So Eve and Seth departed and went towards the garden; and as they were going through the woods, a wild beast leaped out and attacked Seth.  And Eve was terrified and cried out, “Alas! alas! what will become of me at the last day?  Surely all that have done evil will curse me, saying, ’Woe unto Eve, because she kept not the commandment of God!’” And she cried out upon the wild beast, “How wast thou not afraid to fight against the image of God?  How is thy mouth opened against Him?  Dost thou not remember that God put thee in subjection to us?” And the beast spake with a man’s voice and said, “What have we to do with thy weeping and complaints?  How was it that thy mouth was opened to eat of the fruit?  Accuse me not, lest I begin to accuse thee.”  Then said Seth to the beast, “Shut thy mouth:  be silent:  dare not to touch the image of God.”  And the beast answered, “Thee will I obey, O Seth.”  And it fled and left him wounded, and went back to its den.

So Eve and Seth went on to the garden and wept before the gate, beseeching God to send them the oil of mercy for Adam.  And God sent Michael the archangel to them, who said, “Seth, thou man of God, weary not thyself with making supplication for the oil of mercy, for it cannot be given to thee now.  But when the times are fulfilled, then shall come One who shall anoint thy father with that oil, and he shall rise up and return to the garden, he and all his seed; and the evil heart shall be taken from them, and a new heart shall be given them to understand that which is good, and God shall dwell in the midst of them, and they shall be His people.  But now go back to thy father, for his end is near, even within three days, and tell him these words; and watch what shall come to pass when he is taken from thee.”  They returned therefore to Adam, and told him; and he groaned and said, “Alas!  O Eve, what is this that thou hast done, to bring upon us the dominion of death?  Now therefore call together our children and our children’s children, and tell them concerning our sin, from first to last.”  So, when they were assembled, Eve spoke to them, and told them the whole story of how Satan came to the serpent and taunted it for paying homage to Adam and Eve, forasmuch as they were neither so beautiful nor so wise as itself; and he persuaded the serpent to let him speak through its mouth; and at the hour when the angels go up to the heavens to worship God, the serpent slipped over the wall and found Eve by the Tree of Knowledge; and of what happened after that, until the time when they were cast out of the garden.  And when she ceased speaking, her children departed.

Then she went in to Adam, and said to him,