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+The First Book of Adam and Eve
+
+Prologue
+
+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.
+
+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. 
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter I - The crystal sea, God commands Adam, expelled
+from Eden, to live in the Cave of Treasures.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+9 And God commanded him to live there in a cave in a rock --
+the Cave of Treasures below the garden.
+
+
+
+Chapter II - Adam and Eve faint when they leave the Garden. 
+God sends His Word to encourage them.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter III - Concerning the promise of the great five and
+a half days.
+
+
+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.
+
+2 Yes, the Word that will again save you when the five
+and a half days are fulfilled."
+
+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.
+
+4 For Adam was thinking there would be only five and a
+half days for him until the end of the world.
+
+5 And Adam cried, and prayed to God to explain it to him.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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; --
+
+12 "Lord, You sent me to watch at the gate of the
+garden, with a sword of fire.
+
+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?"
+
+14 Then God had pity on them, and showed them mercy,
+and sent His Angel to keep the garden.
+
+15 And the Word of the Lord came to Adam and Eve, and
+raised them up.
+
+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.
+
+17 Strengthen your heart, therefore, and stay in the
+Cave of Treasures, of which I have before spoken to you."
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter IV - Adam mourns over the changed conditions.
+Adam and Eve enter the Cave of Treasures.
+
+
+1 But Adam and Eve cried for having come out of the
+garden, their first home.
+
+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.
+
+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!
+
+4 What is it compared with the garden?  What is its
+narrowness compared with the space of the other?
+
+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?
+
+6 What is this overhanging ledge of rock to shelter us,
+compared with the mercy of the Lord that overshadowed us?
+
+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?"
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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?"
+
+11 After this, Adam did not want to enter the cave,
+under the overhanging rock; nor would he ever want to enter it.
+
+12 But he bowed to God's orders; and said to himself,
+"Unless I enter the cave, I shall again be a transgressor."
+
+
+
+Chapter V - Eve makes a noble and emotional intercession,
+taking the blame on herself.
+
+
+1 Then Adam and Eve entered the cave, and stood praying,
+in their own tongue, unknown to us, but which they knew well.
+
+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.
+
+3 And Eve sat crying; for she believed he was dead.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+13 But if You will not give him life, then take me,
+even me, like him; that we both may die the same day."
+
+14 And Eve cried bitterly, and fell on our father
+Adam; from her great sorrow.
+
+
+
+Chapter VI - God's reprimand to Adam and Eve in which he
+points out how and why they sinned.
+
+
+1 But God looked at them; for they had killed
+themselves through great grief.
+
+2 But He decided to raise them and comfort them.
+
+3 He, therefore, sent His Word to them; that they
+should stand and be raised immediately.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+8 Thus have you transgressed My commandment, and
+therefore I have brought on you all these sorrows.
+
+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.
+
+10 But, if on the contrary, they still continue
+hardened in their transgression, they shall be under a
+curse forever."
+
+
+
+Chapter VII - The beasts are appeased.
+
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+4 Your grace was then on me; and I named every one according
+to Your mind; and you made them all subject to me.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter VIII - The "Bright Nature" of man is taken away.
+
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+3 When Adam and Eve had heard these words from God,
+they went their way; praising and worshipping Him with a
+sorrowful heart.
+
+4 And God ceased to commune with them.
+
+
+
+Chapter IX - Water from the Tree of Life.  Adam and Eve near drowning.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+4 And Adam cried and wailed, and beat his chest, for
+being severed from the garden; and said to Eve: --
+
+5 "Why have you brought on me, on yourself, and on our
+descendants, so many of these plagues and punishments?"
+
+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?"
+
+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?
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter X - Their bodies need water after they leave the garden.
+
+
+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.
+
+2 Then the angel went up to God, was welcome, and
+said, "O God, Your creatures have breathed their last."
+
+3 Then God sent His Word to Adam and Eve, who raised
+them from their death.
+
+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."
+
+5 Then God said to Adam, "While you were under My
+command and were a bright angel, you knew not this water.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+9 And God ceased to commune with Adam.
