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Now, then, my children, I have shown you the manner in which we were deceived. 

But do ye watch over yourselves, so as not to forsake [vaarwel te zeggen tot] what is good.

And when she had thus spoken in the midst of her sons... 

and Adam was lying in his disease... 

and he had one other day before going out of the body... 

Eve says to Adam: 

Why is it that you die, and I live? 

Or, how long time have I to spend after you die, tell me. 

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Then says Adam to Eve: 

Do not trouble yourself about matters.

For you will not be long after me, but we shall both die alike...

and you will be laid into my place. 

And when I am dead, you will leave me and let no one touch me... 

until the angel of the Lord shall say something about me. 

For God will not forget me, but will seek His own vessel which He fashioned. 

Arise rather, pray to God until I restore [teruggeven] my spirit into the hands of Him who has given it. 

Because we know not how we shall meet Him who made us...

whether He shall be angry with us...

or turn and have mercy upon us. 

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Then arose Eve, and went outside...

and falling to the ground, she said: 

I have sinned, O God. I have sinned, O Father of all. I have sinned to You, I have sinned against Your chosen angels, I have sinned against the cherubim, I have sinned against Your unshaken throne. I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned much, I have sinned before You, and every sin through me, has come upon the Creation. 

And while Eve was still praying, being on her knees...

behold, there came to her the angel of humanity... 

and raised her up, saying: 

Arise, Eve, from your repentance. 

For behold, Adam your husband has gone forth from his body. 

Arise, and see his spirit carried up to Him that made it, to meet Him.

Alexander the Great's ascension

And Eve arose, and covered her face with her hand. 

And the angel says to her: 

Raise yourself from the things of earth. 

And Eve gazed up into heaven...

and she saw a chariot of light going along under four shining eagles [adelaars] — and it was not possible for any one born of woman to tell the glory of them, or to see the face of them — and angels going before the chariot. 

And when they came to the place where your father Adam was lying, the chariot stood still, and the seraphim between your father and the chariot. 

And I saw golden censers [wierookvaten], and three vials [flesjes]; and, behold, all the angels with incense, and the censers, and the vials, came to the altar, and blew them up, and the smoke of the incense covered the firmaments. 

And the angels fell down and worshipped God, crying out and saying: 

Holy Jael, forgive, for he is Your image, and the work of Your holy hands.

And again... 

I, Eve, saw two great and awful [ontzaglijke] mysteries standing before God. 

And I wept for fear, and cried out to my son Seth, saying: 

Arise, Seth, from the body of your father Adam, and come to me, that you may see what the eye of no one has ever seen; and they are praying for your father Adam.

Then Seth arose and went to his mother, and said to her: 

What has befallen you? And why do you weep? 

She says to him: 

Look up with your eyes...

and see the seven firmaments opened, and see with your eyes how the body of your father lies upon its face, and all the holy angels with him, praying for him, and saying: Pardon him, O Father of the universe, for he is Your image. 

What then, my child Seth, will this be? And when will he be delivered into the hands of our invisible Father and God? And who are the two dark-faced ones who stand by at the prayer of your father? 

And Seth says to his mother: These are the sun and the moon, and they are falling down and praying for my father Adam. 

Eve says to him: And where is their light, and why have they become black-looking? 

And Seth says to her: They cannot shine in the presence of the Light of the universe, and for this reason the light from them has been hidden.

And while Seth was speaking to his mother...

the angels lying upon their faces sounded their trumpets, and cried out with an awful voice, saying: Blessed be the glory of the Lord upon what He has made, for He has had compassion upon Adam, the work of His hands. 

When the angels had sounded this forth, there came one of the six-winged seraphim, and hurried Adam to the Acherusian lake, and washed him in presence of God. 

And he spent three hours lying.

And thus the Lord of the universe, sitting upon His Holy Throne, stretched forth His hands, and raised Adam, and delivered him to the archangel Michael, saying to him: 

Raise him [his corpse] into Paradise, even [his spirit] to the third heaven, and let him be there until that great and dreadful day [or: until My Resurrection] which I am to bring upon the world. 

And the archangel Michael, having taken Adam, led him away, and anointed him... 

as God [had] said to him at the pardoning of Adam:

"Go into Paradise and take the purple cloth, 

and cover the corpse of Adam... 

and take the olive oil... 

and pour it over him."

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