apenas traduza mantendo o texto original the book of jasher
read by christopher glenn
this is the book of the generations of
man whom god created upon the earth
on the day when the lord god made heaven
and earth
joshua chapter 1
and god said let us make man
in our image after our likeness
and god created man in his own image
and god formed man from the ground and
he blew into his nostrils
the breath of life and man became
a living soul endowed with speech
and the lord said it is not good
for man to be alone i will make unto him
a helpmate and the lord caused a deep
sleep
to fall upon adam and he slapped and he
took away one of his ribs
and he built flesh upon it and formed it
and brought it to adam
and adam awoke from his sleep behold
a woman was standing before him and he
said
this is a bone of my bones and it shall
be called
woman for this has been taken from
man and adam called her name
eve for she was the mother of
all living and god blessed them
and called their names adam and eve
in the day that he created them and the
lord god said
be fruitful and multiply and
fill the earth and the lord god took
adam and his wife
and he placed them in the garden of eden
to dress it
and to keep it and he commanded them and
said unto them
from every tree of the garden you may
eat
but from the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil
you shall not eat for in the day that
you eat thereof you shall surely die
and when god had blessed and commanded
them he went
from them and adam and his wife dwelt in
the garden
according to the command which the lord
had commanded them
and the serpent which god had created
with them
in the earth came to them to incite them
to transgress the command of god
which he had commanded them and the
serpent enticed
and persuaded the woman to eat from the
tree of knowledge
and the woman hearkened to the voice of
the serpent
and she transgressed the word of god
and took from the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil
and she ate and she took from it
and gave also to her husband and he ate
and adam and his wife transgressed the
command of god which he commanded them
and god knew it and his anger was
kindled against them
and he cursed them and the lord god
drove them that day from the garden of
eden
to till the ground from which they were
taken
and they went and dwelt at the east of
the garden of eden
and adam knew his wife eve and she
bought two sons
and three daughters and she called the
name of the firstborn
cain saying i have obtained a
man from the lord and the name of the
other
she called abel for she said
in vanity we came into the earth and in
vanity we shall be taken from it
and the boys grew up and their father
gave them a possession
in the land and cain was a tiller of the
ground
and abel a keeper of sheep
and it was at the expiration of a few
years that they brought an approximating
offering to the lord and cain brought
from the fruit of the ground
and abel brought from the first slings
of his flock from the fat thereof
and god turned and inclined to abel
and his offering and a fire came down
from the lord
from heaven and consumed it and unto
cain and his offering
the lord did not turn and he did not
incline to it
for he had brought from the inferior
fruit of the ground before the lord
and cain was jealous against his brother
abel on account of this and he sought a
pretext
to slay him and in some time after
cain and abel his brother went one day
into the field to do their work
and they were both in the field kane
tilling and plowing his ground
and abel feeding his flock and the flock
passed that part which cain had plowed
in the ground
and it sorely grieved cain on this
account
and cain approached his brother abel in
anger and he said unto him
what is there between me and thee the
thou comers to dwell and bring thy
flock to feed in my land and abel
answered his brother cain and said unto
him
what is there between me and thee that
thou shalt eat the flesh of my flock
and clothe thyself with their will and
now therefore put off the wool of my
sheep with which thou has clothed
thyself
and recompense me for their fruit and
flesh which thou has eaten
and when thou shalt have done this i
will then go
from thy land as thou has said and cain
said to his brother
abel surely if i slay thee this day
who will require thy blood from me
and abel answered cain saying surely
god who has made us in the earth he will
avenge my cause
and he will require my blood from thee
should style slay me
for the lord is the judge and arbiter
and it is he
who will requite man according to his
evil
and the wicked man according to the
wickedness that he may do upon earth
and now if thou should slay me here
surely god knoweth thy secret views and
will
judge thee for the evil which doubt is
declared to do unto me this day
and when cain heard the words which abel
his brother had spoken
behold the anger of cain was kindled
against his brother
abel for declaring this thing and cain
hastened
and rose up and took the iron part of
his plowing instrument
with which he suddenly smoked his
brother
and he slew him and cain
spilt the blood of his brother abel upon
the earth
and the blood of abel streamed upon the
earth
before the flock after this
cain repented having slain his brother
and he was sadly grieved
and he wept over him and it vexed him
exceedingly
and cain rose up and dug a hole in the
field
wherein he put his brother's body and he
turned the dust
over it and the lord knew what cain had
done to his brother
and the lord appeared to cain and said
unto him
where is abel thy brother that was with
thee
and cain dissembled and said i do not
know
am i my brother's keeper and the lord
said unto him
what hast thou done the voice of thy
brother's
blood crieth unto me from the ground
where thou hast
slain him for thou has slain thy
brother and has dissembled before me and
it's imagined in thy heart that i saw
thee not
nor knew all thy actions but thou
didst this thing and it slay thy brother
for
naught and because he spoke rightly to
thee
and now therefore cursed be thou
from the ground which opened its mouth
to receive thy brother's
blood from thy hand and wherein thou
didst bury him
and it shall be when thou shalt till it
it shall no more give thee its strength
as in the beginning
for thorns and thistles shall the ground
produce
and thou shalt be moving and wandering
in the earth
until the day of thy death and at that
time
cain went out from the presence of the
lord
from the place where he was and he went
moving
and wandering in the land toward the
east of eden
he and all belonging to him
and cain knew his wife in those days
and she conceived and bear a son and he
called his name
enoch saying in that time
the lord began to give him rest and
quiet in the earth
and at that time cain also began to
build a city
and he built the city and he called the
name of the city
enoch according to the name of his son
for in those days the lord had given him
rest upon the earth and he did not move
about
and wander as in the beginning
and irat was born to enoch
and iran begat mikuyel
and makuyel bhagat methusel
jasher chapter 2
and it was in the 130th year of the life
of adam upon the earth
that he again knew eve his wife and she
conceived
and bear a son in his likeness and in
his image
and she called his name seth saying
because god has appointed me another
seed
in the place of abel for cain has slain
him
and seth lived 105 years
and he begat his son and seth called the
name of his son
enosh saying because in that time
the sons of men began to multiply and to
afflict
their souls and hearts by transgressing
and rebelling against god and it was in
the days of enoch that the sons of men
continued to rebel
and transgress against god to increase
the anger of the lord against the sons
of men
and the sons of men went and they served
other gods
and they forgot the lord who had created
them in the earth
and in those days the sons of men made
images of brass
and iron wood and stone and they bowed
down
and served them and every man made his
god
and they bowed down to them when the
sons of men
forsook the lord all the days of enoch
and his children
and the anger of the lord was kindled on
account of their works
and abominations which they did in the
earth
and the lord caused the waters of the
river gehan
to overwhelm them and he destroyed
and consumed them and he destroyed the
third
part of the earth and notwithstanding
this the sons of men did not
turn from their evil ways and their
hands were yet
extended to do evil in the sight of the
lord
and in those days there was neither
sowing nor weeping
in the earth and there was no food for
the sons of men
and famine was very great in those days
and the seed which they sowed in those
days in the ground became thorns
thistles and briars for from the days of
adam was this declaration concerning the
earth
of the curse of god which he cursed the
earth
on account of the sin which adam sinned
before the lord and it was when men
continued to rebel and transgress
against god
and to corrupt their ways that the earth
also became corrupt and enoch
lived 90 years and he begat kainen
and kainen grew up and he was 40 years
old
and he became wise and had knowledge and
skill
in all wisdom and he reigned over all
the sons of men and he led the sons of
men
to wisdom and knowledge for cainan
was a very wise man and had
understanding in
all wisdom and with his wisdom he ruled
over
spirits and demons and cainan
knew by his wisdom that god would
destroy
the sons of men for having sinned upon
earth
and that the lord would in the latter
days bring upon them
the waters of the flood
and in those days cainan wrote upon
tablets of stone what was to take place
in time to come and he put them
in his treasures and cainan
reigned over the whole earth and he
turned
some of the sons of men to the service
of god
and when kainen was 17 years old he
begat
three sons and two daughters and these
are the names of the children of cainan
the name of the firstborn mahal the
second
inan the third marad and their sisters
were ada and zilla these are the five
children of cainan that were born to him
and laimek
the son of methuselah became related to
cai island by marriage
and he took his two daughters for his
wives and ada
conceived and bear a son to lamech
and she called his name jabel
and she again conceived and bear a son
and called his name
jubal and zilla her sister was barren
in those days and had no offspring for
in those days
the sons of men began to trespass
against god
and to transgress the commandments which
he had commanded to adam to be fruitful
and multiply in the earth and some of
the sons of men
caused their wives to drink a draft that
would render them
barren in order that they might retain
their figures
and whereby their beautiful appearance
might not fade
when the sons of men caused some of
their wives to drink
zilla drank with them and the
child-bearing women
appeared abominable in the sight of
their husbands
as widows whilst their husbands lived
for to the barren ones only they were
attached
in the end of days and years when zilla
became old
the lord opened her womb and she
conceived and bear a son
and she called his name tubal cain
saying
after i had withered away have i
obtained him
from the almighty god and she conceived
again
and bear a daughter and she called her
name
neymar for she said after i had withered
away
have i obtained pleasure and delight
and lamech was old and advanced in years
and his eyes were dim
that he could not see and tubal came his
son
was leading him and it was one day that
lamech went into the field
and tubal kane his son was with him and
whilst they were walking in the field
cain the son of adam advanced towards
them fellaimic was very
old and could not see much and tubal
kane his son
was very young and tubal kane told his
father to draw his
bow and with the arrows he smote
cain who was yet to far off and he slew
him
for he appeared to them to be an animal
and the arrows entered cain's body
although he was distant from them
and he fell to the ground and died
and the lord requited cain's evil
according to his wickedness
which he had done to his brother abel
according to the word of the lord
which he had spoken and it came to pass
when
cain had died that lamech and tubal went
to see the animal which they had slain
and they saw and behold cain their
grandfather
was fallen dead upon the earth and
lamech was very much
grieved at having done this and in
clapping his
hands together he struck his son and
caused his death
and the wives of lamech heard what
lamech had done
and they sought to kill him and the wise
of lamech hated him from that day
because he slew cain and tubal kane
and the wives of lamech separated from
him and would not hearken to him
in those days and lamech came to his
wives and he pressed them to listen to
him about this matter
and he said to his wives ada and zilla
hear my voice o wives of lamech attend
to my words
for now you have imagined and said that
i slew a man with my wounds
and a child with my stripes for having
done no
violence but surely know that i am old
and grey-headed
that my eyes are heavy through age and i
did this thing
unknowingly and the wives of lamech
listened to him in this matter and they
returned to him
with the advice of their father adam but
they bore no
children to him from that time knowing
that god's anger was
increasing in those days against the
sons of men
to destroy them with the waters of the
flood
for their evil doings and mahalil the
son of cainen lived 65
years and he begat jared and jared
lived 62 years and he begat
enoch
jasher chapter 3 and enoch lived
65 years and he begat methuselah
and enoch walked with god after having
begot methuselah
and he served the lord and despised the
evil ways of man
and the soul of enoch was wrapped up in
the instruction of the lord
in knowledge and in understanding and he
wisely
retired from the sons of men and
secreted himself from them for many days
and it was at the expiration of many
years whilst he was serving the lord and
praying before him in his house
that an angel of the lord called to him
from heaven
and he said here am i and he said
rise go forth from thy house and from
the place without its tied thyself
and appear to the sons of men in
order that thou mayest teach them the
way in
which they should go and the work which
they must accomplish to enter
in the ways of god an enoch rose up
according to the word of the lord and
went forth from his house
from his place and from the chamber in
which he was concealed
and he went to the sons of men and
taught them the ways of the lord
and at that time assembled the sons of
men and acquainted them
with the instruction of the lord and he
ordered it to be proclaimed in
all places where the sons of men dwelt
saying
where is the man who wishes to know the
ways of the lord
and good works let him come to enoch
and all the sons of men then assembled
to him
all who desired this thing went to enoch
an enoch reigned over the sons of men
according to the word of the lord
and they came and bowed to him and they
heard his word
and the spirit of god was upon enoch
and he taught all his men the wisdom of
god
and his ways and the sons of men served
the lord
all the days of enoch and they came to
hear
his wisdom and all the kings of the sons
of men
both first and last together with their
princes and judges
came to enoch when they heard of his
wisdom and they bowed down to him
and they also required of enoch to reign
over them
to which he consented and they assembled
in all
130 kings and princes
and they made enoch king over them
and they were all under his power and
command
and enoch taught them wisdom knowledge
and the ways of the lord
and he made peace amongst them and peace
was throughout the earth during the life
of enoch an enoch reigned
over the sons of men 240
years and he did justice and
righteousness with all his people and he
led them in the ways of the lord
and these are the generations of enoch
methuselah
elisha and elimelech three sons
and their sisters were melka and neymar
and methuselah lived 87 years
and he begat lamech and it was in the
56th
year of the life of lamech when adam
died
930 years old was he at his death
and his two sons with enoch and
methuselah
his son buried him with great pomp
as at the burial of kings in the cave
which
god had told him and in that place all
the sons of men made a great morning
and weeping on the count of adam
it has therefore become accustomed among
the sons of men
to this day and adam died because he ate
of the tree of knowledge he and his
children after him
as the lord god had spoken
and it was in the year of adam's death
which was the 243rd
year of the reign of enoch in that time
enoch resolved to separate himself from
the sons of men
and to secret himself as at first in
order to serve the lord
and enoch did so but he did not entirely
secrete himself from them but kept away
from the sons of men
three days and then went to them for
one day and during the three days that
he was in his chamber
he prayed to and praised
the lord his god and the day on which he
went and appeared to his subjects
he taught them the ways of the lord and
all they asked him about the lord
he told them and he did in this manner
for many years and he afterward
concealed himself for six days
and appeared to his people one day in
seven
and after that once in a month
and then once in a year
until all the kings princes and sons of
men
sought for him and desired again to see
the face of enoch
and to hear his word but they could not
as all the sons of men
were greatly afraid of enoch and they
feared to approach him
on account of the god-like oar that was
seated upon his countenance
therefore no man could look at him
fearing he might be punished and die
and all the kings and princes resolved
to assemble
the sons of men and to come to enoch
thinking that they might all
speak to him at the time when he should
come forth amongst them
and they did so and the day came
when enoch went forth and they all
assembled and came to him
and enoch spoke to them the words of the
lord and he taught them
wisdom and knowledge and they bowed down
before him and they said
may the king live may the king live
and in some time after when the kings
and princes and the sons of men were
speaking to enoch
and enoch was teaching them the ways of
god behold
an angel of the lord then called
unto enoch from heaven and wished
to bring him up to heaven to make him
reign there
over the sons of god as he had reigned
over the sons of men
upon earth when at that time enoch heard
this
he went and assembled all the
inhabitants of the earth
and taught them wisdom and knowledge and
gave them divine
instructions and he said to them
i have been required to ascend into
heaven
i therefore do not know the day of my
going
and now therefore i will teach you
wisdom and knowledge
and will give you instruction before i
leave you
how to act upon earth whereby you may
live
and he did so and he taught them wisdom
and knowledge and gave them instruction
and he reproved them and he placed
before them statutes and
judgments to do upon earth and he made
peace
amongst them and he taught them
everlasting
life and dwelt with them some time
teaching them all these things and at
that time
the sons of men were with enoch and
enoch was speaking to them
and they lifted up their eyes and the
likeness of a great
horse descended from heaven and the
horse
paced in the air and they told enoch
what they had seen
and enoch said to them on my account
does this horse descend upon earth
the time is come when i must go from you
and i shall no more be seen by you
and the horse descended at that time and
stood before
enoch and all the sons of men that were
with
enoch saw him and enoch then again
ordered a voice to be proclaimed saying
where is the man who delighteth to know
the ways of the lord his god
let him come this day to enoch before he
is taken from us
and all the sons of men assembled and
came to enoch that day
and all the kings of the earth with
their princes and counselors
remained with him that day and enoch
then taught the sons of men
wisdom and knowledge and gave them
divine
instruction and he made them serve the
lord and
walk in his ways all the days of their
lives
and he continued to make peace amongst
them
and it was after this that he rose up
and rode upon the horse
and he went forth and all the sons of
men went after him
about eight hundred thousand men
and they went with him one day's journey
and the second day he said to them
return home to your tents
why will you go perhaps you may die
and some of them went from him and those
that remained
went with him six days journey and enoch
said to them every day
return to your chance lest you may die
but they were not willing to return and
they went with him
and on the sixth day some of the men
remained and clung to him
and they said to him we will go with
thee to the place without goest
as the lord liveth death only shall
separate us
and they urged so much to go with him
that he ceased
speaking to them and they went after him
and would not return when the kings
returned
they caused a census to be taken in
order to know the number of remaining
men
that went with enoch and it was upon the
seventh day
that enoch ascended into heaven in a
whirlwind
with horses and chariots of fire
and on the eighth day all the kings that
had been with enoch
sent to bring back the number of men
that were with enoch
in that place from which he ascended
into heaven
and all those kings went to the place
and they found the earth there filled
with snow
and upon the snow were large stones of
snow
and one said to the other come let us
break through the snow
and see perhaps the men that remained
with enoch are dead
and are now under the stones of snow
and they searched but could not find him
for he had ascended into heaven
jasher chapter 4
and all the days that enoch lived upon
earth
were 365 years
and when enoch had ascended into heaven
all the kings of the earth rose
and took methuselah his son and anointed
him
and they caused him to reign over them
in the place of his father
and methuselah acted uprightly in the
sight of god
as his father had taught him and he
likewise during the whole of his life
taught the sons of men wisdom knowledge
and the fear of god and he did not turn
from the good way
either to the right or to the left
but in the latter days of methuselah the
sons of men
turned from the lord they corrupted the
earth
they robbed and plundered each other and
they rebelled
against god and they transgressed and
they corrupted their ways
and would not hearken to the voice of
methuselah but rebelled
against him and the lord was exceedingly
wrath
against them and the lord continued to
destroy the seed
in those days so that there was neither
sowing nor
reaping in the earth for when they sowed
the ground in order that they might
obtain
food for their support behold thorns and
thistles were produced which they did
not sow
and still the sons of men did not turn
from their evil ways
and their hands were still extended to
do evil in the sight of god
and they provoked the lord with their
evil ways
and the lord was very wroth and repented
that he had made man and he thought
to destroy and annihilate them
and he did so in those days
when lamech the son of methuselah was
160 years old
seth the son of adam died
and all the days that seth lived were
912
years and he died
and lamech was 180 years old
when he took ashmore the daughter of
elisha
the son of enoch his uncle and she
conceived
and at that time the sons of men sowed
the ground
and a little food was produced yet the
sons of men did not
turn from their evil ways and they
trespass
and rebelled against god and the wife of
lamech conceived and bare him a son
at that time at the revolution of the
year
and methuselah called his name noah
saying the earth was in his days at rest
and
free from corruption and lamech his
father
called his name manikam saying
this one shall comfort us in our works
and miserable toil in the earth which
god had cursed
and the child grew up and was weaned and
he went in the ways of his father
methuselah
perfect and upright with god
and all the sons of men departed from
the ways of the lord in
those days as they multiplied upon the
face of the earth
with sons and daughters and they taught
one another
their evil practices and they continued
sinning against the lord and every man
made unto himself a
god and they robbed and plundered every
man his neighbor
as well as his relative and they
corrupted the earth
and the earth was filled with violence
and their judges and rulers went to the
daughters of men and took their
wives by force from their husbands
according to their choice
and the sons of men in those days took
from the cattle of the earth
the beasts of the field and the fowls of
the air
and taught the mixture of animals
of one species with the other in order
therewith
to provoke the lord and god saw the
whole
earth and it was corrupt for all
flesh had corrupted its ways upon earth
all men and all animals
and the lord said i will blot
out man that i created from the face of
the earth
yea from man to the birds of the air
together with cattle and beasts that are
in the field
for i repent that i made them
and all men who walked in the ways of
the lord
died in those days before the lord
brought the evil upon man
which he had declared for this was from
the lord that they should not see the
evil which the lord spoke of concerning
the sons of man
and noah found grace in the sight of the
lord
and the lord chose him and his children
to raise up seed
from them upon the face of the whole
earth
jasher chapter 5
and it was in the 84th year of the life
of noah
that enoch the son of seth died
he was 905 years old at his death
and in the 179th year of the life of
noah
kainen the son of enosh died
and all the days of kainen were 910
years and he died and in the 234th year
of the life of noah
mahalalel the son of kainan died
and the days of mahalalel were 895 years
and he died and jared the son of
mahalalel died in those days
in the 336 year of the life of noah
and all the days of jared were 962 years
and he died and all who followed the
lord
died in those days before they saw the
evil which god declared to do upon earth
and after the lapse of many years in the
480th year of the life of noah
when all those men who followed the lord
had died away from amongst the sons of
men
only methuselah was then left god said
unto noah
and methuselah saying speak ye
and proclaim to the sons of men saying
thus saith the lord return from your
evil ways and forsake your works
and the lord will repent of the evil
that he declared to do to you
so that it shall not come to pass
for thus saith the lord behold i give
you a period
of 120 years
if you will turn to me and forsake your
evil ways
then will i also turn away from the evil
which i told you
and it shall not exist saith the lord
noah and methuselah spoke all the words
of the lord
to the sons of men day after day
constantly speaking to them but the sons
of men would
not hearken to them nor incline their
ears
to their words and they were
stiff-necked
and the lord granted them a period of
120
years saying if they will return
then will god repent of the evil so as
not
to destroy the earth noah
the son of lamech refrained from taking
a wife in those days to beget children
for he said surely now god will destroy
the earth
wherefore then shall i beget children
and noah was a
just man he was perfect in his
generation
and the lord chose him to raise up seed
from his seed
upon the face of the earth and the lord
said
unto noah take unto thee a wife
and beget children for i have seen thee
righteous before me in this generation
and thou shalt
raise up seed and thy children with thee
in the midst of the earth and noah went
and took a wife and he chose neymar the
daughter of enoch
and she was 580 years old
and noah was 498 years old
when he took neymar for a wife
and neymar conceived and bear a son and
he called his name
japeth saying god has enlarged me
in the earth and she conceived again
and bear a son and he called his name
shem
saying god has made me a remnant
to raise up seed in the midst of the
earth
and noah was 502 years old
when neymar bear shem and the boys grew
up
and went in the ways of the lord in all
that methuselah and noah their father
taught them
and laimak the father of noah died
in those days yet verily he did not go
with all his heart
in the ways of his father and he died in
the 195th year
of the life of noah and all the days of
lamech
was 770 years
and he died and all the sons of men who
knew the lord
died in that year before the lord
brought evil upon them
for the lord willed them to die so as
not to behold the evil that god would
bring upon their brothers
and relatives as he had so declared to
do
in that time the lord said to noah and
methuselah
stand forth and proclaim to the sons of
men
all the words that i spoke to you in
those days
parent venture they may turn from their
evil ways
and i will then repent of the evil and
will not bring it
and noah and methuselah stood forth and
said in the ears of the sons of men all
that
god had spoken concerning them but the
sons of men
would not hearken neither would they
incline their ears
to all their declarations and it was
after this that the lord said to noah
the end of all flesh is come before me
on account of their evil deeds
and behold i will destroy the earth
and do thou take unto thee gopher wood
and go to a certain place
and make a large ark and place it
in that spot and thus shalt thou make it
300 cubits its length 50 cubits broad
and 30 cubits high and thou shall make
unto the adore
open at its side and to a cubit shalt
thou finish above
and cover it within and without with
pitch
and behold i will bring the flood of
waters upon the earth
and all flesh be destroyed
from under the heavens all that is upon
earth
shall perish and thou and thy household
shall go and gather two couple of all
living things
male and female and shall bring them to
the ark
to raise up seed from them upon the
earth
and gather unto the all food that is
eaten by all the animals
that there may be food for thee and for
them
and thou shalt choose for thy sons three
maidens
from the daughters of men and they shall
be wives
to thy sons and noah rose up
and he made the ark in the place where
god had commanded him
and noah did as god had ordered him
in his 595th year noah
commenced to make the ark and he made
the ark
in five years as the lord had commanded
then noah took the three daughters of
eliakim
son of methuselah for wives for his sons
as the lord had commanded noah
and it was at that time methuselah the
son of
enoch died 960 years
old was he at his death
jasher chapter 6
at that time after the death of
methuselah
the lord said to noah go thou with thy
household
into the ark behold i will gather to
thee
all the animals of the earth the beasts
of the field
and the fowls of the air and they shall
all come
and surround the ah and thou shalt go
and seek thyself
by the doors of the ark and all the
beasts
the animals and the fowls shall assemble
and place themselves before thee and
such of them as shall come and
crouch before thee shalt thou take and
deliver into the hands of thy sons
who shall bring them to the ark and all
that will stand before thee
thou shalt leave and the lord brought
this about on the next day
and animals beasts and fowls came in
great multitudes and surrounded the ark
and noah went and seated himself by the
door of the ark
and of all flesh that crouched before
him
he brought into the ark and all that
stood before him
he left upon earth and a lioness
came with her two whelps male and female
and the three crouched before noah
and the two whelps rose up against the
lioness
and smote her and made her flee from her
place
and she went away and they returned to
their places
and crouched upon the earth before noah
and the lioness
ran away and stood in the place of the
lions
and noah saw this and wondered greatly
and he rose and took the two whelps and
brought them into the ark
and noah brought into the ark from all
living creatures that were upon earth
so that there was none left but which
noah brought
into the ark two and two came to noah
into the ark but from the clean animals
and
clean fowls he brought seven couples
as god had commanded him and all the
animals and beasts and fowls were still
there
and they surrounded the ark at every
place and the rain had not descended
till seven days after and on that day
the lord caused the whole earth to shake
and the sun darkened and the foundations
of the world
raged and the whole earth was moved
violently
and the lightning flashed and the
thunder roared
and all the fountains in the earth were
broken up
such as was not known to the inhabitants
before
and god did this mighty act in order to
terrify
the sons of men that there might be no
more
evil upon earth and still the sons of
men would not return from their evil
ways
and they increased the anger of the lord
at that time
and did not even direct their hearts to
all this
and at the end of seven days in the
600th year
of the life of noah the waters of the
flood
were upon the earth and all the
fountains of the deep were broken up
and the windows of heaven were opened
and the rain was upon the earth
forty days and forty nights and noah
and his household and all the living
creatures that were with him
came into the ark on account of the
waters of the flood
and the lord shut him in
and all the sons of men that were left
upon the earth became
exhausted through evil on account of the
rain
for the waters were coming more
violently upon the earth
and the animals and beasts were still
surrounding the ark
and the sons of men assembled together
about seven hundred
thousand men and women and they came
unto noah to the ark
and they called to noah saying open for
us
that we may come to the in the ark and
wherefore shall we die
and noah with a loud voice answered them
from the ark
saying have you not all
rebelled against the lord and said that
he does not
exist and therefore the lord brought
upon you this evil
to destroy and cut you off from the face
of the earth
is not this the thing that i spoke to
you of
120 years back and you would not
hearken to the voice of the lord and now
do you desire to live upon earth
and they said to noah we are ready to
return to the lord
only open for us that we may live and
not die
and noah answered them saying behold now
that you see the trouble of your souls
you wish to return to the lord why did
you not return
during those hundred and twenty years
which the lord granted you
as the determined period but now you
come and tell me this
on account of the troubles of your souls
now
also the lord will not listen to you
neither will he give ear to you on this
day
so that you will not now succeed in your
wishes
and the sons of men approached in order
to break
into the ark to come in on account of
the rain for they could not
bear the rain upon them and the lord
sent all the beasts and animals that
stood round the ark
and the beasts overpowered them and
drove them from that place
and every man went his way and they
again scattered themselves upon the face
of the earth
and the rain was still descending upon
the earth and it descended
forty days and forty nights
and the waters prevailed greatly upon
the earth
and all flesh that was upon the earth or
in the waters
died whether men animals beasts
creeping things or birds of the air
and there only remained noah and those
that were with him
in the ark and the waters prevailed
and they greatly increased upon the
earth and they lifted
up the ark and it was raised from the
earth
and the ark floated upon the face of the
waters and it was tossed upon the waters
so that all the living creatures within
were
turned about like pottage in a cauldron
and great anxiety
seized all the living creatures that
were in the earth
and the ark was like to be broken and
all the living creatures that were in
the ark were terrified and the lions
roared
and the oxen load and the wolves howled
and every living creature in the ark
spoke and lamented in its own language
so that their voices reached to a great
distance
and noah and his sons cried and wept in
their troubles
they were greatly afraid that they had
reached the gates of death
and noah prayed unto the lord and cried
unto him on account of this and he said
oh lord
help us for we have no strength to bear
this
evil that has encompassed us for the
waves of the waters have surrounded us
mischievous torrents have terrified us
the snares of
death have come before us answer us o
lord
answer us light up thy countenance
toward us
and be gracious to us redeem us
and deliver us and the lord hearkened to
the voice of noah
and the lord remembered him and a wind
passed over the earth and the waters
were still
and the ark rested and the fountains of
the deep and the windows of heaven were
stopped
and the rain from heaven was restrained
and the waters decreased in those days
and the ark
rested upon the mountains of ararat
and noah then opened the windows of the
ark
and noah still called out to the lord at
that time and he said
o lord who didst form the earth and the
heavens
and all that are in therein bring forth
our souls from this confinement
and from the prison wherein thou hast
placed us
for i am much wearied with sighing
and the lord hearkened to the voice of
noah and said to him
when thou shalt have completed a full
year
thou shalt then go forth and at the
revolution of the year
when a full year was completed to noah's
dwelling in the ark
the waters were dried from off the earth
and noah put off the covering of the ark
at that time on the 27th day of the
second month
the earth was dry but noah and his sons
and those that were with him did not go
out from the ark
until the lord told them and the day
came that the lord told them to go out
and they all went out from the ark
and they went and returned everyone to
his way
and to his place and noah and his sons
dwelt in the land that god had told them
and they served the lord
all their days and the lord blessed noah
and his sons on their going out from the
ark
and he said to them be fruitful fill
all the earth become strong and
increase abundantly in the earth
and multiply therein
jasher chapter 7
and these are the names of the sons of
noah japeth
ham and shem and children were born to
them
after the flood for they had taken wives
before the flood
these are the sons of jabeth gomer magog
maidai javan tubal meshech and tyrus
seven sons and the sons of gomer were
askanas ripath and tagama
and the sons of magog were lycanaph and
lubal
and the children of maidai were acon
zilo
and lot and the sons of javan were
elisha
kashish kittim and dedonim and the sons
of tubal were orifie
kised and tiarai and the sons of meshech
were didon
zeron and shabashnai and the sons of
tyrus
were bina gira liparion and geilag
these are the sons of japheth according
to their families
and their numbers in those days were
about 460 men and these are the sons of
ham kash mitzrayim
fat and canaan four sons
and the sons of kash were siba havilah
septa
ryama and saticha and the sons of rayama
were sheba and deedan and the sons of
mizriam were lude
anam and pathros casloth and kaftour
and the sons of fat were gible hayden
bina and aiden and the sons of kanan
were zaiden heth amurai gurgashai
haivai aki sinai hirodai
zamadai and kamothai these are the sons
of ham
according to their families and their
numbers in those days were about
seven hundred and thirty men and these
are the sons of shem
elam asher apocsad lud and aram
five sons and the sons of elam were
shushan
makel and harman and the sons of aisha
were myrus and mokul and the sons of
arpakshad
were shelac ena and ashkal and the sons
of lude
were pithor and bision and the sons of
aram
were uz kul gaither and mash
these are the sons of shem according to
their families
and their numbers in those days were
about 300 men
these are the generations of shem shem
begat our pakshad
and a pak shad bhagat sheelac and she
like beget iba
and tiba were born two children the name
of one
was pilag for in his days the sons of
men
were divided and in the latter days the
earth was divided
and the name of the second was yoktan
meaning that in his days the lives of
the sons of men
were diminished and lessened and these
are the sons of yoktan
al-modad sheila kezamaveth
iraq haderum ozil daikler
obel abimael sheba ophir
havala and jobab all these are the sons
of yoktan
and peleg his brother begat yen and yen
begat zerug
and zerug begat nehor and nehor bhagat
tira and tira was 38 years old
and he began harren and nehor
and kash the son of ham the son of noah
took a wife
in those days in his old age and she
bear a son
and they called his name nimrod
saying at that time the sons of men
again
began to rebel and transgress against
god
and the child grew up and his father
loved him exceedingly for he was the son
of his old age and the garments of skin
which god made for adam and his wife
when they went out of the garden
were given to cush for after the death
of adam and his wife
the garments were given to enoch the son
of jared
and when enoch was taken up to god he
gave them to
methuselah his son and at the death of
methuselah
noah took them and brought them to the
ark and they were with him
until he went out of the ark and in
their going out
ham stole those garments from noah his
father
and he took them and hid them from his
brothers
and when ham begat his firstborn kash he
gave him the
garments in secret and they were with
kash
many days and kash also concealed them
from his sons and brothers
and when kash had begotten nimrod he
gave him
those garments through his love for him
and nimrod grew up
and when he was 20 years old he put on
those garments and nimrod became strong
when he put on the garments
and god gave him might and strength and
he was a mighty
hunter in the earth yea he was a mighty
hunter in the field
and he hunted the animals and he built
altars
and he offered upon them the animals
before the lord
and nimrod strengthened himself and he
rose up from amongst his brethren
and he fought the battles of his
brethren against all their
enemies round about and the lord
delivered
all the enemies of his brethren in his
hands
and god prospered him from time to time
in his battles and he reigned
upon earth therefore it became current
in those days
when a man ushered forth those that he
had trained up for battle
he would say to them like god did to
nimrod
who was a mighty hunter in the earth and
who succeeded in the battles that
prevailed against his brethren
that he delivered them from the hands of
their enemies
so may god strengthen us and deliver
us this day and when nimrod was 40 years
old
at that time there was a war between his
brethren
and the children of jabeth so that they
were in the power
of their enemies and nimrod went forth
at that time
and he assembled all the sons of khush
and their families
about 460 men and he hired also
from some of his friends and
acquaintances about 80 men
and he gave them their hire and he went
with them to battle
and when he was on the road nimrod
strengthened the hearts of the people
that went with him
and he said to them do not fear neither
be alarmed
for all our enemies will be delivered
into our hands and you may do
with them as you please and all the men
that went out were about
500 and they fought against their
enemies
and they destroyed them and subdued them
and nimrod placed standing offices over
them
in their respective places and he took
some of their children
as security and they were all servants
to nimrod
and to his brethren and nimrod and all
the people that were with him
turned homeward and when nimrod had
joyfully returned from
battle after having conquered his
enemies
all his brethren together with those who
knew him before
assembled to make him king over them
and they placed the regal crown upon his
head
and he sat over his subjects and people
princes
judges and rulers as is the custom
amongst kings and he placed tira the son
of nehor
the prince of his host and he dignified
him and
elevated him above all his princes
and whilst he was reigning according to
his heart's desire
after having conquered all his enemies
around
he advised his counselors to build a
city for his palace
and they did so and they found a large
valley
opposite to the east and they built him
a large
and extensive city and nimrod called the
name of the city that he built
china for the lord had vehemently shaken
his enemies
and destroyed them and nimrod dwelt in
china
and he reigned securely and he fought
with his enemies and he subdued them
and he prospered in all his battles and
his kingdom became
very great and all nations and tongues
heard of his fame and they gathered
themselves to him and they bowed down to
the earth
and they brought him offerings and he
became their lord and
king and they all dwelt with him in the
city
at china and nimrod reigned in the earth
over all the sons of noah and they were
all under his power
and council and all the earth was of one
tongue and words of union but nimrod did
not go
in the ways of the lord and he was more
wicked than all the men that were before
him from the days of the flood until
those days
and he made gods of wood and stone and
he bowed down to them
and he rebelled against the lord and
taught all his subjects in the people of
the earth
his wicked ways and mardon his son
was more wicked than his father and
everyone that heard of the acts of
martin the son
of nimrod would say concerning him from
the wicked goeth forth wickedness
therefore it became a proverb in the
whole earth saying
from the wicked goeth forth
wickedness and it was current in the
words of men
from that time to this and terah
the son of nehor prince of nimrod's host
was in those days very great in the
sight of the king
and his subjects and the kings and
princes loved him
and they elevated him very high
and tyra took her wife and her name was
amthalo the daughter of cornerbow
and the wife of terah conceive and bear
him a son
in those days terah was 70 years
old when he begat him and tyra called
the name of his son that was born to him
abram because the king had raised him
in those days and dignified him above
all his princes that were with him
jasher chapter 8 and it was in the night
that abram was born
that all the servants of tyra and all
the wise men of nimrod
and his conjurers came and ate and drank
in the house of tyra and they rejoiced
with him on that night
and when all the wise men and contras
went out from the house of tyra
they lifted up their eyes toward heaven
that night to look at the
stars and they saw and behold
one very large star came from the east
and ran in the heavens and he swallowed
up
the four stars from the four sides of
the heavens
and all the wise men of the king and his
conjurers were astonished at the sight
and the sages understood this matter and
they knew
its import and they said to each other
this only betokens the child that has
been born to tyra this night
who will grow up and be fruitful and
multiply
and possess all the earth he and his
children forever
and he and his seed will slay great
kings
and inherit their lands and the wise men
and conjurers went home that night and
in the morning
all these wise men and conjurers rose up
early and assembled in an appointed
house
and they spoke and said to each other
behold the sight that we saw last night
is hidden from the king
it has not been made known to him and
should this thing get known to the king
in the latter days he will say to us why
have you concealed this matter from me
and then we shall all suffer death
therefore now let us go and tell the
king the sight which we saw
and the interpretation thereof and we
shall then remain
clear and they did so and they all went
to the king
and bowed down to him to the ground and
they said
may the king live may the king live
we heard that a son was born to tyra the
son of nehor the prince of thy host
and we yesterday came to his house and
we ate and drank
and rejoiced with him that night and
when thy servants went out from the
house of tyra
to go to our respective homes to abide
there for the night
we lifted up our eyes to heaven
and we saw a great star coming from the
east
and the same star ran with great speed
and swallowed up four great stars from
the four
sides of the heavens and thy servants
were astonished at the sight which we
saw
and were greatly terrified and we made
our judgment upon the site
and knew by our wisdom and proper
interpretation thereof
that this thing applies to the child
that is born to terah
who will grow up and multiply greatly
and become powerful and kill all the
kings of the earth
and inherit all their lands he and his
seed forever and now our lord and king
behold we have truly acquainted thee
with what we have seen
concerning this child if it seemed good
to the king
to give his father value for this child
we will slay him before he shall grow up
and increase
in the land and his evil increase
against us
that we and our children perish through
his evil
and the king heard their words and they
seemed good
in his sight and he sent and called for
terah
terah came before the king and the king
said to terah i have been told that a
son
was yester night born to thee and after
this manner was observed in the heavens
at his birth
and now therefore give me the child that
we may slay him before his evil springs
up against us
and i will give thee for his value thy
house
full of silver and gold and tyra
answered the king and said to him
my lord and king i have heard thy words
and thy servant shall do all that is
king desireth
but my lord and king i will tell you
what happened to me yesterday
that i may see what advice the king will
give his servant
and then i will answer the king upon
what he has just spoken
and the king said speak and terah said
to the king
aeon son of morad came to me yesterday
saying give unto me the great and
beautiful horse that the king gave thee
and i will give thee silver and gold and
straw and provender for its value
and i said to him wait till i see the
king concerning thy words
and behold whatever the king saith that
will i do
and now my lord and king behold i have
made this thing known to thee
and the advice which my king will give
unto his servant
that will i follow and the king heard
the words of tira
and his anger was kindled and he
considered him
in the light of a fool and the king
answered terah and he said to him
are thou so silly ignorant or deficient
in understanding to do this thing
to give thy beautiful horse for silver
and
gold or even for straw and provender
