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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: First Book of Adam and Eve + +Author: Rutherford Platt + +Release Date: January 19, 2008 [EBook #398] +[This file last updated on January 25, 2008] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIRST BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE *** + + + + + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<BR><BR> + +<H1 ALIGN="center"> +The First Book of Adam and Eve +</H1> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +by Rutherford Platt +</H2> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +TABLE OF CONTENTS +</H2> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap00">Prologue</A> +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap01">Chapter I</A> - The crystal sea, God commands Adam, expelled from Eden, to +live in the Cave of Treasures. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap02">Chapter II</A> - Adam and Eve faint when they leave the Garden. God sends +His Word to encourage them. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap03">Chapter III</A> - Concerning the promise of the great five and a half days. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap04">Chapter IV</A> - Adam mourns over the changed conditions. Adam and Eve +enter the Cave of Treasures. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap05">Chapter V</A> - Eve makes a noble and emotional intercession, taking the +blame on herself. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap06">Chapter VI</A> - God's reprimand to Adam and Eve in which he points out how +and why they sinned. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap07">Chapter VII</A> - The beasts are appeased. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap08">Chapter VIII</A> - The "Bright Nature" of man is taken away. +</P> + +<P> +<A HREF="#chap09">Chapter IX</A> - Water from the Tree of Life. Adam and Eve near drowning. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap10">Chapter X</A> - Their bodies need water after they leave the garden. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap11">Chapter XI</A> - A recollection of the glorious days in the Garden. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap12">Chapter XII</A> - How darkness came between Adam and Eve. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap13">Chapter XIII</A> - The fall of Adam. Why night and day were created. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap14">Chapter XIV</A> - The earliest prophesy of the coming of Christ. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap15">Chapter XV</A> - Adam and Eve grieve over the suffering of God to save them +from their sins. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap16">Chapter XVI</A> - The first sunrise. Adam and Eve think it is a fire +coming to burn them. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap17">Chapter XVII</A> - The Chapter of the Serpent. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap18">Chapter XVIII</A> - The mortal combat with the serpent. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap19">Chapter XIX</A> - Beasts made subject to Adam. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap20">Chapter XX</A> - Adam wishes to protect Eve. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap21">Chapter XXI</A> - Adam and Eve attempt suicide. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap22">Chapter XXII</A> - Adam in a gracious mood. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap23">Chapter XXIII</A> - Adam and Eve strengthen themselves and make the first +altar ever built. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap24">Chapter XXIV</A> - A vivid prophecy of the life and death of Christ. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap25">Chapter XXV</A> - God represented as merciful and loving. The establishing +of worship. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap26">Chapter XXVI</A> - A beautiful prophecy of eternal life and joy (v. 15). +The fall of night. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap27">Chapter XXVII</A> - The second tempting of Adam and Eve. The devil takes +on the form of a beguiling light. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap28">Chapter XXVIII</A> - The Devil pretends to lead Adam and Eve to the water +to bathe. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap29">Chapter XXIX</A> - God tells Adam of the Devil's purpose. (v. 4). +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap30">Chapter XXX</A> - Adam receives the first worldly goods. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap31">Chapter XXXI</A> - They make themselves more comfortable in the Cave of +Treasures on the third day. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap32">Chapter XXXII</A> - Adam and Eve go into the water to pray. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap33">Chapter XXXIII</A> - Satan falsely promises the "bright light." +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap34">Chapter XXXIV</A> - Adam recalls the creation of Eve. He eloquently +appeals for food and drink. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap35">Chapter XXXV</A> - God's reply. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap36">Chapter XXXVI</A> - Figs. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap37">Chapter XXXVII</A> - Forty-three days of penance do not redeem one hour of +sin (v. 6). +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap38">Chapter XXXVIII</A> - "When 5500 years are fulfilled.…" +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap39">Chapter XXXIX</A> - Adam is cautious—but too late. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap40">Chapter XL</A> - The first Human hunger. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap41">Chapter XLI</A> - The first Human thirst. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap42">Chapter XLII</A> - A promise of the Water of Life. The third prophecy of +the coming of Christ. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap43">Chapter XLIII</A> - The Devil attempts arson. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap44">Chapter XLIV</A> - The power of fire over man. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap45">Chapter XLV</A> - Why Satan didn't fulfil his promises. Description of +hell. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap46">Chapter XLVI</A> - "How many times have I delivered you out of his hand . . +." +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap47">Chapter XLVII</A> - The Devil's own Scheming. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap48">Chapter XLVIII</A> - Fifth apparition of Satan to Adam and Eve. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap49">Chapter XLIX</A> - The first prophecy of the Resurrection. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap50">Chapter L</A> - Adam and Eve seek to cover their nakedness. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap51">Chapter LI</A> - "What is his beauty that you should have followed him?" +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap52">Chapter LII</A> - Adam and Eve sew the first shirt. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap53">Chapter LIII</A> - The prophecy of the Western Lands and of the great flood. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap54">Chapter LIV</A> - Adam and Eve go exploring. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap55">Chapter LV</A> - The Conflict between God and Satan. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap56">Chapter LVI</A> - A chapter of divine comfort. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap57">Chapter LVII</A> - "Therefore I fell.… " +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap58">Chapter LVIII</A> - "About sunset on the 53rd day. . ." +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap59">Chapter LIX</A> - Eighth apparition of Satan of Satan to Adam and Eve. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap60">Chapter LX</A> - The Devil appears like an old man. He offers "a place of +rest." +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap61">Chapter LXI</A> - They begin to follow Satan. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap62">Chapter LXII</A> - Two fruit trees. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap63">Chapter LXIII</A> - The first joy of trees. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap64">Chapter LXIV</A> - Adam and Eve partake of the first earthly food. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap65">Chapter LXV</A> - Adam and Eve acquire digestive organs. Final hope of +returning to the Garden is lost. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap66">Chapter LXVI</A> - Adam does his first day's work. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap67">Chapter LXVII</A> - "Then Satan began to lead astray Adam and Eve.…" +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap68">Chapter LXVIII</A> - How destruction and trouble is of Satan when he is the +master. Adam and Eve establish the custom of worship. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap69">Chapter LXIX</A> - Twelfth apparition of Satan to Adam and Eve, while Adam +was praying over the offering on the altar; when Satan beat him. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap70">Chapter LXX</A> - Thirteenth apparition of Satan, to trick Adam into +marrying Eve. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap71">Chapter LXXI</A> - Adam is troubled by the thought of marrying Eve.Chapter +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap72">Chapter LXXII</A> - Adam's heart is set on fire. Satan appears as +beautiful maidens. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap73">Chapter LXXIII</A> - The marriage of Adam and Eve. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap74">Chapter LXXIV</A> - The birth of Cain and Luluwa. Why they received those +names. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap75">Chapter LXXV</A> - The family revisits the Cave of Treasures. Birth of +Abel and Aklia. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap76">Chapter LXXVI</A> - Cain becomes jealous of Abel because of his sisters. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap77">Chapter LXXVII</A> - Cain, 15 years old, and Abel 12 years old, grow apart. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap78">Chapter LXXVIII</A> - Jealousy overcomes Cain. He makes trouble in the +family. How the first murder was planned. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap79">Chapter LXXIX</A> - A wicked plan is carried to a tragic conclusion. Cain +is frightened. "Am I my brother's keeper?" The seven punishments. +Peace is shattered. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap00"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Prologue +</P> + +<P> +The First Book of Adam and Eve details the life and times of Adam and +Eve after they were expelled from the garden to the time that Cain +kills his brother Abel. It tells of Adam and Eve's first dwelling—the +Cave of Treasures; their trials and temptations; Satan's many +apparitions to them; the birth of Cain, Abel, and their twin sisters; +and Cain's love for his beautiful twin sister, Luluwa, whom Adam and +Eve wished to join to Abel. +</P> + +<P> +This book is considered by many scholars to be part of the +"Pseudepigrapha" (soo-duh-pig-ruh-fuh). The "Pseudepigrapha" is a +collection of historical biblical works that are considered to be +fiction. Because of that stigma, this book was not included in the +compilation of the Holy Bible. This book is a written history of what +happened in the days of Adam and Eve after they were cast out of the +garden. Although considered to be pseudepigraphic by some, it carries +significant meaning and insight into events of that time. It is +doubtful that these writings could have survived all the many centuries +if there were no substance to them. +</P> + +<P> +This book is simply a version of an account handed down by word of +mouth, from generation to generation, linking the time that the first +human life was created to the time when somebody finally decided to +write it down. This particular version is the work of unknown +Egyptians. The lack of historical allusion makes it difficult to +precisely date the writing, however, using other pseudepigraphical +works as a reference, it was probably written a few hundred years +before the birth of Christ. Parts of this version are found in the +Jewish Talmud, and the Islamic Koran, showing what a vital role it +played in the original literature of human wisdom. The Egyptian author +wrote in Arabic, but later translations were found written in Ethiopic. +The present English translation was translated in the late 1800's by +Dr. S. C. Malan and Dr. E. Trumpp. They translated into King James +English from both the Arabic version and the Ethiopic version which was +then published in The Forgotten Books of Eden in 1927 by The World +Publishing Company. In 1995, the text was extracted from a copy of +The Forgotten Books of Eden and converted to electronic form by Dennis +Hawkins. It was then translated into more modern English by simply +exchanging 'Thou' s for 'You's, 'Art's for 'Are's, and so forth. The +text was then carefully re-read to ensure its integrity. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap01"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter I - The crystal sea, God commands Adam, expelled from Eden, to +live in the Cave of Treasures. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 On the third day, God planted the garden in the east of the earth, on +the border of the world eastward, beyond which, towards the sun-rising, +one finds nothing but water, that encompasses the whole world, and +reaches to the borders of heaven. +</P> + +<P> +2 And to the north of the garden there is a sea of water, clear and +pure to the taste, unlike anything else; so that, through the clearness +thereof, one may look into the depths of the earth. +</P> + +<P> +3 And when a man washes himself in it, he becomes clean of the +cleanness thereof, and white of its whiteness—even if he were dark. +</P> + +<P> +4 And God created that sea of his own good pleasure, for He knew what +would come of the man He would make; so that after he had left the +garden, on account of his transgression, men should be born in the +earth. Among them are righteous ones who will die, whose souls God +would raise at the last day; when all of them will return to their +flesh, bathe in the water of that sea, and repent of their sins. +</P> + +<P> +5 But when God made Adam go out of the garden, He did not place him on +the border of it northward. This was so that he and Eve would not be +able to go near to the sea of water where they could wash themselves in +it, be cleansed from their sins, erase the transgression they had +committed, and be no longer reminded of it in the thought of their +punishment. +</P> + +<P> +6 As to the southern side of the garden, God did not want Adam to live +there either; because, when the wind blew from the north, it would +bring him, on that southern side, the delicious smell of the trees of +the garden. +</P> + +<P> +7 Wherefore God did not put Adam there. This was so that he would not +be able to smell the sweet smell of those trees, forget his +transgression, and find consolation for what he had done by taking +delight in the smell of the trees and yet not be cleansed from his +transgression. +</P> + +<P> +8 Again, also, because God is merciful and of great pity, and governs +all things in a way that He alone knows—He made our father Adam live +in the western border of the garden, because on that side the earth is +very broad. +</P> + +<P> +9 And God commanded him to live there in a cave in a rock—the Cave of +Treasures below the garden. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap02"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter II - Adam and Eve faint when they leave the Garden. God sends +His Word to encourage them. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But when our father Adam, and Eve, went out of the garden, they +walked the ground on their feet, not knowing they were walking. +</P> + +<P> +2 And when they came to the opening of the gate of the garden, and saw +the broad earth spread before them, covered with stones large and +small, and with sand, they feared and trembled, and fell on their +faces, from the fear that came over them; and they were as dead. +</P> + +<P> +3 Because—whereas until this time they had been in the garden land, +beautifully planted with all manner of trees—they now saw themselves, +in a strange land, which they knew not, and had never seen. +</P> + +<P> +4 And because, when they were in the garden they were filled with the +grace of a bright nature, and they had not hearts turned toward earthly +things. +</P> + +<P> +5 Therefore God had pity on them; and when He saw them fallen before +the gate of the garden, He sent His Word to our father, Adam and Eve, +and raised them from their fallen state. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap03"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter III - Concerning the promise of the great five and a half days. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 God said to Adam, "I have ordained on this earth days and years, and +you and your descendants shall live and walk in them, until the days +and years are fulfilled; when I shall send the Word that created you, +and against which you have transgressed, the Word that made you come +out of the garden, and that raised you when you were fallen. +</P> + +<P> +2 Yes, the Word that will again save you when the five and a half days +are fulfilled." +</P> + +<P> +3 But when Adam heard these words from God, and of the great five and a +half days, he did not understand the meaning of them. +</P> + +<P> +4 For Adam was thinking there would be only five and a half days for +him until the end of the world. +</P> + +<P> +5 And Adam cried, and prayed to God to explain it to him. +</P> + +<P> +6 Then God in his mercy for Adam who was made after His own image and +likeness, explained to him, that these were 5,000 and 500 years; and +how One would then come and save him and his descendants. +</P> + +<P> +7 But before that, God had made this covenant with our father, Adam, in +the same terms, before he came out of the garden, when he was by the +tree where Eve took of the fruit and gave it to him to eat. +</P> + +<P> +8 Because, when our father Adam came out of the garden, he passed by +that tree, and saw how God had changed the appearance of it into +another form, and how it shriveled. +</P> + +<P> +9 And as Adam went to it he feared, trembled and fell down; but God in +His mercy lifted him up, and then made this covenant with him. +</P> + +<P> +10 And again, when Adam was by the gate of the garden, and saw the +cherub with a sword of flashing fire in his hand, and the cherub grew +angry and frowned at him, both Adam and Eve became afraid of him, and +thought he meant to put them to death. So they fell on their faces, +trembled with fear. +</P> + +<P> +11 But he had pity on them, and showed them mercy; and turning from +them went up to heaven, and prayed to the Lord, and said;— +</P> + +<P> +12 "Lord, You sent me to watch at the gate of the garden, with a sword +of fire. +</P> + +<P> +13 But when Your servants, Adam and Eve, saw me, they fell on their +faces, and were as dead. O my Lord, what shall we do to Your servants?" +</P> + +<P> +14 Then God had pity on them, and showed them mercy, and sent His Angel +to keep the garden. +</P> + +<P> +15 And the Word of the Lord came to Adam and Eve, and raised them up. +</P> + +<P> +16 And the Lord said to Adam, "I told you that at the end of the five +and a half days, I will send my Word and save you. +</P> + +<P> +17 Strengthen your heart, therefore, and stay in the Cave of Treasures, +of which I have before spoken to you." +</P> + +<P> +18 And when Adam heard this Word from God, he was comforted with that +which God had told him. For He had told him how He would save him. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap04"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter IV - Adam mourns over the changed conditions. Adam and Eve +enter the Cave of Treasures. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But Adam and Eve cried for having come out of the garden, their first +home. +</P> + +<P> +2 And indeed, when Adam looked at his flesh, that was altered, he cried +bitterly, he and Eve, over what they had done. And they walked and +went gently down into the Cave of Treasures. +</P> + +<P> +3 And as they came to it, Adam cried over himself and said to Eve, +"Look at this cave that is to be our prison in this world, and a +place of punishment! +</P> + +<P> +4 What is it compared with the garden? What is its narrowness compared +with the space of the other? +</P> + +<P> +5 What is this rock, by the side of those groves? What is the gloom of +this cavern, compared with the light of the garden? +</P> + +<P> +6 What is this overhanging ledge of rock to shelter us, compared with +the mercy of the Lord that overshadowed us? +</P> + +<P> +7 What is the soil of this cave compared with the garden land? This +earth, strewed with stones; and that, planted with delicious fruit +trees?" +</P> + +<P> +8 And Adam said to Eve, "Look at your eyes, and at mine, which before +beheld angels praising in heaven; and they too, without ceasing. +</P> + +<P> +9 But now we do not see as we did; our eyes have become of flesh; they +cannot see like they used to see before." +</P> + +<P> +10 Adam said again to Eve, "What is our body today, compared to what it +was in former days, when we lived in the garden?" +</P> + +<P> +11 After this, Adam did not want to enter the cave, under the +overhanging rock; nor would he ever want to enter it. +</P> + +<P> +12 But he bowed to God's orders; and said to himself, "Unless I enter +the cave, I shall again be a transgressor." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap05"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter V - Eve makes a noble and emotional intercession, taking the +blame on herself. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam and Eve entered the cave, and stood praying, in their own +tongue, unknown to us, but which they knew well. +</P> + +<P> +2 And as they prayed, Adam raised his eyes and saw the rock and the +roof of the cave that covered him overhead. This prevented him from +seeing either heaven or God's creatures. So he cried and beat his +chest hard, until he dropped, and was as dead. +</P> + +<P> +3 And Eve sat crying; for she believed he was dead. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then she got up, spread her hands toward God, appealing to Him for +mercy and pity, and said, "O God, forgive me my sin, the sin which I +committed, and don't remember it against me. +</P> + +<P> +5 For I alone caused Your servant to fall from the garden into this +condemned land; from light into this darkness; and from the house of +joy into this prison. +</P> + +<P> +6 O God, look at this Your servant fallen in this manner, and bring him +back to life, that he may cry and repent of his transgression which he +committed through me. +</P> + +<P> +7 Don't take away his soul right now; but let him live that he may +stand after the measure of his repentance, and do Your will, as before +his death. +</P> + +<P> +8 But if You do not bring him back to life, then, O God, take away my +own soul, that I be like him, and leave me not in this dungeon, one and +alone; for I could not stand alone in this world, but with him only. +</P> + +<P> +9 For You, O God, caused him to fall asleep, and took a bone from his +side, and restored the flesh in the place of it, by Your divine power. +</P> + +<P> +10 And You took me, the bone, and make me a woman, bright like him, +with heart, reason, and speech; and in flesh, like to his own; and You +made me after the likeness of his looks, by Your mercy and power. +</P> + +<P> +11 O Lord, I and he are one, and You, O God, are our Creator, You are +He who made us both in one day. +</P> + +<P> +12 Therefore, O God, give him life, that he may be with me in this +strange land, while we live in it on account of our transgression. +</P> + +<P> +13 But if You will not give him life, then take me, even me, like him; +that we both may die the same day." +</P> + +<P> +14 And Eve cried bitterly, and fell on our father Adam; from her great +sorrow. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap06"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter VI - God's reprimand to Adam and Eve in which he points out how +and why they sinned. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But God looked at them; for they had killed themselves through great +grief. +</P> + +<P> +2 But He decided to raise them and comfort them. +</P> + +<P> +3 He, therefore, sent His Word to them; that they should stand and be +raised immediately. +</P> + +<P> +4 And the Lord said to Adam and Eve, "You transgressed of your own free +will, until you came out of the garden in which I had placed you. +</P> + +<P> +5 Of your own free will have you transgressed through your desire for +divinity, greatness, and an exalted state, such as I have; so that I +deprived you of the bright nature in which you then were, and I made +you come out of the garden to this land, rough and full of trouble. +</P> + +<P> +6 If only you had not transgressed My commandment and had kept My law, +and had not eaten of the fruit of the tree which I told you not to come +near! And there were fruit trees in the garden better than that one. +</P> + +<P> +7 But the wicked Satan did not keep his faith and had no good intent +towards Me, that although I had created him, he considered Me to be +useless, and sought the Godhead for himself; for this I hurled him down +from heaven so that he could not remain in his first estate—it was he +who made the tree appear pleasant in your eyes, until you ate of it, by +believing his words. +</P> + +<P> +8 Thus have you transgressed My commandment, and therefore I have +brought on you all these sorrows. +</P> + +<P> +9 For I am God the Creator, who, when I created My creatures, did not +intend to destroy them. But after they had sorely roused My anger, I +punished them with grievous plagues, until they repent. +</P> + +<P> +10 But, if on the contrary, they still continue hardened in their +transgression, they shall be under a curse forever." