The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 171
2 8 : T R I B E S
According
to Test.
Naphtali 1
also, Bilhah
and Zilpah
were sisters.
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Gn. 29:32
has “she
called.”
The twelve
sons of
Jacob appear
in our text
in the same
order as in
Gn. 29:32-34,
30:1-24,
35:17-18, viz.
(1) Reuben;
(2) Simeon;
(3) Levi;
(4) Judah;
(5) Dan;
(6) Naphtali;
(7) Gad;
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Cont.’d:
(8) Asher;
(9) Issachar;
(10) Zebulon;
(11) Joseph;
(12)Benjamin
A different
order is
given in Gn.
49 and in
the Test. 12
Patriarchs.
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Cont.’d:
The order
of birth, as
given in
Jubilees, is
complicated
by textual
difficulties;
see Charles
ad loc.
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O F
he gave to Rachel, Bilhah, the
sister of Zilpah as a handmaid.
10 And he served yet other
seven years for Rachel, for
Leah had been given to him
for nothing. 11 And Yahuah
opened the womb of Leah,
and she conceived and bare
Jacob a son, and he called
his name Reuben, on the
fourteenth day of the ninth
month, in the first year of the
third week.
12 But the womb of Rachel
was closed, for Yahuah saw
that Leah was hated and
Rachel loved. 13 And again
Jacob went in unto Leah, and
she conceived, and bare Jacob
a second son, and he called his
name Simeon, on the twentyfirst of the tenth month, and
in the third year of this week.
14 And again Jacob went in
unto Leah, and she conceived,
and bare him a third son, and
he called his name Levi, in the
new moon of the first month
in the sixth year of this week.
15 And again Jacob went in
unto her, and she conceived,
and bare him a fourth son,
and he called his name Judah,
on the fifteenth of the third
month, in the †first† year of
the †fourth† week. 16 And
on account of all this Rachel
envied Leah, for she did not
bear, and she said to Jacob:
I S R A E L
B O R N
“Give me children”; and
Jacob said: “Have I withheld
from thee the fruits of thy
womb? Have I forsaken thee?”
17 And when Rachel saw that
Leah had borne four sons to
Jacob, Reuben and Simeon
and Levi and Judah, she said
unto him: “Go in unto Bilhah
my handmaid, and she will
conceive, and bear a son unto
me.” 18 (And she gave (him)
Bilhah her handmaid to wife.)
And he went in unto her, and
she conceived, and bare him
a son, and he called his name
Dan, on the ninth of the sixth
month, in the †sixth† year of
the †third† week.
19 And Jacob went in again
unto Bilhah a second time,
and she conceived, and bare
Jacob another son, and Rachel
called his name Naphtali, on
the fifth of the seventh month,
in the second year of the fourth
week. 20 And when Leah saw
that she had become sterile
and did not bear, she envied
(Rachel) and she also gave her
handmaid Zilpah to Jacob to
wife, and she conceived, and
bare a son, and Leah called
his name Gad, on the twelfth
of the eighth month, in the
third year of the fourth week.
21 And he went in again unto
her, and she conceived, and
bare him a second son, and
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