adam 6

And when your father came... 

I said to him words of wickedness...

which brought us down from great glory. 

For as soon as he came, I opened my mouth and the devil spoke. 

And I began to advise him, saying: 

Come hither, my lord Adam, listen to me... 

and eat of the fruit of the tree of which God said to us not to eat of it...

and you shall be as God. 

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And your father answered and said: 

I am afraid lest God be angry with me. 

And I said to him: 

Be not afraid, for as soon as you shall eat, you shall know good and evil. 

And then I quickly persuaded him, and he ate. 

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And his eyes were opened...

and he was aware, he also, of his nakedness. 

And he says to me: O wicked woman, why have you wrought mischief in us? 

You have alienated me from the glory of God. 

And that same hour... 

we heard the archangel Michael sounding his trumpet...

calling the angels, saying: 

Thus says the Lord! Come with me to Paradise, and hear the word in which I judge Adam. 

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And when we heard the archangel sounding, we said: 

Behold, God is coming into Paradise to judge us. 

And we were afraid, and hid ourselves. 

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And God came up into Paradise...

riding upon a chariot of cherubim, and the angels praising Him. 

When God came into Paradise...

the plants both of Adam's lot and of my lot bloomed... 

and all lifted themselves up... 

and the Throne of God was made ready where the Tree of Life was. 

And God called Adam, saying: 

Adam, where are you hidden, thinking that I shall not find you? 

Shall the house be hidden from him that built it? 

Then your father answered and said: 

Not, Lord, did we hide ourselves as thinking that we should not be found by You. 

But I am afraid, because I am naked, and stand in awe of Your power, O Lord. 

God says to him: 

Who has shown you that you are naked, unless it be...

that you have forsaken My Commandment which I gave you to keep it? 

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Then Adam remembered the word which I spoke to him when I wished to deceive him: 

I will put you out of danger from God. 

And he turned and said to me: 

Why have you done this? 

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And I also remembered the word of the serpent, and said: 

The serpent deceived me. 

God says to Adam: 

Since you have disobeyed My Commandment... 

and obeyed your wife... 

cursed is the ground in your labours. 

For whenever you labour it, and it will not give its strength, thorns and thistles shall it raise for you. 

And in the sweat of your face, shall you eat your bread. 

And you shall be in distresses of many kinds. 

You shall weary yourself, and rest not; you shall be afflicted by bitterness, and shall not taste of sweetness; you shall be afflicted by heat, and oppressed by cold; and you shall toil much, and not grow rich; and you shall make haste, and not attain your end; and the wild beasts, of which you were lord, shall rise up against you in rebellion, because you have not kept My Commandment. 

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And having turned to me, the Lord says to me: 

Since you have obeyed the serpent...

and disobeyed My Commandment... 

you shall be in distresses and unbearable pains. 

You shall bring forth children with great tremblings, and in one hour shall you come to bring them forth, and lose your life in consequence of your great straits and pangs [pijnen]. 

And you shall confess, and say: 

Lord, Lord, save me, and I shall not return to the sin of the flesh. 

And on this account in your own words, I shall judge you. 

On account of the enmity which the enemy has put in you.

And you shall turn again to your husband...

and he shall be your lord. 

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And after speaking thus to me... 

He spoke to the serpent in great wrath, saying to him: 

Since you have done this, and have become an ungracious [onbarmhartig] instrument until you should deceive those that were remiss [nalatig, nonchalant,lui,onachtzaam] in heart, cursed are you of all the beasts. 

You shall be deprived of the food which you eat, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life; upon your breast and belly shall you go, and you shall be deprived both of your hands and feet; there shall not be granted you ear, nor wing, nor one limb of all which those have whom you have enticed [verleid] by your wickedness, and have caused them to be cast out of Paradise. 

And I shall put enmity between you and between his seed. He shall lie in wait for your head, and you for his heel, until the day of judgment. 

And having thus said, He commands His angels that we be cast out [uitgeworpen] of Paradise. 

And as we were being driven along, and were lamenting...

your father Adam entreated [smeekte] the angels, saying: 

Allow me a little, that I may entreat God...

and that He may have compassion upon me, and pity me, for I only have sinned. 

And they stopped driving him. 

And Adam cried out with weeping, saying: 

Pardon me, Lord, what I have done. 

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Then says the Lord to His angels: 

Why have you stopped driving Adam out of paradise? 

It is not that the sin is mine? Or that I have judged ill? 

Then the angels, falling to the ground, worshipped the Lord, saying: 

Just are You, Lord, and judgest what is right. 

And turning to Adam, the Lord said: 

I will not permit you henceforth to be in paradise. 

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And Adam answered and said: 

Lord, give me of the Tree of Life, that I may eat before I am cast out. 

Then the Lord said to Adam: 

You shall not now take of it, for it has been assigned to the cherubim and the flaming sword, which turns to guard it on account of you, that you may not taste of it and be free from death for ever, but that you may have the war which the enemy has set in you. 

But when you are gone out of Paradise... 

if you shall keep yourself from all evil...

as being destined to die... 

I will again raise you up when the resurrection comes... 

and then there shall be given you of the Tree of Life... 

and you shall be free from death forever. 

And having thus said, the Lord commanded us to be cast out of paradise. 

And your father wept before the angels over Paradise. 

And the angels say to him: 

What do you wish that we should do for you, Adam? 

And your father answered and said to the angels: 

Behold, you cast me out. I beseech you, allow me to take sweet odours out of Paradise, in order that, after I go out, I may offer sacrifice to God, that God may listen to me. 

And the angels, advancing, said to God: 

Jael, eternal King, order to be given to Adam sacrifices of sweet odour out of paradise. 

And God ordered Adam to go, that he might take perfumes of sweet odour out of Paradise...

And the angels let him go, and he gathered both kinds - saffron and spikenard [nardus], and calamus and cinnamon [kaneel], and other seeds for his food; and having taken them, he went forth out of paradise. 

And we came to the earth.

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