Ethiopian collection · 50 chapters
Jubilees
A retelling of Genesis and the beginning of Exodus, presented as revelation to Moses. It organises sacred history into jubilees and explores covenant, festivals, the calendar and the lives of the patriarchs.
Place in the traditions
Recognised as Scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo tradition. Not part of the Catholic or standard Protestant biblical canons.
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Explore the Ethiopian canonThe edition you are reading
R. H. Charles's English translation as published in The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (1913), transcribed by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Public-domain translation. Source chapter and verse numbering, including chronological annotations, is retained; editorial chapter summaries are omitted. This is a historic scholarly edition, not an official English translation of the Ethiopian Church.
Charles's Jubilees: full sourceBookmarks, highlights, notes and offline saving work in this collection. Verse comparisons appear when more than one edition is available. The existing cross-reference and Strong's datasets cover the original 66-book collection.