坠落
创世纪3
1耶和華神所造的,惟有蛇比田野一切的活物更狡猾。蛇對女人說:「神豈是真說不許你們吃園中所有樹上的果子嗎?」 2女人對蛇說:「園中樹上的果子,我們可以吃, 3惟有園當中那棵樹上的果子,神曾說:『你們不可吃,也不可摸,免得你們死。』」 4蛇對女人說:「你們不一定死; 5因為神知道,你們吃的日子眼睛就明亮了,你們便如神能知道善惡。」 6於是女人見那棵樹的果子好作食物,也悅人的眼目,且是可喜愛的,能使人有智慧,就摘下果子來吃了,又給她丈夫,她丈夫也吃了。 7他們二人的眼睛就明亮了,才知道自己是赤身露體,便拿無花果樹的葉子為自己編做裙子。
8天起了涼風,耶和華神在園中行走。那人和他妻子聽見神的聲音,就藏在園裏的樹木中,躲避耶和華神的面。 9耶和華神呼喚那人,對他說:「你在哪裏?」 10他說:「我在園中聽見你的聲音,我就害怕;因為我赤身露體,我便藏了。」 11耶和華說:「誰告訴你赤身露體呢?莫非你吃了我吩咐你不可吃的那樹上的果子嗎?」 12那人說:「你所賜給我、與我同居的女人,她把那樹上的果子給我,我就吃了。」 13耶和華神對女人說:「你做的是甚麼事呢?」女人說:「那蛇引誘我,我就吃了。」
[size=1.5em][size=1.03em]神的宣判
14耶和華神對蛇說:
你既做了這事,就必受咒詛,
比一切的牲畜野獸更甚;
你必用肚子行走,
終身吃土。
15我又要叫你和女人彼此為仇;
你的後裔和女人的後裔也彼此為仇。
女人的後裔要傷你的頭;
你要傷他的腳跟。
16又對女人說:
我必多多加增你懷胎的苦楚;
你生產兒女必多受苦楚。
你必戀慕你丈夫;
你丈夫必管轄你。
17又對亞當說:
你既聽從妻子的話,
吃了我所吩咐你不可吃的那樹上的果子,
地必為你的緣故受咒詛;
你必終身勞苦才能從地裏得吃的。
18地必給你長出荊棘和蒺藜來;
你也要吃田間的菜蔬。
19你必汗流滿面才得糊口,
直到你歸了土,
因為你是從土而出的。
你本是塵土,仍要歸於塵土。
The Fall
Genesis 3
1Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LordGod had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”
4“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LordGod as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LordGod among the trees of the garden. 9But the LordGod called to the man, “Where are you?”
10He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13Then the LordGod said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14So the LordGod said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring#15 Or seed and hers;
he will crush#15 Or strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
16To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
17To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”
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