The Story of the Garden in Eden
Genesis 2:4b-3:24
2:4b In a day Yahweh ELOHIM made Earth and the Skies;
5 before any shrub of the field was on Earth,
and before any plant of the field had sprung up.
Yahweh ELOHIM had not sent rain on the Earth
and there was not an ADAM to till the ground.
6 A mist went up from the Earth and watered the surface of the ground.
7 And Yahweh ELOHIM formed the ADAM of dirt from the ground
and blew the breath of life into his nostrils.
The ADAM became a living soul.
8 Yahweh ELOHIM planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there
Yahweh ELOHIM put the ADAM whom He had formed.
9 Yahweh ELOHIM made spring from the ground
every tree that is pleasant to the sight and TOV for food.
The Tree of Life was in the midst of the garden,
and the Tree of the Knowledge of TOV and Ra.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden,
and from there it parted and became four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one surrounding
the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12 And the gold of that land is TOV. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
13 The name of the second river is Gihon;
it is the one surrounding the whole land of Cush.
14 The name of the third river is Tigris;
it is the one going east of Assyria.
The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 Yahweh ELOHIM took the ADAM
and put him in the garden of Eden to serve her and guard her.
16 And Yahweh ELOHIM commanded the ADAM, saying,
“Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
but of the Tree of the Knowledge of TOV and Ra you shall not eat,
17 for in the day that you eat of it dying you shall die.”
18 And Yahweh ELOHIM said, “It is not TOV that the ADAM should be alone;
I will make for him a creature that is equal to adequate for him in every way.”
19 Out of the ground Yahweh ELOHIM formed every animal of the field
and every winged creature of the skies
and brought to the ADAM to see what he would call it.
And whatever the ADAM called each living creature, that was its name.
20 And the ADAM gave names to all large animals,
to the winged creatures of the skies, and to every beast of the field.
But for an ADAM there was not found a creature
equal to and adequate for him in every way.
21 And Yahweh ELOHIM caused a deep sleep to fall on the ADAM, and he slept.
And He took one side of the ADAM, and the flesh closed up in its place.
22 And Yahweh ELOHIM built the side which he had taken from the ADAM into an ISHAH,
and Yahweh ELOHIM brought her to the ADAM.
23 And the ADAM said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called “ISHAH,” because from “ISH” she was taken.”
24 Therefore shall an ISH leave his father and mother
and shall ISH shall be glued to his ISHAH, and they shall become one flesh.
25 And they were both cunning, crafty, and shrewd, the ADAM and his ISHAH,
and they had not shamed themselves.
3:1 And the serpent was more cunning, crafty, and shrewd
than any animal of the field which Yahweh ELOHIM had made.
And the serpent said to the ISHAH:
“Ah because ELOHIM has said, ‘You shall not eat from every tree of the garden?”
2 And the ISHAH said to the serpent:
“Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden
ELOHIM had said, ‘You shall not eat of it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
4 And the serpent said to the ISHAH:
“You will not surely die, 5 because ELOHIM knows
that in the day you eat from it then your eyes shall be opened,
and you shall be like ELOHIM, knowing TOV and Ra.”
6 And the ISHAH saw that the tree was TOV for food,
and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
and that the tree was desirable to make one wise,
and she took of its fruit and ate;
and she gave also to her ISH, there, with her, and he ate.
7 And the eyes of both of them were opened,
and they knew that they were naked;
and they sewed fig leaves and made for themselves coverings.
8 And they heard the sound of the voice of Yahweh ELOHIM
Walking up and down in the garden in the cool of the day,
and the ADAM and his ISHAH hid themselves
from the face of Yahweh ELOHIM in the middle of the trees of the garden.
9 And Yahweh ELOHIM called to the ADAM and said to him: “Where are you?”
10 And he said: “I heard Your voice in the garden,
and I was afraid for I am naked; and I hid myself.”
11 And Yahweh ELOHIM said: “Who told you that you were naked?
Of the tree which I told you not to eat from, have you eaten?”
12 And the ADAM said:
“The ISHAH whom You gave to be with me, she has given to me from the tree, and I ate.”
13 And Yahweh ELOHIM said to the ISHAH: “What is this you have done?”
The ISHAH said: “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 And Yahweh ELOHIM said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all the large animals, and more than every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
15 I will set hatred between you and the ISHAH, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will crush your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
16 To the ISHAH Yahweh ELOHIM said: “I will greatly multiply your toil,
and your conception, with toil you shall bring forth children;
and your desire shall be for your ISH, and he shall rule with you.”
17 And to the ADAM Yahweh ELOHIM said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your ISHAH, and have eaten from the tree which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat’; cursed is the ground because of you. In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. 18 The ground shall cause to bring up thorns and thistle to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dirt and to dirt you shall return.”
20 The ADAM called the name of his ISHAH “Chavah,”
because she was the mother of all living.
21 And Yahweh ELOHIM made for ADAM and his ISHAH
garments of skin and covered them.
22 Yahweh ELOHIM said, “Look! The ADAM has become like the Tree of Knowing TOV and Ra. Now, lest he send out his hand and take also fruit from the Tree of Life,
and eat, and live forever, 23 Yahweh ELOHIM sent him away
from the garden in Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
24 He drove out the ADAM and He placed winged-sphinxes at the east of the garden in Eden, with the flaming, ever-turning sword, to guard the path to the Tree of Life.
