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G enesis 3
took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who
was with her, and he ate it, too. 7 At that moment their eyes were opened,
and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves
together to cover themselves.
8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man* and his wife
heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the
Lord God among the trees. 9 Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where
are you?”
10 He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid
because I was naked.”
11 “Who told you that you were naked?” the Lord God asked. “Have you
eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?”
12 The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit,
and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?”
“The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.”
14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent,
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“Because you have done this, you are cursed
more than all animals, domestic and wild.
You will crawl on your belly,
groveling in the dust as long as you live.
And I will cause hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will strike* your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
Then he said to the woman,
“I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy,
and in pain you will give birth.
And you will desire to control your husband,
but he will rule over you.*”
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And to the man he said,
“Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree
whose fruit I commanded you not to eat,
the ground is cursed because of you.
All your life you will struggle to scratch
a living from it.
It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
though you will eat of its grains.
By the sweat of your brow
will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground
from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
and to dust you will return.”
3:8 Or Adam, and so throughout the chapter. 3:15 Or bruise; also in 3:15b. 3:16 Or And
though you will have desire for your husband, / he will rule over you.
