Conjectura cabbalistica

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feet, "which their knowledge of herbs shall nevertheless be able to cure; but men shall strike all Serpents on the head and kill them without pity or regret, rightfully treating your offspring as their deadly enemy."

16 And the judgment of the woman was her sorrow and pains in child-bearing, and her subjection to her husband. This law of subjection is generally observed among the nations of the world to this very day.

17 And the judgment of Adam was the toil of farming upon barren ground.

18 For the earth was cursed for his sake, which is the reason it brings forth thorns, thistles, and other weeds that farmers wish would not clutter the ground upon which they spend their exhausting labor.

19 Thus, by the sweat of his brow, Adam was to eat his bread until he returns to the dust from which he was taken.

20 And Adam called his wife Eve Life or Living, because she was the mother of all men who were ever born into the world and lived upon the face of the earth.

21 And the generations of men were clothed at first with the skins of wild beasts, the use of which God taught Adam and Eve in Paradise.

22 And when they were thus equipped for their journey and armed for greater hardship,

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God turns them both out. And the Lord God said concerning Adam, mocking him for his disobedience, "Behold, Adam has become like one of us, to know good and evil. Let us watch him now, lest he reach out his hand to the Tree of Life and so make himself immortal."

23 Therefore the Lord God sent him out from the Garden of Eden Pleasure or Delight to till the ground from which he was taken.

24 So he drove out Adam, and his wife was forced to follow him. For there was no longer any staying in Paradise, because the place was terribly haunted by spirits, and fearful apparitions appeared at the entrance. These were winged men with fiery flaming swords in their hands, brandished in every direction, so that Adam never dared to go back to taste the fruit of the Tree of Life. This is why mankind has remained mortal to this very day.

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