This was because 5552 – 5556 were ordered as Patriots ( to be numbered 6040 – 4 ) but built with taper boilers as Jubilees on the orders of Sir William Stanier.

Ismailis have marked the Jubilees of their Imāms with public celebrations, which are symbolic affirmations of the ties that link the Ismāʿīlī Imām and his followers.

The visions of Daniel, with those of 1 Enoch, Isaiah, Jubilees, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, are the inspiration for much of the apocalyptic ideology and symbolism of the Qumran community's Dead Sea scrolls and the early literature of Christianity.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Deuterocanon, in addition to the standard set listed above, along with the books of Esdras and Prayer of Minasse, also includes some books that are still held canonical by only the Ethiopian Church, including Enoch or Henok ( I Enoch ), Kufale ( Jubilees ) and 1, 2 and 3 Meqabyan ( which are sometimes wrongly confused with the " Books of Maccabees ").

The more important are the book of Jubilees and the Book of Biblical Antiquities.

The canonicity of the larger group of " writings " ( the Jewish ketuvim ) had not yet been established, although some sort of selective process must have been employed because the Septuagint did not include other well-known Jewish documents such as Enoch or Jubilees or other writings that are not part of the Jewish canon.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are traditionally divided into three groups: " Biblical " manuscripts ( copies of texts from the Hebrew Bible ), which comprise roughly 40 % of the identified scrolls ; Other manuscripts ( known documents from the Second Temple Period like Enoch, Jubilees, Tobit, Sirach, additional psalms, etc., that were not ultimately canonized in the Hebrew Bible ), which comprise roughly 30 % of the identified scrolls ; and " Sectarian " manuscripts ( previously unknown documents that shed light on the rules and beliefs of a particular group or groups within greater Judaism ) like the Community Rule, War Scroll, Pesher on Habakkuk ( Hebrew: פשר pesher = " Commentary "), and the Rule of the Blessing, which comprise roughly 30 % of the identified scrolls.

The chronology given in Jubilees is based on multiples of seven ; the jubilees are periods of 49 years, seven ' year-weeks ', into which all of time has been divided.

According to the author of Jubilees, all proper customs that mankind should follow are determined by God's decree.

Passages in the texts of Jubilees that are directly parallel to verses in Genesis do not directly reproduce either of the two surviving manuscript traditions ; consequently, the lost Hebrew original is thought to have used an otherwise unrecorded text for Genesis and the early chapters of Exodus, one that was independent of either the Masoretic text or the Hebrew text that was the basis for the Septuagint.

How much is missing can be guessed from the Stichometry of Nicephorus, where 4300 stichoi or lines are attributed to The Book of Jubilees.

Jubilees remained a point of reference for priestly circles ( although they disputed its calendric proposal ), and the Temple Scroll and " Epistle of Enoch " ( 1 Enoch 91: 1 – 10, 92: 3 – 93: 10, 91: 11 – 92: 2, 93: 11 – 105: 3 ) are based on Jubilees.

Sub rosa, many of the traditions which Jubilees includes for the first time are echoed in later Jewish sources, including some 12th-century midrashim which may have had access to a Hebrew copy.

Further, the popes have constantly exercised their prerogative of conceding to all the faithful indulgences ad instar jubilaei ( after the model of a Jubilee ) which are commonly known as " extraordinary Jubilees ".

Such extraordinary Jubilees are commonly granted by a newly elected pontiff at his accession or on occasions of some unexpected celebration, as was done, for example, at the convening of the First Vatican Council, or again at times of great calamity.

In the Book of Jubilees, uncircumcised Gentiles are called " sons of Belial ".

Both the conquest of Canaan and the curse, according to the Book of Jubilees 10: 29-34, are attributed, rather, to Canaan's steadfast refusal to join his elder brothers in Ham's allotment beyond the Nile, and instead " squatting " within the inheritance of Shem, on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, in the region later promised to Abraham.

