The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 178
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them for righteousness, and
it is written down to them
for righteousness. 18 And
the seed of Levi was chosen
for the priesthood, and to
be Levites, that they might
Cf. 32:3, minister before Yahuah, as
Jacob
chooses Levi we, continually, and that Levi
as priest; cf. and his sons may be blessed
also Test.
Levi 4:2, for ever; for he was zealous
Yahuah
chooses Levi to execute righteousness and
as priest.
This is Levi’s judgment and vengeance on
reason and
there are no all those who arose against
conflicts.
Israel. 19 And so they inscribe
as a testimony in his favour on
the heavenly tables blessing
and righteousness before the
Elohim of all: 20 And we
remember the righteousness
which the man fulfilled
during his life, at all periods
of the year; until a thousand
generations they will record
it, and it will come to him and
to his descendants after him,
and he hath been recorded on
sc. of God.
This is the the heavenly tables as a friend
second such
mention. The and a righteous man. 21 All
likely origin this account I have written for
of “Friend
of God” in thee, and have commanded
James 2:23.
thee to say to the children of
Israel, that they should not
commit sin nor transgress
the ordinances nor break the
covenant which hath been
ordained for them, (but) that
they should fulfil it and be
sc. of God.
recorded as friends. 22 But
A B U S E
if they transgress and work
uncleanness in every way,
they will be recorded on the Cf. Ps. 69:28;
32:32;
heavenly tables as adversaries, Ex.
Rev. 3:5,
etc.;
and they will be destroyed out 13:8,
1 En. 47:3.
all cases,
of the book of life, and they Inbeing
written
book
will be recorded in the book inof the
life is
of those who will be destroyed salvation and
being blotted
and with those who will be out means
not saved.
rooted out of the earth.
Jubilees
appears
23 And on the day when the the direct
of this
sons of Jacob slew Shechem a origin
doctrine of
Book
writing was recorded in their the
of Life
favour in heaven that they had mentioned
several times
the New
executed righteousness and inTestament.
uprightness and vengeance on
the sinners, and it was written
for a blessing.
24 And they brought Dinah,
their sister, out of the house
of Shechem, and they took
captive everything that was
in Shechem, their sheep and
their oxen and their asses, and
all their wealth, and all their
flocks, and brought them all to
Test.
Jacob their father. 25 And he Cf.
Levi 6
reproached them because they
had put the city to the sword;
for he feared those who dwelt Cf. Gn. 35:5
in the land, the Canaanites
and the Perizzites. 26 And the
dread of Yahuah was upon all
the cities which are around
about Shechem, and they did
not rise to pursue after the
sons of Jacob; for terror had
fallen upon them.
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