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Garment of Adam.pdf“... the oldest rabbinic traditions include the view that God gave garments to Adam and Eve BEFORE the Fall but that these were not garments of skin (Hebrew ‘or) but instead garment of light” - Stephen D. Ricks
Hugh Nibley - Book of Mormon Lecture #062 - the Garment of Joseph... ~16 min
<= Volume 14 is the text that was transcribed from this lecture.
The Garments of Adam & Eve
In the Beginning…
Gen 3: 21 - “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.”
Moses 4: 27 - “Unto Adam, and also unto his wife, did I, the Lord God, make coats of skins, and clothed them.”
In Additon to the Garments of Adam & Eve,
we know "the Birthright" consisted of other Ancient Relics
A relic is “an ancient object, carefully preserved for religious purposes of veneration or as a tangible memorial of some historical event. Root is Latin reliquiae, meaning "something left behind"
Using this “tangible memorial” definition, a careful reader of “mormon” scripture will note that there are historical “relics” that have been handed down from generation to generation since the time of Adam.
Moses 6:5 & 8 - And a book of remembrance was kept, in the which was recorded, in the language of Adam, ...a genealogy ...kept [by] the children of God. ... the book of the generations of Adam
Moses 6: 46 - For a book of remembrance we have written among us, according to the pattern given by the finger of God; and it is given in our own language.
These "relics" ancient genealogical record(s) has been handed down / preserved for ~6,000 years, from Firstborn son-to-FIRSTBORN-son, since Adam. Jewish apocrypha and Christian apocrypha writers have a good deal to say about this garment. To quote one of them: "the garments of skin which God made for Adam and his wife, when they went out of the garden, were given . . . after the death of Adam . . . to Enoch"
These "relics" ancient genealogical record(s) has been handed down / preserved for ~6,000 years, from Firstborn son-to-FIRSTBORN-son, since Adam. Jewish apocrypha and Christian apocrypha writers have a good deal to say about this garment. To quote one of them: "the garments of skin which God made for Adam and his wife, when they went out of the garden, were given . . . after the death of Adam . . . to Enoch"
Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch (who walked with God), Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah... all had possession of these relics, which constitute "the birthright”.
Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch (who walked with God), Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah... all had possession of these relics, which constitute "the birthright”.
Abraham 1:23 - “The land of Egypt being first discovered by a woman, who was the daughter of Ham, and the daughter of Egyptus, which in the Chaldean signifies Egypt, which signifies that which is forbidden” => Egypt was a “forbiden” place to go because it was the ruins of an ancient wicked city… Pharoahs city was “re-built” on ancient ruins.
After the Flood, while Noah was drunk, Ham took the garment of his father while he was sleeping.. Upon awaking, Noah recognized the priesthood of two sons but cursed the son who tried to rob him of his garment.
This is, apparently, the source of the widespread legend that Ham stole the garment of Noah and claimed to possess the priesthood by virtue of his illegal insignia. Ham's descendants, Cush and Nimrod--both Africans, though Nimrod moved to Asia/Babel--made the same claim. Pharaoh (Grandson of Ham, son of Egyptus, father of Cush-Nimrod) was blessed as to the kingship but cursed as to the priesthood.
Abraham 1:27 - "Pharaoh being of that lineage by which he could not have the right of Priesthood ...
(because of his mother Egyptus)
Pharaohs of Egypt dressed in a skin garment "to show that their origin was older than time itself."
According to the Talmud, Nimrod's "great success in hunting was due to the fact that he wore the coat of skin which God made for Adam and Eve."
NOTE: The Egypt-ians “found” ancient sorcery/knowledge hidden in the pyramids that SHOULD NOT have been re-discovered. ( see Moses 5:31, 49) Abraham 1:27
Abram realizes what he doesn't have... is the Garment(s) - he does NOT have the full birthright?!? When he asks the Lord about it, the Lord sends him on a mission to Egypt, to recover the stolen garment(s) of the birth right from the new Pharaoh;
Abraham 2:21-25 - “...and I, Abraham, concluded to go down into Egypt...
