A Prophecy of Esau and Jacob

The Book of Adam and Eve Book 4

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After him Manasseh his son reigned twelve years in Jerusalem. He did much evil, and made the people of Jerusalem worship idols.

Then when he had so transgressed the law of God, Isaias the prophet came to him and rebuked him for the wickednesses he had wrought.

Then Manasseh was angry with him, and commanded valiant and wicked men to take Isaias the prophet, and to saw him asunder with a saw of wood, from his head down to his feet, among the trees of the wilderness; and then to cast him to the beasts (of the field) to devourr him.

And they did so to him. Isaias was then one hundred and twenty years old. His raiment was of shaggy goats hair upon his body; and he fasted regularly every second day (of the week) all the days of his life.

Then Manasseh died; and after him reigned his son Amots, who did evil before God; for he offered sons and daughters in sacrifice unto idols.

Then Amots died; and after him reigned Yusias his son. He was twenty years old when he (began) to reign, and continued twenty-two years in his kingdom in the city of Jerusalem.

He did justice and right before God; and kept the Passover of the Lord, such as the children of Israel never were able to keep, except the one Moses kept for them in the wilderness.

This king [Yusias] purified Jerusalem of all wickedness.

Pharhon the lame, king of Egypt, killed Yusias in Carmelos. Then after Mm Akaz reigned three months.

But Pharhon bound Akaz in chains and sent him into the land of Egypt; and he died in that place.

After his death Yuakem his brother reigned fourteen years; in the third year of his reign, Nabukadanatsor came to the city of Jerusalem, and God delivered Yuakem into his hands; and Yuakem was under his orders, bowed unto him, and paid him tribute; he then sickened and died.

After him reigned his brother Yekonias three months; then came Nabukadanatsor who took captive Yekonias and all his army, and sent them to Babylon.

On the way there, Daniels mother gave him birth. Anania, Azaria, and Misael, sons of Yekonias, were also born on the first transportation of Yuakem.

Then Yekonias died, and after him Zedekias reigned twelve years.

This was the end of kings that reigned over the children of Israel, and all Judah; after them no king was left to them.

And at the end of the fourteenth year of Zedekias, Nabuka danatsor came and transported all the people of Jerusalem, as far as the west, as far as the river Euphrates, as far as the great river.

He laid waste Tyre, and burnt Hiram king of Tyre with fire, who had reigned five hundred years.

Then after this Nabukadanatsor went into Egypt, and put to death Pharhon; destroyed his army, and laid waste the land of Egypt) and then took the city of Jerusalem.

And God delivered Zedekias into his hands, whom he took, and brought out before idols, and set him before the people, and slew his children before him, without pity.

He then put out his eyes, bound his hands with chains and his feet with fetters; and sent him to Babylon, because of his folly, and of the evil he had done to Isaias the prophet, by casting him into springs of water in a marsh.

After this Nabuzaradan captain of the kings army, destroyed the walls of Jerusalem, burnt the House of God with fire; and did all manner of evil to Jerusalem.

Simeon the priest, found favourr and grace with the captain of the kings army, and requested him to give him the house of records; and he gave him a command accordingly.

Then Simeon the priest came in and gathered together the ashes of the books, and laid them in a pot in a vault, and he took a censer of brass, and put fire therein, and threw pure incense upon it, and hung it in the vault over the place in which the ashes of the books lay.

(Nebuzaradan) laid waste Jerusalem, like a wilderness.

And Jeremiah the prophet sat weeping and mourning over Jerusalem twenty years, after which this prophet Jeremiah went into the land of Egypt, and died there.

Then writers and the interpreters destroyed the writings, and the Hebrews changed the writings; and the Syrians and the Greeks rejected many sections of those writings.

So that the children of the people could not ascertain (their kindred), neither could men or women hear who were their fathers or their mothers, except very few of them;

And this was because of the laying waste of Jerusalem; so that until this day, nothing certain is found among the writings, except the chief writings alone, which writings had been translated before the ruin of Jerusalem.

Then again since some of the writings were altered, people could not ascertain how they were married, and could not know who were their wives or daughters; they did not know their names or their kindred; nor the order of generations; neither did they know that of the priesthood.

And Jechonias remained twenty-seven years bound in prison at Babylon.

After that he was released by Marzuk king of Babylon, who gave him to wife, a woman called Dalilah daughter of Eliakim, by whom he had Salathiel in Babylon. Jechonias, Salathiel’s father, died at Babylon.

Then Salathiel took to wife Hadast, daughter of Elkanah; and had by her Zerubbabel.

And Zerubbabel married a woman whose name was Malka, daughter of Ezra the scribe; he had no child by her in Babylon.

