land, and have caused
suffering, and faintness, hunger and thirst to come over us.

18 Now, therefore, O God, we pray you, give us something to eat from
the garden, to satisfy our hunger with it; and something wherewith to
quench our thirst.

19 For, behold, many days, O God, we have tasted nothing and drunk
nothing, and our flesh is dried up, and our strength is wasted, and
sleep is gone from our eyes from faintness and crying.

20 Then, O God, we dare not gather anything from the fruit of trees,
from fear of you. For when we transgress at first You spared us and
did not make us die.

21 But now, we thought in our hearts, if we eat of the fruit of the
trees, without God's order, He will destroy us this time, and will wipe
us off from the face of the earth.

22 And if we drink of this water, without God's order, He will make an
end of us and root us up at once.

23 Now, therefore, O God, that I am come to this place with Eve, we beg
You to give us some fruit from the garden, that we may be satisfied
with it.

24 For we desire the fruit that is on the earth, and all else that we
lack in it."

* The medieval belief that there were only four elements--fire, earth,
air, and water--was widely accepted until about 1500 AD when the
current atomic theory was in its infancy.

Chapter XXXV - God's reply.

1 Then God looked again at Adam and his crying and groaning, and the
Word of God came to him, and said to him:--

2 "O Adam, when you were in My garden, you knew neither eating nor
drinking; neither faintness nor suffering; neither leanness of flesh,
nor change; neither did sleep depart from thine eyes. But since you
transgressed, and came into this strange land, all these trials are
come over you."

Chapter XXXVI - Figs.

1 Then God commanded the cherub, who kept the gate of the garden with a
sword of fire in his hand, to take some of the fruit of the fig-tree,
and to give it to Adam.

2 The cherub obeyed the command of the Lord God, and went into the
garden and brought two figs on two twigs, each fig hanging to its leaf;
they were from two of the trees among which Adam and Eve hid themselves
when God went to walk in the garden, and the Word of God came to Adam
and Eve and said to them, "Adam, Adam, where are you?"

3 And Adam answered, "O God, here I am. When I heard the sound of You
and Your voice, I hid myself, because I am naked."

4 Then the cherub took two figs and brought them to