34.Mayest thou prosper and fulfil the vow which thou art vowing; and put not off thy vow; for thou shalt be called to account as touching the vow; now therefore make haste to perform it, and may He be pleased who dothe make all things, to whom thou dothe vow the vow.’
35.And he saith to Rebecca: ‘Go with Jacob thy son’; and Rebecca went with Jacob her son, and Deborah with her, and they come to Bethel.
36.And Jacob is remembering the prayer with which his father is blessing him and his two sons, Levi and Judah, and he is rejoicing and blessing IAH of his fathers, Abraham and Isaac.
37.And he saith: ‘Now I know that I have an eternal hope, and my sons also, before IAH of all’; and thus is it ordained concerning the two; and they record it as an eternal testimony unto them on the heavenly tablets how Isaac is blessing them.
[Chapter 32]
And he is abiding that night at Bethel, and Levi is dreaming that they are ordaining and making him the priest of the Most High IAH, him and his sons for ever; and he is awaking from his sleep and blessing IAH.
And Jacob is rising early in the morning, on the fourteenth of this month, and he is giving a tithe of all that is coming with him, both of men and cattle, both of gold and every vessel and garment, yea, he is giving tithes of all.
And in those days Rachel becometh pregnant with her son Benjamin. And Jacob is counting his sons from him upwards and Levi is falling to the portion of IAH , and his father is clothing him in the garments of the priesthood and filling his hands.
And on the fifteenth of this month, he is bringing to the altar fourteen oxen from amongst the cattle, and twenty-eight rams, and forty-nine sheep, and seven lambs, and twenty-one kids of the goats as a burnt-offering on the altar of sacrifice, well pleasing for a sweet savour before IAH.
This is his offering, in consequence of the vow which he dothe vow that he will give a tenth, with their fruit-offerings and their drink- offerings.
And when the fire is consuming it, he is burning incense on the fire over the fire, and for a thank-offering two oxen and four rams and four sheep, four he-goats, and two sheep of a year old, and two kids of the goats; and thus he is dothing daily for seven days.
And he and all his sons and his men are eating this with joy there during seven days and blessing and thanking IAH, who is delivering him out of all his tribulation and had giving him his vow.
And he is tithing all the clean animals, and making a burnt sacrifice, but the unclean animals he is giving not to Levi his son, and he is giving him all the souls of the men.
And Levi is discharging the priestly office at Bethel before Jacob his father in preference to his ten brothers, and he is a priest there, and Jacob is giving his vow: thus he titheth again the tithe to IAH and is sanctifying it, and it is becoming holy unto Him.
10.And for this reason it is ordained on the heavenly tablets as a law for the tithing again the tithe to eat before IAH from year to year, in the place where it is chosen that His name should dwell, and to this law there is no limit of days for ever.
11.This ordinance is written that it may be fulfilled from year to year in eating the second tithe before IAH in the place where it is being chosen, and nothing shall remain over from it from this year to the year following.
12.For in its year shall the seed be eaten till the days of the gathering of the seed of the year, and the wine till the days of the wine, and the oil till the days of its season.
13.And all that is left thereof and becomes old, let it be regarded as polluted: let it be burnt with fire, for it is unclean.
14.And thus let them eat it together in the sanctuary, and let them not suffer it to become old.
15.And all the tithes of the oxen and sheep shall be holy unto IAH, and shall belong to his priests, which they will eat before Him from year to year; for thus is it ordained and engraven regarding the tithe on the heavenly tablets.
16.And on the following night, on the twenty-second day of this month, Jacob resolveth to build that place, and to surround the court with a wall, and to sanctify it and make it holy for ever, for himself and his children after him.
17.And IAH is appearing to him by night and blessing him and saying unto him: ‘Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Iamiah shall they name thy name.’
18.And He saith unto him again: ‘I am IAH who is creating the heavens and the earth, and I will increase thee and multiply thee exceedingly, and kings shall come forth from thee, and they shall judge everywhere wherever the foot of the sons of men dothe trod.
19.And I will give to thy seed all the earth which is under the heavens, and they shall judge all the nations according to their desires, and after that they shall get possession of the whole earth and inherit it for ever.’
20.And He finisheth speaking with him, and He dothe go up from him. and Jacob is looking till He is ascending into the heavens .
21.And he saw in a vision of the night, and behold an angel is descending from the heavens with seven tablets in his hands, and he giveth them to Jacob, and he is read them and knowing all that is written therein which will befall him and his sons throughout all the ages.
22.And he is showing him all that is written on the tablets, and saying unto him: ‘Do not build this place, and do not make it an eternal sanctuary, and do not dwell here; for this is not the place. Go to the house of Abraham thy father and dwell with Isaac thy father until the day of the death of thy father.
23.For in Egypt thou shalt die in peace, and in this land thou shalt be buried with honour in the sepulchre of thy fathers, with Abraham and Isaac.
24.Fear not, for as thou dothe see and read it, thus shall it all be; and do thou write down everything as thou dothe see and read.’
25.And Jacob saith: ‘IAH, how can I remember all that I am reading and seeing? ‘And he saith unto him: ‘I will bring all things to thy remembrance.’
26.And he is going up from him, and he is awaking from his sleep, and he is remembering everything which he dothe read and see, and he is writing down all the words which he is reading and seeing.
27.And he is celebrating there yet another day, and he is sacrificing thereon according to all that he is sacrificing on the former days, and is calling its name ‘Addition,’ for this day is added and the former days he is calling ‘The Feast ‘.
28.And thus it is manifesting that it should be, and it is written on the heavenly tablets: wherefore it is revealed to him that he should celebrate it, and add it to the seven days of the feast.
29.And its name is called ‘Addition,’ because that it is recorded amongst the days of the feast days, according to the number of the days of the year.
30.And in the night, on the twenty-third of this month, Deborah Rebecca’s nurse die, and they bury her beneath the city under the oak of the river, and he is calling the name of this place, ‘The river of Deborah,’ and the oak, ‘The oak of the mourning of Deborah.’
31.And Rebecca goeth and returneth to her house to his father Isaac, and Jacob is sending by her hand rams and sheep and he-goats that she should prepare a meal for his father such as he is desiring.
32.And he is going after his mother till he is coming to the land of Kabratan, and he is dwelling there.
33.And Rachel bareth a son in the night, and is calling his name ‘Son of my sorrow ‘; for she is suffering in giving him birth: but his father is calling his name Benjamin, on the eleventh of the eighth month in the first of the sixth week of this jubilee. [2143 A.M.]
34.And Rachel is dying there and she is buried in the land of Ephrath, the same is Bethlehem, and Jacob buildeth a pillar on the grave of Rachel, on the road above her grave.
[Chapter 33]
And Jacob is going and dwelling to the south of Magdaladra’ef. And he is going to his father Isaac, he and Leah his wife, on the new moon of the tenth month.
And Reuben dothe Bilhah, Rachel’s maid, the concubine of his father, bathing in water in a secret place, and he is loving her.
And he is hiding himself at night, and he entereth the house of Bilhah at night, and he is finding her sleeping alone on a bed in her house.
And he is laying with her, and she dothe awake and see, and behold Reuben is lying with her in the bed, and she is uncovering the border of her covering and seizing him, and crying out, and discovering that it is Reuben.
And she is ashamed because of him, and releasing her hand from him, and he is fleeing.
And she is lamenting because of this thing exceedingly, and is not telling it to any one.
And when Jacob is returning and seeking her, she saith unto him: ‘I am not clean for thee, for I am being defiled as regards thee; for Reuben dothe defile me, and dothe lay with me in the night, and I am asleep, and dothe not discover until he uncovereth my skirt and sleeping with me.’
And Jacob is exceedingly wroth with Reuben because he dothe lay with Bilhah, because he uncovereth his father’s skirt.
And Jacob is not approaching her again because Reuben defileth her. And as for any man who uncovers his father’s skirt his deed is wicked exceedingly, for he is abominable before IAH.
10.For this reason it is written and ordained on the heavenly tablets that a man should not lie with his father’s wife, and should not uncover his father’s skirt, for this is unclean: they shall surely die together, the man who lies with his father’s wife and the woman also, for they have wrought uncleanness on the earth.
11.And there shall be nothing unclean before IAH in the nation which He has chosen for Himself as a possession.
12.And again, it is written a second time: ‘Cursed be he who is lying with the wife of his father, for he is uncovering his father’s shame’; and all the holy ones of IAH say ‘So be it; so be it.’
13.And do thou, Moses, command the children of Iamiah that they observe this word; for it entails a punishment of death; and it is unclean, and there is no atonement for ever to atone for the man who is committing this, but he is to be put to death and slain, and stoned with stones, and rooted out from the midst of the people of IAH.
14.For to no man who does so in Iamiah is it permitted to remain alive a single day on the earth, for he is abominable and unclean.
