THE BOOK OF JUBILEES
R. Charles, The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament
Oxford, 1913.
page 11
THIS is the history of the division of the days of the law and of the
testimony, of the events of the years, of their (year) weeks, of their
Jubilees throughout all the years of the world, as the Lord spake to
Moses on Mount Sinai when he went up to receive the tables of the law and
of the com mandment, according to the voice of God as he said unto him,
'Go up to the top of the Mount.'
And it came to pass in the first year of the exodus of the children of
Israel out of Egypt, in the third month [2450 A.M.], on the sixteenth day
of the month, that God spake to Moses, saying: 'Come up to Me on the
Mount, and I will give thee two tables of stone of the law and of the
commandment, which I have written, that thou mayst teach them.'
And Moses went up into the mount of God, and the glory of the Lord
abode on Mount Sinai, and a cloud overshadowed it six days.
And He called to Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of the
cloud. and the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a flaming
fire on the top of the mount.
And Moses was on the Mount forty days and forty nights, and God taught
him the earlier and the later history of the division of all the days f
the law and of the testimony.
And He said: 'Incline thine heart to every word which I shall speak to
thee on this mount, and write them in a book in order that their
generations may see how I have not forsaken them for all the evil which
they have wrought in transgressing the covenant which I establish between
Me and thee for their generations this day on Mount Sinai.
And thus it will come to pass when all these things come upon them,
that they will recognize that I am more righteous than they in all their
judgments and in all their actions, and they will recognize that have
been truly with them.
And do thou write for thyself all these words which I declare unto
thee this day, for I know their rebellion and their stiff neck, before I
bring them into the land of which I swore to their fathers, to Abraham
and to Isaac and to Jacob, saying: 'Unto your seed will I give a land
flowing with milk and honey.
And they will eat and be satisfied, and they will turn to strange
gods. to (gods) which cannot deliver them from aught of their
tribulation: and this witness shall be heard for a witness against them.
For they will forget all My commandments, (even) all that I command
them, and they will walk after the Gentiles, and after their uncleanness,
and after their shame, and will serve their gods, and these will rove
unto them an offense and a tribulation and an affliction and a snare.
And many will perish [12] and they will be taken captive, and will
fall into the hands of the enemy. because they have for saken My
ordinances and My commandments, and the festivals of My covenant, and My
Sabbaths, and My holy place which I have hallowed for Myself in their
midst, and My tabernacle, and My sanctuary, which I have hallowed for
Myself in the midst of the land, that I should set my name upon it, and
that it should dwell (there).
And they will make to themselves high places and groves and graven
images. and they will worship, each his own (graven image), so as to go
astray, and they ill sacrifice their children to demons, and to all the
works of the error of their hearts.
And I will end witnesses unto them, that I may witness against them,
but they will not hear, and will slay the witnesses also, and they will
persecute those who keep the law, and they will abrogate and change
everything so as to work evil before My eyes.
And I will hide My face from them. and I will deliver them into the
hand of the Gentiles for captivity, and for a prey, and for devouring,
and will remove them from the midst of the land, and I will scatter them
amongst the Gentiles.
And they will forget all My law and all My commandments and all My
judgments, and will go, astray as to new moons, and Sabbaths, and
festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances.
And after this hey will turn to Me from amongst the Gentiles with all
their heart and with all their soul and with all their strength, and I
will gather them from amongst all the Gentiles, and they will seek me, so
that I shall be found of them, when they seek me with all their heart and
with all their soul.
And will disclose to them abounding peace with righteousness, and I
will remove them the plant of uprightness, with all My heart and with all
My soul, and they shall be for a blessing and not for curse, and they
shall be the head and not the tail.
And I will build My sanctuary in their midst, and I will dwell with
them, and I will be their God and they shall be My people in truth and 19
righteousness.
And I will not forsake them nor fail them; for I am the Lord their
God.'
And Moses fell on his face and prayed and said, ' O Lord my God, do
not forsake Thy people and Thy inheritance, so that they should wander in
the error of their hearts, and do not deliver them into the ands of their
enemies, the Gentiles, lest they should rule over them and cause them to
sin against Thee.
Let thy mercy, O Lord, be lifted up upon Thy people, and create in
them an upright spirit, and let not the spirit of Beliar rule over them
to accuse them before Thee, and to ensnare them from all the paths of
righteousness, so that they may perish from before Thy face.
But they are thy people and Thy inheritance, which thou last
delivered with thy great power from the hands of the Egyptians: create in
them a clean heart and a holy spirit, and let them not be ensnared in
their sins from henceforth until eternity.'
