r, and bring him
back to life, that he may cry and repent of his transgression which he
committed through me.

7 Don't take away his soul right now; but let him live that he may
stand after the measure of his repentance, and do Your will, as before
his death.

8 But if You do not bring him back to life, then, O God, take away my
own soul, that I be like him, and leave me not in this dungeon, one and
alone; for I could not stand alone in this world, but with him only.

9 For You, O God, caused him to fall asleep, and took a bone from his
side, and restored the flesh in the place of it, by Your divine power.

10 And You took me, the bone, and make me a woman, bright like him,
with heart, reason, and speech; and in flesh, like to his own; and You
made me after the likeness of his looks, by Your mercy and power.

11 O Lord, I and he are one, and You, O God, are our Creator, You are
He who made us both in one day.

12 Therefore, O God, give him life, that he may be with me in this
strange land, while we live in it on account of our transgression.

13 But if You will not give him life, then take me, even me, like him;
that we both may die the same day."

14 And Eve cried bitterly, and fell on our father Adam; from her great
sorrow.

Chapter VI - God's reprimand to Adam and Eve in which he points out how
and why they sinned.

1 But God looked at them; for they had killed themselves through great
grief.

2 But He decided to raise them and comfort them.

3 He, therefore, sent His Word to them; that they should stand and be
raised immediately.

4 And the Lord said to Adam and Eve, "You transgressed of your own free
will, until you came out of the garden in which I had placed you.

5 Of your own free will have you transgressed through your desire for
divinity, greatness, and an exalted state, such as I have; so that I
deprived you of the bright nature in which you then were, and I made
you come out of the garden to this land, rough and full of trouble.

6 If only you had not transgressed My commandment and had kept My law,
and had not eaten of the fruit of the tree which I told you not to come
near! And there were fruit trees in the garden better than that one.

7 But the wicked Satan did not keep his faith and had no good intent
towards Me, that although I had created him, he considered Me to be
useless, and sought the Godhead for himself; for this I hurled him down
from heaven so that he could not rem