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.And they23 came and bowed themselves to Isaac and Rebecca, and when they saw them they blessed Jacob and all his sons, and Isaac rejoiced exceedingly, for he saw the sons of Jacob, his younger son and he blessed them.[Chapter 34]1 And in the sixth year of this week of this forty-fourth jubilee [2148 A.M.] Jacob sent his sons to pasture their2 sheep, and his servants with them to the pastures of Shechem.And the seven kings of the Amorites assembled themselves together against them, to slay them, hiding themselves under the trees, and3 to take their cattle as a prey.And Jacob and Levi and Judah and Joseph were in the house with Isaac their father; for his spirit was sorrowful, and they could not leave him: and Benjamin was4 the youngest, and for this reason remained with his father.And there came the king[s] of Taphu and the king[s] of 'Aresa, and the king[s] of Seragan, and the king[s] of Selo, and the king[s] of Ga'as, and the king of Bethoron, and the king of Ma'anisakir, and all those who dwell in these5 mountains (and) who dwell in the woods in the land of Canaan.And they announced this to Jacob saying: 'Behold, the kings of the Amorites have surrounded thy sons, and plundered their herds.'6 And he arose from his house, he and his three sons and all the servants of his father, and his own7 servants, and he went against them with six thousand men, who carried swords.And he slew them in the pastures of Shechem, and pursued those who fled, and he slew them with the edge of the sword, and he slew 'Aresa and Taphu and Saregan and Selo and 'Amani-8 sakir and Ga[ga]'as, and he recovered his herds.And he prevailed over them, and imposed tribute on them that they should pay him tribute, five fruit products of their land, and he built Robel9 and Tamnatares.And he returned in peace, and made peace with them, and they became his10 servants, until the day that he and his sons went down into Egypt.And in the seventh year of this week [2149 A.M.] he sent Joseph to learn about the welfare of his brothers from his house to the land of Shechem,11 and he found them in the land of Dothan.And they dealt treacherously with him, and formed a plot against him to slay him, but changing their minds, they sold him to Ishmaelite merchants, and they brought him down into Egypt, and they sold him to Potiphar, the eunuch of Pharaoh, the12 chief of the cooks, priest of the city of 'Elew.And the sons of Jacob slaughtered a kid, and dipped the coat of Joseph in the blood, and sent (it) to Jacob their father on the tenth of the seventh month.13 And he mourned all that night, for they had brought it to him in the evening, and he became feverish with mourning for his death, and he said: 'An evil beast hath devoured Joseph'; and all the members of his house [mourned with him that day, and they] were grieving and mourning with14 him all that day.And his sons and his daughter rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be15 comforted for his son.And on that day Bilhah heard that Joseph had perished, and she died mourning him, and she was living in Qafratef, and Dinah also, his daughter, died after Joseph had16 perished.And there came these three mournings upon Israel in one month.And they buried17 Bilhah over against the tomb of Rachel, and Dinah also.his daughter, they buried there.And he mourned for Joseph one year, and did not cease, for he said 'Let me go down to the grave mourning18 for my son'.For this reason it is ordained for the children of Israel that they should afflict themselves on the tenth of the seventh month -on the day that the news which made him weep for Joseph came to Jacob his father- that they should make atonement for themselves thereon with a young goat on the tenth of the seventh month, once a year, for their sins; for they had grieved the19 affection of their father regarding Joseph his son.And this day has been ordained that they should grieve thereon for their sins, and for all their transgressions and for all their errors, so that they20 might cleanse themselves on that day once a year.And after Joseph perished, the sons of Jacob took unto themselves wives.The name of Reuben's wife is 'Ada; and the name of Simeon's wife is 'Adlba'a, a Canaanite; and the name of Levi's wife is Melka, of the daughters of Aram, of the seed of the sons of Terah; and the name of Judah's wife, Betasu'el, a Canaanite; and the name of Issachar's wife, Hezaqa: and the name of Zabulon's wife, Ni'iman; and the name of Dan's wife, 'Egla; and the name of Naphtali's wife, Rasu'u, of Mesopotamia; and the name of Gad's wife, Maka; and the name of Asher's wife, 'Ijona; and the name of Joseph's wife, Asenath, the Egyptian; and the name21 of Benjamin's wife, 'Ijasaka.And Simeon repented, and took a second wife from Mesopotamia as his brothers.[Chapter 35]1 And in the first year of the first week of the forty-fifth jubilee [2157 A.M.] Rebecca called Jacob, her son, and commanded him regarding his father and regarding his brother, that he should honour them all the2 days of his life.And Jacob said: 'I will do everything as thou hast commanded me; for this thing will be honour and greatness to me, and righteousness before the Lord, that I should honour them.3 And thou too, mother, knowest from the time I was born until this day, all my deeds and all that is in4 my heart, that I always think good concerning all.And how should I not do this thing which thou5 hast commanded me, that I should honour my father and my brother! Tell me, mother, what6 perversity hast thou seen in me and I shall turn away from it, and mercy will be upon me.' And she said unto him: 'My son, I have not seen in thee all my days any perverse but (only) upright deeds.And yet I will tell thee the truth, my son: I shall die this year, and I shall not survive this year in my life; for I have seen in a dream the day of my death, that I should not live beyond a hundred and fifty-five years: and behold I have completed all the days of my life which I am to7 live.' And Jacob laughed at the words of his mother.because his mother had said unto him that she should die; and she was sitting opposite to him in possession of her strength, and she was not infirm in her strength; for she went in and out and saw, and her teeth were strong, and no ailment8 had touched her all the days of her life.And Jacob said unto her: 'Blessed am I, mother, if my days approach the days of thy life, and my strength remain with me thus as thy strength: and thou9 wilt not die, for thou art jesting idly with me regarding thy death.' And she went in to Isaac and said unto him: 'One petition I make unto thee: make Esau swear that he will not injure Jacob, nor pursue him with enmity; for thou knowest Esau's thoughts that they are perverse from his youth,10 and there is no goodness in him; for he desires after thy death to kill him [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]