Kebra Nagast

inscribe in the letters of the rolls in the Book of their Prophets in brass, and thou shalt lay it in the House of God, which shall be built as a memorial and as a prophecy for the last days. And the people shall not worship the sun and the magnificence of the heavens, or the mountains and the forests, or the stones and the trees of the wilderness, or the abysses and that which is in the waters, or graven images and figures of gold, and they shall not or the feathered fowl which fly make use of them in divining, and they shall not pay And this law shall abide for adoration unto them. ever. And if there be anyone who shall transgress this ; law, thy seed shall judge him for ever. Only give us the fringes of the covering of the holy heavenly Zion, the Tabernacle of the Law of God, which we would embrace (or, greet). Peace be to the strength of thy kingdom and to thy brilliant wisdom, which God, the Lord of Israel our Creator, hath given unto thee." And the Queen took the young man aside and when he was alone with her she gave him that symbol which Solomon had given her, that is to say, the ring on he might know his son, and might remember her word and her covenant which she had made [with him], that she would worship God all the his finger, so that life, she and those who were under her all [the power] which God had given with dominion, her. And then the Queen sent him away in peace. days of her And the young man [and his retinue] made straight their way and they journeyed on and came into the country of the neighbourhood of Gaza. Now this is the Gaza which Solomon the King gave to the Queen And in the Acts of the Apostles Luke of Ethiopia. " He was the governor the Evangelist wrote, saying, of the whole country of Gaza, an eunuch of Queen Hendake, who had believed on the word of Luke^the 1 Apostle." 1 Acts viii, 27.