8 And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he put the mann whom he had formed. 9 And Yahweh God caused to grow from the ground every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food. And the tree of life was in the midst of the garden, ⌊along with⌋o the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10 Nowp a river flowed out from Eden that watered the garden, and from there it diverged and became four branches. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It went around all the land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stones are there.) 13 And the name of the second is Gihon. It went around all the land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third is Tigris. It flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

15 And Yahweh God took the manq and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it. 16 And Yahweh God commanded the man,r saying, “From every tree of the garden ⌊you may freely eat⌋,s 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day ⌊that you eat⌋t from it ⌊you shall surely die⌋.”u

18 Thenv Yahweh God said, “it is not good that the manw is alone. I will make for him a helper ⌊as his counterpart⌋.”x 19 And out of the ground Yahweh God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky,y and he brought each to the manz to see what he would call it. And whatever the mana called that living creature was its name. 20 And the manb ⌊gave names⌋c to every domesticated animal and to the birds of heavend and to all the wild animals.e But for the man there was not found a helper ⌊as his counterpart⌋.f 21 And Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man.g Whileh he slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up ⌊the flesh where it had been⌋.i 22 And Yahweh God fashioned the rib which he had taken from the manj into a woman and brought her to the man.k 23 And the manl said,

“⌊She is now⌋m bone from my bones

and flesh from my flesh;

⌊she⌋n shall be called ‘Woman,’

for ⌊she was taken⌋o from man.”

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh. 25 And the manp and his wife, both of them, were naked, and they were not ashamed.

The Fall

3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other ⌊wild animal⌋a which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God indeed say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, 3 but from the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, ‘You shall not eat from it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die’.” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You shall not surely die. 5 For God knows that on the day you both eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you both shall be like gods,b knowing good and evil.” 6 Whenc the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, thend she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave it also to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Thene the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed together fig leaves and they made for themselves coverings.

8 Thenf they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden ⌊at the windy time of day⌋.g And the manh and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. 9 And Yahweh God called to the mani and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 And he replied,j “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I am naked, so I hid myself.” 11 Then hek asked,l “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from ⌊the tree from which I forbade you to eat⌋?”m 12 And the mann replied,o “The woman whom you gave to be with me—she gave to me from the tree and I ate.” 13 Thenp Yahweh God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” 14 Thenq Yahweh God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,

you will be cursed

more than any domesticated animal

and more than any wild animal.r

On your belly you shall go

and dust you shall eat

all the days of your life.

15 And I will put hostility

between you and between the woman,

and between your offsprings and between her offspring;t

he will strike you on the head,

and you will strike him on the heel.”

16 To the woman he said,

“I will greatly increase

⌊your pain in childbearing⌋;u

in pain you shall bear children.

And to your husband shall be your desire.

And he shall rule over you.”

17 And to Adamv he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree ⌊from which I forbade you to eat⌋,w

the ground shall be cursed on your account.

In pain you shall eat from it

all the days of your life.

18 And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you,

and you shall eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your browx

you shall eat bread,

until your return to the ground.

For from it you were taken;

for you are dust,

and to dust you shall return.”

20 And the many ⌊named⌋z his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life. 21 And Yahweh God made for Adama and for his wife garments of skin, and he clothed them.

22 And Yahweh God said, “Look—the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. ⌊What if⌋b he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?” 23 And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 Soc he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and ⌊a flaming, turning sword⌋d to guard the way to the tree of life.