(22) And the LORD God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and bad, what if he should stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever!”

(23) So the LORD God banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he was taken.

(13) Then I heard a holy being speaking, and another holy being said to whoever it was who was speaking, “How long will [what was seen in] the vision last—the regular offering be forsaken because of transgression; the sanctuary be surrendered and the [heavenly] host be trampled?”

(14) He answered me, “For twenty-three hundred evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary shall be cleansed.”

(4) Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone.

(18) Thorns and thistles shall it sprout for you. But your food shall be the grasses of the field;

(30) I passed by the field of a lazy man, By the vineyard of a man lacking sense.

(13) The craftsman in wood measures with a line And marks out a shape with a stylus; He forms it with scraping tools, Marking it out with a compass. He gives it a human form, The beauty of a man, to dwell in a shrine.

(31) It was all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with chickweed, And its stone fence lay in ruins.

(18) Thorns and thistles shall it sprout for you. But your food shall be the grasses of the field;(19) By the sweat of your brow Shall you get bread to eat, Until you return to the ground— For from it you were taken. For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.”

(23) So the LORD God banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he was taken.(24) He drove the man out, and stationed east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the fiery ever-turning sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

(1) [(Gen. 3:22:) BEHOLD, THE HUMAN.] This text is related (to Prov. 24:30): I PASSED BY THE FIELD OF A LAZY ONE, AND BY THE VINEYARD OF ONE LACKING CHARACTER.⁵⁷Gen. R. 21:3.I PASSED BY THE FIELD OF A LAZY ONE. This is Adam who was too lazy to do penance. AND BY THE VINEYARD OF ONE LACKING CHARACTER. This is Eve, who (according to Gen. 3:18) heeded the words of the serpent. (Prov. 24:31:) AND BEHOLD, IT WAS ALL GROWN OVER WITH THISTLES, in that they have filled the whole world with troubles. (Ibid., cont.:) BRAMBLES COVERED ITS FACE, in that it is stated (in Gen. 3:18): THORN AND THISTLE < IT SHALL BRING FORTH FOR YOU >. (Prov. 24:31, cont.:) AND ITS STONE WALL WAS BROKEN DOWN, in that < the serpent > ⁵⁸See Lev. R. 26:2. has demolished the wall of the world.⁵⁹I.e., opened the way to lawlessness. Unlike the serpent, rabbinical law became a fence around the Torah. When the hurtful decrees (of Gen. 3:14-19) were ordained over them; he began mourning (in Gen. 3:22): BEHOLD (HN),⁶⁰HN can also be an abbreviation for Hazkarat Nefashot, a memorial prayer for the dead.THE HUMAN.

(6) Though he grows as high as the sky, His head reaching the clouds,(7) He perishes forever, like his dung; Those who saw him will say, “Where is he?”

(5) You hedge me before and behind; You lay Your hand upon me.

(32) You have but to inquire about bygone ages that came before you, ever since God created man on earth, from one end of heaven to the other: has anything as grand as this ever happened, or has its like ever been known?

... R’ Tanchuma in the name of R’ Banayah and R’ B’rakhyah in the name of R’ Elazar said: In the time that the Holy One created Adam Harishon, [as] a golem He created him and he was set up from [one] end of the world and unto its [other] end – that’s what is written: “Your eyes saw my golem” [Ps 139:16]. R’ Yehoshua bar Nechemyah and R’ Yehudah bar Simon in R’ Elazar’s name said: He created him filling the whole world. From where [do we know he extended] from the East to West? That it’s said: “Back/achor (i.e., after, the place of sunset) and before/East/qedem You formed/enclosed me /tsartani” [Ps 139:5]. From where [that he went] from North to South? That it’s said: “and from the edge of the heavens and until the edge of the heavens” [Dt 4:32]. And from where [that he filled] even the world’s hollow-space? That it’s said: “. . . and You laid Your palm upon me” [Ps 139:5]...

(22) And the LORD God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and bad, what if he should stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever!”

(20) You overpower him forever and he perishes; You alter his visage and dispatch him.

(22) And the LORD God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and bad, what if he should stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever!”

(4) Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone.

(5) that I looked and saw a man dressed in linen, his loins girt in fine gold.

(2) And six men entered by way of the upper gate that faces north, each with his club in his hand; and among them was another, clothed in linen, with a writing case at his waist. They came forward and stopped at the bronze altar.

(3) Jonah, however, started out to flee to Tarshish from the LORD’s service. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went aboard to sail with the others to Tarshish, away from the service of the LORD.

(22) And the LORD God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and bad, what if he should stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever!”

(12) And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God demand of you? Only this: to revere the LORD your God, to walk only in His paths, to love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and soul,

(23) So the LORD God banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he was taken.

(23) So the LORD God banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he was taken.

(15) Then I, justified, will behold Your face; awake, I am filled with the vision of You.

(22) And the LORD God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and bad, what if he should stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever!”

(23) When you enter the land and plant any tree for food, you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden for you, not to be eaten.

(24) He drove the man out, and stationed east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the fiery ever-turning sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

(16) He has broken my teeth on gravel, Has ground me into the dust.

(6) And I will make it a desolation; It shall not be pruned or hoed, And it shall be overgrown with briers and thistles. And I will command the clouds To drop no rain on it.”

(1) Let me sing for my beloved A song of my lover about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard On a fruitful hill.(2) He broke the ground, cleared it of stones, And planted it with choice vines. He built a watchtower inside it, He even hewed a wine press in it; For he hoped it would yield grapes. Instead, it yielded wild grapes.(3) “Now, then, Dwellers of Jerusalem And men of Judah, You be the judges Between Me and My vineyard:(4) What more could have been done for My vineyard That I failed to do in it? Why, when I hoped it would yield grapes, Did it yield wild grapes?(5) “Now I am going to tell you What I will do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge, That it may be ravaged; I will break down its wall, That it may be trampled.(6) And I will make it a desolation; It shall not be pruned or hoed, And it shall be overgrown with briers and thistles. And I will command the clouds To drop no rain on it.”(7) For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts Is the House of Israel, And the seedlings he lovingly tended Are the men of Judah. And He hoped for justice, But behold, injustice; For equity, But behold, iniquity!

(24) He drove the man out, and stationed east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the fiery ever-turning sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

(16) Cain left the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

(41) Then Moses set aside three cities on the east side of the Jordan

(20) They were the same creatures that I had seen below the God of Israel at the Chebar Canal; so now I knew that they were cherubs.

(4) He makes the winds His messengers, fiery flames His servants.

(19) For lo! That day is at hand, burning like an oven. All the arrogant and all the doers of evil shall be straw, and the day that is coming—said the LORD of Hosts—shall burn them to ashes and leave of them neither stock nor boughs.

(2) At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and proceed with a second circumcision of the Israelites.”

(1) Hallelujah. Sing to the LORD a new song, His praises in the congregation of the faithful.(2) Let Israel rejoice in its maker; let the children of Zion exult in their king.(3) Let them praise His name in dance; with timbrel and lyre let them chant His praises.(4) For the LORD delights in His people; He adorns the lowly with victory.(5) Let the faithful exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their couches,(6) with paeans to God in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands,(7) to impose retribution upon the nations, punishment upon the peoples,(8) binding their kings with shackles, their nobles with chains of iron,(9) executing the doom decreed against them. This is the glory of all His faithful. Hallelujah.

(1) Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gained a male child with the help of the LORD.”