< 創世記 3 >
1 耶和華上帝所造的,惟有蛇比田野一切的活物更狡猾。蛇對女人說:「上帝豈是真說不許你們吃園中所有樹上的果子嗎?」
The serpent was more cunning than any of the other wild animals that the Lord God had made. He asked Eve, “Did God really say that you can't eat fruit from every tree in the garden?”
Eve replied to the serpent, “We can eat from the trees in the garden, but not the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden.
3 惟有園當中那棵樹上的果子,上帝曾說:『你們不可吃,也不可摸,免得你們死。』」
God told us, ‘You mustn't eat from that tree, or even touch it, otherwise you'll die.’”
“You certainly won't die,” the serpent told Eve.
5 因為上帝知道,你們吃的日子眼睛就明亮了,你們便如上帝能知道善惡。」
“It's because God knows that as soon as you eat it, you'll see things differently, and you'll be like God, knowing both what is good and what is evil.”
6 於是女人見那棵樹的果子好作食物,也悅人的眼目,且是可喜愛的,能使人有智慧,就摘下果子來吃了,又給她丈夫,她丈夫也吃了。
Eve saw that the fruit of the tree appeared good to eat. It looked very attractive. She really wanted it so she could become wise. So she took some of its fruit and ate it, and she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it too.
7 他們二人的眼睛就明亮了,才知道自己是赤身露體,便拿無花果樹的葉子為自己編做裙子。
Immediately they saw everything differently and realized they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves up.
8 天起了涼風,耶和華上帝在園中行走。那人和他妻子聽見上帝的聲音,就藏在園裏的樹木中,躲避耶和華上帝的面。
Later they heard the Lord walking in the garden in the evening when the breeze was blowing. Adam and Eve went and hid out of sight of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
The Lord God called out to Adam, “Where are you?”
10 他說:「我在園中聽見你的聲音,我就害怕;因為我赤身露體,我便藏了。」
“I heard you walking in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid,” he replied.
11 耶和華說:「誰告訴你赤身露體呢?莫非你吃了我吩咐你不可吃的那樹上的果子嗎?」
“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the Lord God. “Did you eat fruit from the tree I ordered you not to?”
12 那人說:「你所賜給我、與我同居的女人,她把那樹上的果子給我,我就吃了。」
“It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit from the tree, and I ate it,” Adam replied.
13 耶和華上帝對女人說:「你做的是甚麼事呢?」女人說:「那蛇引誘我,我就吃了。」
The Lord God asked Eve, “Why have you done this?” “The serpent tricked me, and so I ate it,” she replied.
14 耶和華上帝對蛇說: 你既做了這事,就必受咒詛, 比一切的牲畜野獸更甚; 你必用肚子行走, 終身吃土。
Then the Lord God told the serpent, “Because of what you've done, you are cursed more than any of the other animals. You will slide along on your belly and eat dust as long as you live.
15 我又要叫你和女人彼此為仇; 你的後裔和女人的後裔也彼此為仇。 女人的後裔要傷你的頭; 你要傷他的腳跟。
I will make sure you and your children, and the woman and her children, are enemies. One of her children will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
16 又對女人說: 我必多多加增你懷胎的苦楚; 你生產兒女必多受苦楚。 你必戀慕你丈夫; 你丈夫必管轄你。
He told Eve, “I will make pregnancy much more difficult, and giving birth will be very painful. However, you will still desire your husband, but he will have control over you.”
17 又對亞當說: 你既聽從妻子的話, 吃了我所吩咐你不可吃的那樹上的果子, 地必為你的緣故受咒詛; 你必終身勞苦才能從地裏得吃的。
He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.
18 地必給你長出荊棘和蒺藜來; 你也要吃田間的菜蔬。
It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will have to eat wild plants.
19 你必汗流滿面才得糊口, 直到你歸了土, 因為你是從土而出的。 你本是塵土,仍要歸於塵土。
You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”
Adam named his wife Eve, because she was to be the mother of all human beings.
21 耶和華上帝為亞當和他妻子用皮子做衣服給他們穿。
The Lord God made Adam and Eve clothes from animal skins and dressed them.
22 耶和華上帝說:「那人已經與我們相似,能知道善惡;現在恐怕他伸手又摘生命樹的果子吃,就永遠活着。」
Then the Lord God observed, “Look, the human beings have become like one of us, knowing both what is good and what is evil. Now if they take the fruit from the tree of life and eat it, then they'll live forever!”
23 耶和華上帝便打發他出伊甸園去,耕種他所自出之土。
So the Lord God expelled them from the Garden of Eden. He sent Adam to cultivate the ground from which he'd been made.
24 於是把他趕出去了;又在伊甸園的東邊安設基路伯和四面轉動發火焰的劍,要把守生命樹的道路。
After he drove them out, the Lord God placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden angels and a sword that flashed in every direction. They were to prevent access to the tree of life.