Abraham Instructs Isaac

1 And in the sixth year of the seventh week of this jubilee [2057] Abraham called Isaac his son, and commanded him: saying, 'I have become old, and do not know the day of my death, and have lived a full life. 2 And look, I am one hundred and seventy-two years old, and throughout all the days of my life I have remembered the Lord, and sought with all my heart to do His will, and to walk uprightly in all His ways. 3 My soul has hated idols, and I have despised those that served them, and I have given my heart and spirit so that I might carefully do the will of Him who created me. 4 For He is the living God, and He is holy and faithful, and He is righteous beyond all, and He shows no favoritism (to people) and accepts no bribes; for God is righteous, and executes judgment on all those who transgress His commandments and despise His covenant. 5 And you, my son, observe His commandments and His ordinances and His judgments, and do not follow the abominations and after the carved images and after the cast-metal images.

Rules for Sacrifice and Purity

6 And eat no blood at all of animals or cattle, or of any bird which flies in the heaven. 7 And if you slaughter an acceptable burnt offering or peace offering, slaughter it, and splash its blood upon the altar, and offer all the meat of the offering on the altar with fine flour and the grain offering mixed with oil, with its drink offering — offer them all together on the altar of burnt offering; it is a pleasing aroma before the Lord. 8 And when you offer the fat of the sacrifice of thank offerings on the fire which is upon the altar, remove the fat on the belly, and all the fat on the inner parts and the two kidneys, and all the fat that is upon them, and upon the loins and the lobe of the liver together with the kidneys. 9 And offer all these for a pleasing aroma acceptable before the Lord, with its grain offering and with its drink-offering, for a pleasing aroma, the bread of the offering to the Lord. 10 And eat its meat on that day and on the second day, and do not let the sun on the second day go down upon it until it is eaten, and let nothing be left over for the third day; for it is not acceptable [for it is not approved] and let it no longer be eaten, and all who eat of it will bring sin upon themselves; for thus I have found it written in the books of my ancestors, and in the words of Enoch, and in the words of Noah. 11 And on all your offerings you shall scatter salt, and do not let the salt of the covenant be lacking in all your offerings before the Lord. 12 And as regards the wood of the sacrifices, be careful not to bring (other) wood for the altar in addition to these: cypress, bay, almond, fir, pine, cedar, savin, fig, olive, myrrh, laurel, aspalathus.⁠a 13 And place these kinds of wood on the altar under the sacrifice, such as have been tested by their appearance, and do not lay (on it) any split or dark wood, (but) hard and clean, without fault, a sound and new growth; and do not lay (on it) old wood, [for its fragrance is gone] for there is no longer fragrance in it as before. 14 Besides these kinds of wood there are no others that you shall place (on the altar), for the fragrance is dispersed, and the smell of its fragrance does not go up to heaven. 15 Observe this commandment and do it, my son, so that you may be upright in all your deeds. 16 And at all times be clean in your body, and wash yourself with water before you approach to offer on the altar, and wash your hands and your feet before you come close to the altar; and when you are done sacrificing, wash your hands and your feet again. 17 And let no blood appear upon you nor upon your clothes; be on your guard, my son, against blood, be on your guard very carefully; cover it with dust. 18 And do not eat any blood for it is the soul; eat no blood whatever. 19 And accept no payment for human blood that is shed without punishment or judgment; for it is the blood that is shed that causes the earth to sin, and the earth cannot be cleansed from human blood except by the blood of him who shed it. 20 And accept no present or gift for human blood: blood for blood, that you may be accepted before the Lord, the Most High God; for He is the defender of the good: and that you may be preserved from all evil, and that He may save you from every kind of pestilence.

A Call to Avoid Sin

21 I see, my son, That all the works of the human beings are sin and wickedness, And all their deeds are impurity and an abomination and a pollution, And there is no righteousness with them. 22 Be careful not to walk in their ways And tread in their paths, And commit a sin punishable by death⁠b before the Most High God. Otherwise He will [hide His face from you And] give you back into the hands of your transgression, And root you out of the land, and your descendants likewise from under heaven, And your name and your memory shall perish from the whole earth. 23 Turn away from all their deeds and all their impurity, And observe the ordinance of the Most High God, And do His will and be upright in all things. 24 And He will bless you in all your deeds, And will raise up from you a plant of righteousness through all the earth, throughout all generations of the earth, And He will not let my name and your name disappear under heaven forever. 25 Go, my son in peace. May the Most High God, my God and your God, strengthen you to do His will, And may He bless all your descendants and the rest of your descendants for the generations forever, with all righteous blessings, So that you may be a blessing on all the earth.' 26 And he went out from him rejoicing.