15.And let them not say: to Reuben is granted life and forgiveness after he is laying with his father’s concubine, and to her also though she had a husband, and her husband Jacob, his father, is still alive.
16.For until that time there is not being revealed the ordinance and judgment and law in its completeness for all, but in thy days it has been revealed as a law of seasons and of days, and an everlasting law for the everlasting generations.
17.And for this law there is no consummation of days, and no atonement for it, but they must both be rooted out in the midst of the nation: on the day whereon they committed it they shall slay them.
18.And do thou, Moses, write it down for Iamiah that they may observe it, and do according to these words, and not commit a sin unto death; for IAH our IAH is judge, who respects not persons and accepts not gifts.
19.And tell them these words of the covenant, that they may hear and observe, and be on their guard with respect to them, and not be destroyed and rooted out of the land; for an uncleanness, and an abomination, and a contamination, and a pollution are all they who commit it on the earth before IAH.
20.And there is no greater sin than the fornication which they commit on earth; for Iamiah is a holy nation unto IAH its IAH, and a nation of inheritance, and a priestly and royal nation and for His own possession; and there shall no such uncleanness appear in the midst of the holy nation.
21.And in the third year of this sixth week [2145 A.M.] Jacob and all his sons go and dwell in the house of Abraham, near Isaac his father and Rebecca his mother.
22.And these were the names of the sons of Jacob: the first-born Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulon, the sons of Leah; and the sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin; and the sons of Bilhah, Dan and Naphtali; and the sons of Zilpah, Gad and Asher; and Dinah, the daughter of Leah, the only daughter of Jacob.
23.And they came and bow themselves to Isaac and Rebecca, and when they see them they bless Jacob and all his sons, and Isaac is rejoicing exceedingly, for he dothe see the sons of Jacob, his younger son and he is blessing them.
[Chapter 34]
And in the sixth year of this week of this forty-fourth jubilee [2148 A.M.] Jacob is sending his sons to pasture their sheep, and his servants with them to the pastures of Shechem.
And the seven kings of the Amorites assemble themselves together against them, to slay them, hiding themselves under the trees, and to take their cattle as a prey.
And Jacob and Levi and Judah and Joseph are in the house with Isaac their father; for his spirit is sorrowful, and they can not leave him: and Benjamin is the youngest, and for this reason is remaining with his father.
And there are coming the kings of Taphu and the kings of ‘Aresa, and the kings of Seragan, and the kings of Selo, and the kings of Ga’as, and the king of Bethoron, and the king of Ma’anisakir, and all those who dwell in these mountains and) who dwell in the woods in the land of Canaan.
And they announce this to Jaco saying: ‘Behold, the kings of the Amorites are surrounding thy sons, and plundering their herds.’
And he is arising from his house, he and his three sons and all the servants of his father, and his own servants, and he is going against them with six thousand men, who are carrying swords.
And he is slaying them in the pastures of Shechem, and pursuing those who flee, and he is slaying them with the edge of the sword, and he is slaying ‘Aresa and Taphu and Saregan and Selo and ‘Amani- sakir and Ga[ga]’as, and he is recovering his herds.
And he is prevailing over them, and imposing tribute on them that they should pay him tribute, five fruit products of their land, and he is building Robel and Tamnatares.
And he is returning in peace, and making peace with them, and they become his servants, until the day that he and his sons are going down into Egypt.
10.And in the seventh year of this week [2149 A.M.] he is sending Joseph to learn about the welfare of his brothers from his house to the land of Shechem, and he is finding them in the land of Dothan.
11.And they deal treacherously with him, and form a plot against him to slay him, but changing their minds, they sell him to Ishmaelite merchants, and they bring him down into Egypt, and they sell him to Potiphar, the eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief of the cooks, priest of the city of ‘Elew.
12.And the sons of Jacob slaughter a kid, and dip the coat of Joseph in the blood, and send it to Jacob their father on the tenth of the seventh month.
13.And he is mourning all that night, for they bring it to him in the evening, and he becometh feverish with mourning for his death, and he saith: ‘An evil beast dothe devour Joseph’; and all the members of his house mourn with him that day, and they are grieving and mourning with him all that day.
14.And his sons and his daughter rise up to comfort him, but he is refusing to be comforted for his son.
15.And on that day Bilhah heard that Joseph dothe perish, and she dieth mourning him, and she is living in Qafratef, and Dinah also, his daughter, dieth after Joseph dothe perish.
16.And there come these three mournings upon Iamiah in one month. And they bury Bilhah over against the tomb of Rachel, and Dinah also. his daughter, they bury there.
17.And he is mourning for Joseph one year, and dothe not cease, for he saith ‘Let me go down to the grave mourning for my son’.
18.For this reason it is ordained for the children of Iamiah that they should afflict themselves on the tenth of the seventh month -on the day that the news which is making him weep for Joseph coming to Jacob his father- that they should make atonement for themselves thereon with a young goat on the tenth of the seventh month, once a year, for their sins; for they are grieving the affection of their father regarding Joseph his son.
19.And this day is being ordained that they should grieve thereon for their sins, and for all their transgressions and for all their errors, so that they might cleanse themselves on that day once a year.
20.And after Joseph is perishing, the sons of Jacob take unto themselves wives. The name of Reuben’s wife is ‘Ada; and the name of Simeon’s wife is ‘Adlba’a, a Canaanite; and the name of Levi’s wife is Melka, of the daughters of Aram, of the seed of the sons of Terah; and the name of Judah’s wife, Betasu’el, a Canaanite; and the name of Issachar’s wife, Hezaqa: and the name of Zabulon’s wife, Ni’iman; and the name of Dan’s wife, ‘Egla; and the name of Naphtali’s wife, Rasu’u, of Mesopotamia; and the name of Gad’s wife, Maka; and the name of Asher’s wife, ‘Ijona; and the name of Joseph’s wife, Asenath, the Egyptian; and the name of Benjamin’s wife, ‘Ijasaka.
21.And Simeon is repenting, and taking a second wife from Mesopotamia as his brothers.
[Chapter 35]
And in the first year of the first week of the forty-fifth jubilee [2157 A.M.] Rebecca is calling Jacob, her son, and commanding him regarding his father and regarding his brother, that he should honour them all the days of his life.
And Jacob saith: ‘I will do everything as thou dothe command me; for this thing will be honour and greatness to me, and righteousness before IAH, that I should honour them.
And thou too, mother, knowest from the time I am born until this day, all my deeds and all that is in my heart, that I always think good concerning all.
And how should I not do this thing which thou dothe command me, that I should honour my father and my brother!
Tell me, mother, what perversity dothe thou see in me and I shall turn away from it, and mercy will be upon me.’
And she saith unto him: ‘My son, I dothe not see in thee all my days any perverse but only upright deeds. And yet I will tell thee the truth, my son: I shall die this year, and I shall not survive this year in my life; for I dothe see in a dream the day of my death, that I should not live beyond a hundred and fifty-five years: and behold I dothe complete all the days of my life which I am to live.’
And Jacob is laughing at the words of his mother. because his mother dothe say unto him that she should die; and she is sitting opposite to him in possession of her strength, and she is not infirm in her strength; for she is going in and out and seeing, and her teeth are strong, and no ailment dothe touch her all the days of her life.
And Jacob saith unto her: ‘Blessed am I, mother, if my days approach the days of thy life, and my strength remain with me thus as thy strength: and thou wilt not die, for thou art jesting idly with me regarding thy death.’
And she is going in to Isaac and saying unto him: ‘One petition I make unto thee: make Esau swear that he will not injure Jacob, nor pursue him with enmity; for thou knowest Esau’s thoughts that they are perverse from his youth, and there is no goodness in him; for he desires after thy death to kill him.
10.And thou knowest all that he is doing since the day Jacob his brother is going to Haran until this day: how he is forsaking us with his whole heart, and is doing evil to us; thy flocks he is taking to himself, and carrying off all thy possessions from before thy face.
11.And when we implore and beseech him for what is our own, he is dothing as a man who is taking pity on us.
12.And he is bitter against thee because thou dothe bless Jacob thy perfect and upright son; for there is no evil but only goodness in him, and since he is coming from Haran unto this day he dothe not rob us of aught, for he brings us everything in its season always, and rejoices with all his heart when we take at his hands and he blesses us, and is not parting from us since he is coming from Haran until this day, and he remains with us continually at home honouring us.’
13.And Isaac saith unto her: ‘I, too, know and see the deeds of Jacob who is with us, how that with all his heart he honours us; but I love Esau formerly more than Jacob, because he is the firstborn; but now I love Jacob more than Esau, for he is dothing manifold evil deeds, and there is no righteousness in him, for all his ways are unrighteousness and violence, and there is no righteousness around him.
