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The First Book of Moses: Genesis

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- Chapter 3 -

(Romans 5:12–21)
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Now the snake was more cunning than all the other wild animals that Yahweh God had made. The snake said to her, “Did God really say to you, ‘Do not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the park’?”
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The woman replied, “What God said was, ’Do not eat the fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the park or touch it. If you do that, you will die.
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But you can eat fruit from any of the other trees.’”
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The snake said to the woman, “No, you will certainly not die. God said that
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only because he knows that when you eat fruit from that tree, you will understand new things. It will be as though your eyes were opened, and you will know what is good to do and what is evil to do, just as God does.”
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The woman saw that the fruit on that tree was good to eat, and it was very beautiful. She desired it because she thought it would make her wise. So she picked some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he ate it.
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Immediately it was as though their eyes were opened, and they realized that they were naked, so they were ashamed. So they picked some fig leaves and fastened them together to make clothes for themselves.

God Arraigns Adam and Eve

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Late that afternoon, when a cool breeze was blowing, they heard the sound of Yahweh God as he was walking in the park. So the man and his wife hid themselves among the bushes in the park, so that Yahweh God would not see them.
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But Yahweh God called to the man, saying to him, “Why are you trying to hide from me?”
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The man replied, “I heard the sound of your footsteps in the garden, and I was naked, so I was afraid and I hid from you.”
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God said, “How did you find out you were naked? It must be because you ate some of the fruit from the tree that I told you, ‘Do not eat its fruit.’ Is that what you have done?”
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The man said, “You gave me this woman to be with me. She is the one who gave me some of the fruit from that tree, so I ate it.”
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Then Yahweh God said to the woman, “Why did you do such a thing?” The woman replied, “I ate it because the snake deceived me.”

The Fate of the Serpent

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Then Yahweh God said to the snake, “Because you did this, of all the domestic animals and the wild animals, I will curse you alone. As a result, you and all other snakes will crawl on the ground on your bellies, and so what you eat will have dirt on it as long as you live.
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I will cause you and the woman to be enemies to each other, and I will cause your descendant and her descendant to be enemies toward each other. You will bite his heel, but he will crush your head.”

The Punishment of Mankind

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Then Yahweh said to the woman, “I will make you have great pain when you give birth to children. You will want to be with your husband, but he will rule over you.”
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Then he said to the man, “You listened to what your wife said, and you ate some of the fruit of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat it.’ So I will make it difficult to grow things in the ground because of what you did. You will have to work hard as long as you live to produce things from the ground to eat.
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Thornbushes and thistle plants and other weeds will grow and prevent what you have planted from growing. And for food, you will have to eat things that just grow in your fields.
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All your life you will sweat as you work hard to produce food to eat. Then you will die, and your body will be buried in the ground. I made you from soil, so your body will become soil again.”
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The man, whose name was Adam, named his wife Eve, which means “living,” because she became the ancestor of all living people.

The Expulsion from Paradise

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Then Yahweh God killed some animals and made clothes from their skins for Adam and his wife.
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Then Yahweh God said, “Look! Those two have become like us because they know what is good to do and what is evil to do. So now, it will not be good if they reach out and pick and eat some of the fruit from the tree which enables people who eat it to live forever!”
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So Yahweh God drove out the man and his wife from the park of Eden. Yahweh God had created Adam from the ground, and he forced him to plow the ground.
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After Yahweh God drove them out, on the east side of the park he placed cherubim and a flaming sword that flashed back and forth, in order to block the entrance, so that people could not go back to the tree that enables anyone who eats its fruit to live forever.
(Romans 5:12–21)
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Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
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The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
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but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”
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The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,
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for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
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When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
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Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

God Arraigns Adam and Eve

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They heard the LORD God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
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The LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
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The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
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God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
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The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
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The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

The Fate of the Serpent

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The LORD God said to the serpent,Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
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I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

The Punishment of Mankind

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To the woman he said,I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
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To Adam he said,Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
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It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
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You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
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The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

The Expulsion from Paradise

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The LORD God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
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The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”
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Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
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So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim (a) at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Footnotes

(a)3:24 cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10.