Genesis 3
World English Bible (WEB) • 24 verses
1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
Related2 Corinthians 11:3 · 2 Corinthians 11:14 · Revelation 12:9 · Revelation 20:2 · Matthew 4:3 · Genesis 3:13-15
2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
RelatedPsalms 58:4
3but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”
4The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,
RelatedJohn 8:44 · 2 Corinthians 11:3 · 1 Timothy 2:14 · 2 Corinthians 2:11 · Genesis 3:13 · Deuteronomy 29:19
5for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
RelatedEzekiel 28:2 · 2 Thessalonians 2:4 · 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 · Genesis 2:17 · 2 Corinthians 4:4 · Acts 12:22-23
6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
7Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.
8They heard the LORD God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
RelatedJeremiah 23:24 · Proverbs 15:3 · Hebrews 4:13 · Job 34:21-22 · Psalms 139:1-12 · Genesis 3:10
9The LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
RelatedGenesis 4:9 · Genesis 16:8 · Genesis 11:5 · Revelation 20:12-13 · Joshua 7:17-19 · Genesis 18:20-21
10The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
11God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Related2 Corinthians 11:3 · 1 Timothy 2:14 · Genesis 3:4-6 · Genesis 4:10-12 · John 18:35 · 2 Samuel 12:9-12
14The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
RelatedMicah 7:17 · Isaiah 65:25 · Psalms 72:9 · Isaiah 29:4 · Deuteronomy 28:15-20 · Leviticus 20:25
15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
16To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
RelatedTitus 2:5 · Colossians 3:18 · 1 Corinthians 11:3 · 1 Corinthians 14:34 · Ephesians 5:22-24 · 1 Timothy 2:15
17To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
18It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
19You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
20The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
21The LORD God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
22The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”
RelatedRevelation 2:7 · Revelation 22:14 · Proverbs 3:18 · Revelation 22:2 · Genesis 11:6-7 · John 6:48-58
23Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
24So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
RelatedHebrews 1:7 · Psalms 104:4 · Exodus 25:18-22 · 1 Chronicles 21:16-17 · Hebrews 10:18-22 · John 14:6
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