Jubilees 7:1-39

¹And in the seventh week, in its first year [1317 A.M.], in this jubilee, Noah planted vines on the mountain where the ark had rested, named Lubar, one of the Ararat Mountains. They produced fruit in the fourth year [1320 A.M.], and he guarded their fruit and gathered it in that year in the seventh month.

²And he made wine from it and put it into a vessel, and kept it until the fifth year [1321 A.M.], until the first day, on the new moon of the first month.

³And he celebrated the day of this feast with joy, and he made a burnt sacrifice to the Lord: one young ox, one ram, seven sheep each a year old, and a kid of the goats, so that he might make atonement by them for himself and his sons.

⁴And he prepared the kid first, and placed some of its blood on the flesh that was on the altar which he had made, and he laid all the fat on the altar where he made the burnt sacrifice. Then he offered the ox, the ram, and the sheep, and laid all their flesh upon the altar.

⁵And he placed all their offerings mingled with oil upon it, and afterwards he sprinkled wine on the fire which he had previously made on the altar, and he placed incense on the altar and caused a sweet fragrance to ascend, acceptable before the Lord his God.

⁶And he rejoiced and drank of this wine, he and his children, with joy.

⁷And when evening came, he went into his tent; and being drunk, he lay down and slept, and was uncovered in his tent as he slept.

⁸And Ham saw Noah his father naked, and went out and told his two brothers outside.

⁹And Shem took his garment and arose, he and Japheth, and they placed the garment on their shoulders and went backward and covered the shame of their father, and their faces were turned backward.

¹⁰And Noah awoke from his sleep and knew all that his younger son had done to him, and he cursed his son and said: 'Cursed be Canaan; an enslaved servant shall he be to his brothers.'

¹¹And he blessed Shem, and said: 'Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.'

¹²'God shall enlarge Japheth, and God shall dwell in the dwelling of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.'

¹³And Ham knew that his father had cursed his younger son, and he was displeased that he had cursed his son. And he parted from his father, he and his sons with him: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

¹⁴And he built for himself a city and called its name after the name of his wife Ne'elatama'uk.

¹⁵And Japheth saw it, and became envious of his brother, and he too built for himself a city, and he called its name after the name of his wife 'Adataneses.

¹⁶And Shem dwelt with his father Noah, and he built a city close to his father on the mountain, and he too called its name after the name of his wife Sedeqetelebab.

¹⁷And behold, these three cities are near Mount Lubar: Sedeqetelebab facing the mountain on its east, Na'eltama'uk on the south, and 'Adatan'eses toward the west.

¹⁸And these are the sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, and Arpachshad (this son was born two years after the flood), and Lud, and Aram.

¹⁹The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. These are the sons of Noah.

²⁰And in the twenty-eighth jubilee [1324–1372 A.M.] Noah began to enjoin upon his sons' sons the ordinances and commandments, and all the judgments that he knew; and he exhorted his sons to observe righteousness, and to cover the shame of their flesh, and to bless their Creator, and honor father and mother, and love their neighbor, and guard their souls from fornication, uncleanness, and all iniquity.

²¹For because of these three things the flood came upon the earth: namely, because of the fornication in which the Watchers, against the law of their ordinances, went whoring after the daughters of men and took as wives any they chose—and they made the beginning of uncleanness.

²²And they begot sons, the Naphidim, and they were all different, and they devoured one another. The Giants killed the Naphil, the Naphil killed the Eljo, and the Eljo killed mankind, and one man killed another.

²³And everyone sold himself to work iniquity and to shed much blood, and the earth was filled with iniquity.

²⁴And after this they sinned against the beasts and birds, and all that moves and walks on the earth; and much blood was shed on the earth, and every imagination and desire of men devised vanity and evil continually.

²⁵And the Lord destroyed everything from the face of the earth; because of the wickedness of their deeds, and because of the blood which they had shed in the midst of the earth, He destroyed everything.

²⁶'And we were left, I and you, my sons, and everything that entered with us into the ark. And behold, I see your works before me, that you do not walk in righteousness; for you have begun to walk in the path of destruction, and you are parting one from another, and are envious of one another, so that you are not in harmony, my sons, each with his brother.

²⁷For I see, and behold, the demons have begun their seductions against you and against your children; and now I fear on your behalf, that after my death you will shed the blood of men upon the earth, and that you too will be destroyed from the face of the earth.

²⁸For whoever sheds man's blood, and whoever eats the blood of any flesh, shall all be destroyed from the earth.

²⁹And there shall not be left any man who eats blood, or who sheds the blood of man on the earth, nor shall there be left to him any seed or descendants living under heaven; for into Sheol they shall go, and into the place of condemnation they shall descend, and into the darkness of the deep they shall all be removed by a violent death.

³⁰There shall be no blood seen upon you of all the blood that there shall be all the days in which you have killed any beasts, cattle, or whatever flies upon the earth; and do a good work for your souls by covering that which has been shed on the face of the earth.

³¹And you shall not be like him who eats with blood, but guard yourselves that no one may eat blood before you: cover the blood, for thus I have been commanded to testify to you and your children, together with all flesh.

³²And do not allow the soul to be eaten with the flesh, so that your blood, which is your life, may not be required at the hand of any flesh that sheds it on the earth.

³³For the earth will not be clean from the blood which has been shed upon it; for only through the blood of him that shed it will the earth be purified throughout all its generations.

³⁴And now, my children, listen: work judgment and righteousness, so that you may be planted in righteousness over the face of the whole earth, and your glory lifted up before my God, who saved me from the waters of the flood.

³⁵And behold, you will go and build for yourselves cities, and plant in them all the plants that are upon the earth, and moreover all fruit-bearing trees.

³⁶For three years the fruit of everything that is eaten shall not be gathered; and in the fourth year its fruit shall be accounted holy [and they will offer the first-fruits], acceptable before the Most High God, who created heaven and earth and all things. Let them offer in abundance the first of the wine and oil as first-fruits on the altar of the Lord, who receives it; and what is left, let the servants of the house of the Lord eat before the altar which receives it.

³⁷And in the fifth year make the release, so that you release it in righteousness and uprightness; and you shall be righteous, and all that you plant shall prosper.

³⁸For thus did Enoch, the father of your father, command Methuselah his son, and Methuselah commanded his son Lamech, and Lamech commanded me all the things which his fathers commanded him.

³⁹And I also will give you commandment, my sons, as Enoch commanded his son in the first jubilees: while still living, the seventh in his generation, he commanded and testified to his son and to his sons' sons until the day of his death.'