And the Lord said unto Moses: 'I know their contrariness and their
thoughts and their stiffneckedness, and they will not be obedient till
they confess their own sin and the sin of their fathers.
And after this they will turn to Me in all uprightness and with all
(their) heart and with all (their) soul, and I will circumcise the
foreskin of their heart and the foreskin of the heart of their seed, and
I will create in them a holy spirit, and will cleanse them so that they
shall not turn away from Me from that day. unto eternity.
And their souls will cleave to Me and to all My commandments, and
they will fulfill My commandments, and I will be their Father and they
shall be My children.
And they all shall be [13] called children of the living God, and
every angel and every spirit shall know, yea, they shall know that these
are My children, and that I am their Father in uprightness and
righteousness, and that I love them.
And do thou write down for thyself all these words which I declare
unto thee on this mountain, the first and the last, which shall come to
pass in all the divisions of the days in the law and in the testimony and
in the weeks and the jubilees unto eternity, until I descend and dwell
with them throughout eternity.'
And He said to the angel of the presence: ' Write for Moses from the
beginning of creation till My sanctuary has been built among them for all
eternity.
And the Lord will appear to the eyes of all, and all shall know that
I am the God of Israel and the Father of all the children of Jacob, and
King on Mount Zion for all eternity. And Zion and Jerusalem shall be
holy.'
And the angel of the presence who went before the camp of Israel took
the tables of the divisions of the yearsfrom the time of the creationof
the law and of the testimony of the weeks of the jubilees, according to
the individual years, according to all the number of the jubilees
[according, to the individual years], from the day of the [new creation
[when] the heavens and the earth shall be renewed and all their creation
according to the powers of the heaven, and according to all the creation
of the earth, until the sanctuary of the Lord shall be made in Jerusalem
on Mount Zion, and all the luminaries be renewed for healing and for
peace and for blessing,, for all the elect of Israel, and that thus it
may be from that day and unto all the days of the earth.
And the angel of the presence spake to Moses according to the word of
the Lord, saying: Write the complete history of the creation, how in six
days the Lord God finished all His works and all that He created, and
kept Sabbath on the seventh day and hallowed it for all ages, and
appointed it as a sign for all His works.
For on the first day He created the heavens which are above and the
earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before himthe
angels of the [14] presence, and the angels of sanctification, and the
angels [of the spirit of fire and the angels] of the spirit of the winds,
and the angels of the spirit of the clouds, and of darkness, and of snow
and of hail and of hoar frost, and the angels of the voices and of the
thunder and of the lightning, and the angels of the spirits of cold and
of heat, and of winter and of spring and of autumn and of summer, and of
all the spirits of his creatures which are in the heavens and on the
earth, (He created) the abysses and the darkness, eventide (and night),
and the light, dawn and day, which He hath prepared in the knowledge of
his heart.
And thereupon we saw His works, and praised Him, and lauded before Him
on account of all His works; for seven great works did He create on the
first day.
And on the second day He created the firmament in the midst of the
waters, and the waters were divided on that dayhalf of them went up
above and half of them went down below the firmament (that was) in the
midst over the face of the whole earth. And this was the only work (God)
created n the second day.
And on the third day He commanded the waters to pass from off the face
of he whole earth into one place, and the dry land to appear.
And the waters did so as He commanded them, and they retired from off
the face of the earth into one place outside of this firmament, and the
dry land appeared.
And on that day He created for them all the seas according to their
separate gathering places, and all the rivers, and the gatherings of the
waters in the mountains and on all the earth, and all the lakes, and all
the dew of the earth, and the seed which is sown, and all sprouting
things, and fruit bearing trees, and trees of the wood, and the garden of
Eden, in Eden and all (plants after their kind).
These four great works God created on the third day. And on the fourth
day He created the sun and the moon and the stars, and set them in the
firmament of the heaven, to give light upon all the earth, and to rule
over the day and the night, and divide the light from the darkness.
And God appointed the sun to be a great sign on the earth for days and
or Sabbaths and for months and for feasts and for years and for Sabbaths
of years and for jubilees and for all seasons of the years.
And it divideth the light from the darkness [and] for prosperity,
that all things may prosper which shoot and grow on the earth.
These three kinds He made on the fourth day. And on the fifth day He
created great sea monsters in the depths of the waters, for these were
the first things of flesh that were created by his hands, the fish and
everything that moves in the waters, and everything that flies, the birds
an I all their kind.
And the sun rose above them to prosper (them), and above everything
that was on the earth, everything that shoots out of the earth, and all
fruit bearing trees, and all flesh.
