GENESIS Chapter 3 The men and women sin Paradise lost God's Judgement

 




GENESIS Chapter 3 The men and women sin Paradise lost;God's Judgement


chapter 3 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 of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden the woman


 replied 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 you won't die the serpent replied to the woman 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 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 at that moment their eyes were opened and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness so they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves 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 then the lord god called to the man where are you he replied i heard you walking in the garden so i hid i was afraid because i was naked 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 the man replied it was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit and i ate it then the lord

 god asked the woman what have you done the serpent deceived me she replied that's why i ate it then the lord god said to the serpent 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 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 and 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 greens 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 and the lord god made clothing from animal skins for adam and his wife 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 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 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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