Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Kejadian 4:1

Hat er ihr jedoch nicht beigewohnt. ירע hier = beiwohnen, wie Gen. 4, 1 u. o.

ותהר, seeing that the conception had not been mentioned in the previous verse, the Torah now reports conception and birth as if it had been a consecutive activity. We find a similar construction in Genesis 4,1 ותהר ותלד את קין, “Chavah conceived and gave birth to Kayin.”

“She prostrated herself” [2:10]. She fell on her knees, bowed to the ground and she said to him. Why have I found grace in your eyes that you recognize me, for I am a stranger? Our sages say that she spoke prophetically to Boaz that he would take her as a wife.⁴⁷Ruth Rabbah, 5.2. Therefore she said, “to recognize me.” This means to recognize me and this is used in regard to sleeping with one’s wife and the verse says to recognize and to know, as we find concerning Adam it is written, “and Adam knew Eve” [Genesis, 4:1]. This means, Adam slept with Eve. I hear from this that he calls sleeping with a woman, and he knew, which is a term denoting wisdom and intelligence. Another reason that it is called this is because every pious man and woman should recognize and know and have a sign between them when they have sexual relations, so that, heaven forbid, he or she should not make a mistake with someone else, as we find concerning Shelomit the daughter of Davri. The Egyptian woke her husband for work and then lay with her. She thought that he was her husband and when she woke up she found who he was.⁴⁸Exodus Rabbah, 28.1. There is much to write about this. That is why sleeping is to know through a sign that this is his wife or that it is husband. The verse also alluded to this, “why are you so kind to recognize me?” [2:10]. This means, I have found grace in your eyes that you recognize me. This is to say, you will take me as a wife and you will have sexual relations, to know with intelligence.