These three kinds He created on the fifth day. And on the sixth day
He created all the animals of the earth, and all cattle, and
everything that moves on the earth. And after all this He created man, a
man and a woman created He them, and gave him dominion over all that is
upon the earth, and in the seas, and over everything that flies, and over
beasts and over cattle, and over everything that moves on the earth, and
over the whole earth, and over all this He gave him dominion.
And these four kinds He created on the sixth day. And there were
altogether two and twenty kinds.
And He finished all his work on the sixth dayall that is in the
heavens and on the earth, and in the seas and in the abysses, and in the
light and in the darkness, and in everything.
And He gave us a great sign, the Sabbath day, that we should work six
days, but keep Sabbath on the seventh day from all work.
And all the angels of the presence, and all the angels of
sanctification, these two great classesHe hath bidden us to keep the
Sabbath with Him in heaven and on earth.
And He said unto us: ' Behold, 1 will separate unto Myself a people
from among all the peoples, and these shall keep the Sabbath day, and I
will sanctify them unto Myself as My people, and will bless them; as I
have sanctified the Sabbath day and do sanctify (it) unto Myself, even so
will I bless them, and they shall be My people and I will be their God.
And I have chosen the seed of Jacob from amongst all that I have
seen, and have written him down as [15] My first born son, and have
sanctified him unto Myself for ever and ever; and I will teach them the
Sabbath day, that they may keep Sabbath thereon from all work.'
And thus He created therein a sign in accordance with which they
should keep Sabbath with us on the seventh day, to eat and to drink;, and
to bless Him who has created all things as He has blessed and sanctified
unto himself a peculiar people above all peoples, and that they should
keep Sabbath together with us.
And He caused His commands to ascend as a sweet savour acceptable
before Him all the days.
There (were) two and twenty heads of mankind from Adam to Jacob, and
two and twenty kinds of work were made until the seventh day; this is
blessed and holy; and the former also is blessed and holy; and this one
selves with that one for sanctification and blessing.
And to this (Jacob and his seed) it was granted that they should
always be the blessed and holy ones of the first testimony and law, even
as He had sanctified and blessed the Sabbath day on the seventh day.
He created heaven and earth and everything that He created in six
days, and God made the seventh day holy, for all His works; therefore He
commanded on its behalf that, whoever does any work thereon shall die,
and that he who defiles it shall surely die.
Wherefore do thou command the children of Israel to observe this day
that they may keep it Holy and not do thereon any work, and not to defile
it, as it is holier than all other days.
And whoever profanes it shall surely die, and whoever does thereon
any work shall surely die eternally, that the children of Israel may
observe this day throughout their generations, and not be rooted out of
the land; for it is a holy day and a blessed day.
And every one who observes it and keeps Sabbath thereon from all his
works, will be holy and blessed throughout all days like unto us.
Declare and say to the children of Israel the law of this day both
that they should keep Sabbath thereon, and that they should not forsake
it in the error of their hearts; (and) that it is not lawful to do any
work thereon which is unseemly, to do thereon their own pleasure, and
that they should not prepare thereon anything to be eaten or drunk, and
(that it is not lawful) to draw water, or bring in or take out thereon
through their gates any burden, which they had not prepared for
themselves on the sixth day in their dwellings.
And they shall not bring in nor take out from house to house on that
day; for that day is more holy and blessed than any jubilee day of the
jubilees; on this we kept Sabbath in the heavens before it was made
known to any flesh to keep Sabbath thereon on the earth.
And the Creator of all things blessed it, but He did not sanctify all
peoples and nations to keep Sabbath thereon, but Israel alone: them
alone he permitted to eat and drink and to keep Sabbath thereon on the
earth.
And the Creator of all things blessed this day which He had created
for blessing and holiness and glory above all days.
This law and testimony was given to the children of Israel as a law
for ever unto their generations.[16]
And on the six days of the second week we brought, according to the
word of God, unto Adam all the beasts, and all the cattle, and all the
birds, and everything that moves on the earth, and everything that moves
in the water, according to their kinds, and according to their types: the
beasts on the first day; the cattle on the second day; the birds on the
third day; and all that which moves on the earth on the fourth day; and
that which moves in the water on the fifth day.
And Adam named them all by their respective names, and as he called
them, so was their name.
And on these five days Adam saw all these, male and female, according
to every kind that was on he earth, but he was alone and found no
helpmeet for him.
And the Lord said unto us: 'It is not good that the man should be
alone: let us make a helpmeet for him.'
And the Lord our God caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and he
slept, and He took for the woman one rib from amongst is ribs, and this
rib was the origin of the woman from amongst his ribs, and He built up
the flesh in its stead, and built the woman.
