Geography
36 locations across celestial and earthly realms - from the throne of glory in heaven to Mount Hermon, Sheol, and the ends of the earth.
The world described in these texts extends far beyond ordinary geography. Enoch traverses the ends of the earth where the gates of the luminaries open, descends into Sheol where the dead await judgment in four separate compartments, and ascends through walls of crystal and fire to reach the throne of glory. On earth, Mount Hermon marks the angels' descent, Ararat marks renewal after the flood, and the promised land of Canaan carries the weight of covenantal history from Abraham through the conquest.
Celestial
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Heaven
Heaven is the multi-layered celestial realm where the Lord of Spirits presides on his throne of glory, surrounded by angelic hosts - the divine seat o...
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Throne of Glory
The Throne of Glory is the heavenly seat of divine authority where the Son of Man is installed to judge the nations - the focal point of Enoch's most ...
Earth
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Mount Hermon
Mount Hermon is the northern peak where the two hundred Watchers descended and swore their oath - the physical location where the boundary between hea...
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Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai is the sacred mountain where Moses received the Law and the Angel of the Presence dictated the entire Book of Jubilees - the terrestrial c...
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The Ark
The Ark is the massive vessel built by Noah at divine command to preserve his family and pairs of all living creatures through the Flood that destroye...
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Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat is the highland where Noah's Ark came to rest after the Flood receded - the site of the first post-diluvian altar and the covenant renewa...
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Babel / Shinar
Babel is the city and tower built under Nimrod's direction in the plain of Shinar - a monument of post-flood human rebellion that provoked divine inte...
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Canaan
Canaan is the land promised to Abraham and his descendants - illegally seized by Ham's son in Jubilees, contested through the patriarchal period, and ...
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Egypt
Egypt is the land where Joseph rises to power and where Israel later becomes enslaved - serving as both a place of divine provision during famine and ...
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Ur of the Chaldees
Ur of the Chaldees is the Mesopotamian city where Abraham was born amid widespread idol worship - the place where his faith was literally tested by fi...
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Desert of Dudael
The Desert of Dudael is the desolate wilderness where the archangel Raphael bound Azazel beneath jagged rocks in complete darkness - his prison until ...
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Sodom
Sodom is the city of the Jordan plain whose extreme wickedness and perverse laws provoked destruction by fire from heaven - serving throughout the Eno...
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Haran
Haran is the northern Mesopotamian city where Abraham's family settled after fleeing Ur - a transitional waypoint between the idolatrous world and the...
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Dan / Laish
Dan is the northern location where Abraham ambushed and routed the coalition of four kings to rescue Lot - marking the furthest extent of the promised...
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Bethel
Bethel is the sacred site where Jacob beheld angels ascending and descending on a ladder reaching to heaven - a place where the divine and earthly rea...
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Hebron / Machpelah
Hebron is the ancestral burial ground where Abraham purchased the cave of Machpelah - the first permanent territorial claim in the promised land and r...
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The Wilderness
The wilderness traversed by Israel after the Exodus functions in Jubilees and Jasher as a prolonged testing ground where divine provision and human fa...
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Shechem
Shechem is the Canaanite city where Dinah is defiled by the prince of the same name - prompting the devastating massacre by Simeon and Levi that defin...
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Moab
Moab is the territory east of the Dead Sea occupied by the descendants of Lot - a nation that repeatedly interacts with Israel as both neighbor and ad...
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Seir / Edom
Seir is the mountainous territory south of the Dead Sea that becomes Esau's homeland - known as Edom, it represents the rival lineage that contests Ja...
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Cush (Ethiopia)
Cush is the African kingdom where Moses reigns as king for forty years during his exile from Egypt - a unique expansion of his biography found only in...
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Midian
Midian is the desert territory east of the Gulf of Aqaba where Moses spends years in exile tending flocks - the place of his marriage to Zipporah, his...
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Aram / Paddan-Aram
Aram is the Mesopotamian region encompassing Haran and Laban's territory - the land where Jacob spends twenty years building his family and wealth bef...
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Goshen
Goshen is the fertile region in eastern Egypt where Jacob's family settles under Joseph's protection - the land that sustains Israel during famine but...
