The Good Book Club: Week 10
Jubilees 4-24: Names of Adam & Eve's daughters plus the other women in Genesis
This Week
We are reading:
Jubilees 4-24
Psalms 33, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99
Summary
This week we continue our Genesis redux as we read through Jubilees.
One of the most exciting things we learn through Jubilees is the names of women, wives, sisters, daughters from Genesis.
Jubilees also gives us much more precise dates and time periods, mostly measured in “jubilees” — seven “weeks” of seven years, totaling 49 years and then followed by a jubilee year.
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Here is the daily breakdown from our annual plan:
Day 61 — Monday, 3/2 — Jubilees 4-6, Psalm 33
Day 62 — Tuesday, 3/3 — Jubilees 7-9, Psalm 94
Day 63 — Wednesday, 3/4 — Jubilees 10-12, Psalm 95
Day 64 — Thursday, 3/5 — Jubilees 13-15, Psalm 96
Day 65 — Friday, 3/6 — Jubilees 16-18, Psalm 97
Day 66 — Saturday, 3/7 — Jubilees 19-21, Psalm 98
Day 67 — Sunday, 3/8 — Jubilees 22-24, Psalm 99
Day 61 — Monday, 3/2 — Jubilees 4-6, Psalm 33
In Jubilees 4, we get the names of Adam and Eve’s daughters — Awan and Azura. Awan becomes Cain’s wife and it’s interesting that her name means eye, or to watch (with jealosy). Azura’s name, maybe obviously, means sky blue.
We learn that Adam and Eve had 14 total children
We learn more names of the sister-wives: Seth has a daughter named Noam (meaning pleasantness, beauty, favor, delight), who married Enosh; they have a daughter named Mualelit (meaning God is my strength) who marries their son Kenan (or Cainan, not to be confused with Canaan).
Enoch is introduced, once again as the inventor of writing, and the author of a book of the stars so that humans would know the seasons. Enoch’s wife is named Edni, meaning gracious or merciful. Their son Methuselah’s wife is Edna, meaning pleasure, delight, or rejuvenation. And their son Lamech marries a woman named Betanosh, who is Noah’s mom. Noah marries a woman named Emzara, which means mother of a princess or ancestor of Sarah.
In support of the cosmic mountain idea — the angels dictating Jubilees say there are four places on earth that belong to the Lord: the Garden of Eden, the mountain of the east, Mount Sinai, and Mount Zion.
I don’t talk about gematria much anymore because it’s too much for the masses — but Jubilees 5:22 mentions that Noah’s ark is made in the 27th jubilee of years, which is curious because 27 often represents sacrifice in our modern culture (like the 27 club)
Day 62 — Tuesday, 3/3 — Jubilees 7-9, Psalm 94
Noah’s daughters-in-laws names are:
Neelatamauk (Ham’s wife) - meaning land/territory of the valley or inheritance of what is destroyed
Adataneses (Japheth’s wife) - meaning unclear
Sedeqatelebab (Shem’s wife) - meaning justice/righteousness of heart
Kainan, grandson of Shem, finds an inscription on a rock containing the astrological, celestial, and divinatory teachings of the fallen angels — and sins, following the instruction, and showing us how the forbidden knowledge proliferated post-flood
All the land gets divided between Noah’s sons and grandsons — and one curious note is that Kainan’s dad, Aparchshad, gets the Chaldean region which originates Chaldean numerology, probably from the inscription on the rock
Day 63 — Wednesday, 3/4 — Jubilees 10-12, Psalm 95
Demons begin to lead astray Noah’s grandchildren. Noah asks God to intervene, and he directs the angels to imprison the demons. But then Mastema (which means enmity, and is another name for Satan) claims he cannot exert free will with the demons imprisoned. God allows 10% of nephilim spirits to remain on earth as demons, while 9/10ths are cast down in judgment.
Noah is taught by the angels how to combat the diseases inflicted upon humanity by demons using the plants of the earth, he writes down a book of herbology and passes it down to Shem.
Abram is born to Terah, who worships idols. We get an interesting backstory for Abra(ha)m — he chastises his dad for worshipping idols and one night secretly sets fire to the temple of idols. God calls Abram to go to a new land — and imparts unto him the language of Hebrew, which had been lost at the tower of Babel.
Day 64 — Thursday, 3/5 — Jubilees 13-15, Psalm 96
We get a retelling of Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac — but it’s not nearly as funny as Genesis.
In Jubilees 15:31 we learn that God has “made spirits rule over all in order to lead them astray from following him” — which bolsters the notion of territorial spirits
Day 65 — Friday, 3/6 — Jubilees 16-18, Psalm 97
In Jubilees 16, Sarah laughs and we learn about Sodom and Gomorrah again, as well as the judgment on Lot’s unholy descendants
In this commentary on the near-sacrifice of Isaac, we learn that God was proving a point about Abraham’s faithfulness to shame Satan (Mastema). So now it’s a Job redux!
Day 66 — Saturday, 3/7 — Jubilees 19-21, Psalm 98
Abraham gives his final plea and warning to his family against worshipping idols and keeping God’s covenant
Day 67 — Sunday, 3/8 — Jubilees 22-24, Psalm 99
The ages of humans have reduced due to sinfulness, to 70-80 years — but Jubilees describes a time in which the children will seek to restore faithfulness to God’s commands and will increase the lifespans again to 1000 years, or more
Esau trades his birthright for lentil porridge and it doesn’t sound any less ridiculous the second time around
What came up for you this week? Join us in the Jubilees chat to discuss!
I’m excited to learn about the ladies! Such a boys club so far.
Am I off my rocker in calculations or is it saying the Tower of Babel was 8000 feet tall?