Jubilees

In the thirty-fifth Jubilee, in the third week, in the first year, Reu took to himself a wife, and her name was Ora, the daughter of Ur, son of Kesed, and she gave birth to a son, and he called him by the name of Serug, in the seventh year of this week of this jubilee.

And the sons of Noah began to war against one another, to take captive and to kill one another, and to shed human blood upon the earth, and to eat blood, and to build fortified cities, and walls, and towers, and people began to proclaim themselves leaders of the nation, and to found the beginning of kingdoms, and to go to war people against people, and nation against nation, and city against city, and all began to do evil, and to acquire weapons, and to teach their sons war. And they began to capture cities, and to sell slaves and maidservants.

And Ur, the son of Kesed, built the city of Ur of the Chaldeans, and called it by his name.

And they made for themselves molten images, and they worshipped each one the idol, the molten image which they made for themselves. And they began to make carved images and unclean works, and evil spirits helped them to go astray and commit transgressions and impurities.

And the Prince Mastema endeavored to do all this, and he sent other spirits, those who were placed in his hands, to do all manner of error and sin, and all manner of transgression, to corrupt and destroy, and to shed blood upon the earth.

For this reason he called Serug by the name of Serug. Because all began to do all kinds of sin and transgression.

And he grew up and dwelt in Ur of the Chaldeans, near the father of his wife's mother, and he worshipped the idol, and he took to himself a wife in the thirty-sixth jubilee, in the fifth week, in the first year, and her name was Melka, the daughter of Kaber, the daughter of his father's brother.

And she gave birth to Nahor, in the first year of this week, and he grew up and dwelt in Ur of the Chaldeans, and his father taught him the doctrine of the Chaldeans, to prophesy and to conjure according to the signs of heaven.

And in the thirty-seventh jubilee, in the sixth week, in the first year, he took to himself a wife, and her name was Ijaska, the daughter of Nestag of the Chaldeans.

And she gave birth to Terah in the seventh year of this week.

And the Prince Mastema sent ravens and birds to devour the seeds that had been planted in the land, so as to destroy the land, and to rob the sons of men of their labor. Before they could plant the seed, the ravens would take it from the surface of the earth.

And for this reason he called his name Terah. Because the ravens and the birds reduced them to destruction and devoured their seeds.

And the years became barren, because of the birds, and they devoured all the fruits of the trees. It was with great effort that they managed to save a small part of all the fruits of the land in those days.

And in the thirty-ninth jubilee, in the second week, in the first year, Terah took to himself a wife, and her name was Edna, the daughter of Abram, daughter of his father's sister.

And in the seventh year of this week she gave birth to a son and he called him by the name of Abram, after the name of his mother's father; because he had died before his daughter had borne a son.

And the child began to understand the errors of the earth that all followed images and filthiness, and his father taught him writing, and he was two weeks of years old, and he separated from his father, because he would not worship the idol with him.

And he began to pray to the Creator of all things that He might save him from the errors of the sons of men, and that his portion should not fall into error and filthiness and vileness.

And the time of sowing came for the planting of seeds upon the earth, and they all went out together to protect their seeds against the ravens, and Abram went out with them, and the child was a lad of fourteen years.

And a cloud of ravens came to devour the seeds, and Abram ran to meet them before they landed on the ground, and cried to them before they landed on the ground to devour the seeds. He said: "Do not descend! return to the place from whence you came!" And they turned back.

And he made the cloud of ravens turn back that day seven times. And all the ravens throughout all the land where Abram was did not land even once.

And all who were with him throughout all the land saw him cry out, and the ravens turn back.

And in this year all those who wished to plant came to him, and he went out with them until the end of the planting season. And they planted their soil, and in that year they brought enough grain home to eat and be satisfied.

And in the first year of the sixth week, Abram taught those who made implements for oxen, the woodworkers, and they built a vessel above the ground, facing the frame of the plow, in order to place the seeds, and the seed would fall from there into the furrow of the plow and be hidden under the ground, and they no longer feared the ravens.

And after that they built over the ground and all the plow frames, and they sowed and cultivated all the land, as Abram commanded them, and they no longer feared the birds.