Chapter I - The crystal sea, God commands Adam, expelled from Eden, to live in the Cave of Treasures.
On the third day, God planted the garden in the east of the earth, on the border of the world eastward, beyond which, towards the sun-rising, one finds nothing but water, that encompasses the whole world, and reaches to the borders of heaven. Read The first book of Adam and Eve ebook 2 And to the north of the garden there is a sea of water, clear and pure to the taste, unlike anything else; so that, through the clearness thereof, one may look into the depths of the earth. Recommended: The First Book of Adam and Eve 3 And when a man washes himself in it, he becomes clean of the cleanness thereof, and white of its whiteness—even if he were dark. 4 And God created that sea of his own good pleasure, for He knew what would come of the man He would make; so that after he had left the garden, on account of his transgression, men should be born in the earth. Among them are righteous ones who will die, whose souls God would raise at the last day; when all of them will return to their flesh, b...