Satan’s Rebellion and Expulsion from Heaven
12And the devil sighed and said, “O Adam, all my enmity and envy and sorrow concern you, since because of you I was expelled and deprived of my glory which I had in the heavens in the midst of angels, and because of you I was cast out onto the earth.” Adam answered: “What have I done to you, and what is my blame with you? Since you are neither…
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Division of the Earth’s Portions to Noah’s Sons
Jubilees 8––9 (selections)
At the beginning of the thirty-third jubilee [1569–1617] they divided the earth into three parts—for Shem, Ham, and Japheth—each in his own inheritance. [This happened] in the first year of…
Cain and Abel Fight over Land and Women
Genesis Rabbah 22:7
And Cain said to his brother Abel, etc. (Genesis 4:8). What were they disputing? They said, “Come, let’s divide up the world.” One took the land and one took the moveable property. This one said,…
Noah’s Daughters-in-Law
Jubilees 7:14–16
He [Ham—Ed.] built himself a city and named it after his wife Neelatamauk. When Japheth saw [this], he was jealous of his brother. He, too, built himself a city and named it after his wife…
Abram as Literate
Genesis Apocryphon 19:23–27
[ . . . ] After these five years [ . . . ] three men of the princes of Egyp[t came . . .] from Phara[oh] Zoa[n] on account of [my] words and of my wife. They gave [me many presents expecting…
Abraham and the Idols
Genesis Rabbah 38:13
Haran died in the presence of Terah, his father (Genesis 11:28). R. Ḥiyya taught: Terah was a maker of idols. He once went away to a certain place and placed Abraham in charge in his stead. A man came…
Boundaries of the Land Promised to Abraham
Genesis Apocryphon 20:33–21:22
Now I, Abram, grew tremendously in many flocks and also in silver and gold. I went up from Egy[p]t, [and] my brother’s son [Lot wen]t with me. Lot had also acquired for himself many…