Masterpiece
In the first year of the exodus, YHWH summoned Moses to Mount Sinai, unveiling the divine law and Israel’s destiny over forty days and nights. Moses witnessed the grand tapestry of creation, rebellion, and redemption, chronicling how YHWH meticulously forged the universe in six days and consecrated the seventh as the eternal Sabbath. With unmatched power and precision, YHWH shaped the cosmos, filling it with light, land, seas, vegetation, celestial wonders, and creatures of air and water, each step building towards the climactic formation of humanity.
On the sixth day, YHWH crowned His creation by molding humans in His own image, granting them dominion over all creatures. Placing man in the lush Garden of Eden, He provided every good tree, including the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil, completing His masterpiece with the declaration that it was very good.
To seal this divine work, YHWH blessed and sanctified the seventh day, establishing the Sabbath as a sacred covenant with Israel. This day of rest, free from labor, became a perpetual sign of YHWH’s creation and His special bond with His chosen people. The Sabbath’s observance would forever anchor Israel’s identity and divine laws, echoing through the generations as a testament to their unique relationship with the Almighty.
Major Characters
Minor Characters
Insignificant Characters
GENESIS
38%
JASHER
2%
JUBILEES
60%
Exposition
J: 50 | Y: 2450 | M: 3 | D: 16 | YHWH asks Moses to meet Him on Mount Sinai
Jubilees 1:1-2
D: 23 | Moses receives instructions to write the history of the world in a book
Jubilees 1:3-2:1
Rising Action
J: 1 | Y: 0 | M: 1 | D: 1 | The first day of creation
Genesis 1:1-5, Jubilees 2:2-3
D: 2 | The second day of creation
Genesis 1:6-8, Jubilees 2:4
D: 3 | The third day of creation
Genesis 1:9-13, Jubilees 2:5-8a
D: 4 | The fourth day of creation
Genesis 1:14-19, Jubilees 2:8b-11a
D: 5 | The fifth day of creation
Genesis 1:20-23, Jubilees 2:11b-13a
Climax
D: 6 | The sixth day of creation
Genesis 1:24-26, 1:29-2:1,2:7-14, Jasher 1:1-2, Jubilees 2:13b, 2:16
Falling Action and Resolution
D: 7 | The seventh day of creation
Genesis 2:2-6, Jubilees 2:17-33
Jubilee: 50
Year: 2450
Month: 3
Day: 16
YHWH asks Moses to meet Him on Mount Sinaii
Jubilees 1:1-2
1 And it came to pass in the first year of the exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the third month, on the sixteenth day of the month, [2450 Anno Mundi] 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.’
2 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.
Day: 23
Moses receives instructions to write the history of the world in a book
Jubilees 1:3-28
3 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.
4 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 of the law and of the testimony.
5 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.
6 And thus it will come to pass when all these things come upon them, that they will recognise that I am more righteous than they in all their judgments and in all their actions, and they will recognise that I have been truly with them.
7 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 sware 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.
8 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 prove unto them an offence and a tribulation and an affliction and a snare.
9 And many will perish and they will be taken captive, and will fall into the hands of the enemy, because they have forsaken 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).
10 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 will sacrifice their children to demons, and to all the works of the error of their hearts.
11 And I will send 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 seek the law, and they will abrogate and change everything so as to work evil before My eyes.
12 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 I will remove them from the midst of the land, and I will scatter them amongst the Gentiles.
13 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.
14 And after this they 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.
15 And I 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 a curse, and they shall be the head and not the tail.
16 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 righteousness.
17 And I will not forsake them nor fail them; for I am the Lord their God.’
18 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 hands of their enemies, the Gentiles, lest they should rule over them and cause them to sin against Thee.
19 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.
20 But they are Thy people and Thy inheritance, which thou hast 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.’
21 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.
22 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 I will cleanse them so that they shall not turn away from Me from that day unto eternity.
23 And their souls will cleave to Me and to all My commandments, and they will fulfil My commandments, and I will be their Father and they shall be My children.
24 And they all shall be 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.
25 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.’
26 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.
27 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.’
28 And the angel of the presence who went before the camp of Israel took the tables of the divisions of the years -from the time of the creation- of 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.
Jubilees 2:1
1 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.
Jubilee: 1
Year: 0
Month: 0
Day: 1
The first day of creation
Genesis 1:1-5
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Jubilees 2:2-3
2 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 him -the angels of the 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.
3 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.
Day: 2
The second day of creation
Genesis 1:6-8
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Jubilees 2:4
4 And on the second day He created the firmament in the midst of the waters, and the waters were divided on that day -half 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 on the second day.
Day: 3
The third day of creation
Genesis 1:9-13
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Jubilees 2:5-8a
5 And on the third day He commanded the waters to pass from off the face of the whole earth into one place, and the dry land to appear.
