Given by: the angel of the presence to Moses on Mount Sinai, surveying the whole sweep of time from Adam to the crossing of the Jordan. Given to: Moses, for the generation that must wait forty years before Canaan. The verse counts time in the book's own jubilee arithmetic; the enduring word is what the waiting years are for.

For Jews under Hellenistic rule, long waiting under foreign power was their daily experience; Jubilees answers by showing that even Israel's longest delay was ordained, measured and purposeful — God wastes no season.

Wherefore I have ordained for thee the year-weeks and the years and the jubilees: there are forty-nine jubilees from the days of Adam until this day, and one week and two years: and there are yet forty years to come for learning the commandments of the Lord, until they pass over into the land of Canaan, crossing the Jordan to the west.

Forty years in the wilderness are named not as punishment but as a school: appointed time for learning the commandments of the Lord before entering His promise.

Jubilees 50:4

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