# The Cave of Treasures, chapter 69: The Signs of the Zodiac

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-cave-of-treasures/69 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**69:1** And straightway, according to what they had received from the tradition which had been handed down to them by their fathers, they left the East, and went up to the mountains of Nódh, which lie inside the entrances to the East from the lands on the skirts of the North, and they took from them gold, and myrrh, and frankincense.

**69:2** And from this [passage] understand, O my brother Nemesius, that the Magi knew the whole service of the Dispensation of our Redeemer through the offerings which they brought: the gold was for a king, the myrrh for a physician, and the frankincense fora priest, for the Magi knew Who He was, and that He was a king, and a physician, and a priest.

**69:3** Now when the son of the king of Sheba was a little boy his father brought him to a Rabbi, and he learned the Book of the Hebrews better than all his companions and his fellow countrymen, and he said unto all his slaves, “It is written in all the books of genealogies that the king shall be born in Bethlehem.”

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