And He awakened Adam out of his sleep and on awaking he rose on the
sixth day, and He brought her to him, and he knew her, and said unto her:
' This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called
[my] wife; because she was taken from her husband.'
Therefore shall man and wife be one, and therefore shall a man leave
his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they shall be
one flesh.
In the first week was Adam created, and the ribhis wife: in the
second week He showed her unto him: and for this reason the commandment
was given to keep in their defilement, for 2 male seven days, and for a
female twice seven days.
And after Adam had completed forty days in the land where he had been
created. we brought him into the garden of Eden to till and keep it, but
his wife they brought in on the eightieth day, and after this she entered
into the garden of Eden.
And for this reason the commandment is written on the heavenly
tablets in regard to her that gives birth: 'if she bears a male, she
shall remain in her uncleanness seven days according to the first week of
days, and thirty and three days shall she remain in the blood of her
purifying, and she shall not touch any hallowed thing nor enter into the
sanctuary, until she accomplishes these days which (are enjoined) in the
case of a male child.
But in the case of a female child she shall remain in her uncleanness
two weeks of days, according to the first two weeks, and sixty six days
in the blood of her purification, and they will be in all eighty days.'
And when she had completed these eighty days we brought ht her into
the garden of Eden, for it is holier than all the earth besides and every
tree that is planted in it is holy.
Therefore, there was ordained regarding her who bears a male or a
female child the statute of those days that she should touch no hallowed
thing, nor enter into the sanctuary until these days for the male or
female child are accomplished.
This is the law and testimony which was written down for Israel, in
order that they should observe (it) all the days.
And in the first week of the first jubilee. Adam and his wife were in
the garden of Eden for seven years tilling and keeping it, and we gave
him work and we instructed him to do everything hat is suitable for
tillage.
And he tilled (the garden), and was naked and knew it not, and was
not ashamed, and he protected the garden from the birds and beasts and
cattle, and gathered its fruit, and eat, and put aside the residue for
himself and for his wife [and put aside that which was being kept].
And after the completion of the seven years, which he had completed
there, seven years exactly, and in the second month, on the seventeenth
day (of the month), the serpent came and approached the woman, and the
serpent said to the woman, ' Hath God commanded you, [17] saying, Ye
shall not eat of every tree of the garden ? '
And she said to it, ' Of all the fruit of the trees of the garden God
hath said unto us, Eat; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the
midst of the garden God hath said unto us, Ye shall not eat thereof,
neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'
And the serpent said unto the woman, ' Ye shall not surely die: for
God doth know that on the day ye shall eat thereof, your eyes will be
opened, and ye will be as gods, and ye will know good and evil.'
And the woman saw the tree that it was agreeable and pleasant to the
eye, and that its fruit was good for food, and she took thereof and eat.
And when she had first covered her shame with fig leaves, she gave
thereof to Adam and he eat, and his eyes were opened, and he saw that he
was naked.
And he took fig leaves and sewed (them) together, and made an apron
for himself, and covered his shame.
And God cursed the serpent, and was wroth with it for ever.
And He was wroth with the woman, because she hearkened to the voice
of the serpent, and did eat; and He said unto her: ' I will greatly
multiply thy sorrow and thy pains: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth
children, and thy return shall be unto thy husband, and he will rule over
thee.'
And to Adam also he said, ' Because thou hast hearkened unto the
voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee
that thou shouldst not eat thereof, cursed be the ground for thy sake:
thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat thy
bread in the sweat of thy face, till thou returnest to the earth from
whence thou wast taken; for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou
return.'
And He made for them coats of skin, and clothed them, and sent them
forth from the Garden of Eden.
And on that day on which Adam went forth from the Garden, he offered
as a sweet savour an offering, frankincense, galbanum, and stacte, and
spices in the morning with the rising of the sun from the day when he
covered his shame.
And on that day was closed the mouth of all beasts, and of cattle,
and of birds, and of whatever walks, and of whatever moves, so that they
could no longer speak: for they had all spoken one with another with one
lip and with one tongue.
And He sent out of the Garden of Eden all flesh that was in the
Garden of Eden, and all flesh was scattered according to its kinds, and
according to its types unto the places which had been created for them.
And to Adam alone did He give (the wherewithal) to cover his shame,
of all the beasts and cattle.
On this account, it is prescribed on the heavenly tablets as touching
all those who know the judgment of the law, that they should cover their
shame, and should not uncover themselves as the Gentiles uncover
themselves.
And on the new moon of the fourth month, Adam and his wife went forth
from the Garden of Eden, and they dwelt in the land of Eld in the land
of their creation. [8 Anno Mundi]
And Adam called the name of his wife Eve.
