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.
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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