24b and he walked with him, and was before his face continually: and he walked with God three hundred and sixty-five years: making him four hundred and thirty years old when he was translated.
25 Methuselah was one hundred years old when he was ordained under the hand of Adam.
26 Lamech was thirty-two years old when he was ordained under the hand of Seth.
27 Noah was ten years old when he was ordained under the hand of Methuselah.
28a Three years previous to the death of Adam, he called Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, and Methuselah, who were all high priests, with the residue of his posterity, who were righteous, into the valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and there bestowed upon them his last blessing.
28b And the Lord appeared unto them, and they rose up and blessed Adam, and called him Michael, the Prince, the Archangel.
28c And the Lord administered comfort unto Adam, and said unto him, I have set thee to be at the head: a multitude of nations shall come of thee; and thou art a prince over them forever.
29a And Adam stood up in the midst of the congregation, and notwithstanding he was bowed down with age, being full of the Holy Ghost, predicted whatsoever should befall his posterity unto the latest generation.
29b These things were all written in the Book of Enoch, and are to be testified of in due time.
30 It is the duty of the Twelve, also, to ordain and set in order all the other officers of the church, agreeably to the revelation which says:
31a To the church of Christ in the land of Zion, in addition to the church laws, respecting church business:
