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Ge'ez per Charles 1902 PD + VanderKam 1989 CSCO 510-511.","sourceLicense":"Best-effort reconstruction; scholarly editions cited; English original to this project","sourceUrl":"(see source-6.json citations)","sourceAccessedVia":"VanderKam 1989 CSCO 510-511 + Charles 1902 PD + VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia + VanderKam 1998 Calendars in the DSS","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-6:1","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-6:2","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-6:3","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-6:4","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-6:5","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-6:6","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-6:7","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-6:8","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-6:9","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-6:10","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-6:11","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-6:12","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-6:13","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-6:14","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-6:15","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-6:16","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-6:17","status":"approve","citations":["VanderKam 1989; VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia 1.572-580; cf. 1 En 72-82"],"reasoning":"Shavuot etiology with covenant-renewal annual repetition. Calendrical voice preserved without harmonization to Pharisaic / Rabbinic calendar tradition."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-6:18","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-6:19","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-6:20","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-6:21","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-6:22","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-6:23","status":"approve","citations":["VanderKam 1989; VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia 1.591-595"],"reasoning":"Four-memorial-days framework (1st of 1st/4th/7th/10th months) preserved without harmonization."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-6:24","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-6:25","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-6:26","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-6:27","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-6:28","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-6:29","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-6:30","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-6:31","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."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-6:32","status":"approve","citations":["VanderKam 1989 CSCO 511 at 6:32; VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia 1.605-620; VanderKam 1998 *Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls*; Beckwith 1996 *Calendar and Chronology, Jewish and Christian*; Glessmer 1999 'Calendars in the Qumran Scrolls' in *DSS After Fifty Years* 2.213-78"],"reasoning":"Foundational 364-day calendar verse. Polemical voice preserved. The 'foundational polemical articulation' claim in the new glossary entry is defensible (1 En 72-82 is the technical-astronomical implementation; Jub 6:32-38 is the polemical-festal articulation)."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-6:33","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-6:34","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-6:35","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-6:36","status":"approve","citations":["VanderKam 1989 ad loc.; VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia 1.620-625"],"reasoning":"The sharpest polemic against lunar-solar tradition ('they will make the moon disturb the seasons'). Polemical voice correctly preserved without softening or pre-resolving the calendrical dispute."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-6:37","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-6:38","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-6:1", "text": "And on the first day of the third month he went forth from the ark, and built an altar on that mountain." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:2", "text": "And he made atonement for the earth, and took one bullock and one ram, and sheep and goats and kids, and offered them up — together with nard, and galbanum, and stacte, and frankincense, and costus, and aromatic spices." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:3", "text": "And he set all these upon the fire that was on the altar, and offered them upon the sacrifice — a pleasing savor acceptable before the Lord." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:4", "text": "And the Lord smelled the pleasing savor, and established a covenant with Noah, that there should no longer be a flood-water to destroy the earth." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:5", "text": "And he said: Let them increase and multiply upon the earth, and let them build it up; and they shall be a fear and a dread upon all that is in it." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:6", "text": "And everything that moves and is alive shall be food for you — as the green herb, I have given you all things to eat." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:7", "text": "But flesh with its life — with its blood — you shall not eat; for the life of all flesh is in its blood. And you shall not let your own blood be shed, life for life; from the hand of every man, from the hand of every one, I will require the life of man." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:8", "text": "Whoever sheds the blood of a man, by a man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he made man." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:9", "text": "And as for you, be fruitful and multiply upon the earth." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:10", "text": "And Noah and his sons swore that they would not eat any blood that was in any flesh." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:11", "text": "And in that third month Noah swore the covenant before him upon the earth." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:12", "text": "On account of this it was told to you — not to you alone — that the covenant was established not only with the sons of Noah, but unto every generation he ordained for him the ordinance of his covenant for ever." