Book of Jubilees (Ethiopic)

...them, the chosen ones of Israel, so that¹ they may be así from that day and until² all the days of the earth.

2 And the Angel of the Presence original: "Mel’aka Gats" - a high-ranking angelic mediator who speaks to Moses on God's behalf spoke to Moses by the word of the Lord, saying: "Write the whole account of creation, how on the sixth day the Lord God of all³ finished the work⁴ which he created, and he rested on the seventh day and sanctified it for all the ages, and set it as a sign for all his work⁵. For on the first day he created the heavens that are above, and the earth⁶, and the waters, and all the spirits who serve before him: the angels⁷ of the presence, and the angels⁷ of holiness, and the angels of the spirit⁸ of fire, and the angels of the spirit of the wind, and the angels of the spirit of the clouds, of darkness⁹, and of hail, and of hoarfrost, and the angels of the depths, and of thunder¹⁰, and of lightnings, and the angels of the spirits of cold and of heat, and of winter and of spring, and of harvest and of summer, and of all the spirits of his creatures¹¹ in the heavens and on the earth¹², and in all the depths, and darkness and light, and dawn and evening, which he prepared by the knowledge of his heart¹³. And then we saw his works and we blessed him and praised him from the beginning on account of all his works, for he performed seven great works on the first day. And on the second day he made the firmament original: "matsna't" - a solid expanse or dome believed to separate the waters above from the waters below in the midst of the waters¹⁴; and the waters were divided on that day: half of them rose up above, and half of them descended below the firmament upon the face of...

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