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3The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal GOD had made. He spoke to the Woman: "Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?"H5175H1961H6175H2416H7704H3068H430H6213H559H802H637H430H559H398H6086H1588 2The Woman said to the serpent, "Not at all. We can eat from the trees in the garden.H802H559H5175H398H6529H6086H1588 3It's only about the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, 'Don't eat from it; don't even touch it or you'll die.'"H6529H6086H8432H1588H430H559H398H5060H6435H4191 4The serpent told the Woman, "You won't die.H5175H559H802H4191H4191 5God knows that the moment you eat from that tree, you'll see what's really going on. You'll be just like God, knowing everything, ranging all the way from good to evil."H430H3045H3117H398H5869H6491H430H3045H2896H7451 6When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and realized what she would get out of it—she'd know everything!—she took and ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate.H802H7200H6086H2896H3978H1931H8378H5869H6086H2530H7919H3947H6529H398H5414H1571H376H398 7Immediately the two of them did "see what's really going on"—saw themselves naked! They sewed fig leaves together as makeshift clothes for themselves.H5869H8147H6491H1992H3045H5903H8609H8384H5929H8609H6213H2290 8When they heard the sound of GOD strolling in the garden in the evening breeze, the Man and his Wife hid in the trees of the garden, hid from GOD.H8085H6963H3068H430H1980H1588H7307H3117H120H802H2244H6440H3068H430H8432H6086H1588 9GOD called to the Man: "Where are you?"H3068H430H7121H120H559H335 10He said, "I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked. And I hid."H559H8085H6963H1588H3372H595H5903H2244 11GOD said, "Who told you you were naked? Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?"H559H4310H5046H5903H398H6086H6680H1115H398 12The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it."H120H559H802H5414H5978H1931H5414H6086H398 13GOD said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?" "The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."H3068H430H559H802H6213H802H559H5175H5377H398 14GOD told the serpent: "Because you've done this, you're cursed, cursed beyond all cattle and wild animals, Cursed to slink on your belly and eat dirt all your life.H3068H430H559H5175H859H6213H779H929H2416H7704H1512H3212H6083H398H3117H2416 15I'm declaring war between you and the Woman, between your offspring and hers. He'll wound your head, you'll wound his heel."H7896H342H802H2233H2233H7779H7218H7779H6119 16He told the Woman: "I'll multiply your pains in childbirth; you'll give birth to your babies in pain. You'll want to please your husband, but he'll lord it over you."H802H559H7235H7235H6093H2032H6089H3205H1121H8669H376H4910 17He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, 'Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you'll be working in pain all your life long.H121H559H8085H6963H802H398H6086H834H6680H559H398H779H127H6093H398H3605H3117H2416 18The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting,H6975H1863H6779H398H6212H7704 19sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."H2188H639H398H3899H5704H7725H127H3947H6083H859H6083H7725 20The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.H120H7121H802H8034H2332H517H2416 21GOD made leather clothing for Adam and his wife and dressed them.H120H802H3068H430H6213H3801H5785H3847 22GOD said, "The Man has become like one of us, capable of knowing everything, ranging from good to evil. What if he now should reach out and take fruit from the Tree-of-Life and eat, and live forever? Never—this cannot happen!"H3068H430H559H2005H120H259H3045H2896H7451H7971H3027H3947H6086H2416H398H2425H5769 23So GOD expelled them from the Garden of Eden and sent them to work the ground, the same dirt out of which they'd been made.H3068H430H7971H1588H5731H5647H127H3947 24He threw them out of the garden and stationed angel-cherubim and a revolving sword of fire east of it, guarding the path to the Tree-of-Life.H1644H120H7931H6924H1588H5731H3742H3858H2719H2015H8104H1870H6086H2416


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