Book of Jubilees
Chapter IV
And in the third week in the second jubilee she gave birth to Cain, and in the fourth she gave birth to Abel, and in the fifth she gave birth to hr daughter Awan, ±. And in the first (year) of the third jubilee, Cain slew Abel because (God) accepted the sacrifice c of Abel, and did not accept the offering of Cain.
And he slew him in the field : and his blood cried from^the ground to heaven, complaining because he had slain him.
And the Lord reproved Cain because of Abel, because he had slain him, and he made him a fugitive on the earth because of the blood of his brother, and he cursed him upon the earth.
And on this account it is written on the heavenly tables, " Cursed is he who smiteth his neighbour treacherously, and let all who have seen and heard say, So be it ; and the man who hath seen and not declared (it), let him be accursed as the other."
And for this reason we announce when we come before the Lord our God all the sin which is committed in heaven and on earth, and in light and in darkness, and everywhere.
And Adam and his wife mourned for Abel four weeks of years, and in the fourth year of the fifth week they became joyful, and Adam knew '* i. e. " iniquity " (Heb. 'dwen). Another daughter, 'Atdrd (= ? " well guarded "), was born later. Cain married 'Awan and Seth 'Azura. There is great divergence as to these names in later writers. According to Pirhe de R. Eliezer, Cain's wife was his twin-sister (xxi.). his wife again, and she bare him a son, and he l called his name Seth ; for he said " God hath raised up a second seed unto us on the earth instead of Abel ; for Cain slew him."
And Cain took 'Awan AM- his sister to be his wife and she bare him Enoch* at 190-196 the close of the fourth jubilee. And in the first year A M of the first week of the fifth jubilee, houses were built 197 a.m. on the earth, and Cain built a city, and called its name after the name of his son Enoch.
And in the fifth week of the fifth jubilee Seth a.m. took 'Azura his sister to be his wife, and in the fourth 235 a.m. (year of the sixth week) she bare him Enos.
He • began to call on the name of the Lord on the earth. The Patriarchs from Adam to Noah (cf. Gen. v.) ; Life of Enoch ; Death of Adam and Gain (iv. -). 3°-3i5
And in the seventh jubilee in the third week AM- Enos took Nam his sister to be his wife, and she bare 325 a.m. mm a son in {he third year of the fifth week, and he called his name Kenan.
And at the close of the 386-392 eighth jubilee Kenan took Mual&leth his sister to be AM- his wife, and she bare him a son in the ninth jubilee, 395 a.m. in the first week in the third year of this week, and 449-455 he called his name Mahalalel.
And in the second AM week of the tenth jubilee Mahalalel took unto him to wife Dinah, the daughter of Baraki' the daughter of his father's brother, and she bare him a son in the third 461 a.m. week in the sixth year, and he called his name Jared ;• for in his days the angels of the Lord descended on the earth, those who are named the Watchers,* that they should instruct the children of men, and that they should do judgment and uprightness on the earth.
And in the eleventh jubilee Jared took to himself a wife, and her name was Baraka, the daughter of Rasuial, a daughter of his father's brother, in the fourtn week of this jubilee, and she bare him a son in the fifth week, in the fourth year of the jubilee, and he called his name Enoch.
And he was the first among men that are born on earth who learnt writing and.tcnpwleage and wicdom * and who wrote down the signs of heaven according to the order of their months in a book, that men might know the seasons of the years according to the order of their separate months.
And he was the first to write a testimony, and he testified to the sons of men among the generations of the earth, and recounted the weeks of the jubilees, and made known to them the days of the years, and set in order the months and re- counted the Sabbaths of the years as we made (them) known to him.
And what was and what will be he saw in a vision l of his sleep, as it will happen_to the children of men throughout ..their generations, until, the day of judgment;-. he a saw and understood everything, and wrote his testimony, and placed the testimony on earth for all the children 'of men and 582-588 for their generations.
And in the twelfth jubilee, am. in the seventh week thereof, he to^k_tq_hijnself__^, wife, andjierjiAmf. was EdniJ* tE^ugEteLafJ^in^L 587 a.m. the daughter of his fathers- brother, and in the sixth year inthis'week she bare him a son and he called his name Methuselah.
And he was moreover with the angels of God these six jubilees of years, and they showed him everything which is on earth and in the heavens, the rule of the sun, and he wrote down everything.
And he testified to the Watchers, who had sinned with the daughters of men ; for these had begun to unite themselves, so as to be defiled, with the daughters of men, and Enoch testified against (them) all.
And he was taken from amongst the children of men, and we conducted" him into the Garden of Eden in majesty and honour, and behold there he wnteth down the condemnation and judgment of the world, and all the wickedness of the children of men.
And on account of it (God) brought the waters of the flood8 upon all the land of Eden ; for there he was set as a sign aiRpTlial lie strontdtestify . against all the children of men, thathe should recount all the deeds of the generations until the day of con- demnation.
And he burnt the incense of the sanctuary, (even) sweet SDices, acceptable before the Lord on the Mount.
For the Lord hath four places^ on the earth, the Garden of Eden, and the Mount of the East. and this mountain on which thou arFthis day, Mount Sinai, and Munt Zion (which) will be -sanctified in the new creation for a sanctifica- tion of the earth ; through it will the earth be sanctified from all (its) guilt and its uncleanness throughout the generations of the world.
And in the fourteenth jubilee Methuselah took unto himself a wife, Edna the daughter of 'Azrial, the daughter of his father's brother, in the third week, in the first year of this week, and he begat a son and called his name Lamech.
And in the fifteenth jubilee in the third week Lamech took to himself a wife, and her name was Be"t£ns the daughter of Baraki'il, the daughter of his father's brother, and in this week she bare him a son and he called his name Noah, saying, " This one will Comfort me for my trouble and all my work, and for the ground which the Lord hath cursed."
And at the close the nineteenth jubilee, in the seventh week in the sixth year thereof, Adam died, and all his sons buried him in the land of his creation, and he was the first to be buried in the earth.
And he lacked seventy years of one thousand years; for one thousand years are as one day in the testimony of the heavens and therefore was it written concern- ing the tree of knowledge : "On the day that ye eat thereof ye will die." For this reason he did not complete the years of this day ; for he died during it.
At the close of this jubilee. Cain was killed after him in the same year; for his house f eJW upon him^ andhfijfed in the, midst ^f hir h™^, and he was kifledHby its stones; for with a stone he had killed Abel, andby a stone was. he killed in righteous judg- ment.
For this reason it Was ordained on the heavenly tables : " With the instrument with which a man killeth his neighbour with the same shall he be killed ; after the manner thathe wounded him, in like manner shall they deal with him."
And in 1205 a.m. the twenty-fifth jubilee Noah took to himself a wife, and her name was 'Emzara, the daughter of Rak6'el, the daughter of his father's brother, in the first year 1207 a.m. in the fifth week : and in the third year thereof she 1209 a.m. bare him Shem, in the fifth year thereof she bare him 1212 a.m. Ham, and in the first year in the sixth week she bare him Japheth.