The Holy Scripture
Book of Adam and Eve
Chapter XIX
when the days of her parturition arrived, then she started to tremble; she wailed towards God in a loud voice and said:
The Holy Scripture
Chapter XIX
when the days of her parturition arrived, then she started to tremble; she wailed towards God in a loud voice and said:
"Where is Adam so that he can console me in my present pain, or who will relate my sufferings to him? Is there none among the birds, who would go to him and tell him, 'Come, help Eve, your spouse.' I beg of you, all you races of heaven, and when you go to the east, relate my present sufferings to my lord." 20.1a Then Adam heard in the river Jordan her crying of tears and misfortunes. 20.1b Then God hearkened to Adam's prayer and sent him the angel Michael who brought him a seeds, sealed with the divine seal, destined to be brought to Adam. Then he taught him sowing and the work related to it, so that thus they might be saved, (they) and all their descendants. 20.1c And when Adam (had) heard the prayer of Eve and the wailing of her tears from the west, Adam recognized her voice and said in his heart, "This is the voice of my rib, the voice of my SHEEP (?); I will arise and I will see why she cries. Is it that the serpent is attacking her again?"