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    "title": "Jubilees 8 — The table of nations and the division of the earth by lot",
    "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.0.0","sourceText":"Jubilees — per-verse layered-witness reconstruction. Ge'ez primary (Charles 1902 PD + VanderKam 1989 CSCO 510-511); Greek (Epiphanius De mensuris et ponderibus 21-24, ed. Dean 1935) preserves substantial portions of the Shem/Ham/Japheth land-allotments at 8:12, 22, 25. 11Q12 not preserved at this chapter.","sourceLicense":"Best-effort reconstruction; scholarly editions cited; English original to this project","sourceUrl":"(see source-8.json citations)","sourceAccessedVia":"Dean 1935 Epiphanius De mensuris et ponderibus; VanderKam 1989 CSCO 510-511 + Charles 1902 PD + VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia; Alexander 1982 JJS 33 (Imago Mundi of Jubilees); Scott 2002 Geography in Early Judaism","verificationStatus":"best-effort reconstruction; verification pending against Dean 1935 Epiphanius + 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-8:1","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-8:2","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-8:3","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-8:4","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-8:5","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-8:6","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-8:7","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-8:8","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-8:9","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-8:10","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-8:11","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-8:12","status":"approve","citations":["Epiphanius De mensuris et ponderibus 21-22, ed. Dean 1935 pp. 64-67; VanderKam 1989; VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia 1.722-30"],"reasoning":"Greek-primary via Epiphanius. Shem-territory geographical allotment preserved per Greek + Ge'ez. The 'middle of the earth' (μεσογαία) framing for Shem's lot is correctly rendered."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-8:13","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-8:14","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-8:15","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-8:16","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-8:17","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-8:18","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-8:19","status":"approve","citations":["VanderKam 1989; VanderKam 2018 Hermeneia 1.738-745; van Ruiten 2000; cf. Ezek 5:5; cf. Judg 9:37"],"reasoning":"Three-holy-mountains formula preserved (Eden + Sinai + Zion). Mt-of-the-East identification not resolved on translation surface — ambiguity correctly handled in apparatus per Editor decision. Deferred decision #4 confirmed. Note: the three-mountain list at 8:19 differs from the four-place list at 4:26 (which adds Mt-of-the-East as a distinct place from Eden); internal consistency preserved."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-8:20","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-8:21","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-8:22","status":"approve","citations":["Epiphanius De mensuris et ponderibus 23, ed. Dean 1935; VanderKam 1989"],"reasoning":"Greek-primary via Epiphanius. Ham-territory allotment preserved."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-8:23","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-8:24","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-8:25","status":"approve","citations":["Epiphanius De mensuris et ponderibus 24, ed. Dean 1935; VanderKam 1989"],"reasoning":"Greek-primary via Epiphanius. Japhet-territory allotment preserved."},{"refId":"JUB-WOH-8:26","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-8:27","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-8:28","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-8:29","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-8:30","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."}],"glossaryReview":[],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}},
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:1",
        "text": "And in the twenty-ninth jubilee, in the first week, in the beginning of it, Arpachshad took to himself a wife whose name was Rasueya, the daughter of Susan, the daughter of Elam, as a wife; and she bore him a son in the third year of this week, and he called his name Kenan."
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:2",
        "text": "And the son grew, and his father taught him writing; and he went out to seek for himself a place where he might take a city for himself. And he found an inscription which the ancients had engraved upon a rock; and he read what was written in it, and he copied it, and he sinned because of it."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:3",
        "text": "For it contained the teaching of the Watchers, by which they used to observe the omens of the sun and the moon and the stars in all the signs of heaven."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:4",
        "text": "And he wrote it down, and said nothing of it to anyone; for he was afraid to speak to Noah about it, lest he be angry with him on account of it."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:5",
        "text": "And in the thirtieth jubilee, in the fourth week, in the first year of it, he took to himself a wife whose name was Melka, the daughter of Madai, as a wife; and she bore him a son in the fourth year of this week, and he called his name Shelah, for he said: Truly I have been sent."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:6",
        "text": "And Shelah begot Eber in the thirty-second jubilee, in the sixth week, in the first year of this week."
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        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:7",
        "text": "And he took to himself a wife whose name was Azurad, the daughter of Nimrod, as a wife; and she bore him a son in the fourth year of this week, and he called his name Peleg — for in his days the sons of Noah divided the earth among themselves."
