Another matter, Rabbi Avin said: What is hen? To what is the matter comparable? It is to a certain noblewoman who crafted a high quality purple garment for the king. The king took it and stored it. When the time arrived for the woman to die, the king said: ‘Let her take that purple garment with which she honored me.’ So, the Holy One blessed be He said to Moses: ‘You lauded Me with hen, with hen I decree death upon you.’
Another matter, to what is the matter comparable? It is to a pregnant woman who was incarcerated in prison. She bore a son there. That child grew up there. The king passed before the prison. That child began shouting: ‘My lord the king, why am I incarcerated in the prison?’ The king said to him: ‘It is due to the sin of your mother that you are placed here.’ So Moses said: ‘Master of the universe, there are thirty-six instances of karet for which a person who violates one of them incurs liability to die. Did I, perhaps, violate one of them? Why are You decreeing death upon me?’ He said to him: ‘Due to the sin of Adam the first man you are dying, as he brought death to the world.’ Hen, what is hen? Due to the iniquity of the one in whose regard hen is written: “Behold [hen], the man has become as one of us…” (Genesis 3:22).