Adam and Eve are cast out of the garden and into the western part of the earth. There they were to dwell in a cave and be cast away for 5000 years and 500 days. They feel terrible and die of extreme sorrow. God, out of the grace of his heart, revives them. Adam pleads with god to help them survive and god makes all the beasts in the world not trouble Adam and Eve. Adam then gets mad at Eve as they look back at the garden and condemns her for punishing them and their future generations. They experience great sorrow and kill themselves by jumping into water. God revives them again and explains to them that they now need water to survive because they were cast out of the garden. Adam and Eve go back into the cave and Adam rants about how great the garden was and how horrible their new lives are and kills himself by throwing himself on the ground. God revives him again, and Adam then asks why god has cast them into darkness. God explains that it will not last forever, but keeps his promise to not let him back into the garden for 5000 years and 500 days. Adam and Eve kill themselves one more time by jumping off a mountain and god revives them and says to not do it again.
I would take this story and put it into the context of a child in school playing on a playground and doing something he isn't supposed to with one of his friends. The offence not only bans them from the part of the playground they were playing on, but gets them sent back into the classroom. Similar accusations/conversations between the two occur and they fall asleep from boredom instead of die. They think they will never be able to go back to the playground but they can, they just can't go back to the good part of the playground for five and a half days.
Bibliography
Adam and Eve Part B, Book of Adam and Eve
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