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6 genesis 3:16
3:12 – 13 he will crush a your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
Adam and Eve responded
to God.
Adam blamed Eve, and Eve
blamed the serpent. Neither took
responsibility for their actions.
3:14 – 15
The meaning of God’s
curse
God cursed the serpent to crawl on
its belly and fight with humans. The
promise that Eve’s children would
crush the serpent’s head hints at
salvation through Jesus’ death on
the cross. (See Romans 16:20.)
3:17 – 19
The meaning of God’s
words to Adam
God told Adam that because of sin,
it would be difficult and painful
work to get food. And God said that
when Adam died, his body would
go back to the dust of the ground.
4:3 – 5
Abel’s offering vs. Cain’s
offering
Both a plant offering and an animal
offering were acceptable to God,
but Cain’s offering was not made
with a pure heart. He did not give
his best. Abel pleased God because
he offered his best animals.
16 To
the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said, “Bec ause you listened to your wife
and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you,
‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 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.”
20 A dam b n amed his wife Eve, c bec ause she would be
come the mother of all the living.
21 T he Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and
his wife and c lothed them. 22 A nd 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.” 23 So
the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to
work the g round from which he had been taken. 24 A fter he
d rove the man out, he p
laced on the east side d of the Gar
den of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back
and forth to g uard the way to the tree of life.
CAIN AND ABEL
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Adam b made love to his wife Eve, and she
became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. e
She said, “With the help of the Lord I have
brought forth f a man.” 2 Later she gave birth to his
brother Abel.
Now Abel kept f locks, and Cain worked the soil.
3 I n the
course of time Cain brought some of the
fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4 A nd
Abel also brought an offering — fat portions from
some of the firstborn of his f lock. The Lord looked
with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and
his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very
ang ry, and his face was downcast.
6 T hen the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you ang ry?
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a 15 Or
strike b 20,1 Or The man c 20 Eve probably means living.
placed in front e 1 Cain sounds like the Hebrew for brought
forth or acquired. f 1 Or have acquired
d 24 Or