has light departed from us, and darkness covered us? Why
did you leave us in this long darkness? Why do you plague
us like this?

8 And this darkness, O Lord, where was it before it covered us?
It is because of this that we cannot see each other.

9 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 over us to separate us from
each other.

10 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 covered us, and separated us from each other,
so that I do not see her, and she does not see me.

11 O Lord, will You then plague us with this darkness?"



Chapter XIII - The fall of Adam. Why night and day were created.


1 Then when God, who is merciful and full of pity,
heard Adam's voice, He said to him: --

2 "O Adam, so long as the good angel was obedient to
Me, a bright light rested on him and on his hosts.