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Apocalypse Of Moses

The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament

R.H. Charles

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1913

Chapter 1

1 This is the story of Adam and Eve after they had gone out of

Paradise. And Adam knew his wife

2 Eve and went upwards to the sun-rising and abode there

eighteen years and two months. And

3 Eve conceived and bare two sons; Adiaphotos , who is called

Cain and Amilabes who is called Abel.

Chapter 2

1 And after this, Adam and Eve were with one another and while

they were sleeping, Eve said to Adam her lord: 'My lord, Adam,

behold,

2 I have seen in a dream this night the blood of my son

Amilabes who is styled Abel being poured into the mouth of Cain

his brother and he went on drinking it without pity. But he

begged him to leave him a little of it. Yet he hearkened

3 not to him, but gulped down the whole; nor did it stay in his

stomach, but came out of his mouth. And Adam said, 'Let us

arise and go

4 and see what has happened to them. (I fear) lest the

adversary may be assailing them somewhere.'

Chapter 3

1 And they both went and found Abel murdered. I by the hand of

Cain his brother. And God

2 saith to Michael the archangel: 'Say to Adam: " Reveal not the

secret that thou knowest to Cain thy son,

for he is a son of wrath. But grieve not, for I will

give thee another son in his stead; he shall show

(to thee) all that thou shalt do. Do thou tell him

nothing."' Thus spake the archangel

3 to Adam. But he kept the word in his heart, and with him also

Eve, though they grieved concerning Abel their son.

Chapter 4

1 And after this, Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived

and bare Seth.

And Adam said to Eve: 'See! we have

2 begotten a son in place of Abel, whom Cain slew, let us give

glory and sacrifice to God.'

Chapter 5

1 And Adam begat thirty sons and thirty daughters and Adam

lived nine hundred and thirty years; and he fell sick and cried

with a loud

2 voice and said, 'Let all my sons come to me that I may see

them before I die.'

3 And all assembled, for the earth was divided into three parts.

And Seth his son said to him:

4 'Father Adam, what is thy complaint?'

5 And he saith, 'MY children, I am crushed by the burden of

trouble.' And they say to him, 'What is trouble?'

Chapter 6

1 And Seth answered and said to him: 'Hast thou called to mind,

father, the fruit of paradise of which thou usedst to eat, and hast

been grieved in yearning for it?'

'If this be so, tell me, (and) I will go and

2 bring thee fruit from paradise. For I will set dung upon my

head and will weep and pray that the Lord will hearken to me

and send his angel (and bring me a plant from paradise), and I

will bring it thee that thy trouble may cease from thee.'

Adam saith to him: 'Nay, my son Seth, but

3 I have (much) sickness and trouble!' Seth saith to him: 'And

how hath this come upon thee?'

Chapter 7

1 And Adam said to him: 'When God made us, me and your

mother, through whom also I die, He gave us power to eat of

every tree which is in paradise, but, concerning that one only,

He charged us not to eat of it, and through this one we are to

die. And the hour drew nigh for the angels

2 who were guarding your mother to go up and worship the

Lord, and I was far from her, and the enemy knew that she was

alone and gave to her, and she ate of the tree of which she had

been told not to eat.

3 Then she gave also to me to eat.

Chapter 8

1 'And God was wroth with us, and the Lord came into paradise

and called me in a terrible voice and said: "Adam, where art

thou? And why hidest thou from my face? Shall the house be

able to hide itself from its builder?"

And he saith to me: "Since thou hast abandoned

my covenant, I have brought upon thy body

seventy-two strokes;

the trouble of the first stroke is a pain

of the eyes ,

the second stroke an affection of the

hearing , and likewise in turn all the

strokes shall befall thee."'

Chapter 9

1 As he said this to his sons, Adam groaned sore and said:

'What shall I do? I am in great distress.'

And Eve wept and said: 'My lord

2 Adam, rise up and give me half of thy trouble and I will endure

it; for it is on my account that this hath happened to thee, on my

account thou art beset with toils and troubles.' But Adam

3 said to Eve, 'Arise and go with my son Seth near to paradise,

and put earth upon your heads and weep and pray God to have

mercy upon me and send his angel to paradise, and give me of

the tree out of which the oil floweth, and bring it me, and I shall

anoint myself and shall have rest from my complaint.'

Chapter 10

1 Then Seth and Eve went towards paradise, and Eve saw her

son, and a wild beast assailing him, and Eve wept and said:

'Woe is me; if

2 I come to the day of the Resurrection, all those who have

sinned will curse me saying: Eve hath not kept the

commandment of God.' And she

3 spake to the beast: 'Thou wicked beast, fearest thou not to

fight with the image of God? How was thy mouth opened? How

were thy teeth made strong? How didst thou not call to mind thy

subjection? For long ago wast thou made subject to the image

of God.' Then the beast

4 cried out and said:

Chapter 11

1 'It is not our concern, Eve, thy greed and thy wailing, but thine

own; for (it is) from thee that the rule of the beasts hath arisen.

How was thy

2 mouth opened to eat of the tree concerning which God

enjoined thee not to eat of it? On this account, our nature also

hath been transformed. Now therefore thou canst not endure it,

3 if I begin to reprove thee.'

Chapter 12

1 Then Seth speaketh to the beast, 'Close thy mouth and be

silent and stand off from the image of God until the day of

Judgment.' Then saith

2 the beast to Seth: 'Behold, I stand off from the image of God.'

And he went to his lair.

Chapter 13

1 And Seth went with Eve near paradise, and I they wept there,

and prayed God to send his angel and give them the oil of

mercy.

And God

2 sent the archangel Michael and he spake to Seth: 'Seth, man

of God, weary not thyself with prayers and entreaties concerning

the tree which floweth with oil to anoint thy father Adam. For it

shall not be thine now, but in the end of the times.

3 Then shall all flesh be raised up from Adam till that great day,-

all that shall be of the holy people. Then shall the delights of

paradise be given to them and God shall be in their midst. And

they shall no longer sin before his face, for the evil heart shall be

taken from them and there shall be given them a heart

understanding the good and to serve God only.

But do thou go back to thy father. For the

6 term of his life hath been fulfilled and he will live three days

from to-day and will die. But when his soul is departing, thou

shalt behold the awful (scene of) his passing.'

Chapter 14

1 Thus spake the angel and departed from them. And Seth and

Eve came to the hut where Adam was laid. And Adam saith to

Eve: 'Eve, what

2 hast thou wrought in us? Thou hast brought upon us great

wrath which is death, [lording it over all our race].' And he saith

to her, 'Call all

3 our children and our children's children and tell them the

manner of our transgression.'

Chapter 15

1 Then saith Eve to them: 'Hear all my children and children's

children and I will relate to you

2 how the enemy deceived us. It befell that we were guarding

paradise, each of us the portion

3 allotted to us from God. Now I guarded in my lot, the west and

the south. But the devil went to Adam's lot, where the male

creatures were. [For God divided the creatures; all the males he

gave to your father and all the females he gave to me.]

Chapter 16

1 And the devil spake to the serpent saying, Rise up, come to

me and I will tell thee a word

2 whereby thou mayst have profit ." And he arose and came to

him. And the devil saith to him:

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