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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