Kebra Nagast

God willed it Zion could not have been taken away forthwith. And the four of them carried Zion away, and they brought it into the house of Azaryas, and they went back into the house of God, and they set the pieces of wood on the place where Zion had been, and they covered them over with the covering of Zion, and they shut the doors, and went back to their houses. And they took lamps and set them in the place where [Zion] was hidden, and they sacrificed the sheep thereto, offerings of incense thereto, and they spread purple cloths over it and set it in a secret place and burned for seven days and seven nights. How HIS FATHER BLESSED HIS SON 49. And then the King of Ethiopia rose up to depart t his country, and he came to his father that he might " Bless me, pray on his behalf, and he said unto him, " father and he made obeisance unto him. And the ; King raised him "up, and blessed him, and embraced his Blessed be the Lord my God Who head, and said, blessed my father David, and Who blessed our father May He be with thee always, and bless thy seed even as He blessed Jacob, and made his seed Abraham. to be as many as the stars of heaven and the sand of the sea. And as Abraham blessed Isaac my father even so the dew of heaven and the spaand may all animals and all the birds of the heavens, and all the beasts of the field, and the fish of the sea, be in subjection unto thee. Be thou full, and not lacking in fullness be thou perfect, be gracious, and not and not lacking in perfection be in good health, and not suffering be obstinate generous, and not vindictive ; be pure, and not defiled ; be righteous, and not a sinner be merciful, and not be sincere, and not perverse ; be longoppressive not prone to wrath. And the enemy and suffering, shall be afraid of thee, and thine adversaries shall cast shall thy blessing be ciousness of the earth ; ; ; ; ; ; 72