471 passagesc. 2nd century BCEHebrew / Aramaic / GreekCC-BY
Individual passages from Book of Jubilees, shown in source order. Page 1 of 10.
The Book of Jubilees claims that Moses received far more on Mount Sinai than the Ten Commandments, he received a cosmic download about the very fabric of time itself. The text pres...
The familiar picture has Moses on Mount Sinai, receiving the divine word directly from God. Forty days and forty nights of dictation. But what if I told you there's another story, ...
The book tells us it contains the secret history of how time is divided – days, weeks, years, and especially those big jubilees, those 50-year cycles. It’s all laid out as a divine...
The familiar story is this: Moses goes up the mountain, gets the Ten Commandments, and comes back down. But what if there was more to the story? What if the Bible we know is just a...
Book of Jubilees turns to Sinai — Moses's Transgression. The scene: Moses is up on the mountain, forty days and forty nights. The man is communing with the Divine. And what does he...
Book of Jubilees turns to Jubilees Retells Genesis with a Unique Spin. The Book of Jubilees, sometimes called Lesser Genesis, is an ancient Jewish religious work. It retells the st...
It's almost like a prophetic warning echoing through the ages. This book, not included in the standard Hebrew Bible but considered canonical by some, dives deep into the potential ...
The Book of Jubilees, a text that gives us a unique retelling of the Torah, certainly seems to think so. It’s a book overflowing with warnings and rebukes, a call to remember the c...
Book of Jubilees turns to God Foretells That Israel Will Stray and Return. Jubilees is not part of the canonical Hebrew Bible, but it was preserved in Ethiopian manuscript traditio...
This particular passage is about a time of profound transformation. It paints a picture of people turning towards the Divine, "with all their heart and with all their soul and with...
Book of Jubilees turns to Ark in the Temple and the Covenant. A promise so profound: "I shall build My sanctuary in their midst, and I shall dwell with them, and I shall be their G...
This ancient text, considered canonical by some but not included in the standard Hebrew Bible, offers a fascinating glimpse into a world where spiritual forces are constantly at pl...
Book of Jubilees turns to Angels of Destruction. A future where the very core of your being is altered, where the desires that lead you astray are… well, removed. Jubilees promises...
Book of Jubilees turns to God Commands Moses to Write Down All History. God commands Moses, "Write down for thyself all these words which I declare unto thee on this mountain, the ...
Our story begins not just at the beginning of time, but with the very blueprint for it. The Israelites are wandering in the desert, led by more than just Moses. The text says that ...
This ancient Jewish text, considered scripture by some but excluded from the standard biblical canon, paints a sweeping picture of history and destiny. And within its pages, we fin...
The Book of Jubilees, a text that dances on the edge of the biblical canon, gives us a breathtakingly detailed account. It’s a story of creation, but also so much more. It’s a stor...
Book of Jubilees turns to Angels Assigned to Every Element of Nature. Take the elements, for instance. The Book of Jubilees, a fascinating text considered canonical by some but exc...
That’s where texts like the Book of Jubilees come in. It's a fascinating ancient Jewish work, considered scripture by some, that expands on the Genesis account. to its version of c...
Those passages are easy to skim those opening chapters of Genesis, but the details… they’re breathtaking. And what if I told you there's another ancient text that expands on that c...
In fact, the Sabbath isn't just a terrestrial observance; it's a celestial one, too. Right after creating the Sabbath, God gathers all the angels – the angels of the presence and t...
Book of Jubilees turns to The Sun as a Great Sign Upon the Earth. Specifically, the text emphasizes their role “to rule over the day and the night, and divide the light from the da...
There's a whole world of fascinating detail in texts that didn't quite make it into the biblical canon. to one of them: the Book of Jubilees. Jubilees, sometimes called Lesser Gene...
The sheer magnitude of creation, neatly organized into a divine schedule. It’s mind-boggling, isn't it? Our little peek into that schedule comes from the Book of Jubilees, a text s...
