Enoch and the Mosaic Torah- The Evidence of Jubilees

4Q265 and the Authoritative Status of Jubilees at Qumran

neither shall he receive anything from their hands. And they shall not

lean upon any works of worthless, for worthless are all who do not know

his covenant.

Comparison of this text (in its two versions) to the following passage
from Jubilees (22:16-22) is illuminating. This is Abraham's testament to his
grandson Jacob, which he issued on his deathbed.

i6And you also, my son Jacob, remember my words,

and keep the commandments of Abraham, your father.

Separate yourself from the gentiles,

and do not eat with them,

and do not perform deeds like theirs.

And do not become associates of theirs.

Because their deeds are defiled,

and all of their ways are contaminated, and despicable, and

abominable.

nThey slaughter their sacrifices to the dead,

and to the demons they bow down.

And they eat in tombs.

And all their deeds are worthless and vain....

wBut (as for) you, my son, Jacob,

may God Most High help you,

and the God of heaven bless you.

And may he turn you away from their defilement,

and from their errors.

2oBe careful, my son, Jacob, that you not take a wife from any of the

seed of the daughters of Canaan,

because all of his seed is (destined) for uprooting from the earth;

21... and all of his seed will be blotted out from the earth,

and all his remnant,

and there is none of his who will be saved.

22And for all of those who worship idols and for the hated ones,

there is no hope in the land of the living;

because they will go down in Sheol.

And in the place of judgment they will walk,

and they will have no memory upon the earth.

Just as the sons of Sodom were taken from the earth,

so (too) all of those who worship idols shall be taken away.