Jubilees (2nd century BC, sometimes called 'Little Genesis') retells Genesis and the start of Exodus as a revelation an angel dictates to Moses on Sinai, dating every event by 'weeks' and 'jubilees' of years on a 364-day solar calendar and stressing the Sabbath and the festivals. It is a Jewish rewriting of the biblical story, valued for how second-temple Jews read Genesis, not part of the canon (except in the Ethiopian church).
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
The Book of Jubilees: what it is
the Book of Jubilees · PseudepigraphaPseudepigrapha
And the angel of the presence spake to Moses according to the word of the Lord, saying: Write the complete history of the creation, how in six days the Lord God finished all His works and all that He created, and kept Sabbath on the seventh day and hallowed it for all ages, and appointed it as a sign for all His works.
R. H. Charles's 1913 translation (The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, Oxford; Public Domain)
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Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
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