FIRST BOOK OF AḎAM AND ḤAWWAH 42

1 Then the Word of Elohim came to Aḏam, and said to him:

2 “Aḏam, you said, ‘Bring me into a land where there is rest.’ Another land than this will not bring you rest. It is the reign of the shamayim alone where there is rest.

3 But you cannot enter into it at present, but only after your judgment is past and fulfilled.

4 Then will I make you go up into the reign of the shamayim, you and your righteous descendants; and I will give you and them the rest you ask for now.

5 And if you said, ‘Give me of the Water of Ḥai that I may drink and live,’ it cannot be this day, but on the day that My Bĕn shall descend into Gĕy-Hinnom, and break the gates of brass, and crush into pieces the reign of iron.

6 Then I will, through mercy, save your soul and the souls of the righteous, and thus give them rest in My garden. That shall be when the end of the world is come.

7 And the Water of Ḥai you seek will not be granted you this day, but on the day that I shall shed My blood on your head in the land of Golgotha.

8 “For blood of My Bĕn shall be the Water of Ḥai unto thee, at that time, and not to thee alone, but unto all those of thy seed who shall believe in Me; that it be unto them for rest forever.”

9 The 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said again to Aḏam, “Aḏam, when you were in the garden these trials did not come to you.

10 But since you transgressed My Commandment, all these sufferings have covered you.

11 Now, also, your flesh requires food and drink. So drink then of that water that flows by you on the face of the earth.”

12 Then Elohim withdrew His Word from Aḏam.

13 And Aḏam and Ḥawwah worshipped 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and returned from the river of water to the cave. It was noon when they drew near to the cave, they saw a large fire by it.