Book of the Bee

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THE BOOK OF THE BEE. 28 mourned. Now Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years \ Some say that in the days of Seth the knowledge of books went forth in the earth ; but the Church does not accept this. When Seth was two hundred and fifty years old 2, he begat Enos ; and Seth lived nine hundred and thirteen years3, and he died. Enos was two hundred and ninety years 4 old when he begat Cainan ; and Enos first called upon the name of the Lord. Some say that he first composed books upon the course of the stars and the signs of the Zodiac5. Enos lived nine hundred and five years. Cainan was a hundred and forty6 years old when he begat Mahalaleel ; and he lived nine hundred and ten years. Mahalaleel was one hundred and sixty-five7 years old when he begat Jared ; and he lived [A] eight hundred and ninety-five years8. Jared was one hundred and sixty-two years old when he begat Enoch ; and he lived nine hundred and sixty-two years. Enoch was one hundred and sixty-five9 years old when he begat Methuselah; and when he was three hundred and sixty-five years old, God removed him to the generation of life, that is to Paradise. Methuselah was one hundred ‘Seth became a leader to the children of his people, and he ruled them in purity and holiness. And because of their purity they received this name, which is better than all names, that they should be called the children of God . and they went up in place of that band of demons which fell from heaven, to praise and glorify on the skirts of Paradise/ See Bezold, Die Schatzhohle, p. 10; and Brit. Mus. Add. 25,875, fol. 9 a, col. 2. 1 ‘Our father died at the 9th hour of Friday, the 14th of the month of Nlsan, 930 years after the creation of the world, and gave up his soul to his Maker at the same hour in which the Son of Man on the Cross gave up His soul to His Father.’ too* fcuL*=>o .^.Oka, (sic) .(sic) )»c»joo.o> .|joi Go-bOs. Ot-» . JLiS wO»Q~r>ll uOp jSOO y?/ o». jfc.su See Bezold, Die Schatzhohle , p. 9; Brit. Mus. Add. 25,875, fol. 9 a , col. 1. 2 105 years, Gen. v. 6. 3 In the Oxford MS. 905 years. 4 90 years, Gen. v. 9. 5 The Oxford MS. omits this passage. 6 70 years, Gen. v. 12. The Oxford MS. has 920 years. 7 65 years, Gen. v. 15. 8 In the Oxford MS. 833 years. 8 65 years, Gen. v. 21.