¹ Und die Schlange war listiger als alles Getier des Feldes, das Jehova Gott gemacht hatte; und sie sprach zu dem Weibe: Hat Gott wirklich gesagt: Ihr sollt nicht essen von jedem Baume des Gartens?

² Und das Weib sprach zu der Schlange: Von der Frucht der Bäume des Gartens essen wir;

³ aber von der Frucht des Baumes, der in der Mitte des Gartens ist, hat Gott gesagt, davon sollt ihr nicht essen und sie nicht anrühren, auf daß ihr nicht sterbet.

⁴ Und die Schlange sprach zu dem Weibe: Mit nichten werdet ihr sterben!

⁵ Sondern Gott weiß, daß, welches Tages ihr davon esset, eure Augen aufgetan werden und ihr sein werdet wie Gott, erkennend Gutes und Böses.

⁶ Und das Weib sah, daß der Baum gut zur Speise und daß er eine Lust für die Augen und daß der Baum begehrenswert wäre, um Einsicht zu geben; und sie nahm von seiner Frucht und aß, und sie gab auch ihrem Manne mit ihr, und er aß.

⁷ Da wurden ihrer beider Augen aufgetan, und sie erkannten, daß sie nackt waren; und sie hefteten Feigenblätter zusammen und machten sich Schürzen.

⁸ Und sie hörten die Stimme Jehovas Gottes, der im Garten wandelte bei der Kühle des Tages. Und der Mensch und sein Weib versteckten sich vor dem Angesicht Jehovas Gottes mitten unter die Bäume des Gartens.

⁹ Und Jehova Gott rief den Menschen und sprach zu ihm: Wo bist du?

¹⁰ Und er sprach: Ich hörte deine Stimme im Garten, und ich fürchtete mich, denn ich bin nackt, und ich versteckte mich.

¹¹ Und er sprach: Wer hat dir kundgetan, daß du nackt bist? Hast du gegessen von dem Baume, von dem ich dir geboten habe, nicht davon zu essen?

¹² Und der Mensch sprach: Das Weib, das du mir beigegeben hast, sie gab mir von dem Baume, und ich aß.

¹³ Und Jehova Gott sprach zu dem Weibe: Was hast du da getan! Und das Weib sprach: Die Schlange betrog mich, und ich aß.

¹⁴ Und Jehova Gott sprach zu der Schlange: Weil du dieses getan hast, sollst du verflucht sein vor allem Vieh und vor allem Getier des Feldes! Auf deinem Bauche sollst du kriechen und Staub fressen alle Tage deines Lebens.

¹⁵ Und ich werde Feindschaft setzen zwischen dir und dem Weibe und zwischen deinem Samen und ihrem Samen; er wird dir den Kopf zermalmen, und du, du wirst ihm die Ferse zermalmen.

¹⁶ Zu dem Weibe sprach er: Ich werde sehr mehren die Mühsal deiner Schwangerschaft, mit Schmerzen sollst du Kinder gebären; und nach deinem Manne wird dein Verlangen sein, er aber wird über dich herrschen.

¹⁷ Und zu Adam sprach er: Weil du auf die Stimme deines Weibes gehört und gegessen hast von dem Baume, von dem ich dir geboten und gesprochen habe: Du sollst nicht davon essen, so sei der Erdboden verflucht um deinetwillen: mit Mühsal sollst du davon essen alle Tage deines Lebens;

¹⁸ und Dornen und Disteln wird er dir sprossen lassen, und du wirst das Kraut des Feldes essen.

¹⁹ Im Schweiße deines Angesichts wirst du dein Brot essen, bis du zurückkehrst zur Erde, denn von ihr bist du genommen. Denn Staub bist du, und zum Staube wirst du zurückkehren!

²⁰ Und der Mensch gab seinem Weibe den Namen Eva, denn sie war die Mutter aller Lebendigen.

²¹ Und Jehova Gott machte Adam und seinem Weibe Röcke von Fell und bekleidete sie.

²² Und Jehova Gott sprach: Siehe, der Mensch ist geworden wie unser einer, zu erkennen Gutes und Böses; und nun, daß er seine Hand nicht ausstrecke und nehme auch von dem Baume des Lebens und esse und lebe ewiglich!

²³ Und Jehova Gott schickte ihn aus dem Garten Eden hinaus, um den Erdboden zu bebauen, davon er genommen war;

²⁴ und er trieb den Menschen aus und ließ lagern gegen Osten vom Garten Eden die Cherubim und die Flamme des kreisenden Schwertes, um den Weg zum Baume des Lebens zu bewahren.

¹ Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.

² [It was told] the Gazites, saying, "Samson is here!" They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.

³ Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.

⁴ It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

⁵ The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, "Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred [pieces] of silver."

⁶ Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you."

⁷ Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man."

⁸ Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

⁹ Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

¹⁰ Delilah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now please tell me with which you might be bound."

¹¹ He said to her, "If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man."

¹² So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

¹³ Delilah said to Samson, "Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound." He said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web."

¹⁴ She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

¹⁵ She said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies."

¹⁶ It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was troubled to death.

¹⁷ He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man."

¹⁸ When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart." Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.

¹⁹ She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

²⁰ She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.

²¹ The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

²² However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

²³ The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, "Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand."

²⁴ When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand."

²⁵ It happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, "Call for Samson, that he may entertain us." They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;

²⁶ and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, "Allow me to feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may lean on them."

²⁷ Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.

²⁸ Samson called to Yahweh, and said, "Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes."

²⁹ Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.

³⁰ Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

³¹ Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.