The Fall

Genesis 3

1 Now u the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You 1 shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?" 2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, v 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'" 4 w But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 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, 2 she took of its fruit x and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, y and he ate. 7 z Then the eyes of both were opened, a and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool 3 of the day, and the man and his wife b hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?" 4 10 And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, c because I was naked, and I hid myself." 11 He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" 12 The man said, d "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate." 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, e "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

14 The Lord God said to the serpent,
"Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all livestock
and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
and f dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.
 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring 5 and g her offspring;
h he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel."

16 To the woman he said,
"I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
i in pain you shall bring forth children.
j Your desire shall be for 6 your husband,
and he shall k rule over you."

17 And to Adam he said,
"Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
l of which I commanded you,
'You shall not eat of it,'
m cursed is the ground because of you;
n in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.
 19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
o for you are dust,
and p to dust you shall return."

20 The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. 7 21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

22 Then the Lord God said, q "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand r and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever - " 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden s to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the t cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

  1. Cross References
    Matthew 10:16
    Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
    2 Corinthians 11:3
    But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
    Revelation 12:9
    And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world - he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
    Revelation 20:2
    And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 2:17
    But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 3:13
    Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
    John 8:44
    You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
    2 Corinthians 11:3
    But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
  4. Cross References
    1 Timothy 2:14
    And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 3:12
    The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.
    Genesis 3:17
    And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
    Hosea 6:7
    But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
  6. Cross References
    Genesis 3:5
    For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 2:25
    And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
  8. Cross References
    Psalms 139:1 - 12
    O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
    Jeremiah 23:23 - 24
    Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away?
  9. Cross References
    Genesis 3:7
    Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
    Genesis 2:25
    And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
  10. Cross References
    Genesis 2:18
    Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.
    Job 31:33
    If I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my bosom.
  11. Cross References
    Genesis 3:4
    But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.
    2 Corinthians 11:3
    But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
    1 Timothy 2:14
    And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
  12. Cross References
    Isaiah 65:25
    The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain," says the Lord.
    Micah 7:17
    They shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.
  13. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:14
    Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign...
    Micah 5:3
    Therefore he shall give them up until the time ...
    Matthew 1:23
    Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a so...
    Matthew 1:25
    But knew her not until she had given birth to a...
    Luke 1:34 - 35
    And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, ...
    Galatians 4:4
    But when the fullness of time had come, God sen...
    1 Timothy 2:15
    Yet she will be saved through childbearing - if...
  14. Cross References
    Romans 16:20
    The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
    Hebrews 2:14
    Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.
    Revelation 20:1 - 3
    Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.
    Revelation 20:10
    And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
  15. Cross References
    John 16:21
    When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
  16. Cross References
    Genesis 4:7
    If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.
    Song of Solomon 7:10
    I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
  17. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 11:3
    But I want you to understand that the head of e...
    1 Corinthians 14:34
    The women should keep silent in the churches. F...
    Ephesians 5:22 - 24
    Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the L...
    Colossians 3:18
    Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting i...
    1 Timothy 2:11 - 12
    Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.
    Titus 2:5
    To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, k...
    1 Peter 3:1
    Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husband...
    1 Peter 3:5 - 6
    For this is how the holy women who hoped in God...
  18. Cross References
    Genesis 2:17
    But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
  19. Cross References
    Genesis 5:29
    And called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.
    Romans 8:20 - 22
    For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
  20. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 2:22 - 23
    What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?
  21. Cross References
    Genesis 2:7
    Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
    Psalms 103:14
    For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
  22. Cross References
    Job 34:15
    All flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
    Psalms 104:29
    When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
    Ecclesiastes 3:20
    All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.
    Ecclesiastes 12:7
    And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
    Romans 5:12
    Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned -
  23. Cross References
    Genesis 3:5
    For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
  24. Cross References
    Genesis 2:9
    And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  25. Cross References
    Genesis 2:5
    When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up - for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.
  26. Cross References
    Psalms 18:10
    He rode on a cherub and flew; he came swiftly on the wings of the wind.
    Psalms 104:4
    He makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire.
    Hebrews 1:7
    Of the angels he says, "He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.
    Exodus 25:18 - 22
    And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.
    Ezekiel 28:11 - 16
    Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me:
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