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這樣,天地萬物都造齊了。 第七日, 神完成了他所作的工;在第七日 神歇了他所作的一切工。  神賜福第七日,把它分別為聖,因為在這一日, 神停了他一切所創造的工,歇息了。

創造男人並設置伊甸園

這是創造天地的起源:耶和華 神造天地的時候, 原野上還沒有樹木,田間的蔬菜還沒有長起來,因為耶和華 神還沒有降雨在地上,也沒有人耕種土地; 不過有霧氣從地面上升,滋潤全地。 耶和華 神用地上的塵土造成人形,把生氣吹進他的鼻孔裡,那人就成了有生命的活人,名叫亞當。 耶和華 神在東方的伊甸,栽了一個園子,把他所造的人放在那裡。 耶和華 神使各樣的樹從地上長起來,能悅人的眼目,也好作食物。園子中間又有生命樹,和知善惡樹。

10 有一條河從伊甸流出來,灌溉那園子;從那裡分支,成了四道河的源頭。 11 第一道河名叫比遜,就是環繞哈腓拉全地的,在那裡有金子; 12 那地的金子是好的;在那裡也有紅玉和瑪瑙。 13 第二道河名叫基訓,就是環繞古實全地的。 14 第三道河名叫底格里斯河(“底格里斯河”原文作“希底結”),就是流向亞述東邊的。第四道河就是幼發拉底河(“幼發拉底河”原文作“伯拉河”)。 15 耶和華 神把那人安置在伊甸園裡,叫他耕種和看守那園子。 16 耶和華 神吩咐那人說:“園中各樣樹上的果子,你都可以吃; 17 只是那知善惡樹的果子,你不可吃;因為你吃的時候,你必要死。”

創造女人並建立婚姻

18 耶和華 神說:“那人獨居不好,我要為他造個和他相配的幫手。” 19 耶和華 神用泥土造了野地的各樣野獸,和空中的各樣飛鳥,把牠們都帶到那人面前,看他給牠們叫甚麼名字;那人怎樣叫各樣有生命的活物,那就是牠的名字。 20 那人就給各樣牲畜、空中的雀鳥,和野地的各樣走獸起了名字;只是那人沒有遇見一個和他相配的幫手。 21 耶和華 神使那人沉睡。他熟睡的時候,耶和華 神取了他的一根肋骨,又使肉在原處復合。 22 然後,耶和華 神用從那人身上所取的肋骨,造了一個女人,帶她到那人面前。 23 那人說:

“這是我骨中的骨,

肉中的肉;

她當稱為女人,

因她是從男人身上取出來的。”

24 因此人要離開父母,和妻子連合,二人成為一體。 25 那時,夫妻二人赤身露體,彼此都不覺得羞恥。

始祖被引誘而違主命

在耶和華 神所造野地所有的活物中,蛇是最狡猾的。蛇對女人說:“ 神真的說過,你們不可吃園中任何樹上的果子嗎?” 女人對蛇說:“園中樹上的果子,我們都可以吃; 只有園中那棵樹上的果子, 神曾經說過:‘你們不可吃,也不可摸,免得你們死。’” 蛇對女人說:“你們決不會死; 因為 神知道你們吃那果子的時候,你們的眼睛就開了;你們會像 神一樣,能知道善惡。” 於是,女人見那棵樹的果子好作食物,又悅人的眼目,而且討人喜愛,能使人有智慧,就摘下果子來吃了;又給了和她在一起的丈夫,他也吃了。 二人的眼睛就開了,才知道自己是赤身露體的。於是把無花果樹的葉子編縫起來,為自己做裙子。

天起涼風的時候,那人和他的妻子聽見耶和華 神在園中行走的聲音,就藏在園子的樹林中,躲避耶和華 神的面。 耶和華 神呼喚那人,對他說:“你在哪裡?” 10 他回答:“我在園中聽見你的聲音,就害怕;因為我赤身露體,就藏了起來。” 11 耶和華 神說:“誰告訴你,你是赤身露體呢?難道你吃了我吩咐你不可吃的那樹上的果子嗎?” 12 那人說:“你所賜給我、和我在一起的那女人,她把樹上的果子給我,我就吃了。” 13 耶和華 神對女人說:“你作了甚麼事呢?”女人說:“那蛇欺哄我,我就吃了。”

懲罰與應許

14 耶和華 神對蛇說:

“因為你作了這事,

就必在所有的牲畜

和田野的活物中受咒詛;

你要用肚子行走,

一生都吃泥土。

15 我要使你和女人彼此為仇,

你的後裔和女人的後裔,

也彼此為仇,

他要傷你的頭,

你要傷他的腳跟。”

