Jubilees 21:1-26

¹And in the sixth year of the seventh week of this jubilee [2057 (2050?) A.M.] Abraham called his son Isaac and commanded him, saying: 'I have grown old, and I do not know the day of my death, and I am full of days.'

²'Behold, I am one hundred and seventy-five years old, and throughout all the days of my life I have remembered the Lord, and sought with all my heart to do His will, and to walk uprightly in all His ways.'

³'My soul has hated idols, and I have despised those who served them, and I have given my heart and spirit that I might be careful to do the will of Him who created me.'

⁴'For He is the living God, and He is holy and faithful, and He is righteous beyond all, and with Him there is no partiality and no accepting of gifts; for God is righteous, and executes judgment on all those who transgress His commandments and despise His covenant.'

⁵'And you, my son, observe His commandments and His ordinances and His judgments, and do not walk after the abominations, or after the graven images, or after the molten images.'

⁶'And eat no blood at all of animals or cattle, or of any bird that flies in the heavens.'

⁷'And if you slay a victim as an acceptable peace offering, slay it, and pour out its blood upon the altar, and offer all the fat of the offering on the altar with fine flour and the meat offering mingled with oil, together with its drink offering—offer them all together on the altar of burnt offering; it is a sweet aroma before the Lord.'

⁸'And you shall 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 inward parts and the two kidneys, and all the fat that is upon them, and upon the loins; and the liver you shall remove, together with the kidneys.'

⁹'And offer all these as a sweet aroma acceptable before the Lord, with its meat-offering and with its drink-offering, for a sweet aroma, the bread of the offering to the Lord.'

¹⁰'And eat its meat on that day and on the second day, and do not let the sun on the second day go down upon it before 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 it 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 your oblations you shall sprinkle salt, and do not let the salt of the covenant be lacking in any of your oblations before the Lord.'

¹²'And as regards the wood of the sacrifices, be careful not to bring other wood for the altar in addition to these: cypress, bay, almond, fir, pine, cedar, savin, fig, olive, myrrh, laurel, and aspalathus.'

¹³'And of these kinds of wood lay upon the altar under the sacrifice, such as have been tested for their appearance, and do not lay on it any split or dark wood, but hard and clean, without fault, a sound and new growth; and do not lay on it 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 no other that you shall place on the altar, for the fragrance is dispersed, and the smell of its fragrance does not go up to heaven.'

¹⁵'Observe this commandment and do it, my son, that you may be upright in all your deeds.'

¹⁶'And at all times be clean in your body, and wash yourself with water before you approach to offer on the altar, and wash your hands and your feet before you draw near to the altar; and when you have finished sacrificing, wash your hands and your feet again.'

¹⁷'And let no blood appear upon you or upon your clothes; be on your guard, my son, against blood, be on your 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 a 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 a man except by the blood of him who shed it.'

²⁰'And take no present or gift for the blood of a man: blood for blood, that you may be accepted before the Lord, the Most High God; for He is the defense of the good, and that you may be preserved from all evil, and that He may save you from every kind of death.'

²¹'I see, my son, that all the works of the children of men are sin and wickedness, and all their deeds are uncleanness and an abomination and a pollution, and there is no righteousness with them.'

²²'Beware, lest you should walk in their ways and tread in their paths, and commit a sin unto death before the Most High God. Otherwise He will [hide His face from you and] give you back into the hands of your transgression, and root you out of the land, and your seed likewise from under heaven, and your name and your seed shall perish from the whole earth.'

²³'Turn away from all their deeds and all their uncleanness, and observe the ordinance of the Most High God, and do His will and be upright in all things.'

²⁴'And He will bless you in all your deeds, and will raise up from you a plant of righteousness through all the earth, throughout all generations of the earth, and my name and your name shall not be forgotten under heaven forever.'

²⁵'Go, my son, in peace. May the Most High God, my God and your God, strengthen you to do His will, and may He bless all your seed and the remainder of your seed for the generations forever, with all righteous blessings, that you may be a blessing on all the earth.'

²⁶And he went out from him rejoicing.