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Genesis 3 📜 📕 ↷
Serpent's Deception
1 BUT the serpent also was more subtile than all the beasts of the earth, which our Lord God had made. Which said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of Paradise?📜💬📚
2 To whom the woman answered: Of the fruit of the trees that are in Paradise we do eat:📜💬📚
3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of Paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat: and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.📜💬📚
4 And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.📜💬📚
5 For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.📜💬📚
6 The woman therefore saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delectable to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, & did eat, & gave to her husband, who did eat.📜💬📚
7 And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sowed together leaves of a fig tree, and made themselves aprons.📜💬📚
God Arraigns Adam and Eve
8 And hearing the voice of our Lord God walking in Paradise at the afternoon air, Adam hid himself, and so did his wife from the face of our Lord God, amidst the trees of Paradise.📜💬📚
9 And our Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou?📜💬📚
10 Who said: I heard thy voice in Paradise: and I feared, because I was naked, and I hid me.📜💬📚
11 To whom he said: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat?📜💬📚
12 And Adam said: The woman which thou gavest me to be my fellow-companion, gave me of the tree, & I did eat.📜💬📚
13 And our Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? Who answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.📜💬📚
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