Jubilees 6:1-38

¹On the new moon of the third month he went out from the ark and built an altar on that mountain.

²He made atonement for the earth, and took a kid and made atonement by its blood for all the guilt of the earth; for everything that had been on it had been destroyed, except those who were in the ark with Noah.

³He placed its fat on the altar, and he took an ox, a goat, a sheep and kids, salt, a turtle-dove, and the young of a dove, and placed a burnt sacrifice on the altar. He poured on it an offering mixed with oil, sprinkled wine, and scattered frankincense over everything, and caused a pleasing aroma to arise, acceptable before the Lord.

⁴The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, and He made a covenant with him that there should no longer be a flood to destroy the earth; that throughout all the days of the earth seedtime and harvest should never cease; that cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night should not change their order, nor ever cease.

⁵'And as for you, increase and multiply upon the earth, and become many upon it, and be a blessing upon it. I will inspire the fear of you and the dread of you in everything that is on earth and in the sea.

⁶Behold, I have given to you all beasts, and all winged things, and everything that moves on the earth, and the fish in the waters, and all things for food; as the green herbs, I have given you all things to eat.

⁷But flesh with its life, with the blood, you shall not eat; for the life of all flesh is in the blood, lest the blood of your lives be required. At the hand of every man, at the hand of every beast, I will require the blood of man.

⁸Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God He made man.

⁹And as for you, increase and multiply on the earth.' And Noah and his sons swore that they would not eat any blood that was in any flesh, and he made a covenant before the Lord God forever throughout all the generations of the earth in this month.

¹⁰For this reason He spoke to you, that you should make a covenant with the children of Israel in this month upon the mountain with an oath, and that you should sprinkle blood upon them because of all the words of the covenant which the Lord made with them forever.

¹¹And this testimony is written concerning you, that you should observe it continually, so that you should not eat on any day any blood of beasts or birds or cattle during all the days of the earth. And the man who eats the blood of beast, or of cattle, or of birds during all the days of the earth, he and his seed shall be rooted out of the land.

¹²Command the children of Israel to eat no blood, so that their names and their seed may be before the Lord our God continually.

¹³For this law there is no limit of days, for it is forever. They shall observe it throughout their generations, so that they may continue making supplication on your behalf with blood before the altar; every day and at the time of morning and evening they shall seek forgiveness on your behalf perpetually before the Lord, that they may keep it and not be rooted out.

¹⁴And He gave to Noah and his sons a sign that there should not again be a flood on the earth.

¹⁵He set His bow in the cloud as a sign of the eternal covenant that there should not again be a flood on the earth to destroy it throughout all the days of the earth.

¹⁶For this reason it is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets that they should celebrate the feast of weeks in this month once a year, to renew the covenant every year.

¹⁷And this whole festival was celebrated in heaven from the day of creation until the days of Noah—twenty-six jubilees and five weeks of years [1309–1659 A.M.]. Noah and his sons observed it for seven jubilees and one week of years, until the day of Noah's death. From the day of Noah's death his sons did away with it until the days of Abraham, and they ate blood.

¹⁸But Abraham observed it, and Isaac and Jacob and his children observed it up to your days, and in your days the children of Israel forgot it until you celebrated it anew on this mountain.

¹⁹Command the children of Israel to observe this festival in all their generations as a commandment to them: one day in the year in this month they shall celebrate the festival.

²⁰For it is the feast of weeks and the feast of firstfruits: this feast is twofold and of a double nature; according to what is written and engraved concerning it, celebrate it.

²¹For I have written in the book of the first law, in that which I have written for you, that you should celebrate it in its season, one day in the year, and I explained to you its sacrifices, that the children of Israel should remember and should celebrate it throughout their generations in this month, one day in every year.

²²And on the new moon of the first month, and on the new moon of the fourth month, and on the new moon of the seventh month, and on the new moon of the tenth month are the days of remembrance, and the days of the seasons in the four divisions of the year. These are written and ordained as a testimony forever.

²³Noah ordained them for himself as feasts for the generations forever, so that they have thereby become a memorial to him.

²⁴On the new moon of the first month he was bidden to make for himself an ark, and on that day the earth became dry, and he opened the ark and saw the earth.

²⁵On the new moon of the fourth month the mouths of the depths of the abyss beneath were closed.

²⁶On the new moon of the seventh month all the mouths of the abysses of the earth were opened, and the waters began to descend into them.

²⁷On the new moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen, and Noah was glad.

²⁸For this reason he ordained them for himself as feasts for a memorial forever, and thus are they ordained.

²⁹They placed them on the heavenly tablets; each had thirteen weeks, from one to another their memorial passed, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth.

³⁰And all the days of the commandment will be fifty-two weeks of days, and these will make the entire year complete. Thus it is engraved and ordained on the heavenly tablets.

³¹And there is no neglecting this commandment for a single year or from year to year.

³²Command the children of Israel that they observe the years according to this reckoning—three hundred and sixty-four days—and these will constitute a complete year, and they will not disturb its time from its days and from its feasts; for everything will fall out in them according to their testimony, and they will not leave out any day nor disturb any feasts.

³³But if they neglect and do not observe them according to His commandment, then they will disturb all their seasons, and the years will be dislodged from this order, [and they will disturb the seasons and the years will be dislodged,] and they will neglect their ordinances.

³⁴And all the children of Israel will forget and will not find the path of the years, and will forget the new moons, and seasons, and sabbaths, and they will go wrong as to all the order of the years.

³⁵For I know, and from now on I will declare it to you, and it is not of my own devising; for the book lies written before me, and on the heavenly tablets the division of days is ordained, lest they forget the feasts of the covenant and walk according to the feasts of the Gentiles after their error and after their ignorance.

³⁶For there will be those who will certainly make observations of the moon—how it disturbs the seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon.

³⁷For this reason the years will come upon them when they will disturb the order, and make an abominable day the day of testimony, and an unclean day a feast day, and they will confound all the days, the holy with the unclean, and the unclean day with the holy; for they will go wrong as to the months and sabbaths and feasts and jubilees.

³⁸For this reason I command and testify to you, that you may testify to them; for after your death your children will disturb them, so that they will not make the year three hundred and sixty-four days only, and for this reason they will go wrong as to the new moons and seasons and sabbaths and festivals, and they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.