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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,
to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3:24
He placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth
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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.
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.”
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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.
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
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Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve,
because she would be the
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And the LORD God
mother of all who live.
made clothing
from animal skins for Adam and his wife.
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!” 23 So 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. 24 After 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.
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