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15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch
over it. 16 But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of
every tree in the garden—17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”
18 Then 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.” 19 So 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. 20 He 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.
21 So 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. 22 Then 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!
She will be called ‘woman,’
because she was taken from ‘man.’”
24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to
his wife, and the two are united into one.
25 Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.
The Man and Woman Sin
The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God 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.”
6 The 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. 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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2:19 Or Adam, and so throughout the chapter. 2:21 Or took a part of the man’s side.
3:8 Or
Adam, and so throughout the chapter.
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