And, apparently Abram has very little experience with foriegn travel, and so the Lord tell him;
"... when I was come near to enter into Egypt, the Lord said unto me: Behold, Sarai, thy wife, is a very fair woman to look upon; Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see her, they will say—She is his wife; and they will kill you, but they will save her alive; therefore see that ye do on this wise: Let her say unto the Egyptians, she is thy sister, and thy soul shall live. "
Thus, only part of "the birthright" (records, urim-n-thummim, other?) passed down from Noah, to Japheth (eldest son - Genesis 10: 21) who waits for nine generations and at least 400 years, to give give them to Abram;
Thus, only part of "the birthright" (records, urim-n-thummim, other?) passed down from Noah, to Japheth (eldest son - Genesis 10: 21) who waits for nine generations and at least 400 years, to give give them to Abram;
1. Noah – name means: Comfort or Rest => Japheth...
2. Shem – meaning: Renown; prosperity
3. Arphaxad – meaning: A healer; a releaser
4. Shelah – meaning: Sent Out, Branch or Javelin
5. Eber – meaning: To pass over, through, take away
6. Peleg – name means: Division
7. Reu – name means: Friend
8. Nahor – name means: Breathing Hard
9. Terah – name means: Sprit, Spirited or Inspired
10. Abram – a high father – after Egypt mission, name is changed to Abraham – father of a multitude
“..the records of the fathers, even the patriarchs, concerning the right of Priesthood, the Lord my God preserved in mine own hands; therefore a knowledge of the beginning of the creation, and also of the planets, and of the stars, as they were made known unto the fathers, have I kept even unto this day”
Abram tells us that his acquisition of this ancient record was not an accident, or by chance:
Abraham 1:2 - “And, finding there was greater happiness and peace and rest for me, I sought for the blessings of the fathers, and the right whereunto I should be ordained to administer the same; having been myself a follower of righteousness, desiring also to be one who possessed great knowledge, and to be a greater follower of righteousness, and to possess a greater knowledge, and to be a father of many nations, a prince of peace, and desiring to receive instructions, and to keep the commandments of God...”
And Abram also makes it clear that he fully intends to hand this record down to his descendents...
Abraham 1:31 - “...and I shall endeavor to write some of these things upon this record, for the benefit of my posterity that shall come after me…”
In addition to having possession of the “records of the fathers”, Abram also makes this significant statement about another “relic” that had come into his possession...
Abraham 3:1 - “And I, Abraham, had the Urim and Thummim, which the Lord my God had given unto me…” and when he studies “..the records of the fathers, even the patriarchs, concerning the right of Priesthood, the Lord my God preserved in mine own hands"
NOTE: The author of The Book of the Cave of Treasures, dating from the sixth century A.D., indicated that Sarai was Terah’s daughter by another wife, so rabbi's have long argued that this was technically not a lie. “Now Sârâ was the sister of Abraham on the father’s side, because Terah took two women to wife. When Yâwnû, the mother of Abraham, died, Terah took to wife a woman whose name was “Naharyath” (or Shalmath, or Tona, or Tahdif), and of her Sârâ was born.”[8] Similarly, the Book of the Bee, another Syriac text (thirteenth century A.D.), states that Terah’s two wives were Yônâ and Shelmath.[9] There are obvious similarities between these two names and the ones in the Cave of Treasures. (see https://rsc-legacy.byu.edu/archived/wifesister-pharaohs-introduction-jehovah)
Lie or not, this plan worked pretty well, as recorded in Genesis 12:15-17 -
“...[when] the princes also of Pharaoh saw her, [they] commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. [And Pharaoh] entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
Then there is GAP in the biblical account, which is filled in by Dead Seaa Scroll (non-cannonical) sources;
Jewish tradition states that Abraham started a school of astronomy during the three years that Sarai waited in Pharoah’s harem for her night to arrive...
"Sir Walter Raleigh’s The History of the World (1614) referenced first-century a.d. historian Philo of Alexandria, saying that Abraham, through astronomy, “together with the motions of the stars and other heavenly bodies … found out the knowledge of the true God, while he lived in Chaldea.” He further referenced a number of ancient historians who collectively agreed “that Abraham, the holiest and wisest of men, did first teach the Chaldeans, then the Phoenicians; lastly, the Egyptian priests, [astronomy] and divine knowledge” (Chapter 2, Section 2)."
