1In the beginning of God's creation of the heavens and the earth.

2Now the earth was astonishingly empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the spirit of God was
hovering over the face of the water.

A too sad teaching is that the Spirit of G-d came only when Y’shua (Jesus) came to the earth. But here He is at the creation of the earth…

3And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

4And God saw the light that it was good, and God separated between the light and between the darkness.

5And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night, and it was evening and it was morning, one day.

6And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the water, and let it be a separation between water and water."

7And God made the expanse and it separated between the water that was below the expanse and the water that was above the expanse, and it was so.

8And God called the expanse Heaven, and it was evening, and it was morning, a second day.

9And God said, "Let the water that is beneath the heavens gather into one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.

10And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas, and God saw that it was good.

11And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, seed yielding herbs and fruit trees producing fruit according to its kind in which its seed is found, on the earth," and it was so.

12And the earth gave forth vegetation, seed yielding herbs according to its kind, and trees producing fruit, in which its seed is found, according to its kind, and God saw that it was good.

13And it was evening, and it was morning, a third day.

This third day, that we now call Tuesday, is the only day of creation where G-d saw that it was good, not once, but twice. And it if for this very reason that Tuesdays are often the day when marriages, business openings, building construction starts, and other times of merit are scheduled on Tuesdays by Jewish folks around the world.

14And God said, "Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to separate between the day and between the night, and they shall be for signs and for appointed
seasons and for days and years.

15And they shall be for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to shed light upon the earth." And it was so.

16And God made the two great luminaries: the great luminary to rule the day and the lesser luminary to rule the night, and the stars.

17And God placed them in the expanse of the heavens
to shed light upon the earth.

18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate between the light and between the darkness,
and God saw that it was good.

19And it was evening, and it was morning, a fourth day.

20And God said, "Let the waters swarm a swarming of living creatures, and let fowl fly over the earth,
across the expanse of the heavens."

21And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that crawls, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged fowl, according to its kind, and God saw that it was good.

22And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the fowl multiply upon the earth."

23And it was evening, and it was morning, a fifth day.

24And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind, cattle and creeping things and the beasts of the earth according to their kind," and it was so.

25And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kind and the cattle according to their kind, and all the creeping things of the ground according to their kind, and God saw that it was good.

26And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and they shall rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heaven and over the animals and over all the earth and over all the creeping things that creep upon the earth."

27And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Male & female He created them, in His own image. Interesting. It is well believed that HaShem is the Male aspect of G-d, and that the Shechinah
is the feminine aspect.

28And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the sky and over all the beasts that tread upon the earth. "

29And God said, "Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing herb, which is upon the surface of the entire earth, and every tree that has seed bearing fruit; it will be yours for food.

30And to all the beasts of the earth and to all the fowl of the heavens, and to everything that moves upon the earth, in which there is a living spirit, every green herb to eat," and it was so.

31And God saw all that He had made, and behold it was very good, and it was evening and it was morning, the sixth day.

1Now the heavens and the earth were completed and all their host.

2And God completed on the seventh day His work that He did, and He abstained on the seventh day from all His work that He did.

3And God blessed the seventh day and He hallowed it, for thereon He abstained from all His work that God created to do.

4These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, on the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.

5Now no tree of the field was yet on the earth, neither did any herb of the field yet grow, because the Lord God had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the soil.

6And a mist ascended from the earth and watered
the entire surface of the ground.

7And the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and He breathed into his nostrils the soul of life,
and man became a living soul.

8And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden from the east, and He placed there the man whom He had formed.

9And the Lord God caused to sprout from the ground every tree pleasant to see and good to eat, and the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

10And a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it separated and became four heads.

11The name of one is Pishon; that is the one that encompasses all the land of Havilah, where there is gold.

12And the gold of that land is good; there is the crystal
and the onyx stone.

13And the name of the second river is Gihon; that is the one that encompasses all the land of Cush.

14And the name of the third river is Tigris; that is the one that flows to the east of Assyria, and the fourth river
that is the Euphrates.

15Now the Lord God took the man, and He placed him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to guard it.

16And the Lord God commanded man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat.

17But of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat of it, for on the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die."

18And the Lord God said, "It is not good that man is alone; I shall make him a helpmate opposite him."

