![]() Then he banishes them from the Garden of Eden. God prophetically tells the woman and the man what will be the consequences of their sin of disobeying God. God later curses the serpent and the ground. These acts not only give them additional knowledge, but it gives them the ability to conjure negative and destructive concepts such as shame and evil. However, a serpent convinces Eve to eat fruit from the forbidden tree, and she gives some of the fruit to Adam. ![]() They are innocent and unembarrassed about their nakedness. Subsequently, Eve is created from one of Adam's ribs to be his companion. Adam is told that he can eat freely of all the trees in the garden, except for a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In the second narrative, God fashions Adam from dust and places him in the Garden of Eden. Instead, God created humankind in God's image and instructed them to multiply and to be stewards over everything else that God had made. In the first, Adam and Eve are not named. In the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, chapters one through five, there are two creation narratives with two distinct perspectives. They also provide the basis for the doctrines of the fall of man and original sin that are important beliefs in Christianity, although not held in Judaism or Islam. They are central to the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden ( AR) cherubim ( AS) and a flaming sword ( AT) flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.The Fall of Man by Peter Paul Rubens, 1628–29Īdam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life ( AO) and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden ( AP) to work the ground ( AQ) from which he had been taken. ![]() ( AM) 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, ( AN) knowing good and evil. ( AH)Ģ0 Adam named his wife Eve, ( AL) because she would become the mother of all the living.Ģ1 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. Through painful toil ( AE) you will eat food from itġ8 It will produce thorns and thistles ( AG) for you,Īnd you will eat the plants of the field. “Cursed ( AC) is the ground ( AD) because of you The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, ( T) and I ate.”ġ4 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” ( N)ġ0 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid ( O) because I was naked ( P) so I hid.”ġ1 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? ( Q) Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? ( R)”ġ2 The man said, “The woman you put here with me ( S)-she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”ġ3 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” ![]() ( K)Ĩ Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking ( L) in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid ( M) from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. ( I) 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked ( J) so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. She also gave some to her husband, ( H) who was with her, and he ate it. ( E) 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, ( F) knowing good and evil.”Ħ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable ( G) for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’? ( B)”Ģ The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, ( C) 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” ( D)Ĥ “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 3 Now the serpent ( A) was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made.
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