# The Cave of Treasures, chapter 23: The Death of Lamech

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-cave-of-treasures/23 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**23:1** And when Lamech had lived seven hundred and seventy -years, he died during the lifetime of Methuselah, his father, forty years before the Flood, on the twenty-first day of the month of Ilal (September), on the first day of the week (Sunday), in the sixty-eighth year of the life of Shem, the firstborn of Noah. And Noah his firstborn embalmed him, and Methuselah his father swathed him for burial, and they buried him in the Cave of Treasures, and mourned for him forty days.

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