4 Then the Word of God came to Adam and Eve, and lifted them out of their difficulty. God said to Adam, "Be strong, and do not be afraid of the one who has just come to you."

5 But Adam cried and said, "God, where were you that they struck me with such blows, and that this difficulty came on us, on me and on Eve, your handmaid?"

6 Then God said to him, "Adam, he is lord and master of all you have, the one who promised you divinity. Where is his love for you? Where is the gift he promised?

7 " Adam, it pleased him to come to you, to comfort you, and to strengthen you, and to celebrate with you, and to send his armies to guard you, because you listened to him and took his advice. You sinned against my commandment but you followed his orders?"

8 Then Adam cried to the Lord, and said, "Lord because I sinned against you a little, you have badly afflicted me in return for it! I ask you to rescue me from him, or otherwise take pity on me, and take my soul out of my body now in this foreign land."

9 Then God said to Adam, "If only there had been this sighing and praying before you sinned! Then you would you have respite from the trouble you're now in."

10 However, God had patience with Adam, and let him and Eve stay in the cave until the forty days had passed.

11 But Adam and Eve's strength and bodies were withered from fasting and praying and from hunger and thirst. They had not tasted food or drink since they left the garden. The functions of their bodies were not yet settled. They were so hungry that they had no strength left to keep praying from the end of the next day to the fortieth. They had fallen down in the cave. The only speech that came out of their mouths was praises.

Chap. LX.

Satan appears as an old man.

1 On the eighty-ninth day, Satan came to the cave dressed in a garment of light, and with a bright girdle around his waist.

2 A staff of light was in his hand. He looked dreadful, but his face was agreeable and his speech was sweet.

3 He transformed himself in this way to deceive Adam and Eve, and to make them leave the cave before the forty days had passed.

4 He said to himself, "After the forty days of fasting and praying, God will restore them to their former estate, and even if he doesn't do so, he would still be favorable to them. Even if he doesn't have mercy on them, he would still give them something from the garden to comfort them, as this has already happened twice before."

5 Then Satan approached the cave with this pleasant appearance, and said,

6 "Adam, get up, stand up, both you and Eve, and come 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 happened, that when he had created me, he placed me in a garden in the north, on the border of the world.

8 "He said to me, Stay here!', and I stayed there according to his command, and I did not sin against his commandment.

9 "Then he made a sleep overcome me, and he brought you, Adam, out of my side, but did not make you stay with me.

10 "But God took you by his divine hand, and placed you in a garden to the east.

11 "Then I was upset because of you, because God had taken you out of my side but he had not let you stay with me.

12 "But God said to me: "Do not be upset because of Adam, whom I brought out of your side, as no harm will come to him.

13 "'For now I have brought out of his side a companion for him, and I have made him happy by so doing.'"

14 Then Satan said again, "I did not know how it that you are in this cave, or anything about this affliction that came on you, until God said to me, 'Adam has sinned against me, Adam whom I took out of your side, and Eve whom I also took out of his side, and I have driven them out of the garden. I have made them live in a sorrowful and miserable land, because they sinned against me and listened to Satan. They are still in suffering to this day, which is the eightieth.'

15 "Then God said to me, "Get up and go to them, and make them come to your place. Do not allow Satan to approach them to afflict them. They are now in great despair, and are lying helpless from hunger.'

16 "He also said to me, 'When you have taken them, give them the fruit of the Tree of Life to eat, give them the water of peace to drink, dress them in a garment of light, restore them to their former state of grace, and don't leave them in despair, for they came from you. Do not grieve over them, and no not change that which has come on them.'

17 "But when I heard this, my child, I was sorry, and my heart could not patiently bear it for your sake.

18 " Adam, when I heard Satan's name, I was afraid, and I said to myself, 'I will not come out because he could trick me, as he did my children, Adam and Eve.'

19 " I said, 'God, when I go to my children, Satan will meet me on the way, and attack me, as he did them.'

20 "Then God said to me, 'Don't be afraid. When you find him, strike him with the staff in your hand and do not be afraid of him, for you are of old standing, and he will not succeed against you.'

21 "Then I said, 'My Lord, I am old, and cannot go. Send your angels to bring them.'

22 "But God said to me, 'Angels truly are not like them, and they will not agree to come with them. But I have chosen you, because they are your offspring and like you, and so they will listen to what you say.'

23 "God also said to me, 'If you do not have the strength to walk, I will send a cloud to carry you and place you at the entrance of their cave, then the cloud will return and leave you there.

24 "'If they will come with you, I will send a cloud to carry you and them.'

25 "Then he commanded a cloud, and it carried me and brought me to you, and then went back.

26 "And now, my children Adam and Eve, look at my gray hair and how feeble I am, and I have come from that distant place. 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 earth like water.

28 When Adam and Eve saw his beard and heard his sweet words, their hearts softened towards him and so they listened to him, for they believed he was telling the truth.

29 It seemed to them that they really were in fact his offspring, when they saw that his face was like theirs, and they trusted him.

Chap. LXI.

Adam and Eve begin to follow Satan.

1 He took Adam and Eve by the hand, and started bringing them out of the cave.

2 But when they had come a little way out of it, God knew that Satan had overcome them, and had brought them out before the forty days had passed so he could take them to some faraway place to destroy them.

3 Then the Word of the Lord God came again and cursed Satan, and drove him away from them.

4 God started speaking to Adam and Eve, and said to them, "What made you leave the cave and come to this place?"

5 Then Adam said to God, "Didn't you create a man before us? When we were in the cave a good old man suddenly came to us. He said to us, 'I am a messenger from God to you. I am to take you back to some place of rest.'

6 "God, we believed that he was a messenger from you. We went with him and we didn't know whether we should have."

7 Then God said to Adam, "Look, he is the father of evil arts, the one who brought you and Eve out of the Garden of Delights. Now, indeed, when he saw that you and Eve both joined in fasting and praying, and that you did not come out of the cave before the forty days had passed, he wished to make your purpose useless, to break your mutual bond, to cut off you off from all hope, and to drive you to some place where he could destroy you.

8 "The reason for this is that he was unable to do anything to you, unless he looked like you.

9 "So then he came to you looking like you, and gave you signs which appeared to be all true.

10 "But I with mercy and with the favor I had to you, did not allow him to destroy you. I drove him away from you.

11 "So then Adam, take Eve and return to your cave, and stay in it until the morning of the fortieth day. When you come out, go to the east gate of the garden."

12 Then Adam and Eve worshipped God, and exalted and blessed him for the safety that had come to them from him. They went back to the cave. This happened on the evening of the thirty-ninth day.

13 Then Adam and Eve stood up and enthusiastically prayed to God to be strengthened, as their strength had left them through hunger, thirst and prayer. They prayed all that night they until morning.

14 Then Adam said to Eve, "Get up. Let us go to the east gate of the garden as God told us."

15 They said their prayers as they usually did every day, and they left the cave to go to the east gate of the garden.

16 Then Adam and Eve stood up and prayed, and asked God to strengthen them by sending them something to satisfy their hunger.

17 After they finished praying, they stayed where they were due to their failing strength.

18. Then the Word of God came again, and said to them, "Adam, get up, go and bring two figs here."

19 Then Adam and Eve for up, and kept going until they approached the cave.

Chap. LXII.

The two fruit trees.

1 Satan the wicked one was envious of the consolation that God had given them.

2 He prevented them by going into the cave and taking the two figs. He buried them outside the cave so that Adam and Eve could not find them. He had in mind to destroy them.

3 But by God's mercy, as soon as the two figs were in the ground, God defeated Satan's purpose for them, and made them into two fruit trees that overshadowed the cave. Satan had buried the figs on the east side of the cave.

4 When the two trees had grown and were covered with fruit, Satan was upset and mourned, and said, "It would have been better to have left those figs as they were, for now they are two fruit trees, and Adam will be able to eat the fruit all his life. However my purpose in burying them was to destroy them completely and to hide them forever.

5 "But God has overturned my plan, and has not allowed this holy fruit to perish, and he has made my intention known, and has defeated the plan I formed against his servants."

6 Then Satan went away disappointed that he had not carried out his plan.

Chap. LXIII

The first joy of trees.

1 When Adam and Eve approached the cave they saw two fig trees covered with fruit overshadowing the cave.

2 Adam said to Eve, "It seems to me we have sinned. When did these two trees grow here? It seems to me that the enemy wishes to lead us into sin. Could there be another cave than this on the earth?

3 "Eve, let us go into the cave and find in it the two figs in it, as this is our cave, in which we lived. But if we don't find the two figs in it, then it can't be our cave."

4 They went then into the cave, and looked into the four corners of it but did not see the two figs.

5 Adam cried and said to Eve, "Eve, have we come to a wrong cave? It seems to me these two fig trees are the two figs that were in the cave."

Eve said, "I for one do not know."

6 Then Adam stood up and prayed and said, "God, you commanded us to come back to the cave and take the two figs, and then return to you.

7 "But we have not found them. God, have you taken them, and sown these two trees, or have we sinned on the earth, or has the enemy deceived us? God, if it is real, then reveal to us the secret of these two trees and the two figs."

8 Then the Word of God came to Adam, and said to him, "Adam, when I sent you to get the figs, Satan went ahead of you to the cave, took the figs, and buried them outside east of the cave, intending to destroy them. He did not sow them with good intent.

9 "These trees have grown up at once, not because of him, but because I had mercy on you and I commanded them to grow. They grew up to be two large trees that would overshadow you with their branches so you could rest, and so that I would make you see my powerful and amazing works.

10 "It was also to show you Satan's mean evil works, as since you left the garden, he has not stopped even for one day from doing you some harm. However I have not given him power over you."

11 God said, "From now on, Adam, you and Eve be happy about the trees, and rest under them when you feel tired. However do not eat their fruit, or go near them."

12 Then Adam cried, and said, "God, will you kill us again, or will you drive us away from your face, and cut off our life from the face of the earth?

13 "God, I beg you, if you know that there is either death or some other evil in these trees as at the first time, uproot them from near our cave, and make them wither, and leave us to die of heat, hunger or thirst.

14 "God, we know that your amazing works are great, and that you can make one thing out of another, without one's wish, by your power. Your power can make rocks become trees and trees become rocks."

Chap. LXIV.

Adam and Eve eat the first earthly food.

1 God looked at Adam, at his strength of mind, and at his enduring hunger, thirst and the heat. God changed the two fig trees into two figs, as they were at first, and then he said to Adam and to Eve, "Each of you may take one fig." They took them as the Lord had commanded them.

2 He said to them, "Go into the cave, eat the figs, and satisfy your hunger, otherwise you will die."

3 They went into the cave as God commanded them, about sunset. Adam and Eve stood up and prayed at sunset.

4 Then they sat down to eat the figs, but they did not how to eat them, as they were unaccustomed to eating earthly food. They were afraid that if they ate, their stomach would be burdened and their bodies fattened, and that their hearts would start liking earthly food.

5 While they were sitting there, God out of pity for them sent his angel so that they would not die of hunger and thirst.

6 The angel said to Adam and Eve, "God says to you that you do not have the strength to fast until you are dead. So then, eat and strengthen your bodies, for you are now animal flesh that cannot exist without food and drink."

7 Then Adam and Eve took the figs and began to eat them. But God had put a mixture of savory bread and blood into them.

8 Then the angel left Adam and Eve. They ate the figs until they had satisfied their hunger. Then they set aside the leftovers, but by God's power, the figs were replenished, because God blessed them.

9 Afterwards Adam and Eve got up, and prayed with happy hearts and renewed strength, and exalted and rejoiced greatly the whole night. This was the end of the eighty-third day.

Chap. LXV.

Adam and Eve's hope of returning to the Garden is dashed.

1 At daybreak they rose and prayed, as they usually did, and then left the cave.

2 They felt trouble from the food they had eaten, as they were not used to it, so they walked around in the cave and said to each other,

3 "What has happened to us from eating, to cause this pain? Oh no, we will die! It would have been better for us to have died than to have eaten, and to have kept our bodies pure, rather than to have defiled them with food."

4 Then Adam said to Eve, "This pain did not come to us in the garden, and we did not eat such bad food there. Eve, do you think that God will afflict us through the food that is in us, or that our insides will come out, or that God intends to kill us with this pain before he has fulfilled his promise to us?"

