Jubilees 16:1-30

¹On the new moon of the fourth month we appeared to Abraham at the oak of Mamre, and we talked with him, and we announced to him that a son would be given to him by Sarah his wife.

²And Sarah laughed, for she heard that we had spoken these words with Abraham; and we rebuked her, and she became afraid and denied that she had laughed on account of the words.

³And we told her the name of her son, as his name is ordained and written in the heavenly tablets—that is, Isaac—and that when we returned to her at an appointed time, she would have conceived a son.

⁴And in this month the Lord executed his judgments on Sodom, Gomorrah, Zeboim, and all the region of the Jordan; and He burned them with fire and brimstone, and destroyed them until this day, just as I have declared to you all their works, that they are exceedingly wicked and sinful, and they defile themselves and commit fornication in their flesh, and work uncleanness on the earth.

⁵And in the same manner, God will execute judgment on the places where they have acted according to the uncleanness of the Sodomites, like the judgment of Sodom.

⁶But Lot we saved, for God remembered Abraham and sent him out from the midst of the overthrow.

⁷And he and his daughters committed sin upon the earth such as had not been on the earth since the days of Adam until his time, for the man lay with his daughters.

⁸And behold, it was commanded and engraved 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.

⁹And in this month Abraham moved from Hebron, and departed and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur in the mountains of Gerar.

¹⁰And in the middle of the fifth month he moved from there, and dwelt at the Well of the Oath.

¹¹And in the middle of the sixth month the Lord visited Sarah and did for her as He had spoken, and she conceived.

¹²And she bore a son in the third month, and in the middle of the month, at the time of which the Lord had spoken to Abraham, on the festival of the first fruits of the harvest, Isaac was born.

¹³And Abraham circumcised his son on the eighth day; he was the first to be circumcised according to the covenant which is ordained forever.

¹⁴And in the sixth year of the fourth week we came to Abraham, to the Well of the Oath, and we appeared to him, just as we had told Sarah that we would return to her and she would have conceived a son.

¹⁵And we returned in the seventh month, and found Sarah with child before us; and we blessed him, and we announced to him all the things which had been decreed concerning him: that he should not die until he had fathered six more sons, and should see them before he died; but that in Isaac his name and seed would be called.

¹⁶And that all the seed of his sons should be Gentiles, and be reckoned with the Gentiles; but from the sons of Isaac one would become a holy seed, and would not be reckoned among the Gentiles.

¹⁷For he would become the portion of the Most High, and all his seed had fallen into the possession of God, that it should be to the Lord a people for His possession above all nations, and that it should become a kingdom and priests and a holy nation.

¹⁸And we went our way, and we announced to Sarah all that we had told him, and they both rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.

¹⁹And he built there an altar to the Lord who had delivered him, and who was making him rejoice in the land of his sojourning; and he celebrated a festival of joy in this month for seven days, near the altar which he had built at the Well of the Oath.

²⁰And he built booths for himself and for his servants on this festival, and he was the first to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles on the earth.

²¹And during these seven days he brought each day to the altar a burnt offering to the Lord: two oxen, two rams, seven sheep, one male goat, for a sin offering, that he might atone thereby for himself and for his seed.

²²And as a thank-offering, seven rams, seven kids, seven sheep, and seven male goats, along with their grain offerings and their drink offerings; and he burned all the fat of them on the altar, a chosen offering to the Lord for a sweet-smelling aroma.

²³And morning and evening he burned fragrant substances—frankincense, galbanum, stacte, nard, myrrh, spice, and costum—all these seven he offered, crushed, mixed together in equal parts and pure.

²⁴And he celebrated this feast during seven days, rejoicing with all his heart and with all his soul, he and all those who were in his house; and there was no stranger with him, nor any who was uncircumcised.

²⁵And he blessed his Creator who had created him in his generation, for He had created him according to His good pleasure; for He knew and perceived that from him would arise the plant of righteousness for the eternal generations, and from him a holy seed, so that it should become like Him who had made all things.

²⁶And he blessed and rejoiced, and he called the name of this festival the Festival of the Lord, a joy acceptable to the Most High God.

²⁷And we blessed him forever, and all his seed after him throughout all the generations of the earth, because he celebrated this festival in its season, according to the testimony of the heavenly tablets.

²⁸For this reason it is ordained on the heavenly tablets concerning Israel, that they shall celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles seven days with joy, in the seventh month, acceptable before the Lord—a statute forever throughout their generations every year.

²⁹And to this there is no limit of days; for it is ordained forever regarding Israel that they should celebrate it and dwell in booths, and set wreaths upon their heads, and take leafy boughs and willows from the brook.

³⁰And Abraham took branches of palm trees, and the fruit of goodly trees, and every day went around the altar with the branches seven times in the morning, praising and giving thanks to his God for all things in joy.