Death of Adam

Era: Primeval History
Date: Antediluvian ○ Traditional
Reference: The Life of Adam and Eve 11:1-8

In The Life of Adam and Eve Adam lies ill with one day left before leaving his body. Eve asks how long she will live after him. He replies that they will both die alike and none should touch him until an angel speaks. An angel says Adam has gone forth from his body, his spirit carried to its Maker. The Lord of Hosts takes the body to paradise where it is covered with cloths of linen and silk and anointed with olive oil. God calls Adam and the body answers from the ground.

In The Cave of Treasures Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years until the one hundred and thirty-fifth year of Mahlalail. Seth, Anosh, Kainan and Mahlalail with their families gathered and were blessed by him. His departure took place on the fourteenth day of the moon on the sixth day of Nisan.

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Adam had thirty sons and thirty daughters, and he called them all together when he fell sick.

Seth offered to fetch fruit from paradise, thinking his father was grieving for what he once ate there.

Michael told Seth that the measure of Adam's life was fulfilled and that three days remained.

Adam told Eve to let no one touch his body after death until the angel of the Lord spoke about him.

Eve was on her knees confessing her sin when the angel of humanity told her Adam had gone out of his body.

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Death of Adam

The Life of Adam and Eve 11:1-8

And when she had thus spoken in the midst of her sons, and Adam was lying in his disease, and he had one other day befor...

A¹nd when she had thus spoken in the midst of her sons, and Adam was lying in his disease, and he had one other day before going out of the body, Eve says to Adam: Why is it that thou diest, and I live? or how long time have I to spend after thou diest? tell me.

² Then says Adam to Eve: Do not trouble thyself about matters; for thou wilt not be long after me, but we shall both die alike, and thou wilt be laid into my place. And when I am dead you will leave me, and let no one touch me, until the angel of the Lord shall say something about me; for God will not forget me, but will seek His own vessel which He fashioned. ³ Arise, rather, pray to God until I restore my spirit into the hands of Him who has given it; because we know not how we shall meet Him who made us, whether He shall be angry with us, or turn and have mercy upon us. ⁴ Then arose Eve, and went outside; and falling to the ground, she said: I have sinned, O God; I have sinned, O Father of all; I have sinned to Thee, I have sinned against Thy chosen angels, I have sinned against the cherubim, I have sinned against Thine unshaken throne; I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned much, I have sinned before Thee, and every sin through me has come upon the creation. ⁵ And while Eve was still praying, being on her knees, behold, there came to her the angel of humanity, and raised her up, saying: Arise, Eve, from thy repentance; for, behold, Adam thy husband has gone forth from his body; arise and see his spirit carried up to Him that made it, to meet Him. ⁶ And Eve arose, and covered her face with her hand; and the angel says to her: Raise thyself from the things of earth. And Eve gazed up into heaven, and she saw a chariot of light going along under four shining eagles—and it was not possible for any one born of woman to tell the glory of them, or to see the face of them—and angels going before the chariot. ⁷ And when they came to the place where your father Adam was lying, the chariot stood still, and the seraphim between your father and the chariot. And I saw golden censers, and three vials; and, behold, all the angels with incense, and the censers, and the vials, came to the altar, and blew them up, and the smoke of the incense covered the firmaments. ⁸ And the angels fell down and worshipped God, crying out and saying: Holy Jael, forgive; for he is Thine image, and the work of Thine holy hands.

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Did You Know?

Adam had thirty sons and thirty daughters, and he called them all together when he fell sick.

Seth offered to fetch fruit from paradise, thinking his father was grieving for what he once ate there.

Michael told Seth that the measure of Adam's life was fulfilled and that three days remained.

Adam told Eve to let no one touch his body after death until the angel of the Lord spoke about him.

Eve was on her knees confessing her sin when the angel of humanity told her Adam had gone out of his body.

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