THE SERPENT'S DECEIT LEADS TO THE FALL OF ADAM AND EVE
NOW THE SERPENT WAS MORE CRAFTY THAN ANY OF THE WILD ANIMALS THE LORD GOD HAD MADE HE SAID TO THE WOMAN DID GOD REALLY SAY YOU MUST NOT EAT FROM ANY TREE IN THE GARDEN? THE WOMAN SAID TO THE SERPENT WE MAY EAT FRUIT FROM THE TREES IN THE GARDEN BUT GOD DID SAY YOU MUST NOT EAT FRUIT FROM THE TREE THAT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GARDEN AND YOU MUST NOT TOUCH IT OR YOU WILL DIE YOU WILL NOT CERTAINLY DIE THE SERPENT SAID TO THE WOMAN FOR GOD KNOWS THAT WHEN YOU EAT FROM IT YOUR EYES WILL BE OPENED AND YOU WILL BE LIKE GOD KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL WHEN THE WOMAN SAW THAT THE FRUIT OF THE TREE WAS GOOD FOR FOOD AND PLEASING TO THE EYE AND ALSO DESIRABLE FOR GAINING WISDOM SHE TOOK SOME AND ATE IT SHE WAS WITH HER AND HE ATE IT THEN THE EYES OF BOTH OF THEM WERE OPENED AND THEY REALIZED THEY WERE NAKED SO THEY SEWED FIG LEAVES TOGETHER AND MADE COVERINGS FOR THEMSELVES THEN THE MAN AND HIS WIFE HEARD THE SOUND OF THE LORD GOD AS HE WAS WALKING ON THE GARDEN IN THE COOL OF THE DAY AND THEY HID FROM THE LORD GOD AMONG THE TREES OF THE GARDEN BUT THE LORD GOD CALLED TO THE MAN WHERE ARE YOU? HE ANSWERED I HEARD YOU IN THE GARDEN AND I WAS AFRAID BECAUSE I WAS NAKED SO I HID AND HE SAID WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE NAKED? HAVE YOU EATEN FROM THE TREE THAT I COMMANDED YOU NOT TO EAT FROM? THE MAN SAID THE WOMAN YOU PUT HERE WITH ME SHE GAVE ME SOME FRUIT FROM THE TREE AND I ATE IT THEN THE LORD GOD SAID TO THE WOMAN WHAT IS THIS YOU HAVE DONE? THE WOMAN SAID THE SERPENT DECEIVED ME AND I ATE SO THE LORD GOD SAID TO THE SERPENT BECAUSE YOU HAVE DONE THIS CURSED ARE YOU ABOVE ALL LIVESTOCK AND ALL WILD ANIMALS YOU WILL CRAWL ON YOUR BELLY AND YOU WILL EAT DUST ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE AND I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMAN AND BETWEEN YOUR OFFSPRING AND HERS HE WILL CRUSH YOUR HEAD AND YOU WILL STRIKE HIS HEEL TO THE WOMAN HE SAID I WILL MAKE YOUR PAINS IN CHILDBEARING VERY SERVRE WITH PAINFUL LABOR YOU WILL GIVE BIRTH TO CHILDREN YOUR DESIRE WILL BE FOR YOUR HUSBAND AND HE WILL RULE OVER YOU TO ADAM HE SAID BECAUSE YOU LISTENED TO YOUR WIFE AND ATE FRUIT FROM THE TREE ABOUT WHICH I COMMANDED YOU YOU MUST NOT EAT FROM IT CURSED IS THE GROUND BECAUSE OF YOU THROUGH PAINFUL TOIL YOU WILL EAT FOOD FROM IT ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE IT WILL PRODUCE THORNS AND THISTLES FOR YOU AND YOU WILL EAT THE PLANTS OF THE FIELD BY THE SWEAT OF YOUR BROW YOU WILL EAT YOUR FOOD UNTIL YOU RETURN TO THE GROUND SINCE FROM IT YOU WERE TAKEN FOR DUST YOU AND TO DUST YOU WILL RETURN ADAM NAMED HIS WIFE EVE BECAUSE SHE WOULD BECOME THE MOTHER OF ALL THE LIVING THE LORD GOD MADE GARMENTS OF SKIN FOR ADAM AND HIS WIFE AND CLOTHED THEM AND THE LORD GOD SAID THE MAN HAS NOW BECOME LIKE ONE OF US KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL HE MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO REACH OUT HIS HAND AND TAKE ALSO FROM THE TREE OF LIFE AND EAT AND LIVE FOREVER SO THE LORD GOD BANISHED HIM FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN TO WORK THE GROUND FROM WHICH HE HAD BEEN TAKEN AFTER HE DROVE THE MAN OUT HE PLACED ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN CHERUBIM AND A FLAMING SWORD FLASHING BACK AND FORTH TO GUARD THE WAY TO THE TREE OF LIFE
