The Torah: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

By Bob MacDonald

How will we sing the instruction of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible?

Torah, also known as the Pentateuch, refers to the five books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. It is also called ‘the Law’, in distinction from ‘the Prophets’. Torah is sung through every year in the Synagogue. It sets the scene for the drama to unfold in the Hebrew canon.

Everyone knows the beginning of Torah when the Mystery began the process of creating the world, In the Beginning. But what is this as Instruction for us? And how will we sing it in our own tongue? And how should we hear that ancient song?

These stories are among the most famous in the world. Reading them with the mind that they are entirely set to music will allow us to hear them with their tone of voice restored.

The Torah is volume 1 of the series, The Hebrew Bible and Its Music.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Energion Publications
• Release date: Mar 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9781631996795

Bob MacDonald

Bob MacDonald is a retired West Australian Police officer of thirty years experience. Bob's last day at school was his 14th birthday - commencing work, the very next day, in a timber mill in his home town of Pemberton, West Australia.He later self-educated and enlisted in the West Australian police force, retiring as a superintendent in the Internal Investigations Branch of the Professional Standards portfolio.Since retirement Bob has been working at remote aboriginal communities in Central Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. He also did a tour of duty on the island nation of Cyprus with the United Nations Blue Beret Peacekeepers.Bob, a keen sportsman continues with various sporting activities; which also includes fishing and camping trips. Writing articles for various magazines and now venturing into anecdotal short story compilations and fictional manuscripts ensures Bob leads a busy life.

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The Torah

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

A close translation for the original music

by

Bob MacDonald

The Hebrew Bible and its Music, Volume 1

Energion Publications

Gonzalez, Florida, U.S.A.

2019

The Torah

Copyright © D. Robert MacDonald 2019, 2021 – all rights reserved.

Cover Design: The author

ISBN: 978-1-63199-679-5

Energion Publications

P. O. Box 841

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850-525-3916

www.energionpubs.com

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The Cover

A fractal enclosing a treble clef suggests both the intricate organization of the Biblical language and the music embedded in the manuscripts.

Other books by the author

Seeing the Psalter, Patterns of Recurrence in the Poetry of the Psalms, Energion 2013

The Song in the Night, According to the melody in the accents of the Hebrew text, Energion 2016

(With Jonathan Orr-Stav) The SimHebrew Bible, The Hebrew Bible in Simulated Hebrew – with English Guide, Qualum Publishing 2021

Books in this series

1 The Torah, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

2 The Former Prophets, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings

3 The Major Prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel

4 The Twelve, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

5 The Books of Truth, Psalms, Proverbs, Job

6 The Five Scrolls, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Qohelet, Esther

7 The Remaining Writings, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles

8 A Biblical Hebrew to English Concordance

9 A is for Abandon, An English to Biblical Hebrew Alphabet Book

10 The Progression of the Music, The Accents of the Hebrew Bible

Preface

Torah, also known as the Pentateuch, the Books of Moses, or the Law is sung through every year in the Synagogue. It sets the scene for the drama to unfold in the Hebrew canon.

This close translation was initially developed to show in English the intricate patterns of repeated words in Hebrew poetry. Having discovered the inferences concerning the music at a conference on the Psalms in 2010, the author decided that the whole corpus of the Hebrew canonical text should be approached to allow English speaking readers some understanding of the music. The translation retains the order of Hebrew words wherever reasonable, so that changes in reciting note and ornaments can be in English on the same syllable that corresponds to the Hebrew.

The line breaks have been chosen to correspond with the major rest points as indicated in the Hebrew manuscripts by the accents. These are the cadences in the music. The music has been derived through automation based on the deciphering key developed by Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura in the latter half of the twentieth century. All the music is available as noted below, though only a small portion of it has been performed.

In the English text of this volume next to the verse number, you may see a letter. This letter is the first note of the verse if the first note is not the default (e). Such a first note indicates that the verse is somehow related to what has come before it. The nature of the relationship is not specific. You the reader / singer must decide how the opening relates to what has been already. When you see a ~, it indicates an ornament on the first note.

The notes of the scale in the default mode for the text of Torah are c, d, e, f, g#, A, B, C. Absolute pitch is not important. Sing the music wherever it is comfortable for your voice. For instruction on the music, see The Song in the Night.

The music for all 929 chapters of the Hebrew Bible is all available online through the pages at https://meafar.blogspot.com.

This edition includes minor changes to the translation from 2019-2021.

Table of Contents

Preface

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Bible and its Music

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Acknowledgements

List of Musical Examples

Score 1 An example of the music from the book of Job.

