Pronunciation: TAB-lits uv EL-dah
What They Are
The Tablets of Elda are the record of remembrance that Seth wrote of his parents, Yaatsekawd and Cavah, and of what the Lord did with them (I Achee 2:35-39). The Lord also referred to tablets such as the Guidance Tablet, which bore the original Ten Commandments, as the Tablets of Elda (Grandmothers 3:5). Elda means simply “God is here”; it is the name of His abode in the midst of eternity (Grandmothers 3:5).
How Seth Came to Write Them
Seth greatly feared the people forgetting the doings of the Lamb of God with his parents (I Achee 2:35). His wife Azura brought him a mossy stone and said it told the story of the first sin of their mother and was an account of their journey away from the Garden (I Achee 2:36). Seth said they would keep the rock and by it teach their children to remember what had transpired with their parents (I Achee 2:37). Eve commanded Seth to carve the stone so that a record of remembrance could be kept among them (I Achee 2:38). And so Seth kept what was called a Book of Remembrance, and he wrote what is known as the tablets of Elda; “few greater things have been written by man” (I Achee 2:39). He wrote on stone tablets without the knowledge of words, in a pure and undefiled language understood only by the gift and power of God (I Achee 2:43).
The Record Preserved
Seth’s record of the life of Yaatsekawd and Cavah, written by way of instruction from his mother, is preserved as the Tablet of Seth in the opening chapters of the Book of Remembrance of Enoch (Enoch ch. 1). These chapters give an account of the formation of Eden, of the Lord’s instructions to the first parents in Eden, and of the first sin and the transformation from the natural world of Eden to the temporal world (Enoch ch. 4, 5, 7). Enoch later wrote all that he beheld concerning that which was written on the tablet of Seth (Enoch 8:1).
The Guidance Tablet
Enoch engraved the Guidance Tablet of Anokeesed, containing His guidance to His people for happy living (Grandmothers 3:1-4). It bore the original Ten Commandments and is one of the tablets the Lord called the Tablets of Elda (Grandmothers 3:5). It was one of the very tablets Motsah gave to Moses on Mount Sinai, and copies of it exist (Grandmothers 3:6).
Those Who Kept Them
- Iona was told, “You are the keeper of one of the tablets of Elda” (Grandmothers 6:45).
- Achee beheld the tablets of Elda among the records shown him by his grandfather Shem (I Achee 1:64), and later had them among the records of Shem (I Achee 11:83).
- After the Flood, the earth was happy to have the tablets of Elda in its keeping in the encampment of peace (Melchizedek 12:4).
Where to Read
- I Achee 2:35–39 (p. 86)
- Enoch, ch. 1 — The Tablet of Seth (p. 1)
- Grandmothers 3:5–6 (p. 78)
- Grandmothers 6:45 (p. 189)
- I Achee 11:83 (p. 378)