Third Book of Adam and Eve 6

After his death, Noah, his sons, and their wives came to the bodies of our fathers, worshipped God before them, and blessed their souls before them, weeping and being in the deepest grief.

2Yet Noah had finished the ark, and not one workman was left in it.

3And he, with his sons, continued in prayer to God, asking Him to show them the way of safety.

4When Noah and his sons had ended their prayers, God said unto him, "Go thou into the cave of treasures, thou and thy sons, and take the body of our father Adam and lay it in the ark;

5likewise take the gold, the incense, and the myrrh, and lay them in the ark together with his body."

6And Noah hearkened to God's voice, and went into the cave of treasures, he and his sons;

7they worshipped God before the bodies of our fathers, and then Noah took the body of our father Adam, and carried it in the strength of God, not requiring (wishing) the help of any one.

8Then Shem his son, took the gold with him, and Ham carried the myrrh, and Japhet carried the incense; and they brought them out of the cave of treasures, their tears all the while streaming down their cheeks.

9Yet as they were bringing them out, the bodies among which Adam had been laid, cried out, "Are we then to be separated from thee, O our father Adam?”

10Then Adam's body answered, "O, that I must part from you my sons, from this holy mountain!

11Yet do I know, O my sons, that God will gather all our bodies together another time.

12Yet wait patiently until our Saviour have pity on us."

13And the other bodies went on talking together, by the power of God's Word.

14Then Adam asked God that the divine fire might remain in the lamp, before his sons, until the time when bodies shall rise again.

15And God left the divine fire by them, to shed light on them.

16He then closed the cave upon them, and left not a trace to show where it is until the day of the Resurrection, when He will raise them up, like all other bodies.

17Yet the discourse Adam held, and that too, he being dead, was by the command of God, who would show His wonders among the dead and the living.

18After this let none of you say, that Adam's soul had already been under Satan's judgment.

19It was not so; yet God commanded the souls of the dead, to come from under His hand; and to speak of the wonders of God from within their bodies."

20Then they returned to their places until the day of the sure deliverance that shall be unto them all.