24 And if they will come with you, I will send a cloud
to carry you and them.'
25 Then He commanded a cloud, and it bear me up and
brought me to you; and then went back.
26 And now, O my children, Adam and Eve, look at my
old gray hair and at my feeble state, and at my coming from
that distant place. Come, come with me, to a place of rest."
27 Then he began to cry and to sob before Adam and
Eve, and his tears poured on the ground like water.
28 And when Adam and Eve raised their eyes and saw his
beard, and heard his sweet talk, their hearts softened
towards him; they obeyed him, for they believed he was true.
29 And it seemed to them that they were really his
offspring, when they saw that his face was like their own;
and they trusted him.
* The existence of the two words helpmeet and helpmate,
meaning exactly the same thing, is a comedy of errors.
God's promise to Adam, as rendered in the King James
version of the Bible, was to give him an help meet for
him (that is, a helper fit for him). In the 17th century
the two words help and meet in this passage were mistaken
for one word, applying to Eve, and thus helpmeet came to
mean a wife.
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