DOCUMENT "JEHOVAH." and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.' Unto the woman he said, 'I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children: and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.' And unto Adam he said, 'Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, "Thou shalt not eat of it;" cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.' And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Unto Adam also and to his wife did Jehovah Elohim make coats of skins, and clothed them. "And Jehovah Elohim said, 'Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:' therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword, which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”* DOCUMENT "ELOHIM." II. Gen. v. 1-32. Genealogical Table till the Time of Noah. (Verse 1-3 connects with i. 26; verse 29 is interpolated.) "This is the book of the generations of Adam: In the day that Elohim created man, in the likeness of Elohim made he him. Male a DOCUMENT "JEHOVAH." Gen. iv. 1-26. Family History of Adam, with a parallel Genealogy. Increase of Evil. "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, 'I have gotten a man from Jehovah.' And she again bare his broth [These two documents, i.-ii. 3, and ii. 14-24, contain an account of the same event. The inscription, "These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created," plainly marks the point when the two separate. But the difference between them is remarkable in many passages, but most striking between i. 26, 27, and ii. 7, and 21, 22. Eichhorn thinks the above Jehovistic passage, ii. 4-iii. 24, is a whole by itself, and does not belong to the document" Jehovah," because God is called Jehovah Elohim.] DOCUMENT "ELOHIM." DOCUMENT "JEHOVAH." and female created he them; and er Abel. "And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth and the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died. "And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enos: and Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died. "And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan : and Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel, and to his offering: but unto Cain, and to his offering, he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And Jehovah said unto Cain, 6 Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.' And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. [There is a striking similarity in the names of the alleged descendants of Adam and Enos. They are essentially the same. Here follows a list of the descendants of each. It is to be remembered that both names signify man. The reader will draw his own inferences from this, or may see those of Buttmann, in his Mythologus, vol. i. ch. vii. p. 171.] DOCUMENT "ELOHIM." begat sons and daughters. and all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years; and he died. "And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel: and Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters and all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died. "And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: and Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters and all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years; and he died. "And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years; and he died. "And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: and Enoch walked with Elohim after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: and Enoch walked with Elohim, and he was not for Elohim took him. "And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech and Methuselah DOCUMENT "JEHOVAH." "And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?' And he said, 'I know not: am I my brother's keeper?' And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.' And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.' And Jehovah said unto him, 'Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him seven-fold.' And Jehovah set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. "And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch. And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael; and DOCUMENT "ELOHIM." lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died. "And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son and he called his name Noah." And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters and all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. And Noah was five hundred years old; and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth." DOCUMENT "JEHOVAH.” Mehujael begat Methusael; and Methusael begat Lamech. "And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold, truly Lamech seventy and seven-fold.' "And Adam knew his wife again, and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: 'For Jehovah," said she, hath appoint [Verse 29 contains an etymology of the word Noah -"He shall comfort us for our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed." It is evidently an interpolation.] [Chap. iv. 23. This is, perhaps, a better translation of this song:- Listen to my words: I have killed a man for wounding me, A young man for striking me. If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold, So Lamech seventy and seven-fold." Here he alludes to his power of defending himself with the sword recently invented by his son, Tubal-cain. See Herder, Geist Eb. Poes, vol. i. p. 319.] [Chap. iv. 25, Elohim occurs instead of Jehovah. Some have conjectured the true reading was Jehovah, which I have followed.] DOCUMENT "JEHOVAH." ed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.' And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah.” DOCUMENT "ELOHIM." III. Gen. vi. 9-22. History of the Deluge and of Noah. (Verse 9 refers to v. 22, 24; verse 29 to i. 24.) (1.) "These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with Elohim. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before Elohim; and the earth was filled with violence. And Elohim looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And Elohim said unto Noah, a DOCUMENT "JEHOVAH." Chap. vi. 1-8, vii. 1-5. History of the Deluge, and of Noah. "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of Elohim saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And Jehovah said, 'My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.' There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of Elohim came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men, which were, of old, men of renown. "And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And Jehovah said, 'I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and [Chap. vi. 5. The common English version has God, as if it were Elohim, in the text, but the Hebrew reads Jehovah.] |