+
+
+
+Chapter XI - A recollection of the glorious days in the Garden.
+
+
+1 Then Adam and Eve felt themselves burning with
+thirst, and heat, and sorrow.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+5 Then Adam cried, in deep affliction, and beat his
+chest; and he got up and said to Eve, "Where are you?"
+
+6 And she said to him, "Look, I am standing in this
+darkness."
+
+7 He then said to her, "Remember the bright nature in
+which we lived, when we lived in the garden!
+
+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.
+
+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!
+
+10 Think, oh think of that garden in which was no
+darkness, while we lived in it.
+
+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."
+
+
+
+Chapter XII - How darkness came between Adam and Eve.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+4 Then she was afraid, speechless, and remained by him.
+
+5 But the merciful Lord looked on the death of Adam,
+and on Eve's silence from fear of the darkness.
+
+6 And the Word of God came to Adam and raised him from
+his death, and opened Eve's mouth that she might speak.
+
+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?
+
+8 And this darkness, O Lord, where was it before it covered us?
+It is because of this that we cannot see each other.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+11 O Lord, will You then plague us with this darkness?"
+
+
+
+Chapter XIII - The fall of Adam.  Why night and day were created.
+
+
+1 Then when God, who is merciful and full of pity,
+heard Adam's voice, He said to him: --
+
+2 "O Adam, so long as the good angel was obedient to
+Me, a bright light rested on him and on his hosts.
+
+3 But when he transgressed My commandment, I deprived
+him of that bright nature, and he became dark.
+
+4 And when he was in the heavens, in the realms of light,
+he knew nothing of darkness.
+
+5 But he transgressed, and I made him fall from the heaven
+onto the earth; and it was this darkness that came over him.
+
+6 And on you, O Adam, while in My garden and obedient
+to Me, did that bright light rest also.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+14 For I made you of the light; and I willed to bring
+out children of light from you and like to you.
+
+15 But you did not keep My commandment one day; until
+I had finished the creation and blessed everything in it.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+21 But little of darkness now remains, O Adam, and
+daylight will soon appear."
+
+
+
+Chapter XIV - The earliest prophesy of the coming of Christ.
+
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+6 And God ceased to commune with Adam.
+
+
+* Reference: John 12:46
+
+
+
+Chapter XV - Adam and Eve grieve over the suffering of God
+to save them from their sins.
+
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter XVI - The first sunrise.  Adam and Eve think it is
+a fire coming to burn them.
+
+
+1 After this, Adam and Eve continued to stand in the
+cave, praying and crying, until the morning dawned on them.
+
+2 And when they saw the light returned to them, they
+retrained from fear, and strengthened their hearts.
+
+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.
+
+4 He then cried and beat his chest, then he fell on
+the ground on his face and made his request, saying: --
+
+5 "O Lord, plague me not, neither consume me, nor yet
+take away my life from the earth."
+
+6 For he thought the sun was God.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+10 But while he was thinking like this in his heart,
+the Word of God came to him and said: --
+
+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.'
+
+12 But I am God who comforted you in the night."
+
+13 And God ceased to commune with Adam.
+
+
+
+Chapter XVII - The Chapter of the Serpent.
+
+
+1 The Adam and Eve came out at the mouth of the cave,
+and went towards the garden.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter XVIII - The mortal combat with the serpent.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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: --
+
+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.
+
+5 But God sent an angel who threw the serpent away
+from them, and raised them up.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+8 Then the serpent was struck mute, and was no longer
+able to speak.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter XIX - Beasts made subject to Adam.
+
+
+1 But Adam and Eve cried before God.  And Adam said to Him: --
+
+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."
+
+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,
+
+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.
+
+5 For I knew that the accursed one is wicked; therefore
+I would not let it come near you with the other beasts.
+
+6 But now strengthen your heart and fear not.  I am
+with you to the end of the days I have determined on you."
+
+
+
+Chapter XX - Adam wishes to protect Eve.
+
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+3 Then Adam and Eve worshipped before God and gave Him
+thanks, and praised Him for having delivered them from death.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXI - Adam and Eve attempt suicide.
