How darkness came between Adam and Eve.
Book I. Chapter XII.
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Then Adam smote upon his
breast, he and Eve, and they mourned the whole night until dawn drew
near, and they sighed over the length of the night in Miyazia.
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And Adam beat himself, and
threw himself on the ground in the cave, from bitter grief, and
because of the darkness, and lay there as dead.
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But Eve heard the noise he
made in falling upon the earth. And she felt about for him with
her hands, and found him like a corpse.
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Then she was afraid,
speechless, and remained by him.
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But the merciful Lord looked
on the death of Adam, and on Eve's silence from fear of the darkness.
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And the Word of God came unto
Adam and raised him from his death, and opened Eve's mouth that she
might speak.
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Then Adam arose in the cave
and said, "O God, wherefore has light departed from us, and
darkness come over us? Wherefore dost Thou leave us in this long
darkness? Why wilt Thou plague us thus?
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"And this darkness, O
Lord, where was it ere it came upon us? It is such, that we
cannot see each other.
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"For, so long as we were
in the garden, we neither saw nor even knew what darkness is. I
was not hidden from Eve, neither was she hidden from me, until now
that she cannot see me; and no darkness came upon us, to separate us
from each other.
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"But she and I were both
in one bright light. I saw her and she saw me. Yet now
since we came into this cave, darkness has come upon us, and parted us
asunder, so that I do not see her, and she does not see me.
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"O Lord, wilt Thou then
plague us with this darkness?"
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