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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.
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Then the LORD God
made a woman from the rib,
and he brought her
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to the man.
“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.
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She saw that the tree was beautiful
and its fruit looked
and she wanted the
delicious,
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.”
