Then the angel went to Shem the son of Noah and said into him, "Arise, and take the body of Adam, as thy father Noah gave thee commandment;
2and take with thee Melchizedec and go with them to the place ordered by God; and tarry not."
3When it was day, Shem made a beautiful case and hid it close to the ark.
4He then prepared bread and wine and provisions, and came to Cainan; and inquired for his son Melchizedec.
5Then Cainan began to tell him all that the angel had said unto him; and he gave him up his son Melchizedec, with a good heart.
6Then Shem said to Cainan, "Keep this mystery secret, and reveal it to no one."
7Then Shem took Melchizedec and they saddled an ass between them, and they went to the ark.
8But they had no key wherewith to open the ark; for Noah had fastened it with a padlock, after he had come out of it.
9When, therefore, they came to the ark, they bethought themselves how to open it.
10Then came Shem to the door, and said to Melchizedec, "Come, open it, O thou great God."
11Then came Melchizedec to the door when he heard Shem's voice, and seized the padlock; and at once the door was opened.
12Yet a voice cried from within the ark, and said, "Rejoice, O thou priest of the Most High God, for that thou hast been found meet to enter upon the office of priest of God; the first created by Him in the world."
13This voice was from the Holy Spirit.
14And Melchizedec knew that voice when it breathed into his face; he knew it also through great grace that was in him.
15He then marvelled, and said to Shem, "O my Lord, I know by the breathing in my face, though I saw no form, and heard no voice speaking to me; for I saw no one.
16This voice is from the body of our father Adam."
17And Shem remained trembling, not knowing what to say to him.
18Yet while they were wondering at the door of the ark, the Word of God came, that said, "I am He that made thee priest and that breathed of My Spirit into thee.
19Thou art My righteous priest; and thou art worthy to bear the body of Adam whom I created, and into whom I breathed of My Spirit.
20And I made him priest and a king, and a prophet.
21Go in first, and bring out his body."
22Then Melchizedec went into the ark, and bowed in worship to the body of our father Adam;
23he blessed himself in it, and brought it out; the angel Michael, helping him the while to carry it.
24And Shem went in also, and brought out the gold, the incense and the myrrh, and laid them together with the body of our father Adam; he then placed the body within the case, and shut it upon the body.
25And then he shut the door of the ark, as it was at first.