Thematic Bible

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other {wild animal} which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God indeed say, 'You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?"

Genesis 3:2

The woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,

Genesis 3:3

but from the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, 'You shall not eat from it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die'."

Genesis 3:4

But the serpent said to the woman, "You shall not surely die.

Genesis 3:5

For God knows that on the day you [both] eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you [both] shall be like gods, knowing good and evil."

Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food and that it [was] a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make [one] wise, then she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave [it] also to her husband with her, and he ate.

Genesis 3:7

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked. And they sewed together fig leaves and they made for themselves coverings.

Genesis 3:8

Then they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden {at the windy time of day}. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:9

And Yahweh God called to the man and said to him, "Where [are] you?"

Genesis 3:10

And he replied, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I [am] naked, so I hid myself."

Genesis 3:11

Then he asked, "Who told you that you [were] naked? Have you eaten from {the tree from which I forbade you to eat}?"

Genesis 3:12

And the man replied, "The woman whom you gave [to be] with me--she gave to me from the tree and I ate."

Genesis 3:13

Then Yahweh God said to the woman, "What [is] this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

Genesis 3:14

Then Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you [will be] cursed more than any domesticated animal and more than any wild animal. On your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15

And I will put hostility between you and between the woman, and between your offspring and between her offspring; he will strike you [on the] head, and you will strike him [on the] heel."

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase {your pain in childbearing}; in pain you shall bear children. And to your husband [shall be] your desire. And he shall rule over you."

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree {from which I forbade you to eat}, the ground [shall be] cursed on your account. In pain you shall eat [from] it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:18

And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, until your return to the ground. For from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

Genesis 3:20

And the man {named} his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life.

Genesis 3:21

And Yahweh God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin, and he clothed them.

Genesis 3:22

And Yahweh God said, "Look--the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. {What if} he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?"

Genesis 3:23

And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 3:24

So he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and {a flaming, turning sword} to guard the way to the tree of life.