e obeyed me and have transgressed against
your God. Neither will there be any deliverance from my hands until
the day promised you by your God."

8 Again he said, "Because we do not know the day agreed on with you by
your God, nor the hour in which you shall be delivered, for that reason
we will multiply war and murder on you and your descendants after you.

9 This is our will and our good pleasure, that we may not leave one of
the sons of men to inherit our orders in heaven.

10 For as to our home, O Adam, it is in burning fire; and we will not
stop our evil doing, no, not one day nor one hour. And I, O Adam,
shall set you on fire when you come into the cave to live there."

11 When Adam heard these words he cried and mourned, and said to Eve,
"Hear what he said; that he won't fulfil any of what he told you in the
garden. Did he really then become king over us?

12 But we will ask God, who created us, to deliver us out of his hands."

Chapter LVIII - "About sunset on the 53rd day. . ."

1 Then Adam and Eve spread their hands before God, praying and begging
Him to drive Satan away from them so that he can't harm them or force
them to deny God.

2 Then God sent to them at once, His angel, who drove away Satan from
them. This happened about sunset, on the fifty-third day after they
had come out of the garden.

3 Then Adam and Eve went into the cave, and stood up and turned their
faces to the ground, to pray to God.

4 But before they prayed Adam said to Eve, "Look, you have seen what
temptations have befallen us in this land. Come, let us get up, and
ask God to forgive us the sins we have committed; and we will not come
out until the end of the day next to the fortieth. And if we die in
here, He will save us."

5 Then Adam and Eve got up, and joined together in entreating God.

6 They continued praying like this in the cave; neither did they come
out of it, by night or by day, until their prayers went up out of their
mouths, like a flame of fire.

Chapter LIX - Eighth apparition of Satan of Satan to Adam and Eve.

1 But Satan, the hater of all good, did not allow them to finish their
prayers. For he called to his hosts, and they came, all of them. Then
he said to them, "Since Adam and Eve, whom we deceived, have agreed
together to pray to God night and day, and to beg Him to deliver them,
and since they will not come out of the cave until the end of the
fortieth day.

2 And since they