Jubilees

And in the sixth year of this week, Isaac called his two sons Esau and Jacob, and they came to him, and he said to them: "My sons, I am going the way of my fathers, to the eternal home where my fathers are.

Therefore bury me near Abraham, my father, in the double cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, where Abraham bought a tomb to bury; in the tomb that I dug for myself, there bury me.

And this I command you, my sons, that you practice justice and righteousness upon the earth, so that the Lord may bring upon you all the things that the Lord said He would do for Abraham and his descendants.

And love one another, my sons, your brother as a man who loves his own life, and each seek what benefits his brother, and act together upon the earth; and let each love the other as his own life.

And concerning idols, I command and warn you to reject them and hate them, and not love them, because they are full of deception for those who worship them and for those who bow down to them.

Remember, my sons, the Lord God of Abraham your father, and how I also worshiped Him and served Him in righteousness and with joy, so that He may multiply you and increase your descendants as the stars of heaven in multitude, and establish you upon the earth as the plant of righteousness which shall not be exterminated throughout all generations forever.

And now I will make you swear a great oath - because there is no greater oath than this, by the glorious and honored and great and splendid and wonderful and powerful name, which created heaven and earth and all things together - that you will fear Him and worship Him.

And that each will love his brother with affection and righteousness, and that none will desire evil against his brother from now and forever for all the days of your lives, so that you may prosper in all your works and not be destroyed.

And if any of you desires evil against his brother, know that from now on whoever desires evil against his brother shall fall into his hand and be exterminated from the land of the living, and his descendants shall be destroyed from under heaven.

But on the day of tribulation, curse, wrath and anger, with flame of fire as He burned Sodom, in the same manner He will burn your land and your city and everything that is yours, and he shall be erased from the book of the discipline of the sons of men, and shall not be engraved in the book of life, but in that which is appointed for destruction, and he shall be expelled in an eternal curse; so that his condemnation be always renewed in hatred, curse, anger, torment, indignation, plagues and in diseases forever.

I say and testify to you, my sons, according to the judgment that shall come upon the man who desires to harm his brother.

And he divided all his possessions between the two on that day, and he gave the greater part to him who was the firstborn, and the tower and everything upon it, and everything that Abraham possessed at the Well of the Oath.

And he said: "This greater portion I will give to the firstborn."

And Esau said: "I sold to Jacob and gave my birthright to Jacob; let it be given to him, and I have not a single word concerning this, because it is his."

And Isaac said: "May a blessing rest upon you, my sons, and upon your descendants this day, because you have given me rest, and my heart is not pained concerning the birthright, that you should devise evil because of it.

May the Lord God Most High bless the man who has worked righteousness, he and his descendants forever."

And he finished commanding them and blessing them, and they ate and drank together before him, and he rejoiced because there was one mind among them, and they departed from him and rested from that day and slept.

And Isaac slept in his bed that day joyful; and he slept the eternal sleep, and died at one hundred and eighty years of age. He completed twenty-five weeks and five years; and his two sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.

And Esau went to the land of Edom, to the mountains of Seir, and dwelt there.

And Jacob dwelt in the mountains of Hebron, in the tower of the land of the sojourning of his father Abraham, and he worshiped the Lord with all his heart and according to the visible orders as He had divided the days of his generations.

And Leah, his wife, died in the fourth year of the second week of the forty-fifth jubilee, and he buried her in the double cave near Rebekah his mother, to the left of Sarah's tomb, his father's mother.

And all her sons came to mourn for Leah, his wife, and to comfort him concerning her, because he was mourning for her.

For he loved her very much after the death of Rachel, her sister; because she was perfect and upright in all her ways and honored Jacob, and in all the days she lived with him, he did not hear a hard word from her mouth, because she was gentle and peaceful and upright and honorable.

And he remembered all the works she had done during her life and mourned for her very much; because he loved her with all his heart and with all his soul.