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The First Book of Adam and Eve

by Rutherford Hayes Platt

Pages
about 123
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
Reading time
2.3 h at 250 wpm
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From the opening

Chapter I - The crystal sea, God commands Adam, expelled from Eden, to live in the Cave of Treasures.

Chapter II - Adam and Eve faint when they leave the Garden. God sends His Word to encourage them.

Chapter III - Concerning the promise of the great five and a half days.

Chapter IV - Adam mourns over the changed conditions. Adam and Eve enter the Cave of Treasures.

Chapter V - Eve makes a noble and emotional intercession, taking the blame on herself.

Chapter VI - God's reprimand to Adam and Eve in which he points out how and why they sinned.

Chapter IX - Water from the Tree of Life. Adam and Eve near drowning.

Chapter X - Their bodies need water after they leave the garden.

Chapter XI - A recollection of the glorious days in the Garden.

Chapter XIII - The fall of Adam. Why night and day were created.

Chapter XV - Adam and Eve grieve over the suffering of God to save them from their sins.

Chapter XVI - The first sunrise. Adam and Eve think it is a fire coming to burn them.

Chapter XXIII - Adam and Eve strengthen themselves and make the first altar ever built.

Chapter XXIV - A vivid prophecy of the life and death of Christ.

Chapter XXV - God represented as merciful and loving. The establishing of worship.

Chapter XXVI - A beautiful prophecy of eternal life and joy (v. 15). The fall of night.

Chapter XXVII - The second tempting of Adam and Eve. The devil takes on the form of a beguiling light.

Chapter XXVIII - The Devil pretends to lead Adam and Eve to the water to bathe.

Chapter XXXI - They make themselves more comfortable in the Cave of Treasures on the third day.

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