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The Jordan River
The Jordan River is the boundary between the wilderness and the promised land - the final barrier Israel must cross under Joshua to enter their inheri...
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Elam
Elam is the powerful eastern kingdom whose king Chedorlaomer leads a coalition of four kings against the cities of the plain - the conflict that draws...
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Gerar
Gerar is the Philistine territory where both Abraham and Isaac sojourn during times of famine - each patriarch facing similar tests regarding their wi...
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Beersheba
Beersheba is the southern settlement where Abraham plants a tamarisk tree and where Isaac dwells - a site of wells, oaths, and covenant-making that ma...
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Jericho
Jericho is the first Canaanite city conquered by Israel under Joshua - its walls collapsing after seven days of ritual procession, demonstrating that ...
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Mamre / Oaks of Mamre
Mamre is the site near Hebron where Abraham dwells and receives the three angelic visitors who announce Isaac's birth and the impending destruction of...
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The Red Sea
The Red Sea is the body of water divided by God to allow Israel's passage and then collapsed upon the pursuing Egyptian army - the most dramatic act o...
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Mount Moriah
Mount Moriah is the site where Abraham is commanded to sacrifice Isaac - the supreme test of faith where obedience to the point of offering one's son ...
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Dothan
Dothan is the place where Joseph finds his brothers tending flocks and is thrown into a pit before being sold to passing traders - the location of the...
Subterranean
Celestial / Primordial
Cosmic Boundary
Edom
Africa
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Africa
Africa is a land also called Dinhabah, ruled by King Angeas. Zepho came to Africa and was received with great honor by Angeas, who made him captain of...
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Dinhabah
Dinhabah is the same as Africa and is ruled by King Angeas. Angeas was friendly to the children of Esau and sent five hundred valiant infantry and eig...
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Bibentu
Bibentu is a city ruled by Turnus, who sent messengers from there to Chittim. Turnus king of Bibentu was buried in a place with Niblos after a tower w...
Canaan
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Gaash
Gaash is a city with a king named Elan or Elon and fourteen captains. The people of Gaash gathered against the sons of Jacob to battle after their kin...
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Tapnach
Tapnach is a city whose inhabitants received men who reported what the sons of Jacob had done to Shechem. Jashub was king of Tapnach and sent men to S...
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Sarton
Sarton was a city whose king was Susi. After Susi was slain, the sons of Jacob went to Sarton because the men who remained there were assembling to fi...
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Chazar
Chazar is a city whose king was Parathon. Neighboring kings and their armies fled to the city of Chazar when the sons of Jacob approached. The sons of...
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Gomorrah
Gomorrah is a city of the plain whose king was slain by Chedorlaomer and allied kings, while the king of Sodom fled. The Lord executed judgments on So...
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Gilead
Gilead is a land that Jacob reached after crossing the river with his wives, children, and possessions. Laban pursued Jacob and overtook him in the mo...
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Machpelah
The cave of Machpelah is a burial site in the end of a field that Abraham sought to purchase from Ephron the son of Zochar. Abraham bought it from the...
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Shiloh
Shiloh is a location ruled by King Ihuri, who was one of the neighboring kings summoned for aid. Ihuri king of Shiloh came up to assist Elon but was s...
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Adulam
Adulam is a location ruled by a king who received a secret message from Japhia king of Hebron along with the kings of Ai, Gibeon, Shalem, Lachish and ...
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Gibeon
Gibeon is a location that had its own king, who was among those secretly contacted by Japhia king of Hebron. Its inhabitants feared fighting the Israe...
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Shalem
Shalem is the land and city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, where Jacob came and rested in front of the city after leaving the borders of the land. ...
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Eden
The garden of Eden is the place into which Adam was brought after forty days in the land where he had been created, in order to till and keep it. His ...
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Bethchorin
Bethchorin is a location that had a king named Laban who was slain with an arrow. It is associated with a desert to which blood flowed from the city o...
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Siddim
The valley of Siddim is where the five kings of Sodom and Gomorrah joined together with their allies and made war against the kings of Elam and others...
