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GENESIS 3
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4 This is the account of the creation of the heavens
and the earth.
The Man and Woman in Eden
When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 neither wild plants nor grains were growing
on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain
to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil. 6Instead, springs* came up from the
ground and watered all the land. 7 Then the Lord
God formed the man from the dust of the ground.
He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
8 Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden
in the east, and there he placed the man he had
made. 9The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow
up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and
that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the
garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering
the garden and then dividing into four branches.
11 The first branch, called the Pishon, flowed
around the entire land of Havilah, where gold
is found. 12 The gold of that land is exceptionally
pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found
there. 13 The second branch, called the Gihon,
flowed around the entire land of Cush. 14The third
branch, called the Tigris, flowed east of the land of
Asshur. The fourth branch is called the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden
of Eden to tend and watch over it. 16 But the Lord
God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of
every tree in the garden—17 except the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you
are sure to die.”
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the
man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just
right for him.” 19 So the Lord God formed from the
ground all the wild animals and all the birds of
the sky. He brought them to the man* to see what
he would call them, and the man chose a name for
each one. 20 He gave names to all the livestock, all
the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But
still there was no helper just right for him.
21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into
a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God
took out one of the man’s ribs* and closed up the
opening. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman
from the rib, and he brought her to the man.
23“At last!” the man exclaimed.
“This one is bone from my bone,
and flesh from my flesh!
She will be called ‘woman,’
because she was taken from ‘man.’”
24 This explains why a man leaves his father and
mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are
united into one.
25 Now the man and his wife were both naked,
but they felt no shame.
from the tree in the middle of the garden that we
are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat
it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”
4 “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the
woman. 5“God knows that your eyes will be opened
as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God,
knowing both good and evil.”
6The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree
was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she
wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took
some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to
her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.
7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they
suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they
sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing,
the man* and his wife heard the Lord God walking
about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God
among the trees. 9Then the Lord God called to the
man, “Where are you?”
10He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden,
so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”
11“Who told you that you were naked?” the Lord
God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose
fruit I commanded you not to eat?”
12 The man replied, “It was the woman you gave
me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What
have you done?”
“The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s
why I ate it.”
14Then the Lord God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this, you are cursed
more than all animals, domestic and wild.
You will crawl on your belly,
groveling in the dust as long as you live.
15 And I will cause hostility between you and
the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will strike* your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
16Then he said to the woman,
“I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy,
and in pain you will give birth.
And you will desire to control your husband,
but he will rule over you.*”
17And to the man he said,
“Since you listened to your wife and ate from
the tree
whose fruit I commanded you not to eat,
the ground is cursed because of you.
All your life you will struggle to scratch
a living from it.
18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
though you will eat of its grains.
19 By the sweat of your brow
will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground
from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
and to dust you will return.”
The Man and Woman Sin
The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild
animals the Lord God had made. One day he Paradise Lost: God’s Judgment
asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not 20 Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve, beeat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”
cause she would be the mother of all who live.*
2“Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the 21 And the Lord God made clothing from animal
garden,” the woman replied. 3 “It’s only the fruit skins for Adam and his wife.
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