First Book of Adam and Eve | Page 6

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,