Temptation and Fall
Genesis 3Now the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which YHWH God had made.
He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘Y’all must not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of trees in the garden we may eat, but about the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘Y’all must not eat from it, and y’all must not touch it, or y’all will die.’”
The serpent said to the woman, “Y’all will not die-die, because God knows that the day y’all eat it, y’all’s eyes will be opened, and y’all will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate. Then she gave some to her man who was with her, and he ate it too. Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
They heard the sound of YHWH God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the human and his woman hid themselves from the presence of YHWH God among the trees of the garden.
YHWH God called to the human, and said to him, “Where are you?”
He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
The human said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
So YHWH God said to the woman, “What have you done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
YHWH God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this, you are cursed beyond all cattle, and above every living thing of the field. You will go on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”To the woman ʜᴇ said,
“I will increase-increase your pain in childbirth. In pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your man, yet he will rule over you.”ʜᴇ said to Adam+3:17 Here, the Hebrew does not include an article, so אָדָם is rendered as the name “Adam.”,
“Because you have listened to your woman’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You must not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. It will sprout thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. You will eat bread by the sweat of your nostrils until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.”The man called his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all the living. YHWH God made garments from animal skins for Adam and for his woman and clothed them.
YHWH God said, “Look, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take of the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” Therefore YHWH God sent him out from the garden of Eden to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. Hᴇ drove out the man, and ʜᴇ placed on the east side of the garden of Eden, cherubim with a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.