14.And now my heart is troubled because of all his deeds, and neither he nor his seed is to be saved, for they are those who will be destroyed from the earth and who will be rooted out from under the heavens, for he is forsaking IAH of Abraham and going after his wives and after their uncleanness and after their error, he and his children.
15.And thou dost bid me make him swear that he will not slay Jacob his brother; even if he swear he will not abide by his oath, and he will not do good but evil only.
16.But if he desires to slay Jacob, his brother, into Jacob’s hands will he be given, and he will not escape from his hands, for he will descend into his hands.
17.And fear thou not on account of Jacob; for the guardian of Jacob is great and powerful and honoured, and praised more than the guardian of Esau.’
18.And Rebecca sendeth and is calling Esau and he is coming to her, and she saith unto him: ‘I have a petition, my son, to make unto thee, and do thou promise to do it, my son.’
19.And he saith: ‘I will do everything that thou sayest unto me, and I will not refuse thy petition.’
20.And she saith unto him: ‘I ask you that the day I die, thou wilt take me in and bury me near Sarah, thy father’s mother, and that thou and Jacob will love each other and that neither will desire evil against the other, but mutual love only, and so ye will prosper, my sons, and be honoured in the midst of the land, and no enemy will rejoice over you, and ye will be a blessing and a mercy in the eyes of all those that love you.’
21.And he saith: ‘I will do all that thou art telling me, and I shall bury thee on the day thou diest near Sarah, my father’s mother, as thou hast desire that her bones may be near thy bones.
22.And Jacob, my brother, also, I shall love above all flesh; for I have not a brother in all the earth but him only: and this is no great merit for me if I love him; for he is my brother, and we are sown together in thy body, and together come we forth from thy womb, and if I do not love my brother, whom shall I love?
23.And I, myself, beg thee to exhort Jacob concerning me and concerning my sons, for I know that he will assuredly be king over me and my sons, for on the day my father is blessing him he is making him the higher and me the lower.
24.And I swear unto thee that I shall love him, and not desire evil against him all the days of my life but good only.’
25.And he is swaring unto her regarding all this matter. And she is calling Jacob before the eyes of Esau, and giving him commandment according to the words which she speketh to Esau.
26.And he saith: ‘I shall do thy pleasure; believe me that no evil will proceed from me or from my sons against Esau, and I shall be first in naught save in love only.’
27.And they eat and drink, she and her sons that night, and she dieth, three jubilees and one week and one year old, on that night, and her two sons, Esau and Jacob, bury her in the double cave near Sarah, their father’s mother.
[Chapter 36]
And in the sixth year of this week [2162 A.M.] Isaac is calling his two sons Esau and Jacob, and they come to him, and he saith unto them: ‘My sons, I am going the way of my fathers, to the eternal house where my fathers are.
Wherefore bury me near Abraham my father, in the double cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, where Abraham is purchasing a sepulchre to bury in; in the sepulchre which I dig for myself, there bury me.
And this I command you, my sons, that ye practise righteousness and uprightness on the earth, so that IAH may bring upon you all that IAH saith that he would do to Abraham and to his seed.
And love one another, my sons, your brothers as a man who loves his own soul, and let each seek in what he may benefit his brother, and act together on the earth; and let them love each other as their own souls.
And concerning the question of idols, I command and admonish you to reject them and hate them, and love them not, for they are full of deception for those that worship them and for those that bow down to them.
Remember ye, my sons, IAH IAH of Abraham your father, and how I too worship Him and serve Him in righteousness and in joy, that He might multiply you and increase your seed as the stars of the heavens in multitude, and establish you on the earth as the plant of righteousness which will not be rooted out unto all the generations for ever.
And now I shall make you swear a great oath -for there is no oath which is greater than it by the name glorious and honoured and great and splendid and wonderful and mighty, which is creating the heavens and the earth and all things together- that ye will fear Him and worship Him.
And that each will love his brother with affection and righteousness, and that neither will desire evil against his brother from henceforth for ever all the days of your life so that ye may prosper in all your deeds and not be destroyed.
And if either of you devises evil against his brother, know that from henceforth everyone that devises evil against his brother shall fall into his hand, and shall be rooted out of the land of the living, and his seed shall be destroyed from under the heavens.
10.But on the day of turbulence and execration and indignation and anger, with flaming devouring fire as He is burning Sodom, so likewise will He burn his land and his city and all that is his, and he shall be blotted out of the book of the discipline of the children of men, and not be recorded in the book of life, but in that which is appointed to destruction, and he shall depart into eternal execration; so that their condemnation may be always renewed in hate and in execration and in wrath and in torment and in indignation and in plagues and in disease for ever.
11.I say and testify to you, my sons, according to the judgment which shall come upon the man who wishes to injure his brother.
12.And he is dividing all his possessions between the two on that day and he is giving the larger portion to him that is the first-born, and the tower and all that is about it, and all that Abraham possesseth at the Well of the Oath.
13.And he saith: ‘This larger portion I will give to the firstborn.’
14.And Esau saith, ‘I dothe sell to Jacob and give my birthright to Jacob; to him let it be given, and I dothe not a single word to say regarding it, for it is his.’
15.And Isaac saith, May a blessing rest upon you, my sons, and upon your seed this day, for ye art given me rest, and my heart is not pained concerning the birthright, lest thou shouldest work wickedness on account of it.
16.May the Most High IAH bless the man that worketh righteousness, him and his seed for ever.’
17.And he is ending commanding them and blessing them, and they eat and drink together before him, and he is rejoicing because there is one mind between them, and they go forth from him and rest that day and sleep.
18.And Isaac is sleeping on his bed that day rejoicing; and he is sleeping the eternal sleep, and dieth one hundred and eighty years old. He completeth twenty-five weeks and five years; and his two sons Esau and Jacob bury him.
19.And Esau is going to the land of Edom, to the mountains of Seir, and dwelling there.
20.And Jacob is dwelling in the mountains of Hebron, in the tower of the land of the sojournings of his father Abraham, and he is worshipping IAH with all his heart and according to the visible commands according as He dothe divide the days of his generations.
21.And Leah his wife dieth in the fourth year of the second week of the forty-fifth jubilee, [2167 A.M.] and he burieth her in the double cave near Rebecca his mother to the left of the grave of Sarah, his father’s mother
22.and all her sons and his sons come to mourn over Leah his wife with him and to comfort him regarding her, for he is lamenting her for he is loving her exceedingly after Rachel her sister dieth;
23.for she is perfect and upright in all her ways and honoring Jacob,and all the days that she is living with him he dothe not hear from her mouth a harsh word, for she is gentle and peaceable and upright and honourable.
24.And he is remembering all her deeds which she is doing during her life and he is lamenting her exceedingly; for he is loving her with all his heart and with all his soul.
[Chapter 37]
And on the day that Isaac the father of Jacob and Esau is dying, [2162 A.M.] the sons of Esau hear that Isaac is giving the portion of the elder to his younger son Jacob and they are very angry.
And they strive with their father, saying ‘Why dothe thy father given Jacob the portion of the elder and pass over thee, although thou art the elder and Jacob the younger?’
And he saith unto them ‘Because I sell my birthright to Jacob for a small mess of lentils, and on the day my father is sending me to hunt and catch and bring him something that he should eat and bless me, he cometh with guile and bringeth my father food and drink, and my father blesseth him and put me under his hand.
And now our father is causing us to swear, me and him, that we shall not mutually devise evil, either against his brother, and that we shall continue in love and in peace each with his brother and not make our ways corrupt.’
And they saith unto him, ‘We shall not hearken unto thee to make peace with him; for our strength is greater than his strength, and we are more powerful than he; we shall go against him and slay him, and destroy him and his sons. And if thou wilt not go with us, we shall do hurt to thee also.
And now hearken unto us: Let us send to Aram and Philistia and Moab and Ammon, and let us choose for ourselves chosen men who are ardent for battle, and let us go against him and do battle with him, and let us exterminate him from the earth before he grows strong.’
And their father saith unto them, ‘Do not go and do not make war with him lest ye fall before him.’
And they say unto him, ‘This too, is exactly thy mode of action from thy youth until this day, and thou art putting thy neck under his yoke.
We shall not hearken to these words.’ And they send to Aram, and to ‘Aduram to the friend of their father, and they hire along with them one thousand fighting men, chosen men of war.
10.And there is coming to them from Moab and from the children of Ammon, those who are hired, one thousand chosen men, and from Philistia, one thousand chosen men of war, and from Edom and from the Horites one thousand chosen fighting men, and from the Kittim mighty men of war.
11.And they say unto their father: Go forth with them and lead them, else we shall slay thee.’
12.And he is filled with wrath and indignation on seeing that his sons are forcing him to go before them to lead them against Jacob his brother.
13.But afterward he is remembering all the evil which is laying hidden in his heart against Jacob his brother; and he is remembering not the oath which he dothe swear to his father and to his mother that he will devise no evil all his days against Jacob his brother.
