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            <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Serpent&#8217;s Deception</span></div><div class="r"><span class="heading">(</span><span class="heading">Romans 5:12&#8211;21</span><span class="heading">)</span></div><div class="m"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the serpent </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew nachash, translated in this chapter as serpent, is translated in most cases as snake.</span></span></span><span class="content"> was more crafty than any beast of the field that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God had made. And he said to the woman, &#8220;Did God really say, &#8216;You must not eat from any tree in the garden?&#8217;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The woman answered the serpent, &#8220;We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, &#8216;You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.&#8217;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;You will not surely die,&#8221; the serpent told her. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="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 was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><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">And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God Arraigns Adam and Eve</span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><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">Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God walking in the garden in the breeze </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">Or at the breezy (time); Hebrew unto the Ruach</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God among the trees of the garden.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><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">But the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God called out to the man, &#8220;Where are you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><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">&#8220;I heard Your voice in the garden,&#8221; he replied, &#8220;and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><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">&#8220;Who told you that you were naked?&#8221; asked the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God. &#8220;Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><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">And the man answered, &#8220;The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><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">Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God said to the woman, &#8220;What is this you have done?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.3.13"><span class="content">&#8220;The serpent deceived me,&#8221; she replied, &#8220;and I ate.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Fate of the Serpent</span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God said to the serpent:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Because you have done this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">cursed are you above all livestock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">and every beast of the field!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">On your belly will you go,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">and dust you will eat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">all the days of your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And I will put enmity between you and the woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">and between your seed and her seed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">He will crush your head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">and you will strike his heel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Or He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel. The same Hebrew root for crush, bruise, or strike appears twice in this verse.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Punishment of Mankind</span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="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">To the woman He said:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">&#8220;I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">in pain you will bring forth children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">Your desire will be for your husband,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:16 </span><span class="ft">Or You will desire to control your husband</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">and he will rule over you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And to Adam He said:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Because you have listened to the voice of your wife</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">and have eaten from the tree</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">of which I commanded you not to eat,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">cursed is the ground because of you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">through toil you will eat of it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">all the days of your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.3.18"><span class="content">and you will eat the plants of the field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">By the sweat of your brow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">you will eat your bread,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">until you return to the ground&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">because out of it were you taken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">For dust you are,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">and to dust you shall return.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="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">And Adam named his wife Eve,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:20 </span><span class="ft">Eve sounds like the Hebrew for giving life or living.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because she would be the mother of all the living.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Expulsion from Paradise</span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><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">And the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><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">Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God said, &#8220;Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Therefore the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.</span></span></div>
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Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”

The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”

“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her. “For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.


Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”

“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

“The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”


So the LORD God said to the serpent:

“Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all livestock
and every beast of the field!
On your belly will you go,
and dust you will 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 will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel.”


To the woman He said:

“I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth;
in pain you will bring forth children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”

And to Adam He said:

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten from the tree
of which I commanded you not to eat,
cursed is the ground because of you;
through toil you will eat of it
all the days of your life.
Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your bread,
until you return to the ground—
because out of it were you taken.
For dust you are,
and to dust you shall return.”

And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.


And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.

Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.

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