After the expulsion from Eden, Adam was separated from Eve for 130 years. He slept alone. According to the Chronicles of Jerahmeel, a 12th-century Hebrew chronicle translated by SAFE0 Gaster in 1899, that solitude did not last. The "first Eve"—that is, Lilith—found him, was charmed by his beauty, and lay beside him. From that union came demons, spirits, and imps in the thousands and myriads. These creatures attacked and killed anyone they encountered.
The terror continued until Methuselah intervened. He fasted for three days and begged for God's mercy. God granted him permission to write the Shem HaMeforash, the Ineffable Name, upon his weapon. Armed with it, Methuselah slew ninety-four myriads of demons in a single minute. He only stopped when Agrimus, identified as Adam's firstborn through Lilith, came to beg for mercy. Agrimus handed over the names of the remaining demons and their kings. Methuselah chained the demon kings in iron fetters, and the rest fled to the innermost recesses of the ocean, where they hide to this day.
Methuselah's greatness extended beyond demon-slaying. The text says he composed 230 parables in praise of God from every divine utterance and mastered 900 sections of the Mishna. When he died, thunder shook the heavens. Angels delivered a funeral oration. Nine hundred rows of mourners appeared—one for each section of Mishna he had studied—and tears fell from the eyes of the holy creatures onto the place where he died. His sword was buried with him.
The chapter closes with Enosh, son of Seth, who tried to demonstrate God's creation of Adam by molding a clay figure. When he breathed into it, Ha- SAFE0 (the Accuser, heaven's prosecutor) entered the image and made it walk. The people began worshipping it—the first act of idolatry in human history.