Book of Jubilees
Anonymous
Chapter 18
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 God said to him, "Abraham, Abraham"; and he said, "Behold, (here) am I."
And He said, "Take thy beloved son whom thou lovest, (even) Isaac, and go unto the high country, and offer him on one of the mountains which I will point out unto thee."
And he rose early in the morning and saddled his ass, and took his two young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood of the burnt-offering, and he went to the place on the third day, and he saw the place afar off.
And he came to a well of water, and he said to his young men, "Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad shall go (yonder), and when we have worshipped we shall come again to you."
And he took the wood of the burnt-offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife, and they went both of them together to that place.
And Isaac said to his father, "Father"; and he said, "Here am I, my son." And he said unto him, "Behold the fire, and the knife, and the wood; but where is the sheep for the burnt-offering, father?"