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First Book of Adam and Eve 12

Conflict of Adam and Eve

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Then Adam beat his chest, he and Eve, and they mourned the whole night until the crack of dawn, and they sighed over the length of the night in Miyazia.

2And Adam beat himself, and threw himself on the ground in the cave, from bitter grief, and because of the darkness, and lay there as dead.

3But Eve heard the noise he made in falling on the ground. And she felt about for him with her hands, and found him like a corpse.

4Then she was afraid, speechless, and remained by him.

5But the merciful Lord looked on the death of Adam, and on Eve's silence from fear of the darkness.

6And the Word of God came to Adam and raised him from his death, and opened Eve's mouth that she might speak.

7Then Adam stood up in the cave and said, "O God, why has light departed from us, and darkness covered us? Why did you leave us in this long darkness? Why do you plague us like this?

8And this darkness, O Lord, where was it before it covered us? It is because of this that we cannot see each other.

9For so long as we were in the garden, we neither saw nor even knew what darkness is. I was not hidden from Eve, neither was she hidden from me, until now that she cannot see me; and no darkness came over us to separate us from each other.

10But she and I were both in one bright light. I saw her and she saw me. Yet now since we came into this cave, darkness has covered us, and separated us from each other, so that I do not see her, and she does not see me.

11O Lord, will You then plague us with this darkness?"

About First Book of Adam and Eve

An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. English text: The Forgotten Books of Eden, The First Book of Adam and Eve (New York: Alpha House), translated by S. C. Malan, Rutherford H. Platt Jr. (ed.), 1926 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Forgotten Books of Eden, The First Book of Adam and Eve (New York: Alpha House), translated by S. C. Malan, Rutherford H. Platt Jr. (ed.) (1926) · public domain