+
+
+1 Then Adam and Eve went in search of the garden.
+
+2 And the heat beat like a flame on their faces; and
+they sweated from the heat, and cried before the Lord.
+
+3 But the place where they cried was close to a high mountain,
+facing the western gate of the garden.
+
+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.
+
+5 Meanwhile Eve remained standing on the mountain
+crying over him, thus lying.
+
+6 And she said, "I don't wish to live after him; for
+all that he did to himself was through me."
+
+7 Then she threw herself after him; and was torn and
+ripped by stones; and remained lying as dead.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+
+
+Chapter XXII - Adam in a gracious mood.
+
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+
+
+Chapter XXIII - Adam and Eve strengthen themselves and make
+the first altar ever built.
+
+
+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."
+
+2 But God withdrew His Word from Adam and Eve.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.  
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+9 And Adam began to make more requests of God.
+
+
+* 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.  
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXIV - A vivid prophecy of the life and death of Christ.
+
+
+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.
+
+2 And God sent from His presence a bright fire, that
+consumed their offering.
+
+3 He smelled the sweet savor of their offering, and
+showed them mercy.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+7 Now, therefore, strengthen your heart; and when
+sorrow comes over you, make Me an offering, and I will be
+favorable to you."
+
+
+
+Chapter XXV - God represented as merciful and loving.
+The establishing of worship.
+
+
+1 But God knew that Adam believed he should frequently
+kill himself and make an offering to Him of his blood.
+
+2 Therefore He said to him, "O Adam, don't ever kill
+yourself like this again, by throwing yourself down from
+that mountain."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+6 Then Adam remained silent.
+
+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.
+
+8 This, then, was the first offering Adam made to God;
+and so it became his custom to do.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXVI - A beautiful prophecy of eternal life and joy
+(v. 15). The fall of night.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+5 When Adam had said these words, they cried and
+spread their hands before God; for they were full of
+sorrow.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+10 But then you would be deserted and stuck in a
+perpetual plague, and you would never be saved.
+
+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.
+
+12 Then shall I come and save you, O Adam, for I do
+not wish that you be afflicted.
+
+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.
+
+14 But I cannot alter the covenant that has gone out
+of My mouth; otherwise I would have brought you back into
+the garden.
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+19 And they remained standing in prayer.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXVII - The second tempting of Adam and Eve.
+The devil takes on the form of a beguiling light.
+
+
+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.
+
+2 He began with transforming his hosts; in his hands
+was a flashing fire, and they were in a great light.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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: --
+
+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?
+
+8 If they were from God, they would come into the cave
+with us, and would tell us why they were sent."
+
+9 Then Adam stood up and prayed to God with a burning
+heart, and said: --
+
+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?
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+16 And the angel left them.
+
+17 But Adam and Eve remained standing in the cave; no
+consolation came to them; they divided in their thoughts.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXVIII - The Devil pretends to lead Adam and Eve to
+the water to bathe.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+3 And Adam spread his hands before God, beseeching Him
+to make him understand what they were.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+6 These words sank into the heart of Adam and Eve.
+
+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.
+
+8 Then Satan called to Adam and Eve, and said,
+"Behold, we go to the sea of water," and they began to go.
+
+9 And Adam and Eve followed them at some little distance.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXIX - God tells Adam of the Devil's purpose. (v. 4).
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+3 They cried, both Adam and Eve, before God, and
+begged for forgiveness of Him.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+8 Then the angel Michael went down by God's order,
+took golden rods, as God had commanded him, and brought
+them to God.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXX - Adam receives the first worldly goods.
+
+
+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."
+
+2 Then the angel Gabriel went down by God's order to
+the garden, and told the cherub as God had commanded him.
+
+3 The cherub then said, "Well."  And Gabriel went in
+and took the incense. 
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+7 And the angels brought these things to God, by the
+Tree of Life, in the garden.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXXI - They make themselves more comfortable
+in the Cave of Treasures on the third day.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+8 The angels then comforted Adam and Eve, and departed.
