Genesis 3

Now the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, but God said about the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, ‘You must not eat from it or touch it, so that you do not die.’” The serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die, 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.” When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, a delight to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves. They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. The LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” He replied, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree I commanded you not to eat from?” The man said, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.” Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” The LORD God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock and every animal of the field.
On your belly you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.” To the woman he said,
“I will greatly increase your pain in pregnancy;
in pain you will bear children.
Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” To Adam he said,
“Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you.
Through painful toil you will eat from it all the days of your life. It will bring forth thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken.
For you are dust, and to dust you will return.” The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat and live forever—” So the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. He drove the man out, and east of the garden of Eden he stationed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

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