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap07"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter VII - The beasts are appeased. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 When Adam and Eve heard these words from God, they cried and sobbed +yet more; but they strengthened their hearts in God, because they now +felt that the Lord was to them like a father and a mother; and for this +very reason, they cried before Him, and sought mercy from Him. +</P> + +<P> +2 Then God had pity on them, and said: "O Adam, I have made My covenant +with you, and I will not turn from it; neither will I let you return to +the garden, until My covenant of the great five and a half days is +fulfilled." +</P> + +<P> +3 Then Adam said to God, "O Lord, You created us, and made us fit to be +in the garden; and before I transgressed, You made all beasts come to +me, that I should name them. +</P> + +<P> +4 Your grace was then on me; and I named every one according to Your +mind; and you made them all subject to me. +</P> + +<P> +5 But now, O Lord God, that I have transgressed Your commandment, all +beasts will rise against me and will devour me, and Eve Your handmaid; +and will cut off our life from the face of the earth. +</P> + +<P> +6 I therefore beg you, O God, that since You have made us come out of +the garden, and have made us be in a strange land, You will not let the +beasts hurt us." +</P> + +<P> +7 When the Lord heard these words from Adam, He had pity on him, and +felt that he had truly said that the beasts of the field would rise and +devour him and Eve, because He, the Lord, was angry with the two of +them on account of their transgressions. +</P> + +<P> +8 Then God commanded the beasts, and the birds, and all that moves on +the earth, to come to Adam and to be familiar with him, and not to +trouble him and Eve; nor yet any of the good and righteous among their +offspring. +</P> + +<P> +9 Then all the beasts paid homage to Adam, according to the commandment +of God; except the serpent, against which God was angry. It did not +come to Adam, with the beasts. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap08"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter VIII - The "Bright Nature" of man is taken away. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam cried and said, "O God, when we lived in the garden, and +our hearts were lifted up, we saw the angels that sang praises in +heaven, but now we can't see like we used to; no, when we entered the +cave, all creation became hidden from us." +</P> + +<P> +2 Then God the Lord said to Adam, "When you were under subjection to +Me, you had a bright nature within you, and for that reason could you +see things far away. But after your transgression your bright nature +was withdrawn from you; and it was not left to you to see things far +away, but only near at hand; after the ability of the flesh; for it is +brutish." +</P> + +<P> +3 When Adam and Eve had heard these words from God, they went their +way; praising and worshipping Him with a sorrowful heart. +</P> + +<P> +4 And God ceased to commune with them. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap09"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter IX - Water from the Tree of Life. Adam and Eve near drowning. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam and Eve came out of the Cave of Treasures, and went near to +the garden gate, and there they stood to look at it, and cried for +having come away from it. +</P> + +<P> +2 And Adam and Eve went from before the gate of the garden to the +southern side of it, and found there the water that watered the garden, +from the root of the Tree of Life, and that split itself from there +into four rivers over the earth. +</P> + +<P> +3 Then they came and went near to that water, and looked at it; and saw +that it was the water that came forth from under the root of the Tree +of Life in the garden. +</P> + +<P> +4 And Adam cried and wailed, and beat his chest, for being severed from +the garden; and said to Eve:— +</P> + +<P> +5 "Why have you brought on me, on yourself, and on our descendants, so +many of these plagues and punishments?" +</P> + +<P> +6 And Eve said to him, "What is it you have seen that has caused you to +cry and to speak to me in this manner?" +</P> + +<P> +7 And he said to Eve, "Do you not see this water that was with us in +the garden, that watered the trees of the garden, and flowed out from +there? +</P> + +<P> +8 And we, when we were in the garden, did not care about it; but since +we came to this strange land, we love it, and turn it to use for our +body." +</P> + +<P> +9 But when Eve heard these words from him, she cried; and from the +soreness of their crying, they fell into that water; and would have put +an end to themselves in it, so as never again to return and behold the +creation; for when they looked at the work of creation, they felt they +must put an end to themselves. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap10"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter X - Their bodies need water after they leave the garden. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then God, merciful and gracious, looked at them thus lying in the +water, and close to death, and sent an angel, who brought them out of +the water, and laid them on the seashore as dead. +</P> + +<P> +2 Then the angel went up to God, was welcome, and said, "O God, Your +creatures have breathed their last." +</P> + +<P> +3 Then God sent His Word to Adam and Eve, who raised them from their +death. +</P> + +<P> +4 And Adam said, after he was raised, "O God, while we were in the +garden we did not require, or care for this water; but since we came to +this land we cannot do without it." +</P> + +<P> +5 Then God said to Adam, "While you were under My command and were a +bright angel, you knew not this water. +</P> + +<P> +6 But now that you have transgressed My commandment, you can not do +without water, wherein to wash your body and make it grow; for it is +now like that of beasts, and is in want of water." +</P> + +<P> +7 When Adam and Eve heard these words from God, they cried a bitter +cry; and Adam entreated God to let him return into the garden, and look +at it a second time. +</P> + +<P> +8 But God said to Adam, "I have made you a promise; when that promise +is fulfilled, I will bring you back into the garden, you and your +righteous descendants." +</P> + +<P> +9 And God ceased to commune with Adam. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap11"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XI - A recollection of the glorious days in the Garden. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam and Eve felt themselves burning with thirst, and heat, and +sorrow. +</P> + +<P> +2 And Adam said to Eve, "We shall not drink of this water, even if we +were to die. O Eve, when this water comes into our inner parts, it +will increase our punishments and that of our descendants." +</P> + +<P> +3 Both Adam and Eve then went away from the water, and drank none of it +at all; but came and entered the Cave of Treasures. +</P> + +<P> +4 But when in it Adam could not see Eve; he only heard the noise she +made. Neither could she see Adam, but heard the noise he made. +</P> + +<P> +5 Then Adam cried, in deep affliction, and beat his chest; and he got +up and said to Eve, "Where are you?" +</P> + +<P> +6 And she said to him, "Look, I am standing in this darkness." +</P> + +<P> +7 He then said to her, "Remember the bright nature in which we lived, +when we lived in the garden! +</P> + +<P> +8 O Eve! Remember the glory that rested on us in the garden. O Eve! +Remember the trees that overshadowed us in the garden while we moved +among them. +</P> + +<P> +9 O Eve! Remember that while we were in the garden, we knew neither +night nor day. Think of the Tree of Life, from below which flowed the +water, and that shed lustre over us! Remember, O Eve, the garden land, +and the brightness thereof! +</P> + +<P> +10 Think, oh think of that garden in which was no darkness, while we +lived in it. +</P> + +<P> +11 Whereas no sooner did we come into this Cave of Treasures than +darkness surrounded us all around; until we can no longer see each +other; and all the pleasure of this life has come to an end." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap12"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XII - How darkness came between Adam and Eve. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam beat his chest, he and Eve, and they mourned the whole +night until the crack of dawn, and they sighed over the length of the +night in Miyazia. +</P> + +<P> +2 And Adam beat himself, and threw himself on the ground in the cave, +from bitter grief, and because of the darkness, and lay there as dead. +</P> + +<P> +3 But Eve heard the noise he made in falling on the ground. And she +felt about for him with her hands, and found him like a corpse. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then she was afraid, speechless, and remained by him. +</P> + +<P> +5 But the merciful Lord looked on the death of Adam, and on Eve's +silence from fear of the darkness. +</P> + +<P> +6 And the Word of God came to Adam and raised him from his death, and +opened Eve's mouth that she might speak. +</P> + +<P> +7 Then Adam stood up in the cave and said, "O God, why has light +departed from us, and darkness covered us? Why did you leave us in +this long darkness? Why do you plague us like this? +</P> + +<P> +8 And this darkness, O Lord, where was it before it covered us? It is +because of this that we cannot see each other. +</P> + +<P> +9 For so long as we were in the garden, we neither saw nor even knew +what darkness is. I was not hidden from Eve, neither was she hidden +from me, until now that she cannot see me; and no darkness came over us +to separate us from each other. +</P> + +<P> +10 But she and I were both in one bright light. I saw her and she saw +me. Yet now since we came into this cave, darkness has covered us, and +separated us from each other, so that I do not see her, and she does +not see me. +</P> + +<P> +11 O Lord, will You then plague us with this darkness?" +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap13"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XIII - The fall of Adam. Why night and day were created. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then when God, who is merciful and full of pity, heard Adam's voice, +He said to him:— +</P> + +<P> +2 "O Adam, so long as the good angel was obedient to Me, a bright light +rested on him and on his hosts. +</P> + +<P> +3 But when he transgressed My commandment, I deprived him of that +bright nature, and he became dark. +</P> + +<P> +4 And when he was in the heavens, in the realms of light, he knew +nothing of darkness. +</P> + +<P> +5 But he transgressed, and I made him fall from the heaven onto the +earth; and it was this darkness that came over him. +</P> + +<P> +6 And on you, O Adam, while in My garden and obedient to Me, did that +bright light rest also. +</P> + +<P> +7 But when I heard of your transgression, I deprived you of that bright +light. Yet, of My mercy, I did not turn you into darkness, but I made +you your body of flesh, over which I spread this skin, in order that it +may bear cold and heat. +</P> + +<P> +8 If I had let My wrath fall heavily on you, I should have destroyed +you; and had I turned you into darkness, it would have been as if I had +killed you. +</P> + +<P> +9 But in My mercy, I have made you as you are; when you transgressed My +commandment, O Adam, I drove you from the garden, and made you come +forth into this land; and commanded you to live in this cave; and +darkness covered you, as it did over him who transgressed My +commandment. +</P> + +<P> +10 Thus, O Adam, has this night deceived you. It is not to last +forever; but is only of twelve hours; when it is over, daylight will +return. +</P> + +<P> +11 Sigh not, therefore, neither be moved; and say not in your heart +that this darkness is long and drags on wearily; and say not in your +heart that I plague you with it. +</P> + +<P> +12 Strengthen your heart, and be not afraid. This darkness is not a +punishment. But, O Adam, I have made the day, and have placed the sun +in it to give light; in order that you and your children should do your +work. +</P> + +<P> +13 For I knew you would sin and transgress, and come out into this +land. Yet I wouldn't force you, nor be heard over you, nor shut up; +nor doom you through your fall; nor through your coming out from light +into darkness; nor yet through your coming from the garden into this +land. +</P> + +<P> +14 For I made you of the light; and I willed to bring out children of +light from you and like to you. +</P> + +<P> +15 But you did not keep My commandment one day; until I had finished +the creation and blessed everything in it. +</P> + +<P> +16 Then, concerning the tree, I commanded you not to eat of it. Yet I +knew that Satan, who deceived himself, would also deceive you. +</P> + +<P> +17 So I made known to you by means of the tree, not to come near him. +And I told you not to eat of the fruit thereof, nor to taste of it, nor +yet to sit under it, nor to yield to it. +</P> + +<P> +18 Had I not been and spoken to you, O Adam, concerning the tree, and +had I left you without a commandment, and you had sinned—it would have +been an offence on My part, for not having given you any order; you +would turn around and blame Me for it. +</P> + +<P> +19 But I commanded you, and warned you, and you fell. So that My +creatures cannot blame Me; but the blame rests on them alone. +</P> + +<P> +20 And, O Adam, I have made the day so that you and your descendants +can work and toil in it. And I have made the night for them to rest in +it from their work; and for the beasts of the field to go forth by +night and look for their food. +</P> + +<P> +21 But little of darkness now remains, O Adam, and daylight will soon +appear." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap14"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XIV - The earliest prophesy of the coming of Christ. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam said to God: "O Lord, take You my soul, and let me not see +this gloom any more; or remove me to some place where there is no +darkness." +</P> + +<P> +2 But God the Lord said to Adam, "Indeed I say to you, this darkness +will pass from you, every day I have determined for you, until the +fulfillment of My covenant; when I will save you and bring you back +again into the garden, into the house of light you long for, in which +there is no darkness*. I will bring you to it—in the kingdom of +heaven." +</P> + +<P> +3 Again said God to Adam, "All this misery that you have been made to +take on yourself because of your transgression, will not free you from +the hand of Satan, and will not save you. +</P> + +<P> +4 But I will. When I shall come down from heaven, and shall become +flesh of your descendants, and take on Myself the infirmity from which +you suffer, then the darkness that covered you in this cave shall cover +Me in the grave, when I am in the flesh of your descendants. +</P> + +<P> +5 And I, who am without years, shall be subject to the reckoning of +years, of times, of months, and of days, and I shall be reckoned as one +of the sons of men, in order to save you." +</P> + +<P> +6 And God ceased to commune with Adam. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +* Reference: John 12:46 +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap15"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XV - Adam and Eve grieve over the suffering of God to save them +from their sins. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam and Eve cried and sorrowed by reason of God's word to them, +that they should not return to the garden until the fulfillment of the +days decreed on them; but mostly because God had told them that He +should suffer for their salvation. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap16"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XVI - The first sunrise. Adam and Eve think it is a fire +coming to burn them. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 After this, Adam and Eve continued to stand in the cave, praying and +crying, until the morning dawned on them. +</P> + +<P> +2 And when they saw the light returned to them, they retrained from +fear, and strengthened their hearts. +</P> + +<P> +3 Then Adam began to come out of the cave. And when he came to the +mouth of it, and stood and turned his face towards the east, and saw +the sunrise in glowing rays, and felt the heat thereof on his body, he +was afraid of it, and thought in his heart that this flame came forth +to plague him. +</P> + +<P> +4 He then cried and beat his chest, then he fell on the ground on his +face and made his request, saying:— +</P> + +<P> +5 "O Lord, plague me not, neither consume me, nor yet take away my life +from the earth." +</P> + +<P> +6 For he thought the sun was God. +</P> + +<P> +7 Because while he was in the garden and heard the voice of God and the +sound He made in the garden, and feared Him, Adam never saw the +brilliant light of the sun, neither did its flaming heat touch his body. +</P> + +<P> +8 Therefore he was afraid of the sun when flaming rays of it reached +him. He thought God meant to plague him therewith all the days He had +decreed for him. +</P> + +<P> +9 For Adam also said in his thoughts, as God did not plague us with +darkness, behold, He has caused this sun to rise and to plague us with +burning heat. +</P> + +<P> +10 But while he was thinking like this in his heart, the Word of God +came to him and said:— +</P> + +<P> +11 "O Adam, get up on your feet. This sun is not God; but it has been +created to give light by day, of which I spoke to you in the cave +saying, 'that the dawn would come, and there would be light by day.' +</P> + +<P> +12 But I am God who comforted you in the night." +</P> + +<P> +13 And God ceased to commune with Adam. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap17"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XVII - The Chapter of the Serpent. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 The Adam and Eve came out at the mouth of the cave, and went towards +the garden. +</P> + +<P> +2 But as they went near it, before the western gate, from which Satan +came when he deceived Adam and Eve, they found the serpent that became +Satan coming at the gate, and sorrowfully licking the dust, and +wiggling on its breast on the ground, by reason of the curse that fell +on it from God. +</P> + +<P> +3 And whereas before the serpent was the most exalted of all beasts, +now it was changed and become slippery, and the meanest of them all, +and it crept on its breast and went on its belly. +</P> + +<P> +4 And whereas it was the fairest of all beasts, it had been changed, +and was become the ugliest of them all. Instead of feeding on the best +food, now it turned to eat the dust. Instead of living, as before, in +the best places, now it lived in the dust. +</P> + +<P> +5 And, whereas it had been the most beautiful of all beasts, all of +which stood dumb at its beauty, it was now abhorred of them. +</P> + +<P> +6 And, again, whereas it lived in one beautiful home, to which all +other animals came from elsewhere; and where it drank, they drank also +of the same; now, after it had become venomous, by reason of God's +curse, all beasts fled from its home, and would not drink of the water +it drank; but fled from it. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap18"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XVIII - The mortal combat with the serpent. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 When the accursed serpent saw Adam and Eve, it swelled its head, +stood on its tail, and with eyes blood-red, acted like it would kill +them. +</P> + +<P> +2 It made straight for Eve, and ran after her; while Adam standing by, +cried because he had no stick in his hand with which to hit the +serpent, and did not know how to put it to death. +</P> + +<P> +3 But with a heart burning for Eve, Adam approached the serpent, and +held it by the tail; when it turned towards him and said to him:— +</P> + +<P> +4 "O Adam, because of you and of Eve, I am slippery, and go on my +belly." Then with its great strength, it threw down Adam and Eve and +squeezed them, and tried to kill them. +</P> + +<P> +5 But God sent an angel who threw the serpent away from them, and +raised them up. +</P> + +<P> +6 Then the Word of God came to the serpent, and said to it, "The first +time I made you slick, and made you to go on your belly; but I did not +deprive you of speech. +</P> + +<P> +7 This time, however, you will be mute, and you and your race will +speak no more; because, the first time My creatures were ruined because +of you, and this time you tried to kill them." +</P> + +<P> +8 Then the serpent was struck mute, and was no longer able to speak. +</P> + +<P> +9 And a wind blew down from heaven by the command of God and carried +away the serpent from Adam and Eve, and threw it on the seashore where +it landed in India. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap19"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XIX - Beasts made subject to Adam. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But Adam and Eve cried before God. And Adam said to Him:— +</P> + +<P> +2 "O Lord, when I was in the cave, I said this to you, my Lord, the +beasts of the field would rise and devour me, and cut off my life from +the earth." +</P> + +<P> +3 Then Adam, because of what had happened to him, beat his chest and +fell on the ground like a corpse. Then the Word of God came to him, +who raised him, and said to him, +</P> + +<P> +4 "O Adam, not one of these beasts will be able to hurt you; because I +have made the beasts and other moving things come to you in the cave. +I did not let the serpent come with them because it might have risen +against you and made you tremble; and the fear of it should fall into +your hearts. +</P> + +<P> +5 For I knew that the accursed one is wicked; therefore I would not let +it come near you with the other beasts. +</P> + +<P> +6 But now strengthen your heart and fear not. I am with you to the end +of the days I have determined on you." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap20"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XX - Adam wishes to protect Eve. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam cried and said, "O God, take us away to some other place, +where the serpent can not come near us again, and rise against us. For +fear that it might find Your handmaid Eve alone and kill her; for its +eyes are hideous and evil." +</P> + +<P> +2 But God said to Adam and Eve, "From now on, don't be afraid, I will +not let it come near you; I have driven it away from you, from this +mountain; neither will I leave in it the ability to hurt you." +</P> + +<P> +3 Then Adam and Eve worshipped before God and gave Him thanks, and +praised Him for having delivered them from death. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap21"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXI - Adam and Eve attempt suicide. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam and Eve went in search of the garden. +</P> + +<P> +2 And the heat beat like a flame on their faces; and they sweated from +the heat, and cried before the Lord. +</P> + +<P> +3 But the place where they cried was close to a high mountain, facing +the western gate of the garden. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then Adam threw himself down from the top of that mountain; his face +was torn and his flesh was ripped; he lost a lot of blood and was close +to death. +</P> + +<P> +5 Meanwhile Eve remained standing on the mountain crying over him, thus +lying. +</P> + +<P> +6 And she said, "I don't wish to live after him; for all that he did to +himself was through me." +</P> + +<P> +7 Then she threw herself after him; and was torn and ripped by stones; +and remained lying as dead. +</P> + +<P> +8 But the merciful God, who looks over His creatures, looked at Adam +and Eve as they lay dead, and He sent His Word to them, and raised them. +</P> + +<P> +9 And said to Adam, "O Adam, all this misery which you have brought on +yourself, will have no affect against My rule, neither will it alter +the covenant of the 5, 500 years." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap22"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXII - Adam in a gracious mood. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam said to God, "I dry up in the heat, I am faint from +walking, and I don't want to be in this world. And I don't know when +You will take me out of it to rest." +</P> + +<P> +2 Then the Lord God said to him, "O Adam, it cannot be now, not until +you have ended your days. Then shall I bring you out of this miserable +land." +</P> + +<P> +3 And Adam said to God, "While I was in the garden I knew neither heat, +nor languor, neither moving about, nor trembling, nor fear; but now +since I came to this land, all this affliction has come over me. