Enoch and the Mosaic Torah- The Evidence of Jubilees

Michael Segal

Month 1

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sabbath

1 2 3

Man

created

4

End of the

first week

5 6 7 8 9 10

Seven days

after the

creation of

man

11

Seven days

after the

first week

12 13 14 15 16 17 18

19 20 21 22 23 24 25

26 27 28 29 30

Month 2

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sabbath

1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13

Forty days

after the

creation of

man

14

Forty days

after the

first week

15 16

17

Adam

entered the

Garden

(/uf».3:17)

18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

nects the dates of entry for Adam and his wife to the law of the parturient
mother from Lev 12. According to this legal passage, Adam entered the Gar­
den forty days after he was created (v. 9). On the basis of the 364-day calen­
dar used throughout Jubilees, which begins each year on a Wednesday, the
calculation of the dates reveals that forty days after Adam's creation is the
thirteenth of the second month, not the seventeenth.