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sound^[1] of Yahweh God､ walking to and fro in the garden､ at the breeze of the day,^[2]—so he hid himself—||the man with his wife||､ from the face of Yahweh God, amid the trees^[3] of the garden.⁹ And Yahweh God called´ unto the man,— and said to him､

Where art thou?

¹⁰ And he said,

<The sound^[1] of thee> heard I in the garden,—and I was afraid､ for <naked> was I´, so I hid myself.

¹¹ And he said,

Who´ told^[4] thee that <naked> thou wast? <Of the tree´ whereof I commanded thee not to eat> hast thou eaten?

¹² And the man said,—

<The woman whom thou didst put with me> ||she|| gave me of the tree､ so I did eat.

¹³ Then said Yahweh God to the woman､

What is this^[5] that thou hast done?

And the woman said,

||The serpent|| deceived^[6] me､ so I did eat.

¹⁴ Then said Yahweh God unto the serpant—

<Because thou hast done this>

|Accursed| art thou´ above every tame-beast, and above every wild-beast^[7] of the field,—<on thy belly> shalt thou go, and <dust> shalt thou eat､ all the days of thy life.

¹⁵

And <enmity> will I put between thee､ and the woman, and between thy´ seed, and her´ seed,—

||He||^[8] shall crush^[9] thy head,
But ||thou|| shalt crush^[9] his heel.

¹⁶ <Unto the woman> he said､

I will ||increase|| thy pain of pregnancy,

<In pain> shalt thou bear children,—^[10]

Yet <unto thy husband> shall be thy longing,

Though ||he|| rule over thee.

¹⁷ And <to the man> he said､

<Because thou didst hearken to the voice of thy wife, and so didst eat of the tree´ as to which I commanded thee､ saying,

Thou shalt not eat of it>

Accursed´ be the ground for thy sake,

<In pain> shalt thou eat of it､ all the days of thy life;

¹⁸

<Thorn also and thistle> shall it shoot forth to thee,—when thou hast come to eat of the herb of the field:

¹⁹

<In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground, because <therefrom> wast thou taken,—

For <dust> thou art,^[11]

And <unto dust> shalt thou return.

²⁰So the man called the name of his wife､ Eve,^[12]—in that ||she|| was made mother of every one living.²¹ And Yahweh God made for the man—and for his wife—tunics of skin､ and clothed them. ²² Then said Yahweh God

Lo! ||man||^[13] hath become like one of us, in respect of knowing good and evil,^[14]—

||Now|| therefore､ <lest he thrust forth his hand､ and take even of the tree of life,^[15] and eat､ and live to times age-abiding>^[16]—

²³ So Yahweh God put him forth from the garden of Eden,—to till the ground´ wherefrom he had been taken. ²⁴ So he expelled the man,—and caused to dwell^[17]—in front of the garden of Eden— cherubim､^[18] and a brandishing sword-flame, to keep^[19] the way to the tree of life.

§ 4. A "seed" appears; but disappoints (Cain) or fails (Abel). Yahweh gives a substitute for Abel (Seth).

4¹ Now ||the man|| having come to know Eve his wife,—she conceived, and bare Cain,^[20] and said､

I have gotten^[21] a Man, even^[22] Yahweh!

² And she went on to bear his brother, Abel,^[23]—and Abel became a feeder of sheep, whereas ||Cain|| was a tiller of the ground. ³ So it came to pass <after certain days>^[24] that Cain brought in |of the fruit of the ground| a present to Yahweh: ⁴ ||Abel|| also､ even ||he|| brought in､ of the firstlings of his sheep､ and of their fat,—and Yahweh approved of Abel､ and of his present; ⁵ but <of Cain and his present> he approved not,—and it angered Cain greatly､ and his countenance fell. ⁶ So then Yahweh said unto Cain,—

Wherefore´ hath it angered thee, and wherefore´ hath thy countenance fallen?

⁷

Shall it not､ if thou do right､ be lifted up?^[25]

1. Or: "voice." But "sound" is more majestic, and more suited to the act of "walking."
2. Or: "day-breeze"; i.e. "the cool of the evening"—Davies' H.L.
3. Ml: "tree." N.B.: "tree"="trees." Cp. Rev. xxii. 2.
4. Or: "showed."
5. Or: "||What, now||, hast thou done?" Cp. O.G. 261, 4, d.
6. Sep. apatao, "cheat," "outwit," " deceive." N.T.: 2 Co. xi. 3; 1 Tim. ii. 14, exapatao, "to deceive thoroughly."
7. Cp. chap. 1. 24. n.
8. Vul. wrongly "she." Possibly "it"; cp. Ro. xvi. 20.
9. Same word in the two clauses. "Most of the ancient translators render it by crushing"—Kalisch. Cp. again Ro. xvi. 20, Gr. suntribo.
10. Ml: "sons." Daughters often included = "children,"—according to "context and circumstance."
11. Or: "wast"; cp. chap. ii. 7: cp. also Ps. ciii. 14; Ec. xii. 7; 1 Co. xv. 47.
12. ="Life," "giver of life," "life-spring." N.B.: Adam's faith in the promise.
13. Ml: "the man"; but the article prob. that "of species."
14. Or: "blessing and misfortune."
15. Plainly implying that, from some cause, he had not yet done so.
16. N.B.: the unfinished sentence; as if in haste to act, and avert danger.
17. Prob. as a habitation for himself: 1 S. iv. 4; Ps. lxxx. 1; xcix. 1; esp. chap. iv. 14.
18. Prob. "seized," "held," "possessed"; i.e.: by God as either his living chariot (1 Ch. xxviii. 18; Ps. xviii. 10; Eze. x.), or his living throne (Rev. iv.) In the present passage, ml "the cherubim," but article prob. that "of species."
19. Or: "guard."
20. ="acquisition," "procreation."
21. Or: "acquired." Heb.: kained= "gained."
22. Or: "with" (the presence and help of). More prob. as in text—unless we conclude that Eve could not have been so mistaken.
23. ="evanescence," "transitoriness."
24. Or: "after a time." Ml: "at an end of days."
25. Ml: "Shall there not—if thou do right—be an uplifting" [?="of my countenance and of thine"]?