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Ge'ez-only witness (Charles 1902 PD + VanderKam 1989 CSCO 510-511). 11Q12 not preserved; Greek not preserved.","sourceLicense":"Best-effort reconstruction; scholarly editions cited; English original to this project","sourceUrl":"(see source-11.json citations)","sourceAccessedVia":"VanderKam 1989 CSCO 510-511 + Charles 1902 PD + VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia","verificationStatus":"best-effort reconstruction; verification pending against VanderKam Ge'ez critical apparatus","glossaryVersion":"2.68.0","overlayGlossaryVersion":"1.1.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-4-7 (translator)","claude-opus-4-7 (editor)","claude-opus-4-7 (reviewer)"],"reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-06-06T00:00:00+00:00","status":"stable","reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-4-7 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-06-06T00:00:00+00:00","verdicts":[{"refId":"JUB-WOH-11:1","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-11:2","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-11:3","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-11:4","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-11:5","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-11:6","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-11:7","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-11:8","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-11:9","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-11:10","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-11:11","status":"approve","citations":["VanderKam 1989 at 11:11; VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia 1.918-925"],"reasoning":"Mastema's bird-driving pericope rendered faithfully. Conservative surface; Mastema preserved as proper noun."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-11:12","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-11:13","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-11:14","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-11:15","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-11:16","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-11:17","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-11:18","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-11:19","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-11:20","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-11:21","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-11:22","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-11:23","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-11:24","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."}],"glossaryReview":[],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}}, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:1", "text": "And in the third week of the thirty-fifth jubilee, in the first year of it, Reu took for himself a wife whose name was Ora, the daughter of Ur, as a wife; and she bore him a son, and he called his name Serug, in the seventh year of this jubilee." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:2", "text": "And the sons of Noah began to make war upon one another — to take captive and to slay one another; and to shed blood upon the earth; and to consume blood; and to build strong cities; and to make for themselves walls and towers; and one man would exalt himself above the nation; and to lay the foundations of kingdoms; and to go to war one people against another, and nation against nation, and city against city; and all to do evil; and to acquire arms; and to teach their sons war." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:3", "text": "And they began to make graven images; and every man worshipped them — each according to his manner that defiled the earth; and Mastema sent forth that he might do these things." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:4", "text": "And Mastema, the angel of affliction, lent his aid to them at all times — for corruption, and for destruction, and for shedding blood upon the earth." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:5", "text": "And Mastema sent forth the spirits to do every violence and every sin and every iniquity — for corruption, and for destruction, and for shedding blood upon the earth." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:6", "text": "On account of this his name was called Serug — for every man had turned aside to every sin." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:7", "text": "And he grew up, and dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees, near his father's father by his mother; and he worshipped graven images. And he took to himself a wife whose name was Milkah, the daughter of Kaber, the daughter of his father's brother." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:8", "text": "And she bore him Nahor, in the first year of this week." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:9", "text": "And Nahor grew up; and his father taught him the lore of the Chaldeans — for divining and reading omens by the stars of heaven." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:10", "text": "And in the first year of the first week of the thirty-seventh jubilee Nahor took for himself a wife whose name was Iyaska, the daughter of Nestag of the Chaldeans, as a wife; and she bore him a son, and he called his name Terah, in the third week." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:11", "text": "And Mastema sent forth ravens and birds to devour the seed which was sown upon the earth — in order to destroy the earth and to rob the sons of men of their labors." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:12", "text": "Before they could plough in the seed, the ravens picked it from the surface of the ground; and on this account he called his name Terah — because the ravens and the birds reduced them to want and devoured their seed." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:13", "text": "And the years began to be barren, owing to the birds; and they devoured all the fruit of the trees from the trees. They could scarcely save a little of all the fruit of the earth in their days, by great labor." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:14", "text": "And in the sixth year of the second week of the thirty-ninth jubilee Terah took for himself a wife whose name was Edna, the daughter of Abram, the daughter of his father's sister, as a wife." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:15", "text": "And in the seventh year of this week she bore him a son, and he called his name Abram — after the name of his mother's father; for he had died before his daughter conceived a son for Terah." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:16", "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; and he separated himself from his father, that he might not worship graven images with him." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:17", "text": "And he began to pray to the Creator of all things, that he might save him from the errors of the sons of men, and that his portion should not fall into error after impurity and vileness." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:18", "text": "And the seed-time came for the sowing of seed upon the earth; and they all went forth together to guard the seed from the ravens; and Abram, a child of fourteen years, went forth with those who sowed." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:19", "text": "And a cloud of ravens came to devour the seed; and Abram ran out to meet them, before they could settle upon the ground, and he cried out to them before they settled upon the ground to devour the seed." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:20", "text": "And he said: Descend not; return to the place from which you came — and they returned. And he caused the cloud of ravens to turn back seventy times on that day; and not one of the ravens settled upon any of the fields in which Abram was — not even one." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:21", "text": "And all who were with him in any of the fields saw it; and he was named famous in all the land of the Chaldees; and all who sowed seed in that year came to him — and he went with them until the seed-time was over." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:22", "text": "And they sowed their land, and that year brought enough food, and they ate and were satisfied." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:23", "text": "And in the first year of the fifth week Abram taught those who made instruments for oxen — the artificers in wood — and they made an instrument above the ground, opposite the beam of the plough, in order to put the seed thereon; and the seed fell down from it upon the share of the plough, and was hidden in the earth — and they no longer feared the ravens." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "JUB-WOH-11:24", "text": "And after this manner they made instruments above the ground on all the ploughs of all the land; and they sowed, and they tilled all the land, even as Abram commanded them — and they no longer feared the birds — through what Abram had done." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/jubilees-woh/chapters/11", "book": "/v1/library/books/jubilees-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/jubilees-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }