Jubilees

1And it came to pass when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Laban went to shear his sheep; for they were distant from him a three days' journey.

2And Jacob saw that Laban was going to shear his sheep, and Jacob called Leah and Rachel, and spake kindly unto them that they should come with him to the land of Canaan.

3For he told them how he had seen everything in a dream, even all that He had spoken unto him that he should return to his father's house;

4and they said: "To every place whither thou goest we will go with thee."

5And Jacob blessed the God of Isaac his father, and the God of Abraham his father's father, and he arose and mounted his wives and his children, and took all his possessions and crossed the river, and came to the land of Gilead,

6and Jacob hid his intention from Laban and told him not. And in the seventh year of the fourth week Jacob turned (his face) toward Gilead in the first month, on the twenty-first thereof.

7And Laban pursued after him and overtook Jacob in the mountain of Gilead in the third month, on the thirteenth thereof.

8And the Lord did not suffer him to injure Jacob; for He appeared to him in a dream by night.

9And Laban spake to Jacob, And on the fifteenth of those days Jacob made a feast for Laban, and for all who came with him,

10and Jacob sware to Laban that day, and Laban also to Jacob, that neither should cross the mountain of Gilead to the other with evil purpose.

11And he made there a heap for a witness; wherefore the name of that place is called: "The Heap of Witness," after this heap.

12But before they used to call the land of Gilead the land of the Rephaim; for it was the land of the Rephaim,

13and the Rephaim were born (there), giants whose height was ten, nine, eight down to seven cubits.

14And their habitation was from the land of the children of Ammon to Mount Hermon, and the seats of their kingdom were Karnaim and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, and Mîsûr, and Beon.

15And the Lord destroyed them because of the evil of their deeds; for they were very malignant, and the Amorites dwelt in their stead, wicked and sinful,

16and there is no people to-day which hath wrought to the full all their sins, and they have no longer length of life on the earth.

17And Jacob sent away Laban, and he departed into Mesopotamia, the land of the East, and Jacob returned to the land of Gilead. And he passed over the Jabbok in the ninth month, on the eleventh thereof.

18And on that day Esau, his brother, came to him, and he was reconciled to him, and departed from him unto the land of Seir, but Jacob dwelt in tents.

19And in the first year of the fifth week in this jubilee he crossed the Jordan, and dwelt beyond the Jordan, and he pastured his sheep from the sea of the heap unto Bethshan, and unto Dothan and unto the forest of Akrabbim.

20And he sent to his father Isaac of all his substance, clothing, and food, and meat, and drink, and milk, and butter, and cheese, and some dates of the valley,

21And to his mother Rebecca also four times a year, between the times of the months, between ploughing and reaping, and between autumn and the rain (season) and between winter and spring,

22to the tower of Abraham. For Isaac had returned from the Well of the Oath and gone up to the tower of his father Abraham, and he dwelt there apart from his son Esau.

23For in the days when Jacob went to Mesopotamia, Esau took to himself a wife Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael,

24and he gathered together all the flocks of his father and his wives, and went up and dwelt on Mount Seir, and left Isaac his father at the Well of the Oath alone.

25And Isaac went up from the Well of the Oath and dwelt in the tower of Abraham his father on the mountains of Hebron,

26And thither Jacob sent all that he did send to his father and his mother from time to time, all they needed, and they blessed Jacob with all their heart and with all their soul.