Chapter
1 Adam and Eve 12

Book of 1 Adam and Eve - Chapter 12

1 Adam and Eve 12:1

Then Adam beat his chest, he and Eve, and they mourned the whole night until the crack of dawn, and they sighed over the length of the night in Miyazia.

1 Adam and Eve 12:2

And Adam beat himself, and threw himself on the ground in the cave, from bitter grief, and because of the darkness, and lay there as dead.

1 Adam and Eve 12:3

But Eve heard the noise he made in falling on the ground. And she felt about for him with her hands, and found him like a corpse.

1 Adam and Eve 12:4

Then she was afraid, speechless, and remained by him.

1 Adam and Eve 12:5

But the merciful Lord looked on the death of Adam, and on Eve's silence from fear of the darkness.

1 Adam and Eve 12:6

And the Word of God came to Adam and raised him from his death, and opened Eve's mouth that she might speak.

1 Adam and Eve 12:7

Then Adam stood up in the cave and said, "O God, why has light departed from us, and darkness covered us? Why did you leave us in this long darkness? Why do you plague us like this?

1 Adam and Eve 12:8

And this darkness, O Lord, where was it before it covered us? It is because of this that we cannot see each other.

1 Adam and Eve 12:9

For so long as we were in the garden, we neither saw nor even knew what darkness is. I was not hidden from Eve, neither was she hidden from me, until now that she cannot see me; and no darkness came over us to separate us from each other.

1 Adam and Eve 12:10

But she and I were both in one bright light. I saw her and she saw me. Yet now since we came into this cave, darkness has covered us, and separated us from each other, so that I do not see her, and she does not see me.

1 Adam and Eve 12:11

O Lord, will You then plague us with this darkness?"

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