Chapter 3
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The serpent was craftier than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"
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And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat from the fruit of the tree of the garden."
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And from the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, "You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die."
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And the serpent said to the woman, "No—you will not die."
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for God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good and evil.
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And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was desirable to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise. She took some of its fruit and ate. And she gave also to the man with her, and he ate.
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And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves girdles.
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They heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
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And the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"
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And he said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I am naked, so I hid."
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And he said, "Who told you that you are naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?"
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And the man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave to me from the tree, and I ate."
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And the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
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And the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed from all the livestock and from all the beasts of the field. Upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life."
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And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he will bruise you on the head, and you will bruise him on the heel.
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To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your toil and your conception; in toil you will bear sons, and your desire will be for your man, and he will rule over you."
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And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree which I commanded you, saying, 'Do not eat from it,' cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat it all the days of your life."
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And it will cause thorn and thistle to sprout for you, and you will eat the grass of the field.
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In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.
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And the man called his wife's name Eve, because she became the mother of all living.
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And the LORD God made tunics of skin for Adam and for his wife, and he clothed them.
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The LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become as one of us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever."
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The LORD God sent him out from the Garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he had been taken.
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So he drove the man out, and he placed the cherubim and the flame of the turning sword east of the Garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.