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Genesis 3:1-24 (MSG)

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¹ The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal GOD had made. He spoke to the Woman: "Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?" ² The Woman said to the serpent, "Not at all. We can eat from the trees in the garden. ³ It's only about the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, 'Don't eat from it; don't even touch it or you'll die.'" ⁴ The serpent told the Woman, "You won't die. ⁵ God knows that the moment you eat from that tree, you'll see what's really going on. You'll be just like God, knowing everything, ranging all the way from good to evil." ⁶ When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and realized what she would get out of it--she'd know everything!--she took and ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate. ⁷ Immediately the two of them did "see what's really going on"--saw themselves naked! They sewed fig leaves together as makeshift clothes for themselves. ⁸ When they heard the sound of GOD strolling in the garden in the evening breeze, the Man and his Wife hid in the trees of the garden, hid from GOD. ⁹ GOD called to the Man: "Where are you?" ¹⁰ He said, "I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked. And I hid." ¹¹ GOD said, "Who told you you were naked? Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?" ¹² The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." ¹³ GOD said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?" "The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate." ¹⁴ GOD told the serpent: "Because you've done this, you're cursed, cursed beyond all cattle and wild animals, Cursed to slink on your belly and eat dirt all your life. ¹⁵ I'm declaring war between you and the Woman, between your offspring and hers. He'll wound your head, you'll wound his heel." ¹⁶ He told the Woman: "I'll multiply your pains in childbirth; you'll give birth to your babies in pain. You'll want to please your husband, but he'll lord it over you." ¹⁷ He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, 'Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for ¹⁸ The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, ¹⁹ sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt." ²⁰ The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living. ²¹ GOD made leather clothing for Adam and his wife and dressed them. ²² GOD said, "The Man has become like one of us, capable of knowing everything, ranging from good to evil. What if he now should reach out and take fruit from the Tree-of-Life and eat, and live forever? Never--this cannot happen!" ²³ So GOD expelled them from the Garden of Eden and sent them to work the ground, the same dirt out of which they'd been made. ²⁴ He threw them out of the garden and stationed angel-cherubim and a revolving sword of fire east of it, guarding the path to the Tree-of-Life.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 1) Temptation - Eve - tempted to disobedy God and eat from the tree of life
(v. 1) Believing / Unbelief - Satan - putting doubt in Eve's mind about what God said
(v. 4) Temptation - Eve - tempted to disobedy God and eat from the tree of life
(v. 5) Temptation - Eve - tempted to disobedy God and eat from the tree of life
(v. 6) Speaking / Gossip / Lying / Slander - Adam - was silent and went along with eating the fruit of the tree
(v. 12) Responsibility / Excuses - Adam to Eve - did not take responsibility for his actions
(v. 13) Responsibility / Excuses - Eve to serpent - did not take responsibility for his actions
(v. 13) Responsibility / Excuses - Adam to Eve- did not take responsibility for his actions

This passage relates to the following question(s):
(v. 8) Is God present everywhere, sees all things, and knows all things? They hid from the LORD God among the trees
(v. 22) Is there one God or more than one God? Man has now become like one of us

This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 1) Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (2011-10-03)
(v. 1) Promises of God - Satan Tries to Create Doubt (2009-04-11)
(v. 2) Promises of God - Satan Tries to Create Doubt (2009-04-11)
(v. 3) Promises of God - Satan Tries to Create Doubt (2009-04-11)
(v. 4) Promises of God - Satan Tries to Create Doubt (2009-04-11)
(v. 4) Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (2011-10-03)
(v. 5) Purpose Driven Life - The Heart of Worship (Part 1) (2008-06-01)
(v. 5) Promises of God - Satan Tries to Create Doubt (2009-04-11)
(v. 6) Promises of God - Satan Tries to Create Doubt (2009-04-11)
(v. 6) Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (2011-10-03)
(v. 7) Promises of God - Satan Tries to Create Doubt (2009-04-11)
(v. 9) Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (2011-10-03)
(v. 12) Kingdom First - Personal Responsibility (part 1) (2010-01-27)
(v. 16) Desire's Journey - Loneliness and Heartache (2010-06-02)
(v. 17) Desire's Journey - Futility and Failure (2010-06-01)
(v. 18) Desire's Journey - Futility and Failure (2010-06-01)
(v. 19) Desire's Journey - Futility and Failure (2010-06-01)
(v. 19) Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (2011-10-03)

This passage is referenced in the following study note(s):
(v. 1) Bible Talk: The Fall of Man (2006-04-18)
(v. 1) Sermon: God calls Man to do the Impossible (2012-01-14)
(v. 2) Bible Talk: The Fall of Man (2006-04-18)
(v. 2) Sermon: God calls Man to do the Impossible (2012-01-14)
(v. 3) Sermon: God calls Man to do the Impossible (2012-01-14)
(v. 3) Devotional: Taming the Tougue (2008-12-12)
(v. 3) Bible Talk: The Fall of Man (2006-04-18)
(v. 4) Sermon: God calls Man to do the Impossible (2012-01-14)
(v. 4) Bible Talk: The Fall of Man (2006-04-18)
(v. 5) Bible Talk: The Fall of Man (2006-04-18)
(v. 5) Sermon: God calls Man to do the Impossible (2012-01-14)
(v. 6) Sermon: God calls Man to do the Impossible (2012-01-14)
(v. 6) Bible Talk: The Fall of Man (2006-04-18)
(v. 7) Bible Talk: The Fall of Man (2006-04-18)
(v. 8) Bible Talk: The Fall of Man (2006-04-18)
(v. 9) Bible Talk: The Fall of Man (2006-04-18)
(v. 10) Bible Talk: The Fall of Man (2006-04-18)
(v. 11) Bible Talk: The Fall of Man (2006-04-18)
(v. 12) Bible Talk: The Fall of Man (2006-04-18)
(v. 13) Bible Talk: The Fall of Man (2006-04-18)

Definition(s):
Eden (Ee-den): pleasure; delight
Eve (Eev): living; enlivening
So (Soh):