Rava explains: As Reish Lakish said: The Holy One, Blessed be He, does not strike at the Jewish people unless He has already created a remedy for them beforehand, as it is stated: “When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered” (Hosea 7:1).

(1) When God began to create heaven and earth—(2) the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water—(3) God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.(4) God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.(5) God called the light Day and called the darkness Night. And there was evening and there was morning, a first day.

(8) Who closed the sea behind doors
When it gushed forth out of the womb,(9) When I clothed it in clouds,
Swaddled it in dense clouds,(10) When I made breakers My limit for it,
And set up its bar and doors,(11) And said, “You may come so far and no farther;
Here your surging waves will stop”?

(20) and it came between the army of the Egyptians and the army of Israel. Thus there was the cloud with the darkness, and it cast a spell upon the night, so that the one could not come near the other all through the night.(21) Then Moses held out his arm over the sea and יהוה drove back the sea with a strong east wind all that night, and turned the sea into dry ground. The waters were split,(22) and the Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

(1) God spoke all these words, saying:

(26) And God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth.”
(27) And God created humankind in the divine image,
creating it in the image of God—
creating them male and female.(28) God blessed them and God said to them, “Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it; and rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and all the living things that creep on earth.”(29) God said, “See, I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food.

(4) Such is the story of heaven and earth when they were created. When God יהוה made earth and heaven—(5) when no shrub of the field was yet on earth and no grasses of the field had yet sprouted, because God יהוה had not sent rain upon the earth and there were no human beings to till the soil,(6) but a flow would well up from the ground and water the whole surface of the earth—(7) God יהוה formed the Human from the soil’s humus, blowing into his nostrils the breath of life: the Human became a living being.(8) God יהוה planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and placed there the Human who had been fashioned.(9) And from the ground God יהוה caused to grow every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and bad.(10) A river issues from Eden to water the garden, and it then divides and becomes four branches.(11) The name of the first is Pishon, the one that winds through the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.(12) (The gold of that land is good; bdellium is there, and lapis lazuli. )(13) The name of the second river is Gihon, the one that winds through the whole land of Cush.(14) The name of the third river is Tigris, the one that flows east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

(15) God יהוה settled the Human in the garden of Eden, to till it and tend it.(16) And God יהוה commanded the Human, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you are free to eat;(17) but as for the tree of knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat of it; for as soon as you eat of it, you shall die.”(18) God יהוה said, “It is not good for the Human to be alone; I will make a fitting counterpart for him.”

(21) So God יהוה cast a deep sleep upon the Human; and, while he slept, [God] took one of his sides and closed up the flesh at that site.(22) And God יהוה fashioned the side that had been taken from the Human into a woman, bringing her to the Human.(23) Then the Human said,
“This one at last
Is bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh.
This one shall be called Woman,
For from a Human was she taken.”(24) Hence a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh.

(25) The two of them were naked, the Human and his wife, yet they felt no shame.(1) Now the serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild beasts that God יהוה had made. It said to the woman, “Did God really say: You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?”(2) The woman replied to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the other trees of the garden.(3) It is only about fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said: ‘You shall not eat of it or touch it, lest you die.’”

(6) When the woman saw that the tree was good for eating and a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable as a source of wisdom, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, and he ate.(7) Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they perceived that they were naked; and they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves loincloths.(8) They heard the sound of God יהוה moving about in the garden at the breezy time of day; and the Human and his wife hid from God יהוה among the trees of the garden.(9) God יהוה called out to the Human and said to him, “Where are you?”(10) He replied, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”(11) “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat of the tree from which I had forbidden you to eat?”(12) The Human said, “The woman You put at my side—she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”(13) And God יהוה said to the woman, “What is this you have done!” The woman replied, “The serpent duped me, and I ate.”

(15) I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your offspring and hers;
They shall strike at your head,
And you shall strike at their heel.”(16) And to the woman [God] said,
“I will greatly expand
Your hard labor—and your pregnancies;
In hardship shall you bear children.
Yet your urge shall be for your husband,
And he shall rule over you.”(17) To Adam [God] said, “Because you did as your wife said and ate of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’
Cursed be the ground because of you;
By hard labor shall you eat of it
All the days of your life:
(18) Thorns and thistles shall it sprout for you.
But your food shall be the grasses of the field;
(19) By the sweat of your brow
Shall you get bread to eat,
Until you return to the ground—
For from it you were taken.
For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return.”

(26) [God] said, “If you will heed your God יהוה diligently, doing what is upright in God’s sight, giving ear to God’s commandments and keeping all God’s laws, then I will not bring upon you any of the diseases that I brought upon the Egyptians, for I יהוה am your healer.”