Adam and Eve strengthen themselves and make the first altar ever built.  
 
1 Then Adam cried more and said, "O God, have mercy on me, so far as to take on yourself, that which I will do."
 
2 But God withdrew His Word from Adam and Eve.
 
3 Then Adam and Eve stood on their feet; and Adam said to Eve, "Strengthen yourself, and I also will strengthen myself." And she strengthened herself, as Adam told her.
 
4 Then Adam and Eve took stones and placed them in the shape of an altar; and they took leaves from the trees outside the garden, with which they wiped, from the face of the rock, the blood they had spilled.
 
5 But that which had dropped on the sand, they took together with the dust with which it was mingled and offered it on the altar as an offering to God.
 
6 Then Adam and Eve stood under the Altar and cried, thus praying to God, "Forgive us our trespass* and our sin, and look at us with Thine eye of mercy. For when we were in the garden our praises and our hymns went up before you without ceasing.
 
7 But when we came............