Jubilees 23:14

Pseudepigrapha

13 because there will be blow upon blow, wound upon wound, distress upon distress, bad news upon bad news, disease upon disease, and every kind of bad punishment like this, one with the other: disease and stomach pains; snow, hail, and frost; fever, cold, and numbness; famine, death, sword, captivity, and every sort of blow and difficulty. 14 All of this will happen to the evil generation which makes the earth commit sin through sexual impurity, contamination, and their detestable actions. 15 Then it will be said: ‘The days of the ancients were numerous — as many as 1000 years — and good. But now the days of our lives, if a man has lived for a long time, are 70 years, and, if he is strong, 80 years.’ All are evil, and there is no peace during the days of that evil generation.

Matthew 12:39

New Testament

38 Then some of the experts in the law along with some Pharisees answered him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.” 39 But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. 41 The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented when Jonah preached to them—and now, something greater than Jonah is here!

 Notes and References

"... Jubilees 23 follows a familiar pattern of human sin and divine punishment following the terms and punishments of the covenant, particularly in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. The sin is human sin within Israel, not a cosmic or even international evil force. The sin which “that evil generation” commits, including injustice and impurity, all comes down to covenantal infidelity ... The connection to the covenantal curses is apparent not only in the explicit framework of “they will abandon the covenant… God will punish…,” but also in the details of the punishment. Jubilees is not a line-for-line retelling of Deuteronomy 28 or Leviticus 26, but almost every detail in Jubilees 23 has a parallel in these chapters. An examination of these parallels establishes the present point that Jubilees 23 recontextualizes the final woes as covenantal chastisement. The parallels also bring us to the next point, that the final woes are toned down to fit the claim that the covenantal prediction has already been fulfilled and the restoration begun ..."

Hanneken, Todd Russell The Book of Jubilees Among the Apocalypses (pp. 369-370) University of Notre Dame, 2008

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