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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 3 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Genesis 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/2.htm" title="Genesis 2">◄</a> Genesis 3 <a href="../genesis/4.htm" title="Genesis 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Human Disobedience</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_1"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.1" class="v0_3_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.3.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Now the snake was the most cunning animal that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God had made. The snake asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_2"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.2" class="v0_3_2">2</span>“We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden,” the woman answered, </span><span class="v0_3_3"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.3" class="v0_3_3">3</span>“except the tree in the middle of it. God told us not to eat the fruit of that tree or even touch it; if we do, we will die.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_4"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.4" class="v0_3_4">4</span>The snake replied, “That's not true; you will not die. </span><span class="v0_3_5"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.5" class="v0_3_5">5</span>God said that because he knows that when you eat it, you will be like God<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.3.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and know what is good and what is bad.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.3.5!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.6" class="v0_3_6">6</span>The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it. </span><span class="v0_3_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.7" class="v0_3_7">7</span>As soon as they had eaten it, they were given understanding and realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and covered themselves.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.8" class="v0_3_8">8</span>That evening they heard the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God walking in the garden, and they hid from him among the trees. </span><span class="v0_3_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.9" class="v0_3_9">9</span>But the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God called out to the man, “Where are you?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_10"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.10" class="v0_3_10">10</span>He answered, “I heard you in the garden; I was afraid and hid from you, because I was naked.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_11"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.11" class="v0_3_11">11</span>“Who told you that you were naked?” God asked. “Did you eat the fruit that I told you not to eat?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_12"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.12" class="v0_3_12">12</span>The man answered, “The woman you put here with me gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.13" class="v0_3_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.3.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The <span class="nd">Lord</span> God asked the woman, “Why did you do this?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_13">She replied, “The snake tricked me into eating it.”</span></p><h3 class="s">God Pronounces Judgment</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_14"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.14" class="v0_3_14">14</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God said to the snake, “You will be punished for this; you alone of all the animals must bear this curse: From now on you will crawl on your belly, and you will have to eat dust as long as you live. </span><span class="v0_3_15"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.15" class="v0_3_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.3.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.3.15!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> heel.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_16"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.16" class="v0_3_16">16</span>And he said to the woman, “I will increase your trouble in pregnancy and your pain in giving birth. In spite of this, you will still have desire for your husband, yet you will be subject to him.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_17"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.17" class="v0_3_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.3.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> And he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you. </span><span class="v0_3_18"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.18" class="v0_3_18">18</span>It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants. </span><span class="v0_3_19"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.19" class="v0_3_19">19</span>You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_20"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.20" class="v0_3_20">20</span>Adam<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.3.20!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> named his wife Eve,<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.3.20!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> because she was the mother of all human beings. </span><span class="v0_3_21"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.21" class="v0_3_21">21</span>And the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God made clothes out of animal skins for Adam and his wife, and he clothed them.</span></p><h3 class="s">Adam and Eve Are Sent Out of the Garden</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_3_22"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.22" class="v0_3_22">22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.3.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God said, “Now these human beings have become like one of us and have knowledge of what is good and what is bad.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.3.22!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> They must not be allowed to take fruit from the tree that gives life, eat it, and live forever.” </span><span class="v0_3_23"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.23" class="v0_3_23">23</span>So the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God sent them out of the Garden of Eden and made them cultivate the soil from which they had been formed. </span><span class="v0_3_24"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.3.24" class="v0_3_24">24</span>Then at the east side of the garden he put living creatures<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.3.24!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and a flaming sword which turned in all directions. This was to keep anyone from coming near the tree that gives life.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">3.5: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">God; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the gods.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">3.5: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">know what is good and what is bad; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">know everything.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">3.15: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">her offspring's; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">their.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">3.20: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Adam: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name in Hebrew means “all human beings.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">3.20: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Eve: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name sounds similar to the Hebrew word for “living,” which is rendered in this context as “human beings.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">3.22: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">knowledge of what is good and what is bad; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">knowledge of everything.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">3.24: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">living creatures: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See Word List.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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