FIRST BOOK OF AḎAM AND ḤAWWAH 22

1 Then Aḏam said to Elohim, “I dry up in the heat, I am faint from walking, and I don’t want to be in this world. And I don’t know when You will let me rest and take me out of it.”

2 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Elohim said to him, “O Aḏam, it cannot be now, not until you have ended your days. Then I shall bring you out of this miserable land.”

3 And Aḏam said to Elohim, “While I was in the garden I knew neither heat, nor fatigue, neither transience, nor trembling, nor fear; but now since I came to this land, all this affliction has come over me.”

4 Then Elohim said to Aḏam, “So long as you were keeping My Commandment, My Light and My Grace rested on you. But when you transgressed My Commandment, sorrow and misery came to you in this land.”

5 And Aḏam cried and said, “O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, do not cut me off for this, neither punish me with heavy plagues, nor yet repay me according to my sin; for we, of our own will, transgressed Your Commandment and ignored Your Torah and tried to become elohiym like you when Satan the enemy deceived us.”

6 Then Elohim said again to Aḏam, “Because you have endured fear and trembling in this land of fatigue and suffering, treading and walking about, going on this mountain, and dying from it, I will take all this on Myself in order to save you.”