Chapter I - The crystal sea, God commands Adam, expelled
from Eden, to live in the Cave of Treasures.
1 On the third day, God planted the garden in the east
of the earth, on the border of the world eastward, beyond
which, towards the sun-rising, one finds nothing but water,
that encompasses the whole world, and reaches to the
borders of heaven.
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2 And to the north of the garden there is a sea of
water, clear and pure to the taste, unlike anything else;
so that, through the clearness thereof, one may look into
the depths of the earth.
3 And when a man washes himself in it, he becomes
clean of the cleanness thereof, and white of its whiteness