"Josephus provided further details about Abraham’s time in Egypt: “For whereas the Egyptians were formerly addicted to different customs, and despised one another’s sacred and accustomed rites, and were very angry one with another on that account, Abram conferred with each of them. … He communicated to them arithmetic, and delivered to them the science of astronomy; for, before Abram came into Egypt, they were unacquainted with those parts of learning; for that science came from the Chaldeans into Egypt, and from thence to the Greeks also” (Antiquities of the Jews, 1.8.2).
And, because Pharoah slept with a different woman each night, and because of the "back log" of women in the que, tradition says this took nearly three years... But, when Sari was finally sent to the king's bechamber, and he touched her... he was struck with leprosey!
...And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.
“In that night the Most High God sent a pestilential spirit to afflict him and every man of his house, an evil spirit that kept afflicting him and every man in his house” (1QapGen. XX: 16b–17a).
Two midrashic traditions identify the plague as leprosy. See Lech Lecha 41.2 and Vayera 52.13 in Midrash Rabba: Genesis, 3rd ed., trans. Rabbi Dr. H. Freedman (New York: Soncino Press, 1939), 1:334, 460.
[Finally] Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?”
In the Genesis Apocryphon, it says that Pharaoh summoned his magicians and vizers to his aid, yet both groups failed to heal him. Egypt, with all of its medical knowledge and religious powers, was not able to provide any relief for Pharaoh. With no other recourse available to them, Pharaoh’s servant Hirqanos came and “begged . . . [Abraham] to pray over the king” and to “lay (s?mak) . . . [his] hands upon him that he might live” (1QapGen. XX: 22). It is significant that Abraham did not initiate this scene with Pharaoh. Instead, he waited for Pharaoh to approach him. In fact, this whole episode appears to have been orchestrated so that Pharaoh would seek out Abraham’s assistance. NOTE: Fitzmyer says this is the first time in a Jewish source that the laying on of hands is used for healing. [25]
This was a contest between man’s knowledge/Egypt’s gods—and Jehovah, the God of Abraham. This contest is repeated four and a half centuries later when Moses, also confronts an Egyptian Pharaoh.
However, Abraham would not pray for the Pharaoh until he returned Sarah (1QapGen. XX: 22–23). When Pharaoh acted accordingly, and asks...
“But now pray for me and for my house that this evil spirit will be rebuked from us..."
Abram’s response is...
"So I [Abraham] prayed [. . .] and I laid [s?mak] my hands upon his head and the plague fell from him and the evil spirit was rebuked and he lived” (1QapGen. XX: 28–29).
Abraham healed the then Pharaoh of leprosy...
And in return, Pharoah then offered him "anything he asked, even unto half of the kingdom" by temporarily appointing him "Rpʿt"
"Who Is Sitting on the Throne" & “By Politeness of the King . . .”
"Who Is Sitting on the Throne" & “By Politeness of the King . . .”
"...the very ancient title of “Rpʿt on the Throne of Geb,” Geb the earth-god representing the principle of royal patriarchal succession here below. ... somebody must act for the late king until the new one takes over ...The great Imhotep, a man of genius but for all that a commoner, held the title of Rpʿt on the Throne of Geb in the Third Dynasty;67 and other wise man, Amenophis son of Hapu, boasts that he played “rpʿt in the drama of the Sed festival,”68
The title of Rpʿt placed its bearer on the king’s own throne, and the royal insignia went with it. There was an element of risk in trusting others so far, and cases are known of men who seized the crown by exploiting the office of Rpʿt.71 Hence it was a mark of supreme honor to receive such a token of royal confidence, and its bestowal at all times depended on one thing alone—the good pleasure of the gracious king. There was no limit to what could be given and no questioning of the right to bestow whatsoever gifts and honors it pleased “the politeness of the King” to distribute to whom he would.74 "
https://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1093&index=13Abraham choose to take back the The Garment of Adam, ...not Pharoah's kingdom.