5 Then Adam asked the Lord and said, "Lord, do not us die from the food we have eaten. Lord, do not strike us, but deal with us out of your great mercy, and do not abandon us until the day of the promise you have made us."

6 Then God looked at them, and immediately fitted them for eating food, as to this day, so that they would not die.

7 Then Adam and Eve came back into the cave upset and crying because they been changed. They both realized that from that hour they were now altered beings, that their hope of returning to the garden was now dashed, and that they could not enter the garden.

8 They knew that from now on their bodies had new functions, and that all flesh that requires food and drink for its existence cannot be in the garden.

9 Adam said to Eve, "Look, our hope is now dashed, and so is our belief that we could enter the garden. We no longer belong to the inhabitants of the garden, but from now on we are earth and of the dust, and are the inhabitants of the earth. We will not return to the garden until the day on 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 this their minds became quietened, their hearts were broken, and their longing was cooled down, and they were like foreigners on earth. Adam and Eve spent that night in the cave, and they slept heavily because of the food they had eaten.

Chap. LXVI.

Adam does his first day's work.

1 When morning came, the day after they had eaten food, Adam and Eve prayed in the cave. Adam said to Eve, "Look, we asked for food from God, and he gave it to us. Now let us ask him to give us a drink of water too."

2 Then they got up and went to the bank of the stream that was on the southern border of the garden, in which they had previously thrown themselves. They stood on the bank and prayed to God for him to command them to drink the water.

3 Then the Word of God came to Adam, and said to him, "Adam, your body has become animalistic, and needs to drink water. Drink it, you and Eve, and give thanks and praise."

4 Adam and Eve then approached and drank it until their bodies felt refreshed. After they had drunk it, they exalted God. Then they returned to their cave, as they usually did. This happened at the end of the eighty-three days.

5 On the eighty-fourth day they took two figs and hung them in the cave, along with the leaves, to be a sign and a blessing from God for them. They placed them there until a posterity would arise for them, a posterity who would see the wonderful things that God had done to them.

6 Then Adam and Eve stood outside the cave again, and asked God to show them some food to nourish their bodies.

7 Then the Word of God came and said to him, "Adam, go down to the west of the cave. Go as far as a land of dark soil, and there you will find food."

8 Adam listened to the Word of God. He took Eve and went down to a land of dark soil. There he found wheat growing. It had grain on it and was ripe. He found figs to eat. Adam was happy.

9 Then the Word of God came again to Adam, and said to him, "Take this wheat and make bread from it to nourish your body." God gave Adam wisdom as to how to make bread from grain.

10 After Adam did all that, he became very faint and tired. He then went back to the cave, happy that he had learned how to make wheat into bread for one's use.

Chap. LXVII.

Satan began to lead Adam and Eve astray.

1 But when Adam and Eve had gone down to the land of black mud, and approached the wheat God had showed them, and saw it ripe and ready for harvest, they had no sickle to reap it so they strapped themselves, and pulled up the wheat until it was all done.

2 They made it into a pile. As they were tired and faint from heat and thirst, they went under a shady tree where the breeze fanned them to sleep.

3 But Satan saw what Adam and Eve had done so he called his armies, and said to them, "Since God has shown Adam and Eve all about this wheat, and how to strengthen their bodies with it - and look, they made a pile of it, and tired from the work are now asleep - come, let us set fire to this pile of grain, and burn it. Let us take that container of water that is next to them and empty it, so they will have nothing to drink, and we kill them with hunger and thirst.

4 "Then, when they wake up from their sleep and wish to return to the cave, we will come to them on the way and lead them astray, so that they will die of hunger and thirst and then perhaps they may deny God, and he will destroy them. Then we will be rid of them."

5 Then Satan and his armies set fire to the grain and burned it.

6 But Adam and Eve awoke from their sleep due to the heat from the flames. They saw the wheat burning, and saw that the container of water next to them had been emptied out.

7 Then they cried and went back to the cave.

8 But as they were leaving the place below the mountain where they were, Satan and his armies met them in the form of angels, praising God.

9 Satan said to Adam, "Adam, why are you so pained with hunger and thirst? It seems to me that Satan has burnt up the grain." Adam said to him, "Yes."

10 Satan said to Adam, "Come back with us. We are angels of God. God sent us to you to show you another field of grain. It is better than that one, and beyond it is a fountain of good water, as well as many trees. You can live near it, and work the grain field for better purpose than that which Satan has burned."

11 Adam thought that it was true, and that they were angels who talked with him, and he went back with them.

12. Then Satan lead Adam and Eve astray for eight days, until they both fell down as if dead from hunger, thirst and weakness. Then Satan left them and fled with his armies.

Chap. LXVIII.

Adam and Eve establish the institution of worship.

1 God looked at Adam and Eve, and at what had happened to them from Satan, and how Satan had made them expire.

2 So then God sent his Word, and lifted up Adam and Eve from their state of death.

3 Adam, when he was lifted up, said, "God, you have burned and taken away the grain you had given us! You emptied out the container of water. You sent your angels, who came upon us on our way from the grain field. Will you kill us? God if this is from you, then take away our lives, but do not punish us."

4 Then God said to Adam, "I did not burn the grain, and I did not pour the water out of the container, and I did not send my angels to lead you astray.

5 "It was Satan, your master, who did it, the one to whom you have subjected yourself, while setting aside my commandment. He is the one who burned the grain and poured out the water, and who has led you astray. All the promises he made you, are truly tricks, deceit and lies.

6 "But now, Adam, you will acknowledge my good deeds done to you."

7 God told his angels to take Adam and Eve to the grain field. They found it as before, with the container full of water.

8 They saw a tree there, and found solid manna on it, and they were amazed at God's power. The angels commanded them to eat the manna when they were hungry.

9 God solemnly commanded Satan with a curse not to destroy the field of grain again.

10 Then Adam and Eve took the grain and made an offering from it. They took it and offered it up on the mountain, the place where they had offered their first offering of blood.

11 They offered this oblation again on the altar they had previously built. They stood up and prayed, and asked the Lord, "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, God, accept this offering from us, and do not turn us not back, bereft of your mercy."

12 Then God said to Adam and Eve, "Since you have made this oblation and have offered it to me, I will make it my flesh when I come down on earth to save you, and I will cause it to be offered continually on an altar, for forgiveness and for mercy, for those who partake of it."

13 God sent a bright fire on Adam and Eve's offering, and filled it with brightness, grace and light, and the Holy Spirit came down on that oblation.

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. The angel did as God had commanded him, and offered it to them.

15 The souls of Adam and Eve were brightened, and their hearts were filled with happiness, cheerfulness and with the praises of God.

16 God said to Adam, "This will be a custom for you to do, when affliction and sorrow come on you. But your deliverance and your entrance into the garden will not happen until the period of time agreed between you and me comes to pass. If this were not so, I would, out of my mercy and pity for you, bring you back to my garden and into my favor for the sake of the offering which you have just made to my name."

17 Adam was happy at these words which he heard from God. He and Eve worshiped at the altar, to which they bowed, and then they went back to the Cave of Treasures.

18 This happened on the end of the twelfth day after the eightieth day, from the time Adam and Eve left the garden.

19 They stood the whole night praying until morning, and then they left the cave.

20 Adam said to Eve with a happy heart, because of the offering they had made to God, and that had been accepted by him, "Let us do this three times a week, on the fourth day Wednesday, on the preparation day Friday, and on the Sabbath Sunday, all our lives."

21 As they agreed to these words between themselves, God was pleased with their thoughts, and with the decision they had made.

22 After this, the Word of God came to Adam, and said, "Adam, you have determined beforehand the days in which sufferings will come on me when I am made flesh, for they are the fourth Wednesday, and the preparation day Friday.

23 "But as to the first day, on it I created everything, and I lifted the skies. Again, through my rising again on this day, will I create happiness, and raise the ones who believe in me on high. Adam, offer this oblation all your life."

24 Then God withdrew his Word from Adam.

25 Adam continued to offer this oblation three times every week, until the end of the seventh weeks. On the first day, which is the fiftieth, Adam made an offering as he usually did, and he and Eve took it and came to the altar in God's presence, as God had taught them.

Chap. LXIX.

Twelfth appearance of Satan to Adam and Eve.

1 Then Satan, the hater of everything that was good, being envious of Adam and his offering through which he found favor with God, took a sharp stone from among sharp ironstones, and appeared in the form of a man to Adam and Eve.

2 Adam was offering on the altar, and had started praying, with his hands spread out to God.

3 Then Satan attacked with the sharp ironstone he had with him, and pierced Adam on the right side. Blood and water flowed out, and then Adam fell on the altar like a corpse. Satan fled.

4 Then Eve came, and placed Adam below the altar. She stayed there weeping over him, while blood flowed from Adam's side on his offering.

5 God looked at Adam's death. God then sent his word, and lifted him up and said to him, "Fulfil your offering, for certainly Adam, it is worth much, and there is no inadequacy in it."

6 God also said to Adam, "It will it also happen to me like this, on the earth, when I will be pierced and from my side blood and water will flow. It will run over my body, which is the true offering, and which will be offered on the altar as a complete offering."

7 Then God commanded Adam to finish his offering, and when he had ended it he worshiped God, and exalted God for the signs God had showed him.

8 God healed Adam in one day, the end of the seven weeks, which 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 doing. This was hundred and forty days since Adam and Eve had left the garden.

10 Then they both stood up that night and prayed to God. At morning they went out, and went down west of the cave to the place where their grain was, and they rested under the shadow of a tree there, as they used to do.

11 But when they arrived a crowd of animals came surrounded them. This was a wicked doing of Satan, in order to wage war against Adam through marriage.

Chap. LXX.

The thirteenth appearance of Satan to Adam and Eve.

1 After this Satan, the hater of everything that was good, took the form of an angel, and took along with him two others, so that they looked like the three angels who had brought Adam the gold incense, and myrrh.

2 They went past Adam and Eve while they were under the tree, and greeted Adam and Eve with sweet words that were full of cunning.

3 Adam and Eve saw their delightful appearance and heard their sweet words. Adam rose to welcome them, and brought them to Eve. They all stayed together. Adam was happy because he thought that they were the same angels who had brought him the gold, incense and myrrh.

4 When they came to Adam the first time they had brought peace and happiness through bringing him good tokens, so Adam thought that they had come a second time to give him other tokens for him to be happy about. He did not know it was Satan, so he received them happily and took company with them.

5 Then Satan, the tallest of them, said, "Adam, be very happy. God has sent us to you to tell you something."

6 Adam said, "What is it?"

Satan answered, "It is a little thing, yet it is God's word. Will you hear it from us and do it? If you do not want to hear it, we will return to God, and tell him that you did not want to receive his word."

Satan said to Adam, "Don't be afraid, and don't tremble - don't you know us?"

8 But Adam said, "I don't know you!

9 Then Satan said to him, "I am the angel who brought you gold, and took it to the cave. This other one is the one who brought you incense, and that third one is the one who brought you myrrh when you were on the top of the mountain, and he carried you to the cave.

10 "But as to the other angels, our companions who took 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 God's word, and I will receive it."

12 Satan said to him, "Swear and promise me that you will receive it."

13 Adam said, "I do not how to swear and promise."

14 Satan said to him, "Hold out your hand, and put it inside my hand."

15 Adam held out his hand, and put it into Satan's hand. Then Satan said to him, "Say, now, as true as God is living, rational, and speaking, who lifted the skies in the void, and established the earth 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 or renounce my word."

16 Adam swore this.

17 Satan said to him, "Look, it is now some time since you came out of the garden, and you don't know wickedness or evil. But now God says to you, take Eve who came from your side, and have relations with her so that she will bear you children, who will comfort you and drive trouble and sorrow from you. This is not difficult, and there's no scandal in it for you."

Chap. LXXI.

Adam is troubled by his wedding with Eve.

1 When Adam heard Satan's words, he was upset over his oath and his promise, and said, "Will I commit adultery with my flesh and bones, and will I sin against myself, for God to destroy me and to wipe me off the face of the earth?

2 "When at first ate the tree, God drove me out of the garden into this foreign land, and deprived me of my Bright Nature, and brought death on me. If, then, I do this, he will cut my life off the earth! He will cast me into hell, and will afflict me there for a long time.

3 " God never spoke the words you have told me, and you are not God's angels, nor did God send you. You are demons, who have come to me under the false appearance of angels. Get away from me, you cursed by God!"

4 Then the demons fled from Adam. Adam and Eve left, and returned to the Cave of Treasures, and went inside.

5 Then Adam said to Eve, "If you saw what I did, do not speak of it, as I sinned against God by swearing by his great name. I have placed my hand into that of Satan." Eve then kept quiet about it, as Adam told her.

6 Then Adam got up, and spread his hands to God, tearfully begging and entreating God to forgive him what he had done. Adam stayed standing and praying for forty days and forty nights. He did not eat or drink until he dropped down on the earth from hunger and thirst.

7 Then God sent his word to Adam, and lifted him up from where he lay, and said to him, "Adam, why have you sworn by my name, and why have you made yet another agreement with Satan?"

8 But Adam cried, and said, "God, forgive me. I did this unwittingly, believing they were God's angels."

9 God forgave Adam, and said to him, "Beware of Satan."

10 God withdrew his Word from Adam.

11 Then Adam was comforted, and he took Eve. They left the cave, to make some food for their bodies.

12 But from that day Adam struggled in his mind about wedding Eve, afraid that if he did it, God would be angry with him.

13 Then Adam and Eve went to the river and sat on the bank, as people do when they enjoy themselves.

14 Satan was jealous of them, and wanted to destroy them.

Chap. LXXII.

Adam's heart is set on fire.

1 Then Satan and ten from his armies, transformed themselves into maidens, more graceful than any others in the whole world.

2 They came up out of the river in the presence of Adam and Eve, and they said among themselves, "Come, we will look at the faces of Adam and of Eve, who are of the men on earth. How beautiful they are, and how they look from us." Then they went to Adam and Eve, and greeted them, and stood wondering at them.

3 Adam and Eve looked at them too, and wondered at their beauty, and said, "Is there another world with such beautiful creatures as these in it?"

4 The maidens said to Adam and Eve, "Certainly, there are many of us."

5 Then Adam said to them, "But how do you multiply?"

6 They answered him, "We have men who have relations with us, and we bear them children who grow up, and who in their turn wed and are wedded, and also bear children, and thus we increase. Adam, you do not believe us, we will show you our men and our children."

7 Then they shouted out over the river as if to call their men and their children. Then men and children came up from the river. There was a man for every woman, and they had children with them.

8 But when Adam and Eve saw them, they stood silent, and were amazed at them.

9 Then they said to Adam and Eve, "You see our men and our children, have relations with Eve as we do with our women, and you will have children the same as we do." This was a trick of Satan to deceive Adam.

10 Satan also thought to himself, "God at first commanded Adam not to eat the fruit of the tree, saying to him, 'Do not eat it, or you will die.' But Adam ate it, and God did not kill him. God only decreed on him death, and afflictions and ordeals, until the day he leaves his body.

11 "Now then, if I trick him into doing this thing, to have relations with Eve without God's commandment, God will kill him then."

12 So Satan worked this appearance before Adam and Eve, because he wanted to kill him, to make him disappear from off the face of the earth.

13 Meanwhile the fire of sin came on Adam, and he thought of committing sin. But he restrained himself, as he was afraid that if he followed this advice of Satan's then God would put him to death.

14 Adam and Eve arose, and prayed to God, while Satan and his armies went down into the river, in the presence of Adam and Eve, to let them think that they were going back to their own lands.

15 Then Adam and Eve went back to the Cave of Treasures, as they usually did in the evening.

16 They both arose and prayed to God that night. Adam stayed in prayer, although not knowing how to pray, because he thought of having relations with Eve, and he continued in this way until morning.

17 When dawn broke, Adam said to Eve, "Get up, let us go below the mountain, where they brought us gold, and let us ask the Lord about this matter."

18 Eve said, "What is the matter, Adam?"

19 Adam answered her, "I will ask the Lord to inform me about having relations with you, for I will not do it without his order. Otherwise he will make us perish. Those demons have set my heart on fire, with thoughts of what they showed us, in their sinful appearance."

20 Then Eve said to Adam, "Why do we need we go below the mountain? Let us instead 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, "God, you know that we sinned against you, and from the moment we did so our Bright Nature was taken from us, and our body became animalistic, needing food and drink, and with animal desires.

22 "God, command us not to give way to them without your order, as you will bring us to nothing. If you do not give us the order, we will be overpowered and follow Satan's advice, and you will make us perish again.

23 "If not, take our lives from us, and let us be rid of this animal lust. If you do not give us an order about this, then separate Eve from me, and me from her, and place us each far away from the other.

24 "God, when you have separated us from each other, the demons will deceive us with their appearances, and destroy our minds and defile our thoughts towards each other. Yet if it is not each of us towards the other, it will be through their appearance when they show themselves to us."

Here Adam ended his prayer.

Chap. LXXIII.

The betrothal of Adam and Eve.

1 Then God looked at the words of Adam and saw that they were true, and that he could await his order about Satan's advice.

2 God approved of what Adam did about this, and of the prayer he had offered in God's presence, and the Word of God came Adam and said to him, "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, so that they could inform him about his wedding to Eve.

4 Then those angels said to Adam, "Take the gold and give it to Eve as a wedding gift, and betroth her. Then give her incense and myrrh as a present, and then you and she will be one flesh."

5 Adam listened to the angels, and took the gold and put it into Eve's chest in her garment, and betrothed her with his hand.

6 Then the angels commanded Adam and Eve to pray for forty days and forty nights, and after that, that Adam should have relations with his wife, for then this would be a pure and undefiled act, and he would have children who would increase, and replenish the face of the earth.

7 Then both Adam and Eve received the words of the angels, and the angels left them.

8 Adam and Eve began to fast and to pray for forty days, and then they came together, as the angels had told them. 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 Satan was thus defeated in his war with Adam.

Chap. LXXIV.

Cain and Luluwa are born.

1 They lived on the earth working to ensure the well being of their bodies, and were so until the nine months of Eve's childbearing were ended, and the time drew near when she would delivered.

2 Then she said to Adam, "This cave is a clean spot because of the signs in it since we left the garden, and we will again pray in it. It is not fitting that I should give birth in it. Instead, let us go to the sheltering rock that Satan threw at us, when he wished to kill us, but that was held up and spread as a tent over us by God's command, and formed a cave."

3 Then Adam removed Eve to that cave. When the time came that she went into labor, she had much difficulty. Adam was sorry, and his heart suffered for her sake, for she was near death, so that the word of God to her should be fulfilled: 'In suffering you shall bear a child, and in sorrow you shall bring forth your child."

4 But when Adam saw the difficulty that Eve was in, he prayed to God, and said, "Lord, look on me with your mercy, and bring her out of her distress."

5 God looked at his maidservant Eve, and saved her. She brought forth her firstborn son, and with him a daughter.

6 Then Adam was happy at Eve's rescue, and also over the children she had borne him. Adam looked after Eve in the cave for eight days. On the eighth day 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 left it. That is why Adam named him Cain.

8 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 on behalf of the children."

10 Eve said, "We will make one offering for the firstborn son, and afterwards we will make one for the daughter."

Chap. LXXV.

The birth of Abel and Aklemia.

1 Then Adam prepared an offering. He and Eve offered it for their children, and brought it to the altar they had previously built.

2 Adam offered the offering, and asked God to accept it.

3 God accepted Adam's offering, and sent a light from heaven that shone on the offering. Adam and the son approached the offering, but Eve and the daughter did not approach to it.

4 Then Adam came down from the altar, and they were happy. 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, as he usually did, asking the Lord to accept his offering.

5 The Lord accepted Adam and Eve's offering. Then Adam, Eve and the children came close together, and came down from the mountain, celebrating.

6 But they did not return to the cave in which they were born, but went to the Cave of Treasures, so that the children could go around it and be blessed with the tokens brought from the garden.

7 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 the offering, Adam had taken her and had gone with her to the river in which they threw themselves at first. They washed themselves there. Adam washed his body clean and Eve washed her body clean, after the suffering and distress that had come on them.

9 But Adam and Eve, after washing themselves in the river of water, each night returned to the Cave of Treasures, where they prayed and were blessed. Then they went back to their cave where the children were born.

10 Adam and Eve did this until the children had done suckling. After they were weaned, Adam made an offering for the souls of his children, other than the three times he made an offering for them, every week.

11 When the days of nursing the children came to an end, Eve conceived. At the end of her pregnancy she brought forth another son and daughter. They named the son Abel and the daughter Aklia.

12 After forty days, Adam made an offering for the son, and after eighty days he made another offering for the daughter, just as he had done before for 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 their birth, Eve stopped childbearing.

Chap. LXXVI.

Cain becomes jealous of his sisters.

1 The children grew stronger and taller, but Cain was obstinate and ruled over his younger brother.

2 Often when his father made an offering, Cain would stay behind and not go with them to offer it.

3 As for Abel, he had a humble heart and was obedient to his father and mother. He often made an offering, because he loved to, and he often prayed and fasted.

4 Then this sign came to Abel. As he was coming to the Cave of Treasures, and saw the golden rods, the incense and the myrrh, he asked his parents Adam and Eve, "How did you come by these?"

5 Then Adam told him everything that had happened. Abel felt deeply about what his father told him.

6 Also his father Adam told him of the works of God, and of the garden, and after that, he stayed behind his father the whole night in the Cave of Treasures.

7 That night while he was praying, Satan appeared to him as the figure of a man, who said to him, "You have often asked your ancestor to make an offering, to fast and to pray, so I will kill you and make you perish from this world."

8 But Abel prayed to God, and drove away Satan from him, and he did not believe Satan's words. Then when it was day, an angel of God appeared to him, and said to him, "Do not shorten the fasting, prayer, or offering an oblation to your God. For the Lord has accepted your prayer. Do not be afraid of the figure which appeared to you in the night, and who cursed you to death." Then the angel left him.

9 Then when it was day, Abel went to Adam and Eve and told them about the vision he had seen. But when they heard it, they were very upset over it, yet said nothing to him about it, and simply comforted him.

10 As for obstinate Cain, Satan came to him at night. He showed himself and said to him, "Since Adam and Eve love your brother Abel much more than they love you, and wish to marry him to your beautiful sister because they love him, but wish to marry you to your horrible sister, because they hate you,

11 "So then, do what I tell you to do. When they do that, kill your brother, then your sister will be left for you, and his sister will be cast away."

12 Satan left him. But the wicked one stayed in Cain's heart, and Cain often thought about killing his brother.

Chap. LXXVII.

Cain and Abel grow apart.

1 When Adam saw that the elder brother hated the younger brother, he tried to soften their hearts. He said to Cain, "My son, take the produce of your sowing, and make an offering to God, so that God will forgive your wickedness and your sin."

2 He also said to Abel, "Take the produce of your harvest and make an offering and bring it to God, so that God will forgive your wickedness and your sin."

3 Abel listened to his father's words, took the produce of your harvest and made a good offering. He said to his father, Adam, "Come with me and show me how to offer it."

4 Adam and Eve went with him, and showed him how to offer his gift on the altar. After that, they prayed that God would accept Abel's offering.

5 God looked at Abel and accepted his offering. God was more pleased with Abel than with his offering, because of his good heart and pure body. There was no trace of deceit in him.

6 Then they came down from the altar, and went to the cave in which they lived. But Abel, due to his happiness at having made his offering, repeated it three times a week, after the example of Adam his father.

7 But as for Cain, he took no pleasure in offering, but due to much anger on his father's part, he did offer his gift once, and when he did, his eye was on the offering he made, so he took the smallest of his sheep for an offering.

8 So then God did not accept his offering because Cain's heart was full of murderous thoughts.

9 They all lived together in the cave in which Eve had given birth, until Cain was fifteen years old and Abel twelve years old.

Chap. LXXVIII.

Cain plans the first murder.

1 Then Adam said to Eve, "The children are grown up, so we must think of finding women for them."

2 Eve answered, "How can we?"

3 Adam said to her, "We will join Abel's sister to Cain, and Cain's sister to Abel."

4 Eve said to Adam, "I do not like Cain because he is obstinate. Let them wait until we make an offering to the Lord on their behalf."

