Kebra Nagast

looked upon him and said, " Now hath God shown compassion upon me, and He hath given unto me the In sorrowful remembrance I will light of my face. console myself (?) with him. The name of him that shall slay my heir shall be blotted out, even to his ninth generation." 5. CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF SETH And Adam died, and Seth reigned in righteousness. And Seth died, and Henos (Enos) reigned. And Henos (Enos) died, and Kaynan (Cainan) reigned. And Kaynan reigned. (Cainan) died, and MalaTel (Mahalaleel) And Malal'el (Mahalaleel) died, and Yarod (Jared) reigned. And Yarod died, and Henokh (Enoch) reigned in righteousness, and he feared God, and [God] him so that he might not see death. And he became a king in his flesh in the Land of the Living. And after Enoch disappeared Matusala (Methuselah) reigned. And Matusala died, and Lamekh (Lamech) reigned. And Lamekh died, and Noh (Noah) reigned in righteousness, and he pleased God in all his works. hid 6. CONCERNING THE SIN OF CAIN And that accursed man Cain, the murderer of his brother, multiplied evil, and his seed did likewise, and they provoked God to wrath with their wickedness. They had not the fear of God before their eyes, and they never kept in mind that He had created them, and they never prayed to Him, and they never wor- shipped Him, and they never called upon Him, and they never rendered service to Him in fear nay, they ate, and they drank, and they danced, and they played upon stringed instruments, and sang lewd songs thereto, and they worked uncleanness without law, without And the wickedness of measure, and without rule. of Cain the children multiplied, until at length in the greatness of their filthiness they introduced the seed of ;