6 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.
7 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.
8a These four great works God created on the third day
Day: 4
The fourth day of creation
Genesis 1:14-19
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Jubilees 2:8b-11a
8b 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.
9 And God appointed the sun to be a great sign on the earth for days and for 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.
10 And it divideth the light from the darkness [and] for prosperity, that all things may prosper which shoot and grow on the earth.
11a These three kinds He made on the fourth day
Day: 5
The fifth day of creation
Genesis 1:20-21
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Jubilees 2:11b
11b 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 and all their kind.
Genesis 1:22
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Jubilees 2:12
12 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.
Genesis 1:23
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Jubilees 2:13a
13a These three kinds He created on the fifth day
Day: 6
The sixth day of creation
Genesis 1:24-25
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Jubilees 2:13b
13b And on the sixth day He created all the animals of the earth, and all cattle, and everything that moves on the earth
Genesis 1:26
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 2:7
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Jasher 1:1
1 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and God created man in his own image.
Jasher 1:2
2 And God formed man from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul endowed with speech.
Genesis 2:8-14
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
Genesis 1:29-30
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis 1:31-2:1
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Jubilees 2:16
16 And He finished all his work on the sixth day -all 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.
Day: 7
The seventh day of creation
Genesis 2:2-3
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Jubilees 2:17
17 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.
Jubilees 2:18-33
18 And all the angels of the presence, and all the angels of sanctification, these two great classes -He hath bidden us to keep the Sabbath with Him in heaven and on earth.
19 And He said unto us: ‘Behold, I 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.
20 And I have chosen the seed of Jacob from amongst all that I have seen, and have written him down as 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.’
21 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.
22 And He caused His commands to ascend as a sweet savour acceptable before Him all the days . . .
23 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 serves with that one for sanctification and blessing.
24 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.
25 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.
26 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.
27 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.
28 And every one who observes it and keeps Sabbath thereon from all his work, will be holy and blessed throughout all days like unto us.
29 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.
30 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.
31 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.
32 And the Creator of all things blessed this day which He had created for blessing and holiness and glory above all days.
33 This law and testimony was given to the children of Israel as a law for ever unto their generations.
Genesis 2:4-6
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
i. The author of Jubilees has a goal to fit the whole history of the Hebrew people, from Adam to the Entrance into Canaan under Joshua, into exactly fifty Jubilees which covers the first 2450 years of human history. This will cause errors to occur between the years provided between Genesis, Jasher, and Jubilees.
Exposition
J: 50 | Y: 2450 | M: 3 | D: 16 | YHWH asks Moses to meet Him on Mount Sinai
Jubilees 1:1-2
And it came to pass in the 1st year of the exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the 3rd month, on the 16th day of the month, that God spoke to Moses, saying: “Come up to Me on the Mount, and I will give you 2 tables of stone of the law and of the commandment, which I have written, that you may 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 6 days.
D: 23 | Moses receives instructions to write the history of the world in a book
Jubilees 1:3-2:1
And He called to Moses on the 7th 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 40 days and 40 nights, and God taught him the earlier and the later history of the division of all the days of the law and of the testimony.
And He said: “Incline your heart to every word which I will speak to you 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 you and Me 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 I have been true with them. And write for yourself all these words which I declare to you 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: ‘To 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 prove to them an offense and a tribulation and an affliction and a snare. And many will perish and they will be taken captive, and will fall into the hands of the enemy because they have forsaken 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 amid 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 graven image, to go astray, and they will sacrifice their children to demons, and all the works of the error of their hearts. And I will send witnesses to them, that I may witness against them, but they will not hear and will slay the witnesses also, and they will persecute those who seek the law, and they will abrogate and change everything 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 prey, and devouring, and I will remove them from the midst of the land, and I will scatter them among 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, they 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 among 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 I 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 a 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 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 Your people and Your inheritance so that they should wander in the error of their hearts, and do not deliver them into the hands of their enemies, the Gentiles unless they should rule over them and cause them to sin against You. Let Your mercy, O Lord, be lifted up upon Your people, and create in them an upright spirit, and let not the spirit of Beliar rule over them to accuse them before You, and to ensnare them from all the paths of righteousness, so that they may perish from before Your face. But they are Your people and Your inheritance, which you have delivered with your 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 to Moses: “I know their contrariness and their thoughts and their stiffneckedness, and they will not be obedient until they confess their 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 I will cleanse them so that they shall not turn away from Me from that day to 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 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 write down for yourself all these words which I declare to you 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 to 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 until 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 years -from the time of the creation- of the law and the testimony of the weeks of the jubilees, according to the individual years, according to all the number of the jubilees according to, 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 peace and blessing for all the elect of Israel, and that thus it may be from that day and to all the days of the earth.
