Yubalym (Jubilee) — 33

1 And Ya'aqub went and dwelt to the south of Magdaladra'af. And he went to his father Yachaq, he and La'ah his woman, on the New Moon of the tenth month.

2 And Ra'uban saw Bilhah, Rachal's maid, the concubine of his father, bathing in water in a secret place, and he loved her.

3 And he hid himself at night, and he entered the house of Bilhah at night, and he found her sleeping alone on a bed in her house.

4 And he lay with her, and she awoke and saw, and behold Ra'uban was lying with her in the bed, and she uncovered the border of her covering and seized him, and cried out, and discovered that it was Ra'uban.

5 And she was ashamed because of him, and released her hand from him, and he fled.

6 And she lamented because of this thing exceedingly and did not tell it to anyone. And when Ya'aqub returned and sought her, she said unto him: I am not clean for you, for I have been defiled as regards you;

7 For Ra'uban has defiled me, and has lain with me in the night, and I was asleep, and did not discover until he uncovered my skirt and slept with me.

8 And Ya'aqub was exceedingly wroth with Ra'uban because he had lain with Bilhah, because he had uncovered his father's skirt.

9 And Ya'aqub did not approach her again because Ra'uban had defiled her. And as for any man who uncovers his father's skirt his deed is wicked exceedingly, for he is abominable before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.

10 For this reason it is written and ordained on the Shamaym tablets that a man should not lie with his father's woman, and should not uncover his father's skirt, for this is unclean: they shall surely die together, the man who lies with his father's woman and the woman also, for they have wrought uncleanness on the Arath.

11 And there shall be nothing unclean before our 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH in the nation which he has chosen for himself as a possession.

12 And again, it is written a second time: Cursed be he who lies with the woman of his father, for he has uncovered his father's shame; and all the Qadashym of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH said: So be it; so be it.

13 And do you, Musha, command the children of Yashar'AL that they observe this word; for it entails a punishment of death; and it is unclean, and there is no atonement forever to atone for the man who has committed this, but he is to be put to death and slain, and stoned with stones, and rooted out from the midst of the people of our 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH.

14 For to no man who does so in Yashar'AL is it permitted to remain alive a single day on the Arath, for he is abominable and unclean.

15 And let them not say: To Ra'uban was granted life and forgiveness after he had lain with his father's concubine, and to her also though she had a man, and her man Ya'aqub, his father, was still alive.

16 For until that time there had not been revealed the ordinance and judgment and Turah in its completeness for all, but in your days, it has been revealed as a Turah of seasons and of days, and an everlasting Turah for the everlasting generations.

17 And for this Turah there is no consummation of days, and no atonement for it, but they must both be rooted out in the midst of the nation: on the day whereon they committed it they shall slay them.

18 And do you, Musha, write it down for Yashar'AL that they may observe it, and do according to these words, and not commit a sin unto death; for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your ALUAH is Judge, who respects not persons and accepts not gifts.

19 And tell them these words of the covenant, that they may hear and observe, and be on their guard with respect to them, and not be destroyed and rooted out of the land; for an uncleanness, and an abomination, and a contamination, and a pollution are all they who commit it on the Arath before our 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH.

20 And there is no greater sin than the fornication which they commit on Arath; for Yashar'AL is a Qadash nation unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH its 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, and a nation of inheritance, and a Kuhanym and royal nation and for his own possession; and there shall no such uncleanness appear in the midst of the Qadash nation.

21 And in the third year of this sixth week Ya'aqub and all his sons went and dwelt in the house of Abraham, near Yachaq his father and Rabaqah his mother.

22 And these were the names of the sons of Ya'aqub: the firstborn Ra'uban, Shim'un, La'uy, Yahudah, Yisshakar, Zavulun, the sons of La'ah; and the sons of Rachal, Ya'asaf and Banyamin; and the sons of Bilhah, Dan and Naphtaliy; and the sons of Zilpah, Gad and Ashar; and Diynah, the daughter of La'ah, the only daughter of Ya'aqub.

23 And they came and bowed themselves to Yachaq and Rabaqah, and when they saw them, they Baraked Ya'aqub and all his sons, and Yachaq rejoiced exceedingly, for he saw the sons of Ya'aqub, his younger son and he Baraked them.