Adam is Cast Down

Hebrew Without Vowels or Accents

The text of Genesis 2: 15 to 17 appears as follows

Samaritan Targum Interlinear Translation

Here’s the interlinear translation of Genesis 2:15 to 17 from tanakh.info:

Facts About Hebrew

We can add the following to our facts about Hebrew:

132. In fact #83, we considered the Strong’s Concordance meaning of the noun daath דעת and the verb yada ידע to mean thinking not doing, but  the man ‘knowing Eve his woman” resulted in her “becoming pregnant and bearing Cain” in Gen. 4:1, evidencing that daath and yada can indicate ‘experiencing’.

Constructing the Sentences

Let’s construct the sentences:

Gen. 2:15  The subject ‘Yahweh gods’, compound verbs ‘took’ and ‘cast down’, and object ‘the man in the garden of Eden’, and compound verbs ‘to serve and take heed to self’.

Gen. 2:16  The subject ‘Yahweh gods’, compound verbs ‘commanded’, and object ‘the man’, and a sub-clause with the verb ‘consume’, and object ‘from every tree the garden . . .’.

Gen. 2:17  The object continues from v. 16 ‘ . . . but from tree the experience good and evil not’, and a sub-clause with the verb ‘consume’ and object ‘from it for in day’ and a sub-clause with the verb ‘consume’ and object ‘from it worthy of death, you worthy of death’.

Translation

The paragraph translates as follows:

And seized Yahweh gods the man and cast down him in garden of Eden to serve and take heed to self.  And commanded/prohibited Yahweh gods the man saying “from every tree the garden consume, you consume, but from tree experience good and evil not you consume from it, for in day you consume from it worthy of death, you worthy of death”.

Analysis

When Yahweh seized (for the purpose of instruction/discipline see fact #115) and cast down (see fact #116) the man in Eden to serve (see fact #117) and take heed to self (see fact #118)” in Gen 2:15, it represented a deterioration in the man’s condition.  As a result, Yahweh issues man the first command/prohibition (see fact #127) saying “from every tree the garden devour you consume, and from tree the experience (see fact #132) of good and evil not you consume from it, for in day you consume from it worthy of death (see fact #129) you worthy of death” Gen. 2:17.

Next we will look at Genesis 2: 18 to 22.