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The Book of Jasher

Anonymous (Hebrew midrash, Sefer haYashar, printed 1625) · tr. Moses Samuel (publ. J. H. Parry) · 1840 · 153,797 words

A retelling of the Bible from the Creation to the Judges, rich in legends of Enoch, Nimrod, Abraham and Moses. It is a medieval Hebrew midrash, not the lost “Book of Jasher” mentioned in Joshua and 2 Samuel.

Note: despite its title, this is a medieval Hebrew retelling of biblical history (first printed in Venice, 1625), not the ancient Book of Jasher named in Joshua 10:13.

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Chapter 1

1 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and God created man in his own image.

2 And God formed man from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul endowed with speech.

3 And the Lord said, It is not good for man to be alone; I will make unto him a helpmeet.

4 And the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept, and he took away one of his ribs, and he built flesh upon it, and formed it and brought it to Adam, and Adam awoke from his sleep, and behold a woman was standing before him.

5 And he said, This is a bone of my bones and it shall be called woman, for this has been taken from man; and Adam called her name Eve, for she was the mother of all living.

6 And God blessed them and called their names Adam and Eve in the day that he created them, and the Lord God said, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

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Contents

  1. Chapter 1
  2. Chapter 2
  3. Chapter 3
  4. Chapter 4
  5. Chapter 5
  6. Chapter 6
  7. Chapter 7
  8. Chapter 8
  9. Chapter 9
  10. Chapter 10
  11. Chapter 11
  12. Chapter 12
  13. Chapter 13
  14. Chapter 14
  15. Chapter 15
  16. Chapter 16
  17. Chapter 17
  18. Chapter 18
  19. Chapter 19
  20. Chapter 20
  21. Chapter 21
  22. Chapter 22
  23. Chapter 23
  24. Chapter 24
  25. Chapter 25
  26. Chapter 26
  27. Chapter 27–28
  28. Chapter 29
  29. Chapter 30
  30. Chapter 31
  31. Chapter 32
  32. Chapter 33
  33. Chapter 34
  34. Chapter 35
  35. Chapter 36
  36. Chapter 37
  37. Chapter 38
  38. Chapter 39
  39. Chapter 40
  40. Chapter 41
  41. Chapter 42
  42. Chapter 43
  43. Chapter 44
  44. Chapter 45
  45. Chapter 46
  46. Chapter 47
  47. Chapter 48
  48. Chapter 49
  49. Chapter 50
  50. Chapter 51
  51. Chapter 52
  52. Chapter 53
  53. Chapter 54
  54. Chapter 55
  55. Chapter 56
  56. Chapter 57
  57. Chapter 58
  58. Chapter 59
  59. Chapter 60
  60. Chapter 61
  61. Chapter 62
  62. Chapter 63
  63. Chapter 64
  64. Chapter 65
  65. Chapter 66
  66. Chapter 67
  67. Chapter 68
  68. Chapter 69–70
  69. Chapter 71–72
  70. Chapter 73
  71. Chapter 74
  72. Chapter 75
  73. Chapter 76
  74. Chapter 77
  75. Chapter 78–79
  76. Chapter 80
  77. Chapter 81
  78. Chapter 82
  79. Chapter 83
  80. Chapter 84
  81. Chapter 85
  82. Chapter 86–87
  83. Chapter 88
  84. Chapter 89
  85. Chapter 90
  86. Chapter 91

About this edition

Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive

Public domain: Public domain worldwide (1840).

What’s included: All ninety-one chapters of the 1840 New York translation (1887 Salt Lake City reprint).

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