am said to Eve:--

5 "O Eve, come, let us go to the border of the garden looking south; to
the place from where the river flows, and is parted into four heads.
There we will pray to God, and ask Him to give us some of the Water of
Life to drink.

6 For God has not fed us with the Tree of Life, in order that we may
not live. Therefore, we will ask him to give us some of the Water of
Life, and to quench our thirst with it, rather than with a drink of
water of this land."

7 When Eve heard these words from Adam, she agreed; and they both got
up and came to the southern border of the garden, at the edge of the
river of water a short distance from the garden.

8 And they stood and prayed before the Lord, and asked Him to look at
them this once, to forgive them, and to grant them their request.

9 After this prayer from both of them, Adam began to pray with his
voice before God, and said;--

10 "O Lord, when I was in the garden and saw the water that flowed from
under the Tree of Life, my heart did not desire, neither did my body
require to drink of it; neither did I know thirst, for I was living;
and above that which I am now.

11 So that in order to live I did not require any Food of Life, neither
did I drink of the Water of Life.

12 But now, O God, I am dead; my flesh is parched with thirst. Give me
of the Water of Life that I may drink of it and live.

13 Of Your mercy, O God, save me from these plagues and trials, and
bring me into another land different from this, if You will not let me
live in Your garden."

* This is substantiated by Genesis 3:7 whereby the leaves of the fig
tree were large enough that Adam and Eve could fashion garments from
them.

Chapter XLII - A promise of the Water of Life. The third prophecy of
the coming of Christ.

1 Then came the Word of God to Adam, and said to him:--

2 "O Adam, as to what you said, 'Bring me into a land where there is
rest,' it is not another land than this, but it is the kingdom of
heaven where alone there is rest.

3 But you can not make your entrance into it at present; but only after
your judgment is past and fulfilled.

4 Then will I make you go up into the kingdom of heaven, you and your
righteous descendants; and I will give you and them the rest you ask
for at present.

5 And if you said, 'Give me of the Water of Life that I may drink and
live'--it cannot be this day, but on the day that I shall descend into
hell, and break the gat