4 He then cried and beat his chest, then he fell on
the ground on his face and made his request, saying: --

5 "O Lord, plague me not, neither consume me, nor yet
take away my life from the earth."

6 For he thought the sun was God.

7 Because while he was in the garden and heard the
voice of God and the sound He made in the garden, and
feared Him, Adam never saw the brilliant light of the sun,
neither did its flaming heat touch his body.

8 Therefore he was afraid of the sun when flaming rays
of it reached him. He thought God meant to plague him
therewith all the days He had decreed for him.

9 For Adam also said in his thoughts, as God did not
plague us with darkness, behold, He has caused this sun to
rise and to plague us with burning heat.

10 But while he was thinking like this in his heart,
the Word of God came to him and said: --

11 "O Adam, get up on your feet. This sun is not God;
but it has been created to give light by day, of which I
spoke to you in the cave saying, 'that the dawn would come,
and there would be light by day.'

12 But I am God who comforted you in the night."