19And the Lord God formed from the earth every beast of the field and every fowl of the heavens, and He brought it to man to see what he would call it, and whatever the man called
each living thing, that was its name.

20And man named all the cattle and the fowl of the heavens and all the beasts of the field, but for man, he did
not find a helpmate opposite him.

21And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon man, and he slept, and He took one of his sides, and He closed
the flesh in its place.

22And the Lord God built the side that He had taken from man into a woman, and He brought her to man.

23And man said, "This time, it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one shall be called ishah (woman) because this one
was taken from ish (man)."

24Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

25Now they were both naked, the man and his wife,
but they were not ashamed.

1Now the serpent was cunning, more than all the beasts of the field that the Lord God had made, and it said to the woman, "Did God indeed say, 'You shall not eat of any of the trees of the garden?'"

2And the woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the
trees of the garden we may eat.

3But of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, "You shall not eat of it, and you shall
not touch it, lest you die.'"
First thing that could go wrong; Ishah exaggerates G-d’s instruction. Touching the tree wasn’t a problem,
only eating of it…

4And the serpent said to the woman, "You will surely not die.

5For God knows that on the day that you eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like angels, knowing good and evil."

6And the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise; so she took of its fruit, and she ate, and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

7And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves
and made themselves girdles.
Back when I was leading tours to Israel, I learned that fig leaves start out large, but within about an hour,
they shrink to half the original size…

8And they heard the voice of the Lord God going in the garden to the direction of the sun, and the man and his wife hid from before the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

9And the Lord God called to man, and He said to him,
"Where are you?"

10And he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I am naked; so I hid."

11And He said, "Who told you that you are naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"

12And the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me she gave me of the tree; so I ate."

13And the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent enticed me, and I ate."
The proverbial “Blame Game” began right here.

14And the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed be you more than all the cattle and more than all the beasts of the field; you shall walk on your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

15And I shall place hatred between you and between the woman, and between your seed and between her seed. He will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."

16To the woman He said, "I shall surely increase your sorrow and your pregnancy; in pain you shall bear children. And to your husband, will be your desire, and he will rule over you."

17And to man He said, "Because you listened to your wife, and you ate from the tree from which I commanded you saying,
'You shall not eat of it,' cursed be the ground for your sake; with toil shall you eat of it all the days of your life.

18And it will cause thorns and thistles to grow for you,
and you shall eat the herbs of the field.

19With the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, until you return to the ground, for you were taken therefrom, for dust you are,
and to dust you will return."

20And the man named his wife Eve, because she
was the mother of all life.

21And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife shirts of skin, and He dressed them.

22Now the Lord God said, "Behold man has become like one of us, having the ability of knowing good and evil, and now, lest he stretch forth his hand and take also from the Tree of Life
and eat and live forever."

23And the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to till the soil, whence he had been taken.

24And He drove the man out, and He stationed from the east of the Garden of Eden the cherubim and the blade of the revolving sword, to guard the way to the Tree of Life.

1Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, and she said, "I have acquired a man with the Lord."

2And she continued to bear his brother Abel, and Abel was a shepherd of flocks, and Cain was a tiller of the soil.

3Now it came to pass at the end of days, that Cain brought of the fruit of the soil an offering to the Lord.

4And Abel, he too brought of the firstborn of his flocks and of their fattest, and the Lord turned to Abel and to his offering.

5But to Cain and to his offering He did not turn, and it annoyed Cain exceedingly, and his countenance fell.

6And the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you annoyed, and why has your countenance fallen?

7Is it not so that if you improve, it will be forgiven you? If you do not improve, however, at the entrance, sin is lying, and to you is its longing, but you can rule over it."

8And Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against
Abel his brother and slew him.

9And the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

10And He said, "What have you done? Hark! Your brother's blood cries out to Me from the earth.

11And now, you are cursed even more than the ground, which opened its mouth to take your brother's blood from your hand.

12When you till the soil, it will not continue to give its strength to you; you shall be a wanderer and an exile in the land."

13And Cain said to the Lord, "Is my iniquity too great to bear?

14Behold You have driven me today off the face of the earth, and I shall be hidden from before You, and I will be a wanderer and an exile in the land, and it will be that whoever finds me will kill me."

