us, or that our innards will
come out; or that God means to kill us with this pain before He has
fulfilled His promise to us?"

5 Then Adam besought the Lord and said, "O Lord, let us not perish
through the food we have eaten. O Lord, don't punish us; but deal with
us according to Your great mercy, and forsake us not until the day of
the promise You have made us."

6 Then God looked at them, and then fitted them for eating food at
once; as to this day; so that they should not perish.

7 Then Adam and Eve came back into the cave sorrowful and crying
because of the alteration of their bodies. And they both knew from
that hour that they were altered beings, that all hope of returning to
the garden was now lost; and that they could not enter it.

8 For that now their bodies had strange functions; and all flesh that
requires food and drink for its existence, cannot be in the garden.

9 Then Adam said to Eve, "Behold, our hope is now lost; and so is our
trust to enter the garden. We no longer belong to the inhabitants of
the garden; but from now on we are earthy and of the dust, and of the
inhabitants of the earth. We shall not return to the garden, until the
day in which God has promised to save us, and to bring us again into
the garden, as He promised us."

10 Then they prayed to God that He would have mercy on them; after
which, their mind was quieted, their hearts were broken, and their
longing was cooled down; and they were like strangers on earth. That
night Adam and Eve spent in the cave, where they slept heavily by
reason of the food they had eaten.

Chapter LXVI - Adam does his first day's work.

1 When it was morning, the day after they had eaten food, Adam and Eve
prayed in the cave, and Adam said to Eve, "Look, we asked for food of
God, and He gave it. But now let us also ask Him to give us a drink of
water."

2 Then they got up, and went to the bank of the stream of water, that
was on the south border of the garden, in which they had before thrown
themselves. And they stood on the bank, and prayed to God that He
would command them to drink of the water.

3 Then the Word of God came to Adam, and said to him, "O Adam, your
body has become brutish, and requires water to drink. Take some and
drink it, you and Eve, then give thanks and praise."

4 Adam and Eve then went down to the stream and drank from it, until
their bodies felt refreshed. After having drunk, they praised God, and
then r