Jubilees 34:1-21

¹In the sixth year of this week of this forty-fourth jubilee [2148 A.M.], Jacob sent his sons to pasture their sheep, along with his servants, to the pastures of Shechem.

²The seven kings of the Amorites gathered themselves together against them to kill them, hiding themselves under the trees, intending to take their cattle as plunder.

³Jacob, Levi, Judah, and Joseph were at home with Isaac their father, for his spirit was sorrowful, and they could not leave him; and Benjamin was the youngest, and for this reason remained with his father.

⁴Then came the kings of Taphu, the kings of Aresa, the kings of Seragan, the kings of Selo, the kings of Ga'as, the king of Bethoron, the king of Ma'anisakir, and all those who dwell in these mountains and who live in the woods in the land of Canaan.

⁵They announced this to Jacob, saying: 'Behold, the kings of the Amorites have surrounded your sons and plundered their herds.'

⁶So he rose up from his house, he and his three sons and all the servants of his father and his own servants, and he went against them with six thousand men who carried swords.

⁷He killed them in the pastures of Shechem, pursued those who fled, and struck them down with the edge of the sword. He killed Aresa, Taphu, Saregan, Selo, Amanisakir, and Gaga'as, and he recovered his herds.

⁸He prevailed over them and imposed tribute on them, that they should pay him tribute—five fruit products of their land—and he built Robel and Tamnatares.

⁹He returned in peace and made peace with them, and they became his servants until the day that he and his sons went down into Egypt.

¹⁰In the seventh year of this week [2149 A.M.] he sent Joseph from his house to the land of Shechem to learn about the welfare of his brothers, and he found them in the land of Dothan.

¹¹They dealt treacherously with him and formed a plot against him to kill him, but changing their minds, they sold him to Ishmaelite merchants, who brought him down into Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, the eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief of the cooks, priest of the city of Elew.

¹²The sons of Jacob slaughtered a kid, dipped Joseph's coat in the blood, and sent it to Jacob their father on the tenth of the seventh month.

¹³He mourned all that night, for they had brought it to him in the evening, and he became feverish with mourning for his death, and he said: 'An evil beast has devoured Joseph'; and all the members of his house mourned with him that day, and they were grieving and mourning with him all that day.

¹⁴His sons and his daughter rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted for his son.

¹⁵On that day Bilhah heard that Joseph had perished, and she died mourning him; she was living in Qafratef. And Dinah also, his daughter, died after Joseph had perished.

¹⁶Thus these three mournings came upon Israel in one month. They buried Bilhah opposite the tomb of Rachel, and Dinah his daughter they also buried there.

¹⁷He mourned for Joseph one year and did not cease, for he said: 'Let me go down to the grave mourning for my son.'

¹⁸For this reason it is ordained for the children of Israel that they should afflict themselves on the tenth of the seventh month—on the day that the news which made him weep for Joseph came to Jacob his father—that they should make atonement for themselves on that day with a young goat on the tenth of the seventh month, once a year, for their sins; for they had grieved the affection of their father regarding Joseph his son.

¹⁹This day has been ordained so that they should grieve on it for their sins, and for all their transgressions, and for all their errors, so that they might cleanse themselves on that day once a year.

²⁰After Joseph perished, the sons of Jacob took wives for themselves. The name of Reuben's wife is Ada; the name of Simeon's wife is Adiba'a, a Canaanite; the name of Levi's wife is Melka, of the daughters of Aram, of the seed of the sons of Terah; the name of Judah's wife is Betasu'el, a Canaanite; the name of Issachar's wife is Hezaqa; the name of Zebulun's wife is Ni'iman; the name of Dan's wife is Egla; the name of Naphtali's wife is Rasu'u, of Mesopotamia; the name of Gad's wife is Maka; the name of Asher's wife is Ijona; the name of Joseph's wife is Asenath, the Egyptian; and the name of Benjamin's wife is Ijasaka.

²¹And Simeon repented and took a second wife from Mesopotamia, as his brothers had done.