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Genesis 3
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OBSERVATION POINT
EXPLORATION POINT
God settled Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
with a wide variety of fruit-producing trees to satisfy
their hunger. He also created two special trees that
grew in the middle of the Garden: the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life. God
clearly told Adam not to eat the fruit of the first tree,
but he didn’t restrict the second. Adam and Eve had
the opportunity to eat from the tree of life, but the
Bible never says that they did. The serpent pointed
out God’s one restriction, causing Eve to doubt God
and then disobey him.
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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“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.”
PARADISE LOST: GOD’S JUDGMENT
Then the man—Adam—named 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.
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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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And to the man he said,
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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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their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt
shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig
leaves together to cover themselves.
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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?”
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He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”
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“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?”
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The man replied, “It was the woman you
gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”
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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.”
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Then the Lord God said to the serpent,
The story of how sin came into the world is known
as the Fall. It answers the question, “Why is there
evil in the world?” Although Eve disobeyed God’s
command first by eating the fruit and Adam followed
her, Adam is the one who represents all humanity
separated from God. Adam’s disobedience and sin
separate everyone from God, but Christ’s righteousness and sacrifice reunite us with him. Humanity suffers under God’s indictment and conviction because
of Adam’s actions; however, God graciously offers
humanity a way of salvation through Jesus Christ
(the second Adam).
3:8 Or Adam, and so throughout the chapter. 3:15 Or bruise; also
in 3:15b. 3:16 Or And though you will have desire for your husband,
/ he will rule over you. 3:20 Eve sounds like a Hebrew term that
means “to give life.” 3:22 Or the man; Hebrew reads ha-adam.
