The family revisits the Cave of
Treasures.
Birth of Abel and Aklemia.
Book I. Chapter LXXV.
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Then Adam prepared an
offering, and he and Eve offered it up for their children, and brought
it to the altar they had built at first.
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And Adam offered up the
offering, and besought God to accept his offering.
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Then God accepted Adam's
offering, and sent a light from heaven that shone upon the
offering. And Adam and the son drew near to the offering, but
Eve and the daughter did not approach unto it.
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Then Adam came down from upon
the altar, and they were joyful; and Adam and Eve waited until the
daughter was eighty days old; then Adam prepared an offering and took
it to Eve and to the children; and they went to the altar, where Adam
offered it up, as he was wont, asking the Lord to accept his offering.
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And the Lord accepted the
offering of Adam and Eve. Then Adam, Eve, and the children, drew
near together, and came down from the mountain, rejoicing.
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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.
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But after they had been
blessed with these tokens, they went back to the cave in which they
were born.
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However, before Eve had
offered up the offering, Adam 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. Adam washed his body and Eve hers also
clean, after the suffering and distress that had come upon them.
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But Adam and Eve, 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.
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So did Adam and Eve until the
children had done sucking. Then, when they were weaned, Adam
made an offering for the souls of his children; other than the three
times he made an offering for them, every week.
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When the days of nursing the
children were ended, Eve again conceived, and when her days were
accomplished she brought forth another son and daughter; and they
named the son Abel, and the daughter Aklia.
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Then at the end of forty
days, Adam 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 Cain and his sister Luluwa.
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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, Eve ceased
from child-bearing.
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