As I have done for the last 6 or so years, Ill be posting the Nine Lessons and Carols again; ending on Christmas Eve. This year Ill be posting in modern translation only. So here we go... Lesson 1: When they heard the sound of God strolling in the garden in the evening breeze, the Man and his Wife hid in the trees of the garden, hid from God. God called to the Man: Where are you? He said, I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked. And I hid. God said, Who told you you were naked? Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from? The Man said, The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it. God said to the Woman, What is this that youve done? The serpent seduced me, she said, and I ate. God told the serpent: Because youve done this, youre cursed, cursed beyond all cattle and wild animals, Cursed to slink on your belly and eat dirt all your life. Im declaring war between you and the Woman, between your offspring and hers. Hell wound your head, youll wound his heel. He told the Woman: Ill multiply your pains in childbirth; youll give birth to your babies in pain. Youll want to please your husband, but hell lord it over you. He told the Man: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, Dont eat from this tree, The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; youll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, youll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, youll end up dirt. The Message https://youtube/watch?v=08JYE0xcEks
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 06:11:07 +0000
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