1 Then Adam returned to Eve, and said to her, "Get up,
and take a fig for yourself, and I will take another; and
let us go to our cave."
2 Then Adam and Eve took each a fig and went towards
the cave; the time was about the setting of the sun; and
their thoughts made them long to eat of the fruit.
3 But Adam said to Eve, "I am afraid to eat of this fig.
I know not what may come over me from it."
4 So Adam cried, and stood praying before God, saying,
"Satisfy my hunger, without my having to eat this fig; for
after I have eaten it, what will it profit me? And what
shall I desire and ask of you, O God, when it is gone?"
5 And he said again, "I am afraid to eat of it; for I
know not what will befall me through it."
Chapter XL - The first Human hunger.
1 Then the Word of God came to Adam, and said to him,
"O Adam, why didn't you have this dread, or this fasting,
or this care before now? And why didn't you have this fear
before you transgressed?
2 But when you came to live in this strange land, your
animal body could not survive on earth without earthly
food, to strengthen it and to restore its powers.
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