Sefer Bereishit
Parashat Bereishit
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The History of Creation
2 Veha'aretz hayetah tohu vavohu vechoshech al-penei tehom veruach
Elokim merachefet al-penei hamayim.
3 Vayomer Elokim yehi-or vayehi-or.
4 Vayar Elokim et-ha'or ki-tov vayavdel Elokim bein ha'or uvein hachoshech.
5 Vayikra Elokim la-or yom velachoshevh kara lailah vayehi-erev vayehi-voker yom echad.
6 Vayomer Elokim yehi rakia betoch hamayim vihi mavdil bein mayim lamayim.
7 Vaya'as Elokim et-harakia vayavdel bein hamayim asher mitachat larakia uvein hamayim asher me'al larakia vayehi-chen.
8 Vayikra Elokim la-rakia shamayim vayehi-erev vayehi-voker yom sheni.
9 Vayomer Elokim yikavu hamayim mitachat hashamayim el-makom echad vetera'eh hayabashah vayehi chen.
10 Vayikra Elokim layabashah eretz ulemikveh hamayim kara yamim vayar Elokim ki-tov.
11 Vayomer Elokim tadshe ha'aretz deshe esev mazria zera etz pri oseh peri lemino asher zar'o-vo al-ha'aretz vayehi-chen.
12 Vatotze ha'aretz deshe esev mazria zera leminehu ve'etz oseh pri asher zar'o-vo leminehu vayar Elokim ki-tov.
13 Vayehi-erev vayehi-voker yom shlishi.
14 Vayomer Elokim yehi meorot birekia hashamayim lehavdil bein hayom uvein halailah vehayu leotot ulemoadim uleyamim veshanim.
15 Vehayu li-meorot birekia hashamayim leha'ir al-ha'aretz vayehi-chen.
16 Vaya'as Elokim et-shenei hameorot hagdolim et-hamaor hagadol le-memshelet hayom ve'et hamaor hakaton le-memshelet halailah ve'et hakochavim.
17 Vayiten otam Elokim birekia hashamayim leha'ir al-ha'aretz.
18 Velimshol bayom uvalailah ulehavdil bein ha'or uvein hachoshech vayar Elokim ki-tov.
19 Vayehi-erev vayehi-voker yom revi'i.
20 Vayomer Elokim yishretzu hamayim sheretz nefesh chayah ve'of yeofef al-ha'aretz al-penei rekia hashamayim.
21 Vayivra Elokim et-hataninim hagedolim ve'et kol nefesh hachayah haromeset asher shartzu hamayim le-minehem ve'et kol-of kanaf leminehu vayar Elokim ki-tov.
22 Vayevarekh otam Elokim lemor peru urevu umil'u et-hamayim bayamim veha'of yirev ba'aretz.
23 Vayehi-erev vayehi-voker yom chamishi.
24 Vayomer Elokim "totze ha'aretz nefesh chayah leminah behemah varemes vechayeto-eretz leminah vayehi-chen.
25 Vaya'as Elokim et chayat ha'aretz leminah ve'et habehemah leminah ve'et kol-remes ha'adamah leminehu vayar Elokim ki-tov.
26 Vayomer Elokim na'aseh adam betzalmenu kidemutenu veyirdu bidegat hayam uve'of hashamayim uvabehemah uvechol-ha'aretz uvechol-haremes haromes al-ha'aretz.
27 Vayivra Elokim et-ha'adam betzalmo betzelem Elokim bara oto zachar unekevah bara otam.
28 Vayevarech otam Elokim vayomer lahem Elokim peru urevu umil'u et-ha'aretz vechiveshuha uredu bidegat hayam uve'of hashamayim uvechol-chayah haromeset al-ha'aretz.
29 Vayomer Elokim hineh natati lachem et-chol-esev zorea zera asher al-penei kol-ha'aretz ve'et-kol-ha'etz asher-bo feri-etz zorea zara lachem yihyeh le-ochlah.