14.And notwithstanding all this, Jacob knoweth not that they are coming against him to battle, and he is mourning for Leah, his wife, until they approach very near to the tower with four thousand warriors and chosen men of war.
15.And the men of Hebron send to him saying, ‘Behold thy brother dothe come against thee, to fight thee, with four thousand girt with the sword, and they carry shields and weapons’; for they love Jacob more than Esau. So they tell him; for Jacob is a more liberal and merciful man than Esau.
16.But Jacob will not believe until they come very near to the tower.
17.And he is closing the gates of the tower; and he is standing on the battlements and speaking to his brother Esau and saying, ‘Noble is the comfort wherewith thou dothe come to comfort me for my wife who dothe die. Is this the oath that thou dothe swear to thy father and again to thy mother before they die? Thou art breaking the oath, and on the moment that thou dothe swear to thy father art thou condemned.’
18.And then Esau answereth and saith unto him, ‘Neither the children of men nor the beasts of the earth have any oath of righteousness which in swearing they dothe swear an oath valid for ever; but every day they devise evil one against another, and how each may slay his adversary and foe.
19.And thou dothe hate me and my children for ever. And there is no observing the tie of brotherhood with thee.
20.Hear these words which I declare unto thee, If the boar can change its skin and make its bristles as soft as wool,
Or if it can cause horns to sprout forth on its head like the horns of a stag or of a sheep,
Then will I observe the tie of brotherhood with thee
And if the breasts separate themselves from their mother, for thou art not being a brother to me.
21.And if the wolves make peace with the lambs so as not to devour or do them violence,
22.And if their hearts are towards them for good,
23.Then there shall be peace in my heart towards thee
24.And if the lion becomes the friend of the ox and makes peace with him
25.And if he is bound under one yoke with him and ploughs with him,
26.Then will I make peace with thee.
27.And when the raven becomes white as the raza,
28.Then know that I dothe love thee
29.And shall make peace with thee
30.Thou shalt be rooted out,
31.And thy sons shall be rooted out,
32.And there shall be no peace for thee’
33.And when Jacob dothe see that he is so evilly disposed towards him with his heart, and with all his soul as to slay him, and that he is come springing like the wild boar which comes upon the spear that pierces and kills it, and recoils not from it;
34.then he speketh to his own and to his servants that they should attack him and all his companions.
[Chapter 38]
And after that Judah is speaking to Jacob, his father, and saying unto him: ‘Bend thy bow, father, and send forth thy arrows and cast down the adversary and slay the enemy; and mayst thou have the power, for we shall not slay thy brother, for he is such as thou, and he is like thee let us give him this honour.’
Then Jacob bent his bow and sendeth forth the arrow and striketh Esau, his brother on his right breast and slaieth him.
And again he is sending forth an arrow and striking ‘Adoran the Aramaean, on the left breast, and is driving him backward and slaying him.
And then go forth the sons of Jacob, they and their servants, dividing themselves into companies on the four sides of the tower.
And Judah is going forth in front, and Naphtali and Gad with him and fifty servants with him on the south side of the tower, and they slay all they find before them, and not one individual of them escape.
And Levi and Dan and Asher go forth on the east side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slay the fighting men of Moab and Ammon.
And Reuben and Issachar and Zebulon go forth on the north side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slay the fighting men of the Philistines.
And Simeon and Benjamin and Enoch, Reuben’s son, go forth on the west side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slay of Edom and of the Horites four hundred men, stout warriors; and six hundred flee, and four of the sons of Esau flee with them, and leave their father lying slain, as he dothe fall on the hill which is in ‘Aduram.
And the sons of Jacob pursue after them to the mountains of Seir. And Jacob burieth his brother on the hill which is in ‘Aduram, and he is returning to his house.
10.And the sons of Jacob press hard upon the sons of Esau in the mountains of Seir, and bow their necks so that they become servants of the sons of Jacob.
11.And they send to their father to inquire whether they should make peace with them or slay them.
12.And Jacob sendeth word to his sons that they should make peace, and they make peace with them, and place the yoke of servitude upon them, so that they pay tribute to Jacob and to his sons always.
13.And they continue to pay tribute to Jacob until the day that he is going down into Egypt.
14.And the sons of Edom dothe not get quit of the yoke of servitude which the twelve sons of Jacob dothe impose on them until this day.
15.And these are the kings that reign in Edom before there is reigning any king over the children of Iamiah until this day in the land of Edom.
16.And Balaq, the son of Beor, is reigning in Edom, and the name of his city is Danaba.
17.And Balaq dieth, and Jobab, the son of Zara of Boser, is reigning in his stead.
18.And Jobab dieth , and ‘Asam, of the land of Teman, is reigning in his stead.
19.And ‘Asam dies , and ‘Adath, the son of Barad, who is slaying Midian in the field of Moab, is reigning in his stead, and the name of his city is Avith.
20.And ‘Adath dieth, and Salman, from ‘Amaseqa, is reigning in his stead.
21.And Salman dieth, and Saul of Ra’aboth by the river, is reigning in his stead.
22.And Saul dieth, and Ba’elunan, the son of Achbor, is reigning in his stead.
23.And Ba’elunan, the son of Achbor dieth, and ‘Adath is reigning in his stead, and the name of his wife is Maitabith, the daughter of Matarat, the daughter of Metabedza’ab.
24.These are the kings who are reigning in the land of Edom.
[Chapter 39]
And Jacob is dwelling in the land of his father’s sojournings in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob.
And Joseph was seventeen years old when they take him down into the land of Egypt, and Potiphar, an eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief cook is buying him.
And he is setting Joseph over all his house and the blessing of IAH is coming upon the house of the Egyptian on account of Joseph, and IAH is prospering him in all that he dothe.
And the Egyptian is committing everything into the hands of Joseph; for he dothe see that IAH is with him, and that IAH is prospering him in all that he dothe.
And Joseph’s appearance is comely and very beautiful is his appearance, and his master’s wife is lifting up her eyes and seeing Joseph, and she is loving him and beseeching him to lie with her.
But he dothe not surrender his soul, and he is remembered IAH and the words which Jacob, his father, dothe read from amongst the words of Abraham, that no man should commit fornication with a woman who has a husband; that for him the punishment of death is being ordained in the heavens before the Most High IAH, and the sin will be recorded against him in the eternal books continually before IAH.
And Joseph is remembering these words and refusing to lie with her.
And she is beseeching him for a year, but he is refusing and will not listen.
But she is embracing him and holding him fast in the house in order to force him to lie with her, and closing the doors of the house and holding him fast; but he leaveth his garment in her hands and braketh through the door and fleth without from her presence.
10.And the woman dothe see that he will not lie with her, and she dothe calumniate him in the presence of his master, saying ‘Thy Hebrew servant, whom thou lovest, seketh to force me so that he might lie with me; and it cometh to pass when I lift up my voice that he fleeth and is leaving his garment in my hands when I hold him, and he braketh through the door.’
11.And the Egyptian see the garment of Joseph and the broken door, and hear the words of his wife, and cast Joseph into prison into the place where the prisoners are keeping whom the king dothe imprison.
12.And he is there in the prison; and IAH is giving Joseph favour in the sight of the chief of the prison guards and compassion before him, for he dothe see that IAH was with him, and that IAH is making all that he dothe to prosper.
13.And he is committing all things into his hands, and the chief of the prison guards know of nothing that is with him, for Joseph dothe every thing, and IAH is perfecting it.
14.And he is remaining there two years. And in those days Pharaoh, king of Egypt is wroth against his two eunuchs, against the chief butler, and against the chief baker, and he is putting them in ward in the house of the chief cook, in the prison where Joseph is kept.
15.And the chief of the prison guards is appointing Joseph to serve them; and he is serving before them.
16.And they both dream a dream, the chief butler and the chief baker, and they tell it to Joseph.
17.And as he is interpreting to them so it befalleth them, and Pharaoh is restoring the chief butler to his office and the chief baker he is slaying, as Joseph dothe interpret to them.
18.But the chief butler is forgetting Joseph in the prison, although he dothe inform him what will befall him, and dothe not remember to inform Pharaoh how Joseph dothe tell him, for he is forgetting.
[Chapter 40]
And in those days Pharaoh dothe dream two dreams in one night concerning a famine which is to be in all the land, and he is awaking from his sleep and calling all the interpreters of dreams that are in Egypt, and magicians, and telling them his two dreams, and they are not able to declare them.
And then the chief butler is remembering Joseph and speking of him to the king, and he bringeth him forth from the prison, and he is telling his two dreams before him.
And he saith before Pharaoh that his two dreams are one, and he saith unto him: ‘Seven years shall come in which there shall be plenty over all the land of Egypt, and after that seven years of famine, such a famine as is not ever being in all the land.
