Genesis · 24 verses

Genesis 3

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The serpent opens the great disaster with a question, the woman answers it, and before long the garden has acquired fig-leaf clothing, divine interviews, thorns, sweat, and a flaming sword.

The fruit and the interviewvv. 1–13

The serpent, described as more crafty than any beast the LORD God had made, asks whether every tree is forbidden. The woman gives the rule, though with an added warning about touching the fruit, and the serpent cheerfully contradicts it: the fruit will open their eyes and make them like God, knowing good and evil. The woman sees that the tree is good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for wisdom; she eats, gives some to her husband who is with her, and he eats. Their eyes open, but the first new knowledge is their nakedness, so they sew fig leaves together. When the LORD God comes walking in the garden, the man and his wife hide among the trees. The resulting conversation proceeds by questions, concealment, and blame: the man points to the woman, and the woman points to the serpent.

The garden closes behind themvv. 14–24

The LORD God addresses the serpent, the woman, and Adam in turn. The serpent is sentenced to crawl and eat dust, with enmity set between it and the woman and between their offspring. The woman is given increased pain in childbirth and a husband who will rule over her. Adam hears the ground cursed for his sake: it will yield thorns and thistles, and bread will come by the sweat of his brow until he returns to the dust from which he was taken. He names his wife Eve, because she will be the mother of all the living, and the LORD God clothes them in garments of skin. Then comes the final concern: the man has become like one of Us in knowing good and evil, and must not also take from the tree of life. Adam is banished from Eden to work the ground, while cherubim and a whirling sword of flame guard the way back.

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Gen 3:1Now 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?’”
Gen 3:2The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
Gen 3:3but 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.’”
Gen 3:4“You will not surely die,” the serpent told the woman.
Gen 3:5“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.”
Gen 3:6When 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.
Gen 3:7And 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.
Gen 3:8Then 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.
Gen 3:9But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
Gen 3:10“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
Gen 3:11“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?”
Gen 3:12And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Gen 3:13Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
Gen 3:14So 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.
Gen 3:15And 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.”
Gen 3:16To 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.”
Gen 3:17And 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.
Gen 3:18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Gen 3:19By 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.”
Gen 3:20And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.
Gen 3:21And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
Gen 3:22Then 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...”
Gen 3:23Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
Gen 3:24So 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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Named in the Hebrew or Greek somewhere in this chapter, under a form the English renders differently — the registry's Ludim against the translation's Ludites — so there is no word in the sentence to hang the link on.

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Where this is echoed

Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 333 passages were voted onto 24 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

15 Romans 16:20The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
15 1 John 3:8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
1 2 Corinthians 11:3I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
15 Revelation 12:17And the dragon was enraged at the woman and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.
15 Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
15 Hebrews 2:14–15Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
15 Galatians 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
15 John 8:44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
6 1 John 2:16For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
16 Titus 2:5to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
1 2 Corinthians 11:14And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
8 Jeremiah 23:24“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
15 Matthew 1:23“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
1 Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
15 Revelation 12:7–13Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
6 James 1:14–15But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.

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