Examples of Old Testament pseudepigrapha are the Ethiopian Book of Enoch, Jubilees ( both of which are canonical in the Abyssinian Church of Ethiopia ); the Life of Adam and Eve and the Pseudo-Philo.

After seducing the Sethites, their offspring become the Nephilim, the " mighty men " of Gen. 6 who are all destroyed in the deluge, as also detailed in other works such as I Enoch and Jubilees.

Deuterocanonical books that also make up part of the canon are Sirach, Judith, Esdras 1 and 2, Meqabyan, Jubilees, Baruch 1 and 4, Tobit, Enoch and the testaments of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Dietary laws are based mainly on Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Jubilees.

Some are also listed in Book of Raziel ( Sefer Raziel HaMalakh ), the Zohar, and Jubilees.

Jubilees is considered canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as well as Jews in Ethiopia, where it is known as the Book of Division ( Ge ' ez: Mets ' hafe Kufale ).

In classical rabbinical literature, Hadurah's marriage to Asher was his second marriage as well, his first having been to Adon, who was a descendant of Ishmael ; the Book of Jubilees contradicts this, arguing instead that Asher's wife was named Lyon ( which probably means dove ).

This reference to Cainan is present in the Septuagint and Samaritan versions of the Book of Genesis, as well as in the Book of Jubilees ; however, the early Christian apologists Irenaeus and Eusebius believed it to be an error, as do many modern interpreters, mainly on the basis of his omission from the Masoretic ( Hebrew ) version.

Although the Jubilees have no religious significance, they serve to reaffirm the Imamat's worldwide commitment to the improvement of the quality of human life, especially in the developing countries.

During his 72 years of Imamat ( 1885 – 1957 ), the community celebrated his Golden ( 1937 ), Diamond ( 1946 ) and Platinum ( 1954 ) Jubilees.

Prior to his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.

According to the Book of Jubilees, Ur Kasdim ( and Chaldea ) took their name from Ura and Kesed, descendants of Arpachshad.

Flavius and the Book of Jubilees described the continents as the lands given by Noah to his three sons ; Europe was defined as stretching from the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar, separating it from North Africa, to the Don, separating it from Asia.

The Book of Jubilees indicates in 4: 33 that Shem was born in the year of the world ( after creation ) 1205, Ham in 1209, and Japheth in 1211.

The slaughter of the lambs on the 14th is mentioned in The Book of Jubilees, a Jewish work of the Ptolemaic period, and by the Herodian-era writers Josephus and Philo.

Jubilees states the sacrifice was eaten that night, and together with Josephus states that nothing of the sacrifice was allowed to remain until morning.

Mastema, in the Book of Jubilees, induces God to test Abraham through the sacrifice of Isaac.

However, in other sources such as the Book of Jubilees ( chapter 10 v. 18-27 ), Cornelius Alexander ( frag.

The Book of Jubilees states that Ur was founded in 1688 Anno Mundi ( year of the world ) by ' Ur son of Kesed, presumably the offspring of Arphaxad, adding that in this same year wars began on Earth.

" ( i. e., Ur Kasdim ) ( Jubilees 11: 3 ).

The 2nd century BC Book of Jubilees, regarded as non-canonical except by Coptic Christianity, also dates his birth to 130 AM.

The Book of Jubilees may reflect ancient tradition when it mentions a son ( or daughter, in some versions ) of ' Elam named " Susan ", whose daughter Rasuaya married Arpachshad, progenitor of another branch of Shemites.

Susa is further mentioned in the Book of Jubilees ( 8: 21 & 9: 2 ) as one of the places within the inheritance of Shem and his eldest son Elam ; and in 8: 1, " Susan " is also named as the son ( or daughter, in some translations ) of Elam.

In 1915 Paul Kahle published a paper which compared passages from the Samaritan text to Pentateuchal quotations in the New Testament and pseudepigraphal texts including the Book of Jubilees, the First Book of Enoch and the Assumption of Moses.

In the book of Jubilees he was bequeathed the three ' tongues ' of Europe.

It now contains the gifts Queen Victoria received on her Golden and Diamond Jubilees.