{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "jubilees-woh", "chapter": 12 }, "data": { "n": 12, "bookSlug": "jubilees-woh", "bookCode": "JUB-WOH", "refId": "", "title": "Jubilees 12 — Abram's iconoclasm, the burning of the idol-house, and the call out of Ur", "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.0.0","sourceText":"Jubilees — per-verse layered-witness reconstruction. 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-12.json citations)","sourceAccessedVia":"VanderKam 1989 CSCO 510-511 + Charles 1902 PD + VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia; Kugel 2012 A Walk through Jubilees","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-12:1","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-12:2","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-12:3","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-12:4","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-12:5","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-12:6","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-12:7","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-12:8","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-12:9","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-12:10","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-12:11","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-12:12","status":"approve","citations":["VanderKam 1989 at 12:12; VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia 1.950-975"],"reasoning":"Abraham's iconoclasm-fire pericope rendered faithfully. The night-burning + the Haran death detail are the EARLIEST EXTANT articulation of the trans-Abrahamic iconoclasm-fire tradition. Cross-corpus claim in glossary entry is defensible."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-12:13","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-12:14","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-12:15","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-12:16","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-12:17","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-12:18","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-12:19","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-12:20","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-12:21","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-12:22","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-12:23","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-12:24","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."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-12:25","status":"approve","citations":["VanderKam 1989; VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia 1.985-995; cf. b. Sanhedrin 38b; cf. Genesis Rabbah 18:4; Jub 3:28 (animal-language at Eden)"],"reasoning":"Hebrew-as-creation-language pericope rendered faithfully. Foundational text for the Hebrew-as-original-language tradition; bidirectional wiring is defensible."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-12:26","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-12:27","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-12:28","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-12:29","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-12:30","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-12:31","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-12:1", "text": "And it came to pass in the sixth week, in the seventh year of it, that Abram said to Terah his father, saying: Father." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:2", "text": "What help and profit have we from these idols which you worship, and before which you bow yourselves?" },{ "n": 3, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:3", "text": "For there is no spirit in them, for they are mute forms, and a delusion of the heart; and they can do nothing for themselves." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:4", "text": "Worship not them, but bow yourselves to the God of heaven who causes the rain and the dew to descend on the earth, and does everything upon the earth, and has created everything by his word, and all life is from before his face." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:5", "text": "Why do you worship things that have no spirit in them? For they are the work of men's hands, and on your shoulders you bear them; and you have no help from them — but they are a great cause of shame to those who make them, and a delusion of the heart to those who worship them. Worship them not." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:6", "text": "And his father said to him: I also know it, my son; but what shall I do with a people who have made me serve before them? And if I tell them the truth, they will slay me — for their soul cleaves to them, to worship them and to honor them. Hold your peace, my son, lest they slay you." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:7", "text": "And he spoke these words to his two brothers, and they were angry with him; and he held his peace." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:8", "text": "And the father said: Do not speak this word to them, for they will hear and join with those who lead astray; their hearts will incline to evil — they will not understand." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:9", "text": "And Abram held his peace before his father, and spoke no further word to him concerning the idols — for he feared to grieve Terah his father." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:10", "text": "And in the fortieth jubilee, in the second week, in the seventh year of it, Abram took to himself a wife whose name was Sarai, the daughter of his father, as a wife." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:11", "text": "And Haran his brother took to himself a wife in the third year of the third week of this fortieth jubilee; and she bore him a son in the seventh year of this week, and he called his name Lot." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:12", "text": "And Abram arose by night, on the new moon of the seventh month, to burn the house of the idols; and he burned everything that was in the house, and no one knew." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:13", "text": "And they arose in the night, and sought to save their gods from the midst of the fire." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:14", "text": "And Haran rushed in to save them; and the fire took hold on him, and he was burned in the fire, and he died in Ur of the Chaldees before Terah his father — and they buried him in Ur of the Chaldees." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:15", "text": "And Terah went forth from Ur of the Chaldees — he and his sons — to go into the land of Lebanon and into the land of Canaan; and he dwelt in the land of Haran. And Abram dwelt with Terah his father in Haran two weeks of years." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:16", "text": "And in the sixth week, in the fifth year of it, Abram sat up through the night — on the new moon of the seventh month — to observe the stars from evening unto morning, in order to see what the character of the year would be with regard to the rains; and he was alone and observed." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:17", "text": "And a word came into his heart, and he said: All the signs of the stars, and the signs of the sun and of the moon, are all in the hand of the Lord. Why do I search them out? If he wills, he causes it to rain in the morning and the evening; and if he wills, he withholds — and all things are in his hand." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:18", "text": "And he prayed that night, and said: My God, my God, God Most High — you alone are my God. You have created all things, and all things that are are the work of your hands — you and your dominion have I chosen." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:19", "text": "Deliver me from the hands of the evil spirits who have dominion over the thoughts of the heart of men, and let them not lead me astray, my God; but you and your seed establish me forever — and let me not go astray from now on and forever." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:20", "text": "And he said: Shall I return to Ur of the Chaldees who seek my face — that I return to them — or am I to remain here in this place? The path before you make straight by my hand; that I may do — and that I may not walk in the deceitful conjurations of my heart. May it cease, my God." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:21", "text": "Send forth your spirit upon your servant and his seed, that we may keep your commandments — and that we may not perish forever." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:22", "text": "And he ceased from speaking and praying. And behold, the word of the Lord was sent to him through me, saying: Go forth from your land, and from your kindred, and from the house of your father, to a land which I shall show you — and I will make of you a great nation." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:23", "text": "And I will bless you, and I will magnify your name; and you shall be a blessing in the earth; and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed. And I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:24", "text": "And I will be a God to you, and to your son, and to your son's son, and to all your seed. Fear not — from now on and unto all the generations of the earth I am your God." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:25", "text": "And the Lord God said to me: Open his mouth and his ears, that he may hear and speak with his lips in the tongue which has been revealed — for it had ceased from the mouth of all the sons of men from the day of the overthrow." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:26", "text": "And I opened his mouth and his ears and his lips, and I began to speak with him in Hebrew — in the tongue of the creation." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:27", "text": "And he took the books of his fathers, and they were written in Hebrew; and he transcribed them, and began to study them from then onward; and I made known to him all that he could not understand, and he studied them through the six rainy months." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:28", "text": "And he said to Terah his father: I am going forth toward another land which will be shown me, away from this one — toward a land far from here — to go to it. Come with me, my father." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:29", "text": "And Terah said to him: Go, my son, in peace. If you see a land good in your eyes for dwelling, then come back and take me with you; and take Nahor your brother with you, with his wife — for behold, the place of my dwelling-house has been laid waste — and bring him with you." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:30", "text": "And Abram said to Terah: My father, I will set out for the land toward which I am to go; and I will return again to you in peace." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "JUB-WOH-12:31", "text": "And Lot went forth with him into the land of his journeying; and they came into the land of Canaan, and they dwelt in the territory of Shechem — for the land that should be a dwelling-place upon the earth was before them; and the Canaanite was then in the land." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/jubilees-woh/chapters/12", "book": "/v1/library/books/jubilees-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/jubilees-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }