Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 43:169 (Jan 1886)
Article: The Book Of Jubilees
Author: George H. Schodde

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The Book Of Jubilees

Professor Geo. H. Schodde

Chap. III. 1. And in the sixth day of the second sabbath we brought, by the command of the Lord, to Adam all the animals and all the beasts and all the birds and every thing that moves on the earth and every thing that moves in the water, each according to their kind, and each according to their similarity: on the first day the animals; the beasts on the second day; the birds on the third day; every thing that moves on the earth the fourth day; whatever moves in the water on the fifth day. 2. And Adam gave unto each its name; and as he called them, this was their name. And on these five days Adam saw this: a male and a female in each kind that is on the earth, but that he was alone and could not find a companion who could be an aid to such as he. 3. And God said to me: 1 “It is not good that man should be alone: let us make for him a helpmeet like unto him.” 4. And the Lord our God caused a stupor to fall upon him and he slept, and he took for a wife one rib from amongst his ribs, and this rib was made into a woman from amongst his ribs, and he built flesh there in its place, and built a woman. 5. And he awakened Adam out of his sleep, and awakening he arose on the sixth day and came to her and knew her and said unto her: ‘This is now bone from my bone and flesh from my flesh: this one shall be called my wife, for she came and originated from man. 6. For this reason man and wife shall be one, and for this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and will connect himself with his wife, and they shall be one flesh. 7. And in the first sev-

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enth was Adam created, and his wife in his side, and in the second seventh he showed her to him,2 and on that account the command was given to observe in their defilement seven days for a male and twice seven days for a female.3

8. And when Adam had completed forty days in the land where he had been created, we brought him into the garden of Eden, that he should work it and watch it; but his wife they brought in on the eightieth day, and after this she entered the garden; and on this account the commandment is written on the tablets of heaven4 in reference to her that gives birth, that “if she brings forth a male, she shall remain in her uncleanness seven days according to the first week of days, and thirty days shall she abide in the blood of purifying, and she shall touch nothing holy and shall not enter into the sanctuary until these days are completed for her who has a male child. 9....