are thou so short of silver and gold
that thou shouldst do this thing
because thou canst not obtain straw and
provider to feed thy horse
and what is silver and gold to thee or
straw and provender
that thou should give away that fine
horse which i
gave thee like which there is none to be
had on the whole earth
and the king left off speaking and tyra
answered the king and said
like unto this has the king spoken to
his servant
i beseeched him my lord and king what is
this
which thou did say unto me saying give
thy son
that we may slay him and i will give
thee silver and gold for his value
what shall i do with silver and gold
after the death of my son
who shall inherit me surely then at my
death
the silver and gold will return to my
king who gave it
and when the king heard the words of
terah and the parable
which he brought concerning the king it
grieved him greatly
and he was vexed at this thing and his
anger
burned within him and tyra saw that the
anger of the king was kindled against
him
and he answered the king saying all that
i
have is in the king's power whatever the
king deserves to do to his servant
that let him do yea even my son he is in
the king's power
without value in exchange he and his two
brothers that are older than he
and the king said to tyra no but i will
purchase thy younger son
for a price and tyra answered the king
saying i beseeched him my lord and king
to let thy servant speak a word before
thee
and let the king hear the word of his
servant and terah said
let my king give me three days time till
i consider this matter within myself
and consult with my family concerning
the words of my king
and he pressed the king greatly to agree
to this
and the king hearkened to tyra and he
did so
and he gave him three days time and tira
went out from the king's presence and he
came home to his family
and spoke to them all the words of the
king and the people were greatly afraid
and it was on the third day that the
king sent to terah
saying send me thy son for a price as i
spoke to thee
and should thou not do this i will send
and
slay all thou hast in thy house so thou
shalt not even have a
dog remaining and tyra hastened as
the thing was urgent from the king and
he took a child
from one of his servants which his hand
made had borne to him that day
and tyra brought the child to the king
and received
value for him and the lord was with tyra
in this matter
that nimrod might not cause abram's
death and the king took the child from
tyra
and with all his might dashed his head
to the ground
for he had thought it had been abram
and this was concealed from him from
that day and it was forgotten by the
king
as it was the will of providence not to
suffer
abram's death and tyra took abram his
son
secretly together with his mother and
nurse
and he concealed them in a cave and he
brought them
their provisions monthly and the lord
was with abram
in the cave and he grew up and abram was
in the cave
ten years and the kings and his princes
soothsayers and sages thought that the
king had killed
apram
jasher chapter 9 and haron the son of
tyra
apram's oldest brother took a wife in
those days
harren was 39 years old when he took her
and the wife of haran conceived and bear
a son
and he called his name lord and she
conceived again
and bear a daughter and she called her
name
milker and she again conceived and bear
daughter
and she called her name saraya
haran was 42 years old when he begat
saraya
which was in the tenth year of the life
of abram
and in those days abram and his mother
and nurse went out from the cave as the
king and his subjects had forgotten
the affair of abraham and when abram
came out from the cave
he went to noah and his son shem
and he remained with them to learn the
instruction of the lord and his ways
and no man knew where abram was and
abram
served noah and shem his son for a long
time
and abram was in noah's house 39
years and abram knew the lord
from three years old and he went in the
ways of the lord
until the day of his death as noah and
his son shem had taught him
and all the sons of the earth in those
days greatly
transgressed against the lord and they
rebelled
against him and they served other gods
and they forgot the lord who had
created them in the earth and the
inhabitants of the earth
made unto themselves at that time every
man
his god gods of wood and stone
which could neither speak hear nor
deliver
and the sons of men served them and they
became
their gods and the king and all his
servants and terah with all his
household were then the first
of those that served gods of wood and
stone
antera had twelve gods of large
size made of wood and stone after the
twelve
months of the year and he served each
one monthly and every month
tera would bring his meat offering and
drink offering to his gods
thus did terah all the days and all that
generation
were wicked in the sight of the lord and
they thus made every man
his god but they forsook the lord who
had created them
and there was not a man found in those
days in the whole earth who
knew the lord for they served each man
his own
god except noah and his household and
all those who were under his counsel
knew the lord in those days and abram
the son of terah was waxing great in
those days
in the house of noah and no man knew it
and the lord
was with him and the lord gave abram an
understanding heart
and he knew all the works of that
generation were vain
and that all their gods were vain and
were of no avail
nabram saw the sun shining upon the
earth
and abram said unto himself surely now
this sun that shines upon the earth is
god
and him will i serve and abram served
the son
in that day and he prayed to him and
when evening came the sun
set as usual and abram said within
himself
surely this cannot be god and abram
still continued to speak within himself
who is he who made the heavens and the
earth
who created upon earth where is he a
knight
darkened over him and he lifted up his
eyes toward the west
north south and east and he saw that the
sun
had vanished from the earth and the day
became dark
and abram saw the stars and moon before
him
and he said surely this is the god who
created the whole earth
as well as man and behold these his
servants are gods around him
and abram served the moon and prayed to
it all that night
and in the morning when it was light and
the sun shone upon the earth as usual
abram saw all the things that the lord
god had made upon earth
and abram said unto himself surely these
are not
gods that made the earth and all mankind
but these are the servants of god
and abram remained in the house of noah
and there knew the lord and his ways
and he served the lord all the days of
his life
and all that generation forgot the lord
and served other gods of wood
and stone and rebelled all their days
and king nimrod reigned securely
and all the earth was under his control
and all the earth was of one tongue
and words of union and all the princes
of nimrod
and his great men took council together
fudd mitzrium kush and
kanan with their families and they said
to each other
come let us build ourselves a city and
in it a strong tower
and its top reaching heaven and we will
make ourselves
famed so that we may reign upon the
whole world
in order that the evil of our enemies
may cease from us
that we may reign mightily over them and
that we may not become scattered over
the earth on account of their wars
and they all went before the king and
told the king these words and the king
agreed with them
in this affair and he did so and all the
families assembled consisting of about
six hundred
thousand men and they went to seek an
extensive piece of ground
to build the city and the tower and they
sought in the whole earth
and they found none like one valley at
the east end of china
about two days walk and they journeyed
there
and they dwelt there and they began to
make bricks and burn
fires to build the city and the tower
that they had imagined
to complete and the building of the
tower was unto them a transgression
and a sin and when they began to build
it
and whilst they were building against
the lord god of heaven
they imagined in their hearts to war
against him
and to ascend into heaven and all these
people and all the families divided
themselves in three parts
the first said we will ascend into
heaven and
fight against him the second said
we will ascend to heaven and place our
own gods there
and serve them and the third part said
we will ascend to heaven and smite him
with bows and
spears and god knew all their works
and all their evil thoughts and he saw
the city
and the tower which they were building
and when they were building
they built themselves a great city and a
very
high and strong tower and on account of
its height
the mortar and bricks did not reach the
builders in their ascent to it
until those who went up had completed a
full year
and after that they reached to the
builders and gave them the mortar and
the bricks
thus was it done daily and behold these
ascended
and others descended the whole day and
if a brick should fall from their hands
and get broken
they would all weep over it and if a man
fell and died
none of them would look at him and the
lord knew
their thoughts and it came to pass when
they were building
they cast the arrows toward the heavens
and all the arrows
fell upon them filled with blood and
when they saw them they said to each
other
surely we have slain all those that are
in heaven
for this was from the lord in order to
cause them to air
and in order to destroy them from off
the face of the ground
and they built the tower and the city
and they did this thing
daily until many days and years were
elapsed
and god said to the seventy angels who
stood foremost before him
to those who were near to him saying
come
let us descend and confuse their tongues
that one man shall not understand the
language of his neighbor
and they did so unto them and from that
day following they forgot
each man his neighbor's tongue and they
could not understand to speak in one
tongue
and when the builder took from the hands
of his neighbor lime or stone which he
did not order
the builder would cast it away and throw
