The betrothal of Adam and Eve.
Book I. Chapter LXXIII.
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Then God looked upon the
words of Adam that they were true, and that he could long await His
order, respecting the counsel of Satan.
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And God approved Adam in what
he had thought concerning this, and in the prayer he had offered in
His presence; and the Word of God came unto Adam and said to him,
"O Adam, if only thou hadst had this caution at first, ere thou
camest out of the garden into this land!"
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After that, God sent His
angel who had brought gold, and the angel who had brought incense, and
the angel who had brought myrrh to Adam, that they should inform him
respecting his wedding Eve.
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Then those angels said to
Adam, "Take the gold and give it to Eve as a wedding gift, and
betroth her; then give her some incense and myrrh as a present; and be
ye, thou and she, one flesh."
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Adam hearkened to the angels,
and took the gold and put it into Eve's bosom in her garment; and
betrothed her with his hand.
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Then the angels commanded
Adam and Eve, to arise and pray forty days and forty nights; and after
that, that Adam should come in to his wife; for then this would be an
act pure and undefiled; and he should have children who would
multiply, and replenish the face of the earth.
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Then both Adam and Eve
received the words of the angels; and the angels departed from them.
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Then Adam and Eve began to
fast and to pray, until the end of the forty days; and then they came
together, as the angels had told them. And from the time Adam
left the garden until he wedded Eve, were two hundred and twenty-three
days, that is seven months and thirteen days.
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Thus was Satan's war with
Adam defeated.
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