A Prophecy of Esau and Jacob

The Book of Adam and Eve Book 3

3:11.

In the six hundred and seventh year of Noahs life, on the second day of the month Barmudeh, the water dried from of the earth.

And in the next month, which is Gembot, on the twenty-seventh day thereof, which is the day on which Noah went into the ark, on that self-same day did Noah also come out of the ark, on a Sunday.

When Noah, his wife, his sons and their wives went out of the ark, they again came together, and did not part asunder one from another;

At first, when they went into the ark, the men and the women remained apart, Noah fearing lest they should come together, when the Flood was over, they again came together, the husband with his wife.

God also had sent great quietness over the beasts, the lions that were in the ark, and over the birds and creeping things, not to disagree among themselves.

Then Noah came out of the ark, and built an altar upon the mountain. And he stood, and requested the Lord to show him of what sacrifices he should to take, and bring them unto Him in offerings.

Then God sent His Word to Noah, saying, Noah, take of the clean kind, and offer of them upon the altar before me; and let the animals go out of the ark.

Then Noah went into the ark, and took of clean birds as many as God had commanded him; and offered them up in offerings upon the altar before the Lord.

3:12.

Pattern of the covenant God made with Noah, when He showed him the bow on the cloud in heaven.

And God smelled the smell of Noahs offerings, and He made a covenant with him, that the waters of the flood should not again come upon the earth, henceforth and for ever.

And this is the covenant God made with Noah. God said unto Noah: I will make the bow of My covenant come out in the cloud; and when it appears, then men shall know that it is done in truth.

And if I was wroth, when the bow was seen in the cloud, then that My anger and the punishment I meant to bring upon men were over.

Then again, Noah, I have made this bow of My covenant to be seen in heaven, in order that all creatures should see it, and think of the trials and afflictions that came upon them at first, and repent, and turn from their evil ways.

And God accepted Noahs offering, and blessed him and his sons, and said unto them: Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the face of the earth.

Then God commended the earth to bring forth herb as it did of old, for beasts, for birds, and for all that moves on the earth. Then Noah worshipped before God, with his sons and their wives; and they praised Him for the salvation He had wrought for them.

3:13.

After this Noah took his sons, and built them a city and called it Semanan; as they were eight souls that came out of the ark.

And Noah and his sons dwelt on that mountain about a hundred years, until he had children and childrens children.

And Noah took a root of vine and planted it, and dressed it until it yielded fruit. It was sweet, and Noah took some of it, and pressed wine out of it, and took it one night and drank of it, and was drunk. And he came in to his wife unawares.

Then Ham, his son, came into the house in the morning and saw his father uncovered, and drunk with wine, and without sense to know anything.

Then Ham his son kept on laughing at him, and said: What is this you have done, you old man? the old man understood not what he said; only Noah’s wife understood it well.

Then Ham went out laughing at his father, and told his brothers Shem and Japhet what his father had done; and laughed at his parents.

His brothers were angry with him, and rebuked him well for so doing; because they were -afraid of him, as regards the old man; for Ham was rough and hard in his talk.

Then Shem and Japhet rose quickly, and took with them a coverlet, and put behind their backs that coverlet that reached unto their feet; and they walked backwards, and turned their face towards the way they had gone, until they came to their parents.

Then they threw the coverlet over them, and went from them in haste, so as not to see them.

On the morrow after this, Noah’s wife told him what Ham had said and what he had done. Then was Noah very angry with his son Ham for what he had done; and he cursed him, and made him servant of his brothers.

Noah blessed Shem and Japhet, his sons, because they had behaved well to him. Then Noah married another wife, who bare him seven children. And he continued to dwell on that mountain until the days drew near when he must depart (this life).

And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after he came out of the ark.

Then he called his first-born son Shem, and conversed with him, saying, my son, hearken unto what I commend you. Behold (what) I commend you now (is), to hold good until I die and you bury me.

Then when you have ended mourning for me, go into the ark in which we were saved from the flood; then bring out of it the body of our father Adam; let no one know of it one that is of your seed. Then make a beautiful case for it, and lay it therein.

Then take with you some bread to be for provision unto you by the way, and wine whereof to drink on your way; for the land to which you shall go is rough and hungry.

Then take Melchisedec the youngest son of Cainan, your son; for God has chosen him from all generations of men, to stand before Him to worship and to minister unto Him, by the body of our father Adam.

Then lay the body of Adam in the midst of the earth; and set Melchisedec to stand by it; and show him how to fulfil his ministry before God.

