Old Testament · Law

Genesis chapter 3

Now the was more than any other wild animal that 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 in the ,”“but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will .’”“You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman.“God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be , .”When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and that it was , she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, , and he ate it.Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were . So they sewed fig leaves together and made for themselves.Then they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in , and the man and his wife among the trees of the garden from Yahweh God.But Yahweh God called to the man, “”He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was because I was naked; so I hid.”And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I you not to eat from?”The man said, “ — she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”Then Yahweh God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent me, and I ate.”So Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are more than all livestock and more than every wild animal. You will crawl on your belly and all the days of your life.”“And I will put between you and the woman, and between your and hers; he will your head, and you will strike his heel.”To the woman he said, “I will make your very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your will be for your husband, and he will you.”To the man he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ the is cursed because of you; through you will eat food from it all the days of your life.”“It will produce for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.”“By the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you to the ground, since from it you were taken; for you are , and to dust you will return.”The man named his wife , because she would become the .Yahweh God made for the man and his wife and .And Yahweh God said, “The man has now become , knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the and eat, and live forever.”So Yahweh God of the to from which he had been taken.After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden the and a flashing back and forth to the way to the tree of life.