Genesis 3

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And the serpent was shrewd out of all living-things of the field which Yahweh God had made. And he said unto the woman, Even hath God said, Ye shall not eat of all the trees of the garden?

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And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:

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and of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, and ye shall not touch it, lest ye die.

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And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not dying die:

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in that God knoweth that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

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And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and a desirable tree to make one wise, and she took of the fruit thereof, and ate; and she gave also unto her man with her, and he ate.

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And the eyes of the two of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed together leaves of fig, and made themselves girdles.

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And they heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the spirit of the day, and hid themselves, the man and his woman, from the face of Yahweh God amidst the trees of the garden.

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And Yahweh God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?

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And he said, Thy voice I heard in the garden, and I was afraid, in that I was naked; and I hid myself.

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And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat, hast thou eaten?

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And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

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And Yahweh God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

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And Yahweh God said unto the serpent, In that thou hast done this, cursed art thou out of all beasts, and out of all living-things of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dirt shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

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and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall strike thy head, and thou shalt strike his heel.

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Unto the woman he said, multiplying I multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pangs¹ thou shalt beget sons; and unto thy man shall be thy longing, and he shall rule over thee.

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And unto Adam he said, In that thou hast heard the voice of thy woman, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

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and thorns and thistles shall it sprout to thee; and thou shalt eat the grain of the field;

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by the sweat of thy nose shalt thou eat bread, till thou turn back to the ground; in that out of it wast thou taken: in that dirt thou art, and unto dirt shalt thou turn back.

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And Adam called the name of his woman Eve,² 〈in〉 that she was the mother of all living.

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And Yahweh God made for Adam and his woman coats of skin, and clothed them.

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And Yahweh God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever—

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and Yahweh God sent him forth out of the garden of Eden, to serve the ground out of which he had been taken.

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And he drove out the man; and he placed out of the east of the garden of Eden the cherubs, and the flame of a sword turning, to guard the way of the tree of life.