Kebra Nagast

How the men of "Rjomt destroyed the Faith And then when he had completed the stablishing of the Law, they made, according to what they had seen in Jerusalem, the Law in the House of Zion for the nobles of the kingdom, and for those who were inside, and for those that were outside, and for the people, and for the islands, and for the cities, and for the provinces ; and for all the inhabitants and for all their tribal kinsAnd folk they made ordinances in the same manner. thus the eastern boundary of the kingdom of the King of Ethiopia is the beginning of the city of Gaza in the land of Judah, that is, Jerusalem ; and its boundary is the Lake of Jericho, and it passeth on by the coast of its and its boundary goeth down and Saba and its boundary is the Sea of the Blacks and Naked Men, and goeth up Mount Keberc- sea to Leba ; to Bisis and 'Asnet ; neyon into the Sea of Darkness, that is to say, the place where the sun setteth and its boundary extendeth to and its borders are the lands Fene'el and Lasifala [near] the Garden (i.e. Paradise), where there is food in plenty and abundance of cattle, and [near] Feneken and its boundary reacheth as far as Zawel and passeth on to the Sea of India and its boundary is as far as the Sea of Tarsis, and in its remote (?) part lieth the Sea of Medyam, until it cometh to the country of Gaza and its boundary is the place where [our enumeration] began. And moreover, the dominion of the King of Ethiopia belongeth to him and to his seed for ever. ; ; ; ; ; 93- HOW THE MEN OF RoMK DESTROYED THE FAITH And after they had waited for three months now Zion came into the country of Ethiopia at the beginning of the first month in the language of the Heb- and in Greek Tarmon and in G'ez (Ethiopic) Miyazya, on the sixth (or, seventh) day they wrote down the Law and the names, and they deposited [the writing] for a memorial for the later days, so that what was right should be done for the pavilion [of Zion] rews, L 2 163