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Life of Adam & Eve

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Illness of Adam
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5.1b and Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years; and he fell sick and cried with a loud voice and said, "Let all my sons come to me that I may see them before I die."5.2 And all assembled, for the earth was divided into three parts.5.3 And Seth his son said to him: "Father Adam, what is you pain?"5.4 And he said, "My children, I am crushed by the burden of pain." And they said to him, "What is pain, what is illness?"6.1 And Seth answered and said to him: "Did you remember, father, the fruit of paradise of which you used to eat, and have you become sad in yearning for it?"6.2 "If this be so, tell me, (and) I will go and bring you fruit from paradise. For I will set dung upon my head and will weep and pray that the Lord will hearken to me and send his angel (and bring me some fruit from paradise), and I will bring it you that your pain may cease from you."6.3 Adam said to him: "Nay, my son Seth, but I have (much) sickness and pain!" Seth said to him: "And how has this come upon you?"