Cave of Treasures

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And in the fiftieth year of [the life of] Reu, Nimrod went up and built Nisibis, and Edessa, and Harrân, which is Edessa. And Harranith, the wife of Dâsân, the priest of the mountain, surrounded it with a wall, and the people of Harran made a statue of her and worshipped her. And Baltin, who was given to Tamûzâ (Tammuz) now because B’élshemin loved her, Tammuz fled before him and set fire to Harran and burned it. The Death of Sara And when Sara, the wife of Abraham, died, Abraham took to wife Kentéra [Fol. 27a, col. 2], the daughter of Baktér, the king of the desert. And there were born unto him by her Zamran, and Yakshan, and Madhan, and Medhyan, and Ashbak, and Shôh. [See Gen. xxv. 1, 2; 1 Chron. i. 32. A marginal note in the Syriac MS. says, "these sons of Kentôrâ are called sons of Daran by the prophet."| And from these are sprung the Arabs. Isaac and Rebecca And when Isaac was forty years old, Eliezer, a son of the house of Abraham, went down and brought Rabka (Rebecca) from the east, and Isaac took her to wife. And when Abraham died Isaac buried him by the side of Sara. [Note: According to the Book of Adam (iv. 4), Abraham was 175 years old when he died, and Isaac and Ishmael buried him. Rebecca was the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean, a native of the town of Arach (Erech?).] And when Isaac was sixty years old Rebecca became with child of Esau and Jacob. And being sorely afflicted, she went to Melchisedek, and he prayed over her and said unto her: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be removed from thy loins, that is to say, shall go forth from thy womb. One nation shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall be in subjection to the younger, that is to say, Esau [Fol. 27b, col. 1] shall be in subjection to Jacob. The founding of Jericho And in the sixty-seventh year of [the life of] Isaac, Jericho was built by seven kings, namely, the king of the Hittites, and the king of the Amorites, and the king of the Girgantes, and the king of the Jebusites, and the king of the Canaanites, and the king of the Hivites, and the king of the Perizites; and each of them surrounded it with a wall. Now the son of Mesrin (Mizraim), the king of the Egyptians, had founded Jericho in 70 of 130