Given by: God to Moses on Sinai, foretelling that exile-bound Israel will lose not only His law but His calendar of worship. Given to: Moses, for a people whose time itself was meant to confess God.

In the second century BC, calendar disputes were covenant disputes — festival dates determined whether the whole nation worshipped together. Jubilees champions a 364-day solar reckoning against lunar alternatives; its readers heard 'go astray as to new moons and sabbaths' as a live controversy, not a metaphor.

And they will forget all My law and all My commandments and all My judgments, and will go astray as to new moons, and sabbaths, and festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances.

Among the first casualties of forgetting God, the book lists His appointed times — sabbaths, festivals, jubilees. The enduring duty is to keep life ordered around God's rhythms of worship rather than drifting from them.

Jubilees 1:13

Your Spirit

Loves God

Loves Neighbor

Your Body

Moral Behaviour