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3 : A D A M
&
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I N
CHAPTER 3:
Paradise and the Fall
(3:1-35; cf. Gen. 2:4-3)
1 And on the six days of the
second week we brought,
according to the word of
Elohim, unto Adam all the
beasts, and all the cattle, and
all the birds, and everything
that moveth on the earth, and
everything that moveth in
the water, according to their
kinds, and according to their
types: the beasts on the first
day; the cattle on the second
day; the birds on the third day;
and all that which moveth on
the earth on the fourth day;
and that which moveth in the
water on the fifth day. 2 And
Adam named them all by
their respective names, and as
Cf. Gn. 2:19
he called them, so was their
name. 3 And on these five
days Adam saw all these, male
and female, according to every
kind that was on the earth,
but he was alone and found
Cf. Gn. 2:20
no helpmeet for him. 4 And
Yahuah said unto us: “It is not
good that the man should be
alone: let us make a helpmeet
Cf. Gn. 2:18; for him.” 5 And Yahuah our
LXX and
Vulg. have pl. Elohim caused a deep sleep
(“let us make”
), but MT to fall upon him, and he slept,
Sam. Syr., “I
will make.” and He took for the woman
one rib from amongst his ribs,
and this rib was the origin
of the woman from amongst
T H E
G A R D E N
his ribs, and He built up the
flesh in its stead, and built the
woman. 6 And He awaked
Adam out of his sleep and on
awaking he rose on the sixth
day, and He brought her to
him, and he knew her, and
said unto her: “This is now
bone of my bones and flesh Cf.
of my flesh; she will be called Gn. 2:21-23
[my] wife; because she was Cf. Gn. 2:24
taken from her husband.”
For these
cf. Lv.
7 Therefore shall man and laws
12: 2-5,
to
wife be one, and therefore shall according
which in the
case the
a man leave his father and his one
mother was
mother, and cleave unto his not to enter
the sanctuary
wife, and they shall be one till the lapse
of forty days,
flesh. 8 In the first week was in the other
eighty days.
Adam created, and the rib--his The reason
this is
wife: in the second week He for
given in the
showed her unto him: and for following
section (9),
to
this reason the commandment according
the author
was given to keep in their ofThisJubilees.
peculiar
defilement, for a male seven idea recurs
elsewhere
days, and for a female twice (Philo, Book
of Adam and
seven days. 9 And after Adam Eve), but not
in Rabbinic
had completed forty days in literature,
for
the land where he had been except
some slight
See
created, we brought him into traces.
Charles, ad
the Garden of Eden to till loc.
Cf. 1 En.
and keep it, but his wife they 81:1, 2, 93:2,
103:2; the
brought in on the eightieth expression
occurs
day, and after this she entered also
in Test. 12
into the Garden of Eden. Patriarchs.
In our Book
heavenly
10 And for this reason the the
tables are
of
commandment is written on conceived
as the divine
the heavenly tables in regard statute book
of which the
to her that giveth birth: “if Mosaic Law
is the earthly
she beareth a male, she shall reproduction.
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