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Women Of The
Lost Books
The
Book of Jasher
Unknown Woman of Admah:
A woman who was kind to a poor traveler
For her kindness and charity she was judged by the people of Admah
and given a death sentence.
Jasher 19:36
And in the city of Admah there was a woman to whom they did the
like.
37
For a traveler came into the city of Admah to abide there all night,
with the intention of going home in the morning, and he sat opposite
the door of the house of the young woman's father, to remain there,
as the sun had set when be had reached that place; and the young
woman saw him sitting by the door of the house.
38
And he asked her for a drink of water and she said to him, Who art
thou? and he said to her, I was this day going on the road, and
reached here when the sun set, so I will abide here all night, and
in the morning I will arise early and continue my journey.
39
And the young woman went into the house and fetched the man bread
and water to eat and drink.
40
And this affair became known to the
people of Admah, and they assembled and brought the young woman
before the judges, that they should judge her for this act.
41
And the judge said, The judgment of death must pass upon this woman
because she transgressed our law, and this therefore is the decision
concerning her.
42
And the people of those cities assembled and brought out the young
woman, and anointed her with honey from head to foot, as the judge
had decreed, and they placed her before a swarm of bees which were
then in their hives, and the bees flew upon her and stung her that
her whole body was swelled.
43
And the young woman cried out on account of the bees, but no one
took notice of her or pitied her, and her cries ascended to heaven.
Ado: Wife of Lot. She was turned to
a pillar of salt for looking back at the destruction of Sodom and
Gomorrah
Jasher 19:52
And he overthrew these cities, all the plain and all the inhabitants
of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground; and Ado the wife
of Lot looked back to see the destruction of the cities, for her
compassion was moved on account of her daughters who remained in
Sodom, for they did not go with her.
53
And when she looked back she became a pillar of salt, and it is yet
in that place unto this day.
54
And the oxen which stood in that place daily licked up the salt to
the extremities of their feet, and in the morning it would spring
forth afresh, and they again licked it up unto this day.
Lot’s Daughters: The
two daughters of Lot
Jasher 19:55
And Lot and two of his daughters that remained
with him fled and escaped to the cave of Adullam, and they remained
there for some time. 56
And Abraham rose up early in the morning to see what had been done
to the cities of Sodom; and he looked and beheld the smoke of the
cities going up like the smoke of a furnace.
57 And Lot
and his two daughters remained in the cave, and they made their
father drink wine, and they lay with him, for they said there was no
man upon earth that could raise up seed from them, for they thought
that the whole earth was destroyed.
58 And they both lay with their
father, and they conceived and bare sons, and the first born called
the name of her son Moab, saying, From my father did I conceive him;
he is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
59 And the
younger also called her son Benami; he is the father of the children
of Ammon unto this day. 60
And after this Lot and his two daughters went away from there, and
he dwelt on the other side of the Jordan with his two daughters and
their sons, and the sons of Lot grew up, and they went and took
themselves wives from the land of Canaan, and they begat children
and they were fruitful and multiplied.
Meribah (Akaribah):
Wife of Yismael
She was rude to Abraham when he came to visit Yismael, she beat her
children, and she cursed andd reproached Yismael. Abraham left a
messge for Yismael to put her away and find another wife.
Jasher 21:17
And he and his mother afterward went to the land of Egypt, and they
dwelt there, and Hagar took a wife for her son from Egypt, and her
name was Meribah. 18
And the wife of Ishmael conceived and bare
four sons and two daughters, and Ishmael and his mother and his wife
and children afterward went and returned to the wilderness.
Malchuth: Second wife
of Yismael
She was a woman of Canaan who honored Abraham and was approved by
him as a good wife.
Jasher 25:18
And Ishmael afterward took a wife from the land of Canaan, and her
name was Malchuth, and she bare unto him Nishma, Dumah, Masa, Chadad,
Tema, Yetur, Naphish and Kedma.
Reumah: Concubine of
Nahor who bore him four sons
Jasher 22:18
And Nahor had a concubine and her name was Reumah, and she also bare
to Nahor, Zebach, Gachash, Tachash and Maacha, being four sons.