And the angel of the presence spoke to Moses according to the word of the Lord, saying: “Write the complete history of the creation, how in 6 days the Lord God finished all His works and all that He created, and kept Sabbath on the 7th day and hallowed it for all ages, and appointed it as a sign for all His works.”
Rising Action
J: 1 | Y: 0 | M: 1 | D: 1 | The first day of creation
Genesis 1:1-5, Jubilees 2:2-3
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light:” and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the 1st day.
For on the 1st day He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before him -the angels of the 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 snow and hail and hoar frost, and the angels of the voices and the thunder and the lightning, and the angels of the spirits of cold and 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 has prepared in the knowledge of his heart.
And there we saw His works, and praised Him, and lauded before Him on account of all His works; for 7 great works did He create on the 1st day.
D: 2 | The second day of creation
Genesis 1:6-8, Jubilees 2:4
On the 2nd day of creation, God created the firmament, which divided the waters into 2 parts, with half of the waters above the firmament and the other half below. God called the firmament “Heaven” and it was the only work He created on that day.
D: 3 | The third day of creation
Genesis 1:9-13, Jubilees 2:5-8a
On the 3rd day of creation, God commanded the waters to gather in one place and the dry land to appear, creating the seas and rivers. He also caused the earth to bring forth grass, herb-yielding seed, and fruit-bearing trees after their kind, all of which He saw as good. This day also saw the creation of all lakes, the dew of the earth, and the seed that was sown, as well as all sprouting things, trees of the wood, the garden of Eden, and all plants after their kind. These were the 4 great works God created on the 3rd day.
D: 4 | The fourth day of creation
Genesis 1:14-19, Jubilees 2:8b-11a
On the 4th day of creation, God created the sun, moon, and stars, and placed them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth and to divide the light from the darkness. He appointed the sun to be a great sign for days, sabbaths, months, feasts, years, sabbaths of years, jubilees, and all seasons of the year, ensuring that all things that grow and shoot on the earth would prosper. These 3 kinds of celestial objects were made on the 4th day.
D: 5 | The fifth day of creation
Genesis 1:20-23, Jubilees 2:11b-13a
On the 5th day of creation, God created great sea monsters and every living creature in the waters, as well as winged birds in the open firmament of heaven. He blessed these creatures and commanded them to be fruitful and multiply, filling the waters of the seas and the earth with life. The sun rose above these creatures to prosper them and all the other plants, trees, and living things on the earth. These were the first things of flesh that God created with his hands on the 5th day.
Climax
D: 6 | The sixth day of creation
Genesis 1:24-26, 1:29-2:1,2:7-14, Jasher 1:1-2, Jubilees 2:13b, 2:16
On the 6th day, God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, each according to its kind.”
And so it was. God made the beasts of the earth, cattle according to their kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
God created man in his own image. God formed man from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul with the ability to speak.
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also amid the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there, it was parted and became into 4 heads. The name of the 1st is Pison: that is it which compasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the 2nd river is Gihon: the same is it that compasses the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the 3rd river is Hiddekel: that is it which goes toward the east of Assyria. And the 4th river is the Euphrates.
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb-bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you, it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and every fowl of the air, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat:” and it was so.
And God saw all that He had created, and it was very good. The 6th day was complete with the creation of the heavens, the earth, and all their hosts, as well as all that was in the seas, abysses, light, and darkness. God finished all His work on the 6th day and everything was very good.
Falling Action and Resolution
D: 7 | The seventh day of creation
Genesis 2:2-6, Jubilees 2:17-33
And God saw that it was good and blessed the 7th day, and made it holy, for on it He rested from all His work that He had created and accomplished. And He gave us the sign of the Sabbath, that we should work for 6 days and observe the 7th day as a day of rest from all our labor.
And all the angels of the presence, and all the angels of sanctification, these 2 great classes -He has bidden us to keep the Sabbath with Him in heaven and on earth. And He said to us: “Behold, I will separate to Myself a people from among all the peoples, and these shall keep the Sabbath day, and I will sanctify them to Myself as My people, and will bless them; as I have sanctified the Sabbath day and do sanctify it to 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 among all that I have seen, and have written him down as My first-born son, and have sanctified him to Myself forever 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 by which they should keep Sabbath with us on the 7th day, to eat and to drink, and to bless Him who has created all things as He has blessed and sanctified to 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 savor acceptable before Him all the days . . . There were 22 heads of mankind from Adam to Jacob, and 22 kinds of work were made until the 7th day; this is blessed and holy; and the former also is blessed and holy, and this one serves 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 1st testimony and law, even as He had sanctified and blessed the Sabbath day on the 7th day. He created heaven and earth and everything that He created in 6 days, and God made the 7th 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 you 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 everyone who observes it and keeps Sabbath thereon from all his work will be holy and blessed throughout all days like to 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 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 6th 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 were given to the children of Israel as a law forever to their generations.
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
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