15And the Lord said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be wrought upon him sevenfold," and the Lord placed a mark on Cain that no one who find him slay him.

16And Cain went forth from before the Lord, and he dwelt in the land of the wanderers, to the east of Eden.

17And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch, and he was building a city, and he called the city after
the name of his son, Enoch.

18And Irad was born to Enoch, and Irad begot Mehujael, and Mehijael begot Methushael, and Methushael begot Lemech.

19And Lemech took himself two wives; one was named Adah, and the other was named Zillah.

20Now Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle.

21And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all who grasp a lyre and a flute.

22And Zillah she too bore Tubal-cain, who sharpened all tools that cut copper and iron, and Tubal-cain's sister was Na'amah.

23Now Lemech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hearken to my voice; wives of Lemech, incline your ears to my words, for I have slain a man by wounding him and a child by bruising him.

24If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, then
for Lemech it shall be seventy seven fold."

25And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and she named him Seth, for God has given me other seed, instead of Abel, for Cain slew him.

26And to Seth also to him a son was born, and he named him Enosh; then it became common to call by the name of the Lord.

1This is the narrative of the generations of man; on the day that God created man, in the likeness of God He created him.

2Male and female He created them, and He blessed them, and He named them man Adam on the day they were created.

3And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and he begot in his likeness after his image, and he named him Seth.

4And the days of Adam after he begot Seth were eight hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

5And all the days of Adam that he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

6And Seth lived one hundred and five years, and he begot Enosh.

7And Seth lived after he had begotten Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and he begot sons and daughters.

8And all the days of Seth were nine hundred
and twelve years, and he died.

9And Enosh lived ninety years, and he begot Kenan.

10And Enosh lived after he had begotten Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and he begot sons and daughters.

11And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred
and five years, and he died.

12And Kenan lived seventy years, and he begot Mahalalel.

13And Kenan lived after he had begotten Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and he begot sons and daughters.

14And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred
and ten years, and he died.

15And Mahalalel lived sixty five years, and he begot Jared.

16And Mahalalel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and he begot sons and daughters.

17And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred
and ninety five years, and he died.

18And Jared lived a hundred and sixty two years,
and he begot Enoch.

19And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

20And all the days of Jared were nine hundred
and sixty two years, and he died.

21And Enoch lived sixty five years, and he begot Methuselah.

22And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methuselah, three hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

23And all the days of Enoch were three hundred
and sixty five years.

24And Enoch walked with God, and he was no longer,
for God had taken him.

25And Methuselah lived a hundred and eighty seven years,
and he begot Lamech.

26And Methuselah lived after he had begotten Lamech, seven hundred and eighty two years, and he begot sons and daughters.

27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred
and sixty-nine years, and he died.

28And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years,
and he begot a son.

29And he named him Noah, saying, "This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands from the ground,
which the Lord has cursed."

30And Lamech lived after he had begotten Noah, five hundred and ninety-five years, and he begot sons and daughters.

31And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred
and seventy-seven years, and he died.

32And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

1And it came to pass when man commenced to multiply upon the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them.

2That the sons of the nobles saw the daughters of man when they were beautifying themselves, and they took for themselves wives from whomever they chose.

3And the Lord said, "Let My spirit not quarrel forever concerning man, because he is also flesh, and his days shall be
a hundred and twenty years."

Moses is the only patriarch we know of
who lived to be 120 years old.

4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterward, when the sons of the nobles would come to the daughters of man, and they would bear for them; they are the mighty men, who were of old, the men of renown.

5And the Lord saw that the evil of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of his heart was only evil all the time.

6And the Lord regretted that He had made man upon the earth, and He became grieved in His heart.

7And the Lord said, "I will blot out man, whom I created, from upon the face of the earth, from man to cattle to creeping thing, to the fowl of the heavens, for I regret that I made them."

8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

5And the Lord saw that the evil of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of his heart was only evil all the time.

6And the Lord regretted that He had made man upon the earth, and He became grieved in His heart.

7And the Lord said, "I will blot out man, whom I created, from upon the face of the earth, from man to cattle to creeping thing, to the fowl of the heavens, for I regret that I made them."

8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.