own faces." Then they came to Adam
and Eve, and greeted them; and stood wondering at them.

3 Adam and Eve looked at them also, and wondered at their beauty, and
said, "Is there, then, under us, another world, with such beautiful
creatures as these in it?"

4 And those maidens said to Adam and Eve, "Yes, indeed, we are an
abundant creation."

5 Then Adam said to them, "But how do you multiply?"

6 And they answered him, "We have husbands who have married us, and we
bear them children, who grow up, and who in their turn marry and are
married, and also bear children; and thus we increase. And if so be, O
Adam, you will not believe us, we will show you our husbands and our
children."

7 Then they shouted over the river as if to call their husbands and
their children, who came up from the river, men and children; and every
man came to his wife, his children being with him.

8 But when Adam and Eve saw them, they stood dumb, and wondered at them.

9 Then they said to Adam and Eve, "See all our husbands and our
children? You should marry Eve, as we have married our husbands, so
that you will have children as we have." This was a device of Satan to
deceive Adam.

10 Satan also thought within himself, "God at first commanded Adam
concerning the fruit of the tree, saying to him, 'Eat not of it; else
of death you shall die.' But Adam ate of it, and yet God did not kill
him; He only decreed on him death, and plagues and trials, until the
day he shall come out of his body.

11 Now, then, if I deceive him to do this thing, and to marry Eve
without God's permission, God will kill him then."

12 Therefore Satan worked this apparition before Adam and Eve; because
he sought to kill him, and to make him disappear from off the face of
the earth.

13 Meanwhile the fire of sin came over Adam, and he thought of
committing sin. But he restrained himself, fearing that if he followed
this advice of Satan, God would put him to death.

14 Then Adam and Eve got up, and prayed to God, while Satan and his
hosts went down into the river, in presence of Adam and Eve; to let
them see that they were going back to their own world.

15 Then Adam and Eve went back to the Cave of Treasures, as they
usually did; about evening time.

16 And they both got up and prayed to God that night. Adam remained
standing in prayer, yet not knowing how to pray, by reason of the
thoughts in his heart regarding his marrying Eve; and he continued so