Jubilees 32:1-34

¹He stayed that night at Bethel, and Levi dreamed that they had ordained and made him the priest of the Most High God, him and his sons forever; and he awoke from his sleep and blessed the Lord.

²And Jacob rose early in the morning, on the fourteenth of this month, and he gave a tithe of all that came with him, both of men and cattle, both of gold and every vessel and garment; yes, he gave tithes of all.

³In those days Rachel became pregnant with her son Benjamin. And Jacob counted his sons from him upwards, and Levi fell to the portion of the Lord, and his father clothed him in the garments of the priesthood and filled his hands.

⁴And on the fifteenth of this month, he brought to the altar fourteen oxen from among the cattle, twenty-eight rams, forty-nine sheep, seven lambs, and twenty-one kids of the goats as a burnt-offering on the altar of sacrifice, well pleasing for a sweet savor before God. This was his offering, in consequence of the vow he had vowed that he would give a tenth, with their fruit-offerings and their drink-offerings.

⁵And when the fire had consumed it, he burnt incense on the fire over the fire, and for a thank-offering two oxen, four rams, four sheep, four he-goats, two sheep of a year old, and two kids of the goats; and thus he did daily for seven days.

⁶He and all his sons and his men were eating this with joy there during seven days, blessing and thanking the Lord, who had delivered him out of all his tribulation and had granted him his vow.

⁷And he tithed all the clean animals and made a burnt sacrifice, but the unclean animals he did not give to Levi his son, and he gave him all the souls of the men.

⁸And Levi discharged the priestly office at Bethel before Jacob his father in preference to his ten brothers, and he was a priest there, and Jacob gave his vow: thus he tithed again the tithe to the Lord and sanctified it, and it became holy to Him.

⁹For this reason it is ordained on the heavenly tablets as a law for tithing again the tithe to eat before the Lord from year to year, in the place where it is chosen that His name should dwell, and to this law there is no limit of days forever.

¹⁰This ordinance is written that it may be fulfilled from year to year in eating the second tithe before the Lord in the place where it has been chosen, and nothing shall remain over from it from this year to the year following.

¹¹For in its year shall the seed be eaten until the days of the gathering of the seed of the year, and the wine until the days of the wine, and the oil until the days of its season.

¹²And all that is left of it and becomes old, let it be regarded as polluted: let it be burnt with fire, for it is unclean.

¹³And thus let them eat it together in the sanctuary, and let them not allow it to become old.

¹⁴And all the tithes of the oxen and sheep shall be holy to the Lord, and shall belong to His priests, which they will eat before Him from year to year; for thus it is ordained and engraved regarding the tithe on the heavenly tablets.

¹⁵And on the following night, on the twenty-second day of this month, Jacob resolved to build that place, to surround the court with a wall, and to sanctify it and make it holy forever, for himself and his children after him.

¹⁶And the Lord appeared to him by night and blessed him and said to him: 'Your name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel shall they name your name.'

¹⁷And He said to him again: 'I am the Lord who created the heaven and the earth, and I will increase you and multiply you exceedingly, and kings shall come forth from you, and they shall judge everywhere wherever the foot of the sons of men has trodden.

¹⁸And I will give to your seed all the earth which is under heaven, and they shall judge all the nations according to their desires, and after that they shall take possession of the whole earth and inherit it forever.'

¹⁹And He finished speaking with him, and He went up from him, and Jacob looked until He had ascended into heaven.

²⁰And he saw in a vision of the night, and behold, an angel descended from heaven with seven tablets in his hands, and he gave them to Jacob, and he read them and knew all that was written in them which would befall him and his sons throughout all the ages.

²¹And he showed him all that was written on the tablets, and said to him: 'Do not build this place, and do not make it an eternal sanctuary, and do not dwell here; for this is not the place. Go to the house of Abraham your father and dwell with Isaac your father until the day of the death of your father.

²²For in Egypt you shall die in peace, and in this land you shall be buried with honor in the sepulchre of your fathers, with Abraham and Isaac.

²³Fear not, for as you have seen and read it, thus shall it all be; and write down everything as you have seen and read.'

²⁴And Jacob said: 'Lord, how can I remember all that I have read and seen?' And he said to him: 'I will bring all things to your remembrance.'

²⁵And he went up from him, and he awoke from his sleep, and he remembered everything which he had read and seen, and he wrote down all the words which he had read and seen.

²⁶And he celebrated there yet another day, and he sacrificed on it according to all that he had sacrificed on the former days, and called its name 'Addition,' for this day was added; and the former days he called 'The Feast.'

²⁷And thus it was manifested that it should be, and it is written on the heavenly tablets: therefore it was revealed to him that he should celebrate it and add it to the seven days of the feast.

²⁸And its name was called 'Addition,' because it was recorded among the days of the feast days, according to the number of the days of the year.

²⁹And in the night, on the twenty-third of this month, Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died, and they buried her beneath the city under the oak of the river, and he called the name of this place 'The river of Deborah,' and the oak 'The oak of the mourning of Deborah.'

³⁰And Rebecca went and returned to her house to his father Isaac, and Jacob sent by her hand rams and sheep and he-goats that she should prepare a meal for his father such as he desired.

³¹And he went after his mother until he came to the land of Kabratan, and he dwelt there.

³²And Rachel bore a son in the night, and called his name 'Son of my sorrow,' for she suffered in giving him birth; but his father called his name Benjamin, on the eleventh of the eighth month in the first of the sixth week of this jubilee. [2143 A.M.]

³³And Rachel died there, and she was buried in the land of Ephrath, which is Bethlehem, and Jacob built a pillar on the grave of Rachel, on the road above her grave.

³⁴And Rachel died there, and she was buried in the land of Ephrath, which is Bethlehem, and Jacob built a pillar on the grave of Rachel, on the road above her grave.