Book of Jubilees
Anonymous
Chapter 45
About this work
A Jewish rewriting of Genesis and the opening of Exodus, presented as revelation given to Moses on Mount Sinai. The work organizes sacred history through weeks and jubilees and places particular emphasis on covenant, calendar, festivals, and observance of the Law.
- Author
- Anonymous
- Date
- Second century BC
- Origin
- Judea (probable)
- Genre
- Rewritten Scripture / Pseudepigrapha
- Textual language
- Originally Hebrew; complete text principally preserved in Ethiopic.
- Translator
- R. H. Charles
- Translation / Edition
- R. H. Charles translation, first published 1917.
And Israel went into the country of Egypt, into the land of Goshen, on the new moon of the fourth month, in the second year of the third week of the forty-fifth jubilee.
And Joseph went to meet his father Jacob, to the land of Goshen, and he fell on his father's neck and wept.
And Israel said unto Joseph: "Now let me die since I have seen thee,
and now may the Lord God of Israel be blessed, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac who hath not withheld His mercy and His grace from His servant Jacob.
It is enough for me that I have seen thy face whilst I am yet alive;
yea, true is the vision which I saw at Bethel. Blessed be the Lord my God for ever and ever, and blessed be His name."
And Joseph and his brothers ate bread before their father and drank wine, and Jacob rejoiced with exceeding great joy because he saw Joseph eating with his brothers and drinking before him,
and he blessed the Creator of all things who had preserved him, and had preserved for him his twelve sons.