"when 5500 years are fulfilled.…"

1 after these things the word of god came to adam, and said to him:—

2 "o adam, as to the fruit on the tree of life that you have asked for, i will not give it to you now, but only when the 5500 years are fulfilled. at that time i will give you fruit from the tree of life, and you will eat, and live forever, you, and eve, and your righteous descendants.

3 but these forty-three days cannot make amends for the hour in which you transgressed my commandment.

4 o adam, i gave you the fruit of the fig-tree to eat in which you hid yourself. go and eat of it, you and eve.

5 i will not deny your request, neither will i disappoint your hope; therefore, endure until the fulfillment of the covenant i made with you."

6 and god withdrew his word from adam.