Then in the days of Zerubbabel, who was elder among the children of Israel, a Persian king, called Cyrus, who reigned over Babylon, took to wife a woman called Meshar, sister of Zerubbabel, elder among the children of Israel; and he made her queen after the manner of the queens of Persia.

And when she became queen, she found favour with the king, and asked him to show mercy to the children of Israel, and to send them back to the city of Jerusalem.

Cyrus loved much Meshar, sister of Zerubbabel, (even) as his own soul.

So he gave an urgent order that they should go about the whole land of the Chaldaeans, and gather together the children of Israel into Babylon, the house of the kingdom; and they gathered them according to the kings order.

Then Cyrus said to Zerubbabel, his wifes brother: Take your people and go to your city Jerusalem; and rebuild it as it was at first.

Then when dutiful Cyrus had given this order concerning the return of the children of Israel to Jerusalem, in the land of the sanctuary; God appeared unto him in a vision during sleep, and said unto him:

Because you have done this, they shall call you Cyrus the Messianic; and this name, Messianic, shall be given you, because you have sent back strangers to their own city; and because you have given commandment concerning the rebuilding of Jerusalem.

Then the children of Israel returned from the captivity of Babylon, Zerubbabel was elder over them; and Josiah, son of Zadok, of the sons of Aaron, was high priest over them;

As the angel of God spake to the prophet Zachariah saying, Those two sons that stand before the Lord of the whole earth shall minister unto them, as becomes their service.

Cyrus had assumed the kingdom two years, when the captivity returned from Babylon; and at the end of that year, the five thousand years (spoken ofJ to Adam were fulfilled.

When the children of Israel returned from Babylon they had not the law, neither was there a book in their hands; inasmuch as the voices of the prophets had departed from among them.

So, when they came to Jerusalem and were settled in it, Ezra the scribe came to the vault in which were the ashes of the books, which Simeon the priest, had gathered together.

And Ezra found the censer that was full of fire, hanging with (smoke of) incense rising from it on high.

Then Ezra prayed to God, wept abundantly, and spread his hand towards the ashes of the books of the law and of the prophets, and all of them three times.

Then came the Spirit of God upon him, and the (same) Spirit spake through him that had spoken through the prophets.

And he wrote the law and the prophets, and made them new a second time.

And the fire which he found in the censer, is the divine fire that was all the time in the House of God.

Then Zerubbabel settled in Jerusalem as king over the children of Israel, and Josiah son of Zadok as high priest, with Ezra the scribe of the law and the prophets also, as chief over the children of Israel.

And the children of Israel kept a solemn Passover unto the Lord, when they returned from their captivity at Babylon.

These were the three great, full and solemn feasts of the Passover, which the children of Israel kept during their existence.

The first Passover was in Egypt, in the days of Moses; the second Passover was in the days of king Josiah; and the third Passover was when they returned from their captivity in Babylon.

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From the first transportation to Babylon, when they carried away Daniels mother, and she brought him forth, unto the second year of Cyrus the Persian, are seventy years, during which the children of Israel were captive, according to the prophecy of holy Jeremiah the prophet.

And the children of Israel began to build the House of God, in the days of Zerubbabel, of Josiah the son of Zadok, and of Ezra the scribe.

And they were forty-six years building it, until it was finished, as it is written in the holy Gospel, that they were forty-six years building it.

Moreover, scribes arranged tables of genealogy, and recorded the names of the men; they could not record the names of the women because they knew them not, except very few.

But, my brethren, I have watched much, and I have searched long in the books of the Greeks and of the ancient Hebrews, and I have found the name of the women written in them.

For I found that when the children of Israel came from Babylon, that Zerubbabel begat Abiud of Maukabf the daughter of Ezra the scribe; and that Abiud took to wife Tsamita the daughter of Zadok the high priest, and she bare Eliakim.

And Eliakim married Hasbia, the daughter of Aram, and brought forth Azar. And Azar begat Zadok of Lebaida.

And Zadok took to wife Kalem, the daughter of Waikam, who gave birth to Akim.

And Akim married Asbaidi, who gave birth to Eliud. And Eliud married Awad, the daughter of Gasulius, who gave birth to Azar.

And Azar married Hayat, daughter of Walha, who brought forth Mattan; and Mattan married Sabartyal the daughter of Phulius, who brought forth twins, namely, Jacob and Joachim.

And Jacob married Gadat, the daughter of Eleazar, who gave birth to Joseph the betrothed of Mary.

And Joachim, the brother of Jacob, married Hannah the daughter of Makah; and she brought forth the pure Virgin Mary; and of her was born Christ.

The former scribes, however, could not find a good lineage for the Virgin and her father, or kindred; Wherefore did the Jews crucify Christ, and taunt Him, and mock Him, and say to Him, Show us the fathers of Mary the Virgin and her people, and what is her genealogy.

