The Old Testament is missing some important messages that we can find in the book of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price. I love this added insight!!


Moses 5 gives us these points:

• Eve worked alongside Adam, providing food and shelter for their family
• They both prayed to God, and received personal answers
• Verse 11 is one of my favourite verses in all scripture:

'And Eve, his wife, heard all these things and was glad, saying: Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient.'


          Eve was fully aware of the Plan of Salvation, and saw the Fall as it really was....a blessing
          and an opportunity to progress.

• Verse 12 continues:

And Adam and Eve blessed the name of God, and they made all things known unto their sons and their daughters.

          Eve was a righteous mother, teaching her children in righteousness, and no doubt being 

          a wonderful example to them.

• The beginning of verse 16 tells us that Adam and Eve 'ceased not to call upon God'. 
• We learn in verse 17 the hope that Eve had upon the birth of Cain......she said 'I have gotten a man from the Lord; wherefore he may not reject his words.' How he broke her heart!! In verse 27 we read 'And Adam and his wife mourned before the Lord, because of Cain and his brethren.' Obviously Cain was not the only one of their children to go astray.

Moses 5 and Genesis 4 mention briefly another woman....she is the granddaughter of Adam and Eve, and becomes Cain's wife. Nothing is told about her except that she left with Cain when he was shut out from the presence of the Lord and went to the land of Nod.

Cain's great-great-great-grandson was Lamech. His 2 wives are mentioned in verse 19 of Genesis 4, and also in Moses 5:44. Their names were Adah and Zillah. Zillah had a daughter, Naamah. Adah and Zillah did not support Lamech in his wicked ways. In fact, they let the wider community know of the evil he was perpetrating. Truly they are to be an example to us of our own approach to evil in our day. We should spurn it, and warn our neighbours.

Back to Eve.....Seth was born, and must have been balm to her aching heart. Genesis 4:25 records her words on his birth - 'For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.'

We read no more of Eve, I think. I don't even think that her death is recorded. I will look for it as I continue my studies.

My next post will give my thoughts on this most noble of women.