參考版本 AFV  A  Faithful Version 的希臘文 2009版本

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14. And the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go upon your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

15. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”

16. To the woman He said, “I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception—in sorrow shall you bring forth children. Your desire shall be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

17. And to Adam He said, “Because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree—of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it!’—the ground is cursed for your sake. In sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life.

18. It shall also bring forth thorns and thistles to you, and thus you shall eat the herbs of the field;

19. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

20. And Adam called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all the living.

21. And for Adam and his wife the LORD God made coats of skins and clothed them.

22. And the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to decide good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

23. Therefore, the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken.

24. And He drove out the man, and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

 (A Faithful Version)

14. 耶和華對蛇說:既做了這事,就要承擔後果,比牲畜類或田野的動物來得更重。你用肚腹走路,終身吃土。

15. 將敵意放在你(蛇)和女人之間,也存在彼此的後裔當中。女人的後裔要傷你(蛇)的頭,你要傷他的腳跟。

16. 之後,對女人說:妳懷胎的日子苦楚會增多,你生產時也多受苦楚。面對丈夫,受他管制。

17. 又對亞當說:既聽從妻子的話,吃了所吩咐你不可吃的果子,地因此也受了詛咒。你終身在地勞苦,才能得溫飽。

18. 只是,當要吃田間可供食用的植物時,地會長出荊棘和蒺藜。

19. 為此,要汗流夾背才得糊口,直到你塵歸塵土歸土的日子到來,因為你本體是土。

20. 亞當給妻子起名,夏娃,意思是眾生之母。

21. 耶和華為亞當和他妻子用皮做衣服,給他們保暖。

22. 耶和華說:這人與我相似,有能力對事件的好壞的判斷。更重要是免得他自由取得樹上用以維生的果子,就永遠不死。

23. 為此,耶和華讓他離開伊甸這園子,到外面的世界。

24. 送走這個人,將他安置在伊甸園的東邊,安設基路伯(作守衛的使者),這使者手中有一柄生火的劍,防止人到那免勞供養生命的樹那裡。

摩西描述完人選擇了自由,也運用了自由,去選擇自己能識別事物的好壞,這種分辨力是一切創造,或懂得是與非的源點,而決定如何運用,那是人的自由。

果子有識別的功能,人有選擇行善,或不去行善,甚至為惡的選擇權,這選擇的自由讓人明辨之後自己作主。當初創造者看來是把人有選擇的自己,當成是人立身處世的基本條件。這條件在伊甸園中用不著,那是因為伊甸園中有不用勞力可得的食物。這伊甸園不比伊甸園外光景,那是二個截然不同的世界。

當人有了選擇,又選擇自己獨立,獨立又不在犯錯時不去坦白承認,在這樣的狀況下,伊甸園在很長的日子當中,會變成怎樣,沒有說明,卻是可以想像。明顯是人自己作了決定,這決定會帶來紛亂,因為不誠實,它會以虛假作辯。這是意氣之爭,是從分別出,你不是我。這不是男女之別,是因為不同,在不同當中不承認有犯錯的可能,也沒有認清不同是相互認識的好時機。不良的後果出現(不能滿足個人的喜好),那誰來承擔犯事做成的後果?在大家都不承認的情況下,如何能生活在一起?

在伊甸園中,二個不同的人,全天候作對,就失去樂園的稱號。若有不勞而獲的食物,這種對峙的局面,會不斷重覆,永無休止。人,破壞了這個樂園,伊甸園也從人的歷史中失去,再也找不回來。最好的方式,讓這二人自食其力,也好讓他們從分別事物當中,增長人生智慧。他們是有能力面對,也有能力找回,當人能自控自制。

伊甸園的門開了,找樂土,就得自己想辦法。生活不易,就得看清事實根源,二人在互諒中能產生和諧前進的動力,能否找到?歷史說明,找不到。耶和華早知這結果,這是人性。祂用了一個方法,讓人世代都記得要回轉過來:男人搵食,女人生育。這處境似乎不可避免地產生衝突不和,這是情緒,能在各自的不能自控中產生,二個人生活都沒法找回樂園,世界也就更難。尋找樂園由自己做起。

這樣按文理推敲,也許不是人人接受。如果有別樣的解釋,期望能供之於此,一起探索。若是無理博吵,倒不如各取所需。 若蛇出於好奇,意味思想不用來創新造就,便是撩人心火,無腳都得讓其捵在地上,永不翻身,止住禍事發生。

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