HEB GEN :2. BEFORE A PLANT OF THE FIELD WAS IN THE EARTH,BEFORE A GRAIN OF THE FIELD SPROUTED-----YAHWEH HAD NOT SPILLED RAIN ON THE EARTH, NOR WAS THERE MAN TO WORK THE LAND.---YET FROM THE DAY YAHWEH MADE EARTH AND SKY, A MIST FROM WITHIN WOULD RISE TO MOISTEN THE SURFACE. YAHWEH SHAPED AN EARTHLING FROM CLAY OF THIS EARTH, BLEW INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE WIND OF LIFE. NOW LOOK: MAN BECOMES A CREATURE OF FLESH.
NOW YAHWEH PLANTED A GARDEN IN EDEN, EASTWARD, SETTLED THERE THE MAN HE FORMED. FROM THE LAND. YAHWEH GREW ALL TREES LOVELY TO LOOK UPON, GOOD TO EAT FROOM; THE TREE OF LIFE WAS THERE IN THE GARDEN, AND THE TREE OF KNOWING GOD AND BAD. OUT OF EDEN FLOWS A RIVER. IT WATERS THE GARDEN, THEN OUTSIDE, BRANCHES INTO FOUR: ONE PISHON,, WINDS THROUGH THROUGH THE WHOLE OF HAVILA, LAND WITH GOLD---- EXCELLENT GOLD, WHERE BDELLIUM IS, THE LAPIS LAZULI. THE SECOND, NAMED GIHON, MOVES THROUGH THE LENGTH OF CUSH, TIGRIS, THE THIRD, TRAVEL EAST OF ASSHUR; AND EUPHRATES IS THE FOURTH. YAHWEH LIFTS THE MAN, BRINGS HIM TO REST IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, TO TEND IT AND WATCH. " FROM ALL THE TREES IN THE GARDEN YOU ARE FREE TO EAT"--- SO YAHWEH DESIRES MAN KNOW---"BUT THE TREE OF KNOWING GOOD AND BAD YOU WILL NOT TOUCH. EAT FROM IT," SAID YAHWEH, " AND ON THAT DAY DEATH TOUCHES YOU." " IT IS GOOD THE MAN BE ALONE," SAID YAHWEH. "I WILL MAKE A PARTNER TO STAND BESIDE HIM." SO YAHWEH SHAPED OUT F THE SOIL ALL THE CREATURES OF THE FIELD AND BIRDS OF THE AIR, BRINGING THEM TO MAN TO SEE HOW HE WOULD CALL THEM. WHATEVER THE MAN CALLED BECAME THE LIVING CREATURE'S NAME. SOON ALL WILD ANIMALS HAD NAMES THE THE MAN GAVE THEM, ALL BIRDS OF THE AIR AND CREATURES, OF THE FIELD, BUT THE MAN DID NOT FIND HIS PARTNER AMONG THEM. NOW YAHWEH PUT THE MAN INTO A DEEP SLEEP; WHEN HE FELL ASLEEP, TOOK A RIB, CLOSED THE FLESH OF HIS SIDE AGAIN. STARTING WITH THE PART TAKEN OUT OF THE MAN, YAHWEH SHAPED THE RIB INTO WOMAN, RETURNED HER TO THE SIDE OF THE MAN.
" THIS ONE IS BONE OF MY BONE, FLESH, OF MY FLESH," SAID THE MAN."WOMAN,
I CALL HER, OUT OF MAN SHE WAS PARTED." SO A MAN PARTS FROM HIS MOTHER AND FATHER, CLINGS TO HIS WIFE: THEY WERE ONE FLESH. AND LOOK: HEY ARE NAKED, MAN AND WOMEN, UNTOUCHED BY SHAME, NOT KNOWING IT. NOW THE SNAKE WAS SMOOTHER-TONGUED THAN ANY WILD CREATURE THAT YAHWEH MADE."DID THE GOD REALLY MEAN," HE SAID TO THE WOMAN, "YOU CAN'T EAT FROM ANY TREE OF THE GARDEN?" "BUT THE FRUIT OF THE TREES WE MAY," SAID THE WOMAN TO THE SNAKE. " JUST THE TREE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GARDEN, THE GOD SAID. YOU CAN'T EAT FROM IT, YOU CAN'T TOUCH---WITHOUT DEATH TOUCHING YOU," " DEATH WILL NOT TOUCH YOU," SAID THE SNAKE TO THE WOMAN " THE GOD KNOWS ON THE DAY YOU EAT FROM IT YOUR EYES WILL FALL OPEN LIKE gods, KNOWING GOOD AND BAD." NOW THE WOMAN SEES HOW GOOD THE TREE LOOKS, TO EAT, FROM, HOW LOVELY TO THE EYES, LIVELY TO THE MIND.
TO ITS FRUIT SHE REACHED; ATE, GAVE TO HER MAN, THERE WITH HER, AND HE ATE. AND THE EYES OF BOTH FELL OPEN, GRASP KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR NAKED SKIN. THEY WOUND TOGETHER FIG LEAVES, MADE COVERINGS FOR THEMSELVES. NOW THEY HEAR YAHWEH'S VOICE AMONG EVENING BREEZES, WALKING IN THE GARDEN; THEY HIDE FROM THE FACE OF YAHWEH " THE MAN AND HIS WOMAN AMONG THE TREES OF THE GARDEN. YAHWEH CALLED TO THE MAN.":WHERE ARE YOU?" I HEARD YOUR VOICE IN THE GARDEN," HE ANSWERED."I TREMBLED. WHO TOLD YOU NAKED IS WHAT YOU ARE? DID YOU TOUCH THE TREE I DESIRED YOU NOT EAT?" "THE WOMEN YOU GAVE ME----SHE GAVE ME
FRUIT OF THE TREE I ATE," WHAT IS THIS YOU HAVE DONE,?" SAID YAHWEH TO THE -WOMEN. "SINCE THE SMOOTH---TONGUED SNAKE GAVE ME, I ATE. " ...........SINCE YOU
DONE THIS," SAID YAHWEH TO THE SNAKE "YOU ARE BOUND APART FROM THE FLOCKS, FROM ANY CREATURE OF THE FIELD, BOUND TO THE GROUND, CRAWLING BY YOUR SMOOTH BELLY: DIRT YOU SHALL TASTE FROM FIRST DAY TILL THE LAST. I WILL MAKE YOU ENEMY TO WOMAN, ENMITY BOUND BETWEEN YOUR SEED AND AND HERS. AS YOU STRIKE HIS HEEL, HE SHALL STRIKE YOUR HEAD." TO THE WOMAN HE SAID: "PAIN INCREASING, GROANS SPREADING HAVING CHILDREN WILL BE A LABOR. TO YOUR MAN'S BODY YOUR BELLY SHALL RISE FOR HE WILL BE EAGER ABOVE YOU. THORNS AND THISTLES WILL BLOOM BEFORE YOU; YOU WILL GRASP THE BITTER HERBS THE FIELD GIVES YOU. " AS YOU SOW THE SWEAT OF YOUR FACE SO YOU WILL REAP YOUR BREAD,TILL YOU RETURN TO EARTH--- FROM IT YOU WERE TAKEN. DUST YOU ARE, TO DUST YOU RETURN.
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