| 1 | when Yaltabaoth noticed that they withdrew from him, he cursed his earth. |
| 2 | He found the woman as she was preparing herself for her husband. |
| 3 | He was lord over her, though he did not know the mystery which had come to pass through the holy decree. |
| 4 | And they were afraid to blame him. |
| 5 | And he showed his angels his ignorance which is in him. |
| 6 | And he cast them out of paradise and he clothed them in gloomy darkness. |
| 7 | And the chief archon saw the virgin who stood by Adam, and that the luminous Epinoia of life had appeared in her. |
| 8 | And Yaltabaoth was full of ignorance. |
| 9 | And when the foreknowledge of the All noticed (it), she sent some and they snatched life out of Eve. |
| 10 | And the chief archon seduced her and he begot in her two sons; the first and the second (are) Eloim and Yave. Eloim has a bear-face and Yave has a cat-face. |
| 11 | The one is righteous but the other is unrighteous. |
| 12 | Yave is righteous but Eloim is unrighteous. |
| 13 | Yave he set over the fire and the wind, and Eloim he set over the water and the earth. |
| 14 | And these he called with the names Cain and Abel with a view to deceive. |
| 15 | Now up to the present day, sexual intercourse continued due to the chief archon. |
| 16 | And he planted sexual desire in her who belongs to Adam. |
| 17 | And he produced through intercourse the copies of the bodies, and he inspired them with his counterfeit spirit. |
| 18 | And the two archons he set over principalities, so that they might rule over the tomb. |
| 19 | And when Adam recognized the likeness of his own foreknowledge, he begot the likeness of the son of man. |
| 20 | He called him Seth, according to the way of the race in the aeons. |
| 21 | Likewise, the mother also sent down her spirit, which is in her likeness and a copy of those who are in the pleroma, for she will prepare a dwelling place for the aeons which will come down. |
| 22 | And he made them drink water of forgetfulness, from the chief archon, in order that they might not know from where they came. |
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Book IV - The Adam