Jubilees 13:1-29

¹Abram journeyed from Haran, and he took Sarai his wife, and Lot, the son of his brother Haran, to the land of Canaan. He came into Asshur, and proceeded to Shechem, and settled near a lofty oak.

²He looked, and behold, the land was very pleasant from the entrance of Hamath to the lofty oak.

³And the Lord said to him: 'To you and to your seed I will give this land.' And he built an altar there, and offered on it a burnt sacrifice to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

⁴He moved from there to the mountain . . . Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and pitched his tent there.

⁵He looked, and behold, the land was very wide and good, and everything grew on it—vines and figs and pomegranates, oaks and ilexes, terebinths and oil trees, cedars and cypresses and date palms, and all trees of the field; and there was water on the mountains.

⁶And he blessed the Lord, who had led him out of Ur of the Chaldees and had brought him to this land.

⁷It came to pass in the first year, in the seventh week, on the new moon of the first month [1954 A.M.], that he built an altar on this mountain, and called on the name of the Lord: 'You, the eternal God, are my God.'

⁸He offered on the altar a burnt sacrifice to the Lord, that He might be with him and not forsake him all the days of his life.

⁹He moved from there and went toward the south, and he came to Hebron (Hebron was built at that time), and he lived there two years. Then he went into the land of the south, to Bealoth, and there was a famine in the land.

¹⁰Abram went into Egypt in the third year of the week, and he lived in Egypt five years before his wife was torn away from him. Now Tanais in Egypt was at that time built—seven years after Hebron.

¹¹It came to pass, when Pharaoh seized Sarai the wife of Abram, that the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

¹²Abram was very glorious because of his possessions in sheep, cattle, donkeys, horses, camels, menservants, and maidservants, and in silver and gold exceedingly. And Lot also, his brother's son, was wealthy.

¹³Pharaoh gave back Sarai, the wife of Abram, and sent him out of the land of Egypt. He journeyed to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, to the place of the altar, with Ai on the east and Bethel on the west, and he blessed the Lord his God, who had brought him back in peace.

¹⁴It came to pass in the forty-first jubilee, in the third year of the first week [1963 A.M.], that he returned to this place and offered on it a burnt sacrifice, and called on the name of the Lord, and said: 'You, the Most High God, are my God for ever and ever.'

¹⁵In the fourth year of this week [1964 A.M.] Lot parted from him, and Lot lived in Sodom; and the men of Sodom were exceedingly sinful.

¹⁶It grieved him in his heart that his brother's son had parted from him, for he had no children.

¹⁷In that year when Lot was taken captive, the Lord spoke to Abram, after Lot had parted from him, in the fourth year of this week, saying: 'Lift up your eyes from the place where you are living, northward and southward, and westward and eastward.

¹⁸For all the land that you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever, and I will make your seed as the sand of the sea: though a man may count the dust of the earth, yet your seed shall not be counted.

¹⁹Arise, walk through the land in its length and its breadth, and see it all; for to your seed I will give it.' And Abram went to Hebron, and lived there.

²⁰In this year came Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Sellasar, and Tergal, king of nations, and they killed the king of Gomorrah; and the king of Sodom fled, and many fell through wounds in the vale of Siddim, by the Salt Sea.

²¹They took captive Sodom and Adam and Zeboim, and they also took Lot captive, the son of Abram's brother, and all his possessions, and they went to Dan.

²²One who had escaped came and told Abram that his brother's son had been taken captive, and Abram armed his household servants . . .

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²⁵. . . for Abram, and for his seed, a tenth of the first fruits to the Lord; and the Lord ordained it as an ordinance for ever, that they should give it to the priests who served before Him, that they should possess it for ever.

²⁶To this law there is no limit of days, for He has ordained it for the generations for ever, that they should give to the Lord the tenth of everything—of the seed, of the wine, of the oil, of the cattle, and of the sheep.

²⁷And He gave it to His priests to eat and to drink with joy before Him.

²⁸The king of Sodom came to him and bowed himself before him, and said: 'Our lord Abram, give us the souls you have rescued, but let the spoil be yours.'

²⁹Abram said to him: 'I lift up my hands to the Most High God, that from a thread to a shoe-latchet I will not take anything that is yours, lest you should say, I have made Abram rich—except only what the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me—Aner, Eschol, and Mamre. These shall take their portion.'