30 Ulechol-chayat ha'aretz ulechol-of hashamayim ulechol romes al-ha'aretz asher-bo nefesh chayah et-kol-yerek esev le'ochlah vayehi-chen.
31 Vayar Elokim et-kol-asher asah vehineh-tov me'od vayehi-erev vayehi-voker yom hashishi.
1:1
BEREISHIT bara Elokim et hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz.
IN THE BEGINNING G-d created the heavens and the earth.
The earth was unformed and desolate, and darkness covered the surface of the
deep. The spirit [wind] of G-d hovered above the surface of the water.
G-d said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
G-d saw that the light was good, and G-d divided the light from the darkness.
G-d called the light day, and the darkness He called night. It became evening and it became morning, one day.
G-d said, "Let there be a canopy in the midst of the waters, and let it divide between waters and waters."
G-d made the canopy, and divided the waters which were beneath the canopy, from the waters which were above the canopy, and it was so.
G-d called the canopy heaven.
G-d said, "Let the waters beneath the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dryness, be seen." It was so.
G-d called the dryness, "Earth," and the gathering of waters, He called "Seas," and G-d saw that it was good.
G-d said, "Let the earth sprout grass, seed-yielding herbs, fruit trees bearing fruit of its own kind, with its seed within it, upon the earth." And it was so.
The earth brought forth grass, and herbs yielding seed of its kind, and trees bearing fruit which has in it seeds of its kind; and G-d saw that it was good.
It became evening and it became morning, the third day.
G-d said, "Let there be lights in the canopy of heaven to divide between the day and the night, and they will serve for signs for seasons, for days and for years.
They will be for lights in the canopy of heaven to illuminate the earth." And it was so.
G-d made the two great lights, the large light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night, and the stars.
G-d set them in the canopy of the heaven to illuminate the earth,
to rule in the day an the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness; and G-d saw that it was good.
It became evening and it became morning, the fourth day.
G-d said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth, in the open canopy of the heaven."
And thus G-d created the great whales, and every living creature that creeps, with which the waters teem, of its kind, and every winged bird of its kind; and G-d saw that it was good.
G-d blessed them saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."
It became evening and it became morning, the fifth day.
G-d said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures, each of its kind, animals [of pasture], creeping things, and beasts of the earth, each to its kind." And it was so.
And thus G-d made the beasts of the earth, each of its kind, the animals [of pasture] each of its kind, and everything that creeps on the ground, each of its kind, and G-d saw that it was good.
G-d said, "Let us make man in our image, as our likeness, and let him dominate the fish of the sea, the birds of the heaven, the animals, all the earth, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
And thus G-d created man in His form. In the form of G-d, He created them.
G-d blessed them, and G-d said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it, and dominate the fish of the sea, the birds of the heaven, and every living thing that moves upon the earth."
G-d said, "Behold, I have given to you all seed-yielding herbs that are on the surface of the earth, and every tree that has seed-yielding fruit; to you it shall be for food.
And for every animal of the earth, for every bird of the heaven, and for everything that creeps on the ground, in which there is a living spirit, all vegetational herbs shall be [their] food." And it was so.
G-d saw all that He had made, and behold it was very good. It became evening and it became morning, the sixth day.
The Shabbat
2:1
Vayechulu hashamayim veha'aretz vechol-tzeva'am.
2 Vayechal Elokim bayom hashvi'i melachto asher asah vayishbot bayom hashvi'i mikol-melachto asher asah.
3 Vayevarech Elokim et-yom hashvi'i vayekadesh oto ki vo shavat mikol-melachto asher-bara Elokim la'asot.
The heavens and the earth were completed, and [so were] all their array.
G-d completed by the seventh day His work which He had made, and He abstained on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.
G-d blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, for on it He abstained from all His work, which G-d had created to do.
4 Eleh toledot hashamayim veha'aretz behibare'am beyom asot HASHEM Elokim eretz veshamayim.
5 Vechol siach hasadeh terem yihyeh va'aretz vechol-esev hasadeh terem yitzmach ki lo himetir HASHEM Elokim al-ha'aretz ve'adam ayin la'avod et-ha'adamah.