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:13", "text": "And you, command the sons of Israel in their days the covenant — that they shall not eat any blood." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:14", "text": "And the man who eats blood — of cattle or of beasts or of birds — during all the days of the earth, he and his wife shall be rooted out from the earth." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:15", "text": "And the Lord appointed for Noah and for his seed a sign, that there should be no more flood-waters upon the earth." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:16", "text": "He set his bow in the cloud as a sign of the eternal covenant, that there should no more be flood-waters to destroy the earth." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:17", "text": "For this reason it is commanded and written on the heavenly tablets that they should keep the Feast of Weeks in this month — once a year, year by year — to renew the covenant in every year." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:18", "text": "And there was no other feast kept upon the seed of all the sons of Israel from the days of Noah until the days of Abraham." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:19", "text": "And this feast was kept in heaven, from the days of creation until the days of Noah — twenty-six jubilees and five weeks of years." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:20", "text": "And Noah and his sons kept it for seven jubilees and one week of years, until the day of Noah's death; and from the day of Noah's death his sons did away with this holy ordinance until the day of Abraham. And from the time of Noah until the days of Abraham, they ate blood." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:21", "text": "But Abraham alone kept it, and Isaac and Jacob his sons kept it, until your days — when you have forgotten it." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:22", "text": "And you, command them on this mountain as an ordinance for ever for their generations — for a custom year by year, in this month, on the fifteenth day of the month — that they may keep it a blessing, year by year." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:23", "text": "And the first day of the first month, and the first day of the fourth month, and the first day of the seventh month, and the first day of the tenth month — these are written down and remembered as the days of memorial." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:24", "text": "And these four days are written for memorial in the heavenly tablets." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:25", "text": "And from the new moon of the first month — from these days onward — Noah entered into the ark; and from the new moon of the fourth month he went forth from the ark." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:26", "text": "And these four days are appointed as the days of the seasons of the year, and they are inscribed; and he ordained them for the divisions of the year, written as a memorial of the manner of their seasons." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:27", "text": "And Noah inscribed them upon tablets for himself and for his seed as a feast — year by year — to be a memorial of the renewal of the earth and the kingship of the earth, from the days of the flood." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:28", "text": "These four days are the days of the year; and these four days are kept in memorial in all the law of the earth." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:29", "text": "And they are written as a memorial on the heavenly tablets — one in each season — thirteen weeks of days from one to another; from one to another, the four divisions of the year are bound to each other as days of remembrance for all generations." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:30", "text": "And one to each season set apart from the week of the jubilee: the whole year, year by year, for the appointed days — this shall be the first division of the season, year by year." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:31", "text": "And he commanded the sons of Israel that they should observe the year according to this reckoning — three hundred and sixty-four days — and these shall constitute a complete year. And no one shall add anything to the appointed days, nor to the days of the feasts; for every thing is done in its appointed time according to the testimony." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:32", "text": "And you, command the sons of Israel that they observe the years according to this reckoning — three hundred and sixty-four days — and it shall be for them a complete year." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:33", "text": "And the days will go astray — until they transgress the covenant, the covenant of judgment; and they will transgress the appointed times of the years from their ordinance, and they will go astray from the days of the feasts." },{ "n": 34, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:34", "text": "And they will go astray as to the days of the sabbaths, and they will go astray as to every order of the year, and the appointed times and the days; and they will go astray as to all the order of the heavens." },{ "n": 35, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:35", "text": "For I know — and from now on I declare it to you — not from my own heart; for the book is written before me, and on the heavenly tablets the division of days is ordained." },{ "n": 36, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:36", "text": "And all the sons of Israel shall observe the moon for the reckoning of months, and they shall make the moon disturb the seasons — and it shall come ten days short of the ordained year, year by year." },{ "n": 37, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:37", "text": "On account of this the years shall come upon them out of order, and they shall transgress their days from their ordinance; and they shall reckon an unclean day as a holy day, and a holy day as an unclean day — for they shall err, and they shall confuse the order of the year." },{ "n": 38, "refId": "JUB-WOH-6:38", "text": "On account of this, command and testify to them, that they should not go astray again, nor transgress the days of the feasts, nor eat any blood with flesh, nor forget the appointed days from their ordinance." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/jubilees-woh/chapters/6", "book": "/v1/library/books/jubilees-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/jubilees-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }