The Temptation for knowledge and Fall of Man from nature
The following is a fable like story, representing either the description of how sexuality changes the mental and emotional state of both man and woman when becoming adults, or how adolescence will cause the new generation to conflict with the parents and how this is just part of nature and how we evolve.
1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the ancestors had identified. And it said to the woman, “Have the ancestors indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
(a serpent in many civilizations and societies has a spiritual and astrological meaning, but also can refer to a double tongue speaker as in liar or other characteristic. It could even refer to the ‘one eyed snake’ as a sexual organ)
(we know the snake isn’t the most cunning beast, so this is only from the perspective of the writer and his generation)
(referring to learning all from the knowledge in the papyrus and leather written information?)
2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, our ancestors have said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
5 For your ancestors knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like your parents, knowing good and evil.”
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
8 And they heard the sound of their parents walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the modern man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of his parents among the trees of the garden.
9 Then their parents called to the modern man and said to him, “Where are you?” (this can be explained in several different ways, but one of the easiest is: Every generation diverts from the original path, so especially when coming of age, under influence of hormons to contradict everything that the new man/woman have learned from their parents/ancestors, they are unknown to their parents, even if previously their parents knew everything about their whereabouts.)
10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
(the parents see that the child learns new things which deviates from their path, children even when in adolescence will be aware of this, they shy away, lie about their chosen paths)
11 And they said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”
(‘How did you realise that your body has sexual preference? Some parents allow their offspring to learn of their own path, some want them to go into the envisioned direction of the parents)
12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
(Now from using what I wrote above, the actual lie starts here: the snake as metaphor for the male libido, is the one that will try to trick the woman, and as such lay with the woman. The woman that was there in the time of this event.)
13 And the parents said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
(The same would happen visa versa when parents come to knowledge a man has entered their daughter without their consent)
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
(the snake/libido of the man with smooth talk, deceived her, she agreed with her own awaking libido)
14 So the parents said to the man:
“Because you have done this, (learned of sexuality/procreation and the results)
You are cursed more than all cattle, (you are going under a worse burden then animals, because you did it willingly. You are responsible)
And more than every beast of the field; (over your animal instincts)
On your belly you shall go, (You will work hard)
And you shall eat dust (something metaphorical about receiving)
All the days of your life. (from the day you pass that gate of childhood)
15 And we will put enmity (after coming of age, man and woman have totally different instinctive behavior and needs, this causes them to have trouble. This is something in all species by the way, look at lions. This is something we got from history/the ancestors)
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed; (This is a bit of a philosophical thing: What she learns and teaches the next generation and you)
He shall bruise your head, (to the woman, he will keep your mind too occupied.)
And you shall bruise His heel.” (will settle him. bruising the heel, making it difficult to leave)
16 To the woman they said: (you read above: you shall bruise his head, this was also to the woman, so the either the original translation is wrong.)
“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
In pain you shall bring forth children;
Your desire shall be for your husband,
And he shall rule over you.”
(yes, because of our evoled state, we will keep having more trouble than without)
17 Then to the modern man the parents said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: (here it clearly states that the man had not listened to the female’s pleads, hence he ‘pushed’ his desire)
“Cursed is the ground for your sake; (Because most likely she is with child now, you will have to work to provide, you have no freedom anymore)
In toil you shall eat of it (You will feel bad over it, and will continue to consume it)
All the days of your life. (until you are old)
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, (The family will bring you sorrow and suffering)
And you shall eat the herb of the field. (and you will learn from it)
19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread (during the light/noon, you will enjoy the experience)
Till you return to the ground, (until you die)
For out of it you were taken; (remember, there was the assumption that man was made of dust, as man returns to it, like reversed evidence trail)
For dust you are, (we are all fleeting, nothing)
And to dust you shall return.” (and in the end we are nothing, our offspring remains)
20 And the modern man called his wife’s name the modern woman, because she was the mother of all living. (Every new generation takes the responsibility of their habitat)
21 Also for the modern man and his wife the ancestors/parents made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
22 Then the parents said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— (this can refer to different things: A ceremony like marriage or to the fact that eventually the man and woman will grow old, become parents that will tell their children to stay child as long as possible (not eat from the tree)) 23 therefore the ancestors/parents sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. (Parents sending their offspring into the world, as they have learned all there is about responsibility and now they have to work for their own lifes) 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. (The history was written, history was protected)