And now let Pharaoh appoint overseers in all the land of Egypt, and let them store up food in every city throughout the days of the years of plenty, and there will be food for the seven years of famine, and the land will not perish through the famine, for it will be very severe.’
And IAH is giving Joseph favour and mercy in the eyes of Pharaoh, and Pharaoh saith unto his servants. We shall not find such a wise and discreet man as this man, for the spirit of IAH is with him.’
And he is appointing him the second in all his kingdom and giving him authority over all Egypt, and causing him to ride in the second chariot of Pharaoh.
And he is clothing him with byssus garments, and he is putting a gold chain upon his neck, and a herald proclaiming before him ‘ ‘El ‘El wa ‘Abirer,’ and placing a ring on his hand and making him ruler over all his house, and magnifying him, and saying unto him. ‘Only on the throne shall I be greater than thou.’
And Joseph is ruling over all the land of Egypt, and all the princes of Pharaoh, and all his servants, and all who dothe the king’s business love him, for he is walking in uprightness, for he is without pride and arrogance, and he hathe no respect of persons, and dothe not accept gifts, but he is judging in uprightness all the people of the land.
And the land of Egypt is at peace before Pharaoh because of Joseph, for IAH is with him, and giving him favour and mercy for all his generations before all those who know him and those who hear concerning him, and Pharaoh’s kingdom is well ordered, and there is no Satan and no evil person therein.
10.And the king is calling Joseph’s name Sephantiphans, and gave Joseph to wife the daughter of Potiphar, the daughter of the priest of Heliopolis, the chief cook.
11.And on the day that Joseph is standing before Pharaoh he is thirty years old when he is standing before Pharaoh.
12.And in that year Isaac dieth. And it came to pass as Joseph dothe say in the interpretation of his two dreams, according as he dothe say it, there are seven years of plenty over all the land of Egypt, and the land of Egypt abundantly is producing, one measure producing eighteen hundred measures.
13.And Joseph is gathering food into every city until they are full of corn until they can no longer count and measure it for its multitude.
Chapter 41]
And in the forty-fifth jubilee, in the second week, and in the second year, [2165 A.M.] Judah is taking for his first-born Er, a wife from the daughters of Aram, named Tamar.
But he is hateful , and dothe not lie with her, because his mother is of the daughters of Canaan, and he is wishing to take him a wife of the kinsfolk of his mother, but Judah, his father, will not permit him.
And this Er, the first-born of Judah, is wicked, and IAH slaieth him.
And Judah saith unto Onan, his brother ‘Go in unto thy brother’s wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto her, and raise up seed unto thy brother.’
And Onan knoweth that the seed will not be his, but his brother’s only, and he went into the house of his brother’s wife, and spilt the seed on the ground, and he is wicked in the eyes of IAH, and He slaieth him.
And Judah saith unto Tamar, his daughter-in-law: ‘Remain in thy father’s house as a widow till Shelah my son be grown up, and I shall give thee to him to wife.’
And he is growing up; but Bedsu’el, the wife of Judah, dothe not permit her son Shelah to marry. And Bedsu’el, the wife of Judah, dieth [2168 A.M.] in the fifth year of this week.
And in the sixth year Judah is going up to shear his sheep at Timnah. [2169 A.M.] And they tell Tamar: ‘Behold thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.’
And she is putting off her widow’s clothes, and putting on a veil, and adorning herself, and sitting in the gate adjoining the way to Timnah.
10.And as Judah is going along he is finding her, and thinking her to be an harlot, and he saith unto her: ‘Let me come in unto thee’; and she saith unto him Come in,’ and he went in.
11.And she saith unto him: ‘Give me my hire’; and he saith unto her: ‘I have nothing in my hand save my ring that is on my finger, and my necklace, and my staff which is in my hand.’
12.And she saith unto him ‘Give them to me until thou dost send me my hire’, and he saith unto her: ‘I will send unto thee a kid of the goats’; and he giveth them to her, and he is going in unto her, and she is conceiving by him.
13.And Judah is going unto his sheep, and she is going to her father’s house.
14.And Judah sendeth a kid of the goats by the hand of his shepherd, an Adullamite, and he is finding her not; and he is asking the people of the place, saying: ‘Where is the harlot who is here?’ And they saith unto him; ‘There is no harlot here with us.’
15.And he returneth and is informing him, and saith unto him that he dothe not find her: ‘I ask the people of the place, and they say unto me: “There is no harlot here.” ‘
16.And he saith: ‘Let her keep them lest we become a cause of derision.’ And when she dothe complete three months, it is manifest that she is with child, and they told Judah, saying: ‘Behold Tamar, thy daughter-in-law, is with child by whoredom.’
17.And Judah went to the house of her father, and saith unto her father and her brothers: ‘Bring her forth, and let them burn her, for she hath wreaking uncleanness in Iamiah.’
18.And it cometh to pass when they bring her forth to burn her that she sendeth to her father-in-law the ring and the necklace, and the staff, saying: ‘Discern whose are these, for by him am I with child.’
19.And Judah acknowledged, and said: ‘Tamar is more righteous than I am.
20.And therefore let them burn her not’ And for that reason she is not given to Shelah, and he dothe not again approach her.
21.And after that she is baring two sons, Perez [2170 A.M.] and Zerah, in the seventh year of this second week.
22.And thereupon the seven years of fruitfulness are accomplished, of which Joseph speketh to Pharaoh.
23.And Judah dothe acknowledge that the deed which he dothe was evil, for he dothe lain with his daughter-in-law, and he is esteeming it hateful in his eyes, and he is acknowledging that he dothe transgress and go astray, for he dothe uncover the skirt of his son, and he is beginning to lament and to supplicate before IAH because of his transgression.
24.And we tell him in a dream that it is forgiven him because he is supplicating earnestly, and lamenting, and dothe not again commit it.
25.And he is receiving forgiveness because he is turning from his sin and from his ignorance, for he is transgressing greatly before IAH ; and every one that acts thus, every one who lies with his mother-in-law, let them burn him with fire that he may burn therein, for there is uncleanness and pollution upon them, with fire let them burn them.
26.And do thou command the children of Iamiah that there be no uncleanness amongst them, for every one who lies with his daughter-in-law or with his mother-in-law dothe wreke uncleanness; with fire let them burn the man who dothe lay with her, and likewise the woman, and He will turn away wrath and punishment from Iamiah.
27.And unto Judah we say that his two sons dothe not lay with her, and for this reason his seed is stablished for a second generation, and will not be rooted out.
28.For in singleness of eye he dothe go and seek for punishment, namely, according to the judgment of Abraham, which he dothe command his sons, Judah dothe seke to burn her with fire.
[Chapter 42]
And in the first year of the third week of the forty-fifth jubilee the famine beginneth to come into the [2171 A.M.] land, and the rain is refusing to be given to the earth, for none whatever is falling.
And the earth groweth barren, but in the land of Egypt there is food, for Joseph dothe gather the seed of the land in the seven years of plenty and dothe preserve it.
And the Egyptians come to Joseph that he might give them food, and he is opening the store-houses where is the grain of the first year, and he is selling it to the people of the land for gold.
Now the famine is very sore in the land of Canaan, and Jacob dothe hear that there is food in Egypt, and he is sending his ten sons that they should procure food for him in Egypt; but Benjamin he dothe not send, and the ten sons of Jacob arrived in Egypt among those that go there.
And Joseph is recognizing them, but they dothe not recognise him, and he is speaking unto them and questioning them, and he saith unto them; ‘Are ye not spies and dothe ye not come to explore the approaches of the land? ‘And he put them in ward.
And after that he set them free again, and is detaining Simeon alone and sending off his nine brothers.
And he is filling their sacks with corn, and he is putting their gold in their sacks, and they dothe not know.
And he is commanded them to bring their younger brother, for they dothe tell him their father is living and their younger brother.
And they go up from the land of Egypt and they come to the land of Canaan; and they tell their father all that dothe befall them, and how the master of the country dothe speke roughly to them, and dothe seize Simeon till they should bring Benjamin.
10.And Jacob saith: ‘Me have ye bereaved of my children! Joseph is not and Simeon also is not, and ye will take Benjamin away. On me has your wickedness come.
11.’And he saith: ‘My son will not go down with you lest perchance he fall sick; for their mother giveth birth to two sons, and one dothe perish, and this one also ye will take from me. If perchance he is taking a fever on the road, ye will bring down my old age with sorrow unto death.’
12.For he dothe see that their money is being returned to every man in his sack, and for this reason he is fearing to send him.
13.And the famine is increasing and becoming sore in the land of Canaan, and in all lands save in the land of Egypt, for many of the children of the Egyptians dothe store up their seed for food from the time when they see Joseph gathering seed together and putting it in storehouses and preserving it for the years of famine.
14.And the people of Egypt feed themselves thereon during the first year of their famine.
