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3 Meqabyan 3
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Source: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon translation

1But He created only one thought for thee, that thou mightest give total praise whilst thou wast sent whither thy Creator sent thee.

2But unto Adam were given five evil thoughts and five good thoughts—ten thoughts in all.

3Furthermore, he hath a multitude of thoughts like the waves of the sea, or as a whirlwind that scattereth the dust lifted from the earth, or as the tossing waves of the sea. From the abundance of his thoughts without number in his heart—as raindrops without number—such are the thoughts of Adam.

4But thy thought is only one. As thou art not of flesh, thou hast no other thought.

5But thou didst dwell in the mind of the serpent; in evil treachery thou didst destroy Adam, who was a single body. Eve heard the words of the serpent, and having heard, she did as she was commanded.

6After she ate of the fig fruit, she came and led astray the first creation of the Lord, even Adam. She brought death upon him and upon her children, because she brake the Commandment of her Creator.

7They were cast out from the Garden by the true Judgement of the Lord. He comforted them in the land whither they were sent, through the children born of their nature and by the increase found in the earth; yet He ended not the quarrel with the Garden.

8When thou didst drive them forth from the Garden, that they might plant and raise up children for their comfort—renewing their understanding in the fruit of the earth which the earth prepared—and that they might be comforted by the fruit of the earth and the fruit of the Garden which the Lord gave unto them...

9...the Lord gave unto them trees more green than the trees of the Garden. Eve and Adam—whom thou didst send forth from the Garden when they ate thereof—were fully comforted from their sorrow.

10As the Lord knoweth how to comfort His creation, their minds were quieted because of their children and the increase found from the earth.

11Though they were sent unto this world that groweth nettles and thorns, they strengthened their minds through water and grain.