Beresheet, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} In the beginning God created the heavens and the
[1>]eretz[<1]. {1:2} Now the [2>]eretz[<2] was formless and empty.
Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering
over the surface of the waters.
{1:3} God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. {1:4} God
saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from
the darkness. {1:5} God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
{1:6} God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the waters." {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. {1:8} God called
the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
{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. {1:10} God
called the dry land [3>]Eretz[<3], and the gathering together of the
waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good. {1:11} God said, "Let
the [4>]eretz[<4] put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit
trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the
[5>]eretz[<5]," and it was so. {1:12} The [6>]eretz[<6] brought forth
grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit,
with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
{1:13} There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
{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, and for
seasons, and for days and years; {1:15} and let them be for lights in
the expanse of sky to give light on the [7>]eretz[<7]," and it was so.
{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.
{1:17} God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the
[8>]eretz[<8], {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.
{1:19} There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
{1:20} God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living
creatures, and let birds fly above the [9>]eretz[<9] in the open
expanse of sky." {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.
{1:22} God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill
the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the
[10>]eretz[<10]." {1:23} There was evening and there was morning, a
fifth day.
{1:24} God said, "Let the [11>]eretz[<11] bring forth living
creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of
the [12>]eretz[<12] after their kind," and it was so. {1:25} God made
the animals of the [13>]eretz[<13] after their kind, and the cattle
after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its
kind. God saw that it was good.
{1:26} God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the
[14>]eretz[<14], and over every creeping thing that creeps on the
[15>]eretz[<15]." {1:27} God created man in his own image. In God's
image he created him; male and female he created them. {1:28} God
blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the
[16>]eretz[<16], and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the
sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves
on the [17>]eretz[<17]." {1:29} God said, "Behold, I have given you
every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the
[18>]eretz[<18], and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It
will be your food. {1:30} To every animal of the [19>]eretz[<19], and
to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the
[20>]eretz[<20], in which there is life, I have given every green herb
for food." And it was so.
{1:31} God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very
good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
{2:1} The heavens and the [1>]eretz[<1] were finished, and all the
host of them. {2:2} On the seventh day God finished his work which he
had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he
had made. {2:3} God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because
he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
{2:4} This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of
the [2>]eretz[<2] when they were created, in the day that the LORD God
made [3>]eretz[<3] and the heavens. {2:5} No plant of the field was
yet in the [4>]eretz[<4], and no herb of the field had yet sprung up;
for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the [5>]eretz[<5]. There
was not a man to till the ground, {2:6} but a mist went up from the
[6>]eretz[<6], and watered the whole surface of the ground. {2:7} The
LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. {2:8} The
LORD God planted a garden eastward, in `Eden, and there he put the man
whom he had formed. {2:9} Out of the ground the LORD God made every
tree to grow 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 the
knowledge of good and evil. {2:10} A river went out of `Eden to water
the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.
{2:11} The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows
through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; {2:12} and the
gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the
[7>]shoham[<7] stone. {2:13} The name of the second river is Gichon:
the same river that flows through the whole land of Kush. {2:14} The
name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in
front of Ashshur. The fourth river is the Perat. {2:15} The LORD God
took the man, and put him into the garden of `Eden to dress it and to
keep it. {2:16} The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree
of the garden you may freely eat: {2:17} but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day
that you eat of it you will surely die."
{2:18} The LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be
alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." {2:19} Out of the
ground the LORD 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, that was its
name. {2:20} The man gave names to all cattle, 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. {2:21} The LORD God caused a deep sleep to
fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed
up the flesh in its place. {2:22} He made the rib, which the LORD God
had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
{2:23} The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
{2:24} Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will
join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. {2:25} They were both
naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
{3:1} Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field
which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said,
'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
{3:2} The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of
the garden we may eat, {3:3} but of the fruit of the tree which is in
the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it,
neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
{3:4} The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die, {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."
{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 of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some
to her husband with her, and he ate. {3:7} Both of their eyes were
opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves
together, and made themselves aprons. {3:8} They heard the voice of
the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man
and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among
the trees of the garden.
{3:9} The LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are
you?"
{3:10} The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was
afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
{3:11} God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten
from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
{3:12} The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she
gave me of the tree, and I ate."
{3:13} The LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?"
The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
{3:14} The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done
this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the
field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days
of your life. {3:15} I will put enmity between you and the woman, and
between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head,
and you will bruise his heel."
{3:16} To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in
childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be
for your husband, and he will rule over you."
{3:17} To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's
voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying,
'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil
you will eat of it all the days of your life. {3:18} Thorns also and
thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the
field. {3:19} By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you
return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust,
and to dust you shall return."
{3:20} The man called his wife Havah, because she was the mother of
all living. {3:21} The LORD God made coats of skins for Adam and for
his wife, and clothed them.
{3:22} The LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of
us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also
take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..." {3:23}
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of `Eden, to
till the ground from whence he was taken. {3:24} So he drove out the
man; and he placed Keruvs at the east of the garden of `Eden, and the
flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree
of life.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} earth
[2] {1:2} earth
[3] {1:10} Earth
[4] {1:11} earth
[5] {1:11} earth
[6] {1:12} earth
[7] {1:15} earth
[8] {1:17} earth
[9] {1:20} earth
[10] {1:22} earth
[11] {1:24} earth
[12] {1:24} earth
[13] {1:25} earth
[14] {1:26} earth
[15] {1:26} earth
[16] {1:28} earth
[17] {1:28} earth
[18] {1:29} earth
[19] {1:30} earth
[20] {1:30} earth
[1] {2:1} earth
[2] {2:4} earth
[3] {2:4} earth
[4] {2:5} earth
[5] {2:5} earth
[6] {2:6} earth
[7] {2:12} onyx
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