Lesson 3: Cain and Abel

Long ago, God created the world. The earth was dark. The sky was empty and black. But God’s Spirit looked over the world. He had a wonderful plan!

When God spoke, the heavens appeared. He blessed the earth with beauty. God shaped the high mountains, He filled the lakes with cool water, He made the soft grass, fresh fruit, and the beautiful, fragrant flowers. God made the sun shine in the day and the stars shine at night.

God created fish to splash and swim in the seas and birds to sing and fly through the air. Then He filled the earth with animals: Some that crawl and creep. Some that jump and leap. God said, “Let us make someone to care for this wonderful world!”

God formed a man from dirt and breathed life into him. He named the man Adam. Then He also formed a woman to help Adam. Her name was Eve. God placed them in a beautiful garden called Eden.

In six days, God made everything. He saw that it was all good. On the seventh day, He rested from all His work.

  1. Who created the world?
  2. What were the names of the man and the woman God created?

Glossary

children n. ཕྲུ་གུ་ 孩子
oldest son བུ་ཆེ་བ་ 长子
second (son) འབྲིང་བ་ 次子
farmer n. ཞིང་པ་ 农夫
shepherd n. ལུག་རྫི་ 牧羊人
one day ཉིན་ཞིག་ལ་ 有一天
each རང་རང་གི་
Brought offerings འབུལ་རྟེན་གྱིས་མཆོད་པ་ཕུལ་
offering མཆོད་རྫས་ 祭品
not given with pure intentions ལྷག་བསམ་མེད་པ་ 没有诚
God was not pleased with it དཀོན་མཆོག་མ་མགུ་ 没能讨上帝的喜悦
did not accept his offering མཆོད་རྫས་མ་བཞེས་པ་ 不接受他的祭品
angry adj. ཁོང་ཁྲོ་ཆེན་པོ་ལངས་
kill v. གསོད་ 杀死
heart n. སེམས་ 心中
do what is right ཡག་པོ་བྱས་ 做得好
accept v. ངོས་ལེན་བྱེད་ 接受你
but འོན་ཀྱང་ 可是
did not obey བཀའ་ལ་མ་ཉན་ 没有听从上帝的话
hit v. (p) རྡུང་རྡེག་བཏང་

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killed v. (p) བསད་ 杀死了
where གང་ན་ཡོད་ 在哪里
brother n. གཅུང་པོ་ 弟弟
don’t know ཧ་མི་གོ་ 不知道
take care of ལྟ་རྟོག་བྱེད་ 照顾
know v. ཤེས་ 知道
surely ངེས་པར་དུ་
will … be punished v. (fut.) ཆད་པ་ཕོག་ཡོང་ 一定会受到惩罚
terrible adj. གདུག་རྩུབ་ཆེ་བ་ 可怕的罪
heart is evil སེམས་ངན་རྩ་ཆེ་བ་ 心太邪恶
roamed v. (p) གང་སར་འཁྱམ་
roamed all over
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