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        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:8",
        "text": "And Noah called his sons, and he divided the earth among them by lot, in the thirty-third jubilee, in the first week, in the first year of it."
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        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:9",
        "text": "And the lot of Shem came forth first, for the middle portion of the earth, which he should take as an inheritance for himself and for his sons for the generations of eternity — from the middle of the mountain-region, the portion at the center, toward the east unto Eden; this was a holy portion and the first to come forth."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:10",
        "text": "And Noah covered himself, and blessed Shem, and said: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and may the Lord make a place for Shem of glory in the middle of the earth."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:11",
        "text": "And a writing went forth from Noah to Shem; and Noah by it bequeathed to Shem and to his sons for the generations of eternity all the land from the land of Eden as far as the land — the land of Eden."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:12",
        "text": "And the lot came forth for Shem in the middle of the earth, which he was to take as an inheritance for himself and for his sons for the generations of eternity — from the middle of Mount Rapha, from the outflow of the river Tina; and his lot proceeds westward through the middle of this river, and proceeds until it arrives at the Erythraean Sea, and proceeds along the land beside this sea as far as the land of Egypt — the great sea — and proceeds toward the land of Lebanon and the land of Sennaar, and to the territory of Eden."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:13",
        "text": "And for Shem it proceeds toward the north, and it proceeds toward the east, and through the middle of the east, and through the middle of Egypt, and it proceeds along the east of the Erythraean Sea until it arrives at the place where the sun rises."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:14",
        "text": "And Shem and his sons shall till for themselves all the land of the east, all of it."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:15",
        "text": "And there came to him a good place and glorious — and every place that proceeds toward the east is a good and blessed land."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:16",
        "text": "And there came to him all the land of Elam and Asshur and Babel and Susa and Media, and every land that lies toward the region of Babel."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:17",
        "text": "And Noah blessed Shem, and said: Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and may he keep for him his place — for him and for his sons for the generations of eternity — out of the holy place which he has fashioned for him."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:18",
        "text": "And Noah knew that a blessed place and a blessed lot had fallen to Shem and to his sons for the generations of eternity — all the land of Eden in the east, and all the land of the east, and toward India, and along the Erythraean Sea which it borders."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:19",
        "text": "And Noah knew that the Garden of Eden is the holy of holies, and the dwelling of the Lord; and Mount Sinai — in the midst of the desert; and Mount Zion — in the midst of the navel of the earth; these three were created as holy of holies, the one facing the other."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:20",
        "text": "And he blessed the God of heaven, the Most High of his covenant, because he had set apart the holy places for himself."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:21",
        "text": "And he blessed the Lord God of Shem, that the Lord might appoint the holy places for Shem, and that he might dwell there forever."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:22",
        "text": "And the lot came forth for Ham, that it should be his and his sons' for the generations of eternity — a portion toward the south, from the river Gihon as far as the east, and proceeds toward the south, all the land toward the south of the Kedero region; and his lot proceeds round all this land of Ham."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:23",
        "text": "And there came to him all the land of Kedero, the land that lies beside the river Gihon; and there came to him all the land that is toward the west, from the river Gihon."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:24",
        "text": "And it proceeds toward the south, and it proceeds toward the west, toward the sea Afuna; and the land toward the west came to him, together with the Erythraean Sea that is within it."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:25",
        "text": "And the lot came forth for Japheth, that it should be his and his sons' for the generations of eternity — a portion toward the north, toward the west, north of the river Tina; and it proceeds toward the north, toward the west, toward Magog and all that is north of the river Tina."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:26",
        "text": "And there came to him all the land toward the west, on the far side of the river Tina, which proceeds and falls into the Pontus Sea."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:27",
        "text": "And it proceeds toward the west, toward Beth-Faram and the borderland of Pars, and it proceeds beside the river Tina; and it proceeds through the middle of the western land, and it proceeds toward the north."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:28",
        "text": "And it proceeds toward the west, in all its course, until it arrives at the place in the west where the Erythraean Sea reaches."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:29",
        "text": "And there came to him all the western land and the northern land, all the land toward the north, and four great islands."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JUB-WOH-8:30",
        "text": "But the place of Japheth is hot and cold, while the land of Ham is a hot place; and the land of Shem is temperate, but the land of Japheth is cold."
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