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but from the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, ‘You shall not eat from it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die'."

For God knows that on the day you both eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you both shall be like gods, knowing good and evil."

Then they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden at the windy time of day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

And Yahweh God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"

Then Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

Then Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you will be cursed more than any domesticated animal and more than any wild animal. On your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

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

And Yahweh God said, "Look—the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. What if he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?"

And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Then Adam knew his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. And she called his name Seth, for she said "God has appointed to me another child in the place of Abel, because Cain killed him."

This is the record of the generations of Adam. When God created Adam, he made him in the likeness of God.

And Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.

And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more, for God took him.

Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they were beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.

The Nephilim were upon the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went into the daughters of humankind, and they bore children to them.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

And the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth was filled with violence because of them. Now, look, I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

And Noah did according to all that God commanded him; thus he did.