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Life of Adam & Eve

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Apocalypse of Moses

Judgment of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent
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24.1 God said to Adam: "Since you transgressed my commandment and hearkened to your wife, cursed is the earth on your account.24.2 You shall work it and it shall not give its strength: thorns and thistles shall spring up for you and in the sweat of your face you shall eat your bread. You shall be in manifold toils and you shall not rest; you shall be crushed by bitterness, but of sweetness you shall not taste.24.3 You shall be crushed from toils and constrained by cold. You shall struggle greatly and not become rich and you shall grow fat, but come to no end.24.4 The beasts, over whom you ruled, shall rise up in rebellion against you, for you have not kept my commandment."25.1 And the Lord turned to me and said: "Since you has hearkened to the serpent, and transgressed my commandment, you shall suffer torments and intolerable pains;25.2 you shall bear children in much trembling and in one hour you shall come to the birth, and lose your life, from your sore trouble and anguish.25.3 But you shall confess and say: "Lord, Lord, save me, and I will turn no more to the sin of the flesh." But even another time you shall so turn.25.4 And on this account, from your own words I will judge you, by reason of the enmity which the enemy has planted in you. And you shall return again to your husband and he will rule over you."26.1 After he said these things to me, he spoke to the serpent in great wrath saying: "Since you has done this, and become a thankless vessel until you has deceived the innocent hearts, be cursed (more than) all beasts.26.2 You shall be deprived of the food which you ate and you shall eat dust all the days of your life; on your breast and your belly you shall walk and be robbed of hands and feet.26.3 There shall not be left you ear nor wing, nor one limb of all that with which you ensnared them in your malice and so caused them to be cast out of paradise;26.4 and I will put enmity between you and their seed: he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise the heel of that one until the day of Judgment."