+
+9 The gold was seventy rods*; the incense, twelve
+pounds; and the myrrh, three pounds.
+
+10 These remained by Adam in the Cave of Treasures**.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+* 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.
+
+** 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.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXXII - Adam and Eve go into the water to pray.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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:-- 
+
+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.
+
+6 And I will go to another place, and go down into it,
+and do like you."
+
+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.
+
+8 And they stood like that praying, until the end of
+the thirty-five days.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXXIII - Satan falsely promises the "bright light."
+
+
+1 But Satan, the hater of all good, sought them in the cave,
+but found them not, although he searched diligently for them.
+
+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.
+
+3 But I will deceive them so that they shall come out
+of the water, and not fulfil their vow."
+
+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:--
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+8 When Eve hear these words from him, she rejoiced
+greatly.  And thinking Satan's appearance was real, she
+came out of the sea.
+
+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.
+
+10 She then came and stood before Adam, who was
+standing by the water and rejoicing in God's forgiveness.
+
+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.
+
+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?"
+
+13 Then she told him the discourse of the angel who
+had appeared to her and had given her a sign.
+
+14 But Adam grieved, and gave her to know it was Satan.
+He then took her and they both returned to the cave.  
+
+15 These things happened to them the second time they
+went down to the water, seven days after their coming out
+of the garden.
+
+16 They fasted in the water thirty-five days;
+altogether forty-two days since they had left the garden.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXXIV - Adam recalls the creation of Eve.
+He eloquently appeals for food and drink.
+
+
+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.
+
+2 And when they had come out of the cave they went up
+the mountain to the west of the garden.
+
+3 There they stood and prayed and besought God to
+grant them forgiveness of their sins.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.'
+
+11 And if You had punished me as You said, with death,
+I should have died that very moment.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.'
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+24 For we desire the fruit that is on the earth, and
+all else that we lack in it."
+
+
+* 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.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXXV - God's reply.
+
+
+1 Then God looked again at Adam and his crying and groaning,
+and the Word of God came to him, and said to him: --
+
+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."
+
+
+
+Chapter XXXVI - Figs.
+
+
+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.
+
+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?"
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+6 Then Adam came closer and took one fig, and Eve also
+came in turn and took the other.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXXVII - Forty-three days of penance do not redeem
+one hour of sin (v. 6).
+
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+3 Thus did Adam and Eve restrain themselves, and did
+not eat of these figs.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+6 And those days together with this the forty-third
+day, do not redeem that one hour in which we transgressed!
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+
+
+Chapter XXXVIII - "When 5500 years are fulfilled. . . ."
+
+
+1 After these things the Word of God came to Adam, and said to him: --
+
+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.
+
+3 But these forty-three days cannot make amends for
+the hour in which you transgressed My commandment.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+6 And God withdrew His Word from Adam.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXXIX - Adam is cautious -- but too late.
+
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+3 But Adam said to Eve, "I am afraid to eat of this fig.
+I know not what may come over me from it."
+
+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?"
+
+5 And he said again, "I am afraid to eat of it; for I
+know not what will befall me through it."
+
+
+
+Chapter XL - The first Human hunger.
+
+
+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?
+
+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."
+
+3 And God withdrew His Word for Adam.
+
+
+
+Chapter XLI - The first Human thirst.
+
+
+1 Then Adam took the fig, and laid it on the golden
+rods.  Eve also took her fig, and put it on the incense.
+
+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*.
+
+3 But Adam and Eve remained standing and fasting the
+whole of that night, until the morning dawned.
+
+4 When the sun rose they were still praying, but after
+they had finished praying, Adam said to Eve: --
+
+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 .
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+9 After this prayer from both of them, Adam began to
+pray with his voice before God, and said; --
+
+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.
+
+11 So that in order to live I did not require any Food
+of Life, neither did I drink of the Water of Life.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+
+* 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.
+
+
+
+Chapter XLII - A promise of the Water of Life.  The third
+prophecy of the coming of Christ.
+
+
+1 Then came the Word of God to Adam, and said to him:--
+
+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.
