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Where is Adam buried?

Three books give three places. Jubilees says only that all his sons buried him "in the land of his creation", and that he was the first to be buried in the earth.

The Life of Adam and Eve says the earth refused the body of Abel until Adam's dust returned to it. Angels then buried Adam and Abel together in the regions of paradise, at the place where God found the dust, and God sealed the tomb with a three-cornered seal.

The Cave of Treasures tells a longer story. Adam is laid first in the Cave of Treasures on the mountain of Paradise. Noah carries the body through the Flood in the Ark, and Shem and Melchizedek then take it to Golgotha, which the book calls the centre of the earth, where the ground opens in the form of a cross to receive it. The book places the Cross on that spot, so that the blood and water from the side of Christ run down into Adam's mouth and baptize him.

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