5 Adam said no more.

6 Meanwhile Satan came to Cain in the figure of a man of the field, and said to him, "Adam and Eve agreed together about the marriage of you two. They have agreed to marry Abel's sister to you, and your sister to him.

7 "If I did not love you, I would not have told you this. If you take my advice and listen to me, on your wedding day I will bring you beautiful robes, gold and silver in plenty, and my relations will attend you."

8 Cain asked happily, "Where are your relatives?"

9 Satan answered, "My relatives are in a garden to the north, where I once wanted to bring your ancestor Adam, but he would not accept my offer.

10 "But if you receive my words and come to me after your wedding, you will rest from the misery which you are in. You will rest and will be better off than your ancestor Adam."

11 Cain listened carefully to Satan's words and favored his speech.

12 He did not stay in the field, but went to his mother Eve, and beat her and cursed her, and said to her, "Why do you intend to take my sister to wed her to my brother? Am I dead?"

13 His mother quietened him, and sent him to the field where be had been.

14 But when Adam came, she told him what Cain had done.

15 Adam was upset but held his peace, and did not say a word.

16 Then the next day Adam said to his son, "Take your young good sheep and offer them to your God, and I will speak to your brother to make an offering of grain to his God."

17 They both listened to their father Adam. They took their offerings, and offered them on the mountain by the altar.

18 But Cain behaved arrogantly towards his brother, and shoved him away from the altar. He would not let him offer his gift on the altar, but he offered his own on it, with an arrogant heart, full of deceit and fraud.

19 But Abel set up stones that were close by, and on them offered his gift with a humble heart and free from deceit.

20 Cain was standing by the altar on which he had offered his gift, and he cried to God to accept his offering. However God did not accept it, and a divine fire did not come down to consume his offering.

21 But he stayed over against the altar, in a bad mood and angry, looking at his brother Abel, to see if God would accept his offering.

22 Abel prayed to God to accept his offering and then a divine fire came down and consumed his offering. God smelled the sweet fragrance of his offering, because Abel loved God and delighted in him.

23 Because God was so pleased with him he sent him an angel of light in the figure of man who had taken his offering, because he had smelled the sweet fragrance of his offering, and they comforted Abel and strengthened his heart.

24 But Cain was looking at everything that took place at his brother's offering, and was angry over it.

25 Then he opened his mouth and blasphemed God, because God had not accepted his offering.

26 God said to Cain, "Why is your face sad? Be honorable so that I can accept your offering. It is not against me that have you complained, but against yourself."

27 God said this to Cain as a rebuke, and because God did not like him or his offering.

28 Cain came down from the altar, with his color changed and having a downfallen face, and came to his father and mother and told them everything that had happened to him. Adam was very sad because God had not accepted Cain's offering.

29 But Abel came back happy, and with a joyful heart, and told his father and mother how God had accepted his offering. They were happy about it and kissed his face.

30 Abel said to his father, "Because Cain shoved me away 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 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 Cain was so surly and irate that he went into the field. Satan came to him and said to him, "Your brother Abel has taken refuge with your ancestor Adam because you pushed him away from the altar. They have kissed his face, and they are delighted with him far more than with you."

33 When Cain heard Satan's words, he was filled with rage, and he let no one know. But he was lying wait to kill his brother. He brought him into the cave, and then said to him,

34 "Brother, the country is so beautiful, and there are such beautiful, delightful trees in it which are charming to look at! Brother, you have never been in the field for one day to take your pleasure in them.

35 "Today, brother, I very much wish you would come with me to the field, to enjoy yourself and to bless our fields and our flocks, for you are honorable, and I love you much, my brother! But you have estranged yourself from me."

36 Then Abel agreed to go into the field with his brother Cain.

37 Before leaving, Cain said to Abel, "Wait for me to fetch a staff because of the wild animals."

38 Then Abel stood waiting in his innocence, but Cain fetched a staff and went out.

39 Cain and his brother Abel went on their way. Cain was talking to him and comforting him, to make him forget everything.

Chap. LXXIX.

Cain kills Abel.

1 They continued until they came to an isolated place where there were no sheep. Then Abel said to Cain, "My brother, we are tired of walking, and we do not see any trees, fruits, grass, sheep, or any of the things which you told me about. Where are those sheep you told me to bless?"

2 Cain said to him, "Come on, soon you will see many beautiful things. Go in front of me, until I come up to you."

3 Then Abel went forward, but Cain stayed behind him.

4 Abel was walking along innocently, without deceit, not believing his brother would kill him.

5 Then Cain, when he came up to him, comforted him with talk, walking a little behind him, then he hurried and hit him with the staff, blow by blow, until he was stunned.

6 But when Abel fell down on the ground, he realized that his brother intended to kill him, and said, "My brother, have pity on me! By the breast we have nursed, do not smite me! By the womb that bore us and brought us into the world, do not smite me to death with that staff! If you want to kill me, take one of these large stones, and kill me outright."

7 Then Cain, the obstinate, cruel murderer, took a large stone, and hit his brother with it on the head, until his brains oozed out, and he swam in his blood in front of him.

8 Cain did not repent of what he had done.

9 But the earth shook when the blood of righteous Abel fell on it, as it drank his blood, and would have brought Cain to nought for it.

10 The blood of Abel cried strangely to God to avenge him of his murderer.

11 Then Cain immediately began to dig the ground where his brother lay, as he was trembling from the fear that came on him when he saw the earth shake on his account.

12 He then threw his brother into the pit he had made, and covered him with dirt. But the earth would not receive him and immediately threw him back.

13 Cain again dug the earth and hid his brother in it, but again the earth threw him back. Three times the earth threw up Abel's body.

14 The muddy earth 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 for no reason, and the earth threw him up the third time and would not receive him so that he would stay there in front of his brother as a witness against him.

15 In this way the earth mocked Cain, until the Word of God came to him about his brother.

16 God was angry and very unhappy at Abel's death. He thundered from heaven, and lightnings went out from him, and the Word of the Lord God came from heaven to Cain, and asked him, "Where is your brother Abel?"

17 Cain answered with an arrogant heart and a harsh voice, "My God, am I my brother's keeper?"

18 God said to Cain, "Cursed be the earth that has drunk the blood of your brother Abel, and you will be trembling and shaking, and this will be a sign to you, that whoever finds you, will kill you."

19 But Cain cried because God had said those words to him, and Cain said to him, "My God, whoever finds me will kill me, and I will be blotted out off the face of the earth."

20 Then God said to Cain, "Whoever will finds you will not kill you," because before this, God had said to Cain, "I will forego seven punishments on the one who kills Cain." As for the word of God to Cain, "Where is your brother?" God had said it out of mercy for him, to try and make him repent.

21 For if Cain had repented at that time, and had said, "My God, forgive my sin of the murder of my brother," God would have forgiven his sin.

22 As for God saying to Cain, "Cursed be the ground that has drunk the blood of your brother" that too was God's mercy on Cain. For God did not curse him, but God cursed the ground, although it was not the ground that killed Abel and committed sin.

23 For it was fitting that the curse would fall on the murderer, yet in mercy God managed his thoughts as that no one would know it, and turn away from Cain.

24 He said to him, "Where is your brother?" to which he answered, "I do not know." Then the Creator said to him, "Tremble from fear!"

25 Then Cain trembled and became frightened, and through this sign God made him an example before all the creation, as the murderer of his brother. God also brought trembling and terror on him, so that he would see the peace in which he was at first, and see also the trembling and horror he endured at the last, so that he might humble himself before God, and repent of his sin, and seek the peace he enjoyed at first.

26 In the word of God that said, "I will forego seven punishments on whoever kills Cain," God was not trying to kill Cain with the sword, but God wished to make him die of fasting, praying and weeping by hard rule, until the time he was delivered from his sin.

27 The seven punishments are the seven generations during which God waited on Cain for the murder of his brother.

28 But as for Cain, ever since he killed his brother, he could find no rest in any place, but went back to Adam and Eve, trembling, frightened, and defiled by blood.

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Chapter 2. The Second Book of Adam and Eve

Chap. I.

Cain marries Luluwa.

1 When Luluwa heard Cain's words, she cried and went to call her father and mother, and told them how Cain had killed his brother Abel.

2 Then they all cried aloud, raised their voices, slapped their faces, threw dust on their heads, tore their clothing and went out to the place where Abel was killed.

3 They found him lying on the ground dead, with animals around him, while they cried and cried because of this honorable one. A scent of sweet spices went up from his body because of its purity.

4 Adam carried him, his tears streaming down his face, and went to the Cave of Treasures, where he placed him, and wound him up with sweet spices and myrrh.

5 Adam and Eve stayed at the burial place with immense grief for a hundred and forty days. Abel was fifteen and a half years old, and Cain was seventeen and a half years old.

6 As for Cain, when the mourning for his brother was over, he married his sister Luluwa without permission from his father and mother, as they could not keep him from her, as they were very upset.

7 He then went down to the bottom of the mountain, away from the garden, near the place where he had killed his brother.

8 In that place were many fruit trees and forest trees. His sister bore him children, who in turn multiplied bit by bit until they filled that place.

9 But Adam and Eve did not have relations for seven years after Abel's funeral. After this, Eve conceived, and while she was pregnant, Adam said to her, "Come on, let us take an offering and offer it to God to ask him to give us a delightful son, in whom we may find comfort, and whom we may give in marriage to Abel's sister."

10 Then they prepared an offering and brought it to the altar, and offered it to the Lord. They asked God to accept their offering, and to give them a good child.

11 God heard Adam and accepted his offering. Then Adam, Eve and their daughter worshipped and came down to the Cave of Treasures and placed a lamp in it, to burn night and day at Abel's the body.

12 Then Adam and Eve stayed fasting and praying until Eve's time came to give birth. She said to Adam, "I wish to go give birth in the cave in the rock."

13 Adam said, "Go, and take with you your daughter to assist you, but I will stay in this Cave of Treasures with my son Abel's body."

14 Eve listened to Adam, and she and her daughter went. But Adam stayed by himself in the Cave of Treasures.

Chap. II.

Adam and Eve have a third son.

1 Eve gave birth to a son whose appearance and figure were completely attractive in every way. He was even more handsome than his father.

2 Eve was comforted when she saw him. She stayed for eight days in the cave, then she sent her daughter to Adam to tell him to come and see the child and name him. But the daughter stayed by the body of her brother until Adam returned.

3 When Adam saw the child's good looks, his beauty and his attractive figure, he was happy about him, and was comforted over Abel. Then he named the child Seth, which means, "God has heard my prayer and has rescued me from my misery." It also means "power and strength."

4 After Adam named the child, he returned to the Cave of Treasures, and his daughter went back to her mother.

5 But Eve stayed in the cave for forty days, and then she went to Adam, and brought the child and her daughter with her.

6 They arrived at a river, where Adam and his daughter washed themselves because of their sorrow over Abel, but Eve and the baby washed for purification.

7 Then they returned and took an offering, and went to the mountain and offered it for the baby. God accepted their offering, and sent his blessing on them and on their son Seth. Then they went back to the Cave of Treasures.

8 As for Adam, he did not have relations again with his wife Eve for the rest of his life. They had no more children, only those five, Cain, Luluwa, Abel, Aklia, and Seth.

9 But Seth grew in height and in strength, and started fasting and praying fervently.

Chap. III

Satan appears as a beautiful woman to tempt Adam.

1 As for our ancestor Adam, at the end of seven years from the day he had been separated from his woman Eve, Satan was envious of him when he saw him separated from her, and tried to make him live with her again.

2 Adam got up and went up above the Cave of Treasures, and continued to sleep there night after night. But every day, as soon as it was light, he came down to the cave to pray there and to receive a blessing from it.

3 But at evening he went up on the roof of the cave, where he slept by himself, as he was afraid that Satan would overcome him. He stayed apart for thirty-nine days.

4 Then Satan, the hater of everything that was good, when he saw Adam was alone, fasting and praying, appeared to him as a beautiful woman who came and stood in front of him on the night of the fortieth day, and said to him,

5 "Adam, from the time you have lived in this cave, we have experienced great peace from you, and your prayers have reached us, and we have been comforted about you.

6 "But now, Adam, that you have gone up over the roof of the cave to sleep, we have had doubts about you, and a great sadness has come on us because of your separation from Eve. Then again, when you are on the roof of this cave, your prayer is poured out, and your mind wanders.

7 "But when you were in the cave your prayer was like fire which had been collected and sent down to us, and you found respite.

8 "Then I also grieved over your children who are separated from you, and I am very sad the murder of your son Abel, for he was honorable, and everyone will grieve over an honorable man.

9 "But I celebrated over the birth of your son Seth, yet after a little while I was very sad about Eve, because she is my sister. When God sent a deep sleep over you, and drew her out of your side, he also brought me out with her. But God lifted her by placing her with you, whereas he lowered me.

10 "I celebrated that my sister was with you. But God had made me a promise before, and said, 'Do not be upset, for when Adam goes up on the roof of the Cave of Treasures, and is separated from his woman Eve, I will send you to him, you will have relations with him and bear him five children, just as Eve bore him five children.'

11 "And now, God's promise to me is fulfilled, for it is God who has sent me to you for the wedding, because if you wed me, I will bear you improved and better children than those of Eve.

12 "You are still young, do not end your youth in this world in sorrow, but spend the days of your youth with delight and pleasure. Your days are few and your difficulties are vast. Be strong, end your days in this world happily. I will take pleasure in you, and you will be happy with me in this, and without fear.

13 "Get up then, and fulfil the command of your God!" She drew close to Adam, and embraced him.

14 But when Adam saw that he would be overcome by her, he fervently prayed to God to deliver him from her.

15 Then God sent his Word to Adam, and said, "Adam, that shape is the one who promised you the Godhead, and majesty. He is not well disposed towards you, but shows himself to you at one time in the form of a woman, another moment in the form of an angel, on another occasions in the form of a serpent, and at other times in the form of a god, and he does all that with one intent, to destroy you.

16 "So then, Adam, I understand your mind and I have saved you many a time from him, in order to show you that I am a merciful God, and that I wish good for you, and that I do not wish your ruin."

Chap. IV.

Adam sees Satan in his own form.

1 Then God ordered Satan to show himself to Adam plainly in his own dreadful form.

2 When Adam saw him, he was afraid and shook at the sight of him.

3 God said to Adam, 'Look at this devil, and at his hideous appearance, and know that he was the one who made you fall from brightness to darkness, from peace and rest to labor and unhappiness.

4 "Adam, look at the one who said that he is God! Can God be dark? Would God take the form of a woman? Is any one stronger than God? Can God be overpowered?

5 "So then, Adam, see now that he is bound in your presence, in the air, unable to escape! So then, I say to you, do not be afraid of him, but from now on be careful and beware of him, whatever he tries to do to you."

6 Then God drove Satan away from Adam, whom God strengthened, and whose heart God comforted. God said to him, "Go down to the Cave of Treasures, and do not separate from Eve. I will quench all animal lust in you."

7 From that time it left Adam and Eve, and they enjoyed respite by God's commandment. But God did not do the same to any one of Adam's descendants, only to Adam and Eve.

8 Then Adam worshipped the Lord for rescuing him, and for having quenched his desires. He came back from above the cave, and lived with Eve as he did before.

9 This ended the forty days of his separation from Eve.

Chap. V.

Satan tempts Seth.

1 As for Seth, when he was seven years old, he knew good and evil, and consistently fasted and prayed and spent all his nights asking God for mercy and forgiveness.

2 He also fasted when he brought his offering every day, even more than his father did, for he had an attractive appearance like an angel of God. He also had a good heart, and the best qualities of a person, and this is why he brought his offering every day.

3 God was pleased with his offering, and God was also pleased with his purity. He kept doing God's will, as well as his father and mother's will, until he was seven years old.

4 After that, as he was leaving the altar after finishing his offering, Satan appeared to him in the form of a beautiful angel, brilliant with light, holding a staff of light in his hand, and having a belt of light around his waist.

5 He greeted Seth with a beautiful smile, and began to beguile him with attractive speech. He said to him, "Seth, why do you stay you in this mountain? It is rough, full of stones and of sand and of trees with no good fruit on them. It is a wilderness without houses and without towns. It's not a good place to live in. All it has is heat, exhaustion and problems."

6 Satan also said, "But we live in beautiful places in another world than this earth. Our world is one of light and our circumstances are the best, our women are more beautiful than any others, and I want you, Seth, to wed one of them, because I see that you are handsome, and in this land there is not one woman who is good enough for you. Besides, only five people who live in this world.

7 "But in our world there are many men and many girls, all more beautiful than the next. So then I would like to take you there, so that you can see my relatives and be wedded to whichever one you like.

8 "You will then stay with me and be at peace, and you will be filled with majesty and light, as we are.

9 "You will stay in our world and rest from the misery of this world. Never again will you feel weak and tired. You will never bring an offering, or ask for mercy, as you will commit no more sin or be influenced by passions.

10 "If you listen to what I say, you will have relations with one of my daughters, for with us it is no sin to do this and it is not considered to be animal lust.

11 "In our world we have no God, but we all are gods, we all are of the light, heavenly, powerful, strong and magnificent."

Chap. VI.

Seth returns to Adam and Eve.

1 When Seth heard these words he was amazed, and was influenced by Satan's treacherous speech. He said to him, "Did you say there is another world created other than this, and the other creatures there are more beautiful than the creatures that are in this world?"

2 Satan said, "Yes, you heard me. I will praise them and their ways in your hearing."

3 But Seth said to him, "Your words have amazed me, and your beautiful description of it all.

4 "However, I cannot go with you today, not until I have gone to my father Adam and my mother Eve, and told them everything you said to me. If they give me permission to go with you, I will come."

5 Again Seth said, "I am afraid of doing anything without my father's and mother's permission, lest I perish like my brother Cain, and like my father Adam, who sinned against God's commandment of God. But you know this place, meet me here tomorrow."

6 When Satan heard this, he said to Seth, "If you tell your ancestor Adam what I have told you, he will not let you come with me.

7 "Listen to me, do not tell your father and mother what I have told you, but come with me today to our world, where you will see beautiful things and enjoy yourself there, and revel today among my children, seeing them and taking your fill of happiness, and be happy from then on. Then I will bring you back to this place tomorrow, but if you would rather stay with me, so be it."

8 Then Seth answered, "The spirit of my father and mother clings to me, and if I hide from them one day, they will die, and God will hold me guilty of sinning against them.

9 "Unless I come to this place to bring up my offering, they would not be separated from me for even one hour, and I will not go to any other place, unless they let me. They treat me very well because I come back to them quickly."

10 Then Satan said to him, "What will happen to you if you hide yourself from them one night, and return to them at daybreak?"

11 But when Seth saw how Satan kept on talking, and that he would not leave him, he ran to the altar, and spread his hands to God, and asked God to rescue him.

12 Then God sent his Word and cursed Satan, who fled from him.

13 But as for Seth, he had gone to the altar, he said to himself, "The altar is the place of offering, and God is there, so a divine fire will consume it. Then Satan will not be able to hurt me, and will not take me away from here."

14 Then Seth came down from the altar and went to his father and mother, whom he found on the way. They were longing to hear his voice, as he had been away a while.

15 Then he told them what had happened to him from Satan, who was in the form of an angel.

16 When Adam heard what had happened, he kissed his face, and warned him against that angel, telling him it was Satan who had appeared to him. Then Adam took Seth and they went to the Cave of Treasures, and celebrated in it.

17 But from that day forward Adam and Eve never left Seth alone, no matter where he went, for his offering or for anything else.

18 This sign happened to Seth when he was nine years old.

Chap. VII.

Seth weds Aklia.

1 When our ancestor Adam saw that Seth was of a complete mind, he wanted him to wed, in case the enemy appeared to him another time and overcame him.

2 Adam said to his son Seth, "My son, I would like you to wed your sister Aklia, Abel's sister, so that she may bear you children who will replenish the earth, according to God's promise to us.

3 "My son, do not be afraid, there is no disgrace in it. I wish you to marry, as I am afraid that the enemy could overcome you.'

4 Seth, however, did not wish to marry, but out of obedience to his father and mother he did not say a word.

5 Adam wed Seth to Aklia. He was fifteen years old.

6 But when Seth was twenty years of age, he fathered a son whom he called Enos. Then he fathered other children.

7 Then Enos grew up, wed, and fathered Cainan.

8 Cainan also grew up, wed, and fathered Mahalaleel.

9 Those ancestors were born in Adam's lifetime, and they lived by the Cave of Treasures.

10 At that time Adam had lived 930 years, and Mahalaleel had lived 100. But when Mahalaleel was grown up, loved fasting, praying, and hard work, right up until our ancestor Adam's life drew to an end.

Chap. VIII.

Adam's last words.

1 When our ancestor Adam saw that his life was at an end, he called his son Seth, who came to him in the Cave of Treasures, and he said to him,

2 "Seth, my son, bring me your children and your grandchildren, so that I can give my blessing to them before I die."

3 When Seth heard these words from his father Adam, he left him and shed a flood of tears all over his face. He collected his children and his grandchildren, and brought them to his father Adam.

4 But when our ancestor Adam saw them around him, he cried at having to be separated from them.

5 When they saw him weeping, they all cried together, and fell on him and said, "Our father, how can you be separated from us! How will the earth receive you and hide you from our eyes?" They expressed their grief greatly with similar words.

6 Then our ancestor Adam blessed them all, and after he had blessed them said to Seth,

7 "Seth, my son, you know that this world is full of sorrow and fatigue, and you know everything that has happened to us, and our difficulties in it. So then I command you to stay innocent, to be pure and honorable, to trust God, and do not listen to speech of Satan, or to the appearances in which he will show himself to you.

8 But keep the commandments that I give you this day, and then give the same to your son Enos, and let Enos give it to his son Cainan, and Cainan to his son Mahalaleel, so that this commandment will stay unchangeable among all your children.

9 "Seth, my son, the moment I am dead take my body and bind it up with myrrh, aloe and cassia, and leave me here in the Cave of Treasures in which are all these tokens which God gave us from the garden.

10 "My son, a flood will come and overwhelm all creatures, and spare only eight lives.

11 "My son, let those whom the flood spares from among your children at that time, take my body with them out of this cave, and when they have taken it with them, let the oldest among them command his children to lay my body in a ship until the flood has come to an end, and they leave the ship.

12 "Then they are to take my body and place it in the middle of the land, soon after they have been saved from the flood waters.

13 "For the place where my body is to be laid is the middle of the land. God will come from there and will save all our relatives.

14 "But now, Seth my son, place yourself at the head of your people, care for them and watch over them with the fear of God, and lead them in the good way. Command them to fast to God, and make them understand that they are not to listen to Satan, as he will destroy them.

15 "Separate your children and your grandchildren from Cain's children. Never again let them mix with them, or approach them with either their words or their deeds."

16 Then Adam let his blessing fall on Seth, and on his children, and on all his grandchildren.

17 He then turned to his son Seth and to Eve his wife, and said to them, "Preserve this gold, incense and myrrh that God has given us as a sign, for in the days that are coming, a flood will overwhelm the whole creation. Those who go into the ark are to take with them the gold, incense and myrrh together with my body, and will place the gold, incense and myrrh with my body in the middle of the land.

18 "Then after a long time, the city in which the gold, incense and myrrh are found with my body will be plundered. But when it is plundered, the gold, incense and myrrh will be taken care of with the spoil that is kept, and nothing of it will perish, until the Word of God made human flesh comes, when kings will take them, and will offer him gold in token of his being King, incense in token of his being God of heaven and earth, and myrrh in token of his suffering.

19 "Gold also, as a token of his overcoming Satan, and all our enemies, incense as a token that he will rise from the dead, and be exalted above things in heaven and things in the earth, and myrrh in token that he will drink bitter gall, and feel the pains of hell from Satan.

20 "Now, Seth, my son, look! I have revealed to you hidden mysteries, which God revealed to me. Keep my commandment for yourself and for your people."

Chap. IX.

Adam's death.

1 When Adam ended his commandment to Seth, his limbs went loose, his hands and feet lost all their strength, his mouth was struck silent, and he stopped speaking. He closed his eyes and gave up his spirit.

2 But when his children saw that he was dead, they threw themselves over him, men and women, old and young, and all cried.

3 Adam died at the age of 930 years old, on the fifteenth day of Barmudeh, after the calculation of an epact of the sun, at the ninth hour.

4 It was on a Friday, the very day on which he was created, and on which he rested, and the hour at which he died, was the same as that at which he left the garden.

5 Then Seth bound him up well, and embalmed him with plenty of sweet spices from sacred trees and from the Holy Mountain, and he placed his body on the east side of the inside of the cave, the side of the incense, and placed a lamp stand in front of him and kept it burning.

6 Then his children stood in front of him lamenting and crying over him all night until daybreak.

7 Then Seth and his son Enos and Cainan the son of Enos went out and took good offerings to present to the Lord, and they went to the altar on which Adam offered gifts to God when he offered them.

8 But Eve said to them, "Wait until we have first asked God to accept our offering, and to keep the soul of Adam his servant with him, and to take it up to rest."

9 They all stood and prayed.

Chap. X.

Adam was the first to die of natural causes.

1 When they had finished praying, the Word of God came and comforted them over their father Adam.

2 After this, they offered their gifts for themselves and for their father.

3 When they had ended their offering, the Word of God came to Seth, the eldest of them, and said to him three times, "Seth, Seth, Seth." The Word of God continued, "As I was with your father, so too will I be with you, until the fulfilment of the promise I made to him your ancestor: 'I will send my Word to save you and your descendants.'

4 "But as for your ancestor Adam, keep the commandment he gave you, and separate your descendants from that of your brother Cain."

5 God withdrew his Word from Seth.

6 Then Seth, Eve and their children went down from the mountain to the Cave of Treasures.

7 But Adam was the first one to die in the land of Eden, in the Cave of Treasures, as no one died before him, except for his son Abel, who died because he was murdered.

8 Then all Adam's children rose up, and cried over their father Adam, and made offerings to him for one hundred and forty days.

Chap. XI.

Seth becomes head of a happy tribe of people.

1 After the death of Adam and of Eve, Seth separated his children and his grandchildren, from Cain's children. Cain and his descendants went down and lived westward, below the place where he had killed his brother Abel.

2 But Seth and his children lived northwards on the mountain of the Cave of Treasures, so that they could be near to their father Adam.

3 Seth, the elder, tall and good, with a fine soul, and of a strong mind, stood at the head of his people, and care for them in all innocence, repentance and humility, and did not allow any of them to go near Cain's children.

4 But because of their own purity, they were named "Children of God," and they were with God, instead of the armies of angels who fell, as they continued to praise God and sing psalms to God, in the Cave of Treasures.

5 Then Seth stood before the bodies of his father Adam and his mother Eve, and prayed night and day, and asked for mercy towards himself and his children, and asked that when he had some difficulty dealing with a child, God would give him counsel.

6 But Seth and his children did not like earthly work, but turned to heavenly things, for they had no other thought than praises, hymns and psalms to God.

7 They always heard the voices of angels praising and exalting God from within the garden, or when they were sent by God on an errand, or when they were going up to heaven.

8 For Seth and his children, because of their own purity, heard and saw those angels. The garden was not far above them, only about fifteen spiritual cubits.

9 One spiritual cubit equals to three cubits of man, altogether forty-five cubits.

10 Seth and his children lived on the mountain below the garden. They did not sow or harvest, and they did not make food for their bodies, not even from grain, but only for offerings. They ate the fruit and the nice tasting produce of trees that grew on the mountain where they lived.

11 Seth usually fasted every forty days, as did also his eldest children. For the family of Seth smelled the scent of the trees in the garden, when the wind blew that way.

12 They were happy and innocent, without being afraid. There was no jealousy, no evil deed and no hatred among them. There was no animal lust, no foul words or curses went out of their mouths and nor did evil advice or deceit. The men of that time did not swear by anything, but under difficult circumstances, when men must swear by something, they swore by the blood of Abel the just.

13 But they confined their children and their women every day in the cave to fast and pray and to worship the most High God. They blessed themselves by the body of their father Adam, and anointed themselves by it.

14 They did so until Seth's life came to an end.

Chap. XII.

Seth's death.

1 Then Seth, the just, called his son Enos and Cainan the son of Enos, and Mahalaleel the son of Cainan, and said to them,

2 "As my end is near, I wish to build a roof over the altar on which gifts are offered."

3 They listened to his commandment and they all, young and old, went and worked on it, and built a beautiful roof over the altar.

4 Seth's thought in doing so was that a blessing would come on his children on the mountain, and that he would present an offering for them before his death.

5 Then when the building of the roof was completed, he commanded them to make offerings. They worked conscientiously at these, and brought them to Seth their father who took them and offered them on the altar and prayed God to accept their offerings, to have mercy on his children's lives, and to guard them from Satan's power.

6 God accepted his offering, and sent his blessing on him and on his children. Then God made a promise to Seth, "At the end of the great five days and a half, about which I have made a promise to you and to your father, I will send my Word and save you and your descendants."

7 Then Seth and his children, and his grandchildren, met and came down from the altar, and went to the Cave of Treasures where they prayed, and blessed themselves by the body of our ancestor Adam, and anointed themselves with it.

8 But Seth stayed in the Cave of Treasures for a few days, and then suffered horribly to the point of death.

9 Then Enos, his firstborn son, came to him with Cainan, his son, and Mahalaleel, Cainan's son, and Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, and Enoch, Jared's son, along with their wives and children to receive Seth's blessing.

10 Seth prayed over them, and blessed them, and solemnly urged them by the blood of Abel the just, "My children, I beg of you not to let one of you go down from this holy, pure Mountain.

11 "Do not have fellowship with Cain's children the murderer and the sinner, who killed his brother, for my children, you know that we flee from him and from all his sin with all our might because he killed his brother Abel."

12 After saying this, Seth blessed Enos, his first born son, and commanded him to minister habitually and purely before the body of our ancestor Adam, all his life, and also to go sometimes to the altar which Seth had built. He commanded him to lead his people honestly and with just judgment all his life.

13 Then Seth's limbs were loosened, his hands and feet lost all power, his mouth became silent and he was unable to speak, and he gave up his spirit and died the day after he turned 920 years old, on the twenty seventh day of the month Abib. Enoch was twenty years old at the time.

14 Then carefully bound up Seth's body, and embalmed him with sweet spices, and placed him in the Cave of Treasures on the right side of our ancestor Adam's body and they mourned him for forty days. They offered gifts for him, as they had done for our ancestor Adam.

15 After Seth's death, Enos rose at the head of his people, whom he led righteously and justly, just as his father had commanded him.

16 But by the time Enos was 820 years old, Cain had a large number of offspring, for they had relations frequently, being given to animal lusts, until the land below the mountain was filled with them.

Chap. XIII.

Cain's children.

1 In those days lived Lamech the blind. He was one of the sons of Cain. He had a son whose name was Atun, and the two of them had plenty of livestock.

2 But Lamech was in the habit of sending them to feed with a young shepherd, who tended them, and who, when coming home one evening cried before his grandfather, and before his father Atun and his mother Hazina, said to them, "I cannot feed those livestock alone, as someone might one rob me of some of them, or kill me over it." There was much robbery, murder and sin among Cain's children.

3 Then Lamech was sorry for him, and said, "Truly, he would well be overpowered by the men of this place if he is alone."

4 So Lamech got up, took a bow he had kept ever since he was a youth, before he became blind, and he took large arrows, and smooth stones, and a sling which he had, and went to the field with the young shepherd, and placed himself behind the livestock, while the young shepherd watched the livestock. Lamech did this for many days.

5 Meanwhile Cain, ever since God had cast him off and cursed him with fear and terror, could not settle down or find rest in any one place, but wandered from place to place.

6 In his wanderings he came to Lamech's women, and asked them about him. They said to him, "He is in the field with the livestock."

7 Then Cain went to look for him. As he came into the field, the young shepherd heard the noise he made, and the livestock herding together in front of him,

8 and then he said to Lamech, "Master, is that a wild animal or a robber?"

9 Lamech said to him, "Make me understand which way he is, when he comes up.

10 Then Lamech bent his bow, placed an arrow on it, and fitted a stone in the sling. When Cain came out of the open country, the shepherd said to Lamech, "Shoot! He is coming!"

11 Then Lamech shot Cain with his arrow and hit him in his side. Lamech struck him with a stone from his sling, and it struck his face, and knocked out both his eyes, then Cain immediately fell died.

12 Then Lamech and the young shepherd came up to him, and found him lying on the ground. The young shepherd said to him, "Master, it is Cain our grandfather who you killed!"

18 Then was Lamech sorry for it, and bitterly regretted it. He clapped his hands together, and struck the head of the youth with his flat palm. The youth fell as if dead, but Lamech thought he was pretending, so he picked up a stone and hit him, and smashed in his head until he died.

Chap. XIV.

Enos died.

1 When Enos was 900 years old, all the children of Seth and Cainan and his firstborn, with their wives and children gathered around him, asking for a blessing from him.

2 He then prayed over them and blessed them, and solemnly urged them by the blood of Abel the just, "Do not let one of your children go down from this Holy Mountain, and do not let them have fellowship with Cain's children the murderer."

3 Then Enos called his son Cainan and said to him, "My son, set your heart on your people, and establish them with righteousness and innocence, and minister before the body of our ancestor Adam all your life."

4 After this Enos died, at the age of 985 years, and Cainan bound him up and placed him in the Cave of Treasures on the left of his father Adam, and made offerings for him after the custom of his fathers.

Chap. XV.

Adam's descendants keep the Cave of Treasures as a family shrine.

1 After the death of Enos, Cainan stood at the head of his people with righteousness and innocence, as his father had commanded him, and he also continued to minister before the body of Adam inside the Cave of Treasures.

2 Then when he was 910 years old, suffering and difficulty came on him. When he

was about to die, all the fathers with their women and children came to him, and he blessed them, and solemnly urged them by the blood of Abel the just, "Do not let anyone among you go down from this Holy Mountain, and do not have any fellowship with Cain's children the murderer."

3 Mahalaleel, his first born son, received this commandment from his father, who blessed him and died.

4 Then Mahalaleel embalmed him with sweet spices, and placed him in the Cave of Treasures with his ancestors, and they made offerings for him after the custom of their ancestors.

Chap. XVI.

The good branch of the family is still afraid of Cain's children.

1 Then Mahalaleel stood over his people, and led them with righteousness and innocence, and watched them to see they had no communication with Cain's children.

2 He also stayed in the Cave of Treasures praying and ministering at the body of our ancestor Adam, asking God for mercy for himself and his people, until he was 870 years old, when he fell sick.

3 Then all his children gathered to see him, and to ask for his blessing on them all, before he left this world.

4 Then Mahalaleel went and sat on his bed, his tears streaming down his face, and he called his eldest son Jared, who came to him.

5 He kissed his face, and said to him, "Jared, my son, I solemnly urge you by him who made heaven and earth, to watch over your people, and to lead them with righteousness and innocence, and not to let one of them go down from this Holy Mountain to Cain's children, or he will perish with them.

6 "My son, after this there will come a great destruction on this earth on account of them. God will be angry with the world, and will destroy them with water.

7 "But I also know that your children will not listen to you, and that they will go down from this mountain and communicate with Cain's children, and so they will perish with them.

8 "My son, teach them and watch over them, so that no guilt will be attached to you on their account."

9 Mahalaleel said to his son Jared, "When I die, embalm my body and place it in the Cave of Treasures by the bodies of my fathers, then stand by my body and pray to God, and take care of them and fulfil your ministry to them, until you die."

10 Mahalaleel blessed all his children, and then lay down on his bed, and died like his ancestors.

11 When Jared saw that his father Mahalaleel was dead, he cried and was sad, and embraced and kissed his hands and his feet, and so did all his children.

12 His children embalmed him carefully, and placed him by the bodies of his fathers. Then they arose, and mourned him for forty days.

Chap. XVII.

Jared is lured away to the land of Cain.

1 Then Jared kept his father's commandment, and arose like a lion over his people. He led them with righteousness and innocence, and commanded them to do nothing without his advice. He was afraid that they would go to Cain's children.