+
+3 But you can not make your entrance into it at
+present; but only after your judgment is past and
+fulfilled.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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**.
+
+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."
+
+9 The Lord said again to Adam, "O Adam, when you were
+in the garden, these trials did not come to you.
+
+10 But since you transgressed My commandment, all
+these sufferings have come over you.
+
+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.
+
+12 Then God withdrew His Word from Adam.
+
+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.
+
+
+* 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.
+
+** 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.
+
+*** Reference: John 6:25 and 7:38
+
+
+
+
+Chapter XLIII - The Devil attempts arson.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+5 O Eve, it is because God is angry with us, and will
+drive us from it.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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?
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+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?
+
+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?"
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+17 And this fire lasted from noon-day until the break
+of day.  That was the forty-fifth day.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter XLIV - The power of fire over man.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+
+
+Chapter XLV - Why Satan didn't fulfil his promises. 
+Description of hell.
+
+
+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."
+
+2 Then God heard Adam, and sent him His Word, that said: --
+
+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!
+
+4 When you were under My control, all creatures
+yielded to you; but after you have transgressed My
+commandment, they all rise over you."
+
+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.
+
+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?
+
+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?
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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*.
+
+12 And God withdrew His Word from Adam.
+
+
+* Reference: Exodus 14:21,22 and Joshua 3:15-17
+
+
+
+Chapter XLVI - "How many times have I delivered you
+out of his hand . . ."
+
+
+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*.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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?"
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+8 And God withdrew His Word form them.
+
+
+* 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..
+
+
+
+Chapter XLVII - The Devil's own Scheming.
+
+
+1 Then Adam and Eve came into the cave, yet trembling at
+the fire that had scorched their bodies.  So Adam said to Eve:--
+
+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?"
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+5 Adam and Eve then came under the top of hill by the
+garden to sleep, as they were accustomed.
+
+6 And they stood and prayed God to forgive them their
+sins, and then fell asleep under the summit of the
+mountain.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+
+
+Chapter XLVIII - Fifth apparition of Satan to Adam and Eve.
+
+
+1 After this Satan called to his hosts, all of which
+came to him, and said to him: --
+
+2 "O, our lord, what will you do?"
+
+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."
+
+4 When Satan's hosts heard these words, they came to
+the part of the mountain where Adam and Eve were asleep.
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+8 But when the rock fell, the whole earth quaked with
+it**, and was shaken from the size of the rock.
+
+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.
+
+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?
+
+11 Does God intend to plague us and to shut us up in
+this prison? Or will He close the earth over us?
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+
+* 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.  
+
+** 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".
+
+
+
+
+Chapter XLIX - The first prophecy of the Resurrection.
+
+
+1 Then the Word of God came and said: --
+
+2 "O Adam, who counselled you, when you came out of
+the cave, to come to this place?"
+
+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."
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+10 And God withdrew His Word from Adam.
+
+11 But Adam and Eve lived under the rock three days
+and three nights, as God had told them.
+
+12 And God did so to them because they had left their
+cave and had come to  this same place without God's order.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter L - Adam and Eve seek to cover their nakedness.
+
+
+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.
+
+2 And this took place at the end of the fifty days
+after they had left the garden.
+
+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.
+
+4 And when the day dawned, Adam said to Eve, "Come!
+Let us go and do some work for our bodies."
+
+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.
+
+6 Then Adam stood and asked God to show him something
+with which to cover their bodies.
+
+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.
+
+
+* 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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LI - "What is his beauty that you should have
+followed him?"
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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?
+
+7 Now his figure is hideous; he is become abominable
+among angels; and he has come to be called Satan.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+10 See, I bound him until you came and saw him and
+beheld his weakness, that no power is left with him."
+
+11 And God released him from his bonds.
+
+
+
+Chapter LII - Adam and Eve sew the first shirt.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+4 And they thought how they could make garments of
+those skins; for they had no skill for it.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+8 And so it was, by God's order; they became garments
+for Adam and Eve, and He clothed them therewith.
+
+9 From that time the nakedness of their bodies was
+covered from the sight of each other's eyes.