Therefore did they blaspheme her and Christ; henceforth shall the mouth of those unbelieving Jews be closed; and they shall know that Mary is of the seed of David the king, and of that of the patriarch Abraham.

Moreover, the unbelieving Jews had no registers to guide them aright, neither did they know how the lines of kindred ran at first, inasmuch as the law and the prophets were three times burnt (out) from them.

The first time in the days of Antiochus, who burnt down the whole House (of God); the second time they burnt those books in the days of Qablar the great king of Mosul;

And the third time they burnt the books was at the transportation by king Nabukadanatsor when Abumirdan came and burnt the House of God, and destroyed the walls of Jerusalem; when Simeon the priest asked of him the store of books, and he gave them to him.

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We will make known to you all the genealogies in detail.

Judah begat Pharez, and Pharez married Barayah, the daughter of Levi, and begat Esrom.

And Esrom married Kanita, the daughter of Zebulun, and he begat Aram.

And Aram married Phozib the daughter of Judah; and he begat Aminadab.

And Aminadab married Thehara, the daughter of Esrom, and he begat Naason.

And Naason married Simar, the daughter of Yuhanas, and he begat Salmon; and Salmon married Saphila, the daughter of Aminadab, by whom he had Booz.

And Booz married Ruth the Moabitess, of the seed of Lot, and begat Obed; and Obed married Abalit, the daughter of Sonas, and begat Jesse.

Jesse married Habliar, the daughter of Abrias, and begat David the king.

And king David took to wife Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, and begat Solomon.

And Solomon married Nan, the same as Makiya, the daughter of Dan king of Ammon, of the seed of Lot, and begat Rehoboam.

And Rehoboam married Makin, the daughter of Bilos, and begat Abia.

And Abia married Malkit, the daughter of Absalom, and begat Asaph.

And Asaph married Nirona, the daughter of Sala, and begat Joshaphat.

And Joshaphat married Malkiya, the daughter of Abiud, and begat Jovam.

And Joram married Phitalia, the daughter of Naphrim, and begat Osias; and Osias married Sophia, the daughter of Habralias, and begat Jotham.

And Jotham married Hadast, the daughter of Elkanah, and begat Ahaz.

And Ahaz married Bikaz, the daughter of Zachariah, and begat Hezekiah;

And Hezekiah married Basyar, the daughter of Bartenas, and begat Manasseh;

And Manasseh married Amasisan, and begat Amos; and Amos married Nadyas, and begat Josias.

And Josias married Dalilah, the daughter of Kermias, and begat Joachim.

And Joachim married Phurdia, the daughter of Phulek, and begat Jechonias and his brother during the captivity of Babylon.

And Marsas who reigned over Babylon, released Jechonias from prison, and gave him to wife, a woman whose name was Dalilah, the daughter of Ehakim, by whom he had Salathiel.

Jechonias died at Babylon; where Salathiel continued forty-nine years after him, and married Hadast, the daughter of Bikanah, and begat Zerubbabel.

And Zerubbabel married Maukab, the daughter of Esdras the scribe, and had by her Abiud.

And Abiud married Hadast, the daughter of Zadok the high priest, and begat Eliakim.

And Eliakim married Kwebedai, the daughter of Aram, and begat Azar.

And Azar married Salambeta, the daughter of Zadok.

And Zadok married Kalim, the daughter of Waikan, and begat Akim.

And Akim married Zasbaidi, and begat Eliud.

And Eliud married Awad, the daughter of Gasalias, and begat Eleazar.

And Eleazar married Hayat, the daughter of Thalka, and begat Matthan.

And Matthan married Sabartia, the daughter of Phunius, and had by her twins, namely, Jacob and Joachim.

And Jacob married Gadat, the daughter of Eleazar, and begat Joseph the betrothed (husband) of Mary.

Joachim married Hannah, the daughter of Makah, and begat the pure Mary; Here ends the genealogy of pure Mary.

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And here my brother, I have settled for you that which is true, and I have revealed unto you the genealogy, and laid for you the firm foundation, which not one of the writers and of the wise men, could make known.

But, my brother, give me your heart and make it clean, that I may tell you what things remain, and how the reckoning of generations come all round to reach unto and to stand firm by the birth of Christ.

After the birth of Christ there remained no more trustworthy reckoning to the Jews; for Christ was the end of the generations; He took it and gave it to us.

Let me tell you, my brother, that the five thousand years from Adam, did not end before the days of Cyrus, king of Persia.

Then from Cyrus to the sufferings of our Saviourr Jesus Christ, even as the faithful Daniel prophesied, saying, After seven weeks Christ shall come, and shall be put to death.

Now seven weeks are four hundred and ninety years; for a great week is of seventy years; in that the prophet said: After seven years, he pointed to the ten years;

For he did not say, Christ shall come at the end of the seven weeks. He said: After seven weeks; and be put to death. The meaning here of after, is, those ten years, that make up the five hundred years.

