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Concerning this, it has been said from the Little Genesis and the so-called Life of Adam, even if it does not seem to be authoritative, so that those who discuss these things might not fall into more absurd opinions. For it is found in the so-called Life of Adam, the number of the days of both the naming of the beasts and the formation of the woman and the entry of Adam himself into paradise and the command of God to him concerning the eating of the tree, and of the entry of Eve into paradise after this, both the things of the transgression and the things after the transgression, as it is set down below. On the first day of the second week, which was the third day of the formation of Adam, and the 8th of the first month, Nisan, and the 1st of the month of April, and the 6th of Pharmouthi among the Egyptians, Adam named the wild beasts by a certain divine gift. on the 2nd day of the 2nd week he named the cattle. on the 3rd day of the 2nd week he named the birds. on the 4th day 5 of the 2nd week he named the reptiles. on the 5th day of the 2nd week he named the swimming creatures. on the 6th day of the 2nd week, which was according to the Romans the 6th of April, and according to the Egyptians the 11th of Pharmouthi, God, taking a part of Adam's side, formed the woman. on the 46th day of the creation of the world, the 4th day of the 7th week, Pachon 14th, May 9th, the sun being in Taurus and the moon in Scorpio diametrically opposite, at the rising of the Pleiades, God brought Adam into paradise on the 40th day of his formation. on the 50th day of the creation of the world, and the 44th of the formation of Adam, on a Sunday, Pachon 18th, May 13th, three days after his entry into paradise, the sun being in Taurus and the moon in Capricorn, God commanded Adam to abstain from eating of the tree of knowledge. On the 93rd day of creation, on the 2nd day of the fourteenth week, at the summer solstice, the sun and moon being in Cancer, on the 25th of the month of June, the first of Epiphi, Adam's helper, Eve, was brought by God into paradise, on the 80th day of her formation. whom Adam, having taken, named Eve, which is interpreted as life; for this reason God commanded through Moses in Leviticus, that is, on account of the days of their separation from paradise after their formation, that in the case of the birth of a male she is to be unclean for 40 days, and in the case of the birth of a female for up to 80 days. Since Adam was also brought into paradise on the 40th day of his formation, for which reason also those born are brought into the temple on the 40th day according to the law. and in the case of a female she is to be unclean for 80 days both on account of her entry into paradise on the 80th day and on account of the uncleanness of the female compared to the male. for again being in menstruation she does not enter the temple for up to seven days according to the divine law. These things from the so-called Life of Adam I have briefly arranged for the sake of