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GENESIS 3
the man he had made. 9The Lord God
made all sorts of trees grow up from
the ground—trees that were beautiful
and that produced delicious fruit. In the
middle of the garden he placed the tree
of life and the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil.
10A river flowed from the land of Eden,
watering the garden and then dividing
into four branches. 11The first branch,
called the Pishon, flowed around the
entire land of Havilah, where gold is
found. 12The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx
stone are also found there. 13The second branch, called the Gihon, flowed
around the entire land of Cush. 14The
third branch, called the Tigris, flowed
east of the land of Asshur. The fourth
branch is called the Euphrates.
15The Lord God placed the man in the
Garden of Eden to tend and watch over
it. 16But the Lord God warned him, “You
may freely eat the fruit of every tree in
the garden—17except the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. If you eat
its fruit, you are sure to die.”
18Then the Lord God said, “It is not
good for the man to be alone. I will make
a helper who is just right for him.” 19So
the Lord God formed from the ground
all the wild animals and all the birds of
the sky. He brought them to the man to
see what he would call them, and the
man chose a name for each one. 20He
gave names to all the livestock, all the
birds of the sky, and all the wild animals.
But still there was no helper just right
for him.
21So the Lord God caused the man
to fall into a deep sleep. While the man
slept, the Lord God took out one of the
man’s ribs and closed up the opening.
22Then the Lord God made a woman
from the rib, and he brought her to the
man.
23“At last!” the man exclaimed.
“This one is bone from my bone,
and flesh from my flesh!
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She will be called ‘woman,’
because she was taken from
‘man.’”
24This explains why a man leaves his
father and mother and is joined to his
wife, and the two are united into one.
25Now the man and his wife were
both naked, but they felt no shame.
The Man and Woman Sin
3 all the wild animals the Lord God
The serpent was the shrewdest of
had made. One day he asked the woman,
“Did God really say you must not eat
the fruit from any of the trees in the
garden?”
2“Of course we may eat fruit from the
trees in the garden,” the woman replied.
3“It’s only the fruit from the tree in the
middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat
it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”
4“You won’t die!” the serpent replied
to the woman. 5“God knows that your
eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it,
and you will be like God, knowing both
good and evil.”
6The woman was convinced. She saw
that the tree was beautiful and its fruit
looked delicious, and she wanted the
wisdom it would give her. So she took
some of the fruit and ate it. Then she
gave some to her husband, who was
with her, and he ate it, too. 7At that moment their eyes were opened, and they
suddenly felt shame at their nakedness.
So they sewed fig leaves together to
cover themselves.
8When 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. 9Then the Lord God called to
the man, “Where are you?”
10He 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
