- And in those days, in the ninety-first year of the life of Abram, the children of Chittim made
war with the children of Tubal, for when the Lord had scattered the sons of men upon the face
of the earth, the children of Chittim went and embodied themselves in the plain of Canopia,
and they built themselves cities there and dwelt by the river Tibreu.
- And the children of Tubal dwelt in Tuscanah, and their boundaries reached the river Tibreu,
and the children of Tubal built a city in Tuscanan, and they called the name Sabinah, after the
name of Sabinah son of Tubal their father, and they dwelt there unto this day.
- And it was at that time the children of Chittim made war with the children of Tubal, and the
children of Tubal were smitten before the children of Chittim, and the children of Chittim
caused three hundred and seventy men to fall from the children of Tubal.
- And at that time the children of Tubal swore to the children of Chittim, saying, You shall not
intermarry amongst us, and no man shall give his daughter to any of the sons of Chittim.
- For all the daughters of Tubal were in those days fair, for no women were then found in the
whole earth so fair as the daughters of Tubal.
- And all who delighted in the beauty of women went to the daughters of Tubal and took
wives from them, and the sons of men, kings and princes, who greatly delighted in the beauty
of women, took wives in those days from the daughters of Tubal.
- And at the end of three years after the children of Tubal had sworn to the children of Chittim
not to give them their daughters for wives, about twenty men of the children of Chittim went to
take some of the daughters of Tubal, but they found none.
- For the children of Tubal kept their oaths not to intermarry with them, and they would not
break their oaths.
- And in the days of harvest the children of Tubal went into their fields to get in their harvest,
when the young men of Chittim assembled and went to the city of Sabinah, and each man
took a young woman from the daughters of Tubal, and they came to their cities.
- And the children of Tubal heard of it and they went to make war with them, and they could
not prevail over them, for the mountain was exceedingly high from them, and when they saw
they could not prevail over them they returned to their land.
- And at the revolution of the year the children of Tubal went and hired about ten thousand
men from those cities that were near them, and they went to war with the children of Chittim.
- And the children of Tubal went to war with the children of Chittim, to destroy their land and to distress them, and in this
engagement the children of Tubal prevailed over the children of Chittim, and the children of
Chittim, seeing that they were greatly distressed, lifted up the children which they had had by
the daughters of Tubal, upon the wall which had been built, to be before the eyes of the
children of Tubal.
- And the children of Chittim said to them, Have you come to make war with your own sons
and daughters, and have we not been considered your flesh and bones from that time till
now?
- And when the children of Tubal heard this they ceased to make war with the children of
Chittim, and they went away.
- And they returned to their cities, and the children of Chittim at that time assembled and
built two cities by the sea, and they called one Purtu and the other Ariza.
- And Abram the son of Terah was then ninety-nine years old.
- At that time the Lord appeared to him and he said to him, I will make my covenant
between me and thee, and I will greatly multiply thy seed, and this is the covenant which I
make between me and thee, that every male child be circumcised, thou and thy seed after
thee.
- At eight days old shall it be circumcised, and this covenant shall be in your flesh for an
everlasting covenant.
- And now therefore thy name shall no more be called Abram but Abraham, and thy wife
shall no more be called Sarai but Sarah.
- For I will bless you both, and I will multiply your seed after you that you shall become a
great nation, and kings shall come forth from you.
[Book of Jasher
Referred to in Joshua and Second Samuel.
faithfully translated (1840)
from the Original Hebrew into English.
A Reprint of Photo Lithographic Reprint of Exact Edition
Published by J.H. Parry & Co., Salt Lake City: 1887]