Jubilees 3:1-35

¹And during the six days of the second week we brought, according to the word of God, to 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 moves on the earth on the fourth day; and that which moves in the water on the fifth day.

²And Adam named them all by their respective names, and as he called them, so was their name.

³And during these five days Adam saw all these, male and female, according to every kind that was on the earth, but he was alone and found no helper suitable for him.

⁴And the Lord said to us: 'It is not good that the man should be alone: let us make a helper for him.'

⁵And the Lord our God caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and he slept, and He took for the woman one rib from among his ribs, and this rib was the origin of the woman from among his ribs, and He built up the flesh in its place, and formed the woman.

⁶And He awakened Adam out of his sleep, and upon awakening he rose on the sixth day, and He brought her to him, and he knew her, and said to her: 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called [my] wife, because she was taken from her husband.'

⁷Therefore husband and wife shall be one, and therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

⁸In the first week Adam was created, and the rib—his wife; in the second week He showed her to him. For this reason the commandment was given to observe, in their time of defilement, seven days for a male and twice seven days for a female.

⁹And after Adam had completed forty days in the land where he had been created, we brought him into the garden of Eden to till and keep it, but his wife they brought in on the eightieth day, and after this she entered into the garden of Eden.

¹⁰And for this reason the commandment is written on the heavenly tablets concerning her who gives birth: 'If she bears a male, she shall remain in her uncleanness seven days according to the first week of days, and thirty-three days she shall remain in the blood of her purifying, and she shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor enter into the sanctuary, until she completes these days which are required 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 shall be in all eighty days.'

¹²And when she had completed these eighty days we brought her into the garden of Eden, for it is holier than all the rest of the earth, and every tree that is planted in it is holy.

¹³Therefore, there was 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 completed.

¹⁴This is the law and testimony which was written down for Israel, so that they should observe it all their days.

¹⁵And in the first week of the first jubilee [1–7 A.M.] Adam and his wife were in the garden of Eden for seven years tilling and keeping it, and we gave him work, and we instructed him to do everything that is suitable for tillage.

¹⁶And he tilled the garden, and was naked and did not know it, and was not ashamed, and he protected the garden from the birds and beasts and cattle, and gathered its fruit, and ate, and set aside the remainder for himself and for his wife [and set aside that which was being kept].

¹⁷And after the completion of the seven years, which he had completed there, seven years exactly, [8 A.M.] in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the serpent came and approached the woman, and the serpent said to the woman, 'Has God commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?'

¹⁸And she said to it, 'Of all the fruit of the trees of the garden God has said to us, Eat; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God has said to us, You shall not eat of it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'

¹⁹And the serpent said to the woman, 'You shall not surely die: for God knows that on the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be as gods, and you will know good and evil.'

²⁰And the woman saw that the tree was agreeable and pleasant to the eye, and that its fruit was good for food, and she took some of it and ate.

²¹And when she had first covered her shame with fig leaves, she gave some of it to Adam and he ate, and his eyes were opened, and he saw that he was naked.

²²And he took fig leaves and sewed them together, and made an apron for himself, and covered his shame.

²³And God cursed the serpent, and was angry with it forever...

²⁴And He was angry with the woman, because she listened to the voice of the serpent, and ate; and He said to her: 'I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your pains: in sorrow you shall bring forth children, and your return shall be to your husband, and he will rule over you.'

²⁵And to Adam also He said, 'Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat, cursed be the ground for your sake: thorns and thistles shall it bring forth for you, and you shall eat your bread in the sweat of your face, until you return to the earth from which you were taken; for earth you are, and to earth you shall return.'

²⁶And He made for them garments of skin, and clothed them, and sent them forth from the Garden of Eden.

²⁷And on the day that Adam went forth from the Garden, he offered as a sweet savor an offering—frankincense, galbanum, stacte, and spices—in the morning with the rising of the sun, from the day when he covered his shame.

²⁸And on that day the mouth of all beasts, and of cattle, and of birds, and of whatever walks, and of whatever moves, was closed, so that they could no longer speak: for they had all spoken with one another with one lip and with one tongue.

²⁹And He sent out of the Garden of Eden all flesh that was in the Garden of Eden, and all flesh was scattered according to its kinds, and according to its types, to the places which had been created for them.

³⁰And to Adam alone did He give the means to cover his shame, of all the beasts and cattle.

³¹For this reason it is prescribed on the heavenly tablets concerning 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.

³²And on the new moon of the fourth month, Adam and his wife went forth from the Garden of Eden, and they dwelt in the land of Elda, in the land of their creation.

³³And Adam called the name of his wife Eve.

³⁴And they had no son until the first jubilee, [8 A.M.] and after this he knew her.

³⁵Now he tilled the land as he had been instructed in the Garden of Eden.