創世記 3
1 在上主天主所造的一切野獸中，蛇是最狡猾的。蛇對女人說：「天主真說了，你們不可吃樂園中任何樹上的果子嗎﹖」
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
2 女人對蛇說：「樂園中樹上的果子，我們都可吃；
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
3 只有樂園中央那棵樹上的果子，天主說過，你們不可以吃，也不可摸，免得死亡。」
but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”
4 蛇對女人說：「你們決不會死!
The serpent said to the woman, “You will not really die,
5 因為天主知道，你們那天吃了這果子，你們的眼就會開了，將如同天主一樣知道善惡。」
for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 女人看那棵果樹實在好吃好看，令人羨慕，且能增加智慧，遂摘下一個果子吃了，又給了她的男人一個，他也吃了。
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
7 於是二人的眼立即開了，發覺自己赤身露體，遂用無花果樹葉，編了個裙子圍身。
Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.
8 當亞當和他的妻子聽見了上主天主趁晚涼在樂園中散步的聲音，就躲藏在樂園的樹林中，怕見上主天主的面。
They heard the LORD God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9 上主天主呼喚亞當對他說：「你在那裏﹖」
The LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 他答說：「我在樂園中聽到了你的聲音，就害怕起來，因為我赤身露體，遂躲藏了。」
The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
11 天主說：「誰告訴了你，赤身露體﹖莫非你吃了我禁止你吃的果子﹖」
God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 亞當說：「是你給作伴的那個女人給了我那樹上的果子，我才吃了。」
The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 上主天主遂對女人說：「你為什麼作了這事﹖」女人答說：「是蛇哄騙了我，我才吃了。」
The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 上主天主對蛇說：「因你做了這事，你在一切畜牲和野獸中，是可咒罵的；你要用肚子爬行，畢生日日吃土。
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 on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
15 我要把仇恨放在你和女人，你的後裔和她的後裔之間，她的後裔要踏碎你的頭顱，你要傷害他的腳跟。」
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
16 後對女人說：「我要增加你懷孕的苦楚，在痛苦中生子；你要依戀你的丈夫，也要受他的管轄。」
To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
17 後對亞當說：「因為你聽了你妻子的話，吃了我禁止你吃的果子，為了你的緣故，地成了可咒罵的；你一生日日勞苦才能得到吃食。
To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
18 地要給你生出荊棘和蒺蔾，你要吃田間的蔬菜；
It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
19 你必須汗流滿面，才有飯吃，直到你歸於土中，因為你是由土來的；你既是灰土，你還要歸於灰土。」
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
20 亞當給自己的妻子起名叫厄娃，因為她是眾生的母親。
The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
21 上主天主為亞當和他的妻子做了件皮衣，給他們穿上；
The LORD God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
22 然後上主天主說：「看，人已相似我們中的一個，知道了善惡；如今不要讓他伸手再摘取生命樹上的果子，吃了活到永遠。」
The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”
23 上主天主遂把他趕出伊甸樂園，叫他耕種他所由出的土地。
Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
24 天主將亞當逐出了以後，就在伊甸樂園的東面，派了「革魯賓」和刀光四射的火劍，防守到生命樹去的路。
So 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.
