Water from the Tree of Life.
Adam and Eve near drowning.
Book I. Chapter IX.
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Then Adam and Eve came out of
the Cave of Treasures, and drew near to the garden gate, and there
they stood to look at it, and wept for having come away from it.
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And Adam and Eve went from
before the gate of the garden to the southern side of it, and found
there the water that watered the garden, from the root of the Tree of
Life, and that parted itself from thence into four rivers over the
earth.
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Then they came and drew near
to that water, and looked at it; and saw that it was the water that
came forth from under the root of the Tree of Life in the garden.
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And Adam wept and wailed, and
smote upon his breast, for being severed from the garden; and said to
Eve:—
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"Why hast thou brought
upon me, upon thyself, and upon our seed, so many of these plagues and
punishments?"
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And Eve said unto him,
"What is it thou hast seen, to weep and to speak to me in this
wise?"
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And he said to Eve, "Seest
thou not this water that was with us in the garden, that watered the
trees of the garden, and flowed out thence?
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"And we, when we were in
the garden, did not care about it; but since we came to this strange
land, we love it, and turn it to use for our body."
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But when Eve heard these
words from him, she wept; and from the soreness of their weeping, they
fell into that water; and would have put an end to themselves in it,
so as never again to return and behold the creation; for when they
looked upon the work of creation, they felt they must put an end to
themselves.
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