Book of Jubilees 14:1–24

¹ After these things, in the fourth year of this week, on the new moon of the third month, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a dream, saying: 'Fear not, Abram; I am thy defender, and thy reward will be exceeding great.' (JUB) ² And he said: 'Lord, Lord, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go hence childless, and the son of Maseq, the son of my handmaid, is the Dammasek Eliezer: he will be my heir, and to me thou hast given no seed.' (JUB) ³ And he said unto him: 'This (man) will not be thy heir, but one that will come out of thine own bowels; he will be thine heir.' (JUB) ⁴ And He brought him forth abroad, and said unto him: 'Look toward heaven and number the stars if thou art able to number them.' (JUB) ⁵ And he looked toward heaven, and beheld the stars. And He said unto him: 'So shall thy seed be.' (JUB) ⁶ And he believed in the Lord, and it was counted to him for righteousness. (JUB) ⁷ And He said unto him: 'I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee the land of the Canaanites to possess it for ever; and I will be God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.' (JUB) ⁸ And he said: 'Lord, Lord, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit (it)?' (JUB) ⁹ And He said unto him: 'Take Me an heifer of three years, and a goat of three years, and a sheep of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a pigeon.' (JUB) ¹⁰ And he took all these in the middle of the month and he dwelt at the oak of Mamre, which is near Hebron. (JUB) ¹¹ And he built there an altar, and sacrificed all these; and he poured their blood upon the altar, and divided them in the midst, and laid them over against each other; but the birds divided he not. (JUB) ¹² And birds came down upon the pieces, and Abram drove them away, and did not suffer the birds to touch them. (JUB) ¹³ And it came to pass, when the sun had set, that an ecstasy fell upon Abram, and lo ! an horror of great darkness fell upon him, and it was said unto Abram: 'Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land (that is) not theirs, and they shall bring them into bondage, and afflict them four hundred years. (JUB) ¹⁴ And the nation also to whom they will be in bondage will I judge, and after that they shall come forth thence with much substance. (JUB) ¹⁵ And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. (JUB) ¹⁶ But in the fourth generation they shall return hither; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.' (JUB) ¹⁷ And he awoke from his sleep, and he arose, and the sun had set; and there was a flame, and behold ! a furnace was smoking, and a flame of fire passed between the pieces. (JUB) ¹⁸ And on that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: 'To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt unto th… (JUB)