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CD 16:5; 1QS 3:23; 1QM 13:11; Test. Levi 19:1"],"reasoning":"Mastema's petition rendered faithfully. The 1/10 bargain preserved without harmonization to later cosmic-dualist Mastema-figure tradition. Deferred decision #5 confirmed."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-10:9","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Ge'ez-primary per VanderKam 1989 CSCO 510-511; rendering tracks the standard critical translation; no lens-leakage; commentary apparatus carries any WoH framing."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-10:10","status":"approve","citations":["VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia 1.870-880; cf. b. Pesachim 56a (Sefer Refuot); cf. Aramaic Levi 51-57"],"reasoning":"Noah's medicinal book pericope — foundational text for the Sefer Refuot tradition. 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rendering tracks the standard critical translation; no lens-leakage; commentary apparatus carries any WoH framing."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-10:16","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Ge'ez-primary per VanderKam 1989 CSCO 510-511; rendering tracks the standard critical translation; no lens-leakage; commentary apparatus carries any WoH framing."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-10:17","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Ge'ez-primary per VanderKam 1989 CSCO 510-511; rendering tracks the standard critical translation; no lens-leakage; commentary apparatus carries any WoH framing."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-10:18","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Ge'ez-primary per VanderKam 1989 CSCO 510-511; rendering tracks the standard critical translation; no lens-leakage; commentary apparatus carries any WoH framing."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-10:19","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Ge'ez-primary per VanderKam 1989 CSCO 510-511; rendering tracks the standard critical translation; no lens-leakage; 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and let not the wicked spirits rule over them, lest they destroy them from the earth." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:4", "text": "But you, bless me and my sons, that we may multiply and fill the earth; and bless our seed, that they may join themselves to the holy spirit which you have given to me and to my sons, that they may not turn aside from righteousness from now on and unto eternity." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:5", "text": "And you know what your Watchers did in my days, and as for these spirits — the living ones — shut them up and hold them fast in the place of judgment, and let them not bring destruction upon the children of your servant, my God; for these are malevolent, and they have been created to corrupt mankind upon the earth." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:6", "text": "And now the spirits which proceed from the flesh of the giants — these are the ones upon whom judgment must be done. They have come forth, each man and his wife, from their places; and they lead astray the sons of men, and they have removed them to the places of judgment." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:7", "text": "And the Lord commanded the angels of judgment to bind the spirits — that they should be confined in the places of judgment, the spirits of judgment of the giants." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:8", "text": "And Mastema, the chief of the spirits, came and said: Lord, Creator, leave some of them before me, and let them hearken to my voice, and do all that I shall say to them — for if some of them are not left to me, I shall not be able to execute the power of my will upon the sons of men. For these are appointed for corruption and for leading astray before my judgment, for great is the wickedness of the sons of men." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:9", "text": "And he said: Let a tenth part of them remain before him, but let nine parts descend into the place of judgment." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:10", "text": "And he commanded one of the holy angels to teach Noah every remedy — for he knew that they did not walk in the upright way, and that not in every righteousness would they conduct themselves — so that Noah, who was righteous and merciful, might administer healing for them." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:11", "text": "And we taught Noah every remedy in accordance with the manner of the trees of the earth — even as we had taught him for healing — every remedy against the evil spirits." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:12", "text": "And Noah wrote everything down in a book according as we had taught him concerning every kind of healing; and thus the evil spirits were restrained from following the sons of Noah." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:13", "text": "And he gave all the books that he had written to Shem his eldest son; for he loved him more than all his sons." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:14", "text": "And the books of Enoch and the books of Noah were entrusted to Shem." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:15", "text": "And in the third week of the second jubilee Noah died; nine hundred and fifty years he had lived — ten jubilees and two weeks and five years." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:16", "text": "And he surpassed in his days the years of every man who dwelt upon the earth, in righteousness — a man in whom was the holy spirit." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:17", "text": "For from the days of Enoch there was none among the sons of men like Noah — none whose years and the years of his household reached so far for the building up of the earth — except that there was given to him the days of the eight jubilees together with his house, for the generations to fill the earth." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:18", "text": "And in the first year of the first week of the thirty-third jubilee Peleg took for himself a wife whose name was Lomna, the daughter of Sinaar; and she bore him a son in the fourth year of this week, and he called his name Reu — for he said: Behold, the sons of men have become evil through their evil purpose to build for themselves a city and a tower in the land of Shinar." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:19", "text": "For they went forth from the land of Ararat toward the east, unto Shinar; and in their days they built the city and the tower, saying: Let us ascend by it into heaven." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:20", "text": "And they began to build; and in the fourth week they hardened with fire the bricks for building, and the bitumen served them for mortar — the bitumen that came up from the sea and from the springs of waters in the land of Shinar." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:21", "text": "And they built it for forty-three years; its breadth was two hundred and thirty courses of brick, and its height was as the height of one course of brick — at the top — multiplied tenfold." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:22", "text": "And the Lord our God said: Behold, they are one people, and one language is to them all; and this they have begun to do, and now nothing will be withheld from them. Behold, let us descend and confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech; and they shall be scattered into the regions and among the nations, and they shall not again take counsel together until the day of judgment." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:23", "text": "And the Lord descended, and we descended with him, to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:24", "text": "And he confounded all the words of their tongue, and no one understood the speech of his fellow; and they ceased from building the city and the tower." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:25", "text": "On account of this all the land of Shinar was called Babel — because there the Lord confounded all the language of the sons of men; and from there they were scattered into all their cities, each according to his tongue and his dwelling-place." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:26", "text": "And the Lord sent forth a great wind against the tower, and overthrew it upon the earth; and behold, it lies between Asshur and Babel in the land of Shinar, and they called its name the Overthrow." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:27", "text": "And in the first week of the thirty-fourth jubilee they were scattered toward Lebanon and toward the borders of the land of Ham; and after this they returned each to his own place. And Canaan saw the land of Lebanon as far as Egypt — that it was very good — and he did not go into the land of his portion, toward the western sea; but he settled in the land of Lebanon, on the east and on the west." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:28", "text": "And Ham his father, and Cush and Mizraim his brothers, said to him: You have settled in a land that is not yours, and which did not come out as your lot. Do not do so; for if you do so, you and your sons will fall in the land and be accursed by a curse — for you have settled by sedition, and your sons shall fall by sedition." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:29", "text": "But he did not hearken to them; and he dwelt in the land of Lebanon — from Hamath as far as the entrance of Egypt — he and his sons until this day." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:30", "text": "On account of this that land is called the land of Canaan." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:31", "text": "And Japheth and his sons went toward the sea, and dwelt in the land of his portion. And Madai saw the land beside the sea, but it did not please him — for the land of his portion was toward the north; and his brothers would not heed him when he said: I will not enter their lot." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:32", "text": "And he dwelt in the land of Shem; and Shem accepted him, and said to him: Dwell in your portion beside me — and I love you exceedingly." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:33", "text": "And he established a land of his kingdom for him; and his sons inherited his kingdom after him, and they called his kingdom Madai, after the name of their father, until this day." },{ "n": 34, "refId": "JUB-WOH-10:34", "text": "And nothing else have we heard concerning the kingdoms of the sons of Noah upon the earth, from the days of Noah unto the days of Abraham." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/jubilees-woh/chapters/10", "book": "/v1/library/books/jubilees-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/jubilees-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }