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And Adam says to Eve... 

´Relate to our children, and our children's children, the manner of our transgression!´

Then Eve says to them: 

´Listen, all my children, and my children's children... 

and I shall relate to you how our enemy deceived us. 

William Blake, Satan in his former glory

It came to pass, while we were keeping paradise... 

that we kept each the portion allotted to him by God. 

And I was keeping in my lot the south and west. 

And the devil went into the lot of Adam, where were the male wild beasts. 

Since God parted to us the wild beasts, and had given all the males to your father...

and all the females He gave to me, and each of us watched his own. 

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And the devil spoke to the (male) serpent, saying: 

Arise, come to me, and I shall tell you a thing in which you may be of service. 

Then the serpent came to him, and the devil says to him: I hear that you are more sagacious [schrander] than all the wild beasts, and I have come to make your acquaintance. And I have found you greater than all the wild beasts, and they associate with you.

Notwithstanding, you do reverence to one far inferior. Why do you eat of the tares [onkruid] of Adam and his wife, and not of the fruit of paradise? Arise and come hither, and we shall make him be cast out of paradise through his wife, as we also were cast out through him. 

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The serpent says to him: I am afraid lest the Lord be angry with me. 

The devil says to him: Be not afraid, only become my instrument... 

and I will speak through your mouth a word... 

by which you shall be able to deceive him. 

Then straightway he hung by the walls of paradise... 

about the hour when the angels of God went up to worship. 

Then Satan came in the form of an angel, and praised God as did the angels. 

And at that time I took him for an angel, because he had come from Adam's side.

And looking out from the wall, I saw him like an angel. 

And says he to me: Are you Eve? 

And I said to him: I am. 

And says he to me: What are you doing in paradise? 

And I said to him: God has set us to keep it, and to eat of it. 

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The devil answered me through the mouth of the serpent: 

You do well, but you do not eat of every plant. 

And I say to him: Yes, of every plant we eat, but one only which is in the midst of paradise, about which God has commanded us not to eat of it, since you will die the death. 

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Then says the serpent to me: 

As God lives, I am grieved for you, because you are like cattle. 

For I do not wish you to be ignorant of this. 

But rise, come hither, listen to me, and eat, and perceive the value of the tree, as He told us. 

But I said to him: 

I am afraid lest God be angry with me. 

And he says to me: 

Be not afraid. For as soon as you eat, your eyes shall be opened... 

and you shall be as gods in knowing what is good and what is evil. 

And God, knowing this, that you shall be like Him, has had a grudge against you...

and said, You shall not eat of it. 

But observe the plant, and you shall see great glory about it. 

And I observed the plant, and saw great glory about it. 

And I said to him: It is beautiful to the eyes to perceive, and I was afraid to take of the fruit. 

And he says to me: Come, I will give to you, follow me. 

And I opened to him. 

And he came inside into paradise, and went through it before me. 

And having walked a little, he turned, and says to me: 

I have changed my mind, and will not give you to eat. 

And this he said, wishing at last to entice [verleiden] and destroy me. 

And he says to me: Swear to me, that you will give also to your husband. 

And I said to him: I know not by what oath I shall swear to you, but what I know I say to you: By the throne of the Lord, and the cherubim, and the tree of life, I will give also to my husband to eat. 

And when he had taken the oath from me, then he went and ascended upon it [klom erop]. 

And he put, upon the fruit which he gave me to eat, the poison of his wickedness. 

That is, of his desire. 

For desire is the head of all sin. 

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And I bent down the branch to the ground, and took of the fruit, and ate. 

And in that very hour, my eyes were opened. 

And I knew that I was stripped of the righteousness with which I had been clothed.

And I wept, saying: 

What is this you have done to me... 

because I have been deprived of the glory with which I was clothed? 

And I wept too about the oath. 

And he came down out of the tree, and went out of sight. 

And I sought leaves in my portion, that I might cover my shame. 

And I did not find them from the plants of paradise... 

since, at the time that I ate, the leaves of all the plants in my portion fell. 

Except of the fig alone. 

And having taken leaves off it, I made myself a girdle... 

and it is from those plants of which I ate. 

And I cried out with a loud voice, saying: 

Adam, Adam, where are you? 

Arise, come to me, and I shall show you a great mystery. 

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