Yashar: Restored Names Version (Paleo-Hebrew)

Yashar is a collaboration between Noel Joshua Hadley and Pamela Glasgow to lovingly restore the Paleo-Hebrew Names into the ancient book of Jasher. It is the first of our new series which hopes to give many other Biblical and extra-Biblical books the same treatment. The book is given a simple black cover with bold gold letters, and is 451 pages.

CHAPTER ONE 

¹ And Alahayam said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and Alahayam created man in his own image.

² And Alahayam formed man from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul endowed with speech.

³ And YAHAUAHA said, It is not good for man to be alone; I will make unto him a helpmeet.

⁴ And YAHAUAHA caused a deep sleep to fall upon A’dam, and he slept, and he took away one of his ribs, and he built flesh upon it, and formed it and brought it to A’dam, and A’dam awoke from his sleep, and behold a woman was standing before him.

⁵ And he said, This is a bone of my bones and it shall be called woman, for this has been taken from man; and A’dam called her name Cha’uaha, for she was the mother of all living.

⁶ And Alahayam blessed them and called their names A’dam and Cha’uaha in the day that he created them, and YAHAUAHA Alahayam said, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

⁷ And YAHAUAHA Alahayam took A’dam and his woman, and he placed them in the garden of Adan to dress it and to keep it; and he commanded them and said unto them, From every tree of the garden you may eat, but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.

⁸ And when Alahayam had blessed and commanded them, he went from them, and A’dam and his woman dwelt in the garden according to the command which YAHAUAHA had commanded them.

⁹ And the nachash, which Alahayam had created with them in the earth, came to them to incite them to transgress the command of Alahayam which he had commanded them.

¹⁰ And the nachash enticed and persuaded the woman to eat from the tree of knowledge, and the woman hearkened to the voice of the nachash, and she transgressed the word of Alahayam, and took from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and she ate, and she took from it and gave also to her husband and he ate.

¹¹ And A’dam and his woman transgressed the command of Alahayam which he commanded them, and Alahayam knew it, and his anger was kindled against them and he cursed them.

¹² And YAHAUAHA Alahayam drove them that day from the garden of Adan, to till the ground from which they were taken, and they went and dwelt at the east of the garden of Adan; and A’dam knew his woman Cha’uaha and she bore two sons and three daughters.

¹³ And she called the name of the first born Quyan, saying, I have obtained a man from YAHAUAHA, and the name of the other she called Habal, for she said, In vanity we came into the earth, and in vanity we shall be taken from it.

¹⁴ And the boys grew up and their father gave them a possession in the land; and Quyan was a tiller of the ground, and Habal a keeper of sheep.

¹⁵ And it was at the expiration of a few years, that they brought an approximating offering to YAHAUAHA, and Quyan brought from the fruit of the ground, and Habal brought from the firstlings of his flock from the fat thereof, and Alahayam turned and inclined to Habal and his offering, and a fire came down from YAHAUAHA from heaven and consumed it.

¹⁶ And unto Quyan and his offering YAHAUAHA did not turn, and he did not incline to it, for he had brought from the inferior fruit of the ground before YAHAUAHA, and Quyan was jealous against his brother Habal on account of this, and he sought a pretext to slay him.

¹⁷ And in some time after, Quyan and Habal his brother, went one day into the field to do their work; and they were both in the field, Quyan tilling and ploughing his ground, and Habal feeding his flock; and the flock passed that part which Quyan had ploughed in the ground, and it sorely grieved Quyan on this account.

¹⁸ And Quyan approached his brother Habal in anger, and he said unto him, What is there between me and you, that you come to dwell and bring your flock to feed in my land?

¹⁹ And Habal answered his brother Quyan and said unto him, What is there between me and you, that you shalt eat the flesh of my flock and clothe yourself with their wool?

²⁰ And now therefore, put off the wool of my sheep with which you have clothed yourself, and recompense me for their fruit and flesh which you have eaten, and when you shalt have done this, I will then go from your land as you have said?

²¹ And Quyan said to his brother Habal, Surely, if I slay you this day, who will require your blood from me?

²² And Habal answered Quyan, saying, Surely Alahayam who has made us in the earth, he will avenge my cause, and he will require my blood from you should you slay me, for YAHAUAHA is the judge and arbiter, and it is he who will requite man according to his evil, and the wicked man according to the wickedness that he may do upon earth.

²³ And now, if you should slay me here, surely Alahayam knows your secret views, and will judge you for the evil which you did declare to do unto me this day.

²⁴ And when Quyan heard the words which Habal his brother had spoken, behold the anger of Quyan was kindled against his brother Habal for declaring this thing.

²⁵ And Quyan hastened and rose up, and took the iron part of his ploughing instrument, with which he suddenly smote his brother and he slew him, and Quyan spilt the blood of his brother Habal upon the earth, and the blood of Habal streamed upon the earth before the flock.

²⁶ And after this Quyan repented having slain his brother, and he was sadly grieved, and he wept over him, and it vexed him exceedingly.

²⁷ And Quyan rose up and dug a hole in the field, wherein he put his brother’s body, and he turned the dust over it.

²⁸ And YAHAUAHA knew what Quyan had done to his brother, and YAHAUAHA appeared to Quyan and said unto him, Where is Habal your brother that was with you?

²⁹ And Quyan dissembled, and said, I do not know, am I my brother’s keeper? And YAHAUAHA said unto him, What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries unto me from the ground where you have slain him.

³⁰ For you have slain your brother and have dissembled before me, and did imagine in your heart that I saw you not, nor knew all your actions.

³¹ But you did this thing and did slay your brother for naught and because he spoke rightly to you, and now, therefore, cursed be you from the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand, and wherein you did bury him.

³² And it shall be when you shalt till it, it shall no longer give you its strength as in the beginning, for thorns and thistles shall the ground produce, and you shalt be moving and wandering in the earth until the day of your death.

³³ And at that time Quyan went out from the presence of YAHAUAHA, from the place where he was, and he went moving and wandering in the land toward the east of Adan, he and all belonging to him.

³⁴ And Quyan knew his woman in those days, and she conceived and bare a son, and he called his name Chanu’uk, saying, In that time YAHAUAHA began to give him rest and quiet in the earth.

³⁵ And at that time Quyan also began to build a city: and he built the city, and he called the name of the city Chanu’uk, according to the name of his son; for in those days YAHAUAHA had given him rest upon the earth, and he did not move about and wander as in the beginning.

³⁶ And A’yarad was born to Chanu’uk, and A’yarad begat Macha’uya’Al and Macha’uya’Al begat Mathu’u’sha’Al.