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How Adam Became Like a Tree in the Garden of Eden!

 

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Yahweh will multiply hardship, pain and suffering in general, and the raising of children in particular, in the lives of Adam and Eve.

 

Yahweh will multiply Eve’s pregnancies.

 

Eve’s desire shall be towards Adam and they are to rule together.

 

Yahweh cursed the ground in which the plants that are food for Adam and Eve grow. Thorns and thistles will now grow among the food plants.

 

Adam will have to labor much harder to produce food.

 

Adam knows at some point in time he will die and become dirt again.

 

Now let’s continue with the story (Genesis 3:20-24).

 

I have been calling the humans Adam and Eve because those are the names translators have used in English translations of the Bible American’s read. Those names are not in the ancient Hebrew text, so you need to be aware of what they were called in the ancient text until now.

 

● The man was referred to as ADAM by the unnamed narrator of the story. It means “a man.” When Yahweh made the woman, the man called himself “ISH,” which also means “a man.”

 

● The Hebrew word for woman is ISHAH, a word that reflects her relationship to ISH.

 

I will use those words when they appear in the story.

 

ADAM called his ISHAH’s name “CHAVVAH,”

because she was the mother of all living (CHAYYAH).

 

He named her CHAVVAH a Hebrew word related to the word CHAYYAH, which means “living.” The word “Eve” comes from the Latin translation of this verse. So, at this point in the Hebrew text we have an ADAM who called himself ISH, and an ISHAH (named by ADAM) and then renamed by him CHAVVAH.

 

Yahweh made the ADAM and his ISHAH

garments of skin and clothed them.

 

Next comes the most important verse in the story, however it is completely unknown to readers of English translation. Below is the common translation found in most Bibles.

 

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become

like one of Us, to know good and evil.”

 

This translation raised that centuries old theological question – Who is the “Us”? Since we us linguistic models to guide us as we read the Hebrew text, the models produced the translation below:

 

Yahweh the God said, “Behold, the ADAM has become

like MIMENU, knowing TOV and RAH.”

 

This is the seventh appearance of MIMENU in this story, and in Hebrew when a key word appears seven times, that means pay close attention to it! The underlined words in the verses below show how translators translated MIMENU.

 

1. Genesis 2:17a - “you shall not eat “from it” (forbidden tree).

 

2. Genesis 2:17b - “in the day that you eat “from it” (forbidden tree).

 

3. Genesis 3:3 - “You shall not eat “from it” (forbidden tree).

 

4. Genesis 3:5 - " in the day that you eat “from it” (forbidden tree).

 

5. Genesis 3:11 - “I commanded you not to eat “from it” (forbidden tree).

 

6. Genesis 3:17 - ““You shall not eat “from it” (forbidden tree).

 

If the translators had translated verse 22 the same way, this is what your Bible would say:

 

Yahweh the God said, “Behold, the ADAM has become

like the Tree of Knowing TOV and RAH.”

 

The ADAM became like the forbidden tree when he broke Yahweh’s commandment! He had produced “fruit that was RAH” through his actions. RAH is the opposite of TOV.

 

An act that is RAH destroys lives, harms lives,

makes lives less functional, and decreases the quality of life.”

 

In the first story in Genesis, God introduced TOV into the creation through His acts. In this story a man introduced RAH into the Yahweh’s Garden through one act. Or to put it another way – God introduced good, and man introduced evil! What Yahweh does next will probably surprise you. I will continue the story in the next email.

 

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