1 | GEN 1:1 | B'resheet Elohim bara' ·In the beginning of the beginning, God created from nothingness· the heavens and the earth. |
2 | GEN 1:2 | Earth was tohu v'bohu ·void and chaos·. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and Ruach Elohim ·Spirit of God· was hovering over the surface of the waters. |
3 | GEN 1:3 | God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. |
4 | GEN 1:4 | God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. |
5 | GEN 1:5 | God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first yom ·period of time, day·. |
6 | GEN 1:6 | God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” |
7 | GEN 1:7 | God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so·. |
8 | GEN 1:8 | God called the expanse “shamayim ·sky, heavens·”. There was evening and there was morning, a second yom ·period of time, day·. |
9 | GEN 1:9 | God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so. |
10 | GEN 1:10 | God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering together of the waters he called “sea”. God saw that it was good. |
11 | GEN 1:11 | God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so. |
12 | GEN 1:12 | The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. |
13 | GEN 1:13 | There was evening and there was morning, a third yom ·period of time, day·. (A:2) |
14 | GEN 1:14 | God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons and appointed times, days, and years; |
15 | GEN 1:15 | and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so. |
16 | GEN 1:16 | God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. |
17 | GEN 1:17 | God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, |
18 | GEN 1:18 | and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. |
19 | GEN 1:19 | There was evening and there was morning, a fourth 'yom ·period of time, day·. |
20 | GEN 1:20 | God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.” |
21 | GEN 1:21 | God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. |
22 | GEN 1:22 | God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” |
23 | GEN 1:23 | There was evening and there was morning, a fifth 'yom ·period of time, day·. (A:3) |
24 | GEN 1:24 | God said, “Let the earth produce nefesh chai ·soul living· creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so. |
25 | GEN 1:25 | God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good. |
26 | GEN 1:26 | God said, “Let us make a 'adam ·human· in our image, after our likeness: and let them have authority over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” |
27 | GEN 1:27 | God created man in his own likeness. In God’s image he created him; zachar ·male· and n'keivah ·female· he created them. |
28 | GEN 1:28 | God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and bring it into subjection, subdue it. Have authority over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” |
29 | GEN 1:29 | God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. |
30 | GEN 1:30 | To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so. |
31 | GEN 1:31 | God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was m'ohd tov ·exceedingly good·. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth 'yom ·period of time, day·. |
32 | GEN 2:1 | The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. |
33 | GEN 2:2 | On the seventh 'yom ·period of time, day· God finished his work which he had done; and he shavat ·rested· on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. |
34 | GEN 2:3 | God blessed the seventh day, and made it set apart holy, because he rested in it from all his work of barah' ·creation from nothingness· which he had done. (A:4, S:2) |
35 | GEN 2:4 | This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created. On the day that Adonai God made earth and heaven, |
36 | GEN 2:5 | no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Adonai God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was no human to till the ground, |
37 | GEN 2:6 | but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground. |
38 | GEN 2:7 | Adonai God formed and framed a human from the dust of ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breaths of lives; and man became a living soul. |
39 | GEN 2:8 | Adonai God planted a garden eastward, in Eden [Delight], and there he put the man whom he had formed. |
40 | GEN 2:9 | Out of the ground Adonai God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the 'etz chai ·tree of life· in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. |
41 | GEN 2:10 | A river went out of Eden [Delight] to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers. |
42 | GEN 2:11 | The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; |
43 | GEN 2:12 | and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there. |
44 | GEN 2:13 | The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush. |
45 | GEN 2:14 | The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria [Level plain]. The fourth river is the Euphrates [Fruitful]. |
46 | GEN 2:15 | Adonai God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden [Delight] to cultivate and keep it. |
47 | GEN 2:16 | Adonai God enjoined the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; |
48 | GEN 2:17 | but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely have death.” |
49 | GEN 2:18 | Adonai God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a help-mate suitable for him.” |
50 | GEN 2:19 | Out of the ground Adonai God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name. (S:3) |
51 | GEN 2:20 | The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him. |
