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Apocalypse of Moses 27

Life of Adam and Eve

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Thus he spake and bade the angels have us cast out of paradise:

2and as we were being driven out amid our loud lamentations, your father Adam besought the angels and said: "Leave me a little (space) that I may entreat the Lord that he have compassion on me and pity me, for I only have sinned." And they left off driving him and Adam cried aloud and wept saying: "Pardon me O Lord, my deed." Then the Lord saith to the angels, "Why have ye ceased from driving Adam from paradise Why do ye not cast him out Is it I who have done wrong Or is my judgement badly judged" Then the angels fell down on the ground and worshipped the Lord saying, "Thou art just, O Lord, and thou judgest righteous judgement."

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About Apocalypse of Moses

An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. English text: Apocalypsis Mosis, in The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Clarendon Press, 1913), R. H. Charles, 1913 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: Apocalypsis Mosis, in The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Clarendon Press, 1913), R. H. Charles (1913) · public domain