Jubilees 4:25

Pseudepigrapha

24 Because of him the flood water did not come on any of the land of Eden because he was placed there as a sign and to testify against all people in order to tell all the deeds of history until the day of judgment. 25 He burned the evening incense of the sanctuary which is acceptable before the Lord on the mountain of incense. 26 For there are four places on earth that belong to the Lord: the Garden of Eden, the mountain of the east, this mountain on which you are today — Mt. Sinai — and Mt. Zion which will be sanctified in the new creation for the sanctification of the earth. For this reason the earth will be sanctified from all its sins and from its uncleanness into the history of eternity.

Exodus 30:32

Hebrew Bible

33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest will be cut off from his people.’” 34 The Lord said to Moses, “Take spices, gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense of equal amounts 35 and make it into an incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer. It is to be finely ground, and pure and sacred. 36 You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you. 37 And the incense that you are to make, you must not make for yourselves using the same recipe; it is to be most holy to you, belonging to the Lord.

 Notes and References

"... our text is saying that Enoch, having been allowed to enter the Garden of Eden, immediately burned “incense of the sanctuary”—that is, the correct mixture of spices that can only be offered in a proper sanctuary (Exodus 30:32, 34-37)—at its appropriate time, the evening (Exodus 30:8). But in the course of Jubilees’ transmission, the apposition “the Garden of Eden, the mountain of the east” apparently came to be misunderstood as referring to two earthly sanctuaries instead of one. This would explain the contradiction between the assertion here that there are four places on earth that belong to God, that is, four proper sanctuaries, and Jubilees 8:19, where it is said that there are only three: Eden, Sinai, and Zion ..."

Kugel, James L. A Walk through Jubilees: Studies in the Book of Jubilees and the World of Its Creation (p. 50) Brill, 2012

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