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know that on the day ye shall
eat thereof, your eyes will be
opened, and ye will be as gods,
and ye will know good and
evil.” 20 And the woman saw
the tree that it was agreeable
and pleasant to the eye, and
that its fruit was good for food,
and she took thereof and ate.
21 And when she had first
covered her shame with figleaves, she gave thereof to
Adam and he ate, and his eyes
Charles were opened, and he saw that
suspects a
lacuna here. he was naked. 22 And he took
It may have
contained a fig-leaves and sewed (them)
statement to
the effect that together, and made an apron
the serpent’s
four feet, for himself, and covered his
which it is
supposed shame. 23 And Elohim cursed
to have the serpent, and was wroth
originally
possessed, with it for ever. . . . 24 And He
were cut off.
Cf. Targ. was wroth with the woman,
Ps.-Jon. on
Gn. 3:14, and because she hearkened to
Josephus,
Ant. 1:1, 4. the voice of the serpent, and
did eat; and He said unto
Cf. Gn. 3. M
her: I shall greatly multiply
Cf. Gn. thy sorrow and thy pains in
2:10-12
: sorrow thou shalt bring forth
havilah: that
suffers pain; children, and thy return shall
that brings
forth. Land of be unto thy husband, and
Havah/Eve
named for he will rule over thee.” 25
this curse.
And to Adam also He said,
So LXX “Because thou hast hearkened
and Syr. (
ποστ unto the voice of thy wife,
ραφ
σου), MT, and hast eaten of the tree of
“thy desire.”
which I commanded thee that
thou shouldst not eat thereof,
cursed be the ground for thy
sake: thorns and thistles shall
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it bring forth to thee, and thou
shalt eat thy bread in the sweat
of thy face, till thou returnest
to the earth from whence thou
wast taken; for earth thou
art, and unto earth shalt thou
return.”
26 And He made for them
coats of skin, and clothed
them, and sent them forth from Cf. Gn.2:17the Garden of Eden. 27 And 19, 21, 24
on that day on which Adam
went forth from the garden,
he offered as a sweet savour i. e. the
an offering, frankincense, incenseoffering of
galbanum, and stacte, and Ex. 30:34;
Cf. Cave of
spices in the morning with the Treasures
specifies
rising of the sun from the day gold,
frankincense
when he covered his shame. and myrrh
as
28 And on that day was closed same
Queen of
and
the mouth of all beasts, and Sheba
Wise Kings
from
of cattle, and of birds, and brought
same land
of whatever walketh, and repeating
Adam’s.
of whatever moveth, so that
this belief
they could no longer speak: For
cf. Josephus,
i. 1, 4.
for they had all spoken one Ant.
The idea
with another with one lip and underlying
the text here
with one tongue. 29 And He is that up
to this time
sent out of the Garden of both men
and animals
Eden all flesh that was in the spoke
Hebrew,
Garden of Eden, and all flesh which was
universal
was scattered according to the
language till
building
its kinds, and according to its the
of the Tower
types unto the places which ofCf.Babel.
12:25-26,
had been created for them. 30 43:15.
And to Adam alone did He
give (the wherewithal) to cover
his shame, of all the beasts
and cattle. 31 On this
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