"... These insertions of the Interpolator definitely changed the overall thrust of the original book of Jubilees. Now the book seemed to be saying that the deeds of Israel’s ancestors did indeed match some of the laws given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but not because God had decided to institutionalize in the Torah certain practices that had been created by those ancestors on their own initiative. Rather, now it seemed that those ancestors had simply been manipulated into obeying laws that were written long before in the Heavenly Tablets. Moreover, in order to drive this point home, the Interpolator sought to expand on the original author’s list of precedents for the laws of festivals and other matters so as to include all sorts of other laws from the Pentateuch—Cain’s punishment after the murder of Abel reflected a divine statute that was also written down in the law of Deuteronomy 27:24 ..."