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The Forgotten Books of Eden · 97 of 293
Second Adam and Eve: Chapter XV
The offspring of Adam continue to keep the Cave of Treasures as a family shrine.
1.AFTER the death of Enos, Cainan stood at the head of his people in righteousness and innocence, as his father had commanded him; he also continued to minister before the body of Adam, inside the Cave of Treasures.
2.Then when he had lived nine hundred and ten years, suffering and affliction came upon him. And when he was about to enter into rest, all the fathers with their wives and children came to him, and he blessed them, and adjured them by the blood of Abel, the just, saying to them, “Let not one among you go down from this Holy Mountain; and make no fellowship with the children of Cain the murderer.”
3.Mahalaleel, his first-born son, received this commandment from his father, who blessed him and died.
4.Then Mahalaleel embalmed him with sweet spices, and laid him in the Cave of Treasures, with his fathers; and they made offerings for him, after the custom of their fathers.
Asked of Guide
Why does Cainan command his descendants to avoid the children of Cain?
Cainan links his injunction to the “blood of Abel, the just,” making Abel’s murder the moral fault line that defines his family’s identity and purity. He frames the Cave of Treasures and the Holy Mountain as a communal sanctuary whose integrity depends on refusing alliance with those who committed that killing.
The chapter shows this boundary upheld through ritual: Cainan is embalmed “with sweet spices” and laid in the Cave, and Mahalaleel receives the charge and continues the practice. This mirrors themes in Genesis about lineage and sacred space and echoes the emphasis on righteous seed found in Jubilees, which also treats descent and covenant fidelity as the way to preserve holiness.
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