The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 219
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M I G R A T E S
CHAPTER 44:
Jacob, Celebrates The
Feast Of First-fruits And
Journeys To Egypt. List
Of His Descendants.
(44:1-34; cf. Gen. 46:1-28)
Probably
corrupt for
“Hebron”; cf.
Gn. 37:14
Beersheba.
Cf. 27:22
Cf. Gn. 46:1
does not give
a date for
this Feast. It
demonstrates
a reliance on
Jubilees for
it’s purpose
of keeping
dates, time,
territories
and details.
Without it,
the Rabbis
make up their
own histories
of a people
that they do
not even
represent nor
know.
1 And Israel took his journey
from †Haran† from his house
on the new moon of the third
month, and he went on the
way of the Well of the Oath,
and he offered a sacrifice to
the Elohim of his father Isaac
on the seventh of this month.
2 And Jacob remembered the
dream that he had seen at
Bethel, and he feared to go
down into Egypt. 3 And while
he was thinking of sending
word to Joseph to come to
him, and that he would not
go down, he remained there
seven days, if perchance
he should see a vision as to
whether he should remain or
go down. 4 And he celebrated
the harvest festival of the firstfruits with old grain, for in all
the land of Canaan there was
not a handful of seed (in the
land), for the famine was over
all the beasts and cattle and
birds, and also over man.
5 And on the sixteenth
Yahuah appeared unto him,
and said unto him, “Jacob,
Jacob”; and he said, “Here am
I.” And He said unto him: “I
am the Elohim of thy fathers,
T O
E G Y P T
the Elohim of Abraham and
Isaac; fear not to go down into
Egypt, for I will there make of
thee a great nation. 6 I shall
go down with thee, and I shall
bring thee up (again), and in
this land wilt thou be buried,
and Joseph will put his hands
upon thy eyes. Fear not; go
down into Egypt.”
7 And his sons rose up, and
his sons’ sons, and they
placed their father and their
possessions upon wagons.
8 And Israel rose up from
the Well of the Oath on the
sixteenth of this third month,
and he went to the land of
Egypt. 9 And Israel sent
Judah before him to his son
Joseph to examine the Land
of Goshen, for Joseph had
told his brothers that they
should come and dwell there
that they might be near him.
10 And this was the goodliest
(land) in the land of Egypt,
and near to him, for all (of
them) and also for the cattle.
11 And these are the names
of the sons of Jacob who went
into Egypt with Jacob their
father. 12 Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; and these are
the names of his sons: Enoch,
and Pallu, and Hezron and
Carmi -- five.
13 Simeon and his sons; and
these are the names of
217
Cf. 27:24,
32:23
“To show the
way” (Gn.
46:28)
The number
70, according
to our text,
includes
Jacob
with his
descendants.
Accounts
differ even
within the
canon and
different
translations.
cf. Ex. 1:5
and Gn.
46:15, 18, 21,
25, 27. The
number 75,
in Acts 7:14.
is due to the
LXX of Ex.
1:5 and Dt.
10:22.
The father is
included in
each case.
