Book of Jasher, Chapter 17 — The War of Chittim and Tubal; the Covenant of Circumcision; Abram Becomes Abraham
1And in those days, in the ninety-first year of the life of Abram, the children of Chittim made war with the children of Tubal; for when the Lord had scattered the sons of men over the face of the earth, the children of Chittim had gone and settled together in the plain of Canopia, and they built themselves cities there, and dwelt by the river Tibreu.
2And the children of Tubal dwelt in Tuscanah, and their boundaries reached the river Tibreu; and the children of Tubal built a city in Tuscanah, and they called its name Sabinah, after the name of Sabinah son of Tubal their father; and they dwell there to this day.
3And at that time the children of Chittim made war with the children of Tubal, and the children of Tubal were struck down before the children of Chittim; and the children of Chittim caused three hundred and seventy men of the children of Tubal to fall.
4And at that time the children of Tubal swore to the children of Chittim, saying, You shall not intermarry among us; no man shall give his daughter to any of the sons of Chittim.
5For all the daughters of Tubal were fair in those days; no women were then found in the whole earth so fair as the daughters of Tubal.
6And all who delighted in the beauty of women went to the daughters of Tubal and took wives from them; and the sons of men — kings and princes, all who greatly delighted in the beauty of women — took wives in those days from the daughters of Tubal.
7And at the end of three years after the children of Tubal had sworn to the children of Chittim not to give them their daughters as wives, about twenty men of the children of Chittim went to take some of the daughters of Tubal — but they found none.
8For the children of Tubal kept their oath not to intermarry with them, and they would not break their oath.
9And in the days of harvest, the children of Tubal went into their fields to bring in their harvest; and the young men of Chittim assembled and went to the city of Sabinah, and each man seized a young woman from the daughters of Tubal, and they came back to their cities.
10And the children of Tubal heard of it, and they went to make war on them — and they could not prevail against them, for the mountain was exceedingly high above them; and when they saw that they could not prevail, they returned to their land.
11And at the turn of the year, the children of Tubal went and hired about ten thousand men from the cities near them, and they went to war with the children of Chittim.
12And the children of Tubal went to war with the children of Chittim, to destroy their land and to distress them; and in this engagement the children of Tubal prevailed over the children of Chittim; and the children of Chittim, seeing themselves greatly distressed, lifted up the children they had had by the daughters of Tubal upon the wall that had been built, to be before the eyes of the children of Tubal.
13And the children of Chittim said to them, Have you come to make war on your own sons and daughters? Have we not been counted your flesh and bone from that time until now?
14And when the children of Tubal heard this, they ceased making war on the children of Chittim, and they went away.
15And they returned to their cities; and the children of Chittim at that time assembled and built two cities by the sea, and they called one Purtu and the other Ariza.
16And Abram the son of Terah was then ninety-nine years old.
17At that time the Lord appeared to him and said to him, I will make my covenant between me and you, and I will greatly multiply your seed; and this is the covenant that I make between me and you: that every male child be circumcised — you and your seed after you.
18At eight days old it shall be circumcised; and this covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
19And now, therefore, your name shall no longer be called Abram, but Abraham; and your wife shall no longer be called Sarai, but Sarah.
20For I will bless you both, and I will multiply your seed after you, so that you shall become a great nation; and kings shall come forth from you.