Moreover Noah said unto Shem his son:, If you will keep my commandment and go, an angel of the Lord will go with you and show you the way, until you come to the place where you shall lay the body in the midst of the earth; for in that self-same place God shall work salvation for the whole world.

My son, I know that our children forsook this good commandment, and went down the Holy Mountain, and mingled with the children of Cain, and that they perished with them in the waters of the Flood.

Know my son, that from Adam until this day, every one of the ancients, gave commandments to one of the rest, at the time of his resting from the flesh, and that they taught (these commandments) among themselves.

The first, my son, who taught this commandment and made it plain, was our father Adam; he gave it to his son Seth, who received it. Then Seth handed it to his son Enosh who kept it. And Enosh gave it to his son Keinan who kept it.

Then Keinan gave it to his son Mahalaleel, who kept it, and handed it to his son Jared. And Jared kept it and gave it to his son Hanoc, who also kept this commandment and gave it to his son Metuselah, who kept it, and gave it to his son Lamech who kept it, and who gave it to me, his son; and I have kept it.

My grandfather Metuselah also gave me a great commandment which I have kept; and which I give you likewise.

So, then receive my commandment, and hold fast my words; and hide this mystery within your heart; reveal it not to one of all your kindred.

Go, and lay the body of our father Adam in the earth; and let it remain there unto the day of salvation.

3:14.

The ark was closed during the days of Noah; neither was anyone allowed to touch it. Yet they went to it, blessed themselves in it, and talked about it.

Noah, however, went into it every evening, to light the lamp which he had made before our father Adam, and blessed himself in that body.

And he did not neglect his ofice regarding the lamp, as it was at first in the Cave of Treasures, as Noah knew that after him, the ark would not remain whole, and that his children would part asunder and not return to look after the body of our father Adam;

And that wickedness would increase in the earth and abominations among men, therefore did he command his son Shem to hasten to take the body of our father Adam, and to remove it unto the middle of the earth; according to God’s order.

3:15.

Then when Noah had ended giving orders to his son Shem, concerning the body of our father Adam, Noah said to his son Shem: Bring here to me your brothers; make them come near me.

Then when they came to Noah, he looked at them and said unto them: After my death, my sons, you shall part asunder and sore troubles shall happen to your race.

From now I will divide among you the earth into three portions; as every one of you shall be settled in his own portion.

Unto my first-born son, Shem, his lot shall be from Jerusalem which is a great city, as far as Qardaiun and Andika. It takes in the border mountain that reaches unto Gefur, between the land of Egypt and that of the Philistines.

Unto my next son Ham, his portion shall be from Aris towards the south, unto Fardundan and unto Gaduriun, and unto the borders of the west.

And unto my third son Japhet, his portion shall be from the corner of the west towards the south unto Damatha, a large tract of country; and all the north also as far as Aris.

He then said to them: Let every one of you take a portion different from that of his brothers; and let every one of you dwell in his own portion.

And they settled in it, as he commanded them. And they all had sons and daughters during their father Noahs lifetime.

And Noah divided the earth among them by God’s order, in order that there should be no enmity between the three brothers.

Then when Noah had ended his commandments to Shem and to his brothers, his hands dropped, his tongue became dumb, his eyes closed and he died, like his fathers.

He died aged nine hundred and fifty years, on a Wednesday, the second day of the month Gembot, on the mountain on the which was the ark; and there he will remain until the day God reveals (his resting-place).

And they mourned for him forty days.

3:16.

After they had ended mourning for Noah, an angel of God appeared unto Keinan father of Melchisedec and said unto him in a vision, Know you me? Keinan answered: No, my Lord.

Then the angel said to him: I am the angel whom God has sent unto you to give you this commandment. Transgress not the command of God.

When Keinan heard this from the angel of God, he wondered and said unto him: Speak my Lord.

And the angel of God said unto him: I am the angel who brought gold to your father Adam, when he was below the garden; I am the angel who entreated God together with him, when he offered his own blood upon the altar.

I am Michael the angel who received the soul of Abel the just; I am the angel who was with Seth when he was born in the cave. I am the angel who was with Enosh and Cainan, and Mahalaleel and Jared and Hanoc, and Metuselah and Lamech, and with Noah since he entered into rest, I stand by his first-born son Shem.

And, behold, God has sent me to you, to take your son Melchisedec, and to remove him to the land, in which God shall lay the body of our father Adam, and that he may be high exalted before God. Let not your heart be grieved at his going away.

