The Third Book of Meqabyan is one of the three deuterocanonical books of the Ethiopian tradition, not to be confused with the books of the Maccabees in the Catholic canon. Although it shares thematic similarities (struggle against sin and exhortation to the law of JAH), it is a distinct work, probably of Ethiopian Judeo-Christian origin. Only the Ethiopian Orthodox Church considers it canonical.
III Meqabyan
Chapter 2
But I-man shall bequeath thy throne in lordship to them whom it failed thee to mislead - like unto I slave 'Iyob ~ JAH Who rule all said - I-man will give the Kingdom of Heaven to persons whom it failed thee to mislead.
and mi provoke on 'Adam childran in all ~ if it were possible to mi to mislead them - mi won't quit them that them might firm up in goodly Work ~ to mi provoke on all 'Adam childran - and mi sweeten this world Feeling good joy to them.
Be it by lovin drink and food and clothes - or by lovin things - or by withholdin and givin...
or be it by lovin to hear and sight up - or be it by lovin to caress and go - or be it by multiplyin arrogance and things - or be it by lovin dreams and slumber...
or be it by multiplyin drunkenness and drink - or be it by multiplyin insults and anger - be it by speakin games and useless things...
or be it by quarrels and by backbitin them companion - or be it by sightin up this world daughters who were attractive - be it by smellin perfumes fragrance that mislead them...
mi hate them by all this lest them able to be saved ~ mi distance them from JAH LAW that them might enter with mi toward the destruction whereby mi were downbased from mi rank."
and the prophet told him - "Thou who destroy persons - perish ~ on the time thou departed from JAH LAW and committed crime in thy reasonin firmness and thy arrogance - and by saddenin thy Creator and not worshippin thy Creator in thy reasonin firmness - will thou thus be arrogant on JAH Creation?
on the time thy Creator vexed on thee - Him downbased thee from thy rank because thy evil Work ~ why do thou take 'Adam toward sin - him whom him Creator Created from Earth - whom Him made like unto Him loved - and whom Him placed to Him praise?" him told him.
"On the time thou - who are subtle and were Created from wind and fire - were arrogant in sayin 'Mi are the Creator'...
on the time thou boasted - as JAH have sight up thy evil Work and thou have denied JAH with thy hosts - Him Created 'Adam who will praise because thy stead - that him might praise Him Name without diminishin.
As thou have made thy ras self prouder than all Angels hosts who are like unto thee - because thy arrogance JAH Created 'Adam with him childran that them might praise JAH Name because the praise that thou praise with thy hosts whom Him scorned.
and because this thing JAH destroyed thee separatin from all Angels chiefs like unto thee - and thy hosts Created in one counsel with thee - and thou - you proceeded and erred from JAH praise because your useless reasonin arrogance and because your reasonin firmness - and you were arrogant on your Creator - that aren't on another.
Because this thing Him Created 'Adam from Earth that Him might be praised by downbased persons - and Him gave him a Command and Law sayin Don't eat lest him eat from fig fruit.
and Him I-pointed him on all the Creation Him Created ~ Him notified him sayin - Don't eat from one fig fruit that bring death - lest thou bring death on thy ras self - yet eat fruit from all the woods amidst the Garden.
and on the time thou heard this Word - thou lodged perfidy in him arisin from the thing thou spoke in thy tongue to Hiewan who were found from 'Adam side bone.
Thou misled 'Adam who were clean - in firm perfidy that thou might make him a Law demolisher like unto thee.
on the time thou misled Hiewan - who were Created bein like unto a innocent dove and who don't know thy malice - thou made she betray by thy thing that succeeded and thy crooked word - and after thou misled that Hiewan who were Created beforehand - she also went and misled JAH Creation 'Adam who were Created from Earth beforehand.
and thou made him betray a disturbance that aren't by thy arrogance - and thou made him to deny that him might deny him Creator Word - and thou destroyed 'Adam in thy arrogance.
and in thy malice thou distanced him from him Creator Love - and by thy reason thou sent him way from the Garden where Feeling good joy are - and by thy hindrance thou made him quit the Garden food.
to Beginnin from Antiquity thou have quarreled with the innocent Creation 'Adam that thou might lower him toward See'ol where thou will raceive hardship - and that thou might send him way from the Love that brought him and Created him from not livin toward true livin - and by thy false thing thou made him thirst a drink from the Garden.
and when him are Earthly - Him made him a subtle Angel who totally praise him Creator in him flesh and him soul and him reasonin.
and Him Created many thoughts to him - like unto harps praise in each of them styles.