One Year Pray for America Bible - Flipbook - Page 16
January 2
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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“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.”
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16 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.*”
17 And
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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.”
20 Then the m an—Adam— n amed
his wife Eve, because she would be
the mother of all who live.* 21 And 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!” 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.
4:1 Now Adam* had sexual relations
with his wife, Eve, and she became
pregnant. When she gave birth to
Cain, she said, “With the Lord’s help,
I have produced* a man!” 2 Later she