When Keinan heard these words from the angel, he worshipped before him; and said unto him: The will of God be done!

Behold, I and my son are in His hands; let Him do what He pleases. This angel appeared unto Cainan, not on account of Keinan’s righteousness and purity, but on account of Melchisedec, of his righteousness and purity.

Then the angel said unto Cainan: Commit not this mystery to anyone but to Shem alone. Then the angel departed from him.

3:17.

Then the angel of God came unto Melchisedec that night while he was lying on his bed.

And he appeared unto him in the figure of a youth like him, who smote him on the side, and awoke him out of his sleep.

When Melchisedec heard it, he rose up, and saw the house full of light, and a figure standing before him.

And he was afraid, for he was not accustomed to see angels, this once only.

The angel prevented fear from overcoming him, and anointed him on the head and on the breast, and said unto him: Fear not, I am an angel of God; and He has sent me to you with this message, that you fulfil it unto your God.

Melchisedec then said unto him: What is that message? For he was a youth of a perfect heart.

And the angel said unto him: It is that you go with the body of our father Adam, unto the middle of the earth; and that you stand ministering before it there; and that you serve God; for He has chosen you from your childhood. For you are of the seed of the blessed.

Then Melchizedec said unto him: Who will bring the body of my father Adam, me with it, unto the middle of the earth?

And the angel said unto him: Shem the son of Noah, your father’s grandfather.

Then the angel strengthened his heart, and comforted him tenderly one whole hour, and then said unto him: Commit not these hidden words to any but to Shem only, lest the report of it spread abroad and they hang on to the body of Adam, and not let it go to the land, to which God has commanded.

And the angel departed from him.

3:18.

Then the angel went to Shem the son of Noah and said unto him: Arise and take the body of Adam, as your father Noah gave you commendment. Take with you Melchisedec and go with them to the place ordered by God; tarry not!

When it was day, Shem made a beautiful case and hid it close to the ark. Then he prepared bread and wine and provisions, and came to Keinan to inquire for his son Melchisedec.

Then Keinan began to tell him all that the angel had said unto him; and he gave him up his son Melchisedec, with a good heart.

Then Shem said to Cainan: Keep this mystery secret and reveal it to no one. Then Shem took Melchisedec and they saddled an ass between them, and they went to the ark. They had no key wherewith to open the ark; for Noah had fastened it with a padlock, after he had come out of it.

When, therefore, they came to the ark, they bethought themselves how to open it. Then came Shem to the door and said to Melchisedec: Come, open it, you great God.

Then came Melchisedec to the door when he heard him, and seized the padlock; and at once the door was opened.

Lo! A voice cried from within the ark and said: Rejoice, you priest of the Most High God, for that you have been found meet to enter upon the ofice of priest of God; the first created by Him in the world. This voice was from the Holy Ghost.

And Melchisedec knew that voice when it breathed into his face; he knew it also through great grace that was in him.

He then marvelled, and said to Shem: My Lord, I know by the breathing in my face; though I saw no form and heard no voice speaking to me; for I saw no one. This voice is from the body of our father Adam.

And Shem remained trembling, not knowing what to say to him.

While they were wondering at the door of the ark, the Word of God came, that said: I am He that made you priest and that breathed of My Spirit into you; now you are My righteous priest, you are worthy to bear the body of Adam whom I created, and into whom I breathed of My Spirit. And I made him a priest, and a king, and a prophet. Go in first and bring out his body.

Then Melchisedec went into the ark, and bowed in worship to the body of our father Adam; he blessed himself in it, and brought it out; the angel Michael, helping him the while to carry it.

And Shem went in also, and brought out the gold, the incense and the myrrh, and laid them together with the body of our father Adam; he then placed the body within the case, and shut it upon the body. And then he shut the door of the ark, as it was at first.

3:19.

Then Shem and Melchisedec took the body of Adam, and went on their way; and the angel of God went with them and showed them where to go.

And so they went on that day until the evening; and alighted at a certain place to rest.

Then Shem and Melchisedec stood up to pray; and while they prayed there came a voice from inside the cofin of Adam that said: Glory to God who created me, who gave me life, who made me die, and who again returns me to the earth out of which He took me.

And the voice blessed the youth Melchisedec and said unto him: of all our race, God chose no one but you, neither did He anoint any one of them priest with His own hand, you; neither did He breathe into the face of any one His pure Spirit, as He breathed it into you.

