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genesis 3:15
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she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”
24 T hat
is why a man leaves his father and mother and is
united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no
shame.
T H E FA L L
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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’?”
2 T he woma n said to the serpent, “We may eat f ruit
from the t rees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You
must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the midd le of
the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”
4 “ You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to
the woman. 5 “For God k nows that when you eat
from it your eyes will be o pened, and you will
be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 W hen the woma n saw that the f ruit 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. 7 T hen the eyes of both of them were o pened,
and they rea lized they were naked; so they sewed fig l eaves
together and made coverings for themselves.
8 T hen the man and his wife h
eard the s ound of the
Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool
of the day, and they hid from the Lord God a mong the
trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God c alled to the man,
“Where are you?”
10 He ans wered, “I h
eard you in the garden, and I was
a fraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 A nd he said, “Who told you that you were na
ked?
Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not
to eat from?”
12 T he man said, “The woma n you put here with me —
she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 T hen the Lord God said to the woma n, “What is this
you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 S o the Lord God said to the serp ent, “Bec ause you
have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring a and hers;
a 15 Or
seed
3:1
The serpent
Satan, or the devil, took the form of
a snake to tempt Adam and Eve.
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3:1 – 6
The conversation with the
serpent
Eve was the one who talked to the
serpent. And it seems from verse six
that Adam was with Eve. If he wasn’t
there, then he made the decision to
disobey without the pressure from
the serpent. They were both guilty
of disobeying God.
3:4
The serpent’s lies
The serpent told Adam and Eve that
their eyes would be opened and
they would become like God. He
said they would know good from
evil. Their eyes were opened, but
the result was different from what
the serpent promised.
3:8
God visited Adam
and Eve.
God is a spirit, which means he
doesn’t have a body like humans.
So we don’t know if God actually
“walked” in the garden — the verse
might say that just so humans can
better understand. But it is clear that
God was really there in the garden,
and he talked with Adam and Eve.