Genesis 3 - It all crashes down
Updated: Jul 26, 2022
God responds to our rebellion with both justice and mercy.
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Genesis 3 (ESV)
1 Now 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 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,
‘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 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,
she
took of its fruit and ate,
and she also gave some
to her husband
who was with her,
and he ate.
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.
8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day,
and the man and his wife 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?”
10 And he said,
“I heard the sound of you in the garden,
and I was afraid, 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,
“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,
“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 dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
15 I will put enmity between
you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
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;
in pain you shall bring forth children.
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