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Jubilees: The Hermeneia Translation is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Jubilees was written by a Jewish author in the second century BCE. Although no original copies of the manuscript remain, the fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls confirmed the general accuracy of later copies and suggested important amendments. The text retraces the book of Genesis and parts of Exodus and thus is one of the earliest sustained commentaries on the narratives presented in...

17:1/ In the first year of the fifth week, in this jubilee [1989], Isaac was weaned. Abraham gave a large banquet in the third month, on the day when his son Isaac was weaned. 2/ Now Ishmael, the son of Hagar the Egyptian, was in his place in front of his father Abraham. Abraham
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