The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 108
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C O R R U P T I O N
CHAPTER 11:
The History Of The
Patriarchs From Reu To
Abraham (cf. Gen. 11:20-30);
The Corruption Of The
Human Race (11:1-15)
1681 A.M.
1 And in the thirty-fifth
jubilee, in the third week, in
the first year thereof, Reu took
to himself a wife, and her
name was ’Ôrâ, the daughter
Cf. Gen. of ’Ûr, the son of Kêsêd, and
11:20 f. (MT.
has Serug for she bare him a son, and he
Sêrô).
called his name Sêrô, in the
1687 A.M.
seventh year of this week in
this jubilee. 2 And the sons
In 2-6 the
corruption of of Noah began to war on
mankind is
ascribed to each other, to take captive
the period of
Serug. and to slay each other, and
to shed the blood of men on
the earth, and to eat blood,
and to build strong cities,
and walls, and towers, and
individuals (began) to exalt
themselves above the nation,
and to found the beginnings
of kingdoms, and to go to war
people against people, and
nation against nation, and city
against city, and all (began) to
The place
name Ur do evil, and to acquire arms,
Kasdîm
(“Ur of the and to teach their sons war,
Chaldees”)
is here and they began to capture
transformed
into the cities, and to sell male and
names of two
persons, after female slaves. 3 And ’Ûr, the
whom the city
is named. son of Kêsêd, built the city
i. e. Ur. of ’Arâ of the Chaldees, and
called its name after his own
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name and the name of his
father. 4 And they made for
themselves molten images,
and they worshipped each the
idol, the molten image which
they had made for themselves,
and they began to make
graven images and unclean
simulacra, and malignant
spirits assisted and seduced
(them)
into
committing
transgression and uncleanness.
5 And the prince Mastêmâ
exerted himself to do all this,
and he sent forth other spirits,
those which were put under
his hand, to do all manner of
wrong and sin, and all manner
of transgression, to corrupt
and destroy, and to shed blood Cf. 1 En. 16
upon the earth. 6 For this
reason he called the name of
Sêrô, Serug, for every one
turned to do all manner of
sin and transgression. 7 And
he grew up, and dwelt in Ur
of the Chaldees, near to the
father of his wife’s mother,
and he worshipped idols, and
he took to himself a wife in the
thirty-sixth jubilee, in the fifth 1744 A.M.
week, in the first year thereof, In Gn.11:29
is
and her name was Mêlkâ, Milcah
the name
the daughter of Kâbêr, the of the wife
of Nahor,
daughter of his father’s Abram’s
brother.
brother. 8 And she bare him
Nahor, in the first year of
this week, and he grew and
dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees,
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