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And Adam had thirty sons and thirty daughters. 

And he fell into disease, and cried with a loud voice, and said: 

´Let all my sons come to me, that I may see them before I die.´

And they were all brought together, for the earth was inhabited in three parts...

and they all came to the door of the house into which he had entered, to pray to God. 

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And his son Seth said: ´Father Adam, what is your disease?´

And he says: ´My children, great trouble has hold of me.´ 

And they say: ´What is the trouble and disease?´ 

And Seth answered and said to him:´Is it that you remember the fruits of Paradise of which you ate, and grievest yourself because of the desire of them? If it is so, tell me, and I will go and bring you fruit from Paradise. For I will put dung upon my head, and weep and pray, and the Lord will hearken [luisteren] to me, and send his angel. And I shall bring it to you, that your trouble may cease from you.´

Adam says to him: ´No, my son Seth. But I have disease and trouble.´ 

Seth says to him: ´And how have they come upon you?´ 

Adam said to him...

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´When God made us, 

me and your mother, for whose sake also I die, 

He gave us every plant in Paradise. 

But about one, He commanded us not to eat of it... 

because on account of it [omdat we daardoor], we should [zouden moeten] die. 

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And the hour was at hand for the angels, who guarded your mother, to go up and worship the Lord. 

And the enemy gave to her, and she ate of the tree...

knowing that I was not near her, nor the holy angels. 

Then, she gave me also to eat. 

And when we had both eaten, God was angry with us. 

And the Lord, coming into Paradise, set His Throne... 

and called with a dreadful Voice, saying: 

¨Adam, where are you? And why are you hidden from my face? 

Shall the house be hidden from Him Who built it?¨ 

And He says: 

¨Since you have forsaken [verlaten] My Covenant... 

I have brought upon your body seventy strokes [slagen]. 

The trouble of the first stroke is the injury of the eyes. 

The trouble of the second stroke, of the hearing.

And so in succession, all the strokes shall overtake you.¨´

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And Adam thus speaking to his sons, groaned [kreunen] out loud, and said: 

´What shall I do? I am in great grief.´

And Eve also wept, saying: 

´My lord Adam, arise.

Give me the half of your disease, and let me bear it. 

Because through me, this has happened to you. 

Through me, you are in distresses and troubles.´

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And Adam said to Eve: 

´Arise, and go with our son Seth near Paradise.

And put earth upon your heads, and weep, beseeching the Lord that He may have compassion upon me, and send His angel to Paradise, and give me of the tree in which flows the oil out of it, and that you may bring it to me. and I shall anoint myself, and have rest, and show you the manner in which we were deceived at first.´

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And Seth and Eve went into the regions of Paradise. 

And as they were going along, Eve saw her son and a wild beast, fighting with him. 

And Eye wept, saying: 

´Woe's me, woe's me! 

For if I come to the day of the resurrection, all who have sinned will curse me, saying: Eve did not keep the commandment of God.´ 

And Eve cried out to the wild beast, saying: 

´O you evil wild beast, will you not be afraid to fight with the image of God? How has your mouth been opened? How have your teeth been strengthened? How have you not been mindful of your subjection, that you were formerly subject to the image of God?´ 

Then the wild beast cried out, saying: 

´O Eve, not against us your upbraiding [verwijten] nor your weeping! 

But against yourself! 

Since the beginning of the wild beasts was from you. 

How was your mouth opened to eat of the tree, about which God had commanded you not to eat of it? 

For this reason also oúr nature has been changed. 

Now, therefore, you shall not be able to bear up [het verdragen], if I begin to reproach you. ´

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And Seth says to the wild beast: 

´Shut your mouth and be silent...

and stand off [houd afstand] from the image of God till the day of judgment.´ 

Then the wild beast says to Seth: 

´Behold, I stand off, Seth, from the image of God.´

Then the wild beast fled, and left him wounded...

and went to his covert [schuilplaats].

And Seth went with his mother Eve near paradise: 

and they wept there, beseeching God to send His angel, to give them the oil of compassion. 

And God sent to them the archangel Michael, and he said to them these words: 

´Seth, man of God, do not weary yourself praying in this supplication about the tree in which flows the oil to anoint your father Adam. For it will not happen to you now, but at the last times. 

Then shall arise all flesh from Adam even to that great day, as many as shall be a holy people. Then shall be given to them all the delight of paradise, and God shall be in the midst of them.

And there shall not any more be sinners before Him, because the wicked heart shall be taken from them, and there shall be given to them a heart made to understand what is good, and to worship God only. 

Go again to your father, since the measure of his life has been fulfilled, equal to three days. 

And when his soul goes out, you will behold its dreadful [vreselijke] passage.

And the angel, having said this, went away from them. 

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