CEB Common English Bible with Apocrypha - eBook [ePub]. Common English Bible

CEB Common English Bible with Apocrypha - eBook [ePub]

target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_76ba0d61-0289-56f9-ac71-6784f27738ab">Genesis 3The snake was the most intelligent^l of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say that you shouldn't eat from any tree in the garden?"

²The woman said to the snake, "We may eat the fruit of the garden's trees³but not the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden. God said, 'Don't eat from it, and don't touch it, or you will die.'"

⁴The snake said to the woman, "You won't die!⁵God knows that on the day you eat from it, you will see clearly and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."⁶The woman saw that the tree was beautiful with delicious food and that the tree would provide wisdom, so she took some of its fruit and ate it, and also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. ⁷Then they both saw clearly and knew that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made garments for themselves.

⁸During that day's cool evening breeze, they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the LORD God in the middle of the garden's trees. ⁹The LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"

¹⁰The man^m replied, "I heard your sound in the garden; I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself."

¹¹He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree, which I commanded you not to eat?"

¹²The man said, "The woman you gave me, she gave me some fruitⁿ from the tree, and I ate."

¹³The LORD God said to the woman, "What have you done?!"

And the woman said, "The snake tricked me, and I ate."

¹⁴The LORD God said to the snake,

"Because you did this,

you are the one cursed

out of all the farm animals,

out of all the wild animals.

On your belly you will crawl,

and dust you will eat

every day of your life.

¹⁵I will put contempt

between you and the woman,

between your offspring and hers.

They will strike your head,

but you will strike at their heels."

¹⁶To the woman he said,

"I will make your pregnancy very painful;

in pain you will bear children.

You will desire your husband,

but he will rule over you."

¹⁷To the man he said,"Because you listened to your wife's voice and you ate from the tree that I commanded, 'Don't eat from it,'

cursed is the fertile land because of you;

in pain you will eat from it

every day of your life.

¹⁸Weeds and thistles will grow for you,

even as you eat the field's plants;

¹⁹by the sweat of your face you will eat bread--

until you return to the fertile land,

since from it you were taken;

you are soil,

to the soil you will return."

²⁰The man named his wife Eve^o because she is the mother of everyone who lives. ²¹The LORD God made the man and his wife leather clothes and dressed them. ²²The LORD God said, "The human being^p has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil." Now, so he doesn't stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever,²³the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to farm the fertile land from which he was taken. ²⁴He drove out the human. To the east of the garden of Eden, he stationed winged creatures wielding flaming swords to guard the way to the tree of life.

Cain and Abel

Genesis 4The man Adam knew his wife Eve intimately. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have given life to^q a man with the LORD's help."²She gave birth a second time to Cain's brother Abel. Abel cared for the flocks, and Cain farmed the fertile land.

³Some time later, Cain presented an offering to the LORD from the land's crops ⁴while Abel presented his flock's oldest offspring with their fat. The LORD looked favorably on Abel and his sacrifice ⁵but didn't look favorably on Cain and his sacrifice. Cain became very angry and looked resentful. ⁶The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why do you look so resentful?⁷If you do the right thing, won't you be accepted? But if you don't do the right thing, sin will be waiting at the door ready to strike! It will entice you, but you must rule over it."

⁸Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field."^r When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

⁹The LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"

Cain said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's guardian?"

¹⁰The LORD said, "What did you do? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground. ¹¹You are now cursed from the ground that opened its mouth to take your brother's blood from your hand. ¹²When you farm the fertile land, it will no longer grow anything for you, and you will become a roving nomad on the earth."

¹³Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is more than I can bear. ¹⁴Now that you've driven me away from the fertile land and I am hidden from your presence, I'm about to become a roving nomad on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me."

¹⁵The LORD said to him, "It won't happen;^s anyone who kills Cain will be paid back seven times. The LORD put a sign on Cain so that no one who found him would assault him. ¹⁶Cain left the LORD's presence, and he settled down in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Cain's descendants

¹⁷Cain knew his wife intimately. She became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain built a city and named the city after his son Enoch.

¹⁸Irad was born to Enoch. Irad fathered Mehujael, Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech. ¹⁹Lamech took two wives, the first named Adah and the second Zillah. ²⁰Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the ancestor of those who live in tents and own livestock. ²¹His brother's name was Jubal; he was the ancestor of those who play stringed and wind instruments. ²²Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the ancestor of^t blacksmiths and all artisans of bronze and iron. Tubal-cain's sister was Naamah.

²³Lamech said to his wives,

"Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice;

wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words:

I killed a man for wounding me,

a boy for striking me;

²⁴so Cain will be paid back seven times

and Lamech seventy-seven times."

²⁵Adam knew his wife intimately again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth^u "because God has given me another child in place of Abel, whom Cain killed."²⁶Seth also fathered a son and named him Enosh. At that time, people began to worship in the LORD's name.

Adam's descendants

Genesis

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