Eisenmenger, i. p. 462. Footnote 119: Targum, i. p. 173. Footnote 120: Jalkut Chadasch, fol. 6, col. i. Footnote 121: Pirke R. Eliezer, c. xxi. Footnote 122: Ibid. Footnote 123: Ibid. Footnote 124: Eisenmenger, ii. p. 8. Footnote 125: Ibid., ii. p. 428. Footnote 126: Eisenmenger, ii. p. 455. Footnote 127: Tract. Avoda Sara. Footnote 128: Tabari, i. c. xix. Footnote 129: Antiq. Judæ., lib. i. c. 2. Footnote 130: Excerpta Chronologica, p. 2. Footnote 131: Gen. iv. 15. Footnote 132: Cosmas Indopleustes, Cosmographia, lib. v. Footnote 133: D’Herbelot, Bibliothèque Orientale, _sub voce_ Cabil, i. p. 438. Footnote 134: Neue Ierosolymitanische Pilger-fahrt. Von P. F. Ignat, von Rheinfelden. Würtzburg, 1667. P. ii. p. 8. VII. THE DEATH OF ADAM. According to a Mussulman tradition, Adam was consoled for the loss of Abel by the discovery of how to make wheat-bread. The story is as follows:— The angel Gabriel was sent out of Paradise to give him the rest of the wheat-grains Eve had plucked from the forbidden tree, together with two oxen, and various instruments of husbandry. Hitherto he had fed on roots and berries, and had known nothing of sowing grain; acting under Gabriel’s directions, he ploughed the land, but the plough stuck, and Adam impatiently smote one of the oxen, and it spoke to him and said, “Wherefore hast thou smitten me?” Adam replied, “Because thou dost not draw the plough.” “Adam!” said the ox, “when thou wast rebellious, did God smite thee thus?” “O God!” cried Adam to the Almighty, “is every beast to reproach me, and recall to me my sin?” Then God heard his cry, and withdrew from beasts the power of speech, lest they should cast their sin in the teeth of men. But as the plough was still arrested, Adam dug into the soil, and found that the iron had been caught by the body of his son Abel. When the wheat was sprung up, Gabriel gave Adam fire from hell, which however he had previously washed seventy times in the sea, or it would have consumed the earth and all things thereon. In the beginning, wheat-grains were the size of ostrich eggs, but under Edris (Enoch) they were no bigger than goose eggs; under Elias they were the size of hen’s eggs; under Christ, when the Jews sought to slay him, they were no larger than grapes; it was in the time of Uzeir (Esdras) that they diminished to their present proportions. After Adam and Eve had been instructed in all that appertained to agriculture, Gabriel brought them a lamb and showed Adam how to slay it in the name of God, how to shear off the wool, and skin the sheep. Eve was instructed in the art of spinning and weaving by the angel, and she made of the wool, first a veil for herself, and then a shirt for her husband.