The Fall of Man

1. And the serpent was more cunning than all the animals of the field that Jehovah Elohim had made.
And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

2. And 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 middle of the garden, God has said,
‘You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die.’”

4. And the serpent said to the woman, “You shall not surely die;

5. for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

6. And the woman saw that the tree was good for food,
and that it was a delight to the eyes,
and that the tree was desirable to make one wise;
and she took of its fruit and ate,
and she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

The Second Dispensation: Conscience

7. And the eyes of both of them were opened,
and they knew that they were naked;
and they sewed fig leaves together and made for themselves loin coverings.

8. And they heard the sound of Jehovah Elohim walking in the garden in the wind of the day,
and the man and his wife hid themselves from the face of Jehovah Elohim
in the midst of the trees of the garden.

9. And Jehovah Elohim called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

10. And he said, “I heard your sound in the garden, and I was afraid,
because I was naked, and I hid myself.”

11. And He said, “Who told you that you were naked?
Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

12. And the man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave to me from the tree, and I ate.”

13. And Jehovah Elohim said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

14. And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock
and above every animal of the field;
on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

15. And I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed;
he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

16. To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply your pain and your conception;
in pain you shall bring forth children,
and your desire shall be toward your husband,
and he shall rule over you.”

17. And to Adam He said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife,
and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.

18. And thorns and thistles it shall cause to sprout for you,
and you shall eat the plants of the field.

19. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
for from it you were taken;
for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

20. And the man called the name of his wife Chavah (Eve),
because she was the mother of all the living.

21. And Jehovah Elohim made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

22. And Jehovah Elohim said,
“Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil;
and now, lest he stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life,
and eat, and live forever—”

23. So Jehovah Elohim sent him out from the garden of Eden
to work the ground from which he had been taken.

24. And He drove the man out;
and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim,
and the flaming sword that turns every way,
to guard the way to the tree of life.