1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:2 That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.6 Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.7 Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.8 Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:9 Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors be in the house of a stranger;11 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!14 I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly.15 Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.16 Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.17 Let them be only your own, and not strangers'with you.18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love.20 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his goings.22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

1 And thus we will finish the heavens and the earth, and all the hosts of them.2 And the Gods said among themselves: On the seventh time we will end our work, which we have counseled; and we will rest on the seventh time from all our work which we have counseled.3 And the Gods concluded upon the seventh time, because that on the seventh time they would rest from all their works which they (the Gods) counseled among themselves to form; and sanctified it. And thus were their decisions at the time that they counseled among themselves to form the heavens and the earth.4 And the Gods came down and formed these the generations of the heavens and of the earth, when they were formed in the day that the Gods formed the earth and the heavens,5 According to all that which they had said concerning every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for the Gods had not caused it to rain upon the earth when they counseled to do them, and had not formed a man to till the ground.6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.7 And the Gods formed man from the dust of the ground, and took his spirit (that is, the man's spirit), and put it into him; and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.8 And the Gods planted a garden, eastward in Eden, and there they put the man, whose spirit they had put into the body which they had formed.9 And out of the ground made the Gods to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life, also, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.10 There was a river running out of Eden, to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads.11 And the Gods took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it.12 And the Gods commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat,13 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the time that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Now I, Abraham, saw that it was after the Lord's time, which was after the time of Kolob; for as yet the Gods had not appointed unto Adam his reckoning.14 And the Gods said: Let us make an help meet for the man, for it is not good that the man should be alone, therefore we will form an help meet for him.15 And the Gods caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and he slept, and they took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in the stead thereof;16 And of the rib which the Gods had taken from man, formed they a woman, and brought her unto the man.17 And Adam said: This was bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; now she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man;18 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.19 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.20 And out of the ground the Gods formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that should be the name thereof.21 And Adam gave names to all cattle, to the fowl of the air, to every beast of the field; and for Adam, there was found an help meet for him.