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What if every story from Creation to Sinai has its place in a sacred calendar?
The Book of Jubilees retells Genesis and the opening chapters of Exodus through a revelation to Moses. According to the text, an angel dictates history from heavenly tablets on Mount Sinai. Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham and their descendants appear within a framework that gives each event its appointed time.
This ancient Jewish work does more than expand familiar stories. It presents a 364-day calendar, fixes festivals and Sabbaths, and portrays the patriarchs as keepers of the law before Sinai. From Eden and the Watchers to Joseph in Egypt, its stories explore covenant, obedience and the ordering of human life.
What you’ll discover
- Moses on the mountain Enter the book's revelation setting, where an angel recounts the world's history to Moses.
- Time given a pattern Explore forty-nine-year jubilees and a calendar that places festivals within a fixed sacred cycle.
- Familiar lives, added details Meet Enoch as a learner of writing and Jacob as a quiet student.
- The Watchers and the Flood Follow ancient traditions of fallen angels alongside the story of Noah and his sons.
- Covenant before Sinai Consider the book's claim that the patriarchs already know and keep the law.
Who will love it
This book suits readers who love ancient stories retold with fresh detail, and anyone curious about angels, calendars, and covenants.
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- Moses on Sinai receives a history from an angel
- Creation in six days sets the Sabbath pattern
- Eden's first family meets hardship and death
- Enoch and the Watchers lead to the Flood
- Noah's covenant ties Israel to a 364 day year
- Noah's sons divide the earth and Babel scatters it
- Abram turns from idols and answers a call
- Abraham is tested and the blessing passes on
- Jacob's family falls apart and moves to Egypt
- Moses, the exodus, and how the book has lasted
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The Book of Jubilees
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An angel dictates Genesis to Moses on Sinai, dating every birth and feast by jubilees.
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“Truly this place is the house of the Lord, and I did not know it.”
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What if the story of creation came with a calendar, a staff of angels, and a date for every birth? That is the world of The Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish retelling of Genesis and the early chapters of Exodus.
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- 49,700 words50 chapters
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- 166 pages260 in large print
- Library level
- Challenging long sentences, a rich vocabulary
- First published
- about 150 BCby Anonymous
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Moses on Sinai receives a history from an angel
The book opens on Mount Sinai in the third month after the exodus from Egypt. A cloud covers the mountain for six days. On the seventh day Moses enters the cloud and stays forty days and forty nights while God teaches him the history of the world.
God gives Moses two tasks. He must write down what he hears, and he must warn that Israel will one day forget the covenant. God foretells idols, captivity, and scattering, and he also foretells a return, when the people seek him with their whole hearts.
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The Book of Jubilees. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-the-book-of-jubilees.
The book of Jubilees. (2026). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-the-book-of-jubilees (Original work published ca. 150 B.C.E.)
The Book of Jubilees. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-the-book-of-jubilees.
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What is the Book of Jubilees about?
It retells Genesis and part of Exodus, from creation to the eve of entering Canaan. An angel tells the story to Moses on Sinai, dating events in jubilees and adding backstory, laws, and teachings about angels, festivals, and the covenant.
Why is the Book of Jubilees not in most Bibles?
Jewish and Christian communities fixed their lists of sacred books over several centuries, and Jubilees was not placed on most of those lists. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church kept it in its canon, and Qumran readers valued it highly.
Who wrote the Book of Jubilees and when?
The author is unknown. Scholars place its writing in the second century BCE, often between about 170 and 140 BCE, and think the writer was a priest. It was composed in Hebrew and survives complete in Ethiopic.
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