Book of Jubilees (Ethiopic)

And He awakened Adam from his sleep, and he woke up. He arose on the sixth day and came to her original: "ኀቤሃ" (to her). Manuscript T suggests "to him," implying God brought her to Adam. and recognized her. And he said to her: "This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called my wife The Ge'ez "be'esit" (wife/woman) is the feminine form of "be'esi" (husband/man), mirroring the Hebrew wordplay of Ish and Ishshah., because from her husband she was taken and she arose." For this reason, man and woman are one; and for this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and join with his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

And in the first week, Adam was created, and also the rib—his wife. In the second week, He showed her to him. For this reason, a commandment was given to keep impurity: a state of ritual separation (Hebrew: 'niddah') for seven days for a male, and for a female, another seven days.

And after forty days were completed for Adam in the land where he was created, they brought him into this Eden to work it and to keep it. And as for his wife, they brought her in on the 80th day, and after this, she entered into this Eden. And because of this, a commandment was written on the heavenly tablets A recurring concept in the Book of Jubilees, suggesting that earthly laws are copies of eternal laws inscribed in heaven. regarding her who gives birth: if she bears a male, she shall remain in her impurity for seven days, just as the first seven days [of Adam], and for thirty-three days she shall remain in the blood of her purification. She shall not touch anything holy, nor shall she enter the sanctuary until she completes these days for a male.

And for a female, [the law is] two weeks, just as the two weeks of the beginning in impurity, and sixty-six days she shall remain in the blood of her purification; all together they are eighty days. And when she completed those eighty days, they brought her into this Eden, for it is holier than all...

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