8 Thus have you transgressed My commandment, and
therefore I have brought on you all these sorrows.

9 For I am God the Creator, who, when I created My
creatures, did not intend to destroy them. But after they
had sorely roused My anger, I punished them with grievous
plagues, until they repent.

10 But, if on the contrary, they still continue
hardened in their transgression, they shall be under a
curse forever."



Chapter VII - The beasts are appeased.


1 When Adam and Eve heard these words from God, they
cried and sobbed yet more; but they strengthened their
hearts in God, because they now felt that the Lord was to
them like a father and a mother; and for this very reason,
they cried before Him, and sought mercy from Him.

2 Then God had pity on them, and said: "O Adam, I have
made My covenant with you, and I will not turn from it;
neither will I let you return to the garden, until My
covenant of the great five and a half days is fulfilled."

3 Then Adam said to God, "O Lord, You created us, and