Jubilees

And in the third week of this jubilee, unclean demons began to seduce the sons of the sons of Noah, and to make them err and to destroy them.

And the sons of Noah came to Noah their father and told him about the demons who were seducing and slaying his grandsons.

And he prayed before the Lord his God and said: "God of the spirits of all flesh, who showed mercy to me and saved me and my sons from the waters of the flood, and did not make me perish as You did the sons of perdition; because Your grace has been great to me, and great has been Your mercy to my soul; Let Your grace reach my sons, and do not let evil spirits rule over them so that they destroy them from the earth.

But bless me and my sons, so that we may multiply and fill the earth.

And you know how Your Watchers, the fathers of these spirits, acted in my days: and for these spirits that are alive, bind them and detain them quickly in the place of condemnation, and do not let them bring destruction to the sons of Your servant, my God; for these are evil and created to destroy.

Do not let them rule over the spirits of the living; for only You can exercise dominion over them. And do not allow them to have power over the sons of the righteous from now and forever."

And the Lord our God commanded us to bind them all.

And the chief of the spirits, Mastema, came and said: "Lord Creator, let some of them remain before me, and let them listen to my voice, and do all that I say to them; for if none of them are left for me I will not be able to execute the power of my will upon the sons of men; for they are for corruption and turning aside from my judgment, because great is the wickedness of the sons of men."

And He said: "Let a tenth part of them remain before him, and let nine parts go down to the place of condemnation."

And one of us, He commanded, that we should teach Noah all their medicines; because He knew that they would not walk in uprightness, nor strive in righteousness.

And we did according to all His words: all the wicked and evil ones we bound in the place of condemnation, and a tenth part of them we left to be subject to Satan on earth.

And we explained to Noah all the medicines of their diseases, along with their seductions, how he could heal them with herbs of the earth.

And Noah wrote down everything in a book as we instructed him concerning every kind of medicine. Thus the evil spirits were hindered from harming the sons of Noah.

And he gave everything he had written to Shem, his eldest son; because he loved him much more than all his sons.

And Noah slept with his fathers and was buried on Mount Lubar in the land of Ararat.

Nine hundred and fifty years he completed in his life, nineteen jubilees, two weeks and five years.

He who in his life surpassed in righteousness all the sons of men, except Enoch for his righteousness, who was perfect. Because Enoch was created for the work of testifying to the generations of the world, so that he should recount the deeds of generation to generation, until the day of judgment.

And in the thirty-third jubilee, in the first year of the second week, Peleg took to himself a wife whose name was Lomna, the daughter of Shinar. And she bore a son in the fourth year of this week, and he called him by the name of Reu; because he said: "Behold, the sons of men have become evil through the evil purpose of building for themselves a city and a tower in the land of Shinar."

Because they departed from the land of Ararat eastward to Shinar; because in their days they built the city and the tower saying: "Come, by means of it we will ascend to heaven."

And they began to build, and in the fourth week they made bricks with fire, and the bricks served as stones, and the clay with which they cemented the bricks together was asphalt from the sea, and from the springs of water in the land of Shinar.

And they built. For forty-three years they were building; its width was 203 bricks, and the height was a third; its height totaled 5433 cubits and 2 palms.

And the Lord God said to us: "Behold, they are one people and have begun to act, and now nothing is impossible for them. Let us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another, and will be scattered into cities and nations, and this purpose will not prosper until the day of judgment."

And the Lord descended, and we descended with him to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built.

And He confused their language, and they no longer understood one another, and they ceased building the city and the tower.

For this reason all the land of Shinar is called Babel, because there the Lord confused all the languages of the sons of men, and because of this they scattered into their cities, each according to his language and his nation.

And the Lord sent a mighty wind against the tower and overthrew it upon the earth, and behold, it stood between Asshur and Babylon in the land of Shinar, and they called it "Overthrown".

In the fourth week in the first year at the beginning of the thirty-fourth jubilee, they were scattered from the land of Shinar.

And Ham and his sons went to the land which they should occupy, which he acquired as his portion in the land of the south.

And Canaan saw that the land of Lebanon to the river of Egypt was very good, and he did not go to the land of his inheritance to the west toward the sea, and he dwelt in the land of Lebanon, east and west of the banks of the Jordan and the shores of the sea.

And Ham, his father, and Cush and Mizraim, his brother, said to him: "You have settled in a land that is not yours, which did not fall to us by lot: do not do so. You and your sons will fall in the land and be cursed, because in the midst of a revolt you have established yourselves, and by a revolt your sons will fall, and you shall be exterminated forever.

Do not dwell in the dwelling of Shem; because for Shem and his sons this land was allotted.

Cursed are you, and cursed shall you be among all the sons of Noah. By the curse which we bound ourselves by the oath in the presence of the holy judge, and in the presence of Noah our father."

But he did not listen, and dwelt in the land of Lebanon from Hamath to the entrance of Egypt, he and his sons to this day.

And for this reason the land is called Canaan.

And Japheth and his sons went toward the sea and dwelt in the land of their portion, and Madai saw the land of the sea and it did not please him, and he asked for a portion from Ham and Asshur and Arpachshad, his brother's wife, and he dwelt in the land of Media, near his brother's wife to this day.

And he called his place of dwelling and the dwelling of his sons Media, because of the name of his father Madai.