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then God said to Adam, "So long as you were keeping My commandment, +My light and My grace rested on you. But when you transgressed My +commandment, sorrow and misery came to you in this land." +</P> + +<P> +5 And Adam cried and said, "O Lord, do not cut me off for this, neither +punish me with heavy plagues, nor yet repay me according to my sin; for +we, of our own will, transgressed Your commandment, and ignored Your +law, and tried to become gods like you, when Satan the enemy deceived +us." +</P> + +<P> +6 Then God said again to Adam, "Because you have endured fear and +trembling in this land, languor and suffering, treading and walking +about, going on this mountain, and dying from it, I will take all this +on Myself in order to save you." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap23"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXIII - Adam and Eve strengthen themselves and make the first +altar ever built. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam cried more and said, "O God, have mercy on me, so far as to +take on yourself, that which I will do." +</P> + +<P> +2 But God withdrew His Word from Adam and Eve. +</P> + +<P> +3 Then Adam and Eve stood on their feet; and Adam said to Eve, +"Strengthen yourself, and I also will strengthen myself." And she +strengthened herself, as Adam told her. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then Adam and Eve took stones and placed them in the shape of an +altar; and they took leaves from the trees outside the garden, with +which they wiped, from the face of the rock, the blood they had spilled. +</P> + +<P> +5 But that which had dropped on the sand, they took together with the +dust with which it was mingled and offered it on the altar as an +offering to God. +</P> + +<P> +6 Then Adam and Eve stood under the Altar and cried, thus praying to +God, "Forgive us our trespass* and our sin, and look at us with Thine +eye of mercy. For when we were in the garden our praises and our hymns +went up before you without ceasing. +</P> + +<P> +7 But when we came into this strange land, pure praise was not longer +ours, nor righteous prayer, nor understanding hearts, nor sweet +thoughts, nor just counsels, nor long discernment, nor upright +feelings, neither is our bright nature left us. But our body is +changed from the likeness in which it was at first, when we were +created. +</P> + +<P> +8 Yet now look at our blood which is offered on these stones, and +accept it at our hands, like the praise we used to sing to you at +first, when in the garden." +</P> + +<P> +9 And Adam began to make more requests of God. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +* ORIGINAL OF THE LORD'S PRAYER SAID TO BE USED ABOUT 150 YEARS BEFORE +OUR LORD: Our Father, Who art in Heaven, be gracious unto us, O Lord +our God, hallowed be Your Name, and let the remembrance of Thee be +glorified Heaven above and upon earth here below. +</P> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +Let Your kingdom reign over us now and forever. The Holy Men of old +said remit and forgive unto all men whatsoever they have done unto me. +And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil thing; +for Thine is the kingdom and Thou shalt reign in glory forever and +forevermore, AMEN. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap24"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXIV - A vivid prophecy of the life and death of Christ. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then the merciful God, good and lover of men, looked at Adam and Eve, +and at their blood, which they had held up as an offering to Him; +without an order from Him for so doing. But He wondered at them; and +accepted their offerings. +</P> + +<P> +2 And God sent from His presence a bright fire, that consumed their +offering. +</P> + +<P> +3 He smelled the sweet savor of their offering, and showed them mercy. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then came the Word of God to Adam, and said to him, "O Adam, as you +have shed your blood, so will I shed My own blood when I become flesh +of your descendants; and as you died, O Adam, so also will I die. And +as you built an altar, so also will I make for you an altar of the +earth; and as you offered your blood on it, so also will I offer My +blood on an altar on the earth. +</P> + +<P> +5 And as you sued for forgiveness through that blood, so also will I +make My blood forgiveness of sins, and erase transgressions in it. +</P> + +<P> +6 And now, behold, I have accepted your offering, O Adam, but the days +of the covenant in which I have bound you are not fulfilled. When they +are fulfilled, then will I bring you back into the garden. +</P> + +<P> +7 Now, therefore, strengthen your heart; and when sorrow comes over +you, make Me an offering, and I will be favorable to you." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap25"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXV - God represented as merciful and loving. The establishing +of worship. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But God knew that Adam believed he should frequently kill himself and +make an offering to Him of his blood. +</P> + +<P> +2 Therefore He said to him, "O Adam, don't ever kill yourself like this +again, by throwing yourself down from that mountain." +</P> + +<P> +3 But Adam said to God, "I was thinking to put an end to myself at +once, for having transgressed Your commandments, and for my having come +out of the beautiful garden; and for the bright light of which You have +deprived me; and for the praises which poured forth from my mouth +without ceasing, and for the light that covered me. +</P> + +<P> +4 Yet of Your goodness, O God, do not get rid of me altogether; but be +favorable to me every time I die, and bring me to life. +</P> + +<P> +5 And thereby it will be made known that You are a merciful God, who +does not want anyone to perish; who loves not that one should fall; and +who does not condemn any one cruelly, badly, and by whole destruction." +</P> + +<P> +6 Then Adam remained silent. +</P> + +<P> +7 And the Word of God came to him, and blessed him, and comforted him, +and covenanted with him, that He would save him at the end of the days +determined for him. +</P> + +<P> +8 This, then, was the first offering Adam made to God; and so it became +his custom to do. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap26"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXVI - A beautiful prophecy of eternal life and joy (v. 15). +The fall of night. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam took Eve, and they began to return to the Cave of Treasures +where they lived. But when they got closer to it and saw it from a +distance, heavy sorrow fell on Adam and Eve when they looked at it. +</P> + +<P> +2 Then Adam said to Eve, "When we were on the mountain we were +comforted by the Word of God that conversed with us; and the light that +came from the east shown over us. +</P> + +<P> +3 But now the Word of God is hidden from us; and the light that shown +over us is so changed as to disappear, and let darkness and sorrow come +over us. +</P> + +<P> +4 And we are forced to enter this cave which is like a prison, in which +darkness covers us, so that we are separated from each other; and you +can not see me, neither can I see you." +</P> + +<P> +5 When Adam had said these words, they cried and spread their hands +before God; for they were full of sorrow. +</P> + +<P> +6 And they prayed to God to bring the sun to them, to shine on them, so +that darkness would not return to them, and that they wouldn't have to +go under this covering of rock. And they wished to die rather than see +the darkness. +</P> + +<P> +7 Then God looked at Adam and Eve and at their great sorrow, and at all +they had done with a fervent heart, on account of all the trouble they +were in, instead of their former well-being, and on account of all the +misery that came over them in a strange land. +</P> + +<P> +8 Therefore God was not angry with them; nor impatient with them; but +he was patient and forbearing towards them, as towards the children He +had created. +</P> + +<P> +9 Then came the Word of God to Adam, and said to him, "Adam, as for the +sun, if I were to take it and bring it to you, days, hours, years and +months would all stop, and the covenant I have made with you, would +never be fulfilled. +</P> + +<P> +10 But then you would be deserted and stuck in a perpetual plague, and +you would never be saved. +</P> + +<P> +11 Yes, rather, bear long and calm your soul while you live night and +day; until the fulfillment of the days, and the time of My covenant is +come. +</P> + +<P> +12 Then shall I come and save you, O Adam, for I do not wish that you +be afflicted. +</P> + +<P> +13 And when I look at all the good things in which you lived, and why +you came out of them, then would I willingly show you mercy. +</P> + +<P> +14 But I cannot alter the covenant that has gone out of My mouth; +otherwise I would have brought you back into the garden. +</P> + +<P> +15 When, however, the covenant is fulfilled, then shall I show you and +your descendants mercy, and bring you into a land of gladness, where +there is neither sorrow nor suffering; but abiding joy and gladness, +and light that never fails, and praises that never cease; and a +beautiful garden that shall never pass away." +</P> + +<P> +16 And God said again to Adam, "Be patient and enter the cave, for the +darkness, of which you were afraid, shall only be twelve hours long; +and when ended, light shall come up." +</P> + +<P> +17 Then when Adam heard these words from God, he and Eve worshipped +before Him, and their hearts were comforted. They returned into the +cave after their custom, while tears flowed from their eyes, sorrow and +wailing came from their hearts, and they wished their soul would leave +their body. +</P> + +<P> +18 And Adam and Eve stood praying until the darkness of night came over +them, and Adam was hid from Eve, and she from him. +</P> + +<P> +19 And they remained standing in prayer. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap27"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXVII - The second tempting of Adam and Eve. The devil takes +on the form of a beguiling light. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 When Satan, the hater of all good, saw how they continued in prayer, +and how God communed with them, and comforted them, and how He had +accepted their offering—Satan made an apparition. +</P> + +<P> +2 He began with transforming his hosts; in his hands was a flashing +fire, and they were in a great light. +</P> + +<P> +3 He then placed his throne near the mouth of the cave because he could +not enter into it by reason of their prayers. And he shed light into +the cave, until the cave glistened over Adam and Eve; while his hosts +began to sing praises. +</P> + +<P> +4 And Satan did this, in order that when Adam saw the light, he should +think within himself that it was a heavenly light, and that Satan's +hosts were angels; and that God had sent them to watch at the cave, and +to give him light in the darkness. +</P> + +<P> +5 So that when Adam came out of the cave and saw them, and Adam and Eve +bowed to Satan, then he would overcome Adam thereby, and a second time +humble him before God. +</P> + +<P> +6 When, therefore, Adam and Eve saw the light, fancying it was real, +they strengthened their hearts; yet, as they were trembling, Adam said +to Eve:— +</P> + +<P> +7 "Look at that great light, and at those many songs of praise, and at +that host standing outside who won't come into our cave. Why don't +they tell us what they want, where they are from, what the meaning of +this light is, what those praises are, why they have been sent to this +place, and why they won't come in? +</P> + +<P> +8 If they were from God, they would come into the cave with us, and +would tell us why they were sent." +</P> + +<P> +9 Then Adam stood up and prayed to God with a burning heart, and said:— +</P> + +<P> +10 "O Lord, is there in the world another god besides You, who created +angels and filled them with light, and sent them to keep us, who would +come with them? +</P> + +<P> +11 But, look, we see these hosts that stand at the mouth of the cave; +they are in a great light; they sing loud praises. If they are of some +other god than You, tell me; and if they are sent by you, inform me of +the reason for which You have sent them." +</P> + +<P> +12 No sooner had Adam said this, than an angel from God appeared to him +in the cave, who said to him, "O Adam, fear not. This is Satan and his +hosts; he wishes to deceive you as he deceived you at first. For the +first time, he was hidden in the serpent; but this time he is come to +you in the likeness of an angel of light; in order that, when you +worshipped him, he might enslave you, in the very presence of God." +</P> + +<P> +13 Then the angel went from Adam and seized Satan at the opening of the +cave, and stripped him of the pretense he had assumed, and brought him +in his own hideous form to Adam and Eve; who were afraid of him when +they saw him. +</P> + +<P> +14 And the angel said to Adam, "This hideous form has been his ever +since God made him fall from heaven. He could not have come near you +in it; he therefore transformed himself into an angel of light." +</P> + +<P> +15 Then the angel drove away Satan and his hosts from Adam and Eve, and +said to them, "Fear not; God who created you, will strengthen you." +</P> + +<P> +16 And the angel left them. +</P> + +<P> +17 But Adam and Eve remained standing in the cave; no consolation came +to them; they divided in their thoughts. +</P> + +<P> +18 And when it was morning they prayed; and then went out to seek the +garden. For their hearts were towards it, and they could get no +consolation for having left it. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap28"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXVIII - The Devil pretends to lead Adam and Eve to the water +to bathe. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But when the crafty Satan saw them, that they were going to the +garden, he gathered together his host, and came in appearance on a +cloud, intent on deceiving them. +</P> + +<P> +2 But when Adam and Eve saw him thus in a vision, they thought they +were angels of God come to comfort them about having left the garden, +or to bring them back again into it. +</P> + +<P> +3 And Adam spread his hands before God, beseeching Him to make him +understand what they were. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then Satan, the hater of all good, said to Adam, "O Adam, I am an +angel of the great God; and, behold the hosts that surround me. +</P> + +<P> +5 God has sent us to take you and bring you to the border of the garden +northwards; to the shore of the clear sea, and bathe you and Eve in it, +and raise you to your former gladness, that you return again to the +garden." +</P> + +<P> +6 These words sank into the heart of Adam and Eve. +</P> + +<P> +7 Yet God withheld His Word from Adam, and did not make him understand +at once, but waited to see his strength; whether he would be overcome +as Eve was when in the garden, or whether he would prevail. +</P> + +<P> +8 Then Satan called to Adam and Eve, and said, "Behold, we go to the +sea of water," and they began to go. +</P> + +<P> +9 And Adam and Eve followed them at some little distance. +</P> + +<P> +10 But when they came to the mountain to the north of the garden, a +very high mountain, without any steps to the top of it, the Devil drew +near to Adam and Eve, and made them go up to the top in reality, and +not in a vision; wishing, as he did, to throw them down and kill them, +and to wipe off their name from the earth; so that this earth should +remain to him and his hosts alone. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap29"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXIX - God tells Adam of the Devil's purpose. (v. 4). +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But when the merciful God saw that Satan wished to kill Adam with his +many tricks, and saw that Adam was meek and without guile, God spoke to +Satan in a loud voice, and cursed him. +</P> + +<P> +2 Then he and his hosts fled, and Adam and Eve remained standing on the +top of the mountain, from there they saw below them the wide world, +high above which they were. But they saw none of the host which time +after time were by them. +</P> + +<P> +3 They cried, both Adam and Eve, before God, and begged for forgiveness +of Him. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then came the Word from God to Adam, and said to him, "Know you and +understand concerning this Satan, that he seeks to deceive you and your +descendants after you." +</P> + +<P> +5 And Adam cried before the Lord God, and begged and prayed to Him to +give him something from the garden, as a token to him, wherein to be +comforted. +</P> + +<P> +6 And God considered Adam's thought, and sent the angel Michael as far +as the sea that reaches India, to take from there golden rods and bring +them to Adam. +</P> + +<P> +7 This did God in His wisdom in order that these golden rods, being +with Adam in the cave, should shine forth with light in the night +around him, and put an end to his fear of the darkness. +</P> + +<P> +8 Then the angel Michael went down by God's order, took golden rods, as +God had commanded him, and brought them to God. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap30"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXX - Adam receives the first worldly goods. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 After these things, God commanded the angel Gabriel to go down to the +garden, and say to the cherub who kept it, "Behold, God has commanded +me to come into the garden, and to take from it sweet smelling incense, +and give it to Adam." +</P> + +<P> +2 Then the angel Gabriel went down by God's order to the garden, and +told the cherub as God had commanded him. +</P> + +<P> +3 The cherub then said, "Well." And Gabriel went in and took the +incense. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then God commanded his angel Raphael to go down to the garden, and +speak to the cherub about some myrrh, to give to Adam. +</P> + +<P> +5 And the angel Raphael went down and told the cherub as God had +commanded him, and the cherub said, "Well." Then Raphael went in and +took the myrrh. +</P> + +<P> +6 The golden rods were from the Indian sea, where there are precious +stones. The incense was from the eastern border of the garden; and the +myrrh from the western border, from where bitterness came over Adam. +</P> + +<P> +7 And the angels brought these things to God, by the Tree of Life, in +the garden. +</P> + +<P> +8 Then God said to the angels, "Dip them in the spring of water; then +take them and sprinkle their water over Adam and Eve, that they be a +little comforted in their sorrow, and give them to Adam and Eve. +</P> + +<P> +9 And the angels did as God had commanded them, and they gave all those +things to Adam and Eve on the top of the mountain on which Satan had +placed them, when he sought to make an end of them. +</P> + +<P> +10 And when Adam saw the golden rods, the incense and the myrrh, he was +rejoiced and cried because he thought that the gold was a token of the +kingdom from where he had come, that the incense was a token of the +bright light which had been taken from him, and that the myrrh was a +token of the sorrow in which he was. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap31"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXXI - They make themselves more comfortable in the Cave of +Treasures on the third day. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 After these things God said to Adam, "You asked Me for something from +the garden, to be comforted therewith, and I have given you these three +tokens as a consolation to you; that you trust in Me and in My covenant +with you. +</P> + +<P> +2 For I will come and save you; and kings shall bring me when in the +flesh, gold, incense and myrrh; gold as a token of My kingdom; incense +as a token of My divinity; and myrrh as a token of My suffering and of +My death. +</P> + +<P> +3 But, O Adam, put these by you in the cave; the gold that it may shed +light over you by night; the incense, that you smell its sweet savor; +and the myrrh, to comfort you in your sorrow." +</P> + +<P> +4 When Adam heard these words from God, he worshipped before Him. He +and Eve worshipped Him and gave Him thanks, because He had dealt +mercifully with them. +</P> + +<P> +5 Then God commanded the three angels, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, +each to bring what he had brought, and give it to Adam. And they did +so, one by one. +</P> + +<P> +6 And God commanded Suriyel and Salathiel to bear up Adam and Eve, and +bring them down from the top of the high mountain, and to take them to +the Cave of Treasures. +</P> + +<P> +7 There they laid the gold on the south side of the cave, the incense +on the eastern side, and the myrrh on the western side. For the mouth +of the cave was on the north side. +</P> + +<P> +8 The angels then comforted Adam and Eve, and departed. +</P> + +<P> +9 The gold was seventy rods*; the incense, twelve pounds; and the +myrrh, three pounds. +</P> + +<P> +10 These remained by Adam in the Cave of Treasures**. +</P> + +<P> +11 God gave these three things to Adam on the third day after he had +come out of the garden, in token of the three days the Lord should +remain in the heart of the earth. +</P> + +<P> +12 And these three things, as they continued with Adam in the cave, +gave him light by night; and by day they gave him a little relief from +his sorrow. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +* A rod is a unit of linear measure equivalent to 5.5 yards and also a +unit of area measure equivalent to 30.25 square yards. In this case, +the word rod simply means a kind of long, thin piece of gold of +unspecified size and weight. +</P> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +** This is the original text which appears to contain embedded +editorial content: "These remained by Adam in the House of Treasures; +therefore was it called 'of concealment.' But other interpreters say +it was called the 'Cave of Treasures,' by reason of the bodies of +righteous men that were in it. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap32"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXXII - Adam and Eve go into the water to pray. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 And Adam and Eve remained in the Cave of Treasures until the seventh +day; they neither ate of the fruit the earth, nor drank water. +</P> + +<P> +2 And when it dawned on the eighth day, Adam said to Eve, "O Eve, we +prayed God to give us something from the garden, and He sent his angels +who brought us what we had desired. +</P> + +<P> +3 But now, get up, let us go to the sea of water we saw at first, and +let us stand in it, praying that God will again be favorable to us and +take us back to the garden; or give us something; or that He will give +us comfort in some other land than this in which we are." +</P> + +<P> +4 Then Adam and Eve came out of the cave, went and stood on the border +of the sea in which they had before thrown themselves, and Adam said to +Eve:— +</P> + +<P> +5 Come, go down into this place, and come not out of it until the end +of thirty days, when I shall come to you. And pray to God with burning +heart and a sweet voice, to forgive us. +</P> + +<P> +6 And I will go to another place, and go down into it, and do like you." +</P> + +<P> +7 Then Eve went down into the water, as Adam had commanded her. Adam +also went down into the water; and they stood praying; and besought the +Lord to forgive them their offense, and to restore them to their former +state. +</P> + +<P> +8 And they stood like that praying, until the end of the thirty-five +days. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap33"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXXIII - Satan falsely promises the "bright light." +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But Satan, the hater of all good, sought them in the cave, but found +them not, although he searched diligently for them. +</P> + +<P> +2 But he found them standing in the water praying and thought within +himself, "Adam and Eve are standing like that in that water praying to +God to forgive them their transgression, and to restore them to their +former state, and to take them from under my hand. +</P> + +<P> +3 But I will deceive them so that they shall come out of the water, and +not fulfil their vow." +</P> + +<P> +4 Then the hater of all good, went not to Adam, but he went to Eve, and +took the form of an angel of God, praising and rejoicing, and said to +her:— +</P> + +<P> +5 "Peace be to you! Be glad and rejoice! God is favorable to you, and +He sent me to Adam. I have brought him the glad tidings of salvation, +and of his being filled with bright light as he was at first. +</P> + +<P> +6 And Adam, in his joy for his restoration, has sent me to you, that +you come to me, in order that I crown you with light like him. +</P> + +<P> +7 And he said to me, 'Speak to Eve; if she does not come with you, tell +her of the sign when we were on the top of the mountain; how God sent +his angels who took us and brought us to the Cave of Treasures; and +laid the gold on the southern side; incense, on the eastern side; and +myrrh on the western side.' Now come to him." +</P> + +<P> +8 When Eve hear these words from him, she rejoiced greatly. And +thinking Satan's appearance was real, she came out of the sea. +</P> + +<P> +9 He went before, and she followed him until they came to Adam. Then +Satan hid himself from her, and she saw him no more. +</P> + +<P> +10 She then came and stood before Adam, who was standing by the water +and rejoicing in God's forgiveness. +</P> + +<P> +11 And as she called to him, he turned around, found her there and +cried when he saw her, and beat his chest; and from the bitterness of +his grief, he sank into the water. +</P> + +<P> +12 But God looked at him and at his misery, and at his being about to +breathe his last. And the Word of God came from heaven, raised him out +of the water, and said to him, "Go up the high bank to Eve." And when +he came up to Eve he said to her, "Who told you to come here?" +</P> + +<P> +13 Then she told him the discourse of the angel who had appeared to her +and had given her a sign. +</P> + +<P> +14 But Adam grieved, and gave her to know it was Satan. He then took +her and they both returned to the cave. +</P> + +<P> +15 These things happened to them the second time they went down to the +water, seven days after their coming out of the garden. +</P> + +<P> +16 They fasted in the water thirty-five days; altogether forty-two days +since they had left the garden. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap34"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXXIV - Adam recalls the creation of Eve. He eloquently +appeals for food and drink. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 And on the morning of the forty-third day, they came out of the cave, +sorrowful and crying. Their bodies were lean, and they were parched +from hunger and thirst, from fasting and praying, and from their heavy +sorrow on account of their transgression. +</P> + +<P> +2 And when they had come out of the cave they went up the mountain to +the west of the garden. +</P> + +<P> +3 There they stood and prayed and besought God to grant them +forgiveness of their sins. +</P> + +<P> +4 And after their prayers Adam began to beg God, saying, "O my Lord, my +God, and my Creator, You commanded the four elements* to be gathered +together, and they were gathered together by Thine order. +</P> + +<P> +5 Then You spread Your hand and created me out of one element, that of +dust of the earth; and You brought me into the garden at the third +hour, on a Friday, and informed me of it in the cave. +</P> + +<P> +6 Then, at first, I knew neither night nor day, for I had a bright +nature; neither did the light in which I lived ever leave me to know +night or day. +</P> + +<P> +7 Then, again, O Lord, in that third hour in which You created me, You +brought to me all beasts, and lions, and ostriches, and fowls of the +air, and all things that move in the earth, which You had created at +the first hour before me of the Friday. +</P> + +<P> +8 And Your will was that I should name them all, one by one, with a +suitable name. But You gave me understanding and knowledge, and a pure +heart and a right mind from you, that I should name them after Thine +own mind regarding the naming of them. +</P> + +<P> +9 O God, You made them obedient to me, and ordered that not one of them +break from my sway, according to Your commandment, and to the dominion +which You had given me over them. But now they are all estranged from +me. +</P> + +<P> +10 Then it was in that third hour of Friday, in which You created me, +and commanded me concerning the tree, to which I was neither to go +near, nor to eat thereof; for You said to me in the garden, 'When you +eat of it, of death you shall die.' +</P> + +<P> +11 And if You had punished me as You said, with death, I should have +died that very moment. +</P> + +<P> +12 Moreover, when You commanded me regarding the tree, I was neither to +approach nor to eat thereof, Eve was not with me; You had not yet +created her, neither had You yet taken her out of my side; nor had she +yet heard this order from you. +</P> + +<P> +13 Then, at the end of the third hour of that Friday, O Lord, You +caused a slumber and a sleep to come over me, and I slept, and was +overwhelmed in sleep. +</P> + +<P> +14 Then You drew a rib out of my side, and created it after my own +likeness and image. Then I awoke; and when I saw her and knew who she +was, I said, 'This is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; from now +on she shall be called woman.' +</P> + +<P> +15 It was of Your good will, O God, that You brought a slumber in a +sleep over me, and that You immediately brought Eve out of my side, +until she was out, so that I did not see how she was made; neither +could I witness, O my Lord, how awful and great are Your goodness and +glory. +</P> + +<P> +16 And of Your goodwill, O Lord, You made us both with bodies of a +bright nature, and You made us two, one; and You gave us Your grace, +and filled us with praises of the Holy Spirit; that we should be +neither hungry nor thirsty, nor know what sorrow is, nor yet faintness +of heart; neither suffering, fasting nor weariness. +</P> + +<P> +17 But now, O God, since we transgressed Your commandment and broke +Your law, You have brought us out into a strange land, and have caused +suffering, and faintness, hunger and thirst to come over us. +</P> + +<P> +18 Now, therefore, O God, we pray you, give us something to eat from +the garden, to satisfy our hunger with it; and something wherewith to +quench our thirst. +</P> + +<P> +19 For, behold, many days, O God, we have tasted nothing and drunk +nothing, and our flesh is dried up, and our strength is wasted, and +sleep is gone from our eyes from faintness and crying. +</P> + +<P> +20 Then, O God, we dare not gather anything from the fruit of trees, +from fear of you. For when we transgress at first You spared us and +did not make us die. +</P> + +<P> +21 But now, we thought in our hearts, if we eat of the fruit of the +trees, without God's order, He will destroy us this time, and will wipe +us off from the face of the earth. +</P> + +<P> +22 And if we drink of this water, without God's order, He will make an +end of us and root us up at once. +</P> + +<P> +23 Now, therefore, O God, that I am come to this place with Eve, we beg +You to give us some fruit from the garden, that we may be satisfied +with it. +</P> + +<P> +24 For we desire the fruit that is on the earth, and all else that we +lack in it." +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +* The medieval belief that there were only four elements—fire, earth, +air, and water—was widely accepted until about 1500 AD when the +current atomic theory was in its infancy. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap35"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXXV - God's reply. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then God looked again at Adam and his crying and groaning, and the +Word of God came to him, and said to him:— +</P> + +<P> +2 "O Adam, when you were in My garden, you knew neither eating nor +drinking; neither faintness nor suffering; neither leanness of flesh, +nor change; neither did sleep depart from thine eyes. But since you +transgressed, and came into this strange land, all these trials are +come over you." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap36"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXXVI - Figs. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then God commanded the cherub, who kept the gate of the garden with a +sword of fire in his hand, to take some of the fruit of the fig-tree, +and to give it to Adam. +</P> + +<P> +2 The cherub obeyed the command of the Lord God, and went into the +garden and brought two figs on two twigs, each fig hanging to its leaf; +they were from two of the trees among which Adam and Eve hid themselves +when God went to walk in the garden, and the Word of God came to Adam +and Eve and said to them, "Adam, Adam, where are you?" +</P> + +<P> +3 And Adam answered, "O God, here I am. When I heard the sound of You +and Your voice, I hid myself, because I am naked." +</P> + +<P> +4 Then the cherub took two figs and brought them to Adam and Eve. But +he threw them to them from a distance; for they might not come near the +cherub by reason of their flesh, that could not come near the fire. +</P> + +<P> +5 At first, angels trembled at the presence of Adam and were afraid of +him. But now Adam trembled before the angels and was afraid of them. +</P> + +<P> +6 Then Adam came closer and took one fig, and Eve also came in turn and +took the other. +</P> + +<P> +7 And as they took them up in their hands, they looked at them, and +knew they were from the trees among which they had hidden themselves. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap37"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXXVII - Forty-three days of penance do not redeem one hour of +sin (v. 6). +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam said to Eve, "Do you not see these figs and their leaves, +with which we covered ourselves when we were stripped of our bright +nature? But now, we do not know what misery and suffering may come +over us from eating them. +</P> + +<P> +2 Now, therefore, O Eve, let us restrain ourselves and not eat of them, +you and I; and let us ask God to give us of the fruit of the Tree of +Life." +</P> + +<P> +3 Thus did Adam and Eve restrain themselves, and did not eat of these +figs. +</P> + +<P> +4 But Adam began to pray to God and to beseech Him to give him of the +fruit of the Tree of Life, saying thus: "O God, when we transgressed +Your commandment at the sixth hour of Friday, we were stripped of the +bright nature we had, and did not continue in the garden after our +transgression, more than three hours. +</P> + +<P> +5 But in the evening You made us come out of it. O God, we +transgressed against You one hour, and all these trials and sorrows +have come over us until this day. +</P> + +<P> +6 And those days together with this the forty-third day, do not redeem +that one hour in which we transgressed! +</P> + +<P> +7 O God, look at us with an eye of pity, and do not avenge us according +to our transgression of Your commandment, in Your presence. +</P> + +<P> +8 O God, give us of the fruit of the Tree of Life, that we may eat of +it, and live, and turn not to see sufferings and other trouble, in this +earth; for You are God. +</P> + +<P> +9 When we transgressed Your commandment, You made us come out of the +garden, and sent a cherub to keep the Tree of Life, lest we should eat +thereof, and live; and know nothing of faintness after we transgressed. +</P> + +<P> +10 But now, O Lord, behold, we have endured all these days, and have +borne sufferings. Make these forty-three days an equivalent for the +one hour in which we transgressed." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap38"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXXVIII - "When 5500 years are fulfilled.…" +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 After these things the Word of God came to Adam, and said to him:— +</P> + +<P> +2 "O Adam, as to the fruit on the Tree of Life that you have asked for, +I will not give it to you now, but only when the 5500 years are +fulfilled. At that time I will give you fruit from the Tree of Life, +and you will eat, and live forever, you, and Eve, and your righteous +descendants. +</P> + +<P> +3 But these forty-three days cannot make amends for the hour in which +you transgressed My commandment. +</P> + +<P> +4 O Adam, I gave you the fruit of the fig-tree to eat in which you hid +yourself. Go and eat of it, you and Eve. +</P> + +<P> +5 I will not deny your request, neither will I disappoint your hope; +therefore, endure until the fulfillment of the covenant I made with +you." +</P> + +<P> +6 And God withdrew His Word from Adam. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap39"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XXXIX - Adam is cautious—but too late. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam returned to Eve, and said to her, "Get up, and take a fig +for yourself, and I will take another; and let us go to our cave." +</P> + +<P> +2 Then Adam and Eve took each a fig and went towards the cave; the time +was about the setting of the sun; and their thoughts made them long to +eat of the fruit. +</P> + +<P> +3 But Adam said to Eve, "I am afraid to eat of this fig. I know not +what may come over me from it." +</P> + +<P> +4 So Adam cried, and stood praying before God, saying, "Satisfy my +hunger, without my having to eat this fig; for after I have eaten it, +what will it profit me? And what shall I desire and ask of you, O God, +when it is gone?" +</P> + +<P> +5 And he said again, "I am afraid to eat of it; for I know not what +will befall me through it." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap40"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XL - The first Human hunger. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then the Word of God came to Adam, and said to him, "O Adam, why +didn't you have this dread, or this fasting, or this care before now? +And why didn't you have this fear before you transgressed? +</P> + +<P> +2 But when you came to live in this strange land, your animal body +could not survive on earth without earthly food, to strengthen it and +to restore its powers." +</P> + +<P> +3 And God withdrew His Word for Adam. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap41"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XLI - The first Human thirst. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam took the fig, and laid it on the golden rods. Eve also +took her fig, and put it on the incense. +</P> + +<P> +2 And the weight of each fig was that of a water-melon; for the fruit +of the garden was much larger than the fruit of this land*. +</P> + +<P> +3 But Adam and Eve remained standing and fasting the whole of that +night, until the morning dawned. +</P> + +<P> +4 When the sun rose they were still praying, but after they had +finished praying, Adam said to Eve:— +</P> + +<P> +5 "O Eve, come, let us go to the border of the garden looking south; to +the place from where the river flows, and is parted into four heads. +There we will pray to God, and ask Him to give us some of the Water of +Life to drink. +</P> + +<P> +6 For God has not fed us with the Tree of Life, in order that we may +not live. Therefore, we will ask him to give us some of the Water of +Life, and to quench our thirst with it, rather than with a drink of +water of this land." +</P> + +<P> +7 When Eve heard these words from Adam, she agreed; and they both got +up and came to the southern border of the garden, at the edge of the +river of water a short distance from the garden. +</P> + +<P> +8 And they stood and prayed before the Lord, and asked Him to look at +them this once, to forgive them, and to grant them their request. +</P> + +<P> +9 After this prayer from both of them, Adam began to pray with his +voice before God, and said;— +</P> + +<P> +10 "O Lord, when I was in the garden and saw the water that flowed from +under the Tree of Life, my heart did not desire, neither did my body +require to drink of it; neither did I know thirst, for I was living; +and above that which I am now. +</P> + +<P> +11 So that in order to live I did not require any Food of Life, neither +did I drink of the Water of Life. +</P> + +<P> +12 But now, O God, I am dead; my flesh is parched with thirst. Give me +of the Water of Life that I may drink of it and live. +</P> + +<P> +13 Of Your mercy, O God, save me from these plagues and trials, and +bring me into another land different from this, if You will not let me +live in Your garden." +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +* This is substantiated by Genesis 3:7 whereby the leaves of the fig +tree were large enough that Adam and Eve could fashion garments from +them. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap42"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XLII - A promise of the Water of Life. The third prophecy of +the coming of Christ. +</P> + +<P> +1 Then came the Word of God to Adam, and said to him:— +</P> + +<P> +2 "O Adam, as to what you said, 'Bring me into a land where there is +rest,' it is not another land than this, but it is the kingdom of +heaven where alone there is rest. +</P> + +<P> +3 But you can not make your entrance into it at present; but only after +your judgment is past and fulfilled. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then will I make you go up into the kingdom of heaven, you and your +righteous descendants; and I will give you and them the rest you ask +for at present. +</P> + +<P> +5 And if you said, 'Give me of the Water of Life that I may drink and +live'—it cannot be this day, but on the day that I shall descend into +hell, and break the gates of brass, and bruise in pieces the kingdoms +of iron. +</P> + +<P> +6 Then will I in mercy save your soul and the souls of the righteous, +to give them rest in My garden. And that shall be when the end of the +world is come. +</P> + +<P> +7 And, again, in regards to the Water of Life you seek, it will not be +granted you this day; but on the day that I shall shed My blood on your +head* in the land of Golgotha**. +</P> + +<P> +8 For My blood shall be the Water of Life to you at that time, and not +to just you alone, but to all your descendants who shall believe in +Me***; that it be to them for rest forever." +</P> + +<P> +9 The Lord said again to Adam, "O Adam, when you were in the garden, +these trials did not come to you. +</P> + +<P> +10 But since you transgressed My commandment, all these sufferings have +come over you. +</P> + +<P> +11 Now, also, does your flesh require food and drink; drink then of +that water that flows by you on the face of the earth. +</P> + +<P> +12 Then God withdrew His Word from Adam. +</P> + +<P> +13 And Adam and Eve worshipped the Lord, and returned from the river of +water to the cave. It was noon-day; and when they drew near to the +cave, they saw a large fire by it. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +* This phrase indicates that the bleeding will take place in an +elevated position above the populace. This is believed to be a +reference to the cross whereby Christ bled profusely above the people +below. +</P> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +** Golgotha (goal-goth-uh) was the hill outside the walls of Jerusalem +where Jesus was crucified. Its exact location is not precisely known, +but the Church of the Holy Sepulcher is believed to have been +constructed on this hill. +</P> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +*** Reference: John 6:25 and 7:38 +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap43"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XLIII - The Devil attempts arson. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam and Eve were afraid, and stood still. And Adam said to +Eve, "What is that fire by our cave? We have done nothing in it to +cause this fire. +</P> + +<P> +2 We neither have bread to bake therein, nor broth to cook there. As +to this fire, we have never known anything like it, neither do we know +what to call it. +</P> + +<P> +3 But ever since God sent the cherub with a sword of fire that flashed +and lightened in his hand, from fear of which we fell down and were +like corpses, have we not seen the like. +</P> + +<P> +4 But now, O Eve, behold, this is the same fire that was in the +cherub's hand, which God has sent to keep the cave in which we live. +</P> + +<P> +5 O Eve, it is because God is angry with us, and will drive us from it. +</P> + +<P> +6 O Eve, we have again transgressed His commandment in that cave, so +that He had sent this fire to burn around it, and to prevent us from +going into it. +</P> + +<P> +7 If this be really so, O Eve, where shall we live? And where shall we +flee from before the face of the Lord? Since, in regards to the +garden, He will not let us live in it, and He has deprived us of the +good things thereof; but He has placed us in this cave, in which we +have borne darkness, trials and hardships, until at last we have found +comfort therein. +</P> + +<P> +8 But now that He has brought us out into another land, who knows what +may happen in it? And who knows but that the darkness of that land may +be far greater than the darkness of this land? +</P> + +<P> +9 Who knows what may happen in that land by day or by night? And who +knows whether it will be far or near, O Eve? Where it will please God +to put us, may be far from the garden, O Eve? Or where God will +prevent us from beholding Him, because we have transgressed His +commandment, and because we have made requests of Him at all times? +</P> + +<P> +10 O Eve, if God will bring us into a strange land other than this, in +which we find consolation, it must be to put our souls to death, and +blot out our name from the face of the earth. +</P> + +<P> +11 O Eve, if we are further alienated from the garden and from God, +where shall we find Him again, and ask Him to give us gold, incense, +myrrh, and some fruit of the fig-tree? +</P> + +<P> +12 Where shall we find Him, to comfort us a second time? Where shall +we find Him, that He may think of us, as regards the covenant He has +made on our behalf?" +</P> + +<P> +13 Then Adam said no more. And they kept looking, He and Eve, towards +the cave, and at the fire that flared up around it. +</P> + +<P> +14 But that fire was from Satan. For he had gathered trees and dry +grasses, and had carried and brought them to the cave, and had set fire +to them, in order to consume the cave and what was in it. +</P> + +<P> +15 So that Adam and Eve should be left in sorrow, and he should cut off +their trust in God, and make them deny Him. +</P> + +<P> +16 But by the mercy of God he could not burn the cave, for God sent His +angel around the cave to guard it from such a fire, until it went out. +</P> + +<P> +17 And this fire lasted from noon-day until the break of day. That was +the forty-fifth day. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap44"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XLIV - The power of fire over man. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Yet Adam and Eve were standing and looking at the fire, and unable to +come near the cave from their dread of the fire. +</P> + +<P> +2 And Satan kept on bringing trees and throwing them into the fire, +until the flames of the fire rose up on high, and covered the whole +cave, thinking, as he did in his own mind, to consume the cave with +much fire. But the angel of the Lord was guarding it. +</P> + +<P> +3 And yet he could not curse Satan, nor injure him by word, because he +had no authority over him, neither did he take to doing so with words +from his mouth. +</P> + +<P> +4 Therefore the angel tolerated him, without saying one bad word, until +the Word of God came who said to Satan, "Go away from here; once before +you deceived My servants, and this time you seek to destroy them. +</P> + +<P> +5 Were it not for My mercy I would have destroyed you and your hosts +from off the earth. But I have had patience with you, until the end of +the world." +</P> + +<P> +6 Then Satan fled from before the Lord. But the fire went on burning +around the cave like a coal-fire the whole day; which was the +forty-sixth day Adam and Eve had spent since they came out of the +garden. +</P> + +<P> +7 And when Adam and Eve saw that the heat of the fire had somewhat +cooled down, they began to walk towards the cave to get into it as they +usually did; but they could not, by reason of the heat of the fire. +</P> + +<P> +8 Then they both began crying because of the fire that separated them +from the cave, and that came towards them, burning. And they were +afraid. +</P> + +<P> +9 Then Adam said to Eve, "See this fire of which we have a portion in +us: which formerly yielded to us, but no longer does so, now that we +have transgressed the limit of creation, and changed our condition, and +our nature is altered. But the fire is not changed in its nature, nor +altered from its creation. Therefore it now has power over us; and +when we come near it, it scorches our flesh." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap45"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XLV - Why Satan didn't fulfil his promises. Description of +hell. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam rose and prayed to God, saying, "See, this fire has +separated us from the cave in which You have commanded us to live; but +now, behold, we cannot go into it." +</P> + +<P> +2 Then God heard Adam, and sent him His Word, that said:— +</P> + +<P> +3 "O Adam, see this fire! How different the flame and heat thereof are +from the garden of delights and the good things in it! +</P> + +<P> +4 When you were under My control, all creatures yielded to you; but +after you have transgressed My commandment, they all rise over you." +</P> + +<P> +5 God said again to him, "See, O Adam, how Satan has exalted you! He +has deprived you of the Godhead, and of an exalted state like Me, and +has not kept his word to you; but has, after all, become your enemy. +He is the one who made this fire in which he meant to burn you and Eve. +</P> + +<P> +6 Why, O Adam, has he not kept his agreement with you, not even one +day; but has deprived you of the glory that was on you—when you +yielded to his command? +</P> + +<P> +7 Do you think, Adam, that he loved you when he made this agreement +with you? Or that he loved you and wished to raise you on high? +</P> + +<P> +8 But no, Adam, he did not do all that out of love to you; but he +wished to make you come out of light into darkness; and from an exalted +state to degradation; from glory to abasement; from joy to sorrow; and +from rest to fasting and fainting." +</P> + +<P> +9 God also said to Adam, "See this fire kindled by Satan around your +cave; see this wonder that surrounds you; and know that it will +encompass about both you and your descendants, when you obey his +command; that he will plague you with fire; and that you will go down +into hell after you are dead. +</P> + +<P> +10 Then you will see the burning of his fire, that will be burning +around you and likewise your descendants. You will not be delivered +from it until My coming; just like you cannot go into your cave right +now because of the great fire around it; not until My Word comes and +makes a way for you on the day My covenant is fulfilled. +</P> + +<P> +11 There is no way for you at present to come from this life to rest, +not until My Word comes, who is My Word. Then He will make a way for +you, and you shall have rest." Then God called with His Word to the +fire that burned around the cave, that it split itself in half, until +Adam had gone through it. Then the fire parted itself by God's order, +and a way was made for Adam*. +</P> + +<P> +12 And God withdrew His Word from Adam. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +* Reference: Exodus 14:21,22 and Joshua 3:15-17 +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap46"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XLVI - "How many times have I delivered you out of his hand . . +." +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam and Eve began again to come into the cave. And when they +came to the way between the fire, Satan blew into the fire like a +whirlwind, and caused the burning coal-fire to cover Adam and Eve; so +that their bodies were singed; and the coal-fire scorched them*. +</P> + +<P> +2 And from the burning of the fire Adam and Eve screamed, and said, "O +Lord, save us! Leave us not to be consumed and plagued by this burning +fire; neither require us for having transgressed Your commandment." +</P> + +<P> +3 Then God looked at their bodies, on which Satan had caused fire to +burn, and God sent His angel that stayed the burning fire. But the +wounds remained on their bodies. +</P> + +<P> +4 And God said to Adam, "See Satan's love for you, who pretended to +give you the Godhead and greatness; and, behold, he burns you with +fire, and seeks to destroy you from off the earth. +</P> + +<P> +5 Then look at Me, O Adam; I created you, and how many times have I +delivered you out of his hand? If not, wouldn't he have destroyed +you?" +</P> + +<P> +6 God said again to Eve, "What is that he promised you in the garden, +saying, 'As soon as you eat from the tree, your eyes will be opened, +and you shall become like gods, knowing good and evil.' But look! He +has burnt your bodies with fire, and has made you taste the taste of +fire, for the taste of the garden; and has made you see the burning of +fire, and the evil of it, and the power it has over you. +</P> + +<P> +7 Your eyes have seen the good he has taken from you, and in truth he +has opened your eyes; and you have seen the garden in which you were +with Me, and you have also seen the evil that has come over you from +Satan. But as to the Godhead he cannot give it to you, neither fulfil +his speech to you. No, he was bitter against you and your descendants, +that will come after you." +</P> + +<P> +8 And God withdrew His Word form them. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +* At this time, the garments that the Lord had given them in Genesis +3:21 were burned off so that Adam and Eve were again naked. Reference +chapter L whereby Adam and Eve seek garments with which to cover their +nakedness.. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap47"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XLVII - The Devil's own Scheming. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam and Eve came into the cave, yet trembling at the fire that +had scorched their bodies. So Adam said to Eve:— +</P> + +<P> +2 "Look, the fire has burnt our flesh in this world; but how will it be +when we are dead, and Satan shall punish our souls? Is not our +deliverance long and far off, unless God come, and in mercy to us +fulfil His promise?" +</P> + +<P> +3 Then Adam and Eve passed into the cave, blessing themselves for +coming into it once more. For it was in their thoughts, that they +never should enter it, when they saw the fire around it. +</P> + +<P> +4 But as the sun was setting the fire was still burning and nearing +Adam and Eve in the cave, so that they could not sleep in it. After +the sun had set, they went out of it. This was the forty-seventh day +after they came out of the garden. +</P> + +<P> +5 Adam and Eve then came under the top of hill by the garden to sleep, +as they were accustomed. +</P> + +<P> +6 And they stood and prayed God to forgive them their sins, and then +fell asleep under the summit of the mountain. +</P> + +<P> +7 But Satan, the hater of all good, thought within himself: "Whereas +God has promised salvation to Adam by covenant, and that He would +deliver him out of all the hardships that have befallen him—but has +not promised me by covenant, and will not deliver me out of my +hardships; no, since He has promised him that He should make him and +his descendants live in the kingdom in which I once was—I will kill +Adam. +</P> + +<P> +8 The earth shall be rid of him; and shall be left to me alone; so that +when he is dead he may not have any descendants left to inherit the +kingdom that shall remain my own realm; God will then be wanting me, +and He will restore it to me and my hosts." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap48"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XLVIII - Fifth apparition of Satan to Adam and Eve. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 After this Satan called to his hosts, all of which came to him, and +said to him:— +</P> + +<P> +2 "O, our lord, what will you do?" +</P> + +<P> +3 He then said to them, "You know that this Adam, whom God created out +of the dust, is the one who has taken our kingdom, come, let us gather +together and kill him; or hurl a rock at him and at Eve, and crush them +under it." +</P> + +<P> +4 When Satan's hosts heard these words, they came to the part of the +mountain where Adam and Eve were asleep. +</P> + +<P> +5 Then Satan and his host took a huge rock, broad and even, and without +blemish, thinking within himself, "If there should be a hole in the +rock, when it fell on them, the hole in the rock might come over them, +and so they would escape and not die." +</P> + +<P> +6 He then said to his hosts, "Take up this stone, and throw it flat on +them, so that it doesn't roll off them to somewhere else. And when you +have hurled it, get away from there quickly." +</P> + +<P> +7 And they did as he told them. But as the rock fell down from the +mountain toward Adam and Eve, God commanded the rock to become a dome +over them*, that did them no harm. And so it was by God's order. +</P> + +<P> +8 But when the rock fell, the whole earth quaked with it**, and was +shaken from the size of the rock. +</P> + +<P> +9 And as it quaked and shook, Adam and Eve awoke from sleep, and found +themselves under a dome of rock. But they didn't know what had +happened; because when the fell asleep they were under the sky, and not +under a dome; and when they saw it, they were afraid. +</P> + +<P> +10 Then Adam said to Eve, "Wherefore has the mountain bent itself, and +the earth quaked and shaken on our account? And why has this rock +spread itself over us like a tent? +</P> + +<P> +11 Does God intend to plague us and to shut us up in this prison? Or +will He close the earth over us? +</P> + +<P> +12 He is angry with us for our having come out of the cave, without His +order; and for our having done so of our own accord, without consulting +Him, when we left the cave and came to this place." +</P> + +<P> +13 Then Eve said, "If, indeed, the earth quaked for our sake, and this +rock forms a tent over us because of our transgression, then we will be +sorry, O Adam, because our punishment will be long. +</P> + +<P> +14 But get up and pray to God to let us know concerning this, and what +this rock is that is spread over us like a tent." +</P> + +<P> +15 Then Adam stood up and prayed before the Lord, to let him know what +had brought about this difficult time. And Adam stood praying like +that until the morning. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +* The word "dome" is used here but the text does not specifically +suggest that the covering was round—only that it covered them on all +sides, however a dome is the most likely shape that would have be able +to withstand the impact with the ground. From verse 9 that says "when +they saw it" and verse 11 that says "shut us up in this prison", we can +conclude that the dome had holes in its sides that were big enough to +let in light and air but were too small to allow Adam and Eve to +escape. Another conclusion would be that the holes were large but too +high up for Adam and Eve to reach, however the former is more likely. +</P> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +** In verse 7 of the next chapter (XLIX), God tells Adam and Eve that +the ground was also lowered under them—"I commanded … the rock +under you to lower itself". +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap49"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter XLIX - The first prophecy of the Resurrection. +</P> + +<P> +1 Then the Word of God came and said:— +</P> + +<P> +2 "O Adam, who counselled you, when you came out of the cave, to come +to this place?" +</P> + +<P> +3 And Adam said to God, "O Lord, we came to this place because of the +heat of the fire, that came over us inside the cave." +</P> + +<P> +4 Then the Lord God said to Adam, "O Adam, you dread the heat of fire +for one night, but how will it be when you live in hell? +</P> + +<P> +5 Yet, O Adam, don't be afraid, and don't believe that I have placed +this dome of rock over you to plague you with it. +</P> + +<P> +6 It came from Satan, who had promised you the Godhead and majesty. It +is he who threw down this rock to kill you under it, and Eve with you, +and thus to prevent you from living on the earth. +</P> + +<P> +7 But, in mercy for you, just as that rock was falling down on you, I +commanded it to form an dome over you; and the rock under you to lower +itself. +</P> + +<P> +8 And this sign, O Adam, will happen to Me at My coming on earth: Satan +will raise the people of the Jews to put Me to death; and they will lay +Me in a rock, and seal a large stone over Me, and I shall remain within +that rock three days and three nights. +</P> + +<P> +9 But on the third day I shall rise again, and it shall be salvation to +you, O Adam, and to your descendants, to believe in Me. But, O Adam, I +will not bring you from under this rock until three days and three +nights have passed." +</P> + +<P> +10 And God withdrew His Word from Adam. +</P> + +<P> +11 But Adam and Eve lived under the rock three days and three nights, +as God had told them. +</P> + +<P> +12 And God did so to them because they had left their cave and had come +to this same place without God's order. +</P> + +<P> +13 But, after three days and three nights, God created an opening in +the dome of rock and allowed them to get out from under it. Their +flesh was dried up, and their eyes and hearts were troubled from crying +and sorrow. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap50"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter L - Adam and Eve seek to cover their nakedness. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam and Eve went forth and came into the Cave of Treasures, and +they stood praying in it the whole of that day, until the evening. +</P> + +<P> +2 And this took place at the end of the fifty days after they had left +the garden. +</P> + +<P> +3 But Adam and Eve rose again and prayed to God in the cave the whole +of that night, and begged for mercy from Him. +</P> + +<P> +4 And when the day dawned, Adam said to Eve, "Come! Let us go and do +some work for our bodies." +</P> + +<P> +5 So they went out of the cave, and came to the northern border of the +garden, and they looked for something to cover their bodies with*. But +they found nothing, and knew not how to do the work. Yet their bodies +were stained, and they were speechless from cold and heat. +</P> + +<P> +6 Then Adam stood and asked God to show him something with which to +cover their bodies. +</P> + +<P> +7 Then came the Word of God and said to him, "O Adam, take Eve and come +to the seashore where you fasted before. There you will find skins of +sheep that were left after lions ate the carcasses. Take them and make +garments for yourselves, and clothe yourselves with them. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +* Chapter XLVI, verse 1, says "Satan blew into the fire ... so that +their bodies were singed". At this time, the garments that the Lord +had given them in Genesis 3:21 were burned off so that Adam and Eve +were again naked. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap51"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LI - "What is his beauty that you should have followed him?" +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 When Adam heard these words from God, he took Eve and went from the +northern end of the garden to the south of it, by the river of water +where they once fasted. +</P> + +<P> +2 But as they were going on their way, and before they got there, +Satan, the wicked one, had heard the Word of God communing with Adam +respecting his covering. +</P> + +<P> +3 It grieved him, and he hastened to the place where the sheep-skins +were, with the intention of taking them and throwing them into the sea, +or of burning them with fire, so that Adam and Eve would not find them. +</P> + +<P> +4 But as he was about to take them, the Word of God came from heaven, +and bound him by the side of those skins until Adam and Eve came near +him. But as they got closer to him they were afraid of him, and of his +hideous look. +</P> + +<P> +5 Then came the Word of God to Adam and Eve, and said to them, "This is +he who was hidden in the serpent, and who deceived you, and stripped +you of the garment of light and glory in which you were. +</P> + +<P> +6 This is he who promised you majesty and divinity. Where, then, is +the beauty that was on him? Where is his divinity? Where is his +light? Where is the glory that rested on him? +</P> + +<P> +7 Now his figure is hideous; he is become abominable among angels; and +he has come to be called Satan. +</P> + +<P> +8 O Adam, he wished to take from you this earthly garment of +sheep-skins, and to destroy it, and not let you be covered with it. +</P> + +<P> +9 What, then, is his beauty that you should have followed him? And +what have you gained by obeying him? See his evil works and then look +at Me; at Me, your Creator, and at the good deeds I do you. +</P> + +<P> +10 See, I bound him until you came and saw him and beheld his weakness, +that no power is left with him." +</P> + +<P> +11 And God released him from his bonds. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap52"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LII - Adam and Eve sew the first shirt. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 After this Adam and Eve said no more, but cried before God on account +of their creation, and of their bodies that required an earthly +covering. +</P> + +<P> +2 Then Adam said to Eve, "O Eve, this is the skin of beasts with which +we shall be covered, but when we put it on, behold, we shall be +wearing a token of death on our bodies. Just as the owners of these +skins have died and have wasted away, so also shall we die and pass +away." +</P> + +<P> +3 Then Adam and Eve took the skins, and went back to the Cave of +Treasures; and when in it, they stood and prayed as they were +accustomed. +</P> + +<P> +4 And they thought how they could make garments of those skins; for +they had no skill for it. +</P> + +<P> +5 Then God sent to them His angel to show them how to work it out. And +the angel said to Adam, "Go forth, and bring some palm-thorns." Then +Adam went out, and brought some, as the angel had commanded him. +</P> + +<P> +6 Then the angel began before them to work out the skins, after the +manner of one who prepares a shirt. And he took the thorns and stuck +them into the skins, before their eyes. +</P> + +<P> +7 Then the angel again stood up and prayed God that the thorns in those +skins should be hidden, so as to be, as it were, sewn with one thread. +</P> + +<P> +8 And so it was, by God's order; they became garments for Adam and Eve, +and He clothed them therewith. +</P> + +<P> +9 From that time the nakedness of their bodies was covered from the +sight of each other's eyes. +</P> + +<P> +10 And this happened at the end of the fifty-first day. +</P> + +<P> +11 Then when Adam's and Eve's bodies were covered, they stood and +prayed, and sought mercy of the Lord, and forgiveness, and gave Him +thanks for that He had had mercy on them, and had covered their +nakedness. And they ceased not from prayer the whole of that night. +</P> + +<P> +12 Then when the morning dawned at the rising of the sun, they said +their prayers after their custom; and then went out of the cave. +</P> + +<P> +13 And Adam said to Eve, "Since we don't know what there is to the west +of this cave, let us go out and see it today." Then they came forth and +went toward the western border. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap53"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LIII - The prophecy of the Western Lands and of the great flood. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 They were not very far from the cave, when Satan came towards them, +and hid himself between them and the cave, under the form of two +ravenous lions three days without food, that came towards Adam and Eve, +as if to break them in pieces and devour them. +</P> + +<P> +2 Then Adam and Eve cried, and prayed God to deliver them from their +paws. +</P> + +<P> +3 Then the Word of God came to them, and drove away the lions from them. +</P> + +<P> +4 And God said to Adam, "O Adam, what do you seek on the western +border? And why have you left of thine own accord the eastern border, +in which was your living place? +</P> + +<P> +5 Now then, turn back to your cave, and remain in it, so that Satan +won't deceive you or work his purpose over you. +</P> + +<P> +6 For in this western border, O Adam, there will go from you a +descendant, that shall replenish it; and that will defile themselves +with their sins, and with their yielding to the commands of Satan, and +by following his works. +</P> + +<P> +7 Therefore will I bring over them the waters of a flood, and overwhelm +them all. But I will deliver what is left of the righteous among them; +and I will bring them to a distant land, and the land in which you live +now shall remain desolate and without one inhabitant in it. +</P> + +<P> +8 After God had thus spoken to them, they went back to the Cave of +Treasures. But their flesh was dried up, and they were weak from +fasting and praying, and from the sorrow they felt at having trespassed +against God. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap54"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LIV - Adam and Eve go exploring. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam and Eve stood up in the cave and prayed the whole of that +night until the morning dawned. And when the sun was risen they both +went out of the cave; their heads were wandering from heaviness of +sorrow and they didn't know where they were going. +</P> + +<P> +2 And they walked in that condition to the southern border of the +garden. And they began to go up that border until they came to the +eastern border beyond which there was no more land. +</P> + +<P> +3 And the cherub who guarded the garden was standing at the western +gate, and guarding it against Adam and Eve, lest they should suddenly +come into the garden. And the cherub turned around, as if to put them +to death; according to the commandment God had given him. +</P> + +<P> +4 When Adam and Eve came to the eastern border of the garden—thinking +in their hearts that the cherub was not watching—as they were standing +by the gate as if wishing to go in, suddenly came the cherub with a +flashing sword of fire in his hand; and when he saw them, he went forth +to kill them. For he was afraid that God would destroy him if they +went into the garden without His order. +</P> + +<P> +5 And the sword of the cherub seemed to shoot flames a distance away +from it. But when he raised it over Adam and Eve, the flame of the +sword did not flash forth. +</P> + +<P> +6 Therefore the cherub thought that God was favorable to them, and was +bringing them back into the garden. And the cherub stood wondering. +</P> + +<P> +7 He could not go up to Heaven to determine God's order regarding their +getting into the garden; he therefore continued to stand by them, +unable as he was to part from them; for he was afraid that if they +should enter the garden without permission, God would destroy him. +</P> + +<P> +8 When Adam and Eve saw the cherub coming towards them with a flaming +sword of fire in his hand, they fell on their faces from fear, and were +as dead. +</P> + +<P> +9 At that time the heavens and the earth shook; and another cherubim +came down from heaven to the cherub who guarded the garden, and saw him +amazed and silent. +</P> + +<P> +10 Then, again, other angels came down close to the place where Adam +and Eve were. They were divided between joy and sorrow. +</P> + +<P> +11 They were glad, because they thought that God was favorable to Adam, +and wished him to return to the garden; and wished to restore him to +the gladness he once enjoyed. +</P> + +<P> +12 But they sorrowed over Adam, because he was fallen like a dead man, +he and Eve; and they said in their thoughts, "Adam has not died in this +place; but God has put him to death, for his having come to this place, +and wishing to get into the garden without His permission." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap55"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LV - The Conflict between God and Satan. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then came the Word of God to Adam and Eve, and raised them from their +dead state, saying to them, "Why did you come up here? Do you intend +to go into the garden, from which I brought you out? It cannot be +today; but only when the covenant I have made with you is fulfilled." +</P> + +<P> +2 Then Adam, when he heard the Word of God, and the fluttering of the +angels whom he did not see, but only heard the sound of them with his +ears, he and Eve cried, and said to the angels:— +</P> + +<P> +3 "O Spirits, who wait on God, look at me, and at my being unable to +see you! For when I was in my former bright nature, then I could see +you. I sang praises as you do; and my heart was far above you. +</P> + +<P> +4 But now, that I have transgressed, that bright nature is gone from +me, and I am come to this miserable state. And now I have come to +this, that I cannot see you, and you do not serve me like you used to +do. For I have become animal flesh. +</P> + +<P> +5 Yet now, O angels of God, ask God with me, to restore me to that +wherein I was formerly; to rescue me from this misery, and to remove +from me the sentence of death He passed on me, for having trespassed +against Him." +</P> + +<P> +6 Then, when the angels heard these words, they all grieved over him; +and cursed Satan who had misled Adam, until he came from the garden to +misery; from life to death; from peace to trouble; and from gladness to +a strange land. +</P> + +<P> +7 Then the angels said to Adam, "You obeyed Satan, and ignored the Word +of God who created you; and you believed that Satan would fulfil all he +had promised you. +</P> + +<P> +8 But now, O Adam, we will make known to you, what came over us though +him, before his fall from heaven. +</P> + +<P> +9 He gathered together his hosts, and deceived them, promising to give +them a great kingdom, a divine nature; and other promises he made them. +</P> + +<P> +10 His hosts believed that his word was true, so they yielded to him, +and renounced the glory of God. +</P> + +<P> +11 He then sent for us—according to the orders in which we were—to +come under his command, and to accept his vein promise. But we would +not, and we did not take his advice. +</P> + +<P> +12 Then after he had fought with God, and had dealt forwardly with Him, +he gathered together his hosts, and made war with us. And if it had +not been for God's strength that was with us, we could not have +prevailed against him to hurl him from heaven. +</P> + +<P> +13 But when he fell from among us, there was great joy in heaven, +because of his going down from us. For if he had remained in heaven, +nothing, not even one angel would have remained in it. +</P> + +<P> +14 But God in His mercy, drove him from among us to this dark earth; +for he had become darkness itself and a worker of unrighteousness. +</P> + +<P> +15 And he has continued, O Adam, to make war against you, until he +tricked you and made you come out of the garden, to this strange land, +where all these trials have come to you. And death, which God brought +to him, he has also brought to you, O Adam, because you obeyed him, and +trespassed against God." +</P> + +<P> +16 Then all the angels rejoiced and praised God, and asked Him not to +destroy Adam this time, for his having sought to enter the garden; but +to bear with him until the fulfillment of the promise; and to help him +in this world until he was free from Satan's hand. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap56"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LVI - A chapter of divine comfort. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then came the Word of God to Adam, and said to him:— +</P> + +<P> +2 "O Adam, look at that garden of joy and at this earth of toil, and +behold the garden is full of angels, but look at yourself alone on this +earth with Satan whom you obeyed. +</P> + +<P> +3 Yet, if you had submitted, and been obedient to Me, and had kept My +Word, you would be with My angels in My garden. +</P> + +<P> +4 But when you transgressed and obeyed Satan, you became his guests +among his angels, that are full of wickedness; and you came to this +earth, that brings forth to you thorns and thistles. +</P> + +<P> +5 O Adam, ask him who deceived you, to give you the divine nature he +promised you, or to make you a garden as I had made for you; or to fill +you with that same bright nature with which I had filled you. +</P> + +<P> +6 Ask him to make you a body like the one I made you, or to give you a +day of rest as I gave you; or to create within you a reasonable soul, +as I created for you; or to take you from here to some other earth than +this one which I gave you. But, O Adam, he will not fulfil even one of +the things he told you. +</P> + +<P> +7 Acknowledge, then, My favor towards you, and My mercy on you, My +creature; that I have not avenged you for your transgression against +Me, but in My pity for you I have promised you that at the end of the +great five and a half days I will come and save you." +</P> + +<P> +8 Then God said again to Adam and Eve, "Get up, go down from here, +before the cherub with a sword of fire in his hand destroys you." +</P> + +<P> +9 But Adam's heart was comforted by God's words to him, and he +worshipped before Him. +</P> + +<P> +10 And God commanded His angels to escort Adam and Eve to the cave with +joy, instead of the fear that had come over them. +</P> + +<P> +11 Then the angels took up Adam and Eve, and brought them down from the +mountain by the garden, with songs and psalms, until they arrived at +the cave. There the angels began to comfort and to strengthen them, +and then departed from them towards heaven, to their Creator, who had +sent them. +</P> + +<P> +12 But after the angels had departed from Adam and Eve, Satan came with +shamefacedness, and stood at the entrance of the cave in which were +Adam and Eve. He then called to Adam, and said, "O Adam, come, let me +speak to you." +</P> + +<P> +13 Then Adam came out of the cave, thinking he was one of God's angels +that was come to give him some good counsel. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap57"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LVII - "Therefore I fell.… " +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But when Adam came out and saw his hideous figure, he was afraid of +him, and said to him, "Who are you?" +</P> + +<P> +2 Then Satan answered and said to him, "It is I, who hid myself within +the serpent, and who spoke to Eve, and who enticed her until she obeyed +my command. I am he who sent her, using my deceitful speech, to +deceive you, until you both ate of the fruit of the tree and abandoned +the command of God." +</P> + +<P> +3 But when Adam heard these words from him, he said to him, "Can you +make me a garden as God made for me? Or can you clothe me in the same +bright nature in which God had clothed me? +</P> + +<P> +4 Where is the divine nature you promised to give me? Where is that +slick speech of yours that you had with us at first, when we were in +the garden?" +</P> + +<P> +5 Then Satan said to Adam, "Do you think that when I have promised one +something that I would actually deliver it to him or fulfil my word? +Of course not. For I myself have never even thought of obtaining what +I promised. +</P> + +<P> +6 Therefore I fell, and I made you fall by that for which I myself +fell; and with you also, whosoever accepts my counsel, falls thereby. +</P> + +<P> +7 But now, O Adam, because you fell you are under my rule, and I am +king over you; because you have obeyed me and have transgressed against +your God. Neither will there be any deliverance from my hands until +the day promised you by your God." +</P> + +<P> +8 Again he said, "Because we do not know the day agreed on with you by +your God, nor the hour in which you shall be delivered, for that reason +we will multiply war and murder on you and your descendants after you. +</P> + +<P> +9 This is our will and our good pleasure, that we may not leave one of +the sons of men to inherit our orders in heaven. +</P> + +<P> +10 For as to our home, O Adam, it is in burning fire; and we will not +stop our evil doing, no, not one day nor one hour. And I, O Adam, +shall set you on fire when you come into the cave to live there." +</P> + +<P> +11 When Adam heard these words he cried and mourned, and said to Eve, +"Hear what he said; that he won't fulfil any of what he told you in the +garden. Did he really then become king over us? +</P> + +<P> +12 But we will ask God, who created us, to deliver us out of his hands." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap58"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LVIII - "About sunset on the 53rd day. . ." +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam and Eve spread their hands before God, praying and begging +Him to drive Satan away from them so that he can't harm them or force +them to deny God. +</P> + +<P> +2 Then God sent to them at once, His angel, who drove away Satan from +them. This happened about sunset, on the fifty-third day after they +had come out of the garden. +</P> + +<P> +3 Then Adam and Eve went into the cave, and stood up and turned their +faces to the ground, to pray to God. +</P> + +<P> +4 But before they prayed Adam said to Eve, "Look, you have seen what +temptations have befallen us in this land. Come, let us get up, and +ask God to forgive us the sins we have committed; and we will not come +out until the end of the day next to the fortieth. And if we die in +here, He will save us." +</P> + +<P> +5 Then Adam and Eve got up, and joined together in entreating God. +</P> + +<P> +6 They continued praying like this in the cave; neither did they come +out of it, by night or by day, until their prayers went up out of their +mouths, like a flame of fire. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap59"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LIX - Eighth apparition of Satan of Satan to Adam and Eve. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But Satan, the hater of all good, did not allow them to finish their +prayers. For he called to his hosts, and they came, all of them. Then +he said to them, "Since Adam and Eve, whom we deceived, have agreed +together to pray to God night and day, and to beg Him to deliver them, +and since they will not come out of the cave until the end of the +fortieth day. +</P> + +<P> +2 And since they will continue their prayers as they have both agreed +to do, that He will deliver them out of our hands, and restore them to +their former state, see what we shall do to them." And his hosts said +to him, "Power is thine, O our lord, to do what you list." +</P> + +<P> +3 Then Satan, great in wickedness, took his hosts and came into the +cave, in the thirtieth night of the forty days and one; and he beat +Adam and Eve, until he left them dead. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then came the Word of God to Adam and Eve, who raised them from their +suffering, and God said to Adam, "Be strong, and be not afraid of him +who has just come to you." +</P> + +<P> +5 But Adam cried and said, "Where were you, O my God, that they should +punish me with such blows, and that this suffering should come over us; +over me and over Eve, Your handmaiden?" +</P> + +<P> +6 Then God said to him, "O Adam, see, he is lord and master of all you +have, he who said, he would give you divinity. Where is this love for +you? And where is the gift he promised? +</P> + +<P> +7 Did it please him just once, O Adam, to come to you, comfort you, +strengthen you, rejoice with you, or send his hosts to protect you; +because you have obeyed him, and have yielded to his counsel; and have +followed his commandment and transgressed Mine?" +</P> + +<P> +8 Then Adam cried before the Lord, and said, "O Lord because I +transgressed a little, You have severely punished me in return for it, +I ask You to deliver me out of his hands; or else have pity on me, and +take my soul out of my body now in this strange land." +</P> + +<P> +9 Then God said to Adam, "If only there had been this sighing and +praying before, before you transgressed! Then would you have rest from +the trouble in which you are now." +</P> + +<P> +10 But God had patience with Adam, and let him and Eve remain in the +cave until they had fulfilled the forty days. +</P> + +<P> +11 But as to Adam and Eve, their strength and flesh withered from +fasting and praying, from hunger and thirst; for they had not tasted +either food or drink since they left the garden; nor were the functions +of their bodies yet settled; and they had no strength left to continue +in prayer from hunger, until the end of the next day to the fortieth. +They were fallen down in the cave; yet what speech escaped from their +mouths, was only in praises. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap60"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LX - The Devil appears like an old man. He offers "a place of +rest." +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then on the eighty-ninth day, Satan came to the cave, clad in a +garment of light, and girt about with a bright girdle. +</P> + +<P> +2 In his hands was a staff of light, and he looked most awful; but his +face was pleasant and his speech was sweet. +</P> + +<P> +3 He thus transformed himself in order to deceive Adam and Eve, and to +make them come out of the cave, before they had fulfilled the forty +days. +</P> + +<P> +4 For he said within himself, "Now that when they had fulfilled the +forty days' fasting and praying, God would restore them to their former +state; but if He did not do so, He would still be favorable to them; +and even if He had not mercy on them, would He yet give them something +from the garden to comfort them; as already twice before." +</P> + +<P> +5 Then Satan drew near the cave in this fair appearance, and said:— +</P> + +<P> +6 "O Adam, get up, stand up, you and Eve, and come along with me, to a +good land; and don't be afraid. I am flesh and bones like you; and at +first I was a creature that God created. +</P> + +<P> +7 And it was so, that when He had created me, He placed me in a garden +in the north, on the border of the world. +</P> + +<P> +8 And He said to me, 'Stay here!' And I remained there according to +His Word, neither did I transgress His commandment. +</P> + +<P> +9 Then He made a slumber to come over me, and He brought you, O Adam, +out of my side, but did not make you stay with me. +</P> + +<P> +10 But God took you in His divine hand, and placed you in a garden to +the eastward. +</P> + +<P> +11 Then I worried about you, for that while God had taken you out of my +side, He had not let you stay with me. +</P> + +<P> +12 But God said to me: 'Do not worry about Adam, whom I brought out of +your side; no harm will come to him. +</P> + +<P> +13 For now I have brought out of his side a help-meet* for him; and I +have given him joy by so doing.'" +</P> + +<P> +14 Then Satan said again, "I did not know how it is you are in this +cave, nor anything about this trial that has come over you—until God +said to me, 'Behold, Adam has transgressed, he whom I had taken out of +your side, and Eve also, whom I took out of his side; and I have driven +them out of the garden; I have made them live in a land of sorrow and +misery, because they transgressed against Me, and have obeyed Satan. +And look, they are in suffering until this day, the eightieth.' +</P> + +<P> +15 Then God said to me, 'Get up, go to them, and make them come to your +place, and suffer not that Satan come near them, and afflict them. For +they are now in great misery; and lie helpless from hunger.' +</P> + +<P> +16 He further said to me, 'When you have taken them to yourself, give +them to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Life, and give them to drink of +the water of peace; and clothe them in a garment of light, and restore +them to their former state of grace, and leave them not in misery, for +they came from you. But grieve not over them, nor repent of that which +has come over them. +</P> + +<P> +17 But when I heard this, I was sorry; and my heart could not patiently +bear it for your sake, O my child. +</P> + +<P> +18 But, O Adam, when I heard the name of Satan, I was afraid, and I +said within myself, I will not come out because he might trap me as he +did my children, Adam and Eve. +</P> + +<P> +19 And I said, 'O God, when I go to my children, Satan will meet me in +the way, and war against me, as he did against them.' +</P> + +<P> +20 Then God said to me, 'Fear not; when you find him, hit him with the +staff that is in thine hand, and don't be afraid of him, for you are of +old standing, and he shall not prevail against you.' +</P> + +<P> +21 Then I said, 'O my Lord, I am old, and cannot go. Send Your angels +to bring them.' +</P> + +<P> +22 But God said to me, 'Angels, verily, are not like them; and they +will not consent to come with them. But I have chosen you, because +they are your offspring and are like you, and they will listen to what +you say.' +</P> + +<P> +23 God said further to me, 'If you don't have enough strength to walk, +I will send a cloud to carry you and set you down at the entrance of +their cave; then the cloud will return and leave you there. +</P> + +<P> +24 And if they will come with you, I will send a cloud to carry you and +them.' +</P> + +<P> +25 Then He commanded a cloud, and it bear me up and brought me to you; +and then went back. +</P> + +<P> +26 And now, O my children, Adam and Eve, look at my old gray hair and +at my feeble state, and at my coming from that distant place. Come, +come with me, to a place of rest." +</P> + +<P> +27 Then he began to cry and to sob before Adam and Eve, and his tears +poured on the ground like water. +</P> + +<P> +28 And when Adam and Eve raised their eyes and saw his beard, and heard +his sweet talk, their hearts softened towards him; they obeyed him, for +they believed he was true. +</P> + +<P> +29 And it seemed to them that they were really his offspring, when they +saw that his face was like their own; and they trusted him. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +* The existence of the two words helpmeet and helpmate, meaning exactly +the same thing, is a comedy of errors. God's promise to Adam, as +rendered in the King James version of the Bible, was to give him an +help meet for him (that is, a helper fit for him). In the 17th century +the two words help and meet in this passage were mistaken for one word, +applying to Eve, and thus helpmeet came to mean a wife. Then in the +18th century, in a misguided attempt to make sense of the word, the +spelling helpmate was introduced. Both errors are now beyond recall, +and both spellings are acceptable. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap61"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXI - They begin to follow Satan. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then he took Adam and Eve by the hand, and began to bring them out of +the cave. +</P> + +<P> +2 But when they had come a little ways out of it, God knew that Satan +had overcome them, and had brought them out before the forty days were +ended, to take them to some distant place, and to destroy them. +</P> + +<P> +3 Then the Word of the Lord God again came and cursed Satan, and drove +him away from them. +</P> + +<P> +4 And God began to speak to Adam and Eve, saying to them, "What made +you come out of the cave, to this place?" +</P> + +<P> +5 Then Adam said to God, "Did you create a man before us? For when we +were in the cave there suddenly came to us a friendly old man who said +to us, 'I am a messenger from God to you, to bring you back to some +place of rest.' +</P> + +<P> +6 And we believed, O God, that he was a messenger from you; and we came +out with him; and knew not where we should go with him." +</P> + +<P> +7 Then God said to Adam, "See, that is the father of evil arts, who +brought you and Eve out of the Garden of Delights. And now, indeed, +when he saw that you and Eve both joined together in fasting and +praying, and that you came not out of the cave before the end of the +forty days, he wished to make your purpose vein, to break your mutual +bond; to cut off all hope from you, and to drive you to some place +where he might destroy you. +</P> + +<P> +8 Because he couldn't do anything to you unless he showed himself in +the likeness of you. +</P> + +<P> +9 Therefore he came to you with a face like your own, and began to give +you tokens as if they were all true. +</P> + +<P> +10 But because I am merciful and am favorable to you, I did not allow +him to destroy you; instead I drove him away from you. +</P> + +<P> +11 Now, therefore, O Adam, take Eve, and return to your cave, and +remain in it until the morning after the fortieth day. And when you +come out, go towards the eastern gate of the garden." +</P> + +<P> +12 Then Adam and Eve worshipped God, and praised and blessed Him for +the deliverance that had come to them from Him. And they returned +towards the cave. This happened in the evening of the thirty-ninth day. +</P> + +<P> +13 Then Adam and Eve stood up and with a fiery passion, prayed to God, +to give them strength; for they had become weak because of hunger and +thirst and prayer. But they watched the whole of that night praying, +until morning. +</P> + +<P> +14 Then Adam said to Eve, "Get up, let us go towards the eastern gate +of the garden as God told us." +</P> + +<P> +15 And they said their prayers as they were accustomed to do every day; +and they left the cave to go near to the eastern gate of the garden. +</P> + +<P> +16 Then Adam and Eve stood up and prayed, and appealed to God to +strengthen them, and to send them something to satisfy their hunger. +</P> + +<P> +17 But after they finished their prayers, they were too weak to move. +</P> + +<P> +18 Then came the Word of God again, and said to them, "O Adam, get up, +go and bring the two figs here." +</P> + +<P> +19 Then Adam and Eve got up, and went until they came near to the cave. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap62"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXII - Two fruit trees. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But Satan the wicked was envious, because of the consolation God had +given them. +</P> + +<P> +2 So he prevented them, and went into the cave and took the two figs, +and buried them outside the cave, so that Adam and Eve should not find +them. He also had in his thoughts to destroy them. +</P> + +<P> +3 But by God's mercy, as soon as those two figs were in the ground, God +defeated Satan's counsel regarding them; and made them into two fruit +trees, that overshadowed the cave. For Satan had buried them on the +eastern side of it. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then when the two trees were grown, and were covered with fruit, +Satan grieved and mourned, and said, "It would have been better to have +left those figs where they were; for now, behold, they have become two +fruit trees, whereof Adam will eat all the days of his life. Whereas I +had in mind, when I buried them, to destroy them entirely, and to hide +them forever. +</P> + +<P> +5 But God has overturned my counsel; and would not that this sacred +fruit should perish; and He has made plain my intention, and has +defeated the counsel I had formed against His servants." +</P> + +<P> +6 Then Satan went away ashamed because he hadn't thought his plans all +the way through. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap63"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXIII - The first joy of trees. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But Adam and Eve, as they got closer to the cave, saw two fig trees, +covered with fruit, and overshadowing the cave. +</P> + +<P> +2 Then Adam said to Eve, "It seems to me that we have gone the wrong +way. When did these two trees grow here? It seems to me that the +enemy wishes to lead us the wrong way. Do you suppose that there is +another cave besides this one in the earth? +</P> + +<P> +3 Yet, O Eve, let us go into the cave, and find in it the two figs; for +this is our cave, in which we were. But if we should not find the two +figs in it, then it cannot be our cave." +</P> + +<P> +4 They went then into the cave, and looked into the four corners of it, +but found not the two figs. +</P> + +<P> +5 And Adam cried and said to Eve, "Did we go to the wrong cave, then, O +Eve? It seems to me these two fig trees are the two figs that were in +the cave." And Eve said, "I, for my part, do not know." +</P> + +<P> +6 Then Adam stood up and prayed and said, "O God, You commanded us to +come back to the cave, to take the two figs, and then to return to you. +</P> + +<P> +7 But now, we have not found them. O God, have you taken them, and +sown these two trees, or have we gone astray in the earth; or has the +enemy deceived us? If it be real, then, O God, reveal to us the secret +of these two trees and of the two figs." +</P> + +<P> +8 Then came the Word of God to Adam, and said to him, "O Adam, when I +sent you to fetch the figs, Satan went before you to the cave, took the +figs, and buried them outside, eastward of the cave, thinking to +destroy them; and not sowing them with good intent. +</P> + +<P> +9 Not for his mere sake, then, have these trees grown up at once; but I +had mercy on you and I commanded them to grow. And they grew to be two +large trees, that you be overshadowed by their branches, and find rest; +and that I made you see My power and My marvelous works. +</P> + +<P> +10 And, also, to show you Satan's meanness, and his evil works, for +ever since you came out of the garden, he has not ceased, no, not one +day, from doing you some harm. But I have not given him power over +you." +</P> + +<P> +11 And God said, "From now on, O Adam, rejoice on account of the trees, +you and Eve; and rest under them when you feel weary. But do not eat +any of their fruit or come near them." +</P> + +<P> +12 Then Adam cried, and said, "O God, will You again kill us, or will +You drive us away from before Your face, and cut our life from off the +face of the earth? +</P> + +<P> +13 O God, I beg you, if You know that there be in these trees either +death or some other evil, as at the first time, root them up from near +our cave, and with them; and leave us to die of the heat, of hunger and +of thirst. +</P> + +<P> +14 For we know Your marvelous works, O God, that they are great, and +that by Your power You can bring one thing out of another, without +one's wish. For Your power can make rocks to become trees, and trees +to become rocks." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap64"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXIV - Adam and Eve partake of the first earthly food. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then God looked at Adam and at his strength of mind, at his endurance +of hunger and thirst, and of the heat. And He changed the two fig +trees into two figs, as they were at first, and then said to Adam and +to Eve, "Each of you may take one fig." And they took them, as the +Lord commanded them. +</P> + +<P> +2 And He said to them, "You must now go into the cave and eat the figs, +and satisfy your hunger, or else you will die." +</P> + +<P> +3 So, as God commanded them, they went into the cave about sunset. And +Adam and Eve stood up and prayed during the setting sun. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then they sat down to eat the figs; but they knew not how to eat +them; for they were not accustomed to eat earthly food. They were +afraid that if they ate, their stomach would be burdened and their +flesh thickened, and their hearts would take to liking earthly food. +</P> + +<P> +5 But while they were thus seated, God, out of pity for them, sent them +His angel, so they wouldn't perish of hunger and thirst. +</P> + +<P> +6 And the angel said to Adam and Eve, "God says to you that you do not +have the strength that would be required to fast until death; eat, +therefore, and strengthen your bodies; for you are now animal flesh and +cannot subsist without food and drink." +</P> + +<P> +7 Then Adam and Eve took the figs and began to eat of them. But God +had put into them a mixture as of savory bread and blood. +</P> + +<P> +8 Then the angel went from Adam and Eve, who ate of the figs until they +had satisfied their hunger. Then they put aside what was left; but by +the power of God, the figs became whole again, because God blessed them. +</P> + +<P> +9 After this Adam and Eve got up, and prayed with a joyful heart and +renewed strength, and praised and rejoiced abundantly the whole of that +night. And this was the end of the eighty-third day. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap65"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXV - Adam and Eve acquire digestive organs. Final hope of +returning to the Garden is lost. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 And when it was day, they got up and prayed, after their custom, and +then went out of the cave. +</P> + +<P> +2 But they became sick from the food they had eaten because they were +not used to it, so they went about in the cave saying to each other:— +</P> + +<P> +3 "What has our eating caused to happen to us, that we should be in +such pain? We are in misery, we shall die! It would have been better +for us to have died keeping our bodies pure than to have eaten and +defiled them with food." +</P> + +<P> +4 Then Adam said to Eve, "This pain did not come to us in the garden, +neither did we eat such bad food there. Do you think, O Eve, that God +will plague us through the food that is in us, or that our innards will +come out; or that God means to kill us with this pain before He has +fulfilled His promise to us?" +</P> + +<P> +5 Then Adam besought the Lord and said, "O Lord, let us not perish +through the food we have eaten. O Lord, don't punish us; but deal with +us according to Your great mercy, and forsake us not until the day of +the promise You have made us." +</P> + +<P> +6 Then God looked at them, and then fitted them for eating food at +once; as to this day; so that they should not perish. +</P> + +<P> +7 Then Adam and Eve came back into the cave sorrowful and crying +because of the alteration of their bodies. And they both knew from +that hour that they were altered beings, that all hope of returning to +the garden was now lost; and that they could not enter it. +</P> + +<P> +8 For that now their bodies had strange functions; and all flesh that +requires food and drink for its existence, cannot be in the garden. +</P> + +<P> +9 Then Adam said to Eve, "Behold, our hope is now lost; and so is our +trust to enter the garden. We no longer belong to the inhabitants of +the garden; but from now on we are earthy and of the dust, and of the +inhabitants of the earth. We shall not return to the garden, until the +day in which God has promised to save us, and to bring us again into +the garden, as He promised us." +</P> + +<P> +10 Then they prayed to God that He would have mercy on them; after +which, their mind was quieted, their hearts were broken, and their +longing was cooled down; and they were like strangers on earth. That +night Adam and Eve spent in the cave, where they slept heavily by +reason of the food they had eaten. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap66"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXVI - Adam does his first day's work. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 When it was morning, the day after they had eaten food, Adam and Eve +prayed in the cave, and Adam said to Eve, "Look, we asked for food of +God, and He gave it. But now let us also ask Him to give us a drink of +water." +</P> + +<P> +2 Then they got up, and went to the bank of the stream of water, that +was on the south border of the garden, in which they had before thrown +themselves. And they stood on the bank, and prayed to God that He +would command them to drink of the water. +</P> + +<P> +3 Then the Word of God came to Adam, and said to him, "O Adam, your +body has become brutish, and requires water to drink. Take some and +drink it, you and Eve, then give thanks and praise." +</P> + +<P> +4 Adam and Eve then went down to the stream and drank from it, until +their bodies felt refreshed. After having drunk, they praised God, and +then returned to their cave, after their former custom. This happened +at the end of eighty-three days. +</P> + +<P> +5 Then on the eighty-fourth day, they took the two figs and hung them +in the cave, together with the leaves thereof, to be to them a sign and +a blessing from God. And they placed them there so that if their +descendants came there, they would see the wonderful things God had +done for them. +</P> + +<P> +6 Then Adam and Eve again stood outside the cave, and asked God to show +them some food with which they could nourish their bodies. +</P> + +<P> +7 Then the Word of God came and said to him, "O Adam, go down to the +westward of the cave until you come to a land of dark soil, and there +you shall find food." +</P> + +<P> +8 And Adam obeyed the Word of God, took Eve, and went down to a land of +dark soil, and found there wheat* growing in the ear and ripe, and figs +to eat; and Adam rejoiced over it. +</P> + +<P> +9 Then the Word of God came again to Adam, and said to him, "Take some +of this wheat and make yourselves some bread with it, to nourish your +body therewith." And God gave Adam's heart wisdom, to work out the +corn until it became bread. +</P> + +<P> +10 Adam accomplished all that, until he grew very faint and weary. He +then returned to the cave; rejoicing at what he had learned of what is +done with wheat, until it is made into bread for one's use. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +* In this book, the terms 'corn' and 'wheat' are used interchangeably. +The reference is possibly used to indicate a type of ancient grain +resembling Egyptian Corn also known as Durra. Durra is a wheat-like +cereal grain frequently cultivated in dry regions such as Egypt. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap67"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXVII - "Then Satan began to lead astray Adam and Eve.…" +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 When Adam and Eve went down to the land of black mud and came near to +the wheat God had showed them and saw that it was ripe and ready for +reaping, they did not have a sickle to reap it with. So they readied +themselves, and began to pull up the wheat by hand, until it was all +done. +</P> + +<P> +2 Then they heaped it into a pile; and, faint from heat and from +thirst, they went under a shady tree, where the breeze fanned them to +sleep. +</P> + +<P> +3 But Satan saw what Adam and Eve had done. And he called his hosts, +and said to them, "Since God has shown to Adam and Eve all about this +wheat, wherewith to strengthen their bodies—and, look, they have come +and made a big pile of it, and faint from the toil are now +asleep—come, let us set fire to this heap of corn, and burn it, and +let us take that bottle of water that is by them, and empty it out, so +that they may find nothing to drink, and we kill them with hunger and +thirst. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then, when they wake up from their sleep, and seek to return to the +cave, we will come to them in the way, and will lead them astray; so +that they die of hunger and thirst; when they may, perhaps, deny God, +and He destroy them. So shall we be rid of them." +</P> + +<P> +5 Then Satan and his hosts set the wheat on fire and burned it up. +</P> + +<P> +6 But from the heat of the flame Adam and Eve awoke from their sleep, +and saw the wheat burning, and the bucket of water by them, poured out. +</P> + +<P> +7 Then they cried and went back to the cave. +</P> + +<P> +8 But as they were going up from below the mountain where they were, +Satan and his hosts met them in the form of angels, praising God. +</P> + +<P> +9 Then Satan said to Adam, "O Adam, why are you so pained with hunger +and thirst? It seems to me that Satan has burnt up the wheat." And +Adam said to him, "Yes." +</P> + +<P> +10 Again Satan said to Adam, "Come back with us; we are angels of God. +God sent us to you, to show you another field of corn, better than +that; and beyond it is a fountain of good water, and many trees, where +you shall live near it, and work the corn field to better purpose than +that which Satan has consumed." +</P> + +<P> +11 Adam thought that he was true, and that they were angels who talked +with him; and he went back with them. +</P> + +<P> +12 Then Satan began to lead astray Adam and Eve eight days, until they +both fell down as if dead, from hunger, thirst, and faintness. Then he +fled with his hosts, and left them. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap68"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXVIII - How destruction and trouble is of Satan when he is the +master. Adam and Eve establish the custom of worship. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then God looked at Adam and Eve, and at what had come over them from +Satan, and how he had made them perish. +</P> + +<P> +2 God, therefore, sent His Word, and raised up Adam and Eve from their +state of death. +</P> + +<P> +3 Then, Adam, when he was raised, said, "O God, You have burnt and +taken from us the corn You have given us, and You have emptied out the +bucket of water. And You have sent Your angels, who have caused us to +lose our way from the corn field. Will You make us perish? If this be +from you, O God, then take away our souls; but punish us not." +</P> + +<P> +4 Then God said to Adam, "I did not burn down the wheat, and I did not +pour the water out of the bucket, and I did not send My angels to lead +you astray. +</P> + +<P> +5 But it is Satan, your master who did it; he to whom you have +subjected yourself; my commandment being meanwhile set aside. He it +is, who burnt down the corn, and poured out the water, and who has led +you astray; and all the promises he has made you were just a trick, a +deception, and a lie. +</P> + +<P> +6 But now, O Adam, you shall acknowledge My good deeds done to you." +</P> + +<P> +7 And God told His angels to take Adam and Eve, and to bear them up to +the field of wheat, which they found as before, with the bucket full of +water. +</P> + +<P> +8 There they saw a tree, and found on it solid manna; and wondered at +God's power. And the angels commanded them to eat of the manna when +they were hungry. +</P> + +<P> +9 And God admonished Satan with a curse, not to come again, and destroy +the field of corn. +</P> + +<P> +10 Then Adam and Eve took of the corn, and made of it an offering, and +took it and offered it up on the mountain, the place where they had +offered up their first offering of blood. +</P> + +<P> +11 And they offered this offering again on the altar they had built at +first. And they stood up and prayed, and besought the Lord saying, +"Thus, O God, when we were in the garden, our praises went up to you, +like this offering; and our innocence went up to you like incense. But +now, O God, accept this offering from us, and don't turn us away, +deprived of Your mercy." +</P> + +<P> +12 Then God said to Adam and Eve, "Since you have made this offering +and have offered it to Me, I shall make it My flesh, when I come down +on earth to save you; and I shall cause it to be offered continually on +an altar, for forgiveness and for mercy, for those who partake of it +duly." +</P> + +<P> +13 And God sent a bright fire over the offering of Adam and Eve, and +filled it with brightness, grace, and light; and the Holy Ghost came +down on that offering. +</P> + +<P> +14 Then God commanded an angel to take fire tongs, like a spoon, and +with it to take an offering and bring it to Adam and Eve. And the +angel did so, as God had commanded him, and offered it to them. +</P> + +<P> +15 And the souls of Adam and Eve were brightened, and their hearts were +filled with joy and gladness and with the praises of God. +</P> + +<P> +16 And God said to Adam, "This shall be to you a custom, to do so, +when affliction and sorrow come over you. But your deliverance and +your entrance in to the garden, shall not be until the days are +fulfilled as agreed between you and Me; were it not so, I would, of My +mercy and pity for you, bring you back to My garden and to My favor for +the sake of the offering you have just made to My name." +</P> + +<P> +17 Adam rejoiced at these words which he heard from God; and he and Eve +worshipped before the altar, to which they bowed, and then went back to +the Cave of Treasures. +</P> + +<P> +18 And this took place at the end of the twelfth day after the +eightieth day, from the time Adam and Eve came out of the garden. +</P> + +<P> +19 And they stood up the whole night praying until morning; and then +went out of the cave. +</P> + +<P> +20 Then Adam said to Eve, with joy of heart, because of the offering +they had made to God, and that had been accepted of Him, "Let us do +this three times every week, on the fourth day Wednesday, on the +preparation day Friday, and on the Sabbath Sunday, all the days of our +life." +</P> + +<P> +21 And as they agreed to these words between themselves, God was +pleased with their thoughts, and with the resolution they had each +taken with the other. +</P> + +<P> +22 After this, came the Word of God to Adam, and said, "O Adam, you +have determined beforehand the days in which sufferings shall come over +Me, when I am made flesh; for they are the fourth Wednesday, and the +preparation day Friday. +</P> + +<P> +23 But as to the first day, I created in it all things, and I raised +the heavens. And, again, through My rising again on this day, will I +create joy, and raise them on high, who believe in Me; O Adam, offer +this offering, all the days of your life." +</P> + +<P> +24 Then God withdrew His Word from Adam. +</P> + +<P> +25 But Adam continued to offer this offering thus, every week three +times, until the end of seven weeks. And on the first day, which is +the fiftieth, Adam made an offering as he was accustomed, and he and +Eve took it and came to the altar before God, as He had taught them. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap69"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXIX - Twelfth apparition of Satan to Adam and Eve, while Adam +was praying over the offering on the altar; when Satan beat him. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Satan, the hater of all good, envious of Adam and of his +offering through which he found favor with God, hastened and took a +sharp stone from among the sharp iron stones; appeared in the form of a +man, and went and stood by Adam and Eve. +</P> + +<P> +2 Adam was then offering on the altar, and had begun to pray, with his +hands spread before God. +</P> + +<P> +3 Then Satan hastened with the sharp iron stone he had with him, and +with it pierced Adam on the right side, from which flowed blood and +water, then Adam fell on the altar like a corpse. And Satan fled. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then Eve came, and took Adam and placed him below the altar. And +there she stayed, crying over him; while a stream of blood flowed from +Adam's side over his offering. +</P> + +<P> +5 But God looked at the death of Adam. He then sent His Word, and +raised him up and said to him, "Fulfil your offering, for indeed, Adam, +it is worth much, and there is no shortcoming in it." +</P> + +<P> +6 God said further to Adam, "Thus will it also happen to Me, on the +earth, when I shall be pierced and blood and water shall flow from My +side and run over My body, which is the true offering; and which shall +be offered on the altar as a perfect offering." +</P> + +<P> +7 Then God commanded Adam to finish his offering, and when he had ended +it he worshipped before God, and praised Him for the signs He had +showed him. +</P> + +<P> +8 And God healed Adam in one day, which is the end of the seven weeks; +and that is the fiftieth day. +</P> + +<P> +9 Then Adam and Eve returned from the mountain, and went into the Cave +of Treasures, as they were used to do. This completed for Adam and +Eve, one hundred and forty days since their coming out of the garden. +</P> + +<P> +10 Then they both stood up that night and prayed to God. And when it +was morning, they went out, and went down westward of the cave, to the +place where their corn was, and there rested under the shadow of a +tree, as they were accustomed. +</P> + +<P> +11 But when there a multitude of beasts came all around them. It was +Satan's doing, in his wickedness; in order to wage war against Adam +through marriage. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap70"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXX - Thirteenth apparition of Satan, to trick Adam into +marrying Eve. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 After this Satan, the hater of all good, took the form of an angel, +and with him two others, so that they looked like the three angels who +had brought to Adam gold, incense, and myrrh. +</P> + +<P> +2 They passed before Adam and Eve while they were under the tree, and +greeted Adam and Eve with fair words that were full of deceit. +</P> + +<P> +3 But when Adam and Eve saw their pleasant expression, and heard their +sweet speech, Adam rose, welcomed them, and brought them to Eve, and +they remained all together; Adam's heart the while, being glad because +he thought concerning them, that they were the same angels, who had +brought him gold, incense, and myrrh. +</P> + +<P> +4 Because, when they came to Adam the first time, there came over him +from them, peace and joy, through their bringing him good tokens; so +Adam thought that they had come a second time to give him other tokens +for him to rejoice therewith. For he did not know it was Satan; +therefore he received them with joy and consorted with them. +</P> + +<P> +5 Then Satan, the tallest of them, said, "Rejoice, O Adam, and be glad. +Look, God has sent us to you to tell you something." +</P> + +<P> +6 And Adam said, "What is it?" Then Satan answered, "It is a simple +thing, yet it is the Word of God, will you accept it from us and do it? +But if you will not accept it, we will return to God, and tell Him that +you would not receive His Word." +</P> + +<P> +7 And Satan said again to Adam, "Don't be afraid and don't tremble; +don't you know us?" +</P> + +<P> +8 But Adam said, "I do not know you." +</P> + +<P> +9 Then Satan said to him, "I am the angel that brought you gold, and +took it to the cave; this other angel is the one that brought you +incense; and that third angel, is the one who brought you myrrh when +you were on top of the mountain, and who carried you to the cave. +</P> + +<P> +10 But as to the other angels our fellows, who bare you to the cave, +God has not sent them with us this time; for He said to us, 'You will +be enough'." +</P> + +<P> +11 So when Adam heard these words he believed them, and said to these +angels, "Speak the Word of God, that I may receive it." +</P> + +<P> +12 And Satan said to him, "Swear, and promise me that you will receive +it." +</P> + +<P> +13 Then Adam said, "I do not know how to swear and promise." +</P> + +<P> +14 And Satan said to him, "Hold out your hand, and put it inside my +hand." +</P> + +<P> +15 Then Adam held out his hand, and put it into Satan's hand; when +Satan said to him, "Say, now—So true as God is living, rational, and +speaking, who raised the stars in heaven, and established the dry +ground on the waters, and has created me out of the four elements*, and +out of the dust of the earth—I will not break my promise, nor renounce +my word." +</P> + +<P> +16 And Adam swore thus. +</P> + +<P> +17 Then Satan said to him, "Look, it is now some time since you came +out of the garden, and you know neither wickedness nor evil. But now +God says to you, to take Eve who came out of your side, and to marry +her so that she will bear you children, to comfort you, and to drive +from you trouble and sorrow; now this thing is not difficult, neither +is there any scandal in it to you. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +* See the previous footnote in chapter XXXIV regarding the 'four +elements'. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap71"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXXI - Adam is troubled by the thought of marrying Eve. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But when Adam heard these words from Satan, he sorrowed much, because +of his oath and of his promise, and said, "Shall I commit adultery with +my flesh and my bones, and shall I sin against myself, for God to +destroy me, and to blot me out from off the face of the earth? +</P> + +<P> +2 Since, when at first, I ate of the tree, He drove me out of the +garden into this strange land, and deprived me of my bright nature, and +brought death over me. If, then, I should do this, He will cut off my +life from the earth, and He will cast me into hell, and will plague me +there a long time. +</P> + +<P> +3 But God never spoke the words that you have said; and you are not +God's angels, and you weren't sent from Him. But you are devils that +have come to me under the false appearance of angels. Away from me; +you cursed of God!" +</P> + +<P> +4 Then those devils fled from before Adam. And he and Eve got up, and +returned to the Cave of Treasures, and went into it. +</P> + +<P> +5 Then Adam said to Eve, "If you saw what I did, don't tell anyone; for +I sinned against God in swearing by His great name, and I have placed +my hand another time into that of Satan." Eve, then, held her peace, +as Adam told her. +</P> + +<P> +6 Then Adam got up, and spread his hands before God, beseeching and +entreating Him with tears, to forgive him what he had done. And Adam +remained thus standing and praying forty days and forty nights. He +neither ate nor drank until he dropped down on the ground from hunger +and thirst. +</P> + +<P> +7 Then God sent His Word to Adam, who raised him up from where he lay, +and said to him, "O Adam, why have you sworn by My name, and why have +you made agreement with Satan another time?" +</P> + +<P> +8 But Adam cried, and said, "O God, forgive me, for I did this +unwittingly; believing they were God's angels." +</P> + +<P> +9 And God forgave Adam, saying to him, "Beware of Satan." +</P> + +<P> +10 And He withdrew His Word from Adam. +</P> + +<P> +11 Then Adam's heart was comforted; and he took Eve, and they went out +of the cave, to prepare some food for their bodies. +</P> + +<P> +12 But from that day Adam struggled in his mind about his marrying Eve; +afraid that if he was to do it, God would be angry with him. +</P> + +<P> +13 Then Adam and Eve went to the river of water, and sat on the bank, +as people do when they enjoy themselves. +</P> + +<P> +14 But Satan was jealous of them; and planned to destroy them. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap72"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXXII - Adam's heart is set on fire. Satan appears as +beautiful maidens. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Satan, and ten from his hosts, transformed themselves into +maidens, unlike any others in the whole world for grace. +</P> + +<P> +2 They came up out of the river in presence of Adam and Eve, and they +said among themselves, "Come, we will look at the faces of Adam and +Eve, who are of the men on earth. How beautiful they are, and how +different is their look from our own faces." Then they came to Adam +and Eve, and greeted them; and stood wondering at them. +</P> + +<P> +3 Adam and Eve looked at them also, and wondered at their beauty, and +said, "Is there, then, under us, another world, with such beautiful +creatures as these in it?" +</P> + +<P> +4 And those maidens said to Adam and Eve, "Yes, indeed, we are an +abundant creation." +</P> + +<P> +5 Then Adam said to them, "But how do you multiply?" +</P> + +<P> +6 And they answered him, "We have husbands who have married us, and we +bear them children, who grow up, and who in their turn marry and are +married, and also bear children; and thus we increase. And if so be, O +Adam, you will not believe us, we will show you our husbands and our +children." +</P> + +<P> +7 Then they shouted over the river as if to call their husbands and +their children, who came up from the river, men and children; and every +man came to his wife, his children being with him. +</P> + +<P> +8 But when Adam and Eve saw them, they stood dumb, and wondered at them. +</P> + +<P> +9 Then they said to Adam and Eve, "See all our husbands and our +children? You should marry Eve, as we have married our husbands, so +that you will have children as we have." This was a device of Satan to +deceive Adam. +</P> + +<P> +10 Satan also thought within himself, "God at first commanded Adam +concerning the fruit of the tree, saying to him, 'Eat not of it; else +of death you shall die.' But Adam ate of it, and yet God did not kill +him; He only decreed on him death, and plagues and trials, until the +day he shall come out of his body. +</P> + +<P> +11 Now, then, if I deceive him to do this thing, and to marry Eve +without God's permission, God will kill him then." +</P> + +<P> +12 Therefore Satan worked this apparition before Adam and Eve; because +he sought to kill him, and to make him disappear from off the face of +the earth. +</P> + +<P> +13 Meanwhile the fire of sin came over Adam, and he thought of +committing sin. But he restrained himself, fearing that if he followed +this advice of Satan, God would put him to death. +</P> + +<P> +14 Then Adam and Eve got up, and prayed to God, while Satan and his +hosts went down into the river, in presence of Adam and Eve; to let +them see that they were going back to their own world. +</P> + +<P> +15 Then Adam and Eve went back to the Cave of Treasures, as they +usually did; about evening time. +</P> + +<P> +16 And they both got up and prayed to God that night. Adam remained +standing in prayer, yet not knowing how to pray, by reason of the +thoughts in his heart regarding his marrying Eve; and he continued so +until morning. +</P> + +<P> +17 And when light came up, Adam said to Eve, "Get up, let us go below +the mountain, where they brought us gold, and let us ask the Lord +concerning this matter." +</P> + +<P> +18 Then Eve said, "What is that matter, O Adam?" +</P> + +<P> +19 And he answered her, "That I may request the Lord to inform me about +marrying you; for I will not do it without His permission or else He +will make us perish, you and me. For those devils have set my heart on +fire, with thoughts of what they showed us, in their sinful apparitions. +</P> + +<P> +20 Then Eve said to Adam, "Why need we go below the mountain? Let us +rather stand up and pray in our cave to God, to let us know whether +this counsel is good or not." +</P> + +<P> +21 Then Adam rose up in prayer and said, "O God, you know that we +transgressed against you, and from the moment we transgressed, we were +stripped of our bright nature; and our body became brutish, requiring +food and drink; and with animal desires. +</P> + +<P> +22 Command us, O God, not to give way to them without Your permission, +for fear that You will turn us into nothing. Because if you do not +give us permission, we shall be overpowered, and follow that advice of +Satan; and You will again make us perish. +</P> + +<P> +23 If not, then take our souls from us; let us be rid of this animal +lust. And if You give us no order respecting this thing, then sever +Eve from me, and me from her; and place us each far away from the other. +</P> + +<P> +24 Then again, O God, if You separate us from each other, the devils +will deceive us with their apparitions that resemble us, and destroy +our hearts, and defile our thoughts towards each other. Yet if it is +not each of us towards the other, it will, at all events, be through +their appearance when the devils come to us in our likeness." Here Adam +ended his prayer. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap73"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXXIII - The marriage of Adam and Eve. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then God considered the words of Adam that they were true, and that +he could long await His order, respecting the counsel of Satan. +</P> + +<P> +2 And God approved Adam in what he had thought concerning this, and in +the prayer he had offered in His presence; and the Word of God came to +Adam and said to him, "O Adam, if only you had had this caution at +first, before you came out of the garden into this land!" +</P> + +<P> +3 After that, God sent His angel who had brought gold, and the angel +who had brought incense, and the angel who had brought myrrh to Adam, +that they should inform him respecting his marriage to Eve. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then those angels said to Adam, "Take the gold and give it to Eve as +a wedding gift, and promise to marry her; then give her some incense +and myrrh as a present; and be you, you and she, one flesh." +</P> + +<P> +5 Adam obeyed the angels, and took the gold and put it into Eve's bosom +in her garment; and promised to marry her with his hand. +</P> + +<P> +6 Then the angels commanded Adam and Eve to get up and pray forty days +and forty nights; when that was done, then Adam was to have sexual +intercourse with his wife; for then this would be an act pure and +undefiled; so that he would have children who would multiply, and +replenish the face of the earth. +</P> + +<P> +7 Then both Adam and Eve received the words of the angels; and the +angels departed from them. +</P> + +<P> +8 Then Adam and Eve began to fast and pray, until the end of the forty +days; and then they had sexual intercourse, as the angels had told +them. And from the time Adam left the garden until he wedded Eve, were +two hundred and twenty-three days, that is seven months and thirteen +days. +</P> + +<P> +9 Thus was Satan's war with Adam defeated. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap74"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXXIV - The birth of Cain and Luluwa. Why they received those +names. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 And they lived on the earth working in order to keep their bodies in +good health; and they continued so until the nine months of Eve's +pregnancy were over, and the time drew near when she must give birth. +</P> + +<P> +2 Then she said to Adam, "The signs placed in this cave since we left +the garden indicate that this is a pure place and we will be praying in +it again some time. It is not appropriate then, that I should give +birth in it. Let us instead go to the sheltering rock cave that was +formed by the command of God when Satan threw a big rock down on us in +an attempt to kill us with it. +</P> + +<P> +3 Adam then took Eve to that cave. When the time came for her to give +birth, she strained a lot. Adam felt sorry, and he was very worried +about her because she was close to death and the words of God to her +were being fulfilled: "In suffering shall you bear a child, and in +sorrow shall you bring forth a child." +</P> + +<P> +4 But when Adam saw the distress in which Eve was, he got up and prayed +to God, and said, "O Lord, look at me with the eye of Your mercy, and +bring her out of her distress." +</P> + +<P> +5 And God looked at His maid-servant Eve, and delivered her, and she +gave birth to her first-born son, and with him a daughter. +</P> + +<P> +6 The Adam rejoiced at Eve's deliverance, and also over the children +she had borne him. And Adam ministered to Eve in the cave, until the +end of eight days; when they named the son Cain, and the daughter +Luluwa. +</P> + +<P> +7 The meaning of Cain is "hater," because he hated his sister in their +mother's womb; before they came out of it. Therefore Adam named him +Cain. +</P> + +<P> +8 But Luluwa means "beautiful," because she was more beautiful than her +mother. +</P> + +<P> +9 Then Adam and Eve waited until Cain and his sister were forty days +old, when Adam said to Eve, "We will make an offering and offer it up +in behalf of the children." +</P> + +<P> +10 And Eve said, "We will make one offering for the first-born son and +then later we shall make one for the daughter." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap75"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXXV - The family revisits the Cave of Treasures. Birth of +Abel and Aklia. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam prepared an offering, and he and Eve offered it up for +their children, and brought it to the altar they had built at first. +</P> + +<P> +2 And Adam offered up the offering, and asked God to accept his +offering. +</P> + +<P> +3 Then God accepted Adam's offering, and sent a light from heaven that +shown on the offering. Adam and his son drew near to the offering, but +Eve and the daughter did not approach it. +</P> + +<P> +4 Adam and his son were joyful as they came down from on the altar. +Adam and Eve waited until the daughter was eighty days old, then Adam +prepared an offering and took it to Eve and to the children. They went +to the altar, where Adam offered it up, as he was accustomed, asking +the Lord to accept his offering. +</P> + +<P> +5 And the Lord accepted the offering of Adam and Eve. Then Adam, Eve, +and the children, drew near together, and came down from the mountain, +rejoicing. +</P> + +<P> +6 But they returned not to the cave in which they were born; but came +to the Cave of Treasures, in order that the children should go around +in it, and be blessed with the tokens brought from the garden. +</P> + +<P> +7 But after they had been blessed with these tokens, they went back to +the cave in which they were born. +</P> + +<P> +8 However, before Eve had offered up the offering, Adam had taken her, +and had gone with her to the river of water, in which they threw +themselves at first; and there they washed themselves. Adam washed his +body and Eve hers also clean, after the suffering and distress that had +come over them. +</P> + +<P> +9 But Adam and Eve, after washing themselves in the river of water, +returned every night to the Cave of Treasures, where they prayed and +were blessed; and then went back to their cave, where their children +were born. +</P> + +<P> +10 Adam and Eve did this until the children had been weaned. After +they were weaned, Adam made an offering for the souls of his children +in addition to the three times every week he made an offering for them. +</P> + +<P> +11 When the children were weaned, Eve again conceived, and when her +pregnancy came to term, she gave birth to another son and daughter. +They named the son Abel and the daughter Aklia. +</P> + +<P> +12 Then at the end of forty days, Adam made an offering for the son, +and at the end of eighty days he made another offering for the +daughter, and treated them, as he had previously treated Cain and his +sister Luluwa. +</P> + +<P> +13 He brought them to the Cave of Treasures, where they received a +blessing, and then returned to the cave where they were born. After +these children were born, Eve stopped having children. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap76"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXXVI - Cain becomes jealous of Abel because of his sisters. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 And the children began to grow stronger and taller; but Cain was +hard-hearted, and ruled over his younger brother. +</P> + +<P> +2 Often when his father made an offering, Cain would remain behind and +not go with them, to offer up. +</P> + +<P> +3 But, as to Abel, he had a meek heart, and was obedient to his father +and mother. He frequently moved them to make an offering, because he +loved it. He prayed and fasted a lot. +</P> + +<P> +4 Then came this sign to Abel. As he was coming into the Cave of +Treasures, and saw the golden rods, the incense and the myrrh, he asked +his parents, Adam and Eve, to tell him about them and asked, "Where did +you get these from?" +</P> + +<P> +5 Then Adam told him all that had befallen them. And Abel felt deeply +about what his father told him. +</P> + +<P> +6 Furthermore his father, Adam, told him of the works of God, and of +the garden. After hearing that, Abel remained behind after his father +left and stayed the whole of that night in the Cave of Treasures. +</P> + +<P> +7 And that night, while he was praying, Satan appeared to him under the +figure of a man, who said to him, "You have frequently moved your +father into making offerings, fasting and praying, therefore I will +kill you, and make you perish from this world." +</P> + +<P> +8 But as for Abel, he prayed to God, and drove away Satan from him; and +did not believe the words of the devil. Then when it was day, an angel +of God appeared to him, who said to him, "Do not cut short either +fasting, prayer, or offering up an offering to your God. For, look, +the Lord had accepted your prayer. Be not afraid of the figure which +appeared to you in the night, and who cursed you to death." And the +angel departed from him. +</P> + +<P> +9 Then when it was day, Abel came to Adam and Eve, and told them of the +vision he had seen. When they heard it, they grieved much over it, but +said nothing to him about it; they only comforted him. +</P> + +<P> +10 But as to the hard-hearted Cain, Satan came to him by night, showed +himself and said to him, "Since Adam and Eve love your brother Abel so +much more than they love you, they wish to join him in marriage to your +beautiful sister because they love him. However, they wish to join you +in marriage to his ugly sister, because they hate you. +</P> + +<P> +11 Now before they do that, I am telling you that you should kill your +brother. That way your sister will be left for you, and his sister will +be cast away." +</P> + +<P> +12 And Satan departed from him. But the devil remained behind in +Cain's heart, and frequently aspired to kill his brother. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap77"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXXVII - Cain, 15 years old, and Abel 12 years old, grow apart. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 But when Adam saw that the older brother hated the younger, he +endeavored to soften their hearts, and said to Cain, "O my son, take of +the fruits of your sowing and make an offering to God, so that He might +forgive you for your wickedness and sin." +</P> + +<P> +2 He said also to Abel, "Take some of your sowing and make an offering +and bring it to God, so that He might forgive you for your wickedness +and sin." +</P> + +<P> +3 Then Abel obeyed his father's voice, took some of his sowing, and +made a good offering, and said to his father, Adam, "Come with me and +show me how to offer it up." +</P> + +<P> +4 And they went, Adam and Eve with him, and they showed him how to +offer up his gift on the altar. Then after that, they stood up and +prayed that God would accept Abel's offering. +</P> + +<P> +5 Then God looked at Abel and accepted his offering. And God was more +pleased with Abel than with his offering, because of his good heart and +pure body. There was no trace of guile in him. +</P> + +<P> +6 Then they came down from the altar, and went to the cave in which +they lived. But Abel, by reason of his joy at having made his +offering, repeated it three times a week, after the example of his +father Adam. +</P> + +<P> +7 But as to Cain, he did not want to make an offering, but after his +father became very angry, he offered up a gift once. He took the +smallest of his sheep for an offering and when he offered it up, his +eyes were on the lamb. +</P> + +<P> +8 Therefore God did not accept his offering, because his heart was full +of murderous thoughts. +</P> + +<P> +9 And they all thus lived together in the cave in which Eve had brought +forth, until Cain was fifteen years old, and Abel twelve years old. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap78"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXXVIII - Jealousy overcomes Cain. He makes trouble in the +family. How the first murder was planned. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 Then Adam said to Eve, "Behold the children are grown up; we must +think of finding wives for them." +</P> + +<P> +2 Then Eve answered, "How can we do it?" +</P> + +<P> +3 Then Adam said to her, "We will join Abel's sister in marriage to +Cain, and Cain's sister to Abel. +</P> + +<P> +4 The said Eve to Adam, "I do not like Cain because he is hard-hearted; +but let them stay with us until we offer up to the Lord in their +behalf." +</P> + +<P> +5 And Adam said no more. +</P> + +<P> +6 Meanwhile Satan came to Cain in the figure of a man of the field, and +said to him, "Behold Adam and Eve have taken counsel together about the +marriage of you two; and they have agreed to marry Abel's sister to +you, and your sister to him. +</P> + +<P> +7 But if it was not that I love you, I would not have told you this +thing. Yet if you will take my advice, and obey me, I will bring to +you on your wedding day beautiful robes, gold and silver in plenty, and +my relations will attend you." +</P> + +<P> +8 Then Cain said with joy, "Where are your relations?" +</P> + +<P> +9 And Satan answered, "My relations are in a garden in the north, where +I once meant to bring your father Adam; but he would not accept my +offer. +</P> + +<P> +10 But you, if you will receive my words and if you will come to me +after your wedding, you shall rest from the misery in which you are; +and you shall rest and be better off than your father Adam." +</P> + +<P> +11 At these words of Satan Cain opened his ears, and leaned towards his +speech. +</P> + +<P> +12 And he did not remain in the field, but he went to Eve, his mother, +and beat her, and cursed her, and said to her, "Why are you planning to +take my sister to wed her to my brother? Am I dead?" +</P> + +<P> +13 His mother, however, quieted him, and sent him to the field where he +had been. +</P> + +<P> +14 Then when Adam came, she told him of what Cain had done. +</P> + +<P> +15 But Adam grieved and held his peace, and said not a word. +</P> + +<P> +16 Then on the next morning Adam said to Cain his son, "Take of your +sheep, young and good, and offer them up to your God; and I will speak +to your brother, to make to his God an offering of corn." +</P> + +<P> +17 They both obeyed their father Adam, and they took their offerings, +and offered them up on the mountain by the altar. +</P> + +<P> +18 But Cain behaved haughtily towards his brother, and shoved him from +the altar, and would not let him offer up his gift on the altar; but he +offered his own on it, with a proud heart, full of guile, and fraud. +</P> + +<P> +19 But as for Abel, he set up stones that were near at hand, and on +that, he offered up his gift with a heart humble and free from guile. +</P> + +<P> +20 Cain was then standing by the altar on which he had offered up his +gift; and he cried to God to accept his offering; but God did not +accept it from him; neither did a divine fire come down to consume his +offering. +</P> + +<P> +21 But he remained standing over against the altar, out of humor and +meanness, looking towards his brother Abel, to see if God would accept +his offering or not. +</P> + +<P> +22 And Abel prayed to God to accept his offering. Then a divine fire +came down and consumed his offering. And God smelled the sweet savor +of his offering; because Abel loved Him and rejoice in Him. +</P> + +<P> +23 And because God was well pleased with him, He sent him an angel of +light in the figure of a man who had partaken of his offering, because +He had smelled the sweet savor of his offering, and they comforted Abel +and strengthened his heart. +</P> + +<P> +24 But Cain was looking on all that took place at his brother's +offering, and was angry because of it. +</P> + +<P> +25 Then he opened his mouth and blasphemed God, because He had not +accepted his offering. +</P> + +<P> +26 But God said to cain, "Why do you look sad? Be righteous, that I +may accept your offering. Not against Me have you murmured, but +against yourself. +</P> + +<P> +27 And God said this to Cain in rebuke, and because He abhorred him and +his offering. +</P> + +<P> +28 And Cain came down from the altar, his color changed and with a sad +face, and came to his father and mother and told them all that had +befallen him. And Adam grieved much because God had not accepted +Cain's offering. +</P> + +<P> +29 But Abel came down rejoicing, and with a gladsome heart, and told +his father and mother how God had accepted his offering. And they +rejoiced at it and kissed his face. +</P> + +<P> +30 And Abel said to his father, "Because Cain shoved me from the altar, +and would not allow me to offer my gift on it, I made an altar for +myself and offered my gift on it." +</P> + +<P> +31 But when Adam heard this he was very sorry, because it was the altar +he had built at first, and on which he had offered his own gifts. +</P> + +<P> +32 As to Cain, he was so resentful and so angry that he went into the +field, where Satan came to him and said to him, "Since your brother +Abel has taken refuge with your father Adam, because you shoved him +from the altar, they have kissed his face, and they rejoice over him, +far more than over you." +</P> + +<P> +33 When Cain heard these words of Satan, he was filled with rage; and +he let no one know. But he was laying wait to kill his brother, until +he brought him into the cave, and then said to him:— +</P> + +<P> +34 "O brother, the country is so beautiful, and there are such +beautiful and pleasurable trees in it, and charming to look at! But +brother, you have never been one day in the field to take your pleasure +in that place. +</P> + +<P> +35 Today, O, my brother, I very much wish you would come with me into +the field, to enjoy yourself and to bless our fields and our flocks, +for you are righteous, and I love you much, O my brother! But you have +alienated yourself from me." +</P> + +<P> +36 Then Abel consented to go with his brother Cain into the field. +</P> + +<P> +37 But before going out, Cain said to Abel, "Wait for me, until I fetch +a staff, because of wild beasts." +</P> + +<P> +38 Then Abel stood waiting in his innocence. But Cain, the forward, +fetched a staff and went out. +</P> + +<P> +39 And they began, Cain and his brother Abel, to walk in the way; Cain +talking to him, and comforting him, to make him forget everything. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap79"></A> +<P CLASS="chaptitle"> +Chapter LXXIX - A wicked plan is carried to a tragic conclusion. Cain +is frightened. "Am I my brother's keeper?" The seven punishments. +Peace is shattered. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P> +1 And so they went on, until they came to a lonely place, where there +were no sheep; then Abel said to Cain, "Behold, my brother, we are +tired from walking; for we see none of the trees, nor of the fruits, +nor of the flourishing green plants, nor of the sheep, nor any one of +the things of which you told me. Where are those sheep of thine you +told me to bless?" +</P> + +<P> +2 Then Cain said to him, "Come on, and you shall see many beautiful +things very soon, but go before me, until I catch up to you." +</P> + +<P> +3 Then went Abel forward, but Cain remained behind him. +</P> + +<P> +4 And Abel was walking in his innocence, without guile; not believing +his brother would kill him. +</P> + +<P> +5 Then Cain, when he came up to him, comforted him with his talk, +walking a little behind him; then he ran up to him and beat him with +the staff, blow after blow, until he was stunned. +</P> + +<P> +6 But when Abel fell down on the ground, seeing that his brother meant +to kill him, he said to Cain, "O, my brother, have pity on me. By the +breasts we have sucked, don't hit me! By the womb that bore us and +that brought us into the world, don't beat me to death with that staff! +If you will kill me, take one of these large stones and kill me +outright." +</P> + +<P> +7 Then Cain, the hard-hearted, and cruel murderer, took a large stone, +and beat his brother's head with it, until his brains oozed out, and he +wallowed in his blood, before him. +</P> + +<P> +8 And Cain repented not of what he had done. +</P> + +<P> +9 But the earth, when the blood of righteous Abel fell on it, trembled, +as it drank his blood, and would have destroyed Cain because of it. +</P> + +<P> +10 And the blood of Abel cried mysteriously to God, to avenge him of +his murderer. +</P> + +<P> +11 Then Cain began at once to dig the ground wherein to lay his +brother; for he was trembling from the fear that came over him, when he +saw the earth tremble on his account. +</P> + +<P> +12 He then cast his brother into the pit he made, and covered him with +dust. But the ground would not receive him; but it threw him up at +once. +</P> + +<P> +13 Again Cain dug the ground and hid his brother in it; but again the +ground threw him up on itself; until three times the ground thus threw +up on itself the body of Abel. +</P> + +<P> +14 The muddy ground threw him up the first time, because he was not the +first creation; and it threw him up the second time and would not +receive him, because he was righteous and good, and was killed without +a cause; and the ground threw him up the third time and would not +receive him, that there might remain before his brother a witness +against him. +</P> + +<P> +15 And so the earth mocked Cain, until the Word of God, came to him +concerning his brother. +</P> + +<P> +16 Then was God angry, and much displeased at Abel's death; and He +thundered from heaven, and lightnings went before Him, and the Word of +the Lord God came from heaven to Cain, and said to him, "Where is Abel +your brother?" +</P> + +<P> +17 Then Cain answered with a proud heart and a gruff voice, "How, O +God? Am I my brother's keeper?" +</P> + +<P> +18 Then God said to Cain, "Cursed be the earth that has drunk the blood +of Abel your brother; and as for you, you will always be trembling and +shaking; and this will be a mark on you so that whoever finds you, will +kill you." +</P> + +<P> +19 But Cain cried because God had said those words to him; and Cain +said to Him, "O God, whosoever finds me shall kill me, and I shall be +blotted out from the face of the earth." +</P> + +<P> +20 Then God said to Cain, "Whoever finds you will not kill you;" +because before this, God had been saying to Cain, "I shall put seven +punishments on anyone that kills Cain." For as to the word of God to +Cain, "Where is your brother?" God said it in mercy for him, to try and +make him repent. +</P> + +<P> +21 For if Cain had repented at that time, and had said, "O God, forgive +me my sin, and the murder of my brother," God would then have forgiven +him his sin. +</P> + +<P> +22 And as to God saying to Cain, "Cursed be the ground that has drunk +the blood of your brother." That also, was God's mercy on Cain. For +God did not curse him, but He cursed the ground; although it was not +the ground that had killed Abel, and committed a wicked sin. +</P> + +<P> +23 For it was fitting that the curse should fall on the murderer; yet +in mercy did God so manage His thoughts as that no one should know it, +and turn away from Cain. +</P> + +<P> +24 And He said to him, "Where is your brother?" To which he answered +and said, "I know not." Then the Creator said to him, "Be trembling and +quaking." +</P> + +<P> +25 Then Cain trembled and became terrified; and through this sign did +God make him an example before all the creation, as the murderer of his +brother. Also did God bring trembling and terror over him, that he +might see the peace in which he was at first, and see also the +trembling and terror he endured at the last; so that he might humble +himself before God, and repent of his sin, and seek the peace that he +enjoyed at first. +</P> + +<P> +26 And in the word of God that said, "I will put seven punishments on +anyone who kills Cain," God was not seeking to kill Cain with the +sword, but He sought to make him die of fasting, and praying and crying +by hard rule, until the time that he was delivered from his sin. +</P> + +<P> +27 And the seven punishments are the seven generations during which God +awaited Cain for the murder of his brother. +</P> + +<P> +28 But as to Cain, ever since he had killed his brother, he could find +no rest in any place; but went back to Adam and Eve, trembling, +terrified, and defiled with blood. . . . +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR><BR> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's First Book of Adam and Eve, by Rutherford Platt + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIRST BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE *** + +***** This file should be named 398-h.htm or 398-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/9/398/ + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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