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Apocalypse of Moses 5

Life of Adam and Eve

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And Adam begat thirty sons and thirty daughters and Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years; and he fell sick and cried with a loud voice and said, 'Let all my sons come to me that I may see them before I die.'

2And all assembled, for the earth was divided into three parts. And Seth his son said to him:

3'Father Adam, what is thy complaint'

4And he saith, 'MY children, I am crushed by the burden of trouble.' And they say to him, 'What is trouble'

About Apocalypse of Moses

An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. English text: Apocalypsis Mosis, in The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Clarendon Press, 1913), R. H. Charles, 1913 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: Apocalypsis Mosis, in The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Clarendon Press, 1913), R. H. Charles (1913) · public domain