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Life of Adam and Eve 9

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(9.1) Eighteen days passed. Then Satan grew angry and transfigured himself into the brilliance of an angel and went off to the Tigris River to Eve.

2(9.2) He found her weeping, and then, the Devil himself, as if mourning with her began to weep and said to her: "Come out of the water and rest and weep no longer. Cease now from your sadness and lamenting. Why are you uneasy, you and your husband Adam?

3(9.3) The Lord God has heard your lamenting and accepted your penitence. All of us angels have pleaded for you, praying to the Lord,

4(9.4) and he sent me to lead you forth from the water and to give you the nourishment which you had in paradise and for which you have grieved.

5(9.5) Now, therefore, come out of the water and I will lead you to the place where your food is prepared."

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.