Jubilees 1

1. And it came to pass in the first year of the exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt,in the third month, on the sixteenth day of the month, [2450 Anno Mundi] that God spake toMoses, saying: 'Come up to Me on the Mount, and I will give thee two tables of stone of the lawand of the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayst teach them.'

2. And Moses went up into the mount of God,and the glory of the Lord abode on Mount Sinai, and a cloud overshadowed it six days.

3. And Hecalled to Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud, and the appearance of the gloryof the Lord was like a flaming fire on the top of the mount.

4. And Moses was on the Mountforty days and forty nights, and God taught him the earlier and the later history of the division ofall the days of the law and of the testimony.

5. And He said: 'Incline thine heart to every word which Ishall speak to thee on this mount, and write them in a book in order that their generations may seehow I have not forsaken them for all the evil which they have wrought in transgressing thecovenant which I establish between Me and thee for their generations this day on Mount Sinai.

6. And thus it will come to pass when all these things come upon them, that they will recognise thatI am more righteous than they in all their judgments and in all their actions, and they willrecognise that I have been truly with them.

7. And do thou write for thyself all these words which Ideclare unto, thee this day, for I know their rebellion and their stiff neck, before I bring them intothe land of which I sware to their fathers, to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob, saying: ' Untoyour seed will I give a land flowing with milk and honey.

8. And they will eat and be satisfied, andthey will turn to strange gods, to (gods) which cannot deliver them from aught of their tribulation:and this witness shall be heard for a witness against them. For they will forget all Mycommandments, (even) all that I command them, and they will walk after the Gentiles, and aftertheir uncleanness, and after their shame, and will serve their gods, and these will prove unto them an offence and a tribulation and an affliction and a snare.

9. And manywill perish and they will be taken captive, and will fall into the hands of the enemy, because theyhave forsaken My ordinances and My commandments, and the festivals of My covenant, and Mysabbaths, and My holy place which I have hallowed for Myself in their midst, and My tabernacle,and My sanctuary, which I have hallowed for Myself in the midst of the land, that I should set myname upon it, and that it should dwell (there).

10. And they will make to themselves high placesand groves and graven images, and they will worship, each his own (graven image), so as to goastray, and they will sacrifice their children to demons, and to all the works of the error of their hearts.

11. And I will send witnesses unto them, that I may witness against them, but they will not hear, andwill slay the witnesses also, and they will persecute those who seek the law, and they will abrogateand change everything so as to work evil before My eyes.

12. And I will hide My face from them, and Iwill deliver them into the hand of the Gentiles for captivity, and for a prey, and for devouring, andI will remove them from the midst of the land, and I will scatter them amongst the Gentiles.

13. And they will forget all My law and all My commandments and all My judgments, andwill go astray as to new moons, and sabbaths, and festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances.

14. Andafter this they will turn to Me from amongst the Gentiles with all their heart and with all their souland with all their strength, and I will gather them from amongst all the Gentiles, and they will seekme, so that I shall be found of them, when they seek me with all their heart and with all theirsoul.

15. And I will disclose to them abounding peace with righteousness, and I will remove them theplant of uprightness, with all My heart and with all My soul, and they shall be for a blessing andnot for a curse, and they shall be the head and not the tail.

16. And I will build My sanctuary intheir midst, and I will dwell with them, and I will be their God and they shall be My people intruth and righteousness.

17. And I will not forsake them nor fail them; for I am the Lord theirGod.'

18. And Moses fell on his face and prayed and said, 'O Lord my God, do not forsake Thypeople and Thy inheritance, so that they should wander in the error of their hearts, and do notdeliver them into the hands of their enemies, the Gentiles, lest they should rule over them andcause them to sin against Thee.

19. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be lifted up upon Thy people, and create in them anupright spirit, and let not the spirit of Beliar rule over them to accuse them before Thee, and toensnare them from all the paths of righteousness, so that they may perish from before Thy face.

20. Butthey are Thy people and Thy inheritance, which thou hast delivered with thy great power from thehands of the Egyptians: create in them a clean heart and a holy spirit, and let them not be ensnaredin their sins from henceforth until eternity.'

21. And the Lord said unto Moses: 'I know theircontrariness and their thoughts and their stiffneckedness, and they will not be obedient till theyconfess their own sin and the sin of their fathers.

22. And after this they will turn to Me in alluprightness and with all (their) heart and with all (their) soul, and I will circumcise the foreskin oftheir heart and the foreskin of the heart of their seed, and I will create in them a holy spirit, and Iwill cleanse them so that they shall not turn away from Me from that day unto eternity.

23. And their souls will cleave to Me and to all My commandments, and they will fulfil My commandments, and I will be their Father and they shall be My children.

24. And they allshall be called children of the living God, and every angel and every spirit shall know, yea, theyshall know that these are My children, and that I am their Father in uprightness and righteousness,and that I love them.

25. And do thou write down for thyself all these words which I declare untothee on this mountain, the first and the last, which shall come to pass in all the divisions of thedays in the law and in the testimony and in the weeks and the jubilees unto eternity, until Idescend and dwell with them throughout eternity.'

26. And He said to the angel of the presence: Write forMoses from the beginning of creation till My sanctuary has been built among them for all eternity.

27. And the Lord will appear to the eyes of all, and all shall know that I am the God of Israel and theFather of all the children of Jacob, and King on Mount Zion for all eternity. And Zion andJerusalem shall be holy.'

28. And the angel of the presence who went before the camp of Israel took thetables of the divisions of the years -from the time of the creation- of the law and of the testimonyof the weeks of the jubilees, according to the individual years, according to all the number of thejubilees [according, to the individual years], from the day of the [new] creation when the heavensand the earth shall be renewed and all their creation according to the powers of the heaven, andaccording to all the creation of the earth, until the sanctuary of the Lord shall be made inJerusalem on Mount Zion, and all the luminaries be renewed for healing and for peace and forblessing for all the elect of Israel, and that thus it may be from that day and unto all the days of theearth.