Elohim’s reply.
1 THEN Elohim looked again upon Aḏam and his weeping and groaning, and the Word of Elohim came to him, and said unto him:–
2 “O Aḏam, when thou wast in My garden, thou knewest neither eating nor drinking; neither faintness nor suffering; neither leanness of flesh, nor change; neither did sleep depart from thine eyes. But since thou transgressedst, and camest into this strange land, all these trials are come upon thee.”