+
+10 And this happened at the end of the fifty-first day.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LIII - The prophecy of the Western Lands
+and of the great flood.
+
+
+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.
+
+2 Then Adam and Eve cried, and prayed God to deliver
+them from their paws.
+
+3 Then the Word of God came to them, and drove away
+the lions from them.
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+Chapter LIV - Adam and Eve go exploring.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+6 Therefore the cherub thought that God was favorable
+to them, and was bringing them back into the garden.  And
+the cherub stood wondering.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+10 Then, again, other angels came down close to the
+place where Adam and Eve were.  They were divided between
+joy and sorrow.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+
+
+Chapter LV - The Conflict between God and Satan.
+
+
+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."
+
+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: --
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+8 But now, O Adam, we will make known to you, what
+came over us though him, before his fall from heaven.
+
+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.
+
+10 His hosts believed that his word was true, so they
+yielded to him, and renounced the glory of God.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LVI - A chapter of divine comfort.
+
+
+1 Then came the Word of God to Adam, and said to him: --
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+9 But Adam's heart was comforted by God's words to
+him, and he worshipped before Him.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LVII - "Therefore I fell. . . . "
+
+
+1 But when Adam came out and saw his hideous figure,
+he was afraid of him, and said to him, "Who are you?"
+
+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."
+
+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?
+
+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?"
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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?
+
+12 But we will ask God, who created us, to deliver us
+out of his hands."
+
+
+
+Chapter LVIII - "About sunset on the 53rd day. . ."
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+3 Then Adam and Eve went into the cave, and stood up
+and turned their faces to the ground, to pray to God.
+
+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."
+
+5 Then Adam and Eve got up, and joined together in
+entreating God.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LIX - Eighth apparition of Satan of Satan to Adam and Eve.
+
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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?"
+
+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?
+
+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?"
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+10 But God had patience with Adam, and let him and Eve
+remain in the cave until they had fulfilled the forty days. 
+
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LX - The Devil appears like an old man. 
+He offers "a place of rest."
+
+
+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.
+
+2 In his hands was a staff of light, and he looked most awful;
+but his face was pleasant and his speech was sweet.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+5 Then Satan drew near the cave in this fair
+appearance, and said: --
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+8 And He said to me, 'Stay here!'  And I remained there
+according to His Word, neither did I transgress His commandment.
+
+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.
+
+10 But God took you in His divine hand, and placed you
+in a garden to the eastward.
+
+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.
+
+12 But God said to me: 'Do not worry about Adam, whom
+I brought out of your side; no harm will come to him.
+
+13 For now I have brought out of his side a help-meet*
+for him; and I have given him joy by so doing.' "
+
+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.'
+
+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.'
+
+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.
+
+17 But when I heard this, I was sorry; and my heart
+could not patiently bear it for your sake, O my child.
+
+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.
+
+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.'
+
+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.'
+
+21 Then I said, 'O my Lord, I am old, and cannot go. 
+Send Your angels to bring them.'
+
+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.'
+
+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.
+
+24 And if they will come with you, I will send a cloud
+to carry you and them.'
+
+25 Then He commanded a cloud, and it bear me up and
+brought me to you; and then went back.
+
+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."
+
+27 Then he began to cry and to sob before Adam and
+Eve, and his tears poured on the ground like water.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+* 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.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter LXI - They begin to follow Satan.
+
+
+1 Then he took Adam and Eve by the hand, and began to
+bring them out of the cave.
+
+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.
+
+3 Then the Word of the Lord God again came and cursed
+Satan, and drove him away from them.
+
+4 And God began to speak to Adam and Eve, saying to
+them, "What made you come out of the cave, to this place?"
+
+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.'
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+8 Because he couldn't do anything to you unless he
+showed himself in the likeness of you.
+
+9 Therefore he came to you with a face like your own,
+and began to give you tokens as if they were all true.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+14 Then Adam said to Eve, "Get up, let us go towards
+the eastern gate of the garden as God told us."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+17 But after they finished their prayers, they were
+too weak to move.
