Génesis 2
1 Fueron hechos los cielos y la tierra, y toda su hueste.
That is the way God created the heavens and the earth.
2 En el día séptimo ʼElohim había acabado su labor que hizo. Descansó de toda su obra en el día séptimo.
By the time it was the seventh day, God had finished the work of creating everything, so he did not work any more on that day.
3 ʼElohim bendijo el día séptimo y lo santificó, porque en él ʼElohim descansó de toda su obra que tenía para hacer.
God blessed each seventh day, and he set those days apart to be special days, because on the seventh day God did not work any more, after finishing all his work of creating everything.
4 Este fue el origen de los cielos y la tierra cuando fueron creados. El día en el cual Yavé ʼElohim hizo [la] tierra y [los] cielos
That is how God created the heavens and the earth. God, whose name is Yahweh, made the heavens and the earth.
5 no había aún alguna planta del campo. Ni brotaba aún en la tierra alguna hierba del campo, porque Yavé ʼElohim no había enviado lluvia sobre la tierra. Ni había hombre para que labrara el suelo.
At first there were no plants growing, because Yahweh God had not yet caused rain to fall on the ground. Furthermore, there was no one to till the ground for planting crops.
6 Pero subía de la tierra un vapor que regaba la superficie del suelo.
Instead, mist rose up from the ground, so that it watered the surface of the ground.
7 Entonces Yavé ʼElohim modeló al hombre de la tierra roja, e insufló en su nariz aliento de vida. Y el hombre fue un ser viviente.
Then Yahweh God took some soil and formed a man. He breathed into the man’s nostrils his own breath that gives life, and as a result the man became a living person.
8 Yavé ʼElohim plantó un huerto al oriente de Edén, y colocó allí al hombre que creó.
Yahweh God made a park/garden in a place named Eden, which was east of the land of Canaan, and he put there the man that he had created.
9 Yavé ʼElohim hizo brotar de la tierra todo árbol agradable a la vista y bueno para comer. En medio del huerto estaba el árbol de la vida y el árbol del conocimiento del bien y del mal.
Yahweh God also put there every kind of tree that is beautiful to see and that produced fruit that was good to eat. He also placed in the middle of the park/garden a tree [whose fruit would enable those who ate it] to live forever. He also placed there another tree whose fruit would enable those who ate it to know what actions were good [to do] and what actions were evil [to do].
10 Del Edén salía un río que regaba el huerto y desde allí se dividía en cuatro cauces.
A river flowed from Eden to provide water for the park/garden. Outside of Eden, the river divided into four rivers.
11 El nombre del primero era Pisón. Éste es el que rodea toda la tierra de Havila, donde hay oro.
The name of the first river is Pishon. That river flows through all the land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12 El oro de aquella tierra es bueno. Allí hay ámbar y piedra ónice.
That gold (is very pure/has no impurities in it). There is [also a sweet-smelling gum called] bdellium, and valuable stones called onyx.
13 El nombre del segundo río era Guijón. Éste es el que rodea toda la tierra de Cus.
The name of the second river is Gihon. That river flows through all the land of Cain.
14 El nombre del tercer río era Hidequel, que fluye al oriente de Asiria. Y el cuarto río era el Éufrates.
The name of the third river is Tigris. It flows east of [the city of] Asshur. The name of the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 Entonces Yavé ʼElohim tomó al hombre y lo puso en el huerto de Edén para que lo cultivara y lo guardara.
Yahweh God took the man and put him in Eden park/garden to till/cultivate it and take care of it.
16 Yavé ʼElohim ordenó al hombre: De todo árbol del huerto puedes comer.
But Yahweh said to him, “You must not eat the fruit of the tree that will enable you to know what actions are good to do and what actions are evil to do. If you eat any fruit from that tree, on that day your relationship with me will end. But I will permit you to eat the fruit of any of the other trees in the park/garden.”
17 Pero del árbol del conocimiento del bien y del mal, no comerás de él, porque el día cuando comas de él, ciertamente morirás.
18 Y Yavé ʼElohim dijo: No es bueno que el hombre esté solo. Le haré ayuda semejante a él.
Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good for this man to be alone. So I will make someone who will be a suitable partner for him.”
19 Porque Yavé ʼElohim formó de la tierra toda bestia del campo y toda ave de los cielos, y los llevó al hombre para que viera cómo los llamaría. Así como el hombre llamó a cada ser viviente, ése es su nombre.
Yahweh God had taken some soil and had formed from it all kinds of animals and birds, and he brought them to the man to hear what names he would give them.
20 El hombre dio nombres a todos los animales, a las aves del cielo y a toda bestia del campo. Pero para el hombre no se halló una ayuda semejante a él.
Then the man gave names to all the kinds of livestock and birds and wild animals, but none of these creatures was a partner that was suitable for the man.
21 Entonces Yavé ʼElohim hizo caer al hombre en un sueño profundo. Y mientras dormía, tomó una de sus costillas y cerró la carne en su lugar.
So Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man was sleeping, Yahweh took out one of the man’s ribs. Then he immediately closed the opening in his body [and healed it].
22 De la costilla que Yavé ʼElohim tomó del hombre hizo una mujer, y la llevó al hombre.
Yahweh then made a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man’s body, and he brought her to the man.
23 Y el hombre exclamó: ¡Ahora ésta es hueso de mis huesos y carne de mi carne! Por esto será llamada Varona, porque del varón fue tomada.
The man exclaimed, “[Wow]! This is truly (someone like me/what I was looking for!) She is truly from my bones and from my flesh. So I will call her woman, because she was taken from me, a man.”
24 Por tanto el hombre dejará a su padre y a su madre, se unirá a su esposa y serán una sola carne.
[The first woman was taken from the man’s body, ] so that is why when a man and a woman marry, they must leave their parents. The man will join very closely to his wife, so that the two of them will be as though they are one person.
25 El hombre y su esposa estaban ambos desnudos, y no se avergonzaban.
Although the man and his wife were naked, they were not ashamed about that.