the love of learning, the things done in his time in the first year of the formation of Adam, and in order the rest will also be arranged, up to the nine hundred and thirtieth year of his life, and of the other generations, both from the divinely inspired scriptures and from the more notable historians who followed these, from whom also taking the greater part, except for a few things that have happened in our 6 times, I will endeavor to make a certain summary, taking care at once for coherence and truth in all things and for the appropriate sequence of events, the successions, I mean, of kings and the number of priests, both of prophets and apostles and martyrs and teachers, and of those among the Greeks or other nations renowned for wisdom or some other art or military excellence and for manifest wickedness, having collected everything as I am able from the aforesaid historical men; over all these, the God-abhorred covenant against Christ and our race, which the dwellings of the Idumeans and the Ishmaelites made, persecuting the people according to the spirit, by divine judgments and planning the apostasy prophesied by the blessed Paul for the last days, I will describe according to my ability, up to the present 6300th year from

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τούτου εἴρηται ἐκ τῆς λεπτῆς Γενέσεως καὶ τοῦ λεγομένου βίου Ἀδάμ, εἰ καὶ μὴ κύρια εἶναι δοκεῖ, ὡς ἂν μὴ εἰς ἀτοπωτέρας δόξας ἐκπέ σοιεν οἱ ταῦτα συζητοῦντες. κεῖται γοῦν ἐν τῷ λεγομένῳ βίῳ Ἀδὰμ ὁ τῶν ἡμερῶν ἀριθμὸς τῆς τε ὀνομασίας τῶν θηρίων καὶ τῆς πλάσεως τῆς γυναι κὸς καὶ τῆς εἰσόδου αὐτοῦ Ἀδὰμ ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ καὶ τῆς περὶ τοῦ ξύλου τῆς βρώσεως ἐντολῆς τοῦ θεοῦ πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ τῆς μετὰ τούτου εἰσόδου Εὔας ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ, τά τε τῆς παραβάσεως καὶ τὰ μετὰ τὴν παράβασιν, ὡς ὑποτέτακται. Τῇ πρώτῃ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς δευτέρας ἑβδομάδος, ἥτις ἦν τρίτη μὲν ἡμέρα τῆς πλάσεως τοῦ Ἀδάμ, ηʹ δὲ τοῦ πρώτου μηνὸς Νισάν, αʹ δὲ τοῦ Ἀπριλλίου μηνός, καὶ ςʹ τοῦ παρ' Αἰγυπτίοις Φαρμουθί, ὠνόμασεν Ἀδὰμ τὰ ἄγρια θηρία θείῳ τινὶ χαρίσματι. τῇ βʹ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς βʹ ἑβδομάδος ὠνόμασε τὰ κτήνη. τῇ γʹ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς βʹ ἑβδομάδος ὠνόμασε τὰ πετεινά. τῇ δʹ ἡμέρᾳ 5 τῆς βʹ ἑβδομάδος ὠνόμασε τὰ ἑρπετά. τῇ εʹ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς βʹ ἑβδομάδος ὠνό μασε τὰ νηκτά. τῇ ςʹ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς βʹ ἑβδομάδος, ἥτις ἦν κατὰ μὲν Ῥωμαίους Ἀπριλλίου ςʹ, κατὰ δὲ Αἰγυπτίους Φαρμουθὶ ιαʹ, λαβὼν ὁ θεὸς μέρος τι τῆς πλευρᾶς τοῦ Ἀδὰμ ἔπλασε τὴν γυναῖκα. τῇ μ ςʹ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς κοσμοποιίας, δʹ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς ζʹ ἑβδομάδος, Παχὼν ιδʹ, Μαΐου θʹ, ἡλίου ὄντος ταύρῳ καὶ σελήνης σκορπίῳ κατὰ διάμετρον, ἐν τῇ τῶν Πλειάδων ἐπιτολῇ, εἰσήγαγεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν Ἀδὰμ ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ κατὰ τὴν μʹ ἡμέραν τῆς πλάσεως αὐ τοῦ. τῇ νʹ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς κοσμοποιίας, μδʹ δὲ τῆς πλάσεως τοῦ Ἀδάμ, ἡμέρᾳ κυριακῇ, Παχὼν ιηʹ, Μαΐου ιγʹ, μετὰ τρεῖς ἡμέρας τῆς ἐν τῷ παρα δείσῳ αὐτοῦ εἰσόδου, ἡλίου ὄντος ταύρῳ καὶ σελήνης αἰγοκέρωτι, ἐνετεί λατο ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἀδὰμ ἀπέχεσθαι τῆς βρώσεως τοῦ ξύλου τῆς γνώσεως. Τῇ ζγʹ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς κτίσεως, τῇ βʹ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτης ἑβδο μάδος, κατὰ τὴν θερινὴν τροπήν, ἡλίου ὄντος καὶ σελήνης καρκίνῳ, τῇ κεʹ τοῦ Ἰουνίου μηνός, Ἐπιφὶ πρώτῃ, εἰσήχθη ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ ἡ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ βοηθὸς Εὔα, ἐν τῇ πʹ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς πλάσεως αὐτῆς. ἣν ὁ Ἀδὰμ λαβὼν ὠνόμασεν Εὔαν, ὃ ἑρμηνεύεται ζωή· διὰ τοῦτο προσέταξεν ὁ θεὸς διὰ Μωϋσέως ἐν τῷ Λευιτικῷ, ἤτοι διὰ τὰς μετὰ τὴν πλάσιν τοῦ χωρισμοῦ αὐτῶν ἡμέρας ἐκ τοῦ παραδείσου, ἐπὶ μὲν ἀρρενογονίας ἀκάθαρ τον αὐτὴν εἶναι ἐπὶ μʹ ἡμέρας, ἐπὶ δὲ θηλυτοκίας ἕως ἡμερῶν πʹ. ἐπειδὴ καὶ Ἀδὰμ τῇ μʹ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς πλάσεως αὐτοῦ εἰσήχθη ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ, οὗ χάριν καὶ τὰ γεννώμενα τῇ μʹ ἡμέρᾳ εἰσφέρουσιν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ κατὰ τὸν νό μον. ἐπὶ δὲ θήλεος ἀκάθαρτον εἶναι αὐτὴν ἐπὶ ἡμέρας πʹ διά τε τὴν ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ αὐτῆς εἴσοδον τῇ πʹ ἡμέρᾳ καὶ διὰ τὸ ἀκάθαρτον τοῦ θήλεος πρὸς τὸ ἄρσεν. ἀφεδρῶς γὰρ πάλιν οὖσα οὐκ εἰσέρχεται ἕως ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ κατὰ τὸν θεῖον νόμον. Ταῦτα ἐκ τοῦ βίου λεγομένου Ἀδὰμ φιλομαθίας χάριν ἐν συντόμῳ ἐστοιχείωσα, ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ ἔτει τῆς πλάσεως τοῦ Ἀδάμ, ἐπ' αὐτῷ τὰ πραχθέντα, ἐφεξῆς δὲ καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ στοιχειωθήσεται, ἕως ἐννακοσιοστοῦ τριακοστοῦ ἔτους τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν γενέσεων, ἔκ τε τῶν θεοπνεύστων γραφῶν καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἐπισημοτέρων ἱστορικῶν τῶν ταύταις ἐξακολουθησάντων, ἐξ ὧν καὶ τὰ πλείω λαβών, πλὴν ὀλίγων τῶν κατὰ 6 τοὺς ἡμετέρους χρόνους γεγονότων, σύνοψίν τινα σπουδάσω ποιῆσαι, συν αφείας ἅμα καὶ ἀληθείας ἐν πᾶσι φροντίζων καὶ τῆς καταλλήλου τῶν πραγ μάτων ἀκολουθίας, διαφοράς φημι βασιλέων καὶ ἱερέων ἀριθμόν, προ φητῶν τε καὶ ἀποστόλων καὶ μαρτύρων καὶ διδασκάλων, καὶ τῶν παρ' Ἕλ λησιν ἢ ἄλλοις ἔθνεσιν ἐπὶ σοφίᾳ βεβοημένων ἢ ἄλλῃ τινὶ τέχνῃ ἢ ἀριστείᾳ πολεμικῇ καὶ ἐπὶ μοχθηρίᾳ προδήλῳ, πάντα ὡς οἷός τε ὢν ἀναλεξάμενος ἐκ τῶν προειρημένων ἱστορικῶν ἀνδρῶν· ἐπὶ πᾶσι τὴν κατὰ Χριστοῦ καὶ τοῦ γένους ἡμῶν θεοβδέλυκτον διαθήκην, ἣν διέθετο τὰ σκηνώματα τῶν Ἰδουμαίων καὶ οἱ Ἰσμαηλῖται διώκοντες τὸν κατὰ τὸ πνεῦμα λαόν, θείοις κρίμασι καὶ ἀποστασίαν μελετῶντες τὴν ἐπ' ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ μακαρίου Παύλου προφητευθεῖσαν, διαγράψω κατὰ δύναμιν, ἕως τοῦ νῦν ἐνεστῶτος ςτʹ ἔτους ἀπὸ