Score 2 Numbers 23:9, And among the nations

Score 3 Deuteronomy 1:35 showing the word נשׁבעתי, I swore, in its context

Score 4 The first day

Score 5 The trees

Score 6 No rest in the making of clothing

Score 7 The birth of Cain, sounds like כנה kenah, acquire.

Score 8  Great iniquity

Score 9 Dove at evening

Score 10 The fate of Canaan.

Score 11 The promise to Abram

Score 12 The trussing of Isaac

Score 13 The competition for babies

Score 14 Joseph's first dream

Score 15 Joseph's emotion

Score 16 The death of Joseph

Score 17 The Name revealed

Score 18 The Song of the Sea

Score 19 Words 4 to 9 of the second table.

Score 20 The cherubim

Score 21 Holy

Score 22 The finishing of the Dwelling-Place

Score 23 And he called

Score 24 The cover-price for the priest and for his house

Score 25 Jubilee

Score 26 Promises for the land

Score 27 These are the commandments

Score 28 The Levitical blessing

Score 29 The Qorban of Naphtali

Score 30 Grumbling against Moses and Aaron

Score 31 Discouragement on the journey

Score 32 Balaam's last oracle

Score 33 The promise of Gad and Reuben

Score 34 A portion of the migration

Score 35 The Levitical cities

Score 36 Unique accentuation

Score 37 The Shema and its instruction

Score 38 Teaching our children

Score 39 The early and maturing rain

Score 40 Three times in the year

Score 41 Its corpse will not bide on the tree

Score 42 The words of the covenant

Score 43 The Song of Moses

Score 44 The death of Moses

Score 45 The entombing of Moses

Introduction to the Bible and its Music

This reading of the Bible is in seven sections according to the divisions of traditional Judaism. First the three major divisions: Torah, Prophets, and Writings. Torah is not further subdivided. The prophets are subdivided into three: the former prophets, and the latter prophets, which in turn are in 2 sections: the three major prophets, and the twelve. The Writings are similarly divided into three: The books of truth, Psalms, Proverbs, and Job, the five scrolls, The Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Qohelet, and Esther, and the remaining writings, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, and Chronicles.

What is unique in this reading?

Music

This English reading of the Hebrew Bible is intended to be the ground for an underlay to the musical score. The deciphering key of Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura is a full musical clarification of the text, not just verse by verse but as a whole. The shape of each part of the text becomes transparent. So much so that the music presents the most transparent way of teaching Biblical Hebrew.

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Score 1 An example of the music from the book of Job.

Score 1 shows the first verse of the Book of Job. The music of this playful verse mimics the opening verse of Genesis. This is a suitable musical opening for Job in that Job addresses directly the problem of creation and justice. The decoding of the music was presented at a conference on the Psalms convened by Susan Gillingham at Oxford in September 2010. David Mitchell presented the work of Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura in a service at Worcester College Chapel.

Every book in these volumes includes some examples of the music. It is best sung in Hebrew, but the translation is close enough to allow a non-Hebrew reader to know what the words signify. The accents are always aptly placed. The scores show by the presence of a bar line a change in reciting note and by implication, the accentuation of the word, and the rest point(s) for the recitation. The reciting note is an indication of tone of voice. The ornaments (accents over the text) may indicate significant similarities in the surrounding text. The opening note of a verse, if not the default tonic (as in this case), indicates a connection with prior verses or even a prior book or set of books.

Concordance

Mapping of Hebrew stems to English lemmas in this translation has been supported by several computer-driven algorithms. The algorithms strive for a 1 to 1 mapping. For example, the Hebrew stem גוי, goi, occurs in the Hebrew text 561 times in 23 distinct word forms. In this reading, it is always rendered as nation, a word derived from the idea of native, i.e. where you were born.

In contrast to a consistent simple rendering, when the King James translators of the Bible translated גוי they used a variety of glosses in English, nation, heathen, Gentiles, people. Some variety may be necessary. Sometimes there are different nuances to the use of a word, even different senses for the same stem. In this case, however, the nuance of heathen has a negative and prejudicial intent to an English reader. This reading did not find reason to suppose that such negative intent was intended by the Hebrew, so it does not use heathen as a gloss.

In contrast to the one-to-one simplicity of nation, and confining ourselves for the moment to words outside the domain of grammatical connectors, there are several stems in Hebrew describing common human actions, like walk, come, go, bring. In both languages these glosses are multi-faceted and this translation has allowed them to have a many-to-many mapping between the two languages. There are relatively few of these stems, about 1%, perhaps 2 dozen in all, but they are common and pervasive in our speech and our writing. They account for about 4% of the words in the Hebrew canon.