6 Ve'ed ya'aleh min-ha'aretz vehishkah et-kol-penei ha'adamah.
7 Vayitzer HASHEM Elokim et-ha'adam afar min-ha'adamah vayipach pe'apav nishmat chayim vayehi ha'adam lenefesh chayah.
8 Vayita HASHEM Elokim gan-be'Eden mikedem vayasem sham et-ha'adam asher yatzar.
9 Vayatzmach HASHEM Elokim min-ha'adamah kol-etz nechmad lemar'eh vetov lema'achal ve'Etz haChayim betoch hagan ve'Etz haDa'at tov vara.
10 Venahar yotze me'Eden lehashkot et-hagan umisham yipared vehayah le-arba'ah rashim.
11 Shem ha'echad Pishon hu hasovev et kol-eretz haChavilah asher-sham hazahav.
12 Uzahav ha'aretz hahi tov sham habedolach ve'even hashoham.
13 Veshem hanahar hasheni Gichon hu hasovev et kol-eretz Kush.
14 Veshem hanahar hashlishi Chidekel hu haholekh kidemat Asshur vehanahar ha revi'i hu Ferat.
15 Vayikach HASHEM Elokim et-ha'adam vayanichehu vegan-Eden le'ovdah uleshomrah.
16 Vayetzav HASHEM Elokim al-ha'adam lemor mikol etz-hagan achol tochel.
17 Ume'etz hada'at tov vara lo tochal mimenu ki beyom acholcha mimenu mot tamut.
18 Vayomer HASHEM Elokim lo-tov heyot ha'adam levado e'eseh-lo ezer kenegdo.
19 Vayitzer HASHEM Elokim min-ha'adamah kol-chayat hasadeh ve'et kol-of hashamayim vayave el-ha'adam lir'ot mah-yikra-lo vechol asher yikra-lo ha'adam nefesh chayah hu shemo.
Sheni
This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, on the day when HASHEM G-d made earth and heaven.
All the plants of the fields were not yet on the earth, and all the herbal vegetation of the field had not yet sprouted, for HASHEM G-d had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was [yet] no man to work the soil.
A mist rose up from the earth, and it watered the entire surface of the soil.
HASHEM G-d then formed the man, dust from the ground, and He blew into his nostrils the breath of life. And so man became a living soul.
HASHEM G-d planted a garden in Eden, to the east, and there He placed the man He had formed.
HASHEM G-d made grow out of the soil every tree that is pleasant to look at, and good for [producing] food; the Tree of Life in the middle of the Garden, and the Tree of Knowledge [of what is] good and evil.
A river went out of Eden to water the Garden, and from there it separated and became four headwaters.
The name of the first is Pishon which surrounds all the land of Chavilah, where there is gold.
The gold of that land is good. Also found there is bdellium and onyx stones.
The name of the second river is Gichon. It surrounds all the land of Kush.
The name of the third river is Chidekel, which flows to the east of Asshur. The fourth river is Perat.
HASHEM G-d took the man, and placed him in the Garden of Eden, to work it and to preserve it.
HASHEM G-d commanded the man, saying, "You may certainly eat from every tree in the Garden.
But from the Tree of Knowledge of what is good and evil, you shall not eat from it, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die."
HASHEM G-d said, "It is not good for the man be alone. I will make a helper for him."
HASHEM G-d formed from the ground, every beast of the field, and every bird of the heaven, and brought them to the man, to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called [each] living creature, that is its name.
20 Vayikra ha'adam shemot lechol-habehemah ule'of hashamayim ulechol chayat hasadeh ule-Adam lo-matza ezer kenegdo.
21 Vayapel HASHEM Elokim tardemah al-ha'adam vayishan vayikach achat mitzal'otav vayisgor basar tachtenah.
22 Vayiven HASHEM Elokim et-hatzela asher-lakach min-ha'adam le'ishah vayevi'eha el-ha'adam.
23 Vayomer ha'adam zot hapa'am etzem me'atzamay uvasar mibesari lezot yikare ishah ki me'ish lukacha-zot.
24 Al-ken ya'azov-ish et-aviv ve'et imo vedavak be'ishto vehayu levasar echad.
25 Vayihyu shneihem arumim ha'adam ve'ishto velo yitboshashu.
Shlishi
The man gave names to every animal, to the birds of the heaven, and to every beast of the field, but the man did not find a helper for himself.
