Genesis 3:1-15 ▼

1 And the serpent has been cunning above every beast of the field which YHWH God has made, and he says to the woman, “Is it true that God has said, You do not eat from every tree of the garden?”

2 And the woman says to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we eat,

3 but from the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God has said, You do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest you die.”

4 And the serpent says to the woman, “Dying, you do not die,

5 for God knows that in the day of your eating of it—your eyes have been opened, and you have been as God, knowing good and evil.”

6 And the woman sees that the tree [is] good for food, and that it [is] pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make [one] wise, and she takes from its fruit and eats, and also gives [some] to her husband with her, and he eats;

7 and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they [are] naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make girdles for themselves.

8 And they hear the sound of YHWH God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hide themselves from the face of YHWH God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

9 And YHWH God calls to the man and says to him, “Where [are] you?”

10 And he says, “I have heard Your sound in the garden, and I am afraid, for I am naked, and I hide myself.”

11 And He says, “Who has declared to you that you [are] naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I have commanded you not to eat?”

12 And the man says, “The woman whom You placed with me—she has given to me from the tree, and I eat.”

13 And YHWH God says to the woman, “What [is] this you have done?” And the woman says, “The serpent has caused me to forget, and I eat.”

14 And YHWH God says to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed [are] you above all the livestock, and above every beast of the field: on your belly you go, and dust you eat, [for] all days of your life;

15 and I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He bruises your head, and you bruise His heel.”