Deborah: Daughter of
Uz, the firstborn of Nahor. She was nurse to Rivqah (Rebecca)
Jasher 22:20
And the children of Uz the first born of Nahor were Abi, Cheref,
Gadin, Melus, and Deborah their sister.
Jasher 24:42
And Eliezer rose up in the morning, he and the men that were with
him, and he called to the whole household of Bethuel, saying, Send
me away that I may go to my master; and they rose up and sent away
Rebecca and her nurse Deborah, the daughter of Uz, and they gave her
silver and gold, men servants and maid servants, and they blessed
her.
Rebecca (Rivqah):
Daughter of Bethuel, sister of Laban, wife of Isaac
Jasher 24:39
And they all blessed the Lord who brought this
thing about, and they gave him Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel, for
a wife for Isaac. 40
And the young woman was of very comely appearance, she was a virgin,
and Rebecca was ten years old in those days.
41 And
Bethuel and Laban and his children made a feast on that night, and
Eliezer and his men came and ate and drank and rejoiced there on
that night. 42
And Eliezer rose up in the morning, he and the men that were with
him, and he called to the whole household of Bethuel, saying, Send
me away that I may go to my master; and they rose up and sent away
Rebecca and her nurse Deborah, the daughter of Uz, and they gave her
silver and gold, men servants and maid servants, and they blessed
her. 43
And they sent Eliezer away with his men; and the servants took
Rebecca, and he went and returned to his master to the land of
Canaan. 44
And Isaac took Rebecca and she became his wife, and he brought her
into the tent. And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebecca,
the daughter of his uncle Bethuel, for a wife.
Keturah: A Canaanitish
woman taken as wife by Abraham in his old age after the death of
Sarah
Keturah had six sons for Abraham.
Jasher 25:1
And it was at that time that Abraham again
took a wife in his old age, and her name was Keturah, from the land
of Canaan.
Bosmath: Daughter of
Yismael by Meribah
Jasher 25:1
And it was at that time that Abraham again
took a wife in his old age, and her name was Keturah, from the land
of Canaan.
Jehudith: Daughter of
Beeri, son of Epher, the wife of Esau
Jasher 28:22
And Esau there saw in the land of Seir the daughter of a man of
Canaan, and her name was Jehudith, the daughter of Beeri, son of
Epher, from the families of Heth the son of Canaan.
23 And Esau
took her for a wife, and he came unto her; forty years old was Esau
when he took her, and he brought her to Hebron, the land of his
father's dwelling place, and he dwelt there.
Adinah: Wife of Laban
Jasher 28:28
And the Lord afterward remembered Adinah the wife of Laban, and she
conceived and bare twin daughters, and Laban called the names of his
daughters, the name of the elder Leah, and the name of the younger
Rachel.
Leah: Daughter
of Laban, first wife of Jacob
Jasher 28:28
And the Lord afterward remembered Adinah the wife of Laban, and she
conceived and bare twin daughters, and Laban called the names of his
daughters, the name of the elder Leah, and the name of the younger
Rachel. (For more on Leah see Jasher Chapter31)
Rachel: Daughter of Laban, a
shepherdess, the wife and beloved of Jacob, mother of Joseph
and Benjamin
Jasher 28:28
And the Lord afterward remembered Adinah the wife of Laban, and she
conceived and bare twin daughters, and Laban called the names of his
daughters, the name of the elder Leah, and the name of the younger
Rachel. (For more on Rachel see Jasher Chapter 31)
Basmath (Adah): Daughter of Elon the
Hittite, second wife of Esau
Jasher 29:12
And when Esau saw that Jacob had fled and escaped from him, and that
Jacob had cunningly obtained the blessing, then Esau grieved
exceedingly, and he was also vexed at his father and mother; and he
also rose up and took his wife and went away from his father and
mother to the land of Seir, and he dwelt there; and Esau saw there a
woman from amongst the daughters of Heth whose name was Bosmath, the
daughter of Elon the Hittite, and he took her for a wife in addition
to his first wife, and Esau called her name Adah, saying the
blessing had in that time passed from him.
17
And in those days Adah the wife of Esau conceived and bare him a
son, and Esau called the name of the son that was born unto him
Eliphaz, and Esau was sixty-five years old when she bare him.
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