# The Cave of Treasures, chapter 17: The Rule of Kainan

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-cave-of-treasures/17 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**17:1** And Kainan stood up before God to minister in the Cave of Treasures. He was an honourable and pure man, and he governed the children of his people in the complete fear. of God, and he fulfilled all the commandments of Ánósh his father. And when Kainan had lived nine hundred and twenty years [in the Book of Adam and the Book of the Bee 910 years], and was sick unto death, all the Patriarchs gathered together and came unto him, viz. Mahlalail his son, and Yaréd, and Enoch and Methuselah and Lamech, they and their wives and their children, and were blessed by him.

**17:2** And he prayed over them and commanded them, saying, “I will make you swear by the holy blood of Abel that not one of you shall go down from this holy mountain into the camp of the children of Cain, the murderer, for ye all know well what enmity hath existed between us and them since the day whereon he killed Abel.”

**17:3** And he blessed his son Mahlalail, and admonished him concerning the body of Adam, and said unto him, “Behold, O my son Mahláláil, minister thou before God in purity and holiness in the Cave of Treasures, and depart not thou from the presence of the body of Adam all the days of thy life. And be thou the governor of the children of thy people, and rule thou them purely and holily.”

**17:4** Kainan died, being nine hundred and twenty years old, on the thirteenth day of the month of Hezéran (June), on the fourth day of the week (Wednesday), at mid-day, in the five and sixtieth year of [the life of] Lamech, the father of Noah. And Mahlalail, his son, embalmed him, and buried him in the Cave of Treasures; and they made mourning for him forty days.

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