THE TEMPTATION & THE FALL
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”
And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat from the fruit of the trees of the garden,
but from the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die.’”
And the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
For God knows that in the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise. So she took from its fruit and ate, and she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made for themselves coverings.
THE PRESENCE OF GOD & THE CURSE
And 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 themselves from the face of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
And the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
And he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself.”
And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?”
And the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me—she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”
And the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
And the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you more than all livestock and more than every beast of the field. On your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”
To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
And to the man He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’—
cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat from it all the days of your life.
Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
And the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin, and clothed them.
And the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”
Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
And He drove out the man, and at the east of the Garden of Eden He placed the cherubim and the flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.