Yet the ark was closed during the days of Noah; neither was any one allowed to touch it, yet they went to it, blessed themselves in it, and talked about it.
2Noah, however, went into it every evening, to light the lamp which he had made before our father Adam, and blessed himself in that body.
3And he did not neglect his office regarding the lamp, as it was at first in the cave of treasures.
4Yet 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,
5therefore 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.