(Note: The next four verses are probably incorrect or incomplete, with the true descriptions locked in correct translations of Egypt’s Book of the Dead, and the missing portion of the Piri Reis map.)

11. The first land is near the river Pison, which includes the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

12. And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

13. And the second land is near the river Gihon: the same land which includes the whole land of Ethiopia.

14. And the third land is near the river Hiddekel: that is the land toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth land is near the river Euphrates.

15. And it was in God’s province that the man was of Eden, where he lived and toiled.

16. And he was descended from the original mankind which settled that motherland.

17. And God’s design was that the man was warned: although the motherland was the source of all knowledge, both good and evil, that if he stay therein, surely he would die.

18. And it was God’s design that the man should not he alone, therefore a mate should be his;

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19. And since God had originally created every beast of the field, and fowl of the air, and in his time Adam had named each one;

20. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was no mate.

21. For Adam’s mate had died, after giving birth to a child of Adam;

22. And the child of the man was a female, made in the image God intended;

23. And Adam said, this child is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh; and she grew into womanhood.

24. Therefore, the man was both father and mother to her, and she abode with him, and they were one flesh.

25. And the climate there was warm, requiring little or no clothing.

III.

1. Now at the time of the beginning of this story, the oceans were in their normal state of quietness; and it was known to the woman of this story that she was not descended from any of the peoples of the lands which sprang from the mother continent;

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