Cave of Treasures

W⁸hen Adam heard these words, which were exceedingly displeasing unto him, he said, “It will be a transgression of the commandment for thee to take [to wife] thy sister, who was born with thee. Nevertheless, take ye to yourselves fruits of trees, and the young of sheep, and get ye up to the top of this holy mountain. Then go ye into the Cave of Treasures, and offer ye up your offerings, and make your prayers, and then ye shall consort with your wives.”

A²nd he commanded his son Seth, and said unto him, “Observe, my son Seth, that which I command thee this day, and do thou on the day of thy death give my command to Anésh, and repeat it to him, and let him repeat it to Kainan, and Kainan shall repeat it to Mahlalail, and let this [my] command be handed on to all your generations. And when I die, embalm me with myrrh, and cassia, and stakte, and deposit my body in the Cave of Treasures. And whosoever shall be left of your generations in that day, when your going forth from this country, which is round about Paradise, shall take place, shall carry my body with him, and shall take it and deposit it in the centre of the earth, for in that place shall redemption be effected for me and for all my children. And be thou, O my son Seth, governor of the sons of thy people. And thou shalt rule them purely and holily in all the fear of God. And keep ye your offspring separate from the offspring of Cain, the murderer.”

A¹nd when Adam was dead his son Seth embalmed him, according as Adam had commanded him, with myrrh, and cassia, and stakte; now Adam’s dead body was the first [body buried] in the earth. And grief for him was exceedingly sore, and Seth [and his sons] mourned for his death one hundred and forty days; and they took Adam’s body up to the top of the mountain, and buried it in the Cave of Treasures.

A⁷nd Seth ruled them in purity and in holiness, and he ministered diligently before the body of Adam. And Seth died when he was nine hundred and twelve years old, on the seven-and-twentieth day of the blessed month of Abh (August), on the second day of the week (Monday), at the third hour, in the twentieth year of the life of Enoch. And Ánósh, Seth’s first-born son, embalmed his body and buried him in the Cave of Treasures, with his father Adam; and they made a mourning for him forty days.

A¹nd Ánósh rose up to minister before God in the Cave of Treasures. And he became the governor of the children of his people, and he kept all the commandments which his father Seth had commanded him, and he urged them to be constant in prayer. And in the days of Ánósh, in his eight hundred and twentieth year, Lamech, the blind man, killed Cain, the murderer, in the Forest of Nódh.

A¹nd 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.

A¹nd Yaréd his son rose up and ministered before God [in the Cave of Treasures]. He was a perfect man, and was complete in all the virtues, and he was constant in prayer by day and by night. And because of the excellence of his life and conversation, his days were longer than those of all the children of his people.

A¹nd Enoch stood up to minister before God in the Cave of Treasures. And the children of Seth turned aside from the right path and willed to go down [to the children of Cain on the plain]. And Enoch and Methuselah, and Lamech and Noah mourned over them. And Enoch had ministered before God for fifty years in the three hundred and [sixty] fifth year of the life of Noah.

A¹nd 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.

A⁴nd thou shalt do everything which I am commanding you to do this day, [for] God will make the Flood. When I die, embalm my body, and bury me in the Cave of Treasures with my fathers. Take thy wife, and thy sons, and the wives of thy sons, and get thee down from this holy mountain. And take with thee the body of our father Adam, and these three offerings, gold, and myrrh, and frankincense; set the body of Adam in the middle of the Ark, and lay these offerings upon him.

E¹³nos took to wife Hanna, the daughter of Jubal, the daughter of Hoh, the daughter of Seth, and begot by her Cainan. Cainan took to wife Peryath, the daughter of Kôtûn, the daughter of Yarbal, and begot by her Mahlalail. The Cave of Treasures Mahlalail took to wife Sehatpar, the daughter of Enos, and begot by her Yaréd (Jared).

A⁵nd they decreed a fast until they had received the Spirit, the Paraclete, at Pentecost, they all being gathered together. And tongues (i.e. languages) were distributed among them, so that each of them might go and teach that nation in the tongue which he had received, so that there might never be strife among them. Here endeth the “Book of the Order of the Succession of Families from Adam to Christ,” which is called the “Cave of Treasures.” And to God be glory for ever!