Genesis 3
Evangelical Heritage Version
The Fall Into Sin
3 Now the serpent was more clever than any wild animal which the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, 3 but not from the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it. You shall not touch it, or else you will die.’”
4 The serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die. 5 In fact, God knows that the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was appealing to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate. She gave some also to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 The eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for their waists.[a] 8 They heard the voice of the Lord God, who was walking around in the garden during the cooler part[b] of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 The Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself.”
11 God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?”
12 The man said, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 The Lord God said to the woman, “What have you done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 The Lord God said to the serpent:
Because you have done this,
you are cursed more than all the livestock,
and more than every wild animal.
You shall crawl on your belly,
and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed.[c]
He will crush your head,
and you will crush his heel.
16 To the woman he said:
I will greatly increase your pain in childbearing.
With painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
but[d] he will rule over you.
17 To Adam he said:
Because you listened to your wife’s voice
and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,
“You shall not eat from it,”
the soil is cursed on account of you.
You will eat from it with painful labor all the days of your life.
18 Thorns and thistles will spring up from the ground for you,
but you will eat the crops of the field.
19 By the sweat of your face you will eat bread
until you return to the soil,
for out of it you were taken.
For you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.
20 The man named his wife Eve[e] because she would be the mother of all the living. 21 The Lord God made clothing of animal skins for Adam and for his wife and clothed them.
22 The Lord God said, “Look, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, so that he does not reach out his hand and also take from the Tree of Life and eat and live forever—” 23 the Lord God sent him out from the Garden of Eden to work the soil from which he had been taken. 24 So he drove the man out, and in front of[f] the Garden of Eden he stationed cherubim[g] and a flaming sword, which turned in every direction to guard the way to the Tree of Life.
Footnotes
- Genesis 3:7 The Hebrew word often means belt, but here it apparently is an apron or a loincloth.
- Genesis 3:8 Literally the wind or breeze of the day, that is, late afternoon or evening
- Genesis 3:15 In the promises of Genesis and their fulfillment, the translation retains the literal expression seed rather than offspring or descendants to keep the imagery of the Messiah as the Seed of the Woman.
- Genesis 3:16 Or and
- Genesis 3:20 Eve means life.
- Genesis 3:24 Or east of
- Genesis 3:24 Cherubim are angels who are part of God’s honor guard. The translation retains the Hebrew form of the plural because cherubs has a different connotation in English.
1 Mosebok 3
Svenska Folkbibeln
Syndafallet
3 Men ormen var listigare än alla markens djur som Herren Gud hade gjort. Han sade till kvinnan: "Har Gud verkligen sagt: Ni får inte äta av alla[a] träd i lustgården?" 2 Kvinnan svarade ormen: "Vi får äta av frukten från träden i lustgården, 3 men om frukten på det träd som står mitt i lustgården har Gud sagt: Ät inte av den och rör inte vid den, ty då kommer ni att dö." 4 Då sade ormen till kvinnan: "Ni skall visst inte dö! 5 Men Gud vet att den dag ni äter av den skall era ögon öppnas, så att ni blir som Gud med kunskap om gott och ont." 6 Och kvinnan såg att trädet var gott att äta av och en fröjd för ögat. Trädet var lockande eftersom man fick förstånd av det, och hon tog av frukten och åt. Hon gav också till sin man som var med henne, och han åt. 7 Då öppnades ögonen på dem båda, och de märkte att de var nakna. Och de fäste ihop fikonlöv och gjorde höftskynken åt sig.
8 Vid kvällsbrisen hörde de Herren Gud vandra i lustgården. Och mannen och hans hustru gömde sig för Herren Guds ansikte bland träden i lustgården. 9 Men Herren Gud kallade på mannen och sade till honom: "Var är du?" 10 Han svarade: "Jag hörde ljudet av dig i lustgården och blev förskräckt eftersom jag är naken. Därför gömde jag mig." 11 Då sade han: "Vem har berättat för dig att du är naken? Har du ätit av det träd som jag förbjöd dig att äta av?" 12 Mannen svarade: "Kvinnan som du har satt vid min sida, hon gav mig av trädet, och jag åt." 13 Då sade Herren Gud till kvinnan: "Vad är det du har gjort?" Kvinnan svarade: "Ormen förledde mig och jag åt."
Syndafallets följder
14 Då sade Herren Gud till ormen:
"Eftersom du har gjort detta,
skall du vara förbannad
bland alla boskapsdjur och vilda djur.
På din buk skall du gå,
och jord skall du äta så länge du lever.
15 Jag skall sätta fiendskap
mellan dig och kvinnan
och mellan din avkomma
och hennes avkomma.
Han skall krossa ditt huvud[b]
och du skall hugga honom i hälen."
16 Till kvinnan sade han:
"Jag skall göra din möda stor
när du blir havande.
Med smärta skall du föda dina barn.
Till din man skall din lust vara,
och han skall råda över dig."
17 Till Adam sade han:
"Du lyssnade på din hustru
och åt av det träd
om vilket jag befallt dig:
Du skall inte äta av det.
Därför skall marken vara
förbannad för din skull.
Med möda skall du livnära dig av den
så länge du lever.
18 Törne och tistel skall den bära åt dig
och du skall äta av markens örter.
19 I ditt anletes svett
skall du äta ditt bröd
till dess du vänder åter till jorden,
ty av den har du tagits.
Jord är du,
och jord skall du åter bli."
20 Mannen gav sin hustru namnet Eva,[c] ty hon blev moder till allt levande. 21 Och Herren Gud gjorde kläder av skinn åt Adam och hans hustru och klädde dem.
22 Herren Gud sade: "Se, människan har blivit som en av oss med kunskap om gott och ont. Hon får nu inte räcka ut handen och även ta av livets träd och så äta och leva för evigt." 23 Och Herren Gud sände bort dem från Edens lustgård, för att de skulle bruka jorden som de tagits från. 24 Han drev ut människan, och öster om Edens lustgård satte han keruberna och det flammande svärdets lågor för att bevaka vägen till livets träd.
Footnotes
- 1 Mosebok 3:1 alla Annan översättning: "något".
- 1 Mosebok 3:15 Här ges det första löftet om seger över ormen - dvs djävulen (Upp 12:9). Segraren, kvinnans "avkomma", presenteras efterhand närmare, i Första Moseboken som Abrahams, Isaks och Jakobs avkomma, i Psaltaren som både Davids son och Davids Herre, i Jesaja som jungfruns son och telningen från Isais rot, i Mika som den evige som kvinnan skall föda i Betlehem.
- 1 Mosebok 3:20 Eva Hebr. "Chavva", som hör ihop med de hebreiska orden för "leva" och "liv".
Genesis 3
King James Version
3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But 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.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 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 his heel.
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God 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:
23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
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