Isaiah 65:17

Hebrew Bible

16 Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth will do so in the name of the faithful God; whoever makes an oath in the earth will do so in the name of the faithful God. For past problems will be forgotten; I will no longer think about them. 17 For look, I am ready to create new heavens and a new earth! The former ones will not be remembered; no one will think about them anymore. 18 But be happy and rejoice forever moreover what I am about to create! For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem to be a source of joy, and her people to be a source of happiness.

Jubilees 1:29

Pseudepigrapha

28 And the angel of the presence who went before the camp of Israel took the tables of the divisions of the years -from the time of the creation- of the law and of the testimony of the weeks of the jubilees, according to the individual years, according to all the number of the jubilees [according, to the individual years], from the day of the [new] creation when the heavens and the earth shall be renewed and all their creation according to the powers of the heaven, and according to all the creation of the earth, until the sanctuary of the Lord shall be made in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, and all the luminaries be renewed for healing and for peace and for blessing for all the elect of Israel, and that thus it may be from that day and unto all the days of the earth.

 Notes and References

"... until the time of the new creation, an apocalyptic future time such as that described in Isaiah 65:17 and 66:24, when the heavens, the earth, and all their creatures will be renewed like the powers of the sky: the sun and moon and the planets, which all undergo cyclical renewal. (This would accord well with the Temple Scroll wherein God appears to say that on some future “day of creation” or “day of blessing,” He will “[re]create My sanctuary to establish it for Myself forever.”) Moses was thus given to record only part of what these tablets contained ..."

Kugel, James L. A Walk through Jubilees: Studies in the Book of Jubilees and the World of Its Creation (p. 28) Brill, 2012

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