And that is the fulfilment of the promise that God made to Adam, that He would save him at the end.

Henceforth are the mouths of the Jews struck dumb, and to them belongs shame, because they blaspheme and say that Christ is not yet come.

While they say so, they, of necessity, believe the first statement to be true and the last to be a lie.

If they say Christ came, believing, as they do, the prophecy of the prophet Daniel, they now see that the prophecy of Daniel is fulfilled, and that the House of God is laid waste from them; that the priesthood is abolished, and that the seven weeks were fulfilled, and that Christ came, and was put to death; and that the Holy City was laid waste by king Vespasian and his son Titus.

Let me also tell you, my brother, that in the thirty second year of the reign of Augustus Caesar, Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judah, as it is written in the Gospel.

And, behold, it is made plain to us, that Christ came when the prophecy was fulfilled.

As Micah the prophet said: you Bethlehem, land of Judah, you are not lower than the kings of Judah; for from you shall come a king, that shall feed my people Israel.

Let the Jews now feel ashamed of themselves; for if they make Daniel a liar, they cannot again make the prophet Micah a liar; yet if they will make them liars still, behold, Christ was born in Bethlehem, the land of Judah.

And when He was born at Bethlehem, the land of Judah, a star in the East made it known, and was seen by Magi.

That star shone in heaven, amid all the other stars; it flashed and was like the face of a woman, a young virgin, sitting among the stars, flashing, as it were carrying a little child of a beautiful countenance.

From the beauty of His looks, both heaven and earth shone, and were filled with His beauty and light above and below; and that child was on the virgin woman’s arms; and there was a cloud of light around the childs head, like a crown.

It was a custom of the Chaldeans to observe the stars of heaven; to take counsel from them; and they were numbered by them.

So when they saw the star of the figure we have just mentioned, they were greatly troubled, and said among themselves: Surely the king of the Heloneans is putting himself in battle array against us!

And they inquired among soothsayers and philosophers, until they ascertained the fact and discovered that the king of the children of Israel was born.

As to this matter of the stars, the Chaldeans used to work it out, and to take counsel from the power of the stars; so that they knew every event that should be, before it happened.

Likewise the captains of large ships, when they went on a voyage upon the seas, (knew beforehand) the signs of winds, of whirlwind, of gloom, and of thick darkness.

So the Magi when they read in their books, knew from them, that Christ should be born in the land of Judah.

So they went upon a high mountain in the east, while coming westward; and they took with them the presents they had prepared before they set of on their journey; that is, gold, frankincense and myrrh, that had been with Adam in the Cave of Treasures.

Gold, namely as unto a king; frankincense, as unto God; and myrrh, as for His death.

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When Hor, king of Persia, heard who it was they called King of kings, he prepared his chariot and mounted it.

Basantar also, king of Saba, came out; and Karsundas, king of the East, got himself ready and came out also.

They were all in great tribulation, and also all other kings in the borders of the West trembled with them, and every country in the East was in great alarm at the sight of that glory.

Then the Magi while on their journey said: This star has not risen for some great event.

And they went on their way until they came to Jerusalem.

When Herod heard of it, he was troubled, and called the Magi to him, and communed with them; and they rehearsed unto him the (whole) thing.

Then he and all his hosts trembled; and he said to the Magi: Go and inquire diligently concerning this Child; and when you have found Him, come and tell me, that I also may go and worship Him.

Then the Magi went forthwith to Bethlehem, and found Christ, and offered Him their gifts. they did not return to Herod; they went back to their own country.

After they were gone, Herod was wroth, and commanded all children of two years and under, to be put to death.

Then an angel of the Lord appeared unto Joseph and said to him: Arise and take the Child and His mother, and go to the land of Egypt; and abide there until I tell you.

And Joseph went into the land of Egypt.

Then Herod began to slay all children, until he had not left one. And he died of an evil death.

After his death an angel of the Lord appeared unto Joseph in the land of Egypt.

And Joseph came up out of Egypt, and dwelt at Nazareth, he, the child, and Mary His mother.

And they abode at Jerusalem until Christ was thirty years of age, and was baptized by John.

This John lived all his days in the wilderness, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

And in the nineteenth year of Tiberius, our Lord Christ was crucified. He died in the body, and was buried, and rose again from among the dead on the third day; as it is written.

And He went down into hell, and saved Adam and Eve, and all their righteous seed, according to His first and firm promise.

And so He fulfilled all that the prophets had prophesied concerning Him. He then went up into heaven; whence He will come again with His holy angels, to judge the quick and dead.

Unto Him be glory, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power and worship for ever. Amen.

~~~ THE END ~~~

~ by Joel on February 25, 2025.

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