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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JUB-11:1",
        "text": "And in the thirty-fifth jubilee, in the third week, in the first year [1681 A.M.] thereof, Reu took to himself a wife, and her name was 'Ôrâ, the daughter of 'Ûr, the son of Kesed, and she bare him a son, and he called his name Sêrôh, in the seventh year of this week in this jubilee. [1687 A.M.] And the sons of Noah began to war on each other, to take captive and to slay each other, and to shed the blood of men on the earth, and to eat blood, and to build strong cities, and walls, and towers, and individuals (began) to exalt themselves above the nation, and to found the beginnings of kingdoms, and to go to war people against people, and nation against nation, and city against city, and all (began) to do evil, and to acquire arms, and to teach their sons war, and they began to capture cities, and to sell male and female slaves."
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JUB-11:2",
        "text": "And 'Ûr, the son of Kesed, built the city of 'Ara of the Chaldees, and called its name after his own name and the name of his father. And they made for themselves molten images, and they worshipped each the idol, the molten image which they had made for themselves, and they began to make graven images and unclean simulacra, and malignant assisted and seduced (them) into committing transgression and uncleanness."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JUB-11:3",
        "text": "prince Mastêmâ exerted himself to do all this, and he sent forth other spirits, those which were put under his hand, to do all manner of wrong and sin, and all manner of transgression, to corrupt and and to shed blood upon the earth."
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        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JUB-11:4",
        "text": "For this reason he called the name of Sêrôh, Serug, turned to do all manner of sin and transgression. And he grew up, and dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees, near to the father of his wife's mother, and he worshipped idols, and he took to himself a wife in the thirty-sixth jubilee, in the fifth week, in the first year thereof, [1744 A.M.] and her name was Melka, the daughter of Kaber, the daughter of his father's brother."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JUB-11:5",
        "text": "And she bare him Nahor, in the first year of this week, and he grew and dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees, and his father taught him the researches of the Chaldees to divine and augur, according to the signs of heaven."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JUB-11:6",
        "text": "thirty-seventh jubilee in the sixth week, in the first year thereof, [1800 A.M.] he took to himself a wife, and her name was 'Ijaska, the daughter of Nestag of the Chaldees. And she bare him Terah in the seventh year of this week. [1806 A.M.] And the prince Mastêmâ sent ravens and birds to devour the seed which was sown in the land, in order to destroy the land, and rob the children of men of their labours. Before they in the seed, the ravens picked (it) from the surface of the ground."
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        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JUB-11:7",
        "text": "And for this reason he called his name Terah because the ravens and the birds reduced them to destitution and And the years began to be barren, owing to the birds, and they devoured all the fruit of the trees from the trees: it was only with great effort that they could save a little of all the earth in their days."
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        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JUB-11:8",
        "text": "And in this thirty-ninth jubilee, in the second week in the first year, [1870 A.M.] Terah took to himself a wife, and her name was 'Edna, the daughter of 'Abram, the daughter of his father's sister. And in the seventh year of this week [1876 A.M.] she bare him a son, and he called his name Abram, by the name of the father of his mother; for he had died before his daughter had conceived a son."
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        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JUB-11:9",
        "text": "And the child began to understand the errors of the earth that all went astray after graven images and after uncleanness, and his father taught him writing, and he was two weeks of years old, [1890 A.M.] and he separated himself from his father, that he might not worship idols with him."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JUB-11:10",
        "text": "began to pray to the Creator of all things that He might save him from the errors of the children of his portion should not fall into error after uncleanness and vileness. And the seed time came for the sowing of seed upon the land, and they all went forth together to protect their seed ravens, and Abram went forth with those that went, and the child was a lad of fourteen And a cloud of ravens came to devour the seed, and Abram ran to meet them before they settled on the ground, and cried to them before they settled on the ground to devour the seed, and not: return to the place whence ye came,' and they proceeded to turn back."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JUB-11:11",
        "text": "caused the clouds of ravens to turn back that day seventy times, and of all the ravens throughout where Abram was there settled there not so much as one. And all who were with him throughout all the land saw him cry out, and all the ravens turn back, and his name became great land of the Chaldees."
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        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JUB-11:12",
        "text": "And there came to him this year all those that wished to sow, and he went with them until the time of sowing ceased: and they sowed their land, and that year enough grain home and eat and were satisfied."
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        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JUB-11:13",
        "text": "And in the first year of the fifth week [1891 A.M.] Abram taught those who made implements for oxen, the artificers in wood, and they made a vessel above the ground, facing the frame of the plough, in order to put the seed thereon, and the seed fell down therefrom upon the share of the plough, and was hidden in the earth, and they no longer feared the And after this manner they made (vessels) above the ground on all the frames of the ploughs, and they sowed and tilled all the land, according as Abram commanded them, and they no longer feared the birds."
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        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JUB-11:14",
        "text": "The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament by R.H. Charles, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913 Scanned and Edited by Joshua Williams, Northwest Nazarene College"
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