As in English, there are Hebrew stems that indicate two or more differing senses, i.e. homonyms in Hebrew. The stem has more than one sense. For example, the English word slip might have to do with slipping on ice, or it might have to do with a tender plant or an undergarment. Similarly in Hebrew, the same stem may have more than one sense. A two-letter example, עם, may be people (‘am) or the preposition with (‘im). As a second example, נשׁך (nshk) has two distinct uses, to bite, (Genesis 49:17) and to take or have an interest (seven times in Deuteronomy).

One consequence of this process is that if a stem is used only once in the Hebrew text, then the reading is under obligation to find a unique English gloss for it. There are over 200 such single-usage stems (hapax legomena) in the concordance. Other sources may show additional examples. For some sources, אברך in Genesis 41:43 is unique. It is a unique word form but its stem is linked to ברך bless or knee. Another example is in Genesis 43:11: בטנים pistachio nut is a plural form of בטן, belly, so neither of the first two is a hapax as to stem but they are as word forms. There are many glossaries, and they are not in agreement with each other with respect to the identity of the stem.

In contrast to unique stems, the count of unique Hebrew word forms is quite high, 18,971. These represent 2,072 stems outside of the domain of names. For example, the very common stem בוא, (come, go, bring) has 123 word-forms that are used only once in the text though they would have been in common usage in speech.

Another consequence of this process is that with words where the translator allows multiple English glosses simply for the sake of variation, the translator may inadvertently create a hapax in the English where there is not one in the Hebrew.

There are also some compromises in the algorithms. The translation allows exceptions to the rules for figures of speech and word games, especially when imitating an alphabetic acrostic. Helping verbs and prepositions may also distinguish some stems from others. E.g. hold back, hold fast, lay hold of, hold innocent, are all separate stems. In these cases the English is a multi-word gloss for a more complex sense in each Hebrew stem for which there may be no convenient single word English gloss.

Grammatical connectors like prepositions are notorious for not mapping consistently to single values. There are various reasons for this difference in languages. Sometimes, a preposition is implied by the usage of a verb. One language may require it and the other assume it. Each preposition has a dominant sense, but will not always take its dominant sense. Identifying the exceptions is subjective. For example, the prefix ב b, in Hebrew is usually in, but it may also be rendered as any one of a number of other glosses. In this reading (at the time of counting) it is rendered as follows: about(16), against(259), among(518), as(23), at(264), because(2), by(529), for(88), from(42), if(1), in(6278), into(429), of(47), on(536), over(12), through(46), to(89), under(4), when(213), with(893), and there are several dozen times when it is left untranslated.

This brings up a significant difference between Hebrew and English ‘words’. A Hebrew word is more like an English phrase than an English word. Hebrew has several frequently used prefixed prepositions. In general, Hebrew has far more prefixes and suffixes than English.

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Score 2 Numbers 23:9, And among the nations

So for example: ובגוים (the fifth word following the rest in score 2) is comprised of ו, a vertical stroke, vav (here pronounced u), followed by ב, bet (here pronounced va),  a preposition, then גוי, the stem, followed by a plural form ם, mem, in this case a form of mem that signals the end of a word. In English it could be rendered as and among or against nations, with or without the definite article, the. The vav is simply a hook that connects Hebrew phrases. It may be rendered as and, or, but, as well as a number of other particles in English. The bet may be the first letter of a stem or be, as in this case, a preposition, indicating in or in the, or other variation.

Pronouns may be separate words as in English but are more frequent as suffixes for both nouns and verbs. The forms of verb are many, and their affixes indicate person, gender, number, mode, voice, and aspect. Both English and Modern Hebrew think in person, gender, number, mood, voice, and tense: past, present, or future. While there is both history and story time in Biblical Hebrew, the selection of past, present, or future is by no means cut and dried. Tense may be indeterminate, and there may be more emphasis in the verb form on the aspect of continuing or completed action. In English we would chose continuing present, imperfect and so on.

As an example of a verb form, consider נשׁבעתי from Deuteronomy 1:35. The stem is שׁבע, the prefix is נ, and the suffix תי. The prefix indicates the niphal verb form (typically passive voice). The suffix indicates first person singular. In this case, it could be rendered I swore. This stem may be the word to swear, or the number seven (seventy if masculine plural). Other English glosses used for this stem are related to swear: oath, adjure, allegiance. And related to seven, שׁבע is also the word for a week.

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Score 3 Deuteronomy 1:35 showing the word נשׁבעתי, I swore, in its context

Score 3 shows this word in one of the 6 times it occurs in Deuteronomy as part of the formula for promise from God concerning the inheritance of the land. E.g. in 1:35:

It will not be that anyone will see, among these incurables, this evil generation,

the good land that I swore to give to your ancestors.

