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That’s the feeling I get when I read passages like this one from the Book of Jubilees. The Book of Jubilees, sometimes called Lesser Genesis, is an ancient Jewish religious work. I...
That's the scene set for us right at the beginning of Jubilees. God commands Moses, "Write down for thyself all these words which I declare unto thee on this mountain, the first an...
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...
Today, we're diving into 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, "th...
But 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 ...
Think of it as a really old "director's cut" of the Bible. Specifically, we're looking at Jubilees 6. The passage is talking about a particular festival. What festival? Well, that’...
That feeling is powerfully captured in the Book of Jubilees, specifically in a poignant moment of Abraham's life. Imagine Abraham, not yet the towering figure we know, but a man wr...
Today, we're diving into the Book of Jubilees, a text not found in the canonical Tanakh, but considered sacred by some Jewish and Christian traditions. It retells much of Genesis a...
We find Abraham, or Avram as he's known here, grappling with just that. The story picks up with Lot, Avram’s nephew, deciding to separate from him. Now, Lot wasn't just any relativ...
