Jubilees 8:1-30

¹In the twenty-ninth jubilee, in the first week, [1373 A.M.] at its beginning, Arpachshad took a wife for himself, and her name was Rasu'eja, the daughter of Susan, the daughter of Elam, and she bore him a son in the third year of this week, [1375 A.M.] and he called his name Kainam.

²And the son grew, and his father taught him writing, and he went to seek a place for himself where he might seize a city for himself. And he found an inscription which former generations had carved on the rock, and he read what was on it, and he transcribed it and sinned because of it; for it contained the teaching of the Watchers by which they used to observe the omens of the sun and moon and stars in all the signs of heaven.

³And he wrote it down and said nothing about it; for he was afraid to speak to Noah about it, lest he should be angry with him on account of it.

⁴And in the thirtieth jubilee, [1429 A.M.] in the second week, in its first year, he took a wife for himself, and her name was Melka, the daughter of Madai, the son of Japheth, and in the fourth year [1432 A.M.] he begot a son, and called his name Shelah; for he said: 'Truly I have been sent.'

⁵[And in the fourth year he was born], and Shelah grew up and took a wife for himself, and her name was Mu'ak, the daughter of Kesed, his father's brother, in the thirty-first jubilee, in the fifth week, in its first year. [1499 A.M.]

⁶And she bore him a son in its fifth year, [1503 A.M.] and he called his name Eber; and he took a wife for himself, and her name was 'Azurad, the daughter of Nebrod, in the thirty-second jubilee, in the seventh week, in its third year. [1564 A.M.]

⁷And in its sixth year [1567 A.M.] she bore him a son, and he called his name Peleg; for in the days when he was born the children of Noah began to divide the earth among themselves: for this reason he called his name Peleg.

⁸And they divided it secretly among themselves, and told it to Noah.

⁹And it came to pass at the beginning of the thirty-third jubilee [1569 A.M.] that they divided the earth into three parts, for Shem and Ham and Japheth, according to the inheritance of each, in the first year of the first week, when one of us who had been sent was with them.

¹⁰And he called his sons, and they drew near to him, they and their children, and he divided the earth into the lots which his three sons were to take in possession, and they stretched out their hands and took the writing from the bosom of Noah, their father.

¹¹And there came forth on the writing as Shem's lot the middle of the earth, which he should take as an inheritance for himself and for his sons for the generations of eternity, from the middle of the mountain range of Rafa, from the mouth of the water from the river Tina, and his portion goes toward the west through the middle of this river, and it extends until it reaches the water of the abysses, out of which this river goes forth and pours its waters into the sea Me'at, and this river flows into the great sea. And all that is toward the north is Japheth's, and all that is toward the south belongs to Shem.

¹²And it extends until it reaches Karaso: this is in the bosom of the tongue which looks toward the south.

¹³And his portion extends along the great sea, and it extends in a straight line until it reaches the west of the tongue which looks toward the south: for this sea is named the tongue of the Egyptian Sea.

¹⁴And it turns from here toward the south toward the mouth of the great sea on the shore of its waters, and it extends to the west to 'Afra, and it extends until it reaches the waters of the river Gihon, and to the south of the waters of Gihon, to the banks of this river.

¹⁵And it extends toward the east until it reaches the Garden of Eden, to the south of it, [to the south] and from the east of the whole land of Eden and of the whole east, it turns to the east and proceeds until it reaches the east of the mountain named Rafa, and it descends to the bank of the mouth of the river Tina.

¹⁶This portion came forth by lot for Shem and his sons, that they should possess it forever for his generations for evermore.

¹⁷And Noah rejoiced that this portion came forth for Shem and for his sons, and he remembered all that he had spoken with his mouth in prophecy; for he had said: 'Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and may the Lord dwell in the dwelling of Shem.'

¹⁸And he knew that the Garden of Eden is the holy of holies, and the dwelling of the Lord, and Mount Sinai the center of the desert, and Mount Zion the center of the navel of the earth: these three were created as holy places facing each other.

¹⁹And he blessed the God of gods, who had put the word of the Lord into his mouth, and the Lord forevermore.

²⁰And he knew that a blessed portion and a blessing had come to Shem and his sons for the generations forever—the whole land of Eden and the whole land of the Red Sea, and the whole land of the east and India, and on the Red Sea and its mountains, and all the land of Bashan, and all the land of Lebanon and the islands of Kaftur, and all the mountains of Sanir and 'Amana, and the mountains of Asshur in the north, and all the land of Elam, Asshur, and Babel, and Susan and Ma'edai, and all the mountains of Ararat, and all the region beyond the sea, which is beyond the mountains of Asshur toward the north, a blessed and spacious land, and all that is in it is very good.

²¹And for Ham came forth the second portion, beyond the Gihon toward the south to the right of the Garden, and it extends toward the south and it extends to all the mountains of fire, and it extends toward the west to the sea of 'Atel, and it extends toward the west until it reaches the sea of Ma'uk—that sea into which everything which is not destroyed descends.

²²And it goes forth toward the north to the limits of Gadir, and it goes forth to the coast of the waters of the sea to the waters of the great sea until it draws near to the river Gihon, and goes along the river Gihon until it reaches the right of the Garden of Eden.

²³And this is the land which came forth for Ham as the portion which he was to occupy forever for himself and his sons for their generations forever.

²⁴And for Japheth came forth the third portion beyond the river Tina to the north of the outflow of its waters, and it extends north-easterly to the whole region of Gog, and to all the country east of it.

²⁵And it extends northerly to the north, and it extends to the mountains of Qelt toward the north, and toward the sea of Ma'uk, and it goes forth to the east of Gadir as far as the region of the waters of the sea.

²⁶And it extends until it approaches the west of Fara, and it returns toward 'Aferag, and it extends easterly to the waters of the sea of Me'at.

²⁷And it extends to the region of the river Tina in a north-easterly direction until it approaches the boundary of its waters toward the mountain Rafa, and it turns round toward the north.

²⁸This is the land which came forth for Japheth and his sons as the portion of his inheritance which he should possess for himself and his sons, for their generations forever; five great islands, and a great land in the north.

²⁹But it is cold, and the land of Ham is hot, and the land of Shem is neither hot nor cold, but it is of blended cold and heat.

³⁰But it is cold, and the land of Ham is hot, and the land of Shem is neither hot nor cold, but it is of blended cold and heat.