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.

Chapter LXXIV - The birth of Cain and Luluwa. Why they received those
names.

1 And they lived on the earth working in order to keep their bodies in
good health; and they continued so until the nine months of Eve's
pregnancy were over, and the time drew near when she must give birth.

2 Then she said to Adam, "The signs placed in this cave since we left
the garden indicate that this is a pure place and we will be praying in
it again some time. It is not appropriate then, that I should give
birth in it. Let us instead go to the sheltering rock cave that was
formed by the command of God when Satan threw a big rock down on us in
an attempt to kill us with it.

3 Adam then took Eve to that cave. When the time came for her to give
birth, she strained a lot. Adam felt sorry, and he was very worried
about her because she was close to death and the words of God to her
were being fulfilled: "In suffering shall you bear a child, and in
sorrow shall you bring forth a child."

4 But when Adam saw the distress in which Eve was, he got up and prayed
to God, and said, "O Lord, look at me with the eye of Your mercy, and
bring her out of her distress."

5 And God looked at His maid-servant Eve, and delivered her, and she
gave birth to her first-born son, and with him a daughter.

6 The Adam rejoiced at Eve's deliverance, and also over the children
she had borne him. And Adam ministered to Eve