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Life of Adam and Eve 22

Pseudepigrapha — not canonical

Anderson critical edition of the Latin Vita Adae et Evae (Lechner-Schmidt text, Custis/Anderson/Layton translation, U. Virginia IATH); includes medieval Latin appendices 52–57. These texts are not endorsed in any LDS canon — see framing.

1(22.1) Adam took Eve and the boy and led them to the east.

2(22.2) The Lord God sent various seeds by Michael the angel, who gave them to Adam and showed them how to work and tend the ground, in order to have fruit, from which they and all their generations might live.

3(22.3) Afterwards, Eve conceived and bore a son, whose name was Abel, and Cain and Abel remained together as one.

4(22.4a) Eve said to Adam:

5(22.4b) "My lord, while asleep I saw a vision like the blood of our son Abel on the hand of Cain who tasted it with his mouth. On account of this I am pained."

6(22.5) Adam said: "Woe, let not Cain kill Abel, but let us separate them from each other and make separate houses for them."

Public-domain text. Pseudepigrapha are extra-canonical witnesses to the Second Temple and early Christian worlds; read with discernment. The Apocrypha endorsement in D&C 91 does not extend to these texts.