# The Cave of Treasures, chapter 32: The Departure of Shem with the Body of Adam

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-cave-of-treasures/32 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**32:1** And after the death of Noah Shem did as his father had commanded him. And he went into the Ark by night, and brought out the body of Adam therefrom, and he sealed the Ark with his father’s seal, and no man perceived [what he had done]. And he called Ham and Japhet, and said unto them, “My brethren, my father commanded me to go up and travel over the earth, even to the sea (i.e. the Mediterranean), and I am to see what the rivers are like, and then return unto you. And behold, my wife and the children of my house are with you (i.e. in your care); let your eyes be upon them.”

**32:2** And his brethren said unto him, “Take with thee a company of men from the camp, for the land is a desert waste, and is shorn of inhabitants, and there are wild beasts therein.” And Shem said unto them, “The Angel of the Lord shall go up with me, and he shall save me from every evil thing”; and his brethren said unto him, “Go in peace, and may the Lord God of our Fathers be with thee.”

**32:3** And Shem said unto Malakh (the brother of Shalah (Salah), the son of [Cainan] and [grand]son of Arphaxad), the father of Melchisedek, and Yézadhak, his mother, “Give ye me Melchisedek, that he may go up with me, and be a consolation for me on the road.” And Malakh and Yózadhák, his mother, said unto Shem, “Take [him] and go in peace.”

**32:4** And Shem gave commands unto his brethren, and said unto them, “’ My brethren, my father made me swear that neither I, nor any of your descendants, should go into the Ark,” and he sealed the Ark with his seal, and said unto them, “Let no man go near it.”

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