Genesis 3
1 The serpent was more cunning than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. It said to the woman, “Is it true that God said, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden.
3 But God said of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”
4 The serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die.
5 For God knows that on the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining understanding. She took some of its fruit 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 opened, and they realized they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.
8 They heard the voice of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9 The LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 The man answered, “I heard your voice in the garden and was afraid because I am naked, so I hid.”
11 The LORD God asked, “Who told you that you are naked? Did you eat from the tree I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.”
13 The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman answered, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all the livestock and all the wild animals. You will crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”
16 He said to the woman, “I will greatly increase your suffering and your pregnancies. You will give birth to children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
17 And to Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ the soil is cursed because of you. You will eat from it with suffering 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 face you will eat bread until you return to the soil, because you were taken from it. For you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
20 The man named his wife Eve, because she became the mother of all who live.
21 The LORD God made garments of skin for the man and his wife and clothed them.
22 The LORD God said, “The man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, so that he does not reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, eat, and live forever—”
23 So the LORD God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the soil from which he had been taken.
24 The LORD God drove the man out and stationed the cherubim east of the garden of Eden, along with the flaming, turning sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.
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