you shall eat—
All the days of your life.
15 Hostility I will put between you
And between the woman—
Between your descendants,
And between her descendants.
They shall attack you frontally;
You shall attack them from behind.”
16 To the woman he said:
“I will multiply your pains from your pregnancies;
In labor27 you will bear children.
Your desire is for your husband,
But he will rule you.”28
17 To the29 human he said:
“Because you listened to the voice of your wife,30
You ate from the tree
About which I had commanded you saying,
‘You shall not eat from it.’
Cursed (’arurah) be the ground on account of you;
In labor31 you shall eat it32—
All the days of your life.
18 Thorns and thistles it shall sprout for you.
You shall eat the wild grass.
19 By the sweat of your brow you shall eat food,
Until you return to the ground,
For from it you were taken.
For you are clay,
And to clay you shall return.”33
20 The human called forth the name of his wife, “Eve” (hawwah),34
because she was the mother of all living (hay).
21 Yahweh-Elohim made for the human and his wife garments of
skins;
he clothed them.
22 Yahweh-Elohim said:
“Yes, the human has become like one of us,35
knowing good and evil, so now,
he must not reach out his hand,
taking also from the tree of life,
he would eat and live forever!”36
23 Yahweh-Elohim sent him from the garden of Eden,
to till the ground from which he was taken;
24 he drove out the human;
he stationed, east of the garden of Eden,
the cherubim and the flaming sword,
which turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
4:1 Now the human knew Eve, his wife.
She conceived; she bore Cain (qayin).
She said:
“I have procreated (qaniti) a man with Yahweh.”
2 Next she gave birth to his brother Abel.
Abel became a keeper of flocks,
and Cain became a tiller of the ground.
3 In the course of time,
Cain brought from the fruit of the ground an offering to Yahweh,
4 and Abel, he also brought from the firstborn of his flock
and from their choice portions.
Yahweh paid attention to Abel and to his offering,
5 but to Cain and to his offering he paid no attention.
Cain became very angry; he became downcast.
6 Yahweh said to Cain:
“Why are you angry?
Why are you so down?
7 Is it not true [that],
Either you do well
[And you] are upbeat,
Or you don’t do well,
[And so in this case],
Sin is the demon,37
[Who is] at the door?
His desire is for you,
But you will rule him.”38
8 Cain spoke39 against Abel, his brother;
when they were in the field,
Cain rose up against Abel, his brother;
he killed him.
9 Yahweh said to Cain:
“Where is Abel your brother?”
He said to him:
“I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
10 He said:
“What have you done?
The voice of the blood of your brother is crying to me from
the ground,
11 and now you are cursed from the ground
that has opened its mouth
to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
12 When you till the ground,
it will never again give its strength to you;
a vagrant and a wanderer (nad) you shall be on the earth.”
13 Cain said to Yahweh:
“My iniquity is too great to be lifted up.
14 It is clear;
this day you drove me from the face of the ground,
and from your face I shall hide.
I shall be a vagrant
