took the human;
he settled him in the garden of Eden to till it and guard it.
16 Yahweh-Elohim commanded the human, saying:
“From every tree of the garden you may certainly eat,
17 except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,22
you shall not eat of it,
because when you eat of it,
you shall certainly die.”
18 Yahweh-Elohim said:
“It is not good for the human to be alone;
I will make for him a helper just like him.”
19 Yahweh-Elohim formed from the ground all the wild animals
and all the birds of the heavens.
He brought [them] to the human to see what he called them,
and whatever the human called each of the living beings,
that was its name.
20 The human gave names to all the domestic animals,
to the birds of the heavens, and to all the wild animals,
but as for the human, he did not find a helper just like him.
21 Yahweh-Elohim cast a deep sleep upon the human;
he slept. He took one of his ribs;
He closed the flesh there.
22 Yahweh-Elohim built up the rib,
which he had taken from the human, into a woman;
he brought her to the human.
23 The human said:
“This one, at last, is bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh.
This one shall be called woman (’ishshah),
For from man (’ish) this one was taken.”
24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother;
He is joined with his wife;
They become one flesh.23
25 The two of them were naked (‘arummim)—
the human and his wife,
and they were not ashamed.
3:1 Now the serpent was the wisest (‘arum) of all
the wild animals that Yahweh-Elohim had made;
he said to the woman:
“Indeed, did Elohim really say,
‘From every tree of the garden
you shall not eat?’ ”
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,
Elohim said, ‘You shall not eat from it,
and you shall not touch it,
or you shall die.’”
4 The serpent said to the woman:
“Surely, you shall not die;
5 Elohim knows that when you eat from it
your eyes will be opened;
you will be like gods—ones who know good and evil.”24
6 The woman saw that the tree was good for food,
that it was a delight to the eyes,
and that the tree was desired to make one wise.
She took from its fruit; she ate.
Also when she gave [some] to her husband,
who was with her, he ate.
7 The eyes of both of them were opened;
they knew that they were naked (‘erummim).
They sewed together fig leaves;
they made for themselves loincloths.
8 They heard the voice of Yahweh-Elohim,
who was walking about in the garden at the windy time of day;
the human and his wife hid from Yahweh-Elohim,
among the trees of the garden.
9 Yahweh-Elohim called to the human.
He said to him:
“Where are you?”
10 He said:
“I heard your voice in the garden;
I was afraid,
because I was naked (‘erom).
I hid.”
11 He said:
“Who told you that you were naked (‘erom)?
Did you eat from the tree that I had commanded you not to
eat?”
12 The human said:
“The woman, whom you gave to be with me,
she gave to me from the tree! I ate.”
13 Yahweh-Elohim said to the woman:
“What is this that you have done?”
The woman said:
“The serpent deceived me! I ate.”
14 Yahweh-Elohim said to the serpent:
“Because you have done this,
Cursed (’arur) are you—
More than all domestic animals,
More than all wild animals.
On your belly you shall go,25
And
