Drafted by Grok 4.7 on 8 October 2026. First draft. Not independently reviewed. Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
1The snake was the shrewdest of all the wild animals of the field that Yahweh God had made. It said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”
2The woman said to the snake, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden.
3But from the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, or you will die.’”
4The snake said to the woman, “You will not die. You will not die.
5God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
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Kelohim can be “like God” or “like gods.” The singular “like God” is printed, matching the God of the command the snake is twisting.
6The woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was a longing to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable for gaining insight. She took from its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
7The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
8They heard the sound of Yahweh God walking about in the garden in the breeze of the day, and the human and his wife hid themselves from the face of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
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Le-ruach hayom is “at the breeze of the day,” the windy part of the day. “In the cool of the day” is a later English habit, and it is not printed.
9Yahweh God called to the human and said to him, “Where are you?”
10He said, “I heard your sound in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
11He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree I commanded you not to eat from?”
12The human said, “The woman you gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”
13Yahweh God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The snake deceived me, and I ate.”
14Yahweh God said to the snake, “Because you did this, you are cursed more than all the livestock and more than every animal of the field. On your belly you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
15I will set hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel.”
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The same verb, shuf, is used for both strikes. “Offspring” is zera, seed, and the following verb is singular, “he will strike.” The line does not name a later figure.
16To the woman he said, “I will make very great your pain and your pregnancies. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
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Teshuqah is desire, a turning toward. The same word returns in the next chapter, where sin’s desire is for Cain. The two sentences are left to explain each other.
17To the human 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 ground is cursed because of you. In pain you will eat from it all the days of your life.
18Thorn and thistle it will grow for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, until you return to the ground, for from it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
20The human named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
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The name is Chawwah. It sits next to the word for the living, chai. “Eve” is the name as it is said in English. The reason in the sentence is the Hebrew match, not the English spelling.
21Yahweh God made tunics of skin for the human and for his wife, and he clothed them.
22Yahweh God said, “Look, the human has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. And now, in case he reaches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life, and eats, and lives forever—”
23Yahweh God sent him out of the garden of Eden, to work the ground from which he was taken.
24He drove the human out, and he stationed, east of the garden of Eden, the cherubim and the flame of the turning sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.