THE PUNISHMENT

As long as Adam stood naked, casting about for means of escape
from his embarrassment, God did not appear unto him, for one
should not "strive to see a man in the hour of his disgrace." He
waited until Adam and Eve had covered themselves with fig
leaves.[71] But even before God spoke to him, Adam knew what was
impending. He heard the angels announce, "God betaketh Himself
unto those that dwell in Paradise." He heard more, too. He heard
what the angels were saying to one another about his fall, and
what they were saying to God. In astonishment the angels
exclaimed: "What! He still walks about in Paradise? He is not yet
dead?" Whereupon God: "I said to him, 'In the day that thou
eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die!' Now, ye know not what
manner of day I meant--one of My days of a thousand years, or one