Genesis 3

Genesis 3

Genesis 3:1 Now the snake was cleverer than any other living thing of the field that Yahveh God had made. He asked the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You will not eat of any tree in the garden’?”

Genesis 3:2 And the woman said to the snake, “We are allowed to eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,

Genesis 3:3 but God said, ‘You will not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you will not touch it, or else[1] you will die.'”

Genesis 3:4 But the snake said to the woman, “You will not become mortal and die.

Genesis 3:5 You see, God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Genesis 3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to look at, and that the tree was craved to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her man who was with her, and he ate.

Genesis 3:7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves skirts.

Genesis 3:8 And they heard the sound of Yahveh God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and the man and his woman hid themselves from the presence of Yahveh God among the garden’s trees.

Genesis 3:9 But Yahveh God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”

Genesis 3:10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself.”

Genesis 3:11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I instructed you not to eat?”

Genesis 3:12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.”

Genesis 3:13 Then Yahveh God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The snake deceived me, and I ate.”

Genesis 3:14 Yahveh God said to the snake, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock and all living things of the field; you will crawl on your belly, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15 I will put hatred between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he will harm your head, and you will harm his heel.”

Genesis 3:16 To the woman, he said, “I will surely multiply your hardship in childbearing; in hardship you will give birth to[2] children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will have influence over you.”

Genesis 3:17 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, and this is what I said, ‘You will not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in hardship, you will eat of it all the days of your life;

Genesis 3:18 It will bring forth for you thorns and thistles, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Genesis 3:20 The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

Genesis 3:21 And Yahveh God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

Genesis 3:22 Then Yahveh God said, “Notice,[3] the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, or else he might reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live permanently-“[4]

Genesis 3:23 therefore Yahveh God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 3:24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubs and a flaming sword that turned each way to prevent access to the tree of life.

[1]פֵּן = or else Genesis 3:3, 22; 11:4; 19:15, 17, 19; 24:6; 26:7, 9; 31:24, 31; 32:12; 38:11, 23; 42:4; 44:34; 45:11.

[2] יָלַד = give birth to, be born, father. Genesis 3:16; 4:1, 2, 17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 26; 5:3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32; 6:1, 4, 10; 10:1, 8, 13, 15, 21, 24, 25, 26; 11:10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27; 16:1, 2, 11, 15, 16; 17:17, 19, 20, 21; 18:13; 19:37, 38; 20:17; 21:2, 3, 5, 7, 9; 22:20, 23, 24; 24:15, 24, 36, 47; 25:2, 3, 12, 19, 24, 26; 29:32, 33, 34, 35; 30:1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 39; 31:8, 43; 34:1; 35:16, 17, 26; 36:4, 5, 12, 14; 38:3, 4, 5, 27, 28; 40:20; 41:50; 44:27; 46:15, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27; 48:5, 6; 50:23.

[3] הֵן = notice. Genesis 3:22; 4:14; 11:6; 15:3; 19:34; 27:11, 37; 29:7; 30:34; 39:8; 44:8; 47:23.

[4] עוֹלָם = permanent, permanently, ancient, future. Genesis 3:22; 6:3, 4; 9:12, 16; 13:15; 17:7, 8, 13, 19; 21:33; 48:4; 49:26.

Genesis 3 quotes:

“Here in Genesis 3 the death of an animal to cover the man and the woman is a picture of what is to come, the first step of an entire institution of sacrifices that points us finally to the supreme sacrifice and what Jesus did to take away our sin and cover up our shame.”

Carson, D. A. The God Who Is There : Finding Your Place in God’s Story. Baker Books, 2010. p. 39.

“The higher critics attacked the books of Genesis and Revelation because the subtle serpent within them knew that no other books exposed him as much. If you want to know how the serpent came in and what his destiny will be, you need to read the first chapters of Genesis and the last chapters of Revelation. Revelation 12:9 mentions “the ancient serpent, he who is called the Devil and Satan.” The word “ancient” that describes the serpent refers to the time of Genesis 3. Therefore, if we did not have the books of Genesis and Revelation, the subtle serpent would not be fully exposed. Thus, the serpent invented the so-called modern criticism in an attempt to discredit these two books.

Lee, Witness. Life-Study of Genesis. 1st ed., Living Stream Ministry, 1987. p. 227.

” We therefore insist that Genesis 1 to 3 is a literal account of the creation of the world, its inhabitants, and man. It is a literal account of how sin and death and sorrow entered the race. It is a literal account of the strategies of Satan, of the curse of God on creation, and a literal account of God’s plan of redemption in the slaying of a substitute to atone for man’s sin (Genesis 3:21). To deny the literal account of creation is to destroy the reality of sin, and death, and sorrow. If the record of Genesis 3 is not literally true, then what explanation can we give for the fact of sin, disease, violence, death, destruction, and war? Then how can we account for the depravity of human nature? Then how do we know the records of the Gospel to be literally true?”

DeHaan, M. R. Genesis and Evolution. Zondervan, 1962. p. 33.