adam wishes to protect eve.

1 then adam cried and said, "o god, take us away to some other place, where the serpent can not come near us again, and rise against us. for fear that it might find your handmaid eve alone and kill her; for its eyes are hideous and evil."

2 but god said to adam and eve, "from now on, don't be afraid, i will not let it come near you; i have driven it away from you, from this mountain; neither will i leave in it the ability to hurt you."

3 then adam and eve worshipped before god and gave him thanks, and praised him for having delivered them from death.