Chapter 5
The Gods finish Their planning of the creation of all things—They bring to pass the Creation according to Their plans—Adam names every living creature.
1 And thus we will finish the heavens and the earth, and all the
2 And the Gods said among themselves: On the seventh time we will end our work, which we have counseled; and we will
3 And the Gods concluded upon the seventh time, because that on the seventh time they would
4 And the Gods came down and formed these the generations of the heavens and of the earth, when they were formed in the day that the
5 According to all that which they had said concerning every plant of the field before it was in the
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the
8 And the Gods planted a garden, eastward in
9 And out of the ground made the Gods to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the
10 There was a river running out of Eden, to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads.
11 And the Gods took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it.
12 And the Gods commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat,
13 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the time that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Now I, Abraham, saw that it was after the Lord’s
14 And the Gods said: Let us make an help meet for the man, for it is not good that the man should be alone, therefore we will form an help meet for him.
15 And the Gods caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and he slept, and they took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in the stead thereof;
16 And of the rib which the Gods had taken from man, formed they a
17 And Adam said: This was bone of my bones, and
18 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
19 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not
20 And out of the ground the Gods formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever
21 And Adam gave