Kebra Nagast

And Azaryas said unto them, " Do ye what I tell you, and we shall succeed. Give ye to me each of you ten didrachmas^ and I will give them to a carpenter so that he will make haste to prepare for me good planks of wood now because of his love of money he of the height, will fasten them together very quickly and breadth, and length and size of our Lady [Zion]. And I will give him the dimensions of myself, and I will say unto him, " Prepare for me pieces of wood for a framework (?) so that I may make a raft therefrom ; for we are going to travel over the sea, and in the event of the ship sinking I shall be able to get up on the raft, and we shall be saved from the sea. And I will take the framework without the pieces of wood thereof being fixed together, Ethiopia. and I will have them put together in And I will set them down in the habitation and will drape them with the draperies of I will take Zion, and will dig a hole in the and Zion, and will set Zion there, until we journey and ground, take it away with us thither. And I will not tell the matter to the king until we have travelled far." And they each gave him ten didrachmas, and this money amounted to one hundred and forty didrachmas, and he took them and gave them to a carpenter, who straightway fashioned a good piece of work from the of Zion, remains of the wood of the house of the sanctuary, and Azaryas rejoiced and showed it to his brethren. 46. HOW THEY MADE A PLAN CONCERNING ZlON And while Azaryas was asleep at night the Angel of " Take the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, to thee four goats, each a yearling now they shall be your sins, thyself, and 'felmeyas, and 'Abis, and Makri and four pure sheep, yearlings also, and an ox whereon no yoke hath ever been laid. And thou shalt offer up the ox as a sacrifice on the east side of her for 1 68 J.e. double drachmas.