And I rejoice, my son, that you have been found worthy of such honourr from God. Then the voice withdrew from Melchisedec who wondered at this voice that came forth from a dead man.

It was done by the power of God. when Shem saw this first wonder wrought on Melchisedec, he kissed his face and rejoiced greatly on his account.

As for Melchisedec, he tasted nothing that night, for the joy that filled his heart; he continued standing before the coffin of Adam, praising God and praying until morning.

This vision happened to Melchisedec in the fifteenth year of his age.

Then Shem and Melchisedec put the coffin upon the ass, and went on their way; and the angel of God went with them. And it was so that when they came to rough places, the angel bare them up by the power of God, and made them pass over them, whether they were lands or mountains.

And so they went on their way until the evening of the second day, when they alighted to rest, after their custom.

Then Shem and Melchisedec stood up to pray; As they were praying, behold a great light shone over them, Wherefore Melchisedec did not feel aught of fatigue, by reason of the strength of God, that was in him; he rejoiced like one that is going to his wedding.

They stood praying as they were wont before the coffin of our father Adam. Then came a voice from the top of the coffin, that said to Melchisedec and to Shem: Behold, we are drawing near to the place our Lord has decreed for us.

And the voice said unto Melchisedec: Upon the land to which we are going, shall the Word of God come down, and suffer, and be crucified on the place, in which my body is laid.

The crown of my head shall be baptized with His blood; and then shall my salvation be wrought; and He shall restore me to my kingdom, and shall give me my priesthood and my gift of prophecy.

Then the voice was silent by the power of God. Melchisedec and Shem marvelled at the voice that talked with them. And Melchisedec remained the whole of that night praying joyfully until the day dawned.

Then they put the body of Adam on the ass, and went on their way.

And the angel of God went with them, until they neared the place.

Then he went before them, and stood before the ass, and took down from her the coffin, himself alone; and not as on the two former occasions, when Melchisedec took it down (from the ass). when the coffin reached the rock, the rock split asunder into two parts,, that was the place for the coffin;

And Melchisedec and Shem knew thereby that it was the place God had appointed.

Then the angel went up from them into heaven, while saying unto God, Behold, the body of our father Adam has arrived, and is come to the place You did choose. I have done that which You did command me.

Then came the Word of God to the angel, saying, Go down to Melchisedec and strengthen his heart; and commend him to abide by the body of Adam.

And when Shem enters into rest, tell Melchisedec to go, and to take from Shem the bread and wine he has with him, and to preserve them.

3:20.

Then the angel came down from God, in the figure of a man, who appeared to Melchisedec and to Shem, and strengthened their hearts.

He then laid the body of our father Adam in its place; and said to Melchisedec: Take from Shem the bread and the wine. And he took them, as the angel told him.

Melchisedec and Shem stood praying by the body of our father Adam until the evening, when a great light came down upon the body, and angels ascended and descended in that place upon the body of our father Adam.

They were rejoicing, and praising, and saying, Glory be to You, God, who did create the worlds; and made men of the dust of the earth, to exalt them above heavenly beings.

And the angels so praised God over the body of our father Adam, the whole of that night, until the dawn of day.

As the sun rose, the Word of God came to Melchisedec, and said to him: Arise and take twelve of these stones; make of them an altar and offer upon it of the bread and wine that was with Shem: offer them, you and he.

Then when Melchisedec heard the Word of God, he worshipped between his hands; and he hastened, and did as God commended him.

And at the time he was offering the gift upon the altar, and asked God to sanctify it, the Holy Ghost came down upon the offering; and the mountain was filled with light.

The angels said unto him: This offering is acceptable unto God. Glory be to him who created earthly men, and has revealed great mysteries unto them!

Then the Word of God appeared to Melchisedec, and said unto him: Behold I have made you priest; you and Shem shall offer this offering you did make first; and in like manner as you did, set up these twelve solid foundation stones; for I will raise twelve apostles to be the pillars of the world; and they are firm.

In like manner also, as you did make this altar, will I make you an altar in the world; and like as you did make an offering of bread and wine, will I also present the offering of My Body and Blood, and make it unto forgiveness of sins.

And this place on which you are standing and in which the body of Adam is laid, will I make a holy place; all creatures ou earth shall be blessed in it; and in it I will grant forgiveness unto all who come here.

Then the Word of God blessed Melchisedec, named him priest, and then went up from him into heaven in glory and rejoicing with His angels.

~ by Joel on February 18, 2025.

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