Then the angel of God came unto Melchizedec that night while Melchizedec was lying in bed.

2And he appeared unto him in the figure of a youth like him, who smote him on the side, and awoke him out of his sleep.

3When Melchizedec heard it, he stood up, and saw the house full of light, and a figure standing there.

4And he was afraid, for he was not accustomed to see angels, since he never had.

5Yet the angel prevented fear from overcoming him, and anointed him on the head and on the breast, for Melchizedec was a youth of a perfect heart. and said unto him,

6"Fear not, I am an angel of God; and He has sent me to thee with this message, that thou fulfil it unto God."

7Melchizedec then said unto him, "What is that message?"

8And the angel said unto him, "It is that thou travel with the body of our father Adam, unto the middle of the earth; and that thou stand ministering before it there;

9and that thou serve God; for He has chosen thee from thy childhood, for thou art of the seed of the blessed."

10Then Melchizedec said unto him, "Who will bring the body of my father Adam, and me with it, unto the middle of the earth?"

11And the angel said unto him, "Shem, the son of Noah, thy father's grandfather."

12Then the angel strengthened his heart, and comforted him tenderly, and said unto him,

13"Commit not these hidden words to any except to Shem only; lest the report of it spread abroad;

14and they hang on to the body of Adam, and not let it go to the land, to which God has commanded it to be taken.

15And the angel departed from him.