Adam and Eve


Genesis chapter 2-3

    Read the story below and then take the quiz.  The link to the quiz is at the  bottom of this page. 

    The heavens and the earth were completed in all their great spendor. 

    On the seventh day the Lord finished all that He had created and rested from all His work.  God blessed the seventh day and made it holy.   This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.  When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens-- and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground,  but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground-- 


    The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

    The LORD God  planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.   The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground-- trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.



    A river watered the garden. It flowed from Eden and separated into four rivers.   The first river was called the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.  The second river was the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.   The third river was the Tigris and ran along the east side of Asshur.  The fourth river was the Euphrates.  The LORD God put the man in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.   The LORD God commanded the man not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, for if he ate it, he would surely die.

 
 


  
     The LORD God had formed all the beasts of the field and  birds  from the ground.  He brought them to the man and let him name them.   So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. 


    


     The LORD God saw there was no suitable helper for the man and that it was not good for the man to be alone.





     Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.   The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man." For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.   The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

 


Chapter 3

    The serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made.  The serpent asked her,  "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?  The woman told him that they could eat from all the trees in the garden except the tree in the middle of the garden.  They weren't to touch it or they would die. 
     The serpent tried to trick her and told her that she would not die.  He told her that God knows that if she eats of it her eyes would be opened, and she would be like God, knowing good and evil.
 

 


     When the woman saw how good and pleasing the fruit of the tree looked,  and also desirable for becoming wise, so she took some and ate it.  





Her husband was with her and she gave some to him to eat too.
 


    
    After they ate the fruit, their eyes were opened and they realized that they were naked.  They sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves with.  When God came walking into the garden, they both hid from the Lord in the trees.  But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"  The man said he heard the Lord but he was afraid because he was naked and that is why he hid.  
    God asked him how he knew he was naked. then He asked him if he had eaten from the tree in the middle of the garden that He had forbidden them from eating.  The man tried to blame the woman for giving him some fruit.    Then the LORD God asked the woman what she had done and the woman blamed the serpent for tricking her into eating the fruit.
 



     So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.   And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
   God told the woman that He would increase her pains in giving birth to children. Her desire would be for her husband, and he will rule over her."  God told Adam that because he had listened to his wife and ate the fruit he was told not to that the ground would be cursed.   He would also have to work hard to eat the rest of his life through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.   The ground would grow thorns and thisles and he  would sweat for his food  until he returned to the ground where he had come from.  From dust man had come and to dust he would return.
     Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
 
    God made clothng of skin for Adam and his wife.   And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."  
    The LORD God drove out Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.   After he drove the man out, God placed  cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the Tree of Life.

 




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