On the day that Yahweh the gods (Yahweh allahiym) fashioned the land and the skies, there was as yet no wild plant on the land, nor had grain yet sprung up, for Yahewh the gods had not sent rain upon the land. Nor was there any man to till the soil.
There was, however, a stream rising out of the land and watering the whole surface of the soil. Yahweh the gods formed the human (adam) from the soil (adamah) of the land, and breathed into his nostrils the breath that is life. The the human became a breathing lifeform.
Yahweh the gods planted a garden eastward [of Judaea] on the plain [i.e., Sumeria], and there he put the human he had made. Out of the soil Yahweh the gods caused very tree to grow that is pleasant to see and good to eat, as well as the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of understanding of right and wrong.
A river flowed out of the plain and watered the garden, and further down it divided to form four tributories. The first is name Piyshown [Jordan?], and it circles the whole land of Khavilah where there is gold. And the gold of that land is pure. There is also bdellium gum and onyx stone.
The second river is named Giykhown [Nile?] and it encircles the whole land of Kuwsh. The third river is named Khidekel [Tigris], and it flows eastward of Assyria. The fourth river is Euphrates.
Yahweh the gods took the human and settled him in the garden in the plain, to cultivate it and occupy it. Then Yahweh the gods gave the human this order: "You may eat freely from every tree in the garden except the tree of understanding of right and wrong. From that you may not eat, for on the day that you eat from it I will condemn you to death." Yahweh the gods said, "It isn't right that the human should be alone. I'll make a helper suitable for him."
So out of the soil Yahweh the gods formed every animal of the countryside and every bird of the air, and he brought them to the human to see what he would name them. And whatever the human named each living creature, that became its name. The human gave names to all of the livestock and the birds of the air and the wild animals. But there was among them no suitable spouse for the human. So Yahweh the gods made the human fall into a deep sleep. And while he slept he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. Yahweh the gods shaped the rib which he had taken from the human into a woman, and brought her to the human.
[trans. note: Prior to the discovery that children have father, the Sumerian goddess Ninti was credited with giving women the power to make babies out of their ribs.]
The human sang: "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She is to be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
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The above is copyrighted, and is looking for a publisher. William Harwood has translated the entire bible, Old and New Testaments, in the same manner. Further snippets could be made available. I have the "Hexateuch" (Pentateuch plus Joshua) and the Gospels.
-- To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist--all this is but the beginning of wisdom.--Robert G. Ingersoll / Greg Erwin, VP, Humanist Association of Canada