Book of Jubilees
Anonymous
Chapter 9
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 Ham divided amongst his sons, and the first portion came forth for Cush towards the east, and to the west of him for Mizraim, and to the west of him for Put, and to the west of him [and to the west thereof] on the sea for Canaan.
And Shem also divided amongst his sons, and the first portion came forth for Elam and his sons, to the east of the river Tigris till it approacheth the east,
the whole land of India, and on the Red Sea on its coast, and the waters of Dêdân, and all the mountains of Mebrî and ’Êlâ, and all the land of Sûsân and all that is on the side of Pharnâk to the Red Sea and the river Tînâ.
And for Asshur came forth the second portion, all the land of Asshur and Nineveh and Shinar and to the border of India, and it ascendeth and skirteth the river.
And for Arpachshad came forth the third portion, all the land of the region of the Chaldees to the east of the Euphrates, bordering on the Red Sea,
and all the waters of the desert close to the tongue of the sea which looketh towards Egypt, all the land of Lebanon and Sanîr and ’Amânâ to the border of the Euphrates.