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Genesis 3

¹Now the snake was more crafty than any of the wild creatures that YHWH God had made, and he said to the woman, "Has God said that you may not eat from every tree in the garden?"

²And the woman answered the snake, "We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. ³But regarding the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'Don't eat from it or touch it, lest you die.'"

⁴And the snake said to the woman, "You will certainly not die. ⁵Indeed, God knows that on the day that you eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you will become like divine beings, understanding both good and evil."

⁶When the woman saw that the tree's fruit was good to eat, and pleasing to look at, and desireable so as to gain wisdom, she took from its fruit and ate it, and she also gave it to her husband with her, and he ate. ⁷And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they stitched together fig leaves and made themselves loin cloths. ⁸Then they heard the sound of YHWH God walking in the garden in the cool time of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from YHWH God among the trees of the garden.

⁹And YHWH God called out to the man, "Where are you?"


¹⁰And the man said, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid."

¹¹And God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

¹²Then the man said, "The woman whom you appointed to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate."

¹³So YHWH God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?"

But the woman said, "The snake led me astray, and I ate."

¹⁴So YHWH God said to the snake, "Because you have done this, you are more cursed than any of the wild creatures. You will crawl on your belly and eat dust as long as you live. ¹⁵And I will place hostility between you and the woman, and between your descendants and hers. Her descendants will bruise your head, but yours will bruise her descendants' heel."

¹⁶To the woman he said, "I will make childbearing much more difficult for you. You will bear children in pain, yet you will desire your husband, and he will rule over you."

¹⁷To the man he said, "Because you listened to your wife's voice, and you ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat from it,' the ground will be cursed on account of you. You will eat from it only by hardship as long as you live, ¹⁸and it will bring forth thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat vegetables from the field. ¹⁹You will get bread to eat by laboring until you sweat until you return to the ground, because you were taken from it. Dust you are, and you will return to dust."

²⁰So the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all people who were alive.

²¹Then YHWH God made coats of skins for the man and his wife, and he dressed them. ²²And YHWH God said, "Look! The human has become like one of us, understanding good and evil, and now, [we need to take action] lest he should take also fruit from the tree of life, and eat it, and live forever."

²³So YHWH God sent him out of the Garden of Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken. ²⁴And he dispossessed the man and made him live to the east of the Garden of Eden, and he placed Cherubim with flaming swords turning this way and that to guard the way to the tree of life.

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