After they had ended mourning for Noah, an angel of God appeared unto Cainan the father of Melchizedec, and said unto him in a vision, "Knowest thou me?”
2And Cainan answered, "No, my Lord.''
3Then the angel said to him, "I am the angel whom God has sent unto thee, to give thee this commandment.
4And transgress not the command of God."
5When Cainan heard this from the angel of God, he wondered and said unto him, "Speak, O my Lord!"
6And the angel of God said unto him, "I am the angel who brought gold to thy father Adam, when he was below the garden;
7I am the angel who prayed to God together with Adam, when he offered his own blood upon the altar.
8I am Michael the angel who received the soul of Abel the just;
9I am the angel who was with Seth when he was born in the cave.
10I am the angel who was with Enos and Cainan, and Mahalaleel and Jared and Enoch, and Methuselah and Lamech, and with Noah.
11Yet since he entered into rest, I stand by his first-born son Shem.
12And, behold, God has sent me to thee, to take thy son Melchizedec, 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.
13Let not thy heart be grieved at his going away:"
14When Cainan heard these words from the angel, he worshipped before him; and said unto him,
15"Let the will of God be done!
16Behold, I and my son are in His hands.
17Let Him do what He pleases."
18This angel appeared unto Cainan, not on account of Cainan's righteousness and purity, yet on account of Melchizedec, and of his righteousness and purity.
19Then the angel said unto Cainan, "Commit not this mystery to any one but to Shem alone."
20And the angel departed from him.