Also referred to as Heb-Sed or the royal jubilee was celebrated after a pharaoh had ruled for 30 years. All pharaohs regardless of gender had to be tested. From the Heb-Sed court in the Step Pyramid complex of Djoser, in Ṣaqqārah...the king, dressed in a short kilt with an animal’s tail in back, ran a ritual course four times. On the inner walls of the hypostyle hall in the Temple of Amun at Karnak, there are also scenes depicting Ramesses II in one of his Jubilees. At Karnak, one of the greatest temple complexes in the world, there are blocks from the reconstructed Red Chapel that show queen Hatshepsut as king, running with the Apis bull between the markers.
However, Amenhotep III (~1,400 BC - just before Akhenaten) altered the ritual and its usual setting . He celebrated three Sed-festivals (years 30, 34 and 37) and descriptions of he ceremonies say that they took place on the great artificial lake he built at Malkata with numerous odd animal sculptures...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_the_pharaoh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed_festival & https://youtu.be/7_ywEiUYWQU?t=366
http://www.ancientpages.com/2018/03/28/sed-festival-ancient-egyptian-ritual-tested-pharaohs/
"I make no apology for conducting you into these lost by paths of the past. You have often proclaimed it your moral obligation to be interested in all things, and especially the truth."
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There is an ancient rabbinical tradition that Nimrod, becoming jealous of the rival hunter Esau (11 generations of men), lay in ambush for him but was defeated by Esau's father Isaac, who slew him with a bow, cut off his head and "took the valuable garment of Nimrod, . . .and ran and concealed them in his house." This garment, was part of the birthright which Esau later sold to Jacob. This seems to be alluded to in Genesis 48:22 - "Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."
Both Genesis 3:21 and Moses 4:27 are very clear, “Unto Adam also and to his wife…” There are at least two(2) garments that have been passed down over the millennia. Or, were...
Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol.5, Part.2, Ch.1, pp. 169-17 - "Nimrod claimed his kingship on the ground of victory over his enemies; his priesthood, however, he claimed by virtue of possessing "the garment of Adam." The legends of the Jews assure us that it was by virtue of owning this garment that Nimrod was able to claim power to rule over the whole earth, and that he sat in his tower while men came and worshiped him. The Apocryphal writers, Jewish and Christian, have a good deal to say about this garment. To quote one of them: "the garments of skin which God made for Adam and his wife, when they went out of the garden, were given . . . after the death of Adam . . . to Enoch"; hence they passed to Methuselah, and then to Noah, from whom Ham stole them as the people were leaving the ark. Ham's grandson Nimrod obtained them from his father Cush. As for the legitimate inheritance of this clothing, a very old fragment recently discovered says that Michael "disrobed Enoch of his earthly garments, and put on him his angelic clothing," taking him into the presence of God. This garment of Enoch was supposed to be the very garment of skins that John the Baptist wore, called by the early Christians "the garment of Elias." An Arabic "Life of John the Baptist" says that Gabriel brought it to John from heaven as "the garment of Elijah"; "it went back," says John Chrysostom, "to the beginning of the world, to the times before which Adam required covering. Thus it was the symbol of repentance." Others believed it was the same garment that Herod and later the Romans put under lock and key when they wished to prevent the people from putting it on a candidate of their own choice, and tell how the Jews tried to seize the garment by force and put it on John the Baptist, thus making him, instead of Herod, their high priest. Whatever its origin, the wearing of a garment of repentance, symbolic of life of man in his fallen state, was known to the most ancient Christians and practiced by certain ultra-conservative cults down to modern times."
The stolen garment as told by the old rabbis, including the great Eleazer, calls for an entirely different rendering of the strange story in Genesis 9 from the version in our King James Bible. They seemed to think that the cerwath of Genesis 9:22 did not mean "nakedness" at all, but should be given its primary root meaning of "skin covering." Read thus, we are to understand that Ham took the garment of his father while he was sleeping. By an extremely common type of substitution, the simlah of Genesis 9:23 could very easily stand for an original tsimlah, a garment or mantle, as in Micah 2:8 or 2 Kings 2:8,13-14/1 Kings 19:19-20. Even as it stands simlah means only a woven garment and can hardly refer to the original skin article. This is, apparently, the source of the widespread legend that Ham stole the garment of Noah and claimed to possess the priesthood by virtue of his illegal insignia.
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