The form of this verb is niphal, a subdivision of Hebrew verbs that is generally rendered by the English passive voice. But I swear in English is not passive. Perhaps the idea of God making an oath or promise is a ‘divine passive’ by implication. This reaches back into the emerging mind of humanity.

Words not used

It turned out there are several words in common use by translators of the Bible that are never used in this reading. Some of these are law, soul, loving-kindness, punish, atonement, repent, and dominion, and as discussed above, heathen and Gentile.

Does God lay down the law, (or else)? In this reading, God gives instruction that we must hear with God’s voice.

Does God separate us into body and soul? Is our commonplace use of soul without grounds? This reading uses a variety of words for nephesh,נפשׁ: being, integrity, veryself and variations on self, group (sometimes the word is collective), throat, cadaver (sometimes the word is specific to a body-part), and others.

What is the nature of the multi-syllabic word loving-kindness? For the sake of the music, this reading uses variations on either mercy or kindness.

Does God punish or do humans punish? There is correction and chastising in this reading but not punishment. There is no Hebrew stem that has ‘punish’ as its dominant gloss.

What thought process produced the coinage of atonement? This reading uses cover-price, though the stem כפר (sounds like cover) is a complex of possibilities: cover-price, cover, ark-cover, young lion, cub, cover-offering, crock, frost, henna. It is a very good example of a stem with multiple senses.

Does God repent? Do humans? What is such repentance? In this reading the actions are distinguished in the text as they are in Hebrew. Humans turn, God sighs.

How should humans rule? Dominion from dominus is probably apt as a gloss, but this reading does not use it.

Translation of Names

Thirteen percent of the words in the Bible are classified as names: names of peoples, locations, persons, God, rivers, feasts, stars, species, signs, mountains, months, and even sticks, (Zechariah 11:7, 10).

Some names are opaque to us, and some may be made easier to hear if we translate rather than transcribe them. With 1,690 distinct personal names used 16,279 times, a translation of every name would be as tedious to the reader as a consistent transcription. So this reading is somewhat capricious to keep us on our toes. Some names, readers of other translations will recognize. Some they will not. Some will be surprising.

Eden, for example, is that well-known garden first mentioned in Genesis.  It is used 20 times as a named location, 13 times as the Aramaic for time, twice as a time based adverb yet. (Qohelet 4:2, 3), twice for a specialty food (Genesis 49:20, Lamentations 4:5), and 9 times for enthrall.

Where is the best place to start reading the Bible?

There are long books and short books. There are books that lay out long periods of history and books that provide a key to interpreting. For instance Job provides a key to interpreting Torah, particularly Genesis and Deuteronomy. Job is the third of the poetry books. The Song of Solomon, the first of the five scrolls is also a key to Torah. The Song is one of the five scrolls.

There are also books of prose and books of poetry. Poetry is scattered throughout the Hebrew canon, but three books stand out and are called poetic, Psalms, Proverbs, and Job. They are marked as poetry by a slightly different set of accents, including notably a secondary cadence on the supertonic.

Many people attempt to read the Bible starting at Genesis and working their way through in the sequence of the books. But they generally get bogged down, often somewhere in Exodus or Leviticus. The poetry and the scrolls are good starting points. Sing also, if possible, and observe or hear the structure in its form from the music. There are many examples of the music interspersed in the text. All the musical scores have been transcribed as described here: https://meafar.blogspot.com/p/music.html.

Genesis

Chapter 1

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Score 4 The first day

¹ In the beginning of God's creating,

the heavens and the earth,

² when the earth was formless and void and darkness was over the face of the abyss,

and the wind of God brooded over the face of the waters,

³ God said, Let there be light,

and light was.

⁴ And God saw the light, that it was good.

And God differentiated between the light and between the darkness.

⁵ And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night.

And it was evening and it was morning, day one.

⁶ And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters.

And let it be a differentiation between waters and waters.

⁷ And God constructed the expanse and it differentiated between the waters that are under the expanse and between the waters that are over the expanse.

And it was so.

⁸ And God called the expanse heaven.

And it was evening and it was morning, the second day.

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heavens shirr into one place and let the dry land appear.

And it was so.

¹⁰ And God called the dry land earth and the shirring of the waters he called seas.

And God saw that it was good.

¹¹ And God said, Let the earth be verdant with vegetation, herb seeding seed, fruit tree constructing the fruit of its species whose seed is in itself on the earth.

And it was so.

¹² And the earth brought forth vegetation, herb seeding seed of its species, and tree constructing fruit whose seed is in itself of its species.

And God saw that it was good.

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

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to differentiate between the day and between the night.

And let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years.

¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.

And it was so.

¹⁶ And God constructed the two great lights,

the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night, and the stars.

¹⁷ And God gave them in the expanse of the heavens,

to give light upon the earth,

¹⁸ and to govern in the day and in the night and to differentiate between the light and between the darkness.

