Torah. The Pentateuch of Moses in weekly chapters, in poetic form - страница 3

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Adam and Havva are placed by G-d in the Garden of Eden and indulge in pleasure,
Everything is allowed to them, only the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil cannot be eaten.
Under the influence of the Serpent, the most cunning of beasts, Havvah gave in to temptation,
and induced Adam to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree to know good and evil.
For this sin, G-d deprives Adam and Havva of immortality and banishes them from Eden,
She gives birth to her first two sons and Cain kills Abel, his younger brother.
The third son of Havvah – Sheth becomes the forefather of Noah, and Cain condemns himself to wandering,
And G-d regretted that He had created man, and was grieved when He saw how great was the evil of him.

Book of Genesis

Weekly Chapter: Noah #2

Noah is the tenth generation descendant of the son of Havvah and Adam,
He is the only righteous man left on the planet.
G-d tells Noah to build an ark, a flood is coming for human debauchery and mockery,
Noah rescues his family and every creature, docking at the Ararat peaks.
In gratitude for his salvation, Noah makes a sacrifice to G-d,
The L-rd swears not to destroy mankind for its sins any longer.
The story of the Flood belongs to a period of time long ago,
This story adds to the portrait of mankind.
The rainbow was chosen to symbolise the union between G-d and mankind,
as a sign of G-d’s favour after the Flood.
For before G-d, people always appear as His children,
The rainbow is a reminder of our duty to the Creator, the source of all things.
Noah receives commandments from Above, among which is the prohibition of murder and others,
For ten generations then there was one people with one language on Earth.
The people rebelled and built the Tower of Babel. G-d does not forgive for such deeds,
and each of the seventy nations has lived in its own world ever since.
Everything is accounted for, ten generations from Noah to Abram are listed by name by G-d,
By G-d’s command, Avram’s family moves from Ur-Kasdim to the land of Knaan,
The history of the Jews, G-d’s chosen people, is just beginning,
And this is the voice of G-d to the Jews and the world, not fiction and deception.

The Book of Being

Weekly Chapter: Lech Lecha No. 3

Avram and his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot proceed to Cnaan via Har̀n,