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Day 1  •   G enes is, part 1  11
­ hat’s why a man l ­ eaves his fa­ther and moth­er and is ­joined to his
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wife. The two of them be­come one.
Adam and his wife were both na­ked. They ­didn’t feel any ­shame.
The ser­pent was more clev­er than any of the wild an­i­mals the
Lord God had made. The ser­pent said to the wom­an, “Did God
real­ly say, ‘You must not eat ­fruit 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 the ­fruit from the
tree in the mid­dle of the gar­den. Do not even t ­ ouch it. If you do,
you will die.’ ”
“You will cer­tain­ly not die,” the ser­pent said to the wom­an. “God
knows that when you eat f ­ ruit from that tree, you will know t ­ hings
you have nev­er ­known be­fore. Like God, you will be able to tell the
dif­fer­ence be­tween good and evil.”
The wom­an saw that the tree’s ­fruit was good to eat and pleas­
ing to look at. She also saw that it w
­ ould make a per­son wise. So
she took some of the f ­ ruit and ate it. She also gave some to her
hus­band, who was with her. And he ate it. Then both of them
knew t ­ hings they had nev­er k
­ nown be­fore. They re­al­ized they
were na­ked. So they s ­ ewed to­geth­er fig l ­ eaves and made c ­ lothes
for them­selves.
Then the man and his wife ­heard the Lord God walk­ing in the
gar­den. It was dur­ing the cool­est time of the day. They hid from
the Lord God a ­ mong the t ­ rees of the gar­den. But the Lord God
called out to the man. “­Where are you?” he ­asked.
“I ­heard you in the gar­den,” the man an­swered. “I was ­afraid,
be­cause I was na­ked. So I hid.”
The Lord God said, “Who told you that you were na­ked? Have
you eat­en ­fruit from the tree I com­mand­ed you not to eat from?”
The man said, “It’s the f ­ ault of the wom­an you put here with me.
She gave me some f ­ ruit from the tree. And I ate it.”
Then the Lord God said to the wom­an, “What have you done?”
The wom­an said, “The ser­pent ­tricked me. ­That’s why I ate the
fruit.”
God spoke to the serpent, the woman and Adam. Each one would
have a more difficult life because they disobeyed God.