it upon his neighbor that he would die
and they did so many days and they
killed
many of them in this manner and the lord
smote the three divisions that were
there and he punished them according to
their works and designs
those who said we will ascend to heaven
and serve our gods
became like apes and elephants and those
who said
we will smite the heaven with arrows the
lord
killed them one man through the hand of
his neighbor
and the third division of those who said
we will ascend to heaven
and fight against him the lord scattered
them throughout the earth
and those who were left amongst them
when they knew and understood the evil
which was coming upon them they forsook
the building
and they also became scattered upon the
face of the whole earth
and they ceased building the city and
the tower
therefore he called that place babel for
there the lord confounded the language
of the whole earth
behold was at the east of the land of
china
and as to the tower which the sons of
men built the earth opened its mouth and
swallowed up one third part thereof and
of fire
also descended from heaven and burned
another third
and the other third is left to this day
and it is of that part which was aloft
and its circumference is three days walk
and many of the sons of men died in that
tower
a people without number
jasher chapter 10 and peleg the son of
eva
died in those days in the 48th year of
the life of abram son of tirah
and all the days of penleg were 239
years
and when the lord had scattered the sons
of men on account of their sin
at the tower behold they spread forth
into many divisions
and all the sons of men were dispersed
into the four
corners of the earth and all the
families became each
according to its language its land or
its city
and the sons of men built many cities
according to their families
in all the places where they went and
throughout the earth
where the lord had scattered them and
some of them built cities
in places from which they were afterward
extirpated
and they called these cities after their
own names
or the names of their children or after
their particular occurrences
and the sons of japheth the son of noah
went and built themselves cities in the
places where they were scattered
and they called all their cities after
their names and the sons of japheth were
divided upon the face of the earth
into many divisions and languages
these are the sons of jameth according
to their families
gomer magog medai javan tubal
meshech and tyrus these are the children
of japeth
according to their generations and the
children of gomer
according to their cities were the
frankum who dwelt in the land of
franza by the river franza by the river
cena
and the children of rifath are the
bartonem who dwell in the land of
bartonia
by the river leader which empties its
waters into the great sea
gihon that is oceanus
and the children of togama are ten
families
and these are their names bazaar pazanuk
balka elikonum ragbib tarkai
bid zebug uncle and tilmaz
all these spread and rested in the north
and built themselves cities and they
called their cities
after their own names those are they who
abide
by the river's hithler and italic unto
this day
but the families of angelai balgar and
parsenac
they dwell by the great river dubney and
the names of their cities
are also according to their own names
and the children of javan
are the javanese who dwelled in the land
of macdonia
and the children of may diary are the
oralem that dwell in the land of kirsten
and the children of tubal are those that
dwell in the land of tuskena
by the river pashaya and the children of
meshech
are the shabashni and the children of
tyrus are rushash
kashnai and ongalis all these went and
built themselves
cities those are the cities that are
situated by the sea
jaipurs by the river cura which empties
itself
in the river tragen and the children of
elisha
are the aluminum and they also went and
built themselves the cities
those are the cities situated between
the mountains of job and shabbath
and of them were the people of lambadi
who dwell
opposite the mountains of job and
shabatma
and they conquered the land of italia
and remained there unto this day
and the children of kitchen are the
romim who dwell
in the valley of canopia by the river
hebrew
and the children of dudonim are those
who dwell in the cities of the sea gihon
in the land of bordner these are the
families of the children of japeth
according to their cities and languages
when they were scattered
after the tower and they call their
cities after their names
and occurrences and these are the names
of
all their cities according to their
families which they built in those days
after the tower and the children of ham
were kash mitsurim
according to their generation and cities
all these went and built themselves
cities as they found
fit places for them and they called
their cities after the names of their
fathers
kash mitsurim fut and canaan
and the children of mitsurim are the
ludim anamim
lehibim naftakim patrusim
kaslikim and kaftarim seven families
all these dwell by the river scihor that
is the brook
of egypt and they built themselves
cities
and called them after their own names
and the children of pathros and caslock
intermarried together
and from them went forth the pelishtim
the azithim
and the ghirarim and the gythim and the
acronym
in all five families these also built
themselves cities
and they call their cities after the
names of their fathers
unto this day and the children of canaan
also built themselves cities and they
called their cities
after their names eleven cities
and others without number and four men
from the family of ham went to the land
of the plain
these are the names of the four men
sodom gomorrah
atma and zaboyam and these men built
themselves four cities in the land of
the plain
and they called the names of their
cities after their own names
and they and their children and all
belonging to them
dwelt in those cities and they were
fruitful
and multiplied greatly and dwelt
peaceably
and sayer the son of her son of hive
son of canaan went and found a valley
opposite to mount
paran and he built a city there
and he and his seven sons and his
household
dwelt there and he called the city which
he had built
seiya according to his name that is the
land
of saiya unto this day these are the
families of the children of ham
according to their languages and cities
when they were scattered
to their countries after the tower
and some of the children of shem son of
noah
father of the children of eber also went
and built themselves cities
in the places wherein they were
scattered and they called their cities
after their names and the sons of shem
were ilam
asher aparkshad lud and aram
and they went and built themselves
cities and called the names of
all their cities after their names and
ashur son of shem and his children and
household
went forth at that time a very large
body of them
and they went to a distant land that
they found
and they met with a very extensive
valley in the land that they went to
and they built themselves four cities
and they called them after their own
names and occurrences
and these are the names of the cities
which the children of asher built
nineveh risen calac and rio botha
and the children of asher dwell there
unto this day
and the children of aram also went and
built themselves a city
and they called the name of the city us
after their eldest brother
and they dwelt therein that is the land
of us
to this day and in the second year
after the tower a man from the house of
asher
whose name was bela went from the land
of nineveh
to sijon with his household wherever he
could find a place
and they came until opposite the cities
of the plain
against sodom and they dwelt there
and the man rose up and built there a
small city
and called its name bela after his name
that is the land of zoar unto this day
and these are the families of the
children of shem
according to their language and cities
after they were scattered upon the earth
after the tower and every kingdom
city and family of the families of the
children of noah
built themselves many cities after this
and they established governments in all
their cities
in order to be regulated by their orders
so did all the families of the children
of noah
forever
jasher chapter 11
and nimrod son of kash was still in the
land of china
and he reigned over it and dwelt there
and he built cities
in the land of china and these are the
names of the four
cities which he built and he called
their names after the occurrences that
happened to them in the building of the
tower
and he called the first babel saying
because the lord there confounded the
language of the whole earth
and the name of the second he called
iraq because from there
god dispersed them and the third he
called iked
saying there was a great battle in that
place
and the fourth he called khalna because
his princes and mighty men were consumed
there
and they vexed the lord they rebelled
and transgressed against them
and when nimrod had built these cities
in the land of china
he placed in them the remainder of his
people his princes and his mighty men
that were left
in his kingdom and nimrod dwelt
in babel and he there renewed his reign
over the rest of his subjects and he
reigned securely
and the subjects and princes of nimrod
called his name
amraphel saying that at the tower his
princes and men
fell through his means and
notwithstanding this
nimrod did not return to the lord and he
continued in wickedness
and teaching wickedness to the sons of
men and marred on his son
was worse than his father and continued
to add
to the abominations of his father and he
caused the sons of men to sin
therefore it is said from the wicked
goeth forth wickedness at that time
there was
war between the families of the children
of ham
as they were dwelling in the cities
which they had built
and kedalayama king of elam went away
from the families of the children of ham
and he fought with them and he subdued
them
and he went to the five cities of the
plain and he fought against them
and he subdued them and they were under
his control
and they served him 12 years and they