The Book of Jubilees, also known as Lesser Genesis, is an ancient Jewish religious work of 50 chapters, considered canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as well as Ethiopian J...
A passage from Jubilees that focuses on the Sabbath, that sacred day of rest. The text claims that God said He would teach humankind about the Sabbath, "that they may keep Sabbath ...
The Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish text that expands on the stories we find in Genesis and Exodus, really emphasizes this point. It paints a picture of creation itself as a mo...
Book of Jubilees turns to Death of Shabbat. The Book of Jubilees, a text that offers a unique retelling of biblical history, really drives this home. It's not part of the Hebrew Bi...
Book of Jubilees turns to Written and Oral Law of Shabbat. The Book of Jubilees, a fascinating text considered canonical in some traditions but not included in the standard Hebrew ...
Book of Jubilees turns to Strict Sabbath Laws Forbid Drawing Water. A day where you can't even draw water, or carry anything through your gates that you didn't already prepare the ...
Book of Jubilees turns to Shabbat — Adam at the Dawn of Creation. Jubilees tells us that God permitted Adam and Eve – and them alone – to eat, drink, and keep the Sabbath right the...
Book of Jubilees turns to Adam Watches the Animals Arrive Day by Day. First, the beasts. Then the cattle. The birds on the third day filling the skies with their songs. On the four...
Book of Jubilees turns to How Eve Was Brought Into the Garden of Eden. A lesser-known text stands behind this version: The Book of Jubilees. It's considered apocryphal by some, but...
This ancient Jewish text, considered scripture by some but not included in the Hebrew Bible as we know it, offers a fascinatingly detailed retelling of the stories in Genesis. And ...
It might surprise you to learn that some of it isn't directly from the Torah we read in synagogues. Let's The Book of Jubilees, also sometimes called Lesser Genesis, is an ancient ...
It’s a perspective that illuminates ideas about purity, holiness, and the very special status of the Garden of Eden. The passage in question focuses on the period after a woman giv...
Book of Jubilees turns to Adam and Eve Tended Eden for Forty Days. So, what was life like in Eden, according to Jubilees? Apparently, it involved a lot of gardening. The text speci...
The familiar story is this:, but the details… well, they can get fascinating. The Book of Jubilees, a text considered canonical by some but not included in the standard Hebrew Bibl...
Book of Jubilees turns to Eve in Paradise of Adam. Take the Book of Jubilees, for example. This ancient Jewish text, considered scripture by some, expands on the Genesis narrative,...
The familiar story is this: in broad strokes, but some ancient texts give us a deeper look into the consequences, the divine anger, and the curses that followed. The Book of Jubile...
The familiar story is this: the forbidden fruit, the serpent, the expulsion. But what were those first moments like outside of paradise? The Book of Jubilees, a fascinating text co...
Book of Jubilees turns to The Day All Animals Lost the Power of Speech. So, what does Jubilees 3 tell us? It paints a picture of a world dramatically altered after the events in th...
I’m not talking about clashing colors, but something far more fundamental. The Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish text that expands on the stories in Genesis, tells us that one of...
There are other ancient Jewish texts that fill in the gaps, offering fascinating, sometimes startling, glimpses into what might have been. One of those is the Book of Jubilees. Jub...
The Book of Jubilees? It’s not included in the Tanakh by many, meaning it's not part of the canonical Hebrew Bible for most Jewish denominations, or the some some biblical traditio...
The Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish text not included in the Hebrew Bible but considered scripture by some, touches on this very idea. It speaks of a profound responsibility: "...
The fourth chapter of Jubilees. It's a short passage, but packed with details that spark the imagination. The passage begins simply enough: "And in the sixth week he begat his daug...
Book of Jubilees turns to Adam in Jewish Tradition. The familiar version gives us (or at least, we think we know) the story of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and then… a bit of a jum...
