The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 78
6 : T H E
It is called
“the day of
first-fruits” in
Nm. 28:26.
This day
is really 2
Feasts in
one day with
2 purposes.
It is the Day
of Covenant
Renewal
each year
as well as
celebration of
the first-fruits.
T O R A H
C A L E N D A R
festival in all their generations
for a commandment unto
them: one day in the year in
this month they shall celebrate
the festival. 21 For it is the
feast of weeks and the feast of
first-fruits: this feast is twofold
and of a double nature:
according to what is written
i. e. Tablets and engraven concerning it
written by
the finger of celebrate it.
Yahuah.
22 For I have written in the
i. e. This
is Shavuot book of the first law, in that
which is
always the which I have written for thee,
15th of Sivan
according that thou shouldst celebrate it
to this book.
The Qumran in its season, one day in the
calendar year, and I explained to thee its
places this on
a Sunday. sacrifices that the children of
According to Israel should remember and
Lev. xxiii. 24
only the 1st should celebrate it throughout
day of the
generations in this
7th month their
was a “day
month,
one day in every year.
of memorial.”
The “four
days” here 23 And on the new moon of
mentioned the first month, and on the new
correspond
to the four moon of the fourth month,
intercalary
days “which and on the new moon of the
are not
reckoned in seventh month, and on the
the reckoning
of the year” new moon of the tenth month
mentioned
in 1 Enoch are the days of remembrance,
lxxv. 1. They
introduce and the days of the seasons
the four
quarters of in the four divisions of the
the year and year. These are written and
apparently,
according to ordained as a testimony for
the scheme
of 1 Enoch ever. 24 And Noah ordained
and our
Book, were them for himself as feasts for
intended to
be added to the generations for ever, so
the 360 days
(= 12 x 30), that they have become thereby
which made
up the solar a memorial unto him. 25 And
year (360 + 4
days). on the new moon of the first
&
T H E
F L O O D
month he was bidden to make V. 22:
is
for himself an ark, and on that Genesis
not really
Book
(day) the earth became dry and the
of the First
he opened (the ark) and saw Law as it’s
counterpart
the earth. 26 And on the new Jubilees has
far more
moon of the fourth month the specifics in
such akin to
mouths of the depths of the Genesis and
rest of
abysses beneath were closed. the
Torah. It was
first
And on the new moon of the written
with Genesis.
is the likely
seventh month all the mouths Itembodiment
this
of the abysses of the earth ofreference.
were opened, and the waters This topic
of Shavuot
began to descend into them. appears right
from the
27 And on the new moon beginning of
Jubilees.
of the tenth month the tops
Cf. 1 En.
of the mountains were seen, 89:7, 8
and Noah was glad. 28 And Cf. Gn. 8:5
on this account he ordained
them for himself as feasts for
a memorial for ever, and thus
are they ordained.
The year
29 And they placed them consists of
52 weeks
on the heavenly tables, each (= 4 X 13
weeks). This
had thirteen weeks; from divides into
12 months of
one to another (passed) their 30 days each
1 day
memorial, from the first to the plus
is added to
quarter
second, and from the second each
for 360 + 4
= 364
to the third, and from the third days
days. Cf. 1
72, 82;
to the fourth. 30 And all the En.
Ps. Scroll
days of the commandment Col. 27, Cal.
of Priestly
will be two and fifty weeks of Watches.
Charles did
days, and (these will make) the not have
the Dead
entire year complete. 31 Thus Sea Scrolls
we now
it is engraven and ordained yet
have a time
of
on the heavenly tables. And capsule
this calendar
even
there is no neglecting (this inin use
the first
commandment) for a single century.
The Aaronic
- year or from year to year. Temple
Priests used
32 And command thou the this.
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