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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.*”
The Man and Woman Sin • GENESIS 3:1-24
SILENT
RETURN
CAPTIVITY
And to the man he said,
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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.”
20 Then the man—Adam— named his wife
Eve, because she would be the mother of all who
live.* 21And 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.
24After 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.
2:21 Or took a part of the man’s side. 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.
END & NEW
BEGINNING
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. 7At 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?”
1
MISSIONS
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.
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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.”
CHURCH
“This one is bone from my bone,
and flesh from my flesh!
She will be called ‘woman,’
because she was taken from ‘man.’”
JANUARY 1
“The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s
why I ate it.”
14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent,
GOSPEL
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.
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