The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 118
1 3 : A B R A H A M
Charles
suspects a
lacuna at the
beginning
of 25. It
no doubt
contained an
account of
the pursuit
of the kings
and told of
Melchizedek
(cf. Gn.
14: 15-20).
Melchizedek
as Shem is
not supported
as he has no
beginning
and no end
according
to Hebrews.
Additionally,
what scholar
would
actually say
Abraham
tithed to his
oldest son
Shem? Not
logical.
brother’s son had been taken
captive and (Abram) armed
his household servants.
25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . for Abram,
and for his seed, a tenth of
the first-fruits to Yahuah,
and Yahuah ordained it as an
ordinance for ever that they
should give it to the priests
who served before Him, that
they should possess it for ever.
26 And to this law there is
no limit of days; for He hath
ordained it for the generations
for ever that they should
give to Yahuah the tenth of
everything, of the seed and
The law
about tithes of the wine and of the oil and
is made to of the cattle and of the sheep.
apply for
the Levitical 27 And He gave (it) unto His
priesthood;
A N D
L O T
priests to eat and to drink with
joy before Him.
28 And the king of Sodom
came to him and bowed
himself before him, and said:
“Our lord Abram, give unto
us the souls which thou hast
rescued, but let the booty be For 28-29 cf.
thine.” 29 And Abram said Gn. 14:21-24.
unto him: “I lift up my hands
to the Most High Elohim, that
from a thread to a shoe-latchet
I shall not take aught that is
thine, lest thou shouldst say I
have made Abram rich; save
only what the young men have
eaten, and the portion of the
men who went with me--Aner,
Eschol, and Mamre. These
will take their portion.”
cf. 32:15.
Below: Abraham tithes Melchizedek the King and Priest.
Right: Ancient Sumerian artifact.
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