(Adam speaks)
"O Eve, let us with sincerity
make lasting penance and repentance,
that we might cleanse away before the King of Justice
something of our sins, of our transgressions."
(Eve replies)
"Give me instruction about that,
O my Lord, O Adam,
because I know not before the great world[64]
how one should do penance.
"Instruct me clearly,
according to thy understanding, according to thy clear sense,
that I do not exceed,
neither that I fall short in any way."
"Let us adore the Lord together
in silence, without intercourse;
thou into the strong river Tigris,
and I will go into the River Jordan.
"Thirty-three days
thou should'st be in the River Tigris,
myself in Jordan under correction
forty-seven clear days.
"Take with thee a firm flag of stone,
(place it) under thy sitting, under thy gentle feet,
and I shall take with me another stone
equal to it, resembling it exactly.
"Dispose the stone in the river,
bathe thyself on it;
thou wilt be chosen as thou hast strength to endure
until the water rises to thy throat.