And they had no son till the first jubilee, and after this he knew
her.
Now he tilled the land as he had been instructed in the Garden of
Eden.
And in the third week in the second jubilee she gave birth to Cain
[64 70 A.M.], and in the fourth she gave birth to Abel [71 77 A.M], and
in the fifth she gave birth to her daughter Awn [78 84 A.M.].
And in the first (year) of the third jubilee [99-105 A.M.] , Cain slew
Abel because (God) accepted the sacrifice of Abel, and did not accept he
offering of Cain.
And he slew him in the field: and his blood cried from the ground to
heaven, [18] 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 smites his neighbour treacherously, and let all who have seen and
heard say, So be it; and the man who has 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 in 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 his wife
again, and she bare him a son, and he called his name Seth; for he said
'God has raised up a second seed unto us on the earth instead of Abel;
for Cain slew him.'
And in the sixth week he begat his daughter Azr .
And Cain tools Awan his sister to be his wife and she bare him Enoch
at the close of the fourth jubilee. And in the first year of the first
week of the fifth It jubilee, houses were built on the earth, and Cain
built a city, and called its name after the name of his son Enoch.
And Adam knew Eve his wife and she bare yet nine sons.
And in the fifth week of the fifth jubilee Seth took Azr his
sister to be his wife, and in the fourth (year of the sixth week) she
bare him Enos.
He began to call on the name of the Lord on the earth.
And in the seventh jubilee in the third week Enos took Nm his
sister to be his wife, and she bare him a son in the third year of the
fifth week, and he called his name Kenan.
And at the close of the eighth jubilee Kenan took Mallth his
sister to be his wife and she bare him a son in the ninth jubilee, in the
first week in the third year of this week, and he called his name
Mahalalel.
And in the second week of the tenth jubilee Mahalalel took unto him
to wife Dnh, the daughter of Barls'l the daughter of his father's
brother, and she bare him a son in the third 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 Braka, the daughter of Rsjl, a daughter of his father's
brother, in the fourth 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 [A.M. 522].
And he was the first among men that are born on earth who learnt
writing and knowledge and wisdom 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 heir 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 recounted the Sabbaths of the years as we made
(them), known to him.
And what was and what will be he saw in a vision of his sleep, as it
will happen to the children of men throughout their generations until the
day of judgment; he saw and understood everything, and wrote his
testimony, and placed the testimony on earth for all the children of men
and for their generations.
And in the twelfth jubilee, in the seventh week [19] thereof, he
took to himself a wife, and her name was Edni, the daughter of Danel, the
daughter of his father's brother, and in the sixth year in this week she
bare him a son and he called his name Methuselah [587 A.M.].
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.
descended on the earth, those who are n23. 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 writes 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 flood upon all
the land of Eden; for there he was set as a sign and that he should
testify against all the children of men, that he should recount all the
deeds of the generations until the day of condemnation.
And he burnt the incense of the sanctuary, (even) sweet spices
acceptable before the Lord on the Mount.
For the Lord has four places on the earth, the Garden of Eden, and
the Mount of the East, and this mountain on which thou art this day,
Mount Sinai, and Mount Zion (which) will be sanctified in the next
creation for a sanctification of the earth; through it will the earth be
sanctified from all (its) guilt and its uncleanness through out the
generations of the world.
And in the fourteenth jubilee [642 A.M.]Methuselah took unto himself
a wife, Edn the daughter of 'Azrl, the daughter of his father's
brother, in the third week, in the first year of this week [701-07 A.M.],
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 Betns the daughter of Brk'l, 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 of the nineteenth jubilee, in the seventh week in
[930 A.M.] the sixth year thereof, Adam died, and all his sons buried him
in the land of his creation, and he as 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 concerning the tree of knowledge: 'On the day that ye eat thereof
ye shall 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 fell upon him and he died in the midst of his house,
and he was killed by its stones; for with a stone he had killed Abel, and
by a stone was he killed in righteous judgment.
For this reason it was ordained on the heavenly tablets: ' With the
instru ment with which a man kills his neighbour with the same shall he
be killed; after the manner that he wounded him, in like manner shall
they deal with him.'
And in the twenty fifth jubilee Noah took to himself a wife [1205
A.M.], and her name was 'Emzr, the daughter of Rk'el, the daughter of
his father's brother, in the first year in the fifth week: and in the
third year thereof she bare him Shem [1207 A.M.], in the fifth year
thereof she bare him Ham [1209 A.M.], and in the first year in the sixth
week she bare him Japheth [1212 A.M.].