Genesis 3:9-24 — TLB

Read Genesis 3:9-24 (The Living Bible) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: Genesis 3.9-24, Genesis 3v9-24, Gen. 3:9-24. The Lord God called to Adam, “Why are you hiding?” And Adam replied, “I heard you coming and didn’t want you to see me naked. So I hid.” “Who told you you were…

10 And Adam replied, “I heard you coming and didn’t want you to see me naked. So I hid.”

11 “Who told you you were naked?” the Lord God asked. “Have you eaten fruit from the tree I warned you about?”

12 “Yes,” Adam admitted, “but it was the woman you gave me who brought me some, and I ate it.”

13 Then the Lord God asked the woman, “How could you do such a thing?” “The serpent tricked me,” she replied.

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “This is your punishment: You are singled out from among all the domestic and wild animals of the whole earth—to be cursed. You shall grovel in the dust as long as you live, crawling along on your belly.

15 From now on you and the woman will be enemies, as will your offspring and hers. You will strike his heel, but he will crush your head.”

16 Then God said to the woman, “You shall bear children in intense pain and suffering; yet even so, you shall welcome your husband’s affections, and he shall be your master.”

17 And to Adam, God said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate the fruit when I told you not to, I have placed a curse upon the soil. All your life you will struggle to extract a living from it.

19 All your life you will sweat to master it, until your dying day. Then you will return to the ground from which you came. For you were made from the ground, and to the ground you will return.”

20 The man named his wife Eve (meaning “The life-giving one”), for he said, “She shall become the mother of all mankind”;

21 and the Lord God clothed Adam and his wife with garments made from skins of animals.

22 Then the Lord said, “Now that the man has become as we are, knowing good from bad, what if he eats the fruit of the Tree of Life and lives forever?”

23 So the Lord God banished him forever from the Garden of Eden, and sent him out to farm the ground from which he had been taken.

24 Thus God expelled him, and placed mighty angels at the east of the Garden of Eden, with a flaming sword to guard the entrance 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

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