SECOND BOOK OF AḎAM AND ḤAWWAH 9

1 When Aḏam had ended his commandment to Shĕth, his limbs went limp, his hands and feet lost all strength, his voice became silent, and his tongue ceased to speak. He closed his eyes and gave up the ghost.

2 But when his children saw that he was dead, they threw themselves over him, men and women, old and young, weeping.

3 The death of Aḏam took place at the end of nine hundred and thirty years that he lived upon the earth; on the fifteenth day of first month, after the reckoning of an epact of the sun, at the ninth hour.

4 It was on a sixth day, the very day on which he was created, and on which he rested. And the hour at which he died was the same as that at which he came out of the garden.

5 Then Shĕth wrapped him up well, and embalmed him with plenty of sweet spices, from sacred trees and from the Qodesh Mountain. And he laid his body on the eastern side of the inside of the cave, the side of the incense; and placed a lamp stand in front of him that kept burning.

6 Then his children stood before him weeping and wailing over him the entire night, until break of day.

7 Then Shĕth and his son Enosh, and Qĕynan, the son of Enosh, went out and took good offerings to present to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and they came to the altar upon which Aḏam offered gifts to Elohim.

8 But Ḥawwah said to them, “Wait until we have first asked Elohim to accept our offering, and to keep the soul of Aḏam His servant by Him, and to take it up to rest.”

9 And they all stood up and prayed.