The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 186
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into heaven. 21 And he saw
in a vision of the night, and
behold an angel descended
from heaven with seven tablets
in his hands, and he gave them
Cf. 2 Esd.
14:24 to Jacob, and he read them
and knew all that was written
therein which would befall
him and his sons through-out
all the ages.
22 And he showed him all that
Cf. 45:4 was written on the tablets, and
The said unto him: “Do not build
sanctuary at
Bethel was this place, and do not make it
not to be the
one central an eternal sanctuary, and do
shrine,
where alone not dwell here; for this is not
acceptable
worship was the place. Go to the house of
to be offered.
As with the Abraham thy father and dwell
second with Isaac thy father until the
Temple,
it would day of the death of thy father.
not house
Yahuah’s 23 For in Egypt thou wilt die
presence.
in peace, and in this land thou
wilt be buried with honour in
the sepulchre of thy fathers,
Cf. Gn. 35:13
D R E A M
Jn. 14:26.
with Abraham and Isaac. Cf.
“bring all
to your
24 Fear not, for as thou hast things
rememseen and read it, thus will brance.”
Exact
it all be; and do thou write quote from
Jubilees.
down everything as thou Also, in 2
Esd. 14:40,
hast seen and read.” 25 And Ezra’s
memory
Jacob said: “Lord, how can I is said to
been
remember all that I have read have
miraculously
and seen?” And he said unto strengthened
after he had
him: “I will bring all things to received
the cup of
thy remembrance.” 26 And inspiration;
Jubilees is
he went up from him, and the likely
origin of both.
he awoke from his sleep, and i. e. the
day of
he remembered everything eighth
the Feast of
which he had read and seen, Tabernacles.
The
and he wrote down all the †Hebrew
is
words which he had read and name
‘asereth
seen. 27 And he celebrated (‘asarta),
from a root
there yet another day, and he meaning
“detain”
sacrificed thereon according (‘ar).
Hence,
to all that he sacrificed on perhaps, we
may emend
the former days, and called here “keeping
back,” for
its name †”Addition,”† for on that day
was
†this day was added,† and he
kept back
(Charles).
And he saw in a vision of the night, and
behold an angel descended from heaven
with seven tablets in his hands, and he gave
them to Jacob, and he read them and knew
all that was written therein which would
befall him and his sons...
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