Given by: the narrator, describing Jacob keeping the harvest feast in famine, in the book's retelling of Genesis dictated to Moses on Sinai. Given to: the reader, as an example of thanksgiving that does not wait for abundance.

Jubilees is famous for grounding the appointed feasts in creation and the patriarchs, according to its own distinctive calendar; the enduring point carded here is the spiritual duty of thanksgiving, not the book's particular festival dating.

And he celebrated the harvest festival of the first-fruits with old grain, for in all the land of Canaan there was not a handful of seed in the land, for the famine was over all the beasts and cattle and birds, and also over man.

In the depth of famine, with no fresh harvest, Jacob still keeps the festival of first-fruits with old grain — offering thanksgiving to God even out of scarcity.

Jubilees 44:4

Your Spirit

Loves God

Loves Neighbor

Your Body

Moral Behaviour