16 耶和華 神對女人說:

“我要大大增加你懷胎的痛苦,

你必在痛苦中生產兒女;

你要戀慕你的丈夫,

他卻要管轄你。”

17 耶和華 神又對亞當說:“因為你聽從了你妻子的話,吃了我吩咐你不可吃的那樹上的果子;

地就必因你的緣故受咒詛;

你必終生勞苦,才能從地裡得吃的。

18 地要給你長出荊棘和蒺藜來;

你也要吃田間的蔬菜;

19 你必汗流滿面,

才有飯吃,

直到你歸回地土,

因為你是從地土取出來的;

你既然是塵土,就要歸回塵土。”

被逐出伊甸園

20 亞當給他的妻子起名叫夏娃,因為她是眾生之母。 21 耶和華 神為亞當和他的妻子做了皮衣,給他們穿上。

22 耶和華 神說:“那人和我們中間的一個相似,能知善惡;現在恐怕他伸出手來,摘取生命樹上的果子吃,就永遠活著。” 23 耶和華 神就把他趕出伊甸園,去耕種他自己也是從那裡出來的地土。 24 於是把亞當驅逐出去,又派基路伯在伊甸園的東邊,拿著旋轉發火燄的劍,把守到生命樹去的路。

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.(A)

By the seventh day(B) God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.(C) Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,(D) because on it he rested(E) from all the work of creating(F) that he had done.

Adam and Eve

This is the account(G) of the heavens and the earth when they were created,(H) when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up,(I) for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth(J) and there was no one to work the ground, but streams[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. Then the Lord God formed(K) a man[c](L) from the dust(M) of the ground(N) and breathed into his nostrils the breath(O) of life,(P) and the man became a living being.(Q)

Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden;(R) and there he put the man he had formed. The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees(S) that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life(T) and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.(U)

10 A river(V) watering the garden flowed from Eden;(W) from there it was separated into four headwaters. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah,(X) where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin[d](Y) and onyx are also there.) 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.[e] 14 The name of the third river is the Tigris;(Z) it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.(AA)

15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden(AB) to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;(AC) 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,(AD) for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”(AE)

18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”(AF)

19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals(AG) and all the birds in the sky.(AH) He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called(AI) each living creature,(AJ) that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

But for Adam[f] no suitable helper(AK) was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;(AL) and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[h](AM) he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23 The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;(AN)
she shall be called(AO) ‘woman,’
    for she was taken out of man.(AP)

24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united(AQ) to his wife, and they become one flesh.(AR)

25 Adam and his wife were both naked,(AS) and they felt no shame.

The Fall

Now the serpent(AT) was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?(AU)

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,(AV) but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”(AW)

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.(AX) “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,(AY) knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable(AZ) for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband,(BA) who was with her, and he ate it.(BB) Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked;(BC) so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.(BD)

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking(BE) in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid(BF) from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”(BG)

10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid(BH) because I was naked;(BI) so I hid.”

11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked?(BJ) Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?(BK)

12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me(BL)—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me,(BM) and I ate.”

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

“Cursed(BN) are you above all livestock
    and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
    and you will eat dust(BO)
    all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring[i](BP) and hers;(BQ)
he will crush[j] your head,(BR)
    and you will strike his heel.”

16 To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
    with painful labor you will give birth to children.(BS)
Your desire will be for your husband,
    and he will rule over you.(BT)

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’(BU)

“Cursed(BV) is the ground(BW) because of you;
    through painful toil(BX) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.(BY)
18 It will produce thorns and thistles(BZ) for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.(CA)
19 By the sweat of your brow(CB)
    you will eat your food(CC)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(CD)

20 Adam[k] named his wife Eve,[l](CE) because she would become the mother of all the living.

21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.(CF) 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,(CG) knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life(CH) and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden(CI) to work the ground(CJ) from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[m] of the Garden of Eden(CK) cherubim(CL) and a flaming sword(CM) flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.(CN)

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:5 Or land; also in verse 6
  2. Genesis 2:6 Or mist
  3. Genesis 2:7 The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah); it is also the name Adam (see verse 20).
  4. Genesis 2:12 Or good; pearls
  5. Genesis 2:13 Possibly southeast Mesopotamia
  6. Genesis 2:20 Or the man
  7. Genesis 2:21 Or took part of the man’s side
  8. Genesis 2:22 Or part
  9. Genesis 3:15 Or seed
  10. Genesis 3:15 Or strike
  11. Genesis 3:20 Or The man
  12. Genesis 3:20 Eve probably means living.
  13. Genesis 3:24 Or placed in front

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

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

And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.