And God saw that it was good.

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

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters teem with teeming being that has life,

and fowl flying over the earth over the face of the expanse of the heavens.

²¹ And God created the great dragons,

and all the being of the life of those that creep, with which the waters teemed of their species, and all winged fowl of its species. And God saw that it was good.

²² And God blessed them and said,

Be fruitful and increase and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl increase in the earth.

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

²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth being that has life of its species, cattle, and creeper, and its earthly animal of its species.

And it was so.

²⁵ And God constructed the animals of the earth of its species and the cattle of its species and all that creep of the ground of its species.

And God saw that it was good.

²⁶ And God said, Let us construct humanity in our image according to our likeness,

and let them rule among the fish of the sea and among the fowl of the heavens and among the cattle and in all the earth and among every creeper that creeps upon the earth.

²⁷ And God created the human in his image, In the image of God he created it,

male and female he created them.

²⁸ And God blessed them and God said to them, Be fruitful and increase and fill the earth and control it.

And rule among the fish of the sea and among the fowl of the heavens and among every living creeper upon the earth.

²⁹ And God said, Behold, I have given to you every herb, seeding seed that is on the face of the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree seeding seed.

To you they will be for food.

³⁰ And to all the living of the earth, and to all the fowl of the heavens, and to all creepers upon the earth that have in it the being of life, every foliage of herb for food.

And it was so.

³¹ And God saw all that he had constructed and behold: it was very good.

And it was evening and it was morning, the sixth day.

Chapter 2

¹ And the heavens and the earth were finished and all their hosts.

² And God finished on the seventh day his affairs that he constructed.

And he ceased on the seventh day from all his affairs that he constructed.

³ And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.

For on it he ceased from all his affairs that God created for construction.

⁴B These are the successions of the heavens and the earth when they were created,

on the day Yahweh God constructed earth and heaven,

⁵ and every shrub of the field, ere it was in the earth, and every herb of the field ere it grew.

For Yahweh God had not made it rain on the earth and there was no human to serve the ground.

⁶ And a humidity ascended from the earth,

and gave drink to all the surface of the ground.

⁷ And Yahweh God fashioned the earthling, dust from the ground, and exhaled into its nose the breath of life,

and the earthling became alive to self.

⁸ And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden from the east,

and he set up there the earthling that he had fashioned.

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Score 5 The trees

⁹ And Yahweh God made grow from the ground every tree attractive to see and good to eat,

and the tree of the living in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰ And a river goes out from Eden to irrigate the garden,

and from there separates and becomes four headwaters.

¹¹f The name of the first is Pishon.

It surrounds all the land of the one who brings to birth where there is gold.

¹² And the gold of that land is good.

There is bdellium and onyx stone.

¹³ And the name of the second river is Gihon.

It surrounds all the land of Cush.

¹⁴ And the name of the third river is Hidkel. It meanders east to Ashur.

And the fourth river is Euphrates.

¹⁵ And Yahweh God took the earthling,

and he allowed him into the garden of Eden to serve it and to guard it.

¹⁶ And Yahweh God gave command to the earthling and said,

From every tree of the garden, for food you will eat.

¹⁷ But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you will not eat from it,

for in the day of your eating from it, for death you will die.

¹⁸ And Yahweh God said, It is not good that the earthling is itself alone.

I will construct its help as conspicuous to it.

¹⁹ And Yahweh God fashioned from the ground every living thing of the field and all the fowl of the heavens and had them come to the earthling to see what it would call to it.

And all that the earthling called it, the self that has life, that was its name.

²⁰ And the earthling called the names of all the cattle and of the fowl of the heavens and to all the living of the field,

but for the earthling was not found help as conspicuous to it.

²¹ And Yahweh God made a trance fall on the earthling and it slept,

and he took one from its ribs and he stitched up the flesh under it.

²² And Yahweh God built the rib that he took from the earthling into woman.

And he had her come to the earthling.

²³ And the earthling said, This pulse is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

This one will be called woman. For from man this one was taken.

²⁴ Therefore a man will forsake his father and his mother,

and stay close to his woman and let them be of one flesh.

²⁵ And the two of them were naked, the earthling and his woman,

and they were not ashamed.

Chapter 3

¹ But the snake was crafty among all the living of the field that Yahweh God constructed,

and it said to the woman, Indeed that God said, You will not eat from every tree of the garden.

² And the woman said to the snake,

From the fruit of the tree of the garden, we eat.

³ But from the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, You will not eat from it and you will not touch it,

lest you die.

⁴ And the snake said to the woman,

Not death you will die.

