ADAM'S REPENTANCE

Cast out of Paradise, Adam and Eve built a hut for themselves,
and for seven days they sat in it in great distress, mourning and
lamenting. At the end of the seven days, tormented by hunger,
they came forth and sought food. For seven other days, Adam
journeyed up and down in the land, looking for such dainties as
he had enjoyed in Paradise. In vain; he found nothing. Then Eve
spoke to her husband: "My lord, if it please thee, slay me.
Mayhap God will then take thee back into Paradise, for the Lord
God became wroth with thee only on account of me." But Adam
rejected her plan with abhorrence, and both went forth again on
the search for food. Nine days passed, and still they found
naught resembling what they had had in Paradise. They saw only
food fit for cattle and beasts. Then Adam proposed: "Let us do