Given by: the angel of the presence to Moses on Sinai, retelling the making of Eve and the first marriage in Eden. Given to: Moses, and through him to Israel, that marriage might be honoured as the oldest order in creation.

Written for Jews under Hellenistic pressure to loosen their distinct family life, the book answers by grounding marriage in creation itself, making the one-flesh union a matter of divine order rather than changing custom.

Therefore shall man and wife be one and therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

The creation pattern of marriage set down at the beginning: a man leaves father and mother, cleaves to his wife, and the two become one flesh.

Jubilees 3:7

Your Spirit

Loves God

Loves Neighbor

Your Body

Moral Behaviour