15.But when Iamiah dothe see that the famine is very sore in the land, and that there is no deliverance, he saith unto his sons: ‘Go again, and procure food for us that we die not.’
16.And they say: ‘We shall not go; unless our youngest brother go with us, we shall not go.’
17.And Iamiah is seeing that if he is not sending him with them, they should all perish by reason of the famine
18.And Reuben saith: ‘Give him into my hand, and if I do not bring him back to thee, slay my two sons instead of his soul.’
19.And he said unto him: ‘He shall not go with thee.’ And Judah came near and said: ‘Send him with me, and if I do not bring him back to thee, let me bear the blame before thee all the days of my life.’
20.And he sendeth him with them in the second year of this week on the [2172 A.m.] first day of the month, and they come to the land of Egypt with all those who go, and they have presents in their hands, stacte and almonds and terebinth nuts and pure honey.
21.And they go and stand before Joseph, and he seeth Benjamin his brother, and he knoweth him, and saith unto them: Is this your youngest brother?’ And they said unto him: ‘It is he.’ And he said IAH be gracious to thee, my son!’
22.And he is sending him into his house and he is bringing forth Simeon unto them and he is making a feast for them, and they present to him the gift which they dothe bring in their hands.
23.And they eat before him and he is giving them all a portion, but the portion of Benjamin is seven times larger than that of any of theirs.
24.And they eat and drank and arise and remained with their asses.
25.And Joseph deviseth a plan whereby he might learn their thoughts as to whether thoughts of peace prevail amongst them, and he saith to the steward who is over his house: ‘Fill all their sacks with food, and return their money unto them into their vessels, and my cup, the silver cup out of which I drink, put it in the sack of the youngest, and send them away.’
[Chapter 43]
And he dothe as Joseph is telling him, and filling all their sacks for them with food and putting their money in their sacks, and putting the cup in Benjamin’s sack.
And early in the morning they depart, and it cometh to pass that, when they are gone from thence, Joseph saith unto the steward of his house: ‘Pursue them, run and seize them, saying, “For good ye are requiting me with evil; you are stealing from me the silver cup out of which my master drinks.” And bring back to me their youngest brother, and fetch him quickly before I go forth to my seat of judgment.’
And he runneth after them and saith unto them according to these words.
And they saith unto him: ‘IAH forbid that thy servants should do this thing, and steal from the house of thy master any utensil, and the money also which we found in our sacks the first time, we thy servants bring back from the land of Canaan.
How then should we steal any utensil? Behold here are we and our sacks search, and wherever thou findest the cup in the sack of any man amongst us, let him be slain, and we and our asses will serve thy master.’
And he saith unto them: ‘Not so, the man with whom I find, him only shall I take as a servant, and ye shall return in peace unto your house.’
And as he is searching in their vessels, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest, it is found in Benjamin’s sack.
And they rent their garments, and lade their asses, and return to the city and come to the house of Joseph, and they all bow themselves on their faces to the ground before him.
And Joseph saith unto them: ‘Ye dothe evil.’ And they say: ‘What shall we say and how shall we defend ourselves? Our master dothe discover the transgression of his servants; behold we are the servants of our master, and our asses also.
10.’And Joseph saith unto them: ‘I too fear IAH; as for you, go ye to your homes and let your brother be my servant, for ye dothe evil. Know ye not that a man delights in his cup as I with this cup? And yet ye dothe steal it from me.’
11.And Judah saith: ‘O my master, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my master’s ear, two brothers dothe thy servant’s mother bear to our father: one goeth away and is lost, and is not being found, and he alone is left of his mother, and thy servant our father loves him, and his life also is bound up with the life of this lad.
12.And it will come to pass, when we go to thy servant our father, and the lad is not with us, that he will die, and we shall bring down our father with sorrow unto death.
13.Now rather let me, thy servant, abide instead of the boy as a bondsman unto my master, and let the lad go with his brethren, for I become surety for him at the hand of thy servant our father, and if I do not bring him back, thy servant will hear the blame to our father for ever.’
14.And Joseph is seeing that they are all accordant in goodness one with another, and he can not refrain himself, and he telleth them that he is Joseph.
15.And he is conversing with them in the Hebrew tongue and falling on their neck and weping.
16.But they know him not and they begin to weep. And he saith unto them: ‘Weep not over me, but hasten and bring my father to me; and ye see that it is my mouth that speaketh and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see.
17.For behold this is the second year of the famine, and there are still five years without harvest or fruit of trees or ploughing.
18.Come down quickly ye and your households, so that ye perish not through the famine, and do not be grieved for your possessions, for IAH dothe send me before you to set things in order that many people might live.
19.And tell my father that I am still alive, and ye, behold, ye see that IAH is making me as a father to Pharaoh, and ruler over his house and over all the land of Egypt.
20.And tell my father of all my glory, and all the riches and glory that IAH is giving me.’
21.And by the command of the mouth of Pharaoh he is giving them chariots and provisions for the way, and he giveth them all many-coloured raiment and silver.
22.And to their father he is sending raiment and silver and ten asses which carry corn, and he sendeth them away.
23.And they go up and tell their father that Joseph is alive, and is measuring out corn to all the nations of the earth, and that he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.
24.And their father dothe not believe it, for he is beside himself in his mind; but when he dothe see the wagons which Joseph dothe send, the life of his spirit is reviving, and he saith: ‘It is enough for me if Joseph lives; I will go down and see him before I die.’
[Chapter 44]
And Iamiah is taking his journey from Haran from his house on the new moon of the third month, and he is going on the way of the Well of the Oath, and he is offering a sacrifice to IAH of his father Isaac on the seventh of this month.
And Jacob is remembering the dream that he dothe see at Bethel, and he is feared to go down into Egypt.
And while he is thinking of sending word to Joseph to come to him, and that he will not go down, he is remaining there seven days, if perchance he could see a vision as to whether he should remain or go down.
And he is celebrating the harvest festival of the first-fruits with old grain, for in all the land of Canaan there is not a handful of seed in the land, for the famine is over all the beasts and cattle and birds, and also over man.
And on the sixteenth IAH is appearing unto him, and saying unto him, ‘Jacob, Jacob’; and he saith, ‘Here am I.’ And He saith unto him: ‘I am IAH of thy fathers, IAH of Abraham and Isaac; fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will there make of thee a great nation I will go down with thee, and I will bring thee up again, and in this land shalt thou be buried, and Joseph shall put his hands upon thy eyes.
Fear not; go down into Egypt.’
And his sons rise up, and his sons’ sons, and they place their father and their possessions upon wagons.
And Iamiah riseth up from the Well of the Oath on the sixteenth of this third month, and he is going to the land of Egypt.
And Iamiah is sending Judah before him to his son Joseph to examine the Land of Goshen, for Joseph dothe tell his brothers that they should come and dwell there that they might be near him.
10.And this is the goodliest land in the land of Egypt, and near to him, for all of them and also for the cattle.
11.And these are the names of the sons of Jacob who go into Egypt with Jacob their father.
12.Reuben, the First-born of Iamiah; and these are the names of his sons Enoch, and Pallu, and Hezron and Carmi-five.
13.Simeon and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul, the son of the Zephathite woman-seven.
14.Levi and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari-four.
15.Judah and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Shela, and Perez, and Zerah-four.
16.Issachar and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Tola, and Phua, and Jasub, and Shimron-five.
17.Zebulon and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel-four.
18.And these are the sons of Jacob and their sons whom Leah dothe bear to Jacob in Mesopotamia, six, and their one sister, Dinah and all the souls of the sons of Leah, and their sons, who go with Jacob their father into Egypt, are twenty-nine, and Jacob their father being with them, they are thirty.
19.And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid, the wife of Jacob, who dothe bore unto Jacob Gad and Ashur.
20.And these are the names of their sons who are going with him into Egypt. The sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, and Shuni, and Ezbon, <and Eri>, and Areli, and Arodi-eight.
21.And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, <and Ishvi>, and Beriah, and Serah, their one sister-six.
22.All the souls are fourteen, and all those of Leah are forty-four.
23.And the sons of Rachel, the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.
24.And there are born to Joseph in Egypt before his father is coming into Egypt, those whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphar priest of Heliopolis dothe bare unto him, Manasseh, and Ephraim-three.
25.And the sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, and Ehi, and Rosh, and Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard-eleven.
26.And all the souls of Rachel are fourteen.
27.And the sons of Bilhah, the handmaid of Rachel, the wife of Jacob, whom she dothe bare to Jacob, are Dan and Naphtali.
28.And these are the names of their sons who are going with them into Egypt. And the sons of Dan are Hushim, and Samon, and Asudi. and ‘Ijaka, and Salomon-six.
29.And they die the year in which they enter into Egypt, and there is left to Dan Hushim alone.
