8 Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones. 9 But even when Michael the archangel was arguing with the devil and debating with him concerning Moses’ body, he did not dare to bring a slanderous judgment, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!” 10 But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

405 one hour had passed for him. A Heavenly Voice came out and said to him, "Moses, why are you troubling yourself 406 you have only two hours left to live." And Samael was head of the satans 407 and every moment he waited for Moses’ death. "When will the hour come 408 that I may descend to kill him and take his soul?" He was like a man who looks forward to a joyous occasion. 409 When Michael the guardian angel of Israel saw Samael looking forward to Moses’ death, 410 he cried aloud and wept. And Samael rejoiced and laughed and he said 411 to Samael, "I weep and you laugh?" And there are those who say that he said to him, 412 "’Rejoice not against me O mine enemy though I am fallen I shall arise’ ‘For I am fallen’ with Moses. ‘I shall arise’ again 413 with reign of Joshua into whose hand thirty-one kings have fallen 414 ‘Though I sit in darkness’ refers to the destruction of the first and second Temples. ‘The Lord is a light unto me’ refers to