adam is cautious—but too late.

1 then adam returned to eve, and said to her, "get up, and take a fig for yourself, and i will take another; and let us go to our cave."

2 then adam and eve took each a fig and went towards the cave; the time was about the setting of the sun; and their thoughts made them long to eat of the fruit.

3 but adam said to eve, "i am afraid to eat of this fig. i know not what may come over me from it."

4 so adam cried, and stood praying before god, saying, "satisfy my hunger, without my having to eat this fig; for after i have eaten it, what will it profit me? and what shall i desire and ask of you, o god, when it is gone?"

5 and he said again, "i am afraid to eat of it; for i know not what will befall me through it."