1Listen to me, my children, today.
2In those days, when the Lord descended to earth for the sake of Adam, and visited all his creatures, which he himself created, after all these he created Adam, and the Lord called all the beasts of the earth, all the reptiles, and all the birds that fly in the air, and brought them all before the face of our father Adam.
3And Adam gave names to all living things on earth.
4And the Lord named him ruler over all, and subjected all things to him under his hands, and made them dumb and made them foolish so that they might be commanded by man, and be in subjection and obedience to him.
5So also the Lord created every man lord over all his possessions.
6The Lord will not judge a single soul of beast for the sake of man, but adjudges the souls of men to their beasts in this world; for men have a special place.
7And as every soul of man is according to number, similarly beasts will not perish, nor all souls of beasts that the Lord created, until the great judgment, and they will accuse man, if he feeds them badly.