⁵C Because God knows that in the day you eat from it, your eyes will be given sight,

and you will become as God knowing good and evil.

⁶ And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat and that it was desirable to the eyes and the tree was attractive to have insight and she took from its fruit and she ate,

and she gave even to her man with her and they ate.

⁷ And the eyes of the two of them were given sight, and they knew that they were naked,

so they sewed fig leaves together and they made for themselves attire.

⁸ And they heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the wind of the day,

and they camouflaged themselves, the Adam and his woman, from the face of Yahweh God in the midst of the tree of the garden.

⁹ And Yahweh God called to the Adam,

saying to him, Where are you?

¹⁰ And it said, I heard your voice in the garden,

and I feared because I am naked so I camouflaged myself.

¹¹ And he said, Who made it clear to you that you are naked?

From the tree that I commanded you not to eat, did you eat?

¹² And the Adam said,

The woman that you have given to stand with me, she gave to me from the tree and I ate.

¹³ And Yahweh God said to the woman, What is this that you have done?

and the woman said, The snake lured me and I ate.

¹⁴ And Yahweh God said to the snake, Because you have done this, cursed you will be above all cattle and above all the living of the field.

On your stomach you will walk and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

¹⁵ And I will impose enmity between you and between the woman and between your seed and between her seed.

It itself will bruise you in the head. But you, yourself will bruise it in the heel.

¹⁶ To the woman he said, Thoroughly I will increase your hardship and your pregnancy. In hardship you will give birth to children,

and to your man you will have aspiration, but he himself will govern in you.

¹⁷ But to the Adam he said, Because you heard the voice of your wife, and ate from the tree that I commanded you, saying, You will not eat from it,

cursed is the ground on your behalf. In hardship you will eat from it all the days of your life.

¹⁸ So brambles and thistles she will grow for you,

and you will eat the herb of the field.

¹⁹ In the sweat of your anger you will eat bread till you return to the ground for from it you were taken,

for dust you are and to dust you will return.

²⁰ And the Adam called the name of his wife, Eve,

for she became the mother of all living.

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Score 6 No rest in the making of clothing

²¹ And Yahweh God made for Adam and his wife coats of skin, and he clothed them.

²² And Yahweh God said, Lo, the human has become as one among us knowing good and evil,

so now lest he reach out his hand and take likewise from the tree of the living and eat and live forever, ...

²³ so Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden,

to serve the ground which he was taken from.

²⁴ And he expelled the human,

and had the cherubim dwell at the east of the garden of Eden, and the blazing sword always changing, to guard the way to the tree of the living.

Chapter 4

Score 7 The birth of Cain, sounds like כנה kenah, acquire.

¹ And the one from the humus knew Eve his wife,

and she became big and she gave birth to Cain, and she said, I have acquired someone with Yahweh.

² And she again gave birth to his brother, to Abel.

And Abel was a shepherd of sheep, but Cain was a servant of the ground.

³ And it happened at the end of days,

that Cain brought from the fruit of the ground, a gift for Yahweh.

⁴ And Abel brought also himself from the firstborn of his flock and its choicest.

And Yahweh had respect to Abel and to his gift.

⁵ But to Cain and to his gift he did not have respect.

And for Cain, he burned much with anger and his face fell.

⁶ And Yahweh said to Cain,

Why is it for you to burn with anger, and why has your face fallen?

⁷ Will it not be that if you do well you will be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin reclines at the opening,

and its aspiration is against you, but you yourself will govern in it.

⁸ And Cain talked to Abel his brother.

And it happened when they were in the field, that Cain arose against Abel his brother and slew him.

⁹ And Yahweh said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother?

And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's guardian?

¹⁰ And he said, What have you done?

The voice of the blood of your brother cries out to me from the ground.

¹¹ So now cursed are you,

from the ground that parted open her mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand.

¹²C For though you serve the ground, she will not again yield her power to you.

A vagabond and aimless you will be in the earth.

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Score 8 Great iniquity

¹³ And Cain said to Yahweh,

Greater is my iniquity than I can bear.

¹⁴ Lo, you expel me today from the surface of the ground and from your face I will be hid,

and I will be a vagabond and aimless in the earth and it will happen that anyone who finds me will slay me.

¹⁵ And Yahweh said to him, Therefore all who slay Cain seven-fold he will be avenged.

And Yahweh set up for Cain a sign lest anyone finding him should strike him.

¹⁶ So Cain went forth from the presence of Yahweh,

and settled in the land of the aimless east of Eden.

¹⁷ and Cain knew his wife and she became pregnant, and she gave birth to Enoch,

and he was building a city, and he called the name of the city like the name of his son, Enoch.

¹⁸ And to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad had Mehujel,

and Mehujel had Methusael, and Methusael had Lamech.

