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Chapter 4
How Satan became the devil—He tempts Eve—Adam and Eve fall, and death enters the world.
1. And I, the
Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That
Satan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the
beginning, and he came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will
redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely
I will do it; wherefore
give me thine honor.
1.
2. But, behold, my Beloved
Son, which was my Beloved and
Chosen from the beginning, said unto me—
Father, thy
will be done, and the
glory be thine forever.
2.
3. Wherefore, because that
Satan
rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the
agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be
cast down;
3.
4. And he became
Satan, yea, even the
devil, the father of all
lies, to
deceive and to blind men, and to lead them
captive at his will, even as many as would not
hearken unto my voice.
4.
5. And now the serpent was more
subtle than any beast of the field which I, the Lord God, had made.
5.
6. And
Satan put it into the heart of the serpent, (for he had drawn away
many after him,) and he sought also to
beguile Eve, for he
knew not the
mind of God, wherefore he sought to destroy the world.
6.
7. And he said unto the woman: Yea, hath God said—Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? (And he spake by the mouth of the serpent.)
7.
8. And the woman said unto the serpent: We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;
8.
9. But of the fruit of the tree which thou beholdest in the midst of the garden, God hath said—Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
9.
10. And the serpent said unto the
woman: Ye shall not surely die;
10.
11. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your
eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.
11.
12. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it became pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be
desired to make her wise, she took of the
fruit thereof, and did
eat, and also gave unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
12.
13. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they had been
naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves
aprons.
13.
14. And they heard the voice of the Lord God, as they were
walking in the garden, in the cool of the day; and Adam and his wife went to hide themselves from the
presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
14.
15. And I, the Lord God, called unto Adam, and said unto him: Where
goest thou?
15.
16. And he said: I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I beheld that I was naked, and I hid myself.
16.
17. And I, the Lord God, said unto Adam: Who told thee thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, if so thou shouldst surely
die?
17.
18. And the man said: The woman thou gavest me, and commandest that she should remain with me, she gave me of the fruit of the tree and I did eat.
18.
19. And I, the Lord God, said unto the woman: What is this thing which thou hast done? And the woman said: The serpent
beguiled me, and I did eat.
19.
20. And I, the Lord God, said unto the serpent: Because thou hast done this thou shalt be
cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life;
20.
21. And I will put
enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed; and he shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
21.
22. Unto the woman, I, the Lord God, said: I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. In
sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy
husband, and he shall rule over thee.
22.
23. And unto Adam, I, the Lord God, said: Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the fruit of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying—Thou shalt not eat of it,
cursed shall be the ground for thy sake; in
sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
23.
24. Thorns also, and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
24.
25. By the
sweat of thy
face shalt thou eat bread, until thou shalt return unto the ground—for thou shalt surely die—for out of it wast thou taken: for
dust thou wast, and unto dust shalt thou return.
25.
26. And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living; for thus have I, the Lord God, called the first of all women, which are
many.
26.
27. Unto Adam, and also unto his wife, did I, the Lord God, make coats of
skins, and
clothed them.
27.
28. And I, the Lord God,
said unto mine Only Begotten: Behold, the
man is become as one of us to
know good and evil; and now lest he put forth his hand and
partake also of the
tree of life, and eat and live forever,
28.
29. Therefore I, the Lord God, will send him forth from the Garden of
Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken;
29.
30. For as I, the Lord God, liveth, even so my
words cannot return void, for as they go forth out of my mouth they must be fulfilled.
30.
31. So I drove out the man, and I placed at the east of the Garden of
Eden,
cherubim and a flaming sword, which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life.
31.
32. (And these are the words which I spake unto my servant Moses, and they are true even as I will; and I have spoken them unto you. See thou show them unto no man, until I command you, except to them that believe. Amen.)
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