+
+18 Then came the Word of God again, and said to them,
+"O Adam, get up, go and bring the two figs here."
+
+19 Then Adam and Eve got up, and went until they came
+near to the cave.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXII - Two fruit trees.
+
+
+1 But Satan the wicked was envious, because of the
+consolation God had given them.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+6 Then Satan went away ashamed because he hadn't
+thought his plans all the way through.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXIII - The first joy of trees.
+
+
+1 But Adam and Eve, as they got closer to the cave,
+saw two fig trees, covered with fruit, and overshadowing
+the cave.
+
+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?
+
+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."
+
+4 They went then into the cave, and looked into the
+four corners of it, but found not the two figs.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+
+
+Chapter LXIV - Adam and Eve partake of the first earthly food.
+
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXV - Adam and Eve acquire digestive organs.
+Final hope of returning to the Garden is lost.
+
+
+1 And when it was day, they got up and prayed, after
+their custom, and then went out of the cave.
+
+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: --
+
+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."
+
+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?"
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXVI - Adam does his first day's work.
+
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+* 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. 
+
+
+
+
+Chapter LXVII - "Then Satan began to lead astray Adam and Eve. . . ."
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+5 Then Satan and his hosts set the wheat on fire and
+burned it up.
+
+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.
+
+7 Then they cried and went back to the cave.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+11 Adam thought that he was true, and that they were
+angels who talked with him; and he went back with them.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXVIII - How destruction and trouble is of Satan
+when he is the master.  Adam and Eve establish the custom
+of worship.
+
+
+1 Then God looked at Adam and Eve, and at what had
+come over them from Satan, and how he had made them perish.
+
+2 God, therefore, sent His Word, and raised up Adam
+and Eve from their state of death.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+6 But now, O Adam, you shall acknowledge My good deeds
+done to you."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+9 And God admonished Satan with a curse, not to come
+again, and destroy the field of corn.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+19 And they stood up the whole night praying until
+morning; and then went out of the cave.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+24 Then God withdrew His Word from Adam.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXIX - Twelfth apparition of Satan to Adam and Eve,
+while Adam was praying over the offering on the altar; when
+Satan beat him.
+
+
+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.
+
+2 Adam was then offering on the altar, and had begun
+to pray, with his hands spread before God.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+8 And God healed Adam in one day, which is the end of
+the seven weeks; and that is the fiftieth day.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXX - Thirteenth apparition of Satan, to trick Adam
+into marrying Eve.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+7 And Satan said again to Adam, "Don't be afraid and
+don't tremble; don't you know us?"
+
+8 But Adam said, "I do not know you."
+
+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.
+
+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'. "
+
+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."
+
+12 And Satan said to him, "Swear, and promise me that
+you will receive it."
+
+13 Then Adam said, "I do not know how to swear and
+promise."
+
+14 And Satan said to him, "Hold out your hand, and put
+it inside my hand."
+
+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."
+
+16 And Adam swore thus.
+
+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.
+
+
+* See the previous footnote in chapter XXXIV regarding
+the 'four elements'.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXXI - Adam is troubled by the thought of marrying Eve.
+
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+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!"
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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?"
+
+8 But Adam cried, and said, "O God, forgive me, for I
+did this unwittingly; believing they were God's angels."
+
+9 And God forgave Adam, saying to him, "Beware of
+Satan."
+
+10 And He withdrew His Word from Adam.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+13 Then Adam and Eve went to the river of water, and
+sat on the bank, as people do when they enjoy themselves.
+
+14 But Satan was jealous of them; and planned to destroy them.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXXII - Adam's heart is set on fire.
+Satan appears as beautiful maidens.
+
+
+1 Then Satan, and ten from his hosts, transformed
+themselves into maidens, unlike any others in the whole
+world for grace.
+
+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.
+
+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?"
+
+4 And those maidens said to Adam and Eve, "Yes,
+indeed, we are an abundant creation."
+
+5 Then Adam said to them, "But how do you multiply?"
