Batenosh in Jubilees
In the fifteenth jubilee, in the third week [701–707], Lamech married a woman whose name was Betanosh, the daughter of Barakiel, the daughter of his father’s brother. During this week she gave birth to a son for him, and he named him Noah, explaining: “This one1 will give me consolation from my sadness, from all my work, and from the earth the Lord cursed.”
Translated by James C. VanderKam.
Notes
Numbers in brackets indicate the number of years from creation and appear in the original translation.
[Genesis 5:29—Ed.]
Credits
Jubilees 4:28, trans. James C. VanderKam, in James C. VanderKam, Jubilees: A Commentary in Two Volumes, vol. 1, ed. Sidnie White Crawford, Hermeneia: A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018), p. 236. Used with permission of 1517 Media.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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