1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were identified.
2 And on the seventh day the ancestors ended their work which they had done, and choose to rest on the seventh day from all their work which they had done.(Seemingly for the writers it had seemed normal that the labouror would rest at a certain day. It could however also mean that we have arrived at the 7th trancendent of awareness, which is in pause because of this)
3 The ancestors declared the seventh day a resting day, because in it they rested from all their work which the ancestors had done and made. (recognition for the need to rest)
4 This is the history[a] of how the heavens and the earth were named, in the day that your ancestors identified them, (The recognition that things are in the past)
5 before they cultivated any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of their field had grown. For the ancestors had not been aware to predict it to rain on the earth, and they hadn’t learned to till the ground yet; (The recognition that the ancestors first had to learn one, before they could learn the next)
6 but mist and water went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. (The recognition that water evaporated and made rain)
7 And history formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
(taking the known characteristics of man: we breath through our nose and mouth. When we die, we return to the earth, so it is only normal to believe that man would have been born from it).
Life in history’s Garden (good life)
8 The ancestors recognized nature. They saw a garden eastward in Eden, and there they put generations whom they had taught. (So either they moved to the east, or they learned from there)
9 And out of the ground your ancestors learned every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (They learned from nature, where there is abundance in food, they had time for learning)
10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. (The recognition that from mountains a stream splits up to different rivers, eventually ending in the sea)
11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. (A location where part of this is written)
12 And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.
14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel;[b] it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 Then the ancestors took their children and put them in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.(generation after generation man learned to cultivate his surrounding, but also the knowledge of it)
16 And your ancestors commanded the children, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (metaphorically saying: history shows that once we learn of good and evil actions, we are becoming of age. Don’t be too curious, it is dangerous)
18 And the ancestors said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” (Recognizing the requirement for procreation and the duality of sexuality.)
19 Out of their basic knowledge of nature the ancestors cultivated every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to every new generation and taught them what they should call them. And whatever every new generation called each living creature, that was its name. (Recognizing the change in language)
20 So every new generation had names for all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But eventually every new generation had to evolve further, themselves. There was no help. (Recognizing that there are things that parents can’t teach their children)
21 And the ancestors caused a deep sleep to fall on every new generation, and he slept; and they took one of his breathing/life, and closed up the flesh in its place. (They old knowledge wouldn’t bring forth new, it would take the new generation to build up the new, or the old knowledge would keep progress back.)
22 Then the rib which history had taken from man the ancestors made into a woman, and the ancestors brought her to the man.
23 And every new generation said:
“This is now bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.”
(in other words when a man comes of age, he recognizes a woman to be his better half. This is the same in many ways of poetic writing in Asian historical annalects)
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
(And here it shows that the original text is connected with social behavior and can not be seen in a literal or fully metaphysical sense)
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
(Children, whether man or woman, have no shame of their body. They only shame, when they undergo physical changes according to their sexuality. But when bonded they should open up to each other)