Chapter
1 Adam and Eve 23

Book of 1 Adam and Eve - Chapter 23

1 Adam and Eve 23:1

Then Adam cried more and said, "O God, have mercy on me, so far as to take on yourself, that which I will do."

1 Adam and Eve 23:2

But God withdrew His Word from Adam and Eve.

1 Adam and Eve 23:3

Then Adam and Eve stood on their feet; and Adam said to Eve, "Strengthen yourself, and I also will strengthen myself." And she strengthened herself, as Adam told her.

1 Adam and Eve 23:4

Then Adam and Eve took stones and placed them in the shape of an altar; and they took leaves from the trees outside the garden, with which they wiped, from the face of the rock, the blood they had spilled.

1 Adam and Eve 23:5

But that which had dropped on the sand, they took together with the dust with which it was mingled and offered it on the altar as an offering to God.

1 Adam and Eve 23:6

Then Adam and Eve stood under the Altar and cried, thus praying to God, "Forgive us our trespass* and our sin, and look at us with Thine eye of mercy. For when we were in the garden our praises and our hymns went up before you without ceasing.

1 Adam and Eve 23:7

But when we came into this strange land, pure praise was not longer ours, nor righteous prayer, nor understanding hearts, nor sweet thoughts, nor just counsels, nor long discernment, nor upright feelings, neither is our bright nature left us. But our body is changed from the likeness in which it was at first, when we were created.

1 Adam and Eve 23:8

Yet now look at our blood which is offered on these stones, and accept it at our hands, like the praise we used to sing to you at first, when in the garden."

1 Adam and Eve 23:9

And Adam began to make more requests of God.

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