As Judah was going along, he found her and supposed that she was a prostitute. He said to her. "Let me come in to you." She said to him, "Come in." So be came in. She said to him, "Give me my fee." He said to her, "I have nothing with me except the ring on my finger, my neck chain, and my staff that is in my hand."
Jubilees (also known as Lesser Genesis, Leptogenesis, or the Book of Division) is canonical scripture for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The only complete copies of Jubilees are available in Ge’ez (Classical Ethiopic), here used with permission by the Bible Society of Ethiopia.
The name that is transliterated as “Judah” or “Judea” in English (referring to the son of Jacob, the tribe, and the territory) means “thanksgiving” or “praise.”
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