4 Then those angels said to Adam, "Take the gold and
give it to Eve as a wedding gift, and promise to marry her;
then give her some incense and myrrh as a present; and be
you, you and she, one flesh."
5 Adam obeyed the angels, and took the gold and put it
into Eve's bosom in her garment; and promised to marry her
with his hand.
6 Then the angels commanded Adam and Eve to get up and
pray forty days and forty nights; when that was done, then
Adam was to have sexual intercourse with his wife; for then
this would be an act pure and undefiled; so that he would
have children who would multiply, and replenish the face of
the earth.
7 Then both Adam and Eve received the words of the
angels; and the angels departed from them.
8 Then Adam and Eve began to fast and pray, until the
end of the forty days; and then they had sexual
intercourse, as the angels had told them. And from the
time Adam left the garden until he wedded Eve, were two
hundred and twenty-three days, that is seven months and
thirteen days.
9 Thus was Satan's war with Adam defeated.
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