The Book of JASHER is mentioned in our Bible by name....does it have credibility?

In the past I wrote a blog on the Book of Enoch and how it was originally included in the biblical text but was later removed as it fell out of favour with the churches. After some research it became clear that its text compliments the bible rather than contradict as some claim. Today we will take a look at another book mentioned in our Bible that is no longer included. The book is called the Book of Jasher and is mentioned in two very distinct places in the gospels. It is first mentioned in Joshua 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. and then again it is made mention of in 2Samuel 1:18.(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)  Why would God make sure it was in the Bible twice if he didn't want us to question? I know there are many who warn others to stay away from these books but if you don't research and follow the breadcrumbs left for us, how will you ever know the truth? There is absolutely no harm in researching to find the truth. If something does refute the bible;knowing the bible has no errors, we would then have to throw it out. These books do not contradict the Bible that I have found, they simply give a little more detail in certain areas that seem to be missing. My belief is that He wants us to read these books if they are specifically mentioned and wants to make sure that they are not overlooked.

Lets take a look at what is in the Book of Jasher. Its title means The Book of the Righteous and it accounts for the lives of Enoch, Noah and Abraham. These are some pretty important figures in the Holy Bible and yet this book and its teachings were removed from the original copies?

The Book of Jasher actually answers a lot of questions unanswered in Genesis. I am only going to go through the first 5 chapters as a sample. Please feel free to research further on your own :)

It starts out with the creation story and Adam and Eve, it includes the Fall, the birth of Cain and Abel including the quarrel between the two brothers even leading to the first murder mentioned in the Bible.  Chapter 2 Seth is born, people are multiplying and becoming idolators, the world becomes corrupt, Enoch is born, 1/3 of the world destroyed. Chapter 3 speaks of Enoch reigning upon the earth for 240 years.  He worked for and against the Watchers in a mediator attorney type role. The very information included about Enoch brings us again back to the legitimacy of the Book of Enoch further increasing its credibility as well. After the birth of Jared, it describes certain activities of Enoch including descriptions of the trips back and forth from the heavens and the inside depths of the earth. This is not mentioned in the bible but doesn't refute.
In Genesis 5,6 and 7, 1Enoch 6,7,12 and Jubilees 5 and 7. They all discuss the accounts of the Fallen angels known as the Watchers coming down 'in the days of Jared' and after landing on Mt Hermon they took and mated with the daughters of men. Genesis doesn't state a number but Enoch states 200 Fallen angels. It shares that some of these giants were 450 ft. God judged the children of the Watchers called the 1st generation Nephelim by making them kill each other and making their parents watch them die. God then judged the Watchers and bound them in Tartarus and under the sands of the earth in the chains of darkness where they remain for 70 generations.
 Chapter 4 talks about Noah being born. There was a time of peace when Noah was born and then another wave of evil took place as a result of the mixed species that began in later days of Methuselah that again resulted in flesh being corrupted.Chapter 5 Noah goes through 120 years of repentance and preaching to others about following God. The corruption is mentioned in Genesis 6:3-4 and 2Peter 2:4,5.  On Gods instruction Noah builds the ark as mentioned in The Bible. In the Book of Jasher it gives more detail on the instructions of the ark. Jasher 5:34 summed up says that Noah commenced to make the ark 5 years before the flood and it took him that long to build. This doesn't refute the gospels at all.
Jasher goes into detail about Noah picking his sons wives even though the world was corrupted in those days. It explains how the sons were busy helping Noah build the ark that they had no time to look for wives.  Noah would have had to choose wives from what was available Genesis 6:12, Jasher 4:18 and Jubilees 7:24 He chose the wives literally 7 days before Methusaleh died which was also by no coincidence 7 days before the flood. Noah lived 600 years before the flood waters came and in that time a new breed of evil has emerged and grew to corrupt the entire planet. Where did they come from?
 Regarding the event of human mating with the angels that book is silent but The Book of Jasher contains an account instead of how "they mingled the seed with the seed of animals" It says that judges and rulers of the people forcefully took women from their fathers and husbands. It does not refer to sex with the angels rather describes scientific experiments with animals creating trans genetic species. The Book of Jasher however is not the only book that talks of this. The book of Jubilees which is another controversial book also mentions mixing human seed with animals Jubilees 7:24,25 "And after they sinned against the beasts and the birds that moveth and walketh on the earth; and much blood was shed on the earth and every imagination and desire of men imagined vanity and evil continually"
What are scientists doing today?? Does mixing human seed and animal seed open windows we aren't supposed to be opening?

Enoch summarizes the first 11 chapters of Genesis while Jasher summarizes the remaining chapters? With the combination of Genesis, Enoch and Jasher they definitely fill in some of  the blanks.
Genesis gives us the basics of what we need to know, Enoch focuses on a specific event recorded in Genesis 6 in a very few verses and resulting consequences and Jasher gives us more detail on the mixing of the bloodline as well as confirming the same accounts in the Bible concerning Gods chosen people.

No book should ever take the place of the Bible but since it is listed in our Bible by name and the fact that it was in the original text, it is worth a look. I have found it compliments scripture as mentioned in todays cannon and should be included to know the truth. xoxo