2 This is why he repeatedly gave them orders, and continued to do so until the end of the 485th year of his life.

3 At the end of these years, this sign came to him. As Jared was standing like a lion before the bodies of his fathers, praying and warning his people, Satan was envious of him and made a beautiful appearance, because Jared would not let his children do aught without his advice.

4 Satan then went to him with thirty men of his armies, in the form of handsome men, Satan himself being the oldest and tallest among them, with a lovely beard.

5 They stood at the mouth of the cave and called Jared out of it.

6 He came out to them and found them looking like fine men, full of light, and they were very beautiful. He was amazed at their beautiful appearance, and thought to himself that they might not be Cain's children.

7 He said to himself, "As Cain's children cannot come up to the top of this mountain, and none of them is as handsome as these, and among these men there is not one of my kindred - they must be foreigners."

8 Then Jared and they exchanged a greeting and he said to the oldest one of them, "My father, explain to me why you are so wondrous, and tell me who these ones with you are as they look like foreign men to me."

9 Then the oldest one began to cry, and the rest cried with him, and he said to Jared, "I am Adam whom God made first, and this is Abel my son, who was killed by his brother Cain, into whose heart Satan put to murder him.

10 "This is my son Seth. I asked the Lord to give him to me to comfort me instead of Abel.

11 "This one is my son Enos, son of Seth, and that other one is Cainan, son of Enos, and that other one is Mahalaleel, son of Cainan, your father."

12 But Jared stayed amazed at their appearance and at the words of the oldest one to him.

13 Then the oldest one said to him, "My son, do not be surprised. We live in the land north of the garden, which God created before the world. God would not let us live there, but placed us inside the garden, below which you now live.

14 "But after I sinned, God made me leave it, and I was left to live in this cave. Then many bad troubles came on me, and when my death drew near, I commanded my son Seth to care for his people well, and my commandment is to be handed from one to another, to the end of the generations to come.

15 "But, Jared, my son, we live in beautiful regions, while you live here in misery, as your ancestor Mahalaleel informed me, telling me that a great flood will come and overwhelm the whole earth.

16 "So then, my son, being afraid for you, I left and took my children with me, and came here to visit you and your children, but I found you standing in this cave crying, and your children scattered about this mountain, in the miserable heat.

17 "My son, as we missed our way and came as far as this, and we found other men below this mountain who live in a beautiful country, full of trees and of fruits, and of all manner of green. It is like a garden. When we found them we thought they were you, until your ancestor Mahalaleel told me they were not.

18 "Now then, my son, listen to my counsel, and you and your children go down to them. You will have respite from all this suffering you are now in. But if you will not go down to them, then leave, take your children and come with us to our garden. You will live in our beautiful land, and you will rest from all this trouble which you and your children are now putting up with."

19 But when Jared heard this speech from the oldest one, he was amazed, and went here and there, but at that time could not find any of his children.

20 Then he answered the oldest one, "Why have you hidden yourselves until this day?"

21 The elder replied, "If your ancestor had not told us, we would not have known it."

22 Then Jared believed his words were true.

23 So then the oldest one said to Jared, "Why did you go around here and there?"

He answered, "I was looking for one of my children, to tell him I was going with you, and about their coming down to those about whom you have spoken to me."

24 When the oldest one heard Jared's intention, he said to him, "Leave that purpose alone at present, and come with us. You will see our country, and if the land in which we live pleases you, we and you will return here and take your family with us. But if our country does not please you, you will go back to your own place."

25 The elder urged Jared to go before one of his children came to advise him otherwise.

26 So then Jared left the cave and went with them. They comforted him until they came to the top of the mountain of the sons of Cain.

27 Then said the oldest one said to one of his companions, "We have forgotten something by the mouth of the cave, and that is the chosen garment we had brought to clothe Jared."

28 He said to one of them, "You go back, and we will wait for you here until you come back. Then will we clothe Jared and he will be like us, good, handsome, and fit to come with us into our country."

29 Then that one went back.

30 But when he was a short distance off, the oldest one called him and said to him, "Wait until I come up and speak to you."

31 Then he waited there, and the oldest one went up to him and said, "The one thing we forgot at the cave is this: to put out the lamp that burns inside it, above the bodies that are inside. Then come back to us, quickly."

32 That one went, and the oldest one came back to his companions and to Jared. They came down from the mountain, and Jared along with them, and they stayed at a fountain of water, near the houses of Cain's children and waited for their companion until he brought Jared's garment.

33 So then, the one who went back to the cave, put out the lamp, and came to them. He brought a phantom with him and showed it them. When Jared saw it he wondered at its graceful beauty, and was happy as he believed it was all true.

34 But while they were staying there, three of them went into the houses of the sons of Cain and said to them, "Today, bring some food by the fountain of water for us and our companions to eat."

35 But when the sons of Cain saw them, they wondered at them and thought, "These are beautiful to look at, and we have never anyone like them before." So they left and went with them to the fountain of water, to see their companions.

36 They found them so very handsome that they called out loud around their places for others to gather to see these beautiful beings. Then they collected both men and women around them.

37 Then the oldest one said to them, "We are foreigners in your land. Bring us some good food and drink, you and your women, to refresh ourselves with you."

38 When the men heard these words of the oldest one, every one of Cain's sons brought his woman, and another brought his daughter, and so many women came to them, a woman for Jared or for themselves.

39 But when Jared saw what they did, his very soul wrenched itself from them, and he would not taste their food or drink.

40 The oldest one saw him as he wrenched himself from them, and said to him, "Do not be sad. I am the great elder. Whatever you see me do, you do the same."

41 Then he took one of the women, and five of his companions did the same in front of Jared, so that he would do as they did.

42 But when Jared saw them working disgrace he cried, and said to himself, "My fathers never such a thing!"

43 He then prayed with a fervent heart and with much weeping, and begged God to rescue him from them.

44 As soon as Jared started praying, the oldest one fled along with his companions, as they could not stay in a place of prayer.

45 Then Jared turned around but could not see them, but found himself standing in the middle of Cain's children.

46 He then cried and said, "God, do not destroy me with this race. My fathers warned me about this! My Lord God, I was thinking that those who appeared to me were my ancestors, but I have found them out to be devils who tricked me by this beautiful apparition, until I believed them.

47 "God, now I ask you to rescue me from this race, among whom I am now staying, as you rescued me from those devils. Send your angel to take me out of the midst of them, as I do not have the power to escape from them."

48 When Jared finished praying, God sent his angel to the midst of them. His angel took Jared and placed him on the mountain. He showed him the way and gave him advice, then left him.

Chap. XVIII.

The Cave of Treasures.

1 Jared's children were in the habit of visiting him hour after hour, to receive his blessing and to ask his advice for everything they did, and when he had something to do, they did it for him.

2 But this time when they went into the cave they did not find Jared, but they found the lamp put out, and the bodies of their ancestors thrown around. Then voices came from them by God's power that said, "Satan in an apparition has deceived our son, wishing to destroy him as he destroyed our son Cain."

3 They said, "Lord God of heaven and earth, save our son from Satan's power, as Satan made a great false apparition appear to him." They also spoke of other matters by God's power.

4 But when Jared's children heard these voices they were afraid, and stood weeping for their father, as they did not know what had happened to him.

5 They cried for him all day until sunset.

6 Then Jared arrived with a sad face. He was miserable in mind and body, and sad at having been separated from the bodies of his ancestors.

7 As Jared was approaching the cave, his children saw him and hurried to the cave, and hung on his neck, crying. They said to him, "Father, where have you been? Why did you leave us? That was not your custom!" They said, "Father, when you disappeared, the lamp over the bodies of our ancestors went out, their bodies were thrown about, and voices came from them."

8 Jared was sorry when he heard this and went into the cave, and there found the bodies thrown about, the lamp put out, and the ancestors themselves praying for his deliverance from Satan's power.

9 Then Jared fell on the bodies and embraced them, and said, "My fathers, through your intercession, may God rescue me from Satan's power! I beg you to ask God to guard me and hide me from him to the day of my death."

10 Then all the voices ceased except for the voice of our ancestor Adam, who spoke to Jared by God's power, just as one would speak to his companion, "Jared, my son, offer gifts to God for delivering you from Satan's power, and when you bring those offerings, offer them on the altar on which I offered them. Also beware of Satan, for he tricked me many a time with his apparitions, as he wanted to destroy me, but God rescued me from his power.

11 "Command your people to be on their guard against him, and never cease to offer gifts to God."

12 Then Adam's voice also became silent, and Jared and his children were amazed at this. Then they laid out the bodies as they were at first, and Jared and his children stood praying the whole of that night, until daybreak

13 Then Jared made an offering and offered it up on the altar, as Adam had commanded him. As he went to the altar, he prayed to God for mercy and to forgive his sin over the lamp going out.

14 Then God appeared to Jared on the altar and blessed him and his children, and accepted their offerings. God commanded Jared to take the sacred fire from the altar, and to light the lamp that shed light on Adam's body with it.

Chap. XIX.

Jared's children are led astray.

1 Then God revealed to him again the promise God had made Adam. God explained to him the 5500 years, and revealed to him the mystery of his coming to the earth.

2 God said to Jared, "As to that fire which you have taken from the altar to light the lamp, let it stay with you to give light to the bodies, and do not let it leave the cave, until the body of Adam comes out of it.

3 "Jared, take care that the fire burns bright in the lamp. Do not leave the cave until you receive an order through a vision, and not in an apparition that you see.

4 "Then again command again your people not to communicate with Cain's children, and not to learn their ways, as I am God who does not like hateful sinful deeds."

5 God also gave many other commandments to Jared, and blessed him. Then God withdrew his Word from him.

6 Then Jared drew close with his children, took some fire, and came down to the cave. He lit the lamp in front of Adam's body, and he gave his people commandments as God had told him to do.

7 This sign happened to Jared at the end of his 450th year, as did also many other wonders that we have not recorded. However we only recorded the short version of this one in order not to lengthen our narrative.

8 Jared continued to teach his children for eighty years, but after that they began to sin against the commandments he had given them, and to do many things without his advice. One after another they began to leave the Holy Mountain to mix with Cain's children, in tainted fellowships.

9 We are about to reveal to you the reason which Jared's children went down from the Holy Mountain.

Chap. XX.

Seth's children mix with Cain's children.

1 After Cain went to the land of dark soil, and his children increased there, there was one of them by the name of Genun, the son of Lamech the blind who killed Cain.

2 Satan came into this Genun in his childhood, and he made various trumpets and horns, and stringed instruments, cymbals and psalteries, lyres and harps, and flutes, and he played on them at all times and at every hour.

3 When he played on them, Satan came into them, so that from them went out beautifully sweet sounds, that held the heart entranced.

4 Then he gathered companies to play on them, and when they played, it greatly pleased Cain's children, who inflamed themselves with great sin, and burnt as with fire when Satan inflamed their hearts, one with another, and increased lust among them.

5 Satan also taught Genun how to make strong drink out of grain, and Genun used this to bring together many companies in drink houses, and brought all kinds of fruits and flowers to them, and they drank together.

6 Genun exceedingly increased sin, and he also acted arrogantly, and taught Cain's children to commit all kinds of the grossest wickedness, which they had not previously known, and put them up to doing many terrible things which they had not previously known.

7 Then when Satan heard they deferred to Genun and listened to every thing he told them, he was very happy and increased Genun's understanding to make weapons of war from iron.

8 Then when they were drunk, hatred and murder increased among them, one man using violence against another, teaching him evil, and taking his children and defiling them in front of him.

9 When men saw they were overcome, and saw others that were not overpowered, those who were beaten went to take refuge with Genun, and he made them his associates.

10 Then sin greatly increased among them, until a man had relations with his own sister, or daughter, or mother, and others, or the daughter of his father's sister, so that there was no more distinction of relationship, and they no longer knew what sin was. They acted wickedly, and the earth was defiled with sin, and they angered God the

Judge who had created them.

11 Genun collected many companies on that played on horns and on all the other instruments we have already mentioned, at the foot of the Holy Mountain. They did this did so that Seth's children who were on the Holy Mountain could hear it.

12 When Seth's children heard the noise, they were amazed, and came by companies, and stood on the top of the mountain to look at those below. They did this for a whole year.

