My LORD’s BibleKebra Nagast 64
2And Solomon answered and said unto her, "They call gods the things which have been made by the hands of the worker in metal, and the carpenter, and the potter, and the painter, and the hewer in stone, and the sculptor; these are not gods, but the work of the hand of man, in gold, and silver, in brass and lead, in iron and earthenware, and in stone, and ye call `our gods' the things that are not your gods.
3But we worship none else than the Holy God of Israel and our Lady, the holy and heavenly Zion, the Tabernacle of the Law of God, whom He hath given us to worship, us and our seed after us."
4And she answered and said unto him, "Thy son hath carried away thy Lady Zion, thy son whom thou hast begotten, who springeth from an alien people into which God hath not commanded you to marry, that is to say, from an Ethiopian woman, who is not of thy colour, and is not akin to thy country, and who is, moreover, black."
5And Solomon answered and said unto her, "Though thou speakest thus art thou not thyself of [that race] concerning which God hath not commanded us that we should take wives from it?
6And thy kin is her kin, for ye are all the children of Ham.
8And as concerning Zion, the will of God hath been performed, and He hath given her unto them so that they may worship her.
9And as for me, I will neither sacrifice to nor worship thine idols, and I will not perform thy wish."
10And though she spake in this wise unto him, and though she shewed herself gracious unto him evening and morning, and night and day, he continued to refuse her [request].
11And one day she beautified and scented herself for him, and she behaved herself haughtily towards him, and treated him disdainfully.
12And he said unto her, "What shall I do?
13Thou hast made thy face evil towards me, and thy regard towards me is not as it was formerly, and thy beautiful form is not as enticing as usual.
14Ask me, and I will give thee whatsoever thou wishest, and I will perform it for thee, so that thou mayest make thy face (or, attitude) gracious towards me as formerly"; but she held her peace and answered him never a word.
15And he repeated to her the words that he would do whatsoever she wished, and she said unto him, "Swear to me by the God of Israel that thou wilt not play me false."
16And he swore to her that he would give her whatsoever she asked for, and that he would do for her everything that she told him.
18And she said unto Solomon, "Come to me without breaking the scarlet thread, bend thyself and kill these locusts before me and pull out their necks"; and he did so.
19And she said unto him, "I will henceforward do thy will, for thou hast sacrificed to my gods and hast worshipped them."
21Now God had commanded the children of Israel, saying, "Ye shall not marry strange women that ye may not be corrupted by them through their gods, and through the wickedness of their works and the sweetness of their voices; for they make soft the hearts of simple young men by the sweetness of their gentle voices, and by the beauty of their forms they destroy the wisdom of the foolish man."
22Who was wiser than Solomon? yet he was seduced by a woman.
23Who was more righteous than David? yet he was seduced by a woman.
24Who was stronger than Samson? yet he was seduced by a woman.
26And through that seduction death was created for every created thing.
27And this seduction of men by women was caused by Eve, for we are all the children of Eve.