2 And they acted thus did the three great angels and they prepared him for burial. 6 Then Michael took Adam and left him where God told him. 2 And Adam answered and said, " Grant me, O Lord, of the Tree of Life that I may eat of it, before I be cast out." 4 And he stayed there three hours, lying down, and thereafter the Father of all, sitting on his holy throne stretched out his hand, and took Adam and handed him over to the archangel Michael saying: 'Lift him up into Paradise unto the third Heaven, and leave him there until that fearful day of my reckoning, which I will make in the world.' // -->