beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and all the creeping things of the ground after their kind. And God saw that it was good. And God said: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let him subdue the fish of the sea, and the fowl of the heavens, and the cattle, and all the earth, and every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth. And God created man in his image, in the image of God. created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them; and God said to them: Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and make it subject; and subdue the fish of the sea, and the fowl of the heavens, and every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said: Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, whereon is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you shall they be for food: and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein is life, all green herbs shall be for food. And it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And it was evening and it was morning, the sixth day.

So the heavens were finished, and the earth, and all their hosts; and God ended on the seventh day 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 made it holy, because on it he had rested from all his work.

CHAPTER II.

GENESIS, ii., iii.

ADAM AND EVE.

Adam-The Garden-The Two Trees-Adam's Wife Eve-The Serpent-Beguiled-The Curse.

Now God Jehovah formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living creature.

And God Jehovah planted a garden in Eden, eastward; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And from the ground God Jehovah made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, or good for food; and the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. And God Jehovah took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and to keep it. And God Jehovah commanded the man, saying: From every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; only from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, from it thou shalt not eat; for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

And God Jehovah said: It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And God Jehovah formed from the ground every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatsoever the man called the creatures, that was their name. And the man gave names to all the

cattle, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found an help meet for him.

Then God Jehovah caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept ; and he took one of his ribs, and closed the flesh instead thereof. And God Jehovah builded the rib which he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. And the man said: This time it is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh; this shall be called Woman. (Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife : and they shall be one flesh.)

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which God Jehovah had made. And he said unto the woman: Hath God verily said, Ye shall not eat from any tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent: Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; only 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. But the serpent

said unto the woman: Ye shall not surely die; for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall become like God, knowing good and evil. And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, for the tree was desirable to look upon, and she took, of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked.

Then they heard the sound of God Jehovah walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the face of God Jehovah

among the trees of the garden. And God Jehovah called unto the man, and said unto him: Where art thou ? And he said: I heard thy sound in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself. But God said: Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said: The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. Then God Jehovah said unto the woman: What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said: The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And God Jehovah said unto the serpent: Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. 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 its heel. To the woman he said: I will greatly multiply the sorrow of thy conception; in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children; and thy desire shall be toward thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And to the man he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat thereof, cursed is the ground because of thee; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herbs of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for from it wast thou taken,-for dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.

And God Jehovah 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,-God Jehovah sent him forth. from the garden of Eden, to till the ground whence he was taken. So he drove out the man, and placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of the sword that turneth to guard the way of the Tree of Life.