Book of Jubilees (Ethiopic)

[...of] Adam his brother, and he cursed him upon the earth. And because of this, it was written variant: because this was written upon the tablets of heaven original: "ጽላተ ሰማይ" (tsillata semay) — heavenly records or laws believed to pre-exist the world: "Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor original: "ካልአ" (kala'a) — literally 'another' or 'his fellow' with violence," and let all those who heard variant: "saw" say, "So be it"; and the man who has seen and has not told, let him be cursed like him. And because of this, we have heard and we know this before the Lord our God: every sin which occurs in heaven and on earth, and in the light variant: "and that of the light" and in the darkness, and in everything. And Adam and his wife were mourning for Abel for four original: "፻" (100) — likely a scribal error for "፬" (4) as the Book of Jubilees specifies four weeks of years (28 years) for this mourning period. weeks of years.

And in the fourth year of the fifth week, he was glad and he knew his wife variant: omits "wife" again, and she bore him variant: his wife bore him a son and he called his name Seth. For he said: "The Lord has raised up for us another seed on the earth in place of Abel, because Cain killed him." In the sixth week, he begat Azura his daughter. And Cain took Awan his sister to be his wife, and she bore him Enoch at the completion of the fourth Jubilee. And in the 1st year of the first week of the fifth Jubilee, houses were built upon the earth, and Cain built a city and named it after the name of his son, Enoch. And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she bore yet nine [more] children. And in the fifth week of the Jubilee variant: the fifth Jubilee, Seth took Azura his sister to be his wife, and in the fourth [year] of it, she bore him Enos.

And he began first to call upon the name of the Lord upon the earth. And in the seventh Jubilee, in the fifth variant: third week, Enos took Noam his sister variant: omits "to him" to be his wife, and she bore him a son in the third year of the fifth week, and he called his name Cainan. And at the completion of the eighth Jubilee—

1. Because this was written — T.
2. Saw — T.
3. [omitted] — A.
4. And that of the light — A T.
5. [omitted] — T.
6. [omitted] — A.
7. + his wife — A.
8. Eve — T.
9. Of the fifth Jubilee — A.
10. Third — T.
11. [omitted] — A.