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Adam and Eve at the Garden of Eden |
Now the snake was the most clever of all the wild animals
the Lord God has made. One day the snake
spoke to the woman. He said, “Did God
really say that you must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”
The woman answered the snake, “We may eat fruit from the
trees in the garden. But God told us,
‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch it, or you will
die’.”
But the snake said to the woman, “You will not die. God knows that if you eat the fruit from that
tree, you will learn about good and evil.
Then you will be like God!”
The woman saw the tree was beautiful. She saw that its fruit was good to eat and
that it would make her wise. So she took
some of its fruits and ate it. She also
gave some of the fruit to her husband, and he ate it.
Then, it was as if the man’s and woman’s eyes were
opened. They realized they were
naked. So they sewed fig leaves together
and made something to cover themselves.
Then they heard the Lord God walking in the garden. This was during the cool part of the
day. And the man and his wife hid from
the Lord God among the trees in the garden.
But the Lord God called to the man.
The Lord said, “Where are you?”
The man answered, “I heard you walking in the garden. I was afraid because I was naked. So I hid.
God said to the man, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat the fruit from the tree? I commanded you not to eat from that tree.”
The man said, “You gave this woman to me. She gave me fruit from the tree. So I ate it.
Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What have you
done?” She answered, “The snake tricked
me. So I ate the fruit.”
The Lord God said to the snake, “Because you did this, a
curse will be put on you. You will be
cursed more than any tame animal or wild animal. You will crawl on your
stomach, and you will eat dust all the days of your life. I will make you and that woman enemy to each
other. Your descendants and her
descendants will be enemies. He child
will crush on your head. And you will
bite his heel.”
Then God said to the woman, “I will cause you to have much
trouble when you are pregnant. And when
you give birth to children, you will have great pain. You will greatly desire your husband, but he
will rule over you.”
Then God said to the man, “You listened to what your wife
said. And you ate from the tree that I
commanded you net to eat from. So I will
put curse on the ground. You will have
to work very hard for food. In pain you
will eat is food all days of your life.
The ground will produce thorns and weeds for you. And you will eat the plants of the
field. You will sweat and work hard for
your food. Later you will return to the
ground. This is because you were taken
form the ground. You are dust. And when
you die, you will return to the dust.”
The man named his wife Eve.
This is because she is the mother of everyone who ever lived.
The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and
his wife. And so the Lord dressed
them. Then the Lord God said, Look, the
man has become like one of us. He knows
good and evil. And now we must keep him
from eating some of the fruit from the tree of life. If he does, he will live forever.” So the Lord God forced the man out of the
garden of Eden. He had to work the
ground he was taken from. Then God put
angels on the east side of the garden.
He also put a sword of fire there.
It flashed around every direction.
This kept people from getting to the tree of life.
(Pasugo, God’s Message: Quoted from Genesis 3:1-24,
International Children’s Bible, New Century Version).
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