Jubilees 1:1-29

¹In the first year of the exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the third month, on the sixteenth day of the month, God spoke to Moses, saying: 'Come up to Me on the Mount, and I will give you two tablets of stone containing the law and the commandment, which I have written, so that you may teach them.'

²And Moses went up into the mount of God, and the glory of the Lord rested on Mount Sinai, and a cloud overshadowed it for six days.

³And He called to Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud, and the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a flaming fire on the top of the mount.

⁴And Moses was on the Mount forty days and forty nights, and God taught him the earlier and the later history of the division of all the days of the law and of the testimony.

⁵And He said: 'Incline your heart to every word which I shall speak to you on this mount, and write them in a book so that their generations may see how I have not forsaken them despite all the evil which they have done in transgressing the covenant which I establish between Me and you for their generations this day on Mount Sinai.'

⁶'And thus it will come to pass, when all these things come upon them, that they will recognize that I am more righteous than they are in all their judgments and in all their actions, and they will recognize that I have truly been with them.'

⁷'And as for you, write for yourself all these words which I declare to you this day, for I know their rebellion and their stubbornness, before I bring them into the land which I swore to their fathers, to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob, saying: To your descendants I will give a land flowing with milk and honey.'

⁸'And they will eat and be satisfied, and they will turn to foreign gods, to gods which cannot deliver them from any of their tribulation; and this witness shall be heard as a witness against them.'

⁹'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 to them an offense and a tribulation and an affliction and a snare.'

¹⁰'And many will perish and they will be taken captive, and will fall into the hands of the enemy, because they have forsaken My ordinances and My commandments, and the festivals of My covenant, and My sabbaths, and My holy place which I have hallowed for Myself in their midst, and My tabernacle, and My sanctuary, which I have hallowed for Myself in the midst of the land, so that I should set My name upon it, and that it should dwell there.'

¹¹'And they will make for 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.'

¹²'And I will send witnesses to them, so that I may witness against them, but they will not listen, and will even kill the witnesses, and they will persecute those who seek the law, and they will abrogate and change everything so as to do evil before My eyes.'

¹³'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 among the Gentiles.'

¹⁴'And they will forget all My law and all My commandments and all My judgments, and will go astray regarding new moons, and sabbaths, and festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances.'

¹⁵'And after this they will turn to Me from among the Gentiles with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their strength, and I will gather them from among all the Gentiles, and they will seek Me, so that I shall be found by them, when they seek Me with all their heart and with all their soul.'

¹⁶'And I will disclose to them abounding peace with righteousness, and I will transplant them as 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.'

¹⁷'And I will build My sanctuary in their midst, and I will dwell with them, and I will be their God and they shall be My people in truth and righteousness.'

¹⁸'And I will not forsake them nor fail them; for I am the Lord their God.'

¹⁹And Moses fell on his face and prayed and said, 'O Lord my God, do not forsake Your people and Your 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 You.'

²⁰'Let Your mercy, O Lord, be lifted up upon Your people, and create in them an upright spirit, and do not let the spirit of Beliar rule over them to accuse them before You, and to ensnare them from all the paths of righteousness, so that they may perish from before Your face.'

²¹'But they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You have delivered with Your great power from the hands of the Egyptians: create in them a clean heart and a holy spirit, and do not let them be ensnared in their sins from now until eternity.'

²²And the Lord said to Moses: 'I know their contrariness and their thoughts and their stubbornness, and they will not be obedient until they confess their own sin and the sin of their fathers.'

²³'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 descendants, and I will create in them a holy spirit, and I will cleanse them so that they shall not turn away from Me from that day unto eternity.'

²⁴'And their souls will cleave to Me and to all My commandments, and they will fulfill My commandments, and I will be their Father and they shall be My children.'

²⁵'And they all shall be called children of the living God, and every angel and every spirit shall know—yes, they shall know—that these are My children, and that I am their Father in uprightness and righteousness, and that I love them.'

²⁶'And as for you, write down for yourself all these words which I declare to you 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.'

²⁷And He said to the angel of the presence: 'Write for Moses from the beginning of creation until My sanctuary has been built among them for all eternity.'

²⁸'And the Lord will appear to the eyes of all, and all shall know that I am the God of Israel and the Father of all the children of Jacob, and King on Mount Zion for all eternity. And Zion and Jerusalem shall be holy.'

²⁹And the angel of the presence who went before the camp of Israel took the tablets of the divisions of the years—from the time of the creation—of the law and of the testimony of the weeks of the jubilees, according to the individual years, according to all the number of the jubilees [according to the individual years], from the day of the new creation when the heavens and the earth shall be renewed and all their creation according to the powers of the heaven, and according to all the creation of the earth, until the sanctuary of the Lord shall be made in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, and all the luminaries be renewed for healing and for peace and for blessing for all the elect of Israel, and that thus it may be from that day and unto all the days of the earth.