Jubilees

And Jacob went down and dwelt south of Magadaladraef. And he went to his father Isaac, he and Leah, his wife, on the new moon of the tenth month.

And Reuben saw Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, his father's concubine, bathing in the waters in a secret place, and he loved her.

And he hid himself at night and entered Bilhah's house, and found her sleeping alone on a bed in the house.

And he lay with her, and she awoke and saw, and behold, Reuben was lying with her on the bed, and she revealed her extremity and held him and cried out and discovered it was Reuben.

And she was ashamed because of him, and let go of his hand, and he fled.

And she lamented because of this incident very much, and did not tell anyone.

And when Jacob returned and sought her, she said to him: "I am not clean for you, because I was violated concerning you; because Reuben violated me, and lay with me at night. I was sleeping and did not discover until he discovered my skirt and slept with me."

And Jacob was very angry with Reuben because he had lain with Bilhah, because he had uncovered his father's skirt.

And Jacob did not approach her again because Reuben had violated her. Because for any man who uncovers his father's skirt, his action is very evil, because he is abominable before the Lord.

For this reason it is written and ordained on the heavenly tablets that a man should not lie with his father's wife, and should not uncover his father's skirt, because this is unclean. They shall die together: The man who lay with his father's wife and the woman also, because they have practiced filthiness upon the earth.

And there shall be nothing unclean before our God in the nation which He chose for Himself as a possession.

And again, it is written a second time: "Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's shame." And all the holy ones of the Lord said: "So be it, so be it."

And you, Moses, command the children of Israel that they observe this word, because it determines a penalty of death, and this is unclean, and there is no atonement forever to atone for the man who commits this, but he is for death and killed, stoned with stones and exterminated from the midst of the people of our God.

For no man who does this in Israel is permitted to remain alive a single day upon the earth, because he is abominable and unclean.

And let them not come to say that for Reuben it was allowed to live and he was forgiven for having lain with his father's concubine, and for her also although she had a husband, and her husband Jacob, his father, still lives.

For until that time the ordinance and judgment and law had not been revealed in its entirety to all, but in your days it was revealed as a law of seasons and of days, and an eternal law for the generations of eternity.

And for this law there is no consummation of days, and no atonement, but both shall be exterminated from the midst of the nation. On the day they committed this, they shall kill them.

And you, Moses, write this for Israel that they observe it, and act according to these words, and do not commit a sin unto death; For the Lord our God is a judge who does not respect persons nor accept gifts.

And tell them these words of the covenant, that they may hear and observe, and guard themselves concerning them, and not be destroyed and exterminated from the earth, because filthiness, an abomination, a contamination and a pollution are all who commit this upon the earth before God.

And there is no greater sin than fornication committed upon the earth; because Israel is a holy nation to the Lord his God, and a nation of inheritance, and a priestly and royal nation for possession. And such filthiness shall not appear in the midst of the holy nation.

And in the third year of this sixth week, Jacob and all his sons went and dwelt in the house of Abraham, near Isaac, his father, and Rebekah his mother.

And these were the names of the sons of Jacob: The firstborn Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun, the sons of Leah. And the sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin. And the sons of Bilhah, Dan and Naphtali. And the sons of Zilpah, Gad and Asher. And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, the only daughter of Jacob.

And they came and bowed to Isaac and Rebekah, and when they saw them they blessed Jacob and all his sons, and Isaac rejoiced greatly, because he saw the sons of Jacob, his younger son, and blessed them.