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38 Then the stream gathered together every living creature that was in its womb, until the whole number of the living creatures were around Adam.

All of them prayed, Adam, the stream, and the multitude of animals; mournfully they poured forth their noble lamentation to the perfect host of the nine holy grades.

That all the grades, openly, might beseech their Lord on their behalf that God should give full forgiveness, and should not destroy Adam.

The nine grades with their array prayed to God who controls them for forgiveness now for Adam for his peril, for his sin.

God gave to His grades full pardon for the sin of Adam, and the habitation of the earth at all times with heaven, holily noble, all-pure.

And He pardoned after that their descendants and their peoples, save him alone who acts unrighteously and transgresses the will of God unlawfully.