In the sixth year of the seventh week of this jubilee [2057] Abraham summoned his son Isaac and gave him orders as follows: ‘I have grown old but do not know when I will die because I have reached the full number of my days.

Now I am 175 years of age. Throughout my entire lifetime I have continually remembered the Lord and tried to do his will wholeheartedly and to walk a straight course in all his ways.

I have personally hated idols in order to keep myself for doing the will of the one who created me.

For he is the living God. He is more holy, faithful, and just than anyone. With him there is no favoritism nor does he accept bribes because he is a just God and one who exercises judgment against all who transgress his commands and despise his covenant.

Now you, my son, keep his commands, ordinances, and verdicts. Do not pursue unclean things, statues, or molten images.

Do not eat any blood of an animal, cattle, or of any bird that flies in the sky.

If you slaughter a victim for a peace offering that is acceptable, slaughter it and pour their blood onto the altar. All the fat of the sacrifice you will offer on the altar with the finest flour; and the offering kneaded with oil, with its libation — you will offer it all together on the altar as a sacrifice. (It is) an aroma that is pleasing before the Lord.

As you place the fat of the peace offering on the fire which is on the altar, so also remove the fat which is on the stomach and all the fat which is on the internal organs and the two kidneys and all the fat which is on them and which is on the upper thighs and liver with the kidneys.

All of this you will offer as a pleasant fragrance which is acceptable before the Lord, with its sacrifice and its libation as a pleasant fragrance — the food of the offering to the Lord.

Eat its meat during that day and on the next day; but the sun is not to set on it on the next day until it is eaten. It is not to be left over for the third day because it is not acceptable to him. For it was not pleasing and is not therefore commanded. All who eat it will bring guilt on themselves because this is the way I found (it) written in the book of my ancestors, in the words of Enoch and the words of Noah.

On all your offerings you are to place salt; let the covenant of salt not come to an end on any of your sacrifices before the Lord.

Be careful about the (kinds of) woods (that are used for) sacrifice so that you bring no (kinds of) woods onto the altar except these only: cypress, silver-fir, almond, fir, pine, cedar, juniper, date, olive wood, myrtle, laurel wood, the cedar whose name is the juniper bush, and balsam.

Of these (kinds of) woods place beneath the sacrifice on the altar ones that have been tested for their appearance. Do not place (beneath it) any split or dark wood; (place there) strong (kinds of) woods and firm ones without any defect — a perfect and new growth. Do not place (there) old wood, for its aroma has left — because there is no longer an aroma upon it as at first.

Apart from these (kinds of) woods there is no other which you are to place (beneath the sacrifice) because their aroma is distinctive and the smell of their aroma goes up to heaven.

Pay attention to this commandment and do it, my son, so that you may behave properly in all your actions.

At all times be clean with respect to your body. Wash with water before you go to make an offering on the altar. Wash your hands and feet before you approach the altar [or: sacrifice]. When you have finished making an offering, wash your hands and feet again.

No blood is to be visible on you or on your clothing. My son, be careful with blood; be very careful to cover it with dirt.

You are not, therefore, to consume any blood because the blood is the vital force. Do not consume any blood.

Do not take a bribe for any human blood so that it may not be shed casually — without punishment — because it is the blood that is shed which makes the earth sin. The earth will not be able to become pure from human blood except through the blood of the one who shed it.

Do not take a bribe or gift for human blood; blood for blood — then it will be acceptable before the most high God. He will be the protection of the good; and (he will be this) so that you may be kept from every evil one and that he may save you from every (kind of) death.

I see, my son, that all the actions of mankind (consist of) sin and wickedness and all their deeds of impurity, worthlessness, and contamination. With them there is nothing that is right.

Be careful not to walk in their ways or to tread in their paths so that you may not commit a mortal sin before the most high God. Then he will hide his face from you and will hand you over to the power of your offenses. He will uproot you from the earth and your descendants from beneath heaven. Your name and descendants will be destroyed from the entire earth.

Depart from all their actions and from all their impurity. Keep the obligations of the most high God and do his will. Then you will act properly in every regard.

He will bless you in all your actions. He will raise from you a righteous plant in all the earth throughout all the history of the earth. Then my name and your name will not be passed over in silence beneath heaven throughout all time.

Go in peace, my son. May the most high God — my God and your God — strengthen you to do his will. May he bless all your descendants — the remnant of your descendants — throughout the history of eternity with every proper blessing so that you may become a blessing throughout the entire earth’.

Then he left him feeling happy.