Apocalypse of Moses

29.7 [The following epitome of the penitence narrative is found in just a few of the Greek manuscripts, most omit it entirely.] And we grieved for seven days and after seven days we grew hungry and I said to Adam: "Rise and give some thought to food that we might eat and live and so that we do not die. Let us get up and circle the earth perhaps God will hear us." We arose and went about the entire earth but we did not find food.29.8 And I answered and said to Adam: "Rise, O Lord and destroy me that I might cease from before you and from before God and the angels (and) so that they might cease their anger toward you on my account."29.9 Then Adam answered and said to me, "For what reason do you call to mind this evil that I could commit murder and impose death upon my rib. How could I lift a hand against the image of God which he made? Rather let us repent for forty days so that God may have mercy on us and give to us better food than the animals.29.10 I will do forty days of penitence whereas you shall do 34 days for you were not made on the sixth day when God made his creation. Arise and go to the Tigris river and take a stone and put it under your feet and stand there covered in the water up to your neck and let not a word come from your mouth for we are not worthy and our lips are unclean."29.11 Adam went to the Jordan river and the hair of his head was spread out as he prayed in the water. And he cried in a loud voice saying: "I say to the waters of the Jordan stand still and pray with me even all the beasts, all the birds, and all which creeps on the land and the sea." And all the angels and all things made by God circled Adam like a wall around him and cried while praying to God on behalf of Adam so that God might hearken to him.29.12 But the devil, not finding a place with respect to Adam, came to the Tigris river to me. And assuming the form of an angel he stood before me weeping and his tears flowed upon the ground. And he said to me, "Come forth from the water and cease your crying, for God has heard your request because even we, the angels, and all things made by him, have beseeched God on your behalf.29.13 And when he said these things, the enemy deceived me a second time. And I came out of the water.