Edni in Jubilees
During the twelfth jubilee, in its seventh week [582–588], he [Enoch—Ed.] took a wife for himself. Her name was Edni, the daughter of Daniel, the daughter of his father’s brother. In the sixth year of this week [587] she gave birth to a son for him, and he named him Methuselah.
Translated by James C. VanderKam.
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Notes
Numbers in brackets indicate the number of years from creation and appear in the original translation.
Credits
Jubilees 4:20, 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. 235. Used with permission of 1517 Media.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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