gave him
a yearly tax at that time
died nehor son of searag in the 49th
year of the life of abram
son of terah and in the 50th year of the
life of abram son of terah
abram came forth from the house of noah
and went to his father's house and abram
knew the lord
and he went in his ways and instructions
and the lord his god was with him and
tira his father was in those days
still captain of the host of king nimrod
and he still followed strange gods
and abram came to his father's house and
saw
12 gods standing there in their temples
and the anger of abram was kindled when
he saw these images in his father's
house and abram said as the lord liveth
these images shall not remain in my
father's house
so shall the lord who created me do unto
me if
in three days time i do not break them
all
and abram went from them and his anger
burned within him
and abram hastened and went from the
chamber to his father's outer court
and he found his father sitting in the
court and all his servants with him
and abram came and sat before him
but abram asked his father saying father
tell me where is god who created heaven
and earth
and all the sons of men upon earth and
who created thee
and me and tyra answered his son abram
and said
behold those who created us are all
with us in the house and abram said to
his father
my lord show them to me i pray thee
and hera brought abram into the chamber
of the inner court
and abram saw and behold the whole room
was full of gods of wood and stone
twelve great images and others less than
they without number
and terah said to his son behold these
are they which made all that thousand
upon earth
and which created me and thee and all
mankind
and tyra bowed down to his gods
and he then went away from them and
abram his son went away with him
and when abraham had gone from them he
went to his mother and sat before her
and he said to his mother behold my
father has shown me those who made
heaven and earth and
all the sons of men now therefore hasten
and fetch a kid from the flock and make
of its savory meat
that i may bring it to my father's gods
as an offering for them to eat
perhaps i may thereby become acceptable
to them
and his mother did so and she fetched
the kid and made savoury meat thereof
and brought it to abram
and abram took the savory meat from his
mother and brought it before
his father's gods and he drew nigh to
them that they might eat
and tira his father did not know of it
and abram
saw on the day when he was sitting
amongst them that they had no voice
no hearing no motion and not one of them
could stretch forth his hand to eat
and abraham mocked them and said surely
the savory meat that i prepare does not
please them
or perhaps it was too little for them
and for that reason they would not eat
therefore tomorrow i will prepare fresh
savory meat
better and more plentiful than this in
order that i may see the result
and it was on the next day that abram
directed his mother concerning the
savory meat
and his mother rose and fetched three
fine kids from the flock
and she made of them some excellent
savory meat
such as her son was fond of and she gave
it to her son abram and
terah his father did not know of it and
abram took the savory meat
from his mother and brought it before
his father's gods
into the chamber and he came nigh unto
them that they might
eat and he placed it before them and
abram sat before them all day
thinking perhaps they might eat
and abram viewed them and behold they
had neither
voice nor hearing nor did one of them
stretch forth his hand to the meat to
eat
and in the evening of that day in that
house
apram was clothed with the spirit of
god and he called out and said
woe unto my father and this wicked
generation
whose hearts are all inclined to vanity
who serve these idols of wood and stone
which can neither eat smell hear
nor speak who have mouths without speech
eyes without sight ears without hearing
hands without feeling and legs which
cannot move
like them are those that made them and
trust in them
and when abram saw all these things his
anger was
kindled against his father and he
hastened and took a hatchet
in his hand and came unto the chamber of
the gods
and he broke all his father's gods
and when he done breaking the images he
placed the hatchet
in the hand of the great god which was
there before them
and he went out his father came home
for he had heard at the door the sound
of the striking of the hatchet
so teera came into the house to know
what this was about
antera having heard the noise of the
hatchet in the room of images
ran to the room to the images and he met
abram
going out and tira entered the room and
found all the idols
falling down and broken and the hatchet
in the hand of the largest
which was not broken and the savory meat
which abram his son had made was still
before them
and when tyra saw this his anger was
greatly kindled
and he hastened and went from the room
to abram
and he found abram his son still sitting
in the house
and he said to him what is this work
thou has done to my gods
and abram answered tira his father and
he said
not so my lord for i brought savory meat
before them
and when i came nigh to them with the
meat that they might eat they all at
once stretch forth their hands to eat
before the great one had put forth his
hand to eat
and the large one saw their works that
they did before him
and his anger was violently kindled
against them
and he went and took the hatchet that
was in the house
and came to them and broke them all
and behold the hatchet is yet in his
hand as thou seest
and tyra's anger was kindled against his
son abram when he spoke this
and tyra said to abraham his son in his
anger what is this tale that thou has
told
thou speakers lies to me is there in
these gods
spirit soul or power to do all thou has
told me
are they not wood and stone and have i
not myself
made them and can't stop speak such lies
saying that the large god that was with
them smote them
it is thou that it's placed the hatchet
in his hands and then
sayest he smote them all and abram
answered his father and said to him
and how can thou then serve these idols
in whom there is no power to do
anything can those idols in which thou
trustest deliver thee
can they hear thy prayers when thou
callest upon them
can they deliver thee from the hands of
thy enemies or will they
fight thy battles for thee against thy
enemies that thou should serve
wood and stone which can neither speak
nor hear
and surely it is not good for thee nor
for the sons of men that are connected
with thee
to do these things are you so silly
so foolish or so short of understanding
that you will
serve wood and stone and do
after this manner and forget the lord
god who made heaven and
earth and who created you in the earth
and thereby bring a great evil upon your
souls in this matter
by serving stone and wood did not our
fathers in days of old sin
in this matter and the lord god of the
universe brought the waters of the flood
upon them and destroyed the whole earth
and how can you continue to do this and
serve gods of wood and stone
who cannot hear or speak or deliver you
from oppression
thereby bringing down the anger of the
god of the universe upon you
now therefore my father refrain from
this and bring not evil upon thy soul
and the souls of thy household and abram
hastened and sprang
from before his father and took the
hatchet from his father's
largest idol with which abram broke it
and ran away and tyra seeing all that
abram had done
hastened to go from his house and he
went to the king
and he came before nimrod and stood
before him and he bowed down to the king
and the king said what does thou want
and he said
i beseeched you my lord to hear me now
fifty years back a child was born to me
and thus has he done to my gods and thus
has he spoken
and now therefore my lord and king send
for him that he may come before thee
and judge him according to the law that
we may be delivered from his
evil and the king sent three men of his
servants and they went and brought abram
before the king
and nimrod and all his princes and
servants were
that day sitting before him and tira
sat also before them and the king said
to abram
what is this that thou has done to thy
father and to his gods
and abram answered the king in the words
that he spoke to his father and he said
the large god that was with them in the
house did to them
what thou has heard and the king said to
abram
had they power to speak and eat and do
as thou has said
and abram answered the king saying and
if there be
no power in them why does thou serve
them
and cause the sons of men to air through
thy follies
dost thou imagine that they can deliver
thee or do
anything small or great that thou should
serve them
and why wilt thou not sense the god of
the whole
universe who created thee and in whose
power it is to
kill and keep alive o foolish
simple and ignorant king woe
unto thee forever i thought thou would
teach thy servants the upright way
but thou has not done this but has
filled the whole
earth with thy sins and the sins of thy
people who have followed thy ways
dost thou not know or hast thou not
heard that this
evil which thou doest our ancestors
sinned therein in
days of old and the eternal god brought
the waters of the flood upon them
and destroyed them all and also
destroyed the whole
earth on their account and wilt thou and
thy people
rise up now and do like unto this work
in order to bring down the anger of the
lord god of the universe
and to bring evil upon thee and the
whole earth
now therefore put away this evil deed
which thou doest
and serve the god of the universe
as thy soul is in his hands
and then it will be well with thee
and if thy wicked heart will not hearken
to my words to cause thee to forsake thy
evil ways
and to serve the eternal god then wilt
thou die
in shame in the latter days thou
thy people and all who are connected
with thee
hearing thy words or walking in thy evil
ways
and when abram had ceased speaking
before the king
and princes abram lifted up his
eyes to the heavens and he said
the lord seeth all the wicked
and he will judge them
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