Chapter 5

The Fall


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And Ahyeh Asher Ahyeha, spake unto Moses, saying: That Accuserb, whom thou hast ordered in the name of mine Yachad Yachid Echadc, is the same which was from the beginning;

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And hea came before me, saying: Behold I; send me.

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I will be thy Yachada; and I will redeem all of Adamb, that one soul shall not be lost;

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And surely I will do it; wherefore, give me thine honor.

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¶ But behold, my Yachada, which was my beloved and chosen from the beginning, said unto me, Avinub: Hinenic; thy will be done, and The Gloryd be thine forever.

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Wherefore, because that Adversarya rebelled against me and sought to destroy the agency of Adamb, which YHVH Elohimc had given them,

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And also that The Creatora should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Yachadb it was caused that he should be cast down;

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And he became Satana, yea, even the devilb, the father of all lies, to deceive, and to blind Adamc, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my Voiced.

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¶ And now, this devil was as a serpenta, and more subtle than any beast of the field which YHVH Elohimb, had made.

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And after the firsta had left the Garden, that Adversaryb put into his heart to beguile Eve; for he had drawn away manyc after him.

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And Eve he sought also; for he knew not the mind of Elohima; wherefore, he sought to destroy the Creation.

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¶ And the Adversary said unto the Ishshaha: Yea, hath Elohim said: Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden, and he spake with the tongue of a serpent.

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¶ And the woman said unto this serpent: We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;

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But of the fruit of the tree which thou beholdest in the midst of the garden, Elohim hath said: Ye shall not eat of it; neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

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

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

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¶ And when the woman saw that the Tree was good for food, and that it became pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make her wise,

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She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husbanda with her; and he did eat.

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And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they had been nakeda;

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And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves apronsa.

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¶ And they heard the Voice of YHVH Elohim as they were walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

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And Adam and his wife went to hide themselves from the presence of YHVH Elohima amongst the trees of the garden.

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¶ And YHVH Elohim called unto Adam and said unto them: Where goest thou?

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And they said: I heard thy Voice in the garden and was afraid because we beheld that we were naked; and we hid ourselves.

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¶ And YHVH Elohim said unto Adam: Who told thee that thou wast naked?

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Hast thou eaten of the Tree whereof it was given charge unto thee that thou shouldest not eat; if so, thou shouldest surely die?

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¶ And the man said: The woman whom thou gavest me, and decreed that she should remain with me; she gave me of the fruit of the Tree; and I did eat.

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And YHVH Elohim said unto the woman: What is this thing which thou hast done?

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¶ And the woman said: The serpent, Satan, beguiled me, and I didst eat.

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¶ And YHVH Elohim said unto that Accusera: Because thou hast done this, thou shalt be cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field;

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Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

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And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed;

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And they shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

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¶ Unto the woman YHVH Elohim said: I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conceptiona;

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In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy longing shall be to thy husband, and he shall care and provide for thee.

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¶ And unto Adam YHVH Elohim said: Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the fruit of the tree of which I offered thee in teshuvaha, saying: Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground for thy sake;

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In toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

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

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By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou shalt return unto the ground, for thou shalt surely die;

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For out of the earth wast thou taken; for dust thou wast, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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¶ And Adam called the name of his wife Eve, for she was the mother of all living;

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For thus has YHVH Elohim, called the first of all women, which are many.

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Unto Adam and also unto his wife did YHVH Elohim make coats of skins and clothed them.

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¶ And the The Creatora said unto Yachadb: Behold, mankind has become as one of us, to know good and evil;

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And now, lest they put forth their hand and partake also of the Tree of Lifea, and eat, and live forever, let us send them forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground in the lands from whence they were taken.

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For as YHVH Elohim liveth, even so these words cannot return void, for as they go forth out, they must be fulfilled;

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And so the peoplea were thus driven out of The Presenceb of Elohimc;

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And YHVHa placed at The Presence of the Eastb of the garden of Eden, cherubimc and a sword of flame, which turned every way to guard the pathway towards the Tree of Life.