Genesis
3
- Now the serpent was more crafty than any
of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did
God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden' ?"
- The woman said to the serpent, "We
may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
- but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit
from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch
it, or you will die.'"
- "You will not surely die," the
serpent said to the woman.
- "For God knows that when you eat of
it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
- When the woman saw that the fruit of the
tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining
wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was
with her, and he ate it.
- Then the eyes of both of them were opened,
and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made
coverings for themselves.
- Then the man and his wife heard the sound
of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and
they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
- But the LORD God called to the man, "Where
are you ?"
- He answered, "I heard you in the garden,
and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."
- And he said, "Who told you that you
were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from
?"
- The man said, "The woman you put here
with me--she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
- Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What
is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me,
and I ate."
- So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because
you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the
wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days
of your life.
- And I will put enmity between you and the
woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you
will strike his heel."
- To the woman he said, "I will greatly
increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
- To Adam he said, "Because you listened
to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must
not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful
toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- It will produce thorns and thistles for
you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
- By the sweat of your brow you will eat your
food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust
you are and to dust you will return."
- Adam named his wife Eve, because she would
become the mother of all the living.
- The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam
and his wife and clothed them.
- And the LORD God said, "The man has
now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to
reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."
- So the LORD God banished him from the Garden
of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
- After he drove the man out, he placed on
the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing
back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
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