13 At the end of that year, when Genun saw that they were being won over to him little by little, Satan entered into him, and taught him how to make dyeing substances for garments of different patterns, and showed him how to dye crimson and purple and so on.

14 Cain's sons who did all this, and shone in beautiful gorgeous clothing, collected at the foot of the mountain looking magnificent, with horns and attractive clothing, and horse races, committing all manner of abominations.

15 Meanwhile Seth's children who were on the Holy Mountain, prayed and uplifted God in the place of the armies of angels who had fallen, which is why God had called them 'angels,' because he was very happy with them.

16 But after this, they no longer kept God's commandment, or held to the promise God had made to their ancestors, but they relaxed from their fasting and praying, and from the counsel of their father Jared. They kept gathering at the top of the mountain to look at Cain's children, from morning until evening, and looked at what they did, and at their beautiful dresses and ornaments.

17 Then Cain's children looked up from below, and saw Seth's children standing in troops on the top of the mountain, and they called to them to come down to them.

18 But Seth's children said to them from above, "We don't know the way."

Then Genun, the son of Lamech, heard them say they did not know the way, and he wondered how to bring them down.

19 Then Satan appeared to him by night, and said, "There is no way for them to come down from the mountain on which they live, but when they come tomorrow, say to them, 'Come to the west side of the mountain. There you will find a stream that comes down to the foot of the mountain between two hills. Come down that way to us."

20 Then when it was day, Genun blew the horns and beat the drums below the mountain, as he usually did. Seth's children heard it, and came as they usually did.

21 Then Genun said to them from down below, "Go to the west side of the mountain. There you will find the way to come down."

22 But when Seth's children heard these words from him, they went back into the cave to tell Jared what they had heard.

23 When Jared heard it, he was upset as he knew that they would not heed his advice.

24 After this a hundred men of Seth's children collected, and said among themselves, "Come on, let's go down to Cain's children and see what they do, and enjoy ourselves with them."

25 But when Jared heard what the hundred men said, his very soul was moved, and his heart was grieved. He then got up fervently, and stood in the midst of them, and solemnly urged them by the blood of Abel the just, "Do not let one of you go down from this holy pure mountain, in which our fathers have ordered us to live!"

26 But when Jared saw that they did not receive his words, he said to them, "My good, innocent and holy children, know that once you leave this holy mountain, God will not allow you to return to it!"

27 He solemnly urged them again, "I solemnly urge by the death of our ancestor Adam, and by the blood of Abel, of Seth, of Enos, of Cainan, and of Mahalaleel, to listen to me, and not leave this holy mountain, as the moment you leave it, life and mercy will leave you, and you will no longer be called 'children of God,' but 'children of the devil.'

28 But they would not listen to him.

29 At that time Enoch was already grown up, and in his zeal for God, he got up and said, "Hear me, sons of Seth, small and great - if you sin against the commandment of our fathers, and go down from this holy mountain, you will never come back for all time."

30 But they rose up against Enoch, and would not listen to him, but left the Holy Mountain.

31 When they looked at the daughters of Cain, at their beautiful figures, and at their hands and feet dyed with color, and tattooed in ornaments on their faces, the fire of sin was kindled in them.

32 Then Satan made them look very beautiful to the sons of Seth, just as he also made the sons of Seth appear most handsome to the daughters of Cain, so that the daughters of Cain lusted after the sons of Seth like hungry animals, and the sons of Seth after the daughters of Cain, until they committed abomination with them.

33 But after they had fallen into this defilement, they returned by the way they had come, and tried to ascend the Holy Mountain. But they could not, because the stones of that holy mountain were of fire flashing at them, so they were unable to go up again.

34 God was angry with them and changed his mind about them of them because they had fallen from glory, and had lost their own purity and innocence, and had fallen into the defilement of sin.

35 Then God sent his Word to Jared, "These, your children, whom you called call 'My children,' have sinned against my commandment, and have gone down to the place of damnation and sin. Send a messenger to those that are left not to go down and be lost."

36 Then Jared cried before the Lord, and asked him for mercy and forgiveness. But he wished that his soul would depart from his body, rather than hear these words from God about his children leaving the Holy Mountain.

37 However, he followed God's order, and preached to them not to leave the holy mountain, and not to communicate with Cain's children.

38 But they did not listen to his message, and they would not obey his order.

Chap. XXI.

Jared dies.

1 After this another company gathered, and they went to look after their brothers, but they too perished. And so it was, company after company left, until only a few of them remained.

2 Then Jared was sickened from grief, and his sickness was such that his death drew near.

3 Then he called Enoch his eldest son, and Methuselah Enoch's son, and Lamech the son of Methuselah, and Noah the son of Lamech.

4 When they had come to him he prayed over them and blessed them, and said to them, "You are righteous, innocent sons! Do not leave this holy mountain, for your children and your grandchildren have left this holy mountain, and have estranged themselves from this holy mountain, through their detestable lust and sin against God's commandment.

5 "But I know, through God's power, that he will not leave you on this holy mountain, because your children have sinned against his commandment and that of our fathers, which we had received from them.

6 "My sons, God will take you to a foreign land, and you will never again return to see this garden and this holy mountain.

7 "My sons, set your hearts on your own selves, and keep God's commandment which is with you. When you leave this holy mountain and go into a foreign land which you do not know, take with you the body of our ancestor Adam, and with it these three precious gifts and offerings, namely, the gold, the incense and the myrrh, and place where the body of our ancestor Adam will lay.

8 "My sons, the Word of God will come to anyone of you who is left, and when he leaves this land he will take with him the body of our ancestor Adam, and will lay it in the middle of the land, the place in which salvation will be brought about."

9 Then Noah asked him, "Which one of us will be left?"

10 Jared answered, "You are the one who will be left. You will take the body of our ancestor Adam from the cave, and place it with you in the ark when the flood comes.

11 "And your son Shem, who left your loins, he is the one who will lay the body of our ancestor Adam in the middle of the land, in the place in which salvation will be brought about."

12 Then Jared turned to his son Enoch, and said to him, "My son, stay in this cave, and conscientiously minister before the body of our ancestor Adam all your life, and lead your people with righteousness and innocence."

13 Jared said no more. His hands were loosened, his eyes closed, and he died like his fathers. His death took place in the 360th year of Noah, and in the 989th year of his own life, on the twelfth of Takhsas on a Friday.

14 But as Jared died, tears streamed down his face due to his great sorrow for the children of Seth, who had fallen in his days.

15 Then Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech and Noah, the four of them, cried over him. They embalmed him carefully, and then placed him in the Cave of Treasures. Then they left and mourned for him for forty days.

16 When these days of mourning had come to an end, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech and Noah were still sad, because their father had left them, and they did not see him more.

Chap. XXII.

Only three blameless men are left in the world.

1 But Enoch kept the commandment of Jared his father, and continued to minister in the cave.

2 It is this Enoch to whom many wonders happened, and who also wrote a renowned book, but those wonders may not be told in this place.

3 After this, Seth's children went astray and fell, they, their children and their wives. When Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech and Noah saw them, they were sad because they had fallen into doubt and unbelief, and they cried and asked God for mercy, and to save them, and to bring them out of that wicked generation.

4 Enoch continued in his ministry before the Lord for 385 years, and at the end of that time he became aware through God's grace that God intended to remove him from the earth.

5 He said to his son, "My son, I know that God intends to bring the Flood on the earth to destroy creation.

6 "You are the last rulers of this people on this mountain. I know that not one of you will be left you to father children on this holy mountain. I know that none of you rule over the children of his people, nor will any great company be left of you on this mountain."

7 Enoch said also to them, "Watch over your lives, and stay firm by your fear of God and by your service of God, and worship God with honest faith. Serve God with honesty, innocence, judgment, repentance and purity."

8 When Enoch had ended his commandments to them, God transported him from that mountain to the land of life, to the abodes of the righteous and the chosen, the abode of the joyful Paradise, in light that reaches up to heaven, light that is outside the light of this world, for it is God's light that fills the whole world, and which no place can contain.

9 So then, because Enoch was in God's light, he found himself out of the reach of death, until God would have him die.

10 Not one of our fathers or of their children, stayed on that holy mountain, except those three, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah. All the rest left the mountain and fell into sin with Cain's children. So then were they forbidden to return to that mountain, and none stayed on it but those three men.

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Chapter 3. The Slavonic Life of Adam and Eve

This section which is 28-39 of the Latin Life of Adam and Eve is not found in the Greek text of the Life of Adam and Eve.

28 We sat together in front of the gate of paradise. Adam cried with his face bent down to the earth, and lay on the ground mournful. Seven days passed by. We had nothing to eat and were overtaken by severe hunger. Eve cried loudly, "Lord, My Creator, take pity on me! It is because of me that Adam suffers!"

29 I said to Adam: "My lord, let us leave here and seek us food. My spirit fails me and my heart is brought down.'"

Adam answered me, "I have considered killing you, but I am afraid to because God created your image and you are repentant and you cry unto God. Therefore my heart has not turned from you."

30 Adam rose up. We wandered through all lands and found nothing to eat except nettles and grass in the field. We returned to the gates of paradise and cried out loud and pleaded, "Lord Creator, have compassion on your creation, allow food for us."

31 For fifteen days we entreated. Then we heard the archangels Michael and Joel praying for us. The archangel Joel was commanded by the Lord, and he took a seventh part of paradise and gave it to us. Then the Lord said, "Thorns and thistles will spring up from under your hands, and you will eat food by your sweat, and your wife will tremble when she looks at you.'

32 The archangel Joel said to Adam, "Thus says the Lord, 'I did not create your wife to command you, but to obey you.' Why do you obey your wife?"

Again Joel the archangel told Adam to separate the cattle and all kinds of flying and crawling things and animals, both wild and domestic, and to name them all. Then Adam took the oxen and started plowing.

33 Then the devil approached and stood before the oxen. The devil prevented Adam from tilling the field and said to him, "The things of earth are mine, but the things of heaven are God's. If you will be mine, you will labor on the earth, but if you will be God's, then go away to Paradise."

Adam answered, "The things of heaven are the Lord's, as are the things of earth and Paradise and the whole world.'

34 The devil said, "I will not allow you to till the field, unless you write the bond that you are mine."

Adam said, "I and my children belong to whoever is master of the earth."

Then the devil was most joyful. However, Adam was not ignorant that the Lord would descend on earth and tread the devil under his feet. The devil said, "Write out your bond to me."

Adam wrote, "I and my children belong to whoever is master of the earth."

35 Eve said to Adam, "My lord, rise up and let us pray to God about this, so that he will set us free from that devil, as it is because of me that you are in this difficulty."

Adam said, "Eve, since you repent of your misdeed, I will listen to you, for the Lord created you from my ribs. Let us fast for forty days in the hope that the Lord will have pity on us and will give us understanding and life."

I said, "My lord, fast for forty days, and I will fast for forty-four days."

36 Adam said to me, "Hurry to the Tigris River. Take a large stone and place it under your feet, and enter into the stream and clothe yourself with water like a cloak, up to the neck, and pray to God with your heart. Do not let a single word proceed out of your mouth."

I said, "My lord, I call on God with my whole heart."

Adam said to me: "Take great care. Unless you see me and all my signs, do not leave the water or trust the words which are said to you, or you will again fall into the snare."

Adam came to Jordan. He entered the water and plunged the flood, up to the hairs of his head, while he made supplication to God and prayed to him.

37 The angels and all living creatures, wild and tame, and all birds that fly, came together and surrounded Adam like a wall, praying to God for Adam.

38 The devil came to me in the appearance and brightness of an angel, and shedding big teardrops, and said to me, "Eve, get out of the water. God has heard your prayers and heard us angels. God has fulfilled the prayers of those who intercede on your behalf. God has sent me to get you to come out of the water.'

39 But I, Eve, realized that he was the devil and so I did not answer him at all. However, when Adam saw the devil's footprints when he returned from Jordan, and was afraid that he had deceived me. However, when he had seen me standing in the water he was overcome with happiness. He took me and led me from the water.

40 Then Adam cried out loudly, "Eve, be quiet! My spirit in my body is distressed! Get up, leave, and pray to God, until I deliver my spirit unto God."

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Chapter 4. The First Book of Enoch