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VI. THE DEATH OF ADAM, (xii.)


l. 2021ADAM'S lifetime was not short;that ye may know, without risk (of error),thirty years had he, it was exactly proven,with nine hundred years.[1]
Then came a complete sickness to Adam,such as comes to everyone,his wife Eve with every goodnesswas receiving his last bequests.
Adam knew his destiny,he spake to splendid Eve:"I have parted from thee and from thy children;of this sickness I die."
"It is hard of God,"said she, said Eve, to Adam,"that thou art not sojourning here, (?)that it is not I who go first.
  1. i.e. 930 years; see Gen. v. 3.

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