Chapter XVI - The first sunrise. Adam and Eve think it is
a fire coming to burn them.
1 After this, Adam and Eve continued to stand in the
cave, praying and crying, until the morning dawned on them.
2 And when they saw the light returned to them, they
retrained from fear, and strengthened their hearts.
3 Then Adam began to come out of the cave. And when
he came to the mouth of it, and stood and turned his face
towards the east, and saw the sunrise in glowing rays, and
felt the heat thereof on his body, he was afraid of it, and
thought in his heart that this flame came forth to plague him.
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.
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