The Message

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            <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> had made. He spoke to the Woman: &#8220;Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2 v3" data-usfm="GEN.3.2+GEN.3.3"><span class="label">2-3</span><span class="content">The Woman said to the serpent, &#8220;Not at all. We can eat from the trees in the garden. It&#8217;s only about the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, &#8216;Don&#8217;t eat from it; don&#8217;t even touch it or you&#8217;ll die.&#8217;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2 v3" data-usfm="GEN.3.2+GEN.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4 v5" data-usfm="GEN.3.4+GEN.3.5"><span class="label">4-5</span><span class="content">The serpent told the Woman, &#8220;You won&#8217;t die. God knows that the moment you eat from that tree, you&#8217;ll see what&#8217;s really going on. You&#8217;ll be just like God, knowing everything, ranging all the way from good to evil.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4 v5" data-usfm="GEN.3.4+GEN.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and realized what she would get out of it&#8212;she&#8217;d know everything!&#8212;she took and ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Immediately the two of them did &#8220;see what&#8217;s really going on&#8221;&#8212;saw themselves naked! They sewed fig leaves together as makeshift clothes for themselves.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When they heard the sound of </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> strolling in the garden in the evening breeze, the Man and his Wife hid in the trees of the garden, hid from </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> called to the Man: &#8220;Where are you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked. And I hid.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The Man said, &#8220;The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.3.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> said to the Woman, &#8220;What is this that you&#8217;ve done?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;The serpent seduced me,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and I ate.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14 v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.14+GEN.3.15"><span class="label">14-15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> told the serpent:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14 v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.14+GEN.3.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Because you&#8217;ve done this, you&#8217;re cursed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14 v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.14+GEN.3.15"><span class="content">cursed beyond all cattle and wild animals,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14 v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.14+GEN.3.15"><span class="content">Cursed to slink on your belly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14 v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.14+GEN.3.15"><span class="content">and eat dirt all your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14 v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.14+GEN.3.15"><span class="content">I&#8217;m declaring war between you and the Woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14 v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.14+GEN.3.15"><span class="content">between your offspring and hers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14 v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.14+GEN.3.15"><span class="content">He&#8217;ll wound your head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14 v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.14+GEN.3.15"><span class="content">you&#8217;ll wound his heel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14 v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.14+GEN.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He told the Woman:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">&#8220;I&#8217;ll multiply your pains in childbirth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">you&#8217;ll give birth to your babies in pain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">You&#8217;ll want to please your husband,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">but he&#8217;ll lord it over you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="label">17-19</span><span class="content">He told the Man:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Because you listened to your wife</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">and ate from the tree</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">That I commanded you not to eat from,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">&#8216;Don&#8217;t eat from this tree,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">The very ground is cursed because of you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">getting food from the ground</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">you&#8217;ll be working in pain all your life long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">The ground will sprout thorns and weeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">you&#8217;ll get your food the hard way,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">Planting and tilling and harvesting,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">you started out as dirt, you&#8217;ll end up dirt.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17 v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18+GEN.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> made leather clothing for Adam and his wife and dressed them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;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&#8212;this cannot happen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23 v24" data-usfm="GEN.3.23+GEN.3.24"><span class="label">23-24</span><span class="content">So </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> expelled them from the Garden of Eden and sent them to work the ground, the same dirt out of which they&#8217;d been made. He 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.</span></span></div>
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The 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?”
The Woman said to the serpent, “Not at all. We can eat from the trees in the garden. It’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.’”
The serpent told the Woman, “You won’t die. God 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.”
When 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.
Immediately the two of them did “see what’s really going on”—saw themselves naked! They sewed fig leaves together as makeshift clothes for themselves.
When 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.
GOD called to the Man: “Where are you?”
He said, “I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked. And I hid.”
GOD said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?”
The Man said, “The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it.”
GOD said to the Woman, “What is this that you’ve done?”
“The serpent seduced me,” she said, “and I ate.”

GOD 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.
I’m declaring war between you and the Woman,
between your offspring and hers.
He’ll wound your head,
you’ll wound his heel.”

He 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.”

He 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.
The ground will sprout thorns and weeds,
you’ll get your food the hard way,
Planting and tilling and harvesting,
sweating 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.”

The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.
GOD made leather clothing for Adam and his wife and dressed them.
GOD 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!”
So 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. He 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.

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