Genesis 3

The First Sin and the First Promise

1 The snake was more clever than all the wild animals the Lord God had made. He asked the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must never eat the fruit of any tree in the garden’?”2 The woman answered the snake, “We’re allowed to eat the fruit from any tree in the garden

3 except the tree in the middle of the garden. God said, ‘You must never eat it or touch it. If you do, you will die!’ ”
4 “You certainly won’t die!” the serpent told the woman.

5 “God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened. You’ll be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 The woman saw that the tree had fruit that was good to eat, nice to look at, and desirable for making someone wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.7 Then their eyes were opened, and they both realized that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made clothes for themselves.8 In the cool of the evening, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking around in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees in the garden.

9 The Lord God called to the man and asked him, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden. I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”11 God asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat fruit from the tree I commanded you not to eat from?”12 The man answered, “That woman, the one you gave me, gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”13 Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?”“The snake deceived me, and I ate,” the woman answered.14 So the Lord God said to the snake, “Because you have done this,You are cursed more than all the wild or domestic animals.You will crawl on your belly.You will be the lowest of animals as long as you live.15 I will make you and the woman hostile toward each other.I will make your descendantsand her descendant hostile toward each other.He will crush your head,and you will bruise his heel.”16 He said to the woman,“I will increase your pain and your laborwhen you give birth to children.Yet, you will long for your husband,and he will rule you.”17 Then he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree, although I commanded you, ‘You must never eat its fruit.’The ground is cursed because of you.Through hard work you will eat food that comes from itevery day of your life.18 The ground will grow thorns and thistles for you,and you will eat wild plants.19 By the sweat of your brow, you will produce food to eatuntil you return to the ground,because you were taken from it.You are dust, and you will return to dust.”20 Adam named his wife Eve [Life] because she became the mother of every living person.21 The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.22 Then the Lord God said, “The man has become like one of us, since he knows good and evil. He must not reach out and take the fruit from the tree of life and eat. Then he would live forever.”23 So the Lord God sent the man out of the Garden of Eden to farm the ground from which the man had been formed.

24 After he sent the man out, God placed angelst and a flaming sword that turned in all directions east of the Garden of Eden. He placed them there to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 3

The Temptation and the Fall

1 Nowt the serpents was more shrewdts than any of the wild animalst that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Is it really true thatt Gods said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?”t2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eatt of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;3 but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, ‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it,s or else you will die.’”t4 The serpent said to the woman, “Surely you will not die,ts

5 for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will opent and you will be like divine beings who knowt good and evil.”s
6 Whent the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food,t was attractivets to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise,ts she took some of its fruit and ate it.ts She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.s

7 Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving aboutt in the orchard at the breezy timet of the day, and they hidt from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard.9 But the Lord God called tot the man and said to him, “Where are you?”s10 The man replied,t “I heard you moving aboutt in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”11 And the Lord Godt said, “Who told you that you were naked?s Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”s12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gavet me some fruitt from the tree and I ate it.”

13 So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is thist you have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpents trickedt me, and I ate.”

14 The Lord God said to the serpent,s
“Because you have done this,
cursedt are you above all the wild beasts
and all the living creatures of the field!
On your belly you will crawlt
and dust you will eats all the days of your life.

15 And I will put hostilityt between you and the woman
and between your offspring and her offspring;s
her offspring will attackt your head,
andt yous will attack her offspring’s heel.”ts

16 To the woman he said,
“I will greatly increaset your labor pains;t
with pain you will give birth to children.
You will want to control your husband,t
but he will dominatets you.”

17 But to Adamt he said,
“Because you obeyedt your wife
and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,
‘You must not eat from it,’
cursed is the grounds thanks to you;t
in painful toil you will eats of it all the days of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
but you will eat the graint of the field.

19 By the sweat of your browt you will eat food
until you return to the ground,s
for out of it you were taken;
for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”s
20 The mant named his wife Eve,s becauset she was the mother of all the living.t21 The Lord God made garments from skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.22 And the Lord God said, “Nowt that the man has become like one of us,s knowingt good and evil, he must not be allowedt to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”23 So the Lord God expelled himt from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

24 When he drovet the man out, he placed on the eastern sidet of the orchard in Eden angelic sentriests who used the flame of a whirling swordt to guard the way to the tree of life.