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 lat, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good, there also is carbuncle and emerald. And the name of the second river is Geon, this it is which encircles the whole land of Ethiopia. And the third river is Tigris, this is that which flows forth over against the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates. And the Lord God took the man whom he had formed, and placed him in the garden of Delight, to cultivate and keep it. And the Lord God gave a charge to Adam, saying, Of every tree which is in the garden thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—of it ye shall not eat, but in whatsoever day ye eat of it, ye shall surely die.

8 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, let 1Gr, accord, us make for him a help 'suitingtohim, able to him. And God formed yet farther out of the carth all the wild beasts of the field, and all the birds of the sky, and he brought them to Adam, to sce what he would call them, and whatever Adam called
 * Gr.soul, any living 'creature, that was the name of it.?°And Adam +@r, called. * gave names to all the cattle and to all the birds of the sky, and to all the wild beasts of the field, but for Adam there was not found a help like to himself. *' And God brought a trance upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled up the flesh instead thereof. 7? And God

Gr, built. 'formed the rib which he took from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam. *And Adam said. This

+ Or, out of, now is bone tof my bones, dein Eph, and flesh of m: oe she - In'the Hed. Shall be called 'woman, be e reason of cause she was taken out of ee ES Gare husband. * Therefore shall a man leave his father

and his mother and shall


 * cleave to his wife, and they

shall be called Issha because two shall be one flesh. 3

she was taken

out of Ish. +Gr, be cemented.

Mat. 19. 5.

GENESIS.

Cnar. 111, v. 13.

25 And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.

3. Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made, and the serpent said to the woman. Wherefore has God said. Eat not ofevery tree of the garden?? And the woman said to the serpent. We may cat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, * but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden. God said. Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said to the woman,
 * Ye shall not surely dic, ech Ye stall 5For God knew that in dean." whatever day ye should cat of it your eyes would be opened, and ye would be as gods, knowing good and evil. ® And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the cyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, andshe gave to her husband also with her, and they ate. 7And the eyes of both were opened and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons to go round them. § And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the afternoon; and both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the! face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden. °And the Lord God called Adam and said to him. Adam, where art thou? '° And he said to him, I heard 'thy voice as +r, the thou walkedst in the garden Sawing, °°

walking, and I feared because I*was +r. = naked and I hid myself. 1! And God

said to him. Who told thee that thou
 * wast naked, unless thou hast + ér, art.

eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it alone not to eat? 2 And Adam said, the woman whom thou gavest to be with me—she gave me of the tree and Tate. '% And the Lord God said to the woman. Why hast thou done this? And the wo-