Jubilees

And on the new moon of the fourth month we appeared to Abraham, at the oak of Moreh, and we spoke with him, and announced to him that a son would be given to him through Sarah, his wife.

And Sarah laughed, because she heard what we spoke these words to Abraham, and we admonished her, and he was afraid, and denied that she had laughed because of those words.

And we told her the name of her son, and his name is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets: Isaac.

And when we should return to her at the appointed time, she would have conceived a son.

And in this month the Lord executed judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah and Zeboiim and all the region of the Jordan, and He burned them with fire and with sulfur, and destroyed them to this day, as He had already told you concerning all their works, that they were evil and exceedingly sinful, and that they defiled themselves and committed fornication in their flesh, and practiced impurities upon the earth.

And in the same manner God will execute judgment in the places where they did according to the filthiness of the Sodomites, just as He judged Sodom.

But Lot we saved; because God remembered Abraham, and brought him out from the midst of the destruction.

But he and his daughters committed sin upon the earth, as had not happened since the days of Adam until his time. Because the man lay with his daughters.

And behold, it was ordained and engraved concerning all his descendants, on the heavenly tablets, to remove them and exterminate them, and to execute judgment upon them according to the judgment of Sodom, and to leave no descendant of man upon the earth on the day of condemnation.

And in this month Abraham moved from Hebron, departed and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur in the mountains of Gerar.

And in the middle of the fifth month he moved from there, and dwelt at the Well of the Oath.

And in the middle of the sixth month the Lord visited Sarah and did in her according as He had spoken.

And she gave birth to a son in the third month, in the middle of the month, at the time when the Lord had spoken to Abraham, at the festival of the first fruits of the harvest, Isaac was born.

And Abraham circumcised his son on the eighth day: he was the first to be circumcised according to the covenant that was ordained forever.

And in the sixth year of the fourth week we came to Abraham, to the Well of the Oath, and we appeared before him.

And we returned in the seventh month, and found Sarah with a child, and we blessed him, and we announced to him all the things that had been decreed concerning him, that he would not die until he had fathered six more sons, and that he would see them before he died; but that of Isaac should be called his name and his descendants.

And that all the descendants of his sons would be Gentiles, and counted with the Gentiles; but of the sons of Isaac one would become holy descendants, and would not be counted among the Gentiles.

Because he would become a portion of the Most High, and all his descendants would be God's possession, that they should be for the Lord a people of His own possession above all nations, and that they should become a kingdom and priests and a holy nation.

And we went on our way, and announced to Sarah all that we had told, and they both rejoiced with very great joy.

And he built there an altar to the Lord who saved him, and who had made him rejoice in the land of his pilgrimage, and he celebrated a festival of joy in this month for seven days, near the altar which he had built at the Well of the Oath.

And he built booths for himself and his servants in this festival, and he was the first to celebrate the feast of tabernacles on the earth.

And during these seven days he brought to the altar a burnt offering to the Lord: Two bullocks, two rams, two sheep and a he-goat for a sin offering, that he might atone thus for himself and for his descendants.

And as a thank offering: seven rams, seven kids, seven sheep, and seven he-goats, and their fruit offerings and their drink offerings; and he burned all their fat on the altar, a choice offering to the Lord for a sweet pleasing aroma.

And in the morning and evening he burned aromatic substances: frankincense, galbanum, stacte, nard, myrrh, spices, and costus; all these seven he offered, crushed and mixed in equal and pure parts.

And he celebrated this feast for seven days, rejoicing with all his heart and with all his soul, he and all those of his household, and there were no strangers with him, nor any who were uncircumcised.

And he blessed his Creator who created him in his generation, because He had created him according to His good pleasure; because He knew and noted that from him would come the plant of righteousness for the eternal generations, and for him a holy descendant, so that they should become as He who made all things.

And he blessed and rejoiced, and he called the festival: The Festival of the Lord. A joy acceptable to the Most High God.

And we blessed him forever, and all his descendants after him throughout all the generations of the earth, because he celebrated this festival at the proper time, according to the testimony of the heavenly tablets.

For this reason it is ordained on the heavenly tablets concerning Israel, that they shall celebrate the feast of tabernacles seven days with joy, in the seventh month, acceptable before the Lord. An eternal statute throughout the generations every year.

And for this there is no limit of days; because it is ordained forever concerning Israel that they shall celebrate it and dwell in booths, and shall put garlands on their heads, and take leafy branches, and willows of the brook.

And Abraham took palm branches, and the fruit of beautiful trees, and every day went around the altar with the branches, seven times in the morning, he praised and gave thanks to his God for everything in joy.