30.And these are the names of the sons of Naphtali Jahziel, and Guni and Jezer, and Shallum, and ‘Iv.
31.And ‘Iv, who is born after the years of famine, dieth in Egypt.
32.And all the souls of Rachel are twenty-six.
33.And all the souls of Jacob which go into Egypt are seventy souls. These are his children and his children’s children, in all seventy, but five die in Egypt before Joseph, and hathe no children.
34.And in the land of Canaan two sons of Judah die, Er and Onan, and they hathe no children, and the children of Iamiah bury those who perish, and they are reckoned among the seventy Gentile nations.
[Chapter 45]
And Iamiah is going into the country of Egypt, into the land of Goshen, on the new moon of the fourth [2172 A.M]. month, in the second year of the third week of the forty-fifth jubilee.
And Joseph is going to meet his father Jacob, to the land of Goshen, and he falleth on his father’s neck and wepeth .
And Iamiah saith unto Joseph: ‘Now let me die since I have seen thee, and now may IAH IAH of Iamiah be blessing IAH of Abraham and IAH of Isaac who is not withholding His mercy and His grace from His servant Jacob.
It is enough for me that I dothe see thy face whilst I am yet alive; yea, true is the vision which I see at Bethel. Blessed be IAH my IAH for ever and ever, and blessed be His name.’
And Joseph and his brothers eat bread before their father and drink wine, and Jacob is rejoicing with exceeding great joy because he is seeing Joseph eating with his brothers and drinking before him, and he is blessing the Creator of all things who is preserving him, and dothe preserve for him his twelve sons.
And Joseph dothe give to his father and to his brothers as a gift the right of dwelling in the land of Goshen and in Rameses and all the region round about, which he is ruling over before Pharaoh. And Iamiah and his sons dwell in the land of Goshen, the best part of the land of Egypt and Iamiah is one hundred and thirty years old when he is coming into Egypt.
And Joseph is nourishing his father and his brethren and also their possessions with bread as much as is sufficing them for the seven years of the famine.
And the land of Egypt is suffering by reason of the famine, and Joseph is acquiring all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh in return for food, and he is getting possession of the people and their cattle and everything for Pharaoh.
And the years of the famine are accomplished, and Joseph is giving to the people in the land seed and food that they might sow the land in the eighth year, for the river is overflowing all the land of Egypt.
10.For in the seven years of the famine it is not overflowing and is irrigating only a few places on the banks of the river, but now it is overflowing and the Egyptians sow the land, and it dothe bare much corn that year.
11.And this is the first year of [2178 A.M.] the fourth week of the forty-fifth jubilee.
12.And Joseph is taking of the corn of the harvest the fifth part for the king and leaving four parts for them for food and for seed, and Joseph is making it an ordinance for the land of Egypt until this day.
13.And Iamiah is living in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and all the days which he is living are three jubilees, one hundred and forty-seven years, and he dieth in the fourth [2188 A.M.] year of the fifth week of the forty-fifth jubilee.
14.And Iamiah blesseth his sons before he is dying and telling them everything that will befall them in the land of Egypt; and he is making known to them what will come upon them in the last days, and blessing them and giving to Joseph two portions in the land.
15.And he slepeth with his fathers, and he is buried in the double cave in the land of Canaan, near Abraham his father in the grave which he dothe dig for himself in the double cave in the land of Hebron.
16.And he is giving all his books and the books of his fathers to Levi his son that he might preserve them and renew them for his children until this day.
[Chapter 46]
And it is coming to pass that after Jacob dieth the children of Iamiah multiply in the land of Egypt, and they become a great nation, and they are of one accord in heart, so that brother is loving brother and every man is helping his brother, and they increase abundantly and multiply exceedingly, ten [2242 A.M.] weeks of years, all the days of the life of Joseph.
And there is no Satan nor any evil all the days of the life of Joseph which he is living after his father Jacob, for all the Egyptians honour the children of Iamiah all the days of the life of Joseph.
And Joseph dieth being a hundred and ten years old; seventeen years he is living in the land of Canaan, and ten years he is a servant, and three years in prison, and eighty years he is under the king, ruling all the land of Egypt.
And he dieth and all his brethren and all that generation.
And he is commanding the children of Iamiah before he dieth that they should carry his bones with them when they go forth from the land of Egypt.
And he dothe make them swear regarding his bones, for he knoweth that the Egyptians will not again bring forth and bury him in the land of Canaan, for Makamaron, king of Canaan, while dwelling in the land of Assyria, is fighting in the valley with the king of Egypt and slaying him there, and pursuing after the Egyptians to the gates of ‘Ermon.
But he is not able to enter, for another, a new king, dothe become king of Egypt, and he is stronger than he, and he returneth to the land of Canaan, and the gates of Egypt are closed, and none go out and none come into Egypt.
And Joseph dieth in the forty-sixth jubilee, in the sixth week, in the second year, and they bury him in the land of Egypt, and [2242 A.M.] all his brethren die after him.
And the king of Egypt is going forth to war with the king of Canaan [2263 A.M.] in the forty-seventh jubilee, in the second week in the second year, and the children of Iamiah bring forth all the bones of the children of Jacob save the bones of Joseph, and they bury them in the field in the double cave in the mountain.
10.And the most of them return to Egypt, but a few of them remain in the mountains of Hebron, and Amram thy father is remaining with them.
11.And the king of Canaan is victorious over the king of Egypt, and he is closing the gates of Egypt.
12.And he is devising an evil device against the children of Iamiah of afflicting them and he saith unto the people of Egypt: ‘Behold the people of the children of Iamiah dothe increase and multiply more than we.
13.Come and let us deal wisely with them before they become too many, and let us afflict them with slavery before war come upon us and before they too fight against us; else they will join themselves unto our enemies and get them up out of our land, for their hearts and faces are towards the land of Canaan.’
14.And he is setting over them taskmasters to afflict them with slavery; and they build strong cities for Pharaoh, Pithom, and Raamses and they build all the walls and all the fortifications which dothe fall in the cities of Egypt.
15.And they make them serve with rigour, and the more they deal evilly with them, the more they increase and multiply.
16.And the people of Egypt abominate the children of Iamiah.
Chapter 47]
And in the seventh week, in the seventh year, in the forty-seventh jubilee, thy father is going forth [2303 A.M.] from the land of Canaan, and thou art born in the fourth week, in the sixth year thereof, in the [2330 A.M.] forty-eighth jubilee; this is the time of tribulation on the children of Iamiah.
And Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is issuing a command regarding them that they should cast all their male children which are born into the river.
And they cast them in for seven months until the day that thou art born
And thy mother is hiding thee for three months, and they tell regarding her. And she is making an ark for thee, and covering it with pitch and asphalt, and placing it in the flags on the bank of the river, and she is placing thee in it seven days, and thy mother is coming by night and suckling thee, and by day Miriam, thy sister, is guarding thee from the birds.
And in those days Tharmuth, the daughter of Pharaoh, is coming to bathe in the river, and she dothe hear thy voice crying, and she is telling her maidens to bring thee forth, and they bring thee unto her.
And she is taking thee out of the ark, and she is having compassion on thee.
And thy sister saith unto her: ‘Shall I go and call unto thee one of the Hebrew women to nurse and suckle this babe for thee?’
And she saith unto her: ‘Go.’ And she is going and calling thy mother Jochebed, and she is giving her wages, and she is nursing thee.
And afterwards, when thou art grown up, they bring thee unto the daughter of Pharaoh, and thou dothe become her son, and Amram thy father teacheth thee writing, and after thou dothe complete three weeks they bring thee into the royal court.
10.And thou art three weeks of years at court until the time [2351-] when thou dothe go forth from the royal court and dothe see an Egyptian smiting thy friend who is [2372 A.M.] of the children of Iamiah , and thou dothe slay him and hide him in the sand.
11.And on the second day thou dothe and two of the children of Iamiah striving together, and thou dothe say to him who is doing the wrong: ‘Why dost thou smite thy brother?’
12.And he is angry and indignant, and saith: ‘Who is making thee a prince and a judge over us? Thinkest thou to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?’ And thou dothe fear and flee on account of these words.
[Chapter 48]
And in the sixth year of the third week of the forty-ninth jubilee thou dothe depart and dwell in [2372 A.M.] the land of Midian, five weeks and one year. And thou dothe return into Egypt in the second week in the second year in the fiftieth jubilee.
And thou thyself knowest what He is speking unto thee on [2410 A.M.] Mount Sinai, and what prince Mastêmâ is desiring to do with thee when thou art returning into Egypt <on the way when thou dothe meet him at the lodging-place>.
Dothe he not with all his power seek to slay thee and deliver the Egyptians out of thy hand when he seeth that thou art sent to execute judgment and vengeance on the Egyptians?
And I deliver thee out of his hand, and thou dothe perform the signs and wonders which thou art sent to perform in Egypt against Pharaoh, and against all his house, and against his servants and his people.
