cattle, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found an help meet for him.

Then God Jehovah caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed the flesh instead thereof. And God Jehovah builded the rib which he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. And the man said: This time it is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh; this shall be called Woman. (Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife : and they shall be one flesh.)

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which God Jehovah had made. And he said. unto the woman: Hath God verily said, Ye shall not eat from any tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent: Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; only of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. But the serpent said unto the woman: Ye shall not surely die; for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall become like God, knowing good and evil. And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, for the tree was desirable to look upon, and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked.

Then they heard the sound of God Jehovah walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the face of God Jehovah

among the trees of the garden. And God Jehovah called unto the man, and said unto him: Where art thou? And he said I heard thy sound in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself. But God said: Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said: The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. Then God Jehovah said unto the woman: What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said: The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And God Jehovah said unto the serpent: Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise its heel. To the woman he said: I will greatly multiply the sorrow of thy conception; in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children; and thy desire shall be toward thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And to the man he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat thereof, cursed is the ground because of thee; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herbs of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for from it wast thou taken,-for dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.

And God Jehovah said: Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put

forth his hand, and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live for ever,-God Jehovah sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground whence he was taken. So he drove out the man, and placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of the sword that turneth to guard the way of the Tree of Life.

CHAPTER III.

GENESIS, iv.

CAIN AND ABEL, SONS OF ADAM.

Two Offerings-Murder-Cain's Sign.

ABEL was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in course of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to Jehovah; and Abel also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah was gracious unto Abel and to his offering; but unto Cain and to his offering he was not gracious. Then Cain was very wroth, and his face fell. But Jehovah said to Cain: Why art thou wroth? and why is thy face fallen? If thou doest well, art thou not accepted? But if thou doest not well, at the door lurketh sin; for he desireth thee, but thou shouldest master him.

Then Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go to the field. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. Then said Jehovah unto Cain: Where is Abel thy brother? And he said: I know not. Am I my brother's keeper? And Jehovah said: What hast thou done? The voice. of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; for though thou till the ground, it shall not henceforth yield thee its fruit. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

And Cain said to Jehovah: My punishment is too great to bear. Behold, thou hast driven me this day from off the face of the ground, and from thy face shall I be hid, and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth, and it shall come to pass that whosoever findeth me shall slay me. And Jehovah said to him: Therefore, whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him seven-fold. And Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.