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For six days, G-d’s unfathomable creation of the world continued,

On the first day – light and darkness, on the second day – the firmament, the vaults of the waters,

On the third day, the earth and the flora, On the fourth day, the stars,

On the fifth day, birds and fish, and only on the sixth day was man created.

When G-d created man from the dust of the earth, He breathed into him a ‘living soul’,

Seeing that it was not good for man to be alone, He separated one part of him,

He formed a woman, half a man, but different,

‘Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth,’ G-d blessed people.

G-d saw that the created things were very good and on the seventh day He rested from work,

G-d blessed the seventh day, and as a day of rest, He brightened it.

For people created in His image and likeness, G-d was not stingy with His bounties,

He planted many and various trees in Eden, bearing fruit fit for food.

Adam and Havva are placed by G-d in the Garden of Eden and indulge in pleasure,

Everything is allowed to them, only the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil cannot be eaten.

Under the influence of the Serpent, the most cunning of beasts, Havvah gave in to temptation,

and induced Adam to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree to know good and evil.

For this sin, G-d deprives Adam and Havva of immortality and banishes them from Eden,

She gives birth to her first two sons and Cain kills Abel, his younger brother.

The third son of Havvah – Sheth becomes the forefather of Noah, and Cain condemns himself to wandering,

And G-d regretted that He had created man, and was grieved when He saw how great was the evil of him.