until morning.

17 And when light came up, Adam said to Eve, "Get up, let us go below
the mountain, where they brought us gold, and let us ask the Lord
concerning this matter."

18 Then Eve said, "What is that matter, O Adam?"

19 And he answered her, "That I may request the Lord to inform me about
marrying you; for I will not do it without His permission or else He
will make us perish, you and me. For those devils have set my heart on
fire, with thoughts of what they showed us, in their sinful apparitions.

20 Then Eve said to Adam, "Why need we go below the mountain? Let us
rather stand up and pray in our cave to God, to let us know whether
this counsel is good or not."

21 Then Adam rose up in prayer and said, "O God, you know that we
transgressed against you, and from the moment we transgressed, we were
stripped of our bright nature; and our body became brutish, requiring
food and drink; and with animal desires.

22 Command us, O God, not to give way to them without Your permission,
for fear that You will turn us into nothing. Because if you do not
give us permission, we shall be overpowered, and follow that advice of
Satan; and You will again make us perish.

23 If not, then take our souls from us; let us be rid of this animal
lust. And if You give us no order respecting this thing, then sever
Eve from me, and me from her; and place us each far away from the other.

24 Then again, O God, if You separate us from each other, the devils
will deceive us with their apparitions that resemble us, and destroy
our hearts, and defile our thoughts towards each other. Yet if it is
not each of us towards the other, it will, at all events, be through
their appearance when the devils come to us in our likeness." Here Adam
ended his prayer.

Chapter LXXIII - The marriage of Adam and Eve.

1 Then God considered the words of Adam that they were true, and that
he could long await His order, respecting the counsel of Satan.

2 And God approved Adam in what he had thought concerning this, and in
the prayer he had offered in His presence; and the Word of God came to
Adam and said to him, "O Adam, if only you had had this caution at
first, before you came out of the garden into this land!"

3 After that, God sent His angel who had brought gold, and the angel
who had brought incense, and the angel who had brought myrrh to Adam,
that they should inform him respecting his marriage to Eve.

4 Then those angels said