Kebra Nagast

His Command unto Zadok the Priest Tynans, and the people of Ethiopia, who were born without the Law. The Law shall be given unto them, and they shall say unto Zion, our mother l because Will this man then be of a man who shall be born.' * my son who is begotten of me 51. r ? HOW HE SAID UNTO ZADOK THE PRIEST, " Go AND BRING THE COVERING (OR, CLOTHING) WHICH IS UPON IT (i.e. ZION) " And he said unto Zadok the priest, " Go, bring that covering which is upon Zion, and take thee this covering which is better than that, and lay it over the two [cherubs] which are below it." (Now this covering was made of threads of the finest gold wirework twisted together and hammered out into a pattern, "and they were And the five not woven like the threads of purple.) mice 2 which were given to Zion, and the ten 3 figures of their shame (i.e. the emerods) which the nobles of the now on the Philistines made for their redemption the land of that came forth from are fringes figures gold of Kades, which Moses in Sinai commanded should be made (or, worked) in the fringe of the apparel of Aaron his brother gather [all these] together in the covering For his of Zion and give [them] to my son David. mother said in [her] message by Tamrin her servant, * Give us some of the fringe of the covering of Zion, so that we may worship it, we and those who are in subAnd now, give jection unto us and all our kingdom.' ' to him, and say unto him, Take [and] worship this covering of Zion, for thy mother sent a message conit ' Give cerning this, and hath said unto thee thyself, us some of the fringe of its covering, which we can worship, so that we may not, like the heathen, worship another [god].' And Zion, the Tabernacle of the Law of God, shall be unto thee a guide wheresoever thou art. 1 * Compare Psalm lixxvii, 2-4 ; Isaiah li, 16. * The text of Samuel (vi, 4) gives " five emerods." I Samuel vi, 4. 75