HASHEM G-d caused unconsciousness to fall upon the man and he slept. He took one of his ribs and closed-over flesh in its place.
HASHEM G-d built the rib that He took from the man into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
The man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This shall be called Woman, from from Man was she taken."
Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cling to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
The two of them were naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.
The Serpent's Enticement
3:1
Vehanachash hayah arum mikol chayat hasadeh asher asah HASHEM Elokim vayomer el-ha'ishah af ki-amar Elokim lo tochelu mikol etz hagan.
2 Vatomer ha'ishah el-hanachash mipri etz-hagan nochel.
3 Umiperi ha'etz asher betoch-hagan amar Elokim lo tochelu mimenu velo tige'u bo pen temutun.
4 Vayomer hanachash el-ha'ishah lo mot temutun.
5 Ki yodea Elokim ki beyom acholchem mimenu venifkechu eineichem viheyitem ke'Elokim yod'ey tov vara.
6 Vatere ha'ishah ki tov ha'etz lema'achal vechi ta'avah-hu la'einayim venechmad ha'etz lehaskil vatikach mipiryo vatochal vatiten gam-le'ishah imah vayochal.
7 Vatipakachnah einei shneihem vayede'u ki eirumim hem vayitperu aleh te'enah vaya'asu lahem chagorot.
8 Vayishme'u et-kol HASHEM Elokim mithalech bagan le-ruach hayom vayitchabe ha'adam ve'ishto mipenei HASHEM Elokim betoch etz hagan.
9 Vayikra HASHEM Elokim el-ha'adam vayomer lo ayeka.
10 Vayomer et-kolecha shamati bagan va'ira ki-eyrom anochi va'echave.
11 Vayomer mi higid lecha ki eyrom atah hamin-ha'etz asher tziviticha levilti achol-mimenu achalta.
12 Vayomer ha'adam ha'ishah asher natatah imadi hi natnah-li min-ha'etz va'ochel.
13 Vayomer HASHEM Elokim la'ishah mah-zot asit vatomer ha'ishah hanachash hishi'ani va'ochel.
14 Vayomer HASHEM Elokim el-hanachash ki asita zot arur atah mikol-habehemah umikol chayat hasadeh al-gechonecha telech ve'afar tochal kol-yemei chayecha.
15 Ve'eiva asit beinecha uvein ha'ishah uvein zar'achah uvein zar'ah hu yeshufecha rosh ve'ata teshufenu akev.
The serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which HASHEM G-d made; and it said to the woman, "Did G-d even say that you should not eat from all the trees of the Garden?"
The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat from the fruit of the trees of the Garden.
But from the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the Garden, G-d said, 'You shall not eat from it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
The serpent said to the woman, "You certainly will not die.
For G-d knows that on the day you will eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you will become as gods, knowing what is good and what is evil."
The woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was tempting to the eyes, and that the tree was appealing as a means of [obtaining] wisdom. She took of its fruit and she ate, and she also gave it to her husband, and he ate.
The eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked. They sewed together fig leaves, and amde for themselves loincloths.
They heard the voice of HASHEM G-d moving in the Garden as the breeze of the day. The man and his wife hid themselves from [the Presence of] HASHEM G-d among the trees of the Garden.
HASHEM G-d called to the man, and He said, "Where are you?"
He said, "I heard Your voice in the Garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself."
And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? From the tree whereof I commanded you not to eat of it, have you eaten?"
The man said, "The woman that You gave to be with me - she gave me of the tree and I ate."
HASHEM G-d said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" She said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
HASHEM G-d said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you from among all animals and beasts of the field. On your belly you shall crawl. And dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He shall strike you on the head, and you shall strike him on the heel."
