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After all these things, therefore...

the archangel asked about the funeral rites of the remains. 

And God commanded that all the angels should come together into His presence, each according to his rank. And all the angels were assembled, some with censers, some with trumpets. 

And the Lord of Hosts went up, and the winds drew Him, and cherubim riding upon the winds, and the angels of heaven went before Him, and they came to where the body of Adam was, and took it. 

And they came to Paradise, and all the trees of Paradise were moved... 

so that all begotten [verwekt] from Adam hung their heads in sleep at the sweet smell...

except Seth, because he had been begotten according to the appointment of God.

Harrowing of Hell, raising Adam & Eve

The body of Adam, then, was lying on the ground in paradise...

and Seth was grieved exceedingly [buitengewoon bedroefd] about him. 

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And the Lord God says: 

Adam, why have you done this? 

If you had kept My Commandment, those that brought you down to this place would not have rejoiced. Nevertheless I say unto you, that I will turn their joy into grief, but I will turn your grief into joy. And having turned, I will set you in your kingdom on the throne of him that deceived you. 

And he shall be cast into this place, that you may sit upon him. 

Then shall be condemned, he and those who hear him. 

And they shall be much grieved, and shall weep...

seeing you sitting upon his glorious throne.

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And then He said to the archangel Michael: 

Go into paradise, into the third heaven, and bring me three cloths of fine linen and silk. 

And God said to Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, and Raphael: 

Cover Adam's body with the cloths...

and bring olive oil of sweet odour... 

and pour upon him. 

And having thus done... 

they prepared his body for burial. 

James Tissot, Angels at Christ's Tomb

And the Lord said: 

Let also the body of Abel be brought. 

And having brought other cloths, they prepared it also for burial... 

since it had not been prepared for burial since the day on which his brother Cain slew him. 

For the wicked Cain, having taken great pains to hide it, had not been able.

For the earth did not receive it, saying: 

I will not receive a body into companionship until that dust which was taken up and fashioned upon me, come to me. And then the angels took it up, and laid it on the rock, until his father died. 

And both were buried, according to the commandment of God...

in the regions of paradise, in the place in which God found [vond] the dust.

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And God sent seven angels into paradise... 

and they brought many sweet-smelling herbs, and laid them in the earth. 

And thus they took the two bodies, and buried them in the place which they had dug and built.

And God called Adam, and said: Adam, Adam. 

And the body answered out of the ground, and said: Here am I, Lord. 

And the Lord says to him: I said to you ´Dust you are, and unto dust you shall return.´

Again, I promise you the resurrection. 

I will raise you up in the last day in the resurrection... 

with every man who is of your seed.

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