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Lachish
Lachish is a location with its own king who received secret messages from other kings such as Japhia of Hebron and Adonizedek of Jerusalem. Joshua pas...
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Arbelan
Arbelan is a city to which the sons of Jacob pursued the men of Tapnach after smiting them, and where those men all fell. The people of Arbelan later ...
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Casdim
Casdim is named in connection with the fire where Haran died at the age of eighty-two. Terah took Abram, Lot, Sarai and his household from Ur Casdim t...
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Gadir
Gadir is a location reached by going forth towards the north to its limits, near the coast of the waters of the great sea and the river Gihon. Land ex...
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Media
Media is the dwelling-place called by Madai for himself and his sons. It was named Media after their father Madai. Madai had seen the land of the sea ...
Mesopotamia
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Shinar
Shinar is a land allotted in Asshur's portion along with Nineveh and extending toward the border of India. People journeyed eastward from Ararat to Sh...
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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates to the north of the Chaldees to the border of the mountains of Asshur and the land of 'Ar...
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Pethor
Pethor is a city upon the river in Mesopotamia, called Aram Naherayim unto this day. It was built and named after Pethor the son of Aram. The children...
desert
near Egypt
israel
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Zion
Mount Zion is a holy place where the Lord is King for all eternity. Zion and Jerusalem shall be holy. It is one of four places of the Lord on the eart...
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem is named together with Zion as a place that shall be holy. Adonizedek is called king of Jerusalem and goes out from there to meet Abram with...
land of Og
before Egypt toward Assyria
near Ammon
Gath
to the river of Egypt
south of the Garden
Hebron
canaan
Padan-aram
Egypt
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Succoth
Jacob built himself a house, pitched his tent, and made booths for his cattle at this location, therefore calling its name Succoth. He remained in Suc...
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Pithom
Pithom is a city in Egypt built as a strong city for Pharaoh along with Raamses. Taskmasters afflicted the people with slavery as they built it and al...
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Sihor
Sihor is the river also called the brook of Egypt. People dwell by the river Sihor and built cities there. The brook of Egypt was filled above all its...
islands of the sea
Ararat
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Ararat
Ararat refers to mountains and a land where the ark rested on the top of Lubar, one of its mountains. Noah planted vines on Lubar, one of the Ararat M...
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Lubar
Lubar is one of the mountains of Ararat on whose top the ark rested. Noah planted vines on this mountain and they produced fruit in the fourth year. T...
near mount moriah
north
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Tina
Tina is referred to as a river in the allotment of lands. The third portion for Japheth came forth beyond the river Tina to the north of the outflow o...
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Me'at
The sea of Me'at appears as a geographical boundary in the allotment of lands. An inheritance extends easterly to the waters of the sea of Me'at. Mago...
land of the plain
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Admah
Admah is listed among four men from the family of Ham who went to the land of the plain. It appears as a city whose king is Shinab and whose judge is ...
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Zeboyim
Zeboyim is named as one of four men from the family of Ham who went to the land of the plain, alongside Sodom, Gomorrah and Admah. Shemeber is identif...
Moab
near Egypt and Canaan
Jericho
Amorite lands
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Jaazer
Jaazer was a very famous city. Moses sent some of the children of Israel to spy it out. The spies explored Jaazer, fought its men, took the city and i...
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Chazor
Chazor was a location ruled by King Jabin. Jabin king of Chazor heard of Joshua's actions against the Amorite kings and sent word to other kings to ga...
near Dan and Ammon
near Moab
East
wilderness of Sin
near Sinai
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Elim
Elim is a site in the desert between Marah and Sinai. It had twelve springs of water and seventy date trees, and the children encamped there by the wa...
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Rephidim
Rephidim is the location where the children of Israel encamped after proceeding from Alush. While there, Amalek the son of Eliphaz came with a large f...
Bethlehem
Seir
Canopia
near Sodom
amorite lands
east
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Erythraean
The Erythraean sea lies far towards the east of the earth. Enoch passed above it while traveling eastward over mountain summits. Rivers coming from th...
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India
India is named among the lands of the east in the blessed portion given to Shem and his sons forever, alongside Eden and the Red Sea. The whole land o...
