Jubilees 38:1-24

¹After that, Judah spoke to Jacob his father and said to him: 'Bend your bow, father, and send forth your arrows and cast down the adversary and slay the enemy; and may you have the power, for we will not slay your brother, since he is such as you, and he is like you—let us give him this honor.'

²Then Jacob bent his bow and sent forth the arrow and struck Esau his brother on his right breast and slew him. And again he sent forth an arrow and struck Adoran the Aramaean on the left breast, and drove him backward and slew him.

³And again he sent forth an arrow and struck Adoran the Aramaean on the left breast, and drove him backward and slew him.

⁴Then the sons of Jacob went forth, they and their servants, dividing themselves into companies on the four sides of the tower.

⁵Judah went forth in front, and Naphtali and Gad with him, and fifty servants with him on the south side of the tower, and they slew all they found before them, and not one individual of them escaped.

⁶Levi and Dan and Asher went forth on the east side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slew the fighting men of Moab and Ammon.

⁷Reuben and Issachar and Zebulun went forth on the north side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slew the fighting men of the Philistines.

⁸Simeon and Benjamin and Enoch, Reuben's son, went forth on the west side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slew of Edom and of the Horites four hundred men, stout warriors; and six hundred fled, and four of the sons of Esau fled with them, and left their father lying slain, as he had fallen on the hill which is in Aduram.

⁹And the sons of Jacob pursued after them to the mountains of Seir. And Jacob buried his brother on the hill which is in Aduram, and he returned to his house.

¹⁰And the sons of Jacob pressed hard upon the sons of Esau in the mountains of Seir, and bowed their necks so that they became servants of the sons of Jacob.

¹¹And they sent to their father to inquire whether they should make peace with them or slay them.

¹²And Jacob sent word to his sons that they should make peace, and they made peace with them, and placed the yoke of servitude upon them, so that they paid tribute to Jacob and to his sons always.

¹³And they continued to pay tribute to Jacob until the day that he went down into Egypt.

¹⁴And the sons of Edom have not freed themselves from the yoke of servitude which the twelve sons of Jacob imposed on them until this day.

¹⁵These are the kings who reigned in Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel [until this day] in the land of Edom.

¹⁶Balaq, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Danaba.

¹⁷And Balaq died, and Jobab, the son of Zara of Boser, reigned in his place.

¹⁸And Jobab died, and Asam, of the land of Teman, reigned in his place.

¹⁹And Asam died, and Adath, the son of Barad, who slew Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place, and the name of his city was Avith.

²⁰And Adath died, and Salman, from Amaseqa, reigned in his place.

²¹And Salman died, and Saul of Ra'aboth by the river reigned in his place.

²²And Saul died, and Ba'elunan, the son of Achbor, reigned in his place.

²³And Ba'elunan, the son of Achbor, died, and Adath reigned in his place, and the name of his wife was Maitabith, the daughter of Matarat, the daughter of Metabedza'ab.

²⁴These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom.