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GENESIS 3
eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?”
12The 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,
“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.
15 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.”
16Then 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.”
17And 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.
18 It will grow thorns and thistles for
you,
though you will eat of its grains.
19 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.”
Paradise Lost: God’s Judgment
20Then
the man—Adam—named his
wife Eve, because she would be the
mother of all who live. 21And the Lord
God made clothing from animal skins
for Adam and his wife.
22 Then the Lord God said, “Look,
the human beings have become like
us, knowing both good and evil. What
if they reach out, take fruit from the
tree of life, and eat it? Then they will
live forever!” 23So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden,
and he sent Adam out to cultivate the
ground from which he had been made.
24After sending them out, the Lord God
stationed mighty cherubim to the east
of the Garden of Eden. And he placed
a flaming sword that flashed back
and forth to guard the way to the tree
of life.
CHOOSE TO CHANGE
Read Genesis 3:1-19.
The man blamed God for making the woman who gave him the forbidden fruit to eat.
What would you do if you got caught eating cookies meant for a classroom party?
A. Tell the teacher to stop putting cookies where you can reach them.
B. Apologize and stop eating the cookies.
C. Yell at the baker for making the cookies too yummy.
Answer: B, because it’s best to tell the truth and take responsibility
when you do something wrong.
