Genesis 3:9-24 — FBV

Read Genesis 3:9-24 (Free Bible Version) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: Genesis 3.9-24, Genesis 3v9-24, Gen. 3:9-24. The Lord God called out to Adam, “Where are you?” “I heard you walking in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid,” he replied. “Who told yo…

10 “I heard you walking in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid,” he replied.

11 “Who told you that you were naked?” asked the Lord God. “Did you eat fruit from the tree I ordered you not to?”

12 “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit from the tree, and I ate it,” Adam replied.

13 The Lord God asked Eve, “Why have you done this?” “The serpent tricked me, and so I ate it,” she replied.

14 Then the Lord God told the serpent, “Because of what you've done, you are cursed more than any of the other animals. You will slide along on your belly and eat dust as long as you live.

15 I will make sure you and your children, and the woman and her children, are enemies. One of her children will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

16 He told Eve, “I will make pregnancy much more difficult, and giving birth will be very painful. However, you will still desire your husband, but he will have control over you.”

17 He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.

18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will have to eat wild plants.

19 You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”

20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she was to be the mother of all human beings.

22 Then the Lord God observed, “Look, the human beings have become like one of us, knowing both what is good and what is evil. Now if they take the fruit from the tree of life and eat it, then they'll live forever!”

23 So the Lord God expelled them from the Garden of Eden. He sent Adam to cultivate the ground from which he'd been made.

24 After he drove them out, the Lord God placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden angels and a sword that flashed in every direction. They were to prevent access to the tree of life.

Passage themes

Hearing God and living — I heard thy voice
God comes and sees — in the garden
Fear before God — I was afraid
Nakedness and shame — because I was naked
Hiding from God in vain — I hid myself
God calls to account — What is this that thou hast done?
The tempter's trickery — The serpent beguiled me
The divine sentence — thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field
Crawling and eating dust — upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat
War declared — I will put enmity between thee and the woman
The devil's children — between thy seed
The promised son — and her seed
Victory over Satan — it shall bruise thy head
The wounded Messiah — thou shalt bruise his heel
Childbirth in pain — in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children
Desire toward the other — thy desire shall be to thy husband
The husband's authority — he shall rule over thee
Judged by his own acts — Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife
The forbidden fruit eaten — hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee
The ground under a curse — cursed is the ground for thy sake
Bread earned in pain — in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life
A cursed ground — Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee
Eating with hardship — thou shalt eat the herb of the field
Painful labor — In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread
The unavoidable end — till thou return unto the ground
Our earthly origin — dust thou art
Returned to the earth — unto dust shalt thou return
A name that explains — And Adam called his wife’s name Eve
All humanity — she was the mother of all living

Notes and references

“But he will have control over you” or “and he will also desire you.”
“Did”: the word is “listened to,” but not in the sense of only hearing something. It means acting on what has been heard, obeying.
Plants were originally allocated to the animals. See 1:30.
“The human beings”: literally, “the man,” but this must be understood inclusively since Eve had also fallen.

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