4 S Genesis 2:23
23 The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”
24 That is why a man l eaves 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.
The Fall
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Now the serpent was more c rafty 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 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the
garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the
middle of the garden, and you must not t ouch it, or you will die.’ ”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God
knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be
like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman 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 Then the eyes of both of them were o
pened, and they realized they were
naked; so they s ewed fig l eaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walk
ing in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among
the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was
naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the
tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me — she gave me some
fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because 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;
he will crush b your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
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, “Because 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.
a 15 Or
seed b 15 Or strike