Jubilees (2nd c. BC) teaches that God created the spirits of creatures in heaven and earth before physically creating them on earth.
- Type
- Manuscript
- Source
- O. S. Wintermute Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Translation
- Reference
Jubilees 2:2 in O. S. Wintermute (trans.), "Jubilees: A New Translation and Introduction," in The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, ed. James H. Charlesworth, 2 vols. (New York: Yale University Press, 1985), 2:55
- Scribe/Publisher
- Yale University Press
- People
- O. S. Wintermute
- Audience
- Reading Public
PDF- Transcription
For on the first day he created the heavens, which are above, and the earth, and the waters and all of the spirits which minister before him:
the angels of the presence,
and the angels of sanctification,
and the angels of the spirit of fire,
and the angels of the spirit of the winds,
and the angels of the spirit of the clouds and darkness and snow and hail and frost,
and the angels of resoundings and thunder and lightning,
and the angels of the spirits of cold and heat and winter and springtime and harvest and summer,
and all of the spirits of his creatures which are in heaven and on earth.
And (he created) the abysses and darkness—both evening and night—and light—both dawn and daylight—which he prepared in the knowledge of his heart
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