52 | GEN 2:21 | Adonai God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. |
53 | GEN 2:22 | Adonai God refined and fashioned an 'ishah ·wife woman· from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. |
54 | GEN 2:23 | The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘'ishah ·wife woman·,’ because she was taken out of 'ish ·husband man·.” |
55 | GEN 2:24 | Therefore a husband man will leave his father and his mother, and will dabak ·cling to, worship· with his wife woman, and they will be echad ·one· flesh. |
56 | GEN 2:25 | The husband man and his wife woman were both naked, and they were not ashamed. |
57 | GEN 3:1 | Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Adonai God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” |
58 | GEN 3:2 | The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, |
59 | GEN 3:3 | but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’” |
60 | GEN 3:4 | The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die, |
61 | GEN 3:5 | for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” |
62 | GEN 3:6 | When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too. |
63 | GEN 3:7 | Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves. |
64 | GEN 3:8 | They sh'ma ·heard obeyed· Adonai God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Adonai God among the trees of the garden. |
65 | GEN 3:9 | Adonai God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” |
66 | GEN 3:10 | The man said, “I sh'ma ·heard obeyed· your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” |
67 | GEN 3:11 | God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I enjoined you not to eat from?” |
68 | GEN 3:12 | The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” |
69 | GEN 3:13 | Adonai God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” |
70 | GEN 3:14 | Adonai God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. |
71 | GEN 3:15 | I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.” |
72 | GEN 3:16 | To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will have authority over you.” |
73 | GEN 3:17 | To Adam [Human, Red earth] he said, “Because you have sh'ma ·hear obey· your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I enjoined you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. |
74 | GEN 3:18 | It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. |
75 | GEN 3:19 | By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you teshuvah ·complete return· to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall made teshuvah ·complete return·.” |
76 | GEN 3:20 | The man called his wife Eve [Life] because she would be the mother of all the living. |
77 | GEN 3:21 | Adonai God made coats of animal skins for Adam [Human, Red earth] and for his wife, and clothed them. (A:5, S:4) |
78 | GEN 3:22 | Adonai God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...” |
79 | GEN 3:23 | Therefore Adonai God physically sent him out from the garden of Eden [Delight], to till the ground from which he was taken. |
80 | GEN 3:24 | So he gahrash ·relationally divorced· the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. |
81 | GEN 4:1 | The man knew Eve [Life] his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain [Acquisition], and said, “I have gotten a man with Adonai ’s help.” |
82 | GEN 4:2 | Again she gave birth, to Cain [Acquisition]’s brother Abel [Vanity, Mourning]. Abel [Vanity, Mourning] was a keeper of sheep, but Cain [Acquisition] was a tiller of the ground. |
83 | GEN 4:3 | As time passed, Cain [Acquisition] brought an offering to Adonai from the fruit of the ground. |
84 | GEN 4:4 | Abel [Vanity, Mourning] also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Adonai respected Abel [Vanity, Mourning] and his offering, |
85 | GEN 4:5 | but he didn’t respect Cain [Acquisition] and his offering. Cain [Acquisition] was very angry, and the expression on his face fell. |
86 | GEN 4:6 | Adonai said to Cain [Acquisition], “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen? |
87 | GEN 4:7 | If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.” |
88 | GEN 4:8 | Cain [Acquisition] said to Abel [Vanity, Mourning], his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain [Acquisition] rose up against Abel [Vanity, Mourning], his brother, and murdered him. |
89 | GEN 4:9 | Adonai said to Cain [Acquisition], “Where is Abel [Vanity, Mourning], your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” |
90 | GEN 4:10 | Adonai said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground. |
91 | GEN 4:11 | Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. |
92 | GEN 4:12 | From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.” |
93 | GEN 4:13 | Cain [Acquisition] said to Adonai, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. |
94 | GEN 4:14 | Behold, you have divorced and driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.” |
95 | GEN 4:15 | Adonai said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain [Acquisition], vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Adonai appointed a sign for Cain [Acquisition], so that anyone finding him would not strike him. |
96 | GEN 4:16 | Cain [Acquisition] left Adonai ’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden [Delight]. |
97 | GEN 4:17 | Cain [Acquisition] knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. |
98 | GEN 4:18 | To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech. (S:5) |
99 | GEN 4:19 | Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah. |
100 | GEN 4:20 | Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. |