Book of Biblical Antiquities (Pseudo-Philo)

celebrating the memorial festival, because on that day you went out from the land of Egypt. And in the festival of the week, you shall set before My sight bread, and you shall make for Me an offering for your fruits: For the festival of phangarū a transliterated term for a specific festival, possibly Pentecost/Shavuot in the offering will be for your scouts, in that I have foreseen the creature, that you may be mindful of the whole world through the beginnings. Showing to you, I shall know the number of the dead, and of those born through the fast of mercy. For you shall fast for Me for your souls, that the promises of your fathers may be fulfilled. And bring to Me the festival of Tabernacles original: "Scenopegiae", and you shall take for Me the fruit of a beautiful tree, and a palm branch, and of willows, and cedar, and branches of myrrh: and I will be mindful in the rain of the whole earth, and I will constitute the measure of the seasons, and I will constitute the stars, and I will command the clouds, and the winds will sound, and lightnings will run through, and there will be a storm of thunders, and this will be for an eternal sign. And the nights will give dew, just as I spoke after the flood of the earth. Then I commanded him regarding the year of the life of Noah original: "Noë", and He said to him: These are the years which I disposed after the weeks, in which I visited the city of men, in which time I showed them the place of generation, and the color. And He said: This is the place, which I taught the first-formed original: "protoplastū", saying: If you will not transgress what I have commanded you, all things will be under you. He, however, transgressed My ways, and was persuaded by his woman, and she was seduced by the serpent. And then death was constituted into the generations of men. And the Lord added further to show the ways of paradise, and said to him: These are the things which men lost, not walking in them, because they sinned against Me. And the Lord commanded him regarding the salvation of the souls of the people, and said: If they will have walked in My ways, I will not abandon them, but I will have mercy on them always, and I will bless their seed, and the earth will hasten to give its fruit, and the rain will be for them for gain, and it will not be sterilized. But I know, I know, that they will corrupt their ways, and I will abandon them, and they will forget the testaments which I disposed to their fathers, and I, however, will not forget them forever. For they themselves will know in the last days, that because of their sins their seed was abandoned, because I am faithful in My ways. Then God said to him: Begin to inspect My people from 20 years, and above up to 40 years, that I may show to your nations, how much I announced to their fathers in a foreign land. How by the fiftieth part I lifted them from the land of Egypt, forty and nine parts, however, died in the land of Egypt. While you are pressing them, and when you have inspected them, write their number, until I fulfill all things which I spoke to their fathers, and until I constitute them in their land confidently: because I have not diminished any word of those which I spoke to their fathers, from these which I said to them: Your seed will be as the stars of the sky in multitude. In number they will enter into the land, and in a short time they will be made without number. And then Moses descended, and numbered them, and the number of the people was 604,550. But he did not count the people of Levi with them, because so it was commanded to him, but he enumerated those who were above 50 years. Whose number was 47,300. And he counted also those who were under twenty years, and their number was made 950,850. And he inspected the tribe of Levi, and all their number was made 122,620. And Moses announced their number to God. And God said to him: These are the words which I said to their fathers in the land of Egypt, and I placed the number in 210 years to all who saw My wonders. And the number of all was made nine thousand times ten thousand, two hundred and ninety-five thousand men, besides women. And I put to death their whole multitude, because they did not believe Me. And the fiftieth part remained of them, and I sanctified