And IAH is executing a great vengeance on them for the sake of Iamiah, and is smiting 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 is destroying everything that is growing for them; and by locusts which devour the residue which is being left by the hail, and by darkness; and by the death of the first-born of men and animals, and on all their idols IAH is taking vengeance and burning them with fire.
And everything is sending through thy hand, that thou shouldst declare these things before they are done, and thou didst speak with the king of Egypt before all his servants and before his people.
And everything is taking place according to thy words; ten great and terrible judgments come on the land of Egypt that thou mightest execute vengeance on it for Iamiah.
And IAH is doing everything for the sake of Iamiah, and according to His covenant, which he dothe ordain with Abraham that He will take vengeance on them as they are bringing them by force into bondage.
And the prince Mastêmâ is standing up against thee, and seeking to cast thee into the hands of Pharaoh, and he is helping the Egyptian sorcerers,
10.and they stand up and wreak before thee the evils indeed we permit them to work, but the remedies we dothe not allow to be wrought by their hands.
11.And IAH is smiting them with malignant ulcers, and they are not able to stand, for we destroy them so that they cannot not perform a single sign.
12.And notwithstanding all these signs and wonders the prince Mastêmâ is not putting to shame because he is taking courage and crying to the Egyptians to pursue after thee 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 stand between the Egyptians and Iamiah, and we deliver Iamiah out of his hand, and out of the hand of his people, and IAH is bringing them through the midst of the sea as if it is dry land.
14.And all the peoples whom he is bringing to pursue after Iamiah, IAH our IAH is casting them into the midst of the sea, into the depths of the abyss beneath the children of Iamiah, even as the people of Egypt are casting their children into the river He is taking vengeance on 1,000,000 of them, and one thousand strong and energetic men are destroyed on account of one suckling of the children of thy people which they dothe 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 Mastêmâ is bound and imprisoned behind the children of Iamiah 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 Iamiah.
17.And he hardeneth their hearts and is making them stubborn, and the device is devised by IAH our IAH that He might smite the Egyptians and cast them into the sea.
18.And on the fourteenth we bind him that he might not accuse the children of Iamiah on the day when they ask 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 are forcing them to serve.
19.And we dothe not lead forth the children of Iamiah from Egypt empty handed.
[Chapter 49]
Remember the commandment which IAH is commanding thee concerning the passover, that thou shouldst celebrate it in its season on the fourteenth of the first month, that thou shouldst kill it before it is evening, and that they should eat it by night on the evening of the fifteenth from the time of the setting of the sun.
For on this night -the beginning of the festival and the beginning of the joy- ye are eating the passover in Egypt, when all the powers of Mastêmâ are being let loose to slay all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh to the first-born of the captive maid-servant in the mill, and to the cattle.
And this is the sign which IAH is giving them: Into every house on the lintels of which they see the blood of a lamb of the first year, into that house they should not enter to slay, but should pass by it, that all those should be saved that are in the house because the sign of the blood is on its lintels.
And the powers of IAH dothe everything according as IAH is commanding them, and they pass by all the children of Iamiah, and the plague is coming not upon them to destroy from amongst them any soul either of cattle, or man, or dog.
And the plague is very grievous in Egypt, and there is no house in Egypt where there is not one dead, and weeping and lamentation.
And all Iamiah is eating the flesh of the paschal lamb, and drinking the wine, and is lauding, and blessing, and giving thanks to IAH IAH of their fathers, and is ready to go forth from under the yoke of Egypt, and from the evil bondage.
And remember thou this day all the days of thy life, and observe it from year to year all the days of thy life, once a year, on its day, according to all the law thereof, and do not adjourn it from day to day, or from month to month.
For it is an eternal ordinance, and engraven on the heavenly tablets regarding all the children of Iamiah that they should observe it every year on its day once a year, throughout all their generations; and there is no limit of days, for this is ordained for ever.
And the man who is free from uncleanness, and does not come to observe it on occasion of its day, so as to bring an acceptable offering before IAH, and to eat and to drink before IAH on the day of its festival, that man who is clean and close at hand shall be cut off: because he is offering not the oblation of IAH in its appointed season, he shall take the guilt upon himself.
10.Let the children of Iamiah come and observe the passover on the day of its fixed time, on the fourteenth day of the first month, between the evenings, from the third part of the day to the third part of the night, for two portions of the day are given to the light, and a third part to the evening.
11.This is that which IAH is commanding thee that thou shouldst observe it between the evenings.
12.And it is not permissible to slay it during any period of the light, but during the period bordering on the evening, and let them eat it at the time of the evening, until the third part of the night, and whatever is left over of all its flesh from the third part of the night and onwards, let them burn it with fire.
13.And they shall not cook it with water, nor shall they eat it raw, but roast on the fire: they shall eat it with diligence, its head with the inwards thereof and its feet they shall roast with fire, and not break any bone thereof; for of the children of Iamiah no bone shall be crushed.
14.For this reason IAH is commanding the children of Israel to observe the passover on the day of its fixed time, and they shall not break a bone thereof; for it is a festival day, and a day being commanded, and there may be no passing over from day to day, and month to month, but on the day of its festival let it be observed.
15.And do thou command the children of Iamiah to observe the passover throughout their days, every year, once a year on the day of its fixed time, and it shall come for a memorial well pleasing before IAH, and no plague shall come upon them to slay or to smite in that year in which they celebrate the passover in its season in every respect according to His command.
16.And they shall not eat it outside the sanctuary of IAH , but before the sanctuary of IAH, and all the people of the congregation of IAH shall celebrate it in its appointed season.
17.And every man who is coming upon its day shall eat it in the sanctuary of your IAH before IAH from twenty years old and upward; for thus is it written and ordained that they should eat it in the sanctuary of IAH.
18.And when the children of Iamiah come into the land which they are to possess, into the land of Canaan, and set up the tabernacle of IAH in the midst of the land in one of their tribes until the sanctuary of IAH is being built in the land, let them come and celebrate the passover in the midst of the tabernacle of IAH, and let them slay it before from year to year.
19.And in the days when the house is being built in the name of IAH in the land of their inheritance, they shall go there and slay the passover in the evening, at sunset, at the third part of the day.
20.And they shall offer its blood on the threshold of the altar, and shall place its fat on the fire which is upon the altar, and they shall eat its flesh roasted with fire in the court of the house which is being sanctified in the name of IAH.
21.And they may not celebrate the passover in their cities, nor in any place save before the tabernacle of IAH, or before His house where His name hath dwelt; and they shall not go astray from IAH.
22.And do thou, Moses, command the children of Iamiah to observe the ordinances of the passover, as it is commanded unto thee; declare thou unto them every year and the day of its days, and the festival of unleavened bread, that they should eat unleavened bread seven days, and that they should observe its festival, and that they bring an oblation every day during those seven days of joy before IAH on the altar of your IAH.
23.For ye celebrate this festival with haste when ye go forth from Egypt till ye entered into the wilderness of Shur; for on the shore of the sea ye complete it.
Chapter 50]
And after this law I am making known to thee the days of the Sabbaths in the desert of Sin[ai], which is between Elim and Sinai.
And I am telling thee of the Sabbaths of the land on Mount Sinai, and I am telling thee of the jubilee years in the sabbaths of years: but the year thereof am I not telling thee till ye enter the land which ye are to possess.
And the land also shall keep its sabbaths while they dwell upon it, and they shall know the jubilee year.
Wherefore I am ordaining for thee 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 IAH, until they pass over into the land of Canaan, crossing the Jordan to the west.
And the jubilees shall pass by, until Iamiah 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 for evermore.
And behold the commandment regarding the Sabbaths -I am written them down for thee- and all the judgments of its laws.
Six days shalt thou labour, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath of IAH your IAH. In it ye shall do no manner of work, ye and your sons, and your men- servants and your maid-servants, and all your cattle and the sojourner also who is with you.
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 is not preparing 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.
Ye shall do no work whatever on the Sabbath day save what ye are preparing for yourselves on the sixth day, so as to eat, and drink, and rest, and keep Sabbath from all work on that day, and to bless IAH your IAH , who has given you a day of festival and a holy day: and a day of the holy kingdom for all Iamiah is this day among their days for ever.
10.For great is the honour which IAH is giving to Iamiah 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 IAH for days and for Sabbaths.
11.This work alone shall be done on the Sabbath-days in the sanctuary of IAH your IAH ; that they may atone for Iamiah with sacrifice continually from day to day for a memorial well-pleasing before IAH, and that He may receive them always from day to day according as thou hast 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 Sabbaths:
13.The man who does any of these things on the Sabbath shall die, so that the children of Iamiah shall observe the Sabbaths according to the commandments regarding the Sabbaths of the land, as it is written in the tablets, which He is giving into my hands that I should write out for thee 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.