FIRST BOOK OF AḎAM AND ḤAWWAH 75

The family revisits the Cave of Treasures. Birth of Heḇel and Aklemia.

1 THEN Aḏam prepared an offering, and he and Ḥawwah offered it up for their children, and brought it to the altar they had built at first.

2 And Aḏam offered up the offering, and besought Elohim to accept his offering.

3 Then Elohim accepted Aḏam’s offering, and sent a light from shamayim that shone upon the offering. And Aḏam and the son drew near to the offering, but Ḥawwah and the daughter did not approach unto it.

4 Then Aḏam came down from upon the altar, and they were joyful; and Aḏam and Ḥawwah waited until the daughter was eighty days old; then Aḏam prepared an offering and took it to Ḥawwah and to the children; and they went to the altar, where Aḏam offered it up, as he was wont, asking 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 to accept his offering.

5 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 accepted the offering of Aḏam and Ḥawwah. Then Aḏam, Ḥawwah, and the children, drew near together, and came down from the mountain, rejoicing.

6 But they returned not to the cave in which they were born; but came to the Cave of Treasures, in order that the children should go round it, and be blessed with the tokens brought from the garden.

7 But after they had been blessed with these tokens, they went back to the cave in which they were born.

8 However, before Ḥawwah had offered up the offering, Aḏam had taken her, and had gone with her to the river of water, in which they threw themselves at first; and there they washed themselves. Aḏam washed his body and Ḥawwah hers also clean, after the suffering and distress that had come upon them.

9 But Aḏam and Ḥawwah, after washing themselves in the river of water, returned every night to the Cave of Treasures, where they prayed and were blessed; and then went back to their cave where the children were born

10 So did Aḏam and Ḥawwah until the children had done sucking. Then, when they were weaned, Aḏam made an offering for the souls of his children; other than the three times he made an offering for them, every week.

11 When the days of nursing the children were ended, Ḥawwah again conceived, and when her days were accomplished she brought forth another son and daughter; and they named the son Heḇel, and the daughter Aklia.

12 Then at the end of forty days, Aḏam made an offering for the son, and at the end of eighty days he made another offering for the daughter, and did by them, as he had done before by Qayin and his sister Luluwa.

13 He brought them to the Cave of Treasures, where they received a blessing, and then returned to the cave where they were born. After the birth of these, Ḥawwah ceased from childbearing.