¹⁹ And Lamech took for himself two wives.

The name of the first, Adah, and the name of the second Her-Shadow.

²⁰ And Adah gave birth to Jabal.

He is the father of those who sit in a tent and acquire.

²¹ And the name of his brother is Jubal.

He is the father of all who take up harp or pipe.

²² And Zillah [her shadow] also herself gave birth to Tubalcain [She-will-be-brought-to-Cain], one who hones every edged tool of brass and iron.

and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah [pleasure].

²³ and Lamech said to his wives Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, wives of Lamech, give ear to what I say,

for I have slain someone for inflicting wounds on me, a juvenile for my stripes.

²⁴f For seven times vengeance for Cain,

and Lamech seventy and seven.

²⁵ And Adam knew still his wife, and she gave birth to a son, and she called his name Seth,

for God imposed for me another seed instead of Abel, [futility], for Cain slew him.

²⁶ And to Seth also himself was born a son, and he called his name Enosh [mortal].

Then began entreaty: to call in the name of Yahweh.

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¹B This is the record of the successions of Adam,

in the day of God's creating Adam in the likeness of God's constructing him.

² Male and female he created them,

and blessed them and called their name Adam in the day they were created.

³ And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and had in his likeness in his image,

and he called his name Seth.

⁴ And the days of Adam after Seth was born were eight hundred years,

and he had sons and daughters.

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

and he died.

⁶ And Seth lived a hundred and five years,

and he had Enosh.

⁷ And Seth lived after Enosh was born eight hundred and seven years,

and he had sons and daughters.

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

and he died.

⁹ And Enosh lived ninety years,

and he had Cainan.

¹⁰ And Enosh lived after Cainan was born eight hundred and fifteen years,

and he had sons and daughters.

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

and he died.

¹² And Cainan lived seventy years,

and he had Mahalaleel.

¹³ And Cainan lived after Mahalaleel was born eight hundred and forty years,

and he had sons and daughters.

¹⁴ And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years,

and he died.

¹⁵ And Mahalaleel lived sixty five years,

and he had Jared.

¹⁶ And Mahalaleel lived after Jared was born eight hundred and thirty years,

and he had sons and daughters.

¹⁷ And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred and ninety five years,

and he died.

¹⁸ And Jared lived a hundred and sixty two years,

and he had Enoch.

¹⁹ And Jared lived after Enoch was born eight hundred years,

and he had sons and daughters.

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

and he died.

²¹ And Enoch lived sixty five years,

and he had Methuselah.

²² And Enoch walked with God after Methuselah was born three hundred years,

and he had sons and daughters.

²³ And all the days of Enoch,

were three hundred and sixty five years.

²⁴ And Enoch walked with God,

and he was not for God took him.

²⁵ And Methuselah lived a hundred and eighty seven years,

and he had Lamech.

²⁶ And Methuselah lived after Lamech was born seven hundred and eighty two years,

and he had sons and daughters.

²⁷ And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty nine years,

and he died.

²⁸ And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty two years,

and he had a son.

²⁹ And he called his name Noah and said,

This one will comfort us from our deeds and from the hardship of our hands from the ground which Yahweh cursed.

³⁰ And Lamech lived after Noah was born five hundred and ninety five years,

and he had sons and daughters.

³¹ And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy seven years,

and he died.

³² And Noah was a child of five hundred years,

and Noah had Shem, Ham and Japhet.

Chapter 6

¹ And it happened that the earthling started to multiply over the face of the ground,

and daughters were born to them.

² And the sons of the gods saw the daughters of humanity that they were good,

and they took for themselves wives from all whom they chose.

³ And Yahweh said, My spirit will not make the case for an earthling forever in that it also is flesh,

so let its days be a hundred and twenty years.

⁴ The fallen were in the earth in those days, and moreover after such that the sons of the gods came to the daughters of humanity and they gave birth for them.

These are the valiant that are from of old, the men of repute.

⁵ And Yahweh saw that abundant was the evil of humanity in the earth,

and all the fashioning of the devisings of its heart was solely evil all the day long.

⁶ And Yahweh sighed that he had made humanity in the earth,

and it caused him pain in his heart.

⁷ And Yahweh said, I will wipe out humanity that I created from off the surface of the ground, from human to beast to creeper and to the fowl of the heavens,

for I regret that I made them.

⁸ But Noah found grace in the eyes of Yahweh.

⁹C These are the successions of Noah. Noah, a righteous man, was complete in his generations.

With this God walked Noah.

¹⁰ And Noah had three children,

Shem, Ham, and Japhet.

¹¹ And impaired was the earth in the face of this God,

and the land was filled with violence.

