d, merciful and gracious, looked at them thus lying in the
water, and close to death, and sent an angel, who brought them out of
the water, and laid them on the seashore as dead.

2 Then the angel went up to God, was welcome, and said, "O God, Your
creatures have breathed their last."

3 Then God sent His Word to Adam and Eve, who raised them from their
death.

4 And Adam said, after he was raised, "O God, while we were in the
garden we did not require, or care for this water; but since we came to
this land we cannot do without it."

5 Then God said to Adam, "While you were under My command and were a
bright angel, you knew not this water.

6 But now that you have transgressed My commandment, you can not do
without water, wherein to wash your body and make it grow; for it is
now like that of beasts, and is in want of water."

7 When Adam and Eve heard these words from God, they cried a bitter
cry; and Adam entreated God to let him return into the garden, and look
at it a second time.

8 But God said to Adam, "I have made you a promise; when that promise
is fulfilled, I will bring you back into the garden, you and your
righteous descendants."

9 And God ceased to commune with Adam.

Chapter XI - A recollection of the glorious days in the Garden.

1 Then Adam and Eve felt themselves burning with thirst, and heat, and
sorrow.

2 And Adam said to Eve, "We shall not drink of this water, even if we
were to die. O Eve, when this water comes into our inner parts, it
will increase our punishments and that of our descendants."

3 Both Adam and Eve then went away from the water, and drank none of it
at all; but came and entered the Cave of Treasures.

4 But when in it Adam could not see Eve; he only heard the noise she
made. Neither could she see Adam, but heard the noise he made.

5 Then Adam cried, in deep affliction, and beat his chest; and he got
up and said to Eve, "Where are you?"

6 And she said to him, "Look, I am standing in this darkness."

7 He then said to her, "Remember the bright nature in which we lived,
when we lived in the garden!

8 O Eve! Remember the glory that rested on us in the garden. O Eve!
Remember the trees that overshadowed us in the garden while we moved
among them.

9 O Eve! Remember that while we were in the garden, we knew neither
night nor day. Think of the Tree of Life, from below which flowed the
water, and that shed lustre over us! Remember, O Eve, the garden