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+8 But when Adam and Eve saw them, they stood dumb, and
+wondered at them.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+11 Now, then, if I deceive him to do this thing, and to marry
+Eve without God's permission, God will kill him then."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+15 Then Adam and Eve went back to the Cave of
+Treasures, as they usually did; about evening time.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+18 Then Eve said, "What is that matter, O Adam?"
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXXIII - The marriage of Adam and Eve.
+
+
+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.
+
+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!"
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+7 Then both Adam and Eve received the words of the
+angels; and the angels departed from them.
+
+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.
+
+9 Thus was Satan's war with Adam defeated.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXXIV - The birth of Cain and Luluwa.
+Why they received those names.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.  
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+8 But Luluwa means "beautiful," because she was more
+beautiful than her mother.
+
+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."
+
+10 And Eve said, "We will make one offering for the first-born son
+and then later we shall make one for the daughter."
+
+
+
+Chapter LXXV - The family revisits the Cave of Treasures. 
+Birth of Abel and Aklia.
+
+
+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.
+
+2 And Adam offered up the offering, and asked God to
+accept his offering.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+7 But after they had been blessed with these tokens,
+they went back to the cave in which they were born.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXXVI - Cain becomes jealous of Abel because of his sisters.
+
+
+1 And the children began to grow stronger and taller;
+but Cain was hard-hearted, and ruled over his younger brother.
+
+2 Often when his father made an offering, Cain would
+remain behind and not go with them, to offer up.
+
+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.
+
+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?"
+
+5 Then Adam told him all that had befallen them.  And
+Abel felt deeply about what his father told him.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+12 And Satan departed from him.  But the devil
+remained behind in Cain's heart, and frequently aspired to
+kill his brother.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXXVII - Cain, 15 years old, and Abel 12 years old, grow apart.
+
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+8 Therefore God did not accept his offering, because
+his heart was full of murderous thoughts.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+Chapter LXXVIII - Jealousy overcomes Cain.
+He makes trouble in the family.
+How the first murder was planned.
+
+
+1 Then Adam said to Eve, "Behold the children are
+grown up; we must think of finding wives for them."
+
+2 Then Eve answered, "How can we do it?"
+
+3 Then Adam said to her, "We will join Abel's sister
+in marriage to Cain, and Cain's sister to Abel.
+
+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."
+
+5 And Adam said no more.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+8 Then Cain said with joy, "Where are your relations?"
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+11 At these words of Satan Cain opened his ears, and
+leaned towards his speech.
+
+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?"
+
+13 His mother, however, quieted him, and sent him to
+the field where he had been.
+
+14 Then when Adam came, she told him of what Cain had
+done.
+
+15 But Adam grieved and held his peace, and said not a
+word.
+
+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."
+
+17 They both obeyed their father Adam, and they took
+their offerings, and offered them up on the mountain by the
+altar.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+24 But Cain was looking on all that took place at his
+brother's offering, and was angry because of it.
+
+25 Then he opened his mouth and blasphemed God,
+because He had not accepted his offering.
+
+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.
+
+27 And God said this to Cain in rebuke, and because He
+abhorred him and his offering.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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: --
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+36 Then Abel consented to go with his brother Cain
+into the field.
+
+37 But before going out, Cain said to Abel, "Wait for
+me, until I fetch a staff, because of wild beasts."
+
+38 Then Abel stood waiting in his innocence.  But
+Cain, the forward, fetched a staff and went out.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+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.
+
+
+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?"
+
+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."
+
+3 Then went Abel forward, but Cain remained behind him.
+
+4 And Abel was walking in his innocence, without guile;
+not believing his brother would kill him.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+8 And Cain repented not of what he had done.
+
+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.
+
+10 And the blood of Abel cried mysteriously to God, to
+avenge him of his murderer.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+15 And so the earth mocked Cain, until the Word of
+God, came to him concerning his brother.
+
+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?"
+
+17 Then Cain answered with a proud heart and a gruff
+voice, "How, O God?  Am I my brother's keeper?"
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+27 And the seven punishments are the seven generations
+during which God awaited Cain for the murder of his brother.
+
+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. . . .
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg's Etext of First Book of Adam and Eve
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