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He said to the woman, “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.’” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-61a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> knowing good and evil.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>They heard the sound of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God among the trees of the garden. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>But the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God said to the serpent,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">“Because you have done this,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">cursed are you among all animals</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and among all wild creatures;</span></span><br /><span class="text">upon your belly you shall go,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and dust you shall eat</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">all the days of your life.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>I will put enmity between you and the woman,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and between your offspring and hers;</span></span><br /><span class="text">he will strike your head,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and you will strike his heel.”</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>To the woman he said,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">“I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in pain you shall bring forth children,</span></span><br /><span class="text">yet your desire shall be for your husband,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and he shall rule over you.”</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>And to the man<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-73b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> he said,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and have eaten of the tree</span></span><br /><span class="text">about which I commanded you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">‘You shall not eat of it,’</span></span><br /><span class="text">cursed is the ground because of you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and you shall eat the plants of the field.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>By the sweat of your face</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you shall eat bread</span></span><br /><span class="text">until you return to the ground,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for out of it you were taken;</span></span><br /><span class="text">you are dust,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and to dust you shall return.”</span></span></p></div> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>The man named his wife Eve,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-76c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> because she was the mother of all living. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>And the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God made garments of skins for the man<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-77d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> and for his wife, and clothed them.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>therefore the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 3:5">Genesis 3:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>gods</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 3:17">Genesis 3:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>to Adam</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 3:20">Genesis 3:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>In Heb <i>Eve</i> resembles the word for <i>living</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 3:21">Genesis 3:21</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>for Adam</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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