YOḆELIM 4 (Jubilees 4)

1 And in the third week in the second Yoḇĕl she gave birth to Qayin, and in the fourth she gave birth to Heḇel, and in the fifth she gave birth to her daughter Awan.

2 And in the first year of the third Yoḇĕl, Qayin slew Heḇel because Elohim accepted the offering of Heḇel, and did not accept the offering of Qayin.

3 And he slew him in the field, and his blood cried from the ground to the shamayim, lamenting because he had slain him.

4 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 reproved Qayin because of Heḇel, because he had slain him, and he made him a fugitive on the earth because of the blood of his brother, and he cursed him upon the earth.

5 And on this account it is written on the tablets of the shamayim, “Cursed is he who smites his neighbour treacherously.” And let all who have seen and heard say, “So be it.” And the man who has seen and not declared, let him be accursed as the other.

6 And for this reason we announce when we come before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 our Elohim all the sin which is committed in the shamayim and on earth, and in light and in darkness, and everywhere.

7 And Aḏam and his wife mourned for Heḇel four weeks of years, and in the fourth year of the fifth week they became joyful, and Aḏam knew his wife again, and she bore him a son, and he called his name Shĕth, for he said, “Elohim has raised up a second seed for us on the earth instead of Heḇel, for Qayin slew him.”

8 And in the sixth week he brought forth his daughter Azura.

9 And Qayin took Awan his sister to be his wife, and she bore him Ḥanoḵ at the close of the fourth Yoḇĕl. And in the first year of the first week of the fifth Yoḇĕl, dwellings were built on the earth, and Qayin built a city, and called its name after the name of his son Ḥanoḵ.

10 And Aḏam knew Ḥawwah his wife and she bore a further nine sons.

11 And in the fifth week of the fifth Yoḇĕl, Shĕth took Azura his sister to be his wife, and in the fourth year of the sixth week she bore him Enosh.

12 He began to call on the Name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 the earth.

13 And in the seventh Yoḇĕl in the third week, Enosh took No’am his sister to be his wife, and she bore him a son in the third year of the fifth week, and he called his name Qĕynan.

14 And at the close of the eighth Yoḇĕl Qĕynan took Mu’alĕlĕth his sister to be his wife, and she bore him a son in the ninth Yoḇĕl, in the first week in the third year of this week, and he called his name Mahalal’ĕl.

15 And in the second week of the tenth Yoḇĕl Mahalal’ĕl took as wife, Dinah, the daughter of Baraḵi’ĕl the daughter of his father’s brother. And she bore him a son in the third week in the sixth year, and he called his name Yereḏ, for in his days the messengers of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 descended on the earth – those who are named the Watchers – that they should instruct the children of men, and that they should do right-ruling and uprightness on the earth.

16 And in the eleventh Yoḇĕl, Yereḏ took a wife, and her name was Beraḵah, the daughter of Rasuyal, a daughter of his father’s brother, in the fourth week of this Yoḇĕl. And she bore him a son in the fifth week, in the fourth year of the Yoḇĕl, and he called his name Ḥanoḵ.

17 And he was the first among men that are born on earth who learned writing and knowledge and wisdom and who wrote down the signs of the shamayim according to the order of their months in a Book, that men might know the seasons of the years according to the order of their separate months.

18 And he was the first to write a witness, and he witnessed to the sons of men among the generations of the earth, and recounted the weeks of the Yoḇelim, and made known to them the days of the years, and put in order the months and recounted the Shabbathoth of the years as we made known to him.

19 And what was and what shall be he saw in a vision of his sleep, as it shall happen to the children of men throughout their generations until the Day of judgment. He saw and understood all, and wrote his witness, and placed the witness on earth for all the children of men and for their generations.

20 And in the twelfth Yoḇĕl, in the seventh week, he took a wife, and her name was Edni, the daughter of Danĕl, the daughter of his father’s brother. And in the sixth year in this week she bore him a son and he called his name Methushelaḥ.

21 And he was furthermore with the messengers of Elohim these six Yoḇelim of years, and they showed him all which is on earth and in the shamayim – the rule of the sun – and he wrote it all down.

22 And he witnessed to the Watchers, who had sinned with the daughters of men; for these had begun to unite themselves – so as to be defiled – with the daughters of men, and Ḥanoḵ witnessed against them all.

23 And he was taken from among the children of men, and we conducted him into the Garden of Ĕḏen in majesty and honour, and see, there he writes down the condemnation and judgment of the world, and all the wickedness of the children of men.

24 And on account of it Elohim brought the waters of the flood upon all the land of Ĕḏen; for there he was appointed as a sign and that he should witness against all the children of men, that he should recount all the deeds of the generations until the Day of condemnation.

25 And he burned the incense of the Miqdash: sweet spices, acceptable before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 on the Mountain.

26 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has four places on the earth: the Garden of Ĕḏen, and the Mountain of the East, and this mountain on which you are this day, Mount Sinai, and Mount Tsion which shall be qadosh in the new creation for a qodeshah of the earth; through it the earth shall be qadosh from all guilt and its uncleanness throughout the generations of the world.

27 And in the fourteenth Yoḇĕl Methushelaḥ took a wife, Edna the daughter of Azri’ĕl, the daughter of his father’s brother, in the third week, in the first year of this week, and he brought forth a son and called his name Lemeḵ.

28 And in the fifteenth Yoḇĕl in the third week, Lemeḵ took a wife, and her name was Bĕtĕnos the daughter of Baraḵi’ĕl, the daughter of his father’s brother. And in this week she bore him a son, and he called his name Noaḥ, saying, “This one shall comfort me for my trouble and all my work, and for the ground which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has cursed.”

29 And at the close of the nineteenth Yoḇĕl, in the seventh week in the sixth year, Aḏam died, and all his sons buried him in the land of his creation, and he was the first to be buried in the earth.

30 And he was less seventy years from one thousand years; for one thousand years are as one day in the witness of the shamayim, and therefore was it written concerning the tree of knowledge, “On the day that you eat of it you shall die.” For this reason he did not complete the years of this day; for he died during it.

31 At the close of this Yoḇĕl Qayin was killed after him in the same year; for his house fell upon him and he died in the midst of his house, and he was killed by its stones, for with a stone he had killed Heḇel, and by a stone he was killed in righteous judgment.

32 For this reason it was ordained on the tablets of the shamayim: With the instrument with which a man kills his neighbour with, the same shall he be killed; after the manner that he wounded him, in like manner shall they deal with him.

33 And in the twenty-fifth Yoḇĕl, Noaḥ took a wife, and her name was Ĕmzara, the daughter of Raḵe’ĕl, the daughter of his father’s brother, in the first year in the fifth week. And in the third year she bore him Shĕm, in the fifth year she bore him Ḥam, and in the first year in the sixth week she bore him Yepheth.