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Genesis 3 :: New English Translation (NET)

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The Fall of Man

(Rom 5:12–21 )
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Is it really true that God said, 'You must not eat from any tree of the orchard'?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, 'You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:4 - The serpent said to the woman, "Surely you will not die,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:5 - for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:7 - Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:9 - But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:10 - The man replied, "I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:11 - And the LORD God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:12 - The man said, "The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:13 - So the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman replied, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:14 - The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:15 - And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:16 - To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:18 - It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:19 - By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:20 - The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:21 - The LORD God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - And the LORD God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.
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