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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...

Lord, 8/ he built an altar and placed the wood on the altar. Then he tied up his son Isaac, placed him on the wood that was on the altar, and reached out his hands to take the knife in order to sacrifice his son Isaac. 9/ Then I stood in front of him and in front of the prince of Mastema.a The Lord said, “Tell him not to let his hand go down on the child and not to do anything to him because I have shown that he is one who fears the Lord.”
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