¹² And God saw the earth and behold it was impaired,

for all flesh had impaired its way upon the earth.

¹³ And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come into my presence, for the earth is full of violence from their presence,

so behold me impairing them with the earth.

¹⁴ Construct for yourself a barge of the trees of pitch. Cubicles you will make with the barge.

Cover her over on the inside and on the outside an over-covering.

¹⁵ And this is how you will construct her:

three hundred cubits the length of the barge, fifty cubits her breadth and thirty cubits her height.

¹⁶B A porthole you will construct for the barge and to a cubit you will finish her from her ascent and you will put a door for the barge in her side.

Lower decks second and third, you will construct.

¹⁷ As for me, note me well, I will bring the deluge of waters on the earth to impair all flesh that has in it a living spirit from under the heavens.

All that is in the earth will expire.

¹⁸ But I will place my covenant with you.

And you will come to the barge, you and your children and your wife and the wives of your children with you.

¹⁹ And from all the living, from all flesh, two from all you will bring to the barge to keep alive with you.

Male and female they will be.

²⁰ From fowl of its species and from the cattle of its species, from all that creep of the ground of its species,

two from all will come with you to keep alive.

²¹ And you, take for yourself from all food that is eaten, so you will gather with you.

And it will be for you and for them for food.

²² And Noah constructed.

Everything that God commanded him, so he constructed.

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¹ And Yahweh said to Noah, You come, you and all your house into the barge,

for you I have seen righteous in my presence in this generation.

² From all the clean beasts you take for yourself seven by seven each and its mate,

and from the beast that is not clean, it, by two each and its mate.

³B Likewise of the fowl of the heavens, seven by seven, male and female,

to keep alive seed over the surface of all the earth.

⁴ For in yet seven days I will cause rain upon the earth, a forty day and forty night span.

I will wipe out all that was placed that I constructed from off the surface of the ground.

⁵ So did Noah,

according to everything that Yahweh had commanded.

⁶ And Noah was a child of six hundred years,

when the deluge was, of waters on the earth.

⁷ And Noah entered and his children and his wife and the wives of his children with him to the barge,

from the face of the waters of the deluge.

⁸ From the beast that is clean and from the beast that is not clean,

and from the fowl and all that creep over the ground,

⁹ Two by two they entered, to Noah, into the barge, male and female,

as God commanded Noah.

¹⁰ And it happened on the seventh of the days,

and the waters of the deluge were upon the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year, a year of the life of Noah, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month,

on this day all the springs of the abyss were split to excess and the slits of the heavens were set wide open.

¹² And the heavy rain was upon the earth,

a forty day and forty night span.

¹³ In this selfsame day, entered Noah and Shem and Ham and Japhet, the children of Noah,

and the wife of Noah, and the three wives of his children with them, into the barge.

¹⁴~ They, and all the living of its species, and every beast of its species, and every creeper that creeps upon the earth of its species,

and all the fowl of its species, every bird of every wing.

¹⁵ And they came to Noah into the barge two by two,

from all the flesh that has in it a living spirit.

¹⁶ And they that entered, male and female from all flesh, entered as God commanded him,

and Yahweh placed the bar from within.

¹⁷ And the deluge was a forty day span upon the earth.

And the waters increased and they lifted up the barge and it was exalted above the earth.

¹⁸ And the waters prevailed and were much increased upon the earth,

and the barge meandered upon the face of the waters.

¹⁹ And the waters prevailed very much upon the earth,

and covered all the haughty hills that were under all the heavens.

²⁰ Fifteen cubits from her ascent the waters prevailed,

and they covered the hills.

²¹ And all flesh expired that creeps upon the earth, of fowl and of beast and of life, and of all that teem, that teem upon the earth,

and all humanity.

²²~ All in whose nose is the breath of a living spirit, all that were in the desert, they died.

²³ And wiped out was all that was placed that is on the face of the ground, from human to beast to creeper and to the fowl of the heavens and they were wiped out from the earth,

and the residue was but Noah and those who were with him on the barge.

²⁴ And the waters prevailed upon the earth,

a hundred and fifty day span.

Chapter 8

¹ And God remembered Noah and all the living, and all the cattle, that were with him on the barge,

and God made a wind pass through over the earth, and the waters subsided.

² And the springs of the abyss and the slits of the heavens were stopped,

and the heavy rain from the heavens was restrained.

³ And the waters turned from over the earth, meandering and turning,

and the waters waned from the limit, a hundred and fifty day span.

⁴ And the barge came to rest in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month,

upon the mountains of Ararat.

⁵ And the waters were meandering and waning till the tenth new moon.

In the tenth, on the first of the month appeared the tops of the hills.

⁶ And it happened at the end of forty days,

and Noah opened the window of the barge that he had