if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,

Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, “I have created a man just as the Lord did!”

The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

Then the man said, “This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

I have made your forehead harder than flint – like diamond! Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you, for they are a rebellious house.”

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.”

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard.

Indeed, they made their heart as hard as diamond, so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the Lord who rules over all had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the Lord who rules over all had poured out great wrath.

The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.

The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.

Cain had marital relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was building a city, and he named the city after his son Enoch.

Whatever has happened was foreordained, and what happens to a person was also foreknown. It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate because God is more powerful than he is.