Genesis 3

1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”Cross-references: Gen 3:13 · Num 22:28 · Eccl 4:10 · Isa 27:1 · Matt 4:3 · Matt 4:6 · +7 more

2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,Cross-references: Ps 58:4

3but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”Cross-references: Gen 2:16 · Gen 20:6 · Ex 19:12 · 1Chr 16:22 · Job 1:11 · Job 2:5 · +4 more

4The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,Cross-references: Gen 3:13 · Deut 29:19 · 2Ki 1:4 · 2Ki 1:6 · 2Ki 1:16 · 2Ki 8:10 · +5 moreExamined: Mormonism →

5for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”Cross-references: Gen 2:17 · Gen 3:7 · Gen 3:10 · Gen 3:22 · Ex 5:2 · Ex 20:7 · +22 moreExamined: Mormonism →

6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.Cross-references: Gen 3:12 · Gen 3:17 · Gen 6:2 · Gen 39:7 · Josh 7:21 · Judg 16:1 · +11 more

7Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.Cross-references: Gen 2:25 · Gen 3:5 · Gen 3:10 · Deut 28:34 · 2Ki 6:20 · Job 9:29 · +3 more

8They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.Cross-references: Gen 3:10 · Deut 4:33 · Deut 5:25 · Deut 23:14 · Job 22:14 · Job 31:33 · +10 more

9Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”Cross-references: Gen 4:9 · Gen 11:5 · Gen 16:8 · Gen 18:20 · Josh 7:17 · Rev 20:12

10The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”Cross-references: Gen 2:25 · Gen 3:7 · Ex 3:6 · Ex 32:25 · Job 23:15 · Ps 119:120 · +6 more

11God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”Cross-references: Gen 4:10 · Ps 50:21 · Rom 3:20

12The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”Cross-references: Gen 2:18 · Gen 2:20 · Gen 2:22 · Ex 32:21 · 1Sam 15:20 · Job 31:33 · +5 more

13Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”Cross-references: Gen 3:4 · Gen 4:10 · Gen 44:15 · 1Sam 13:11 · 2Sam 3:24 · 2Sam 12:9 · +3 more

14Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.Cross-references: Gen 3:1 · Gen 9:6 · Ex 21:28 · Lev 20:25 · Deut 28:15 · Ps 72:9 · +3 more

15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”Cross-references: Gen 49:17 · Num 21:6 · Ps 132:11 · Isa 7:14 · Isa 53:3 · Isa 53:12 · +41 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

16To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”Cross-references: Gen 4:7 · Gen 35:16 · Num 30:7 · Num 30:13 · 1Sam 4:19 · Esth 1:20 · +22 more

17To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.Cross-references: Gen 2:16 · Gen 3:6 · Gen 3:11 · Gen 5:29 · 1Sam 15:23 · Job 5:6 · +19 more

18It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.Cross-references: Josh 23:13 · Job 1:21 · Job 5:5 · Job 31:40 · Ps 90:3 · Ps 104:2 · +11 more

19You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”Cross-references: Gen 2:7 · Gen 18:27 · Gen 23:4 · Job 1:21 · Job 17:13 · Job 19:26 · +19 more

20The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.Cross-references: Gen 2:20 · Gen 2:23 · Gen 5:29 · Gen 16:11 · Gen 29:32 · Gen 35:18 · +5 more

21Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.Cross-references: Gen 3:7 · Isa 61:10 · Rom 3:22 · 2Cor 5:2 · 2Cor 5:21

22Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”Cross-references: Gen 1:26 · Gen 2:9 · Gen 3:5 · Gen 11:6 · Ps 22:26 · Prov 3:18 · +7 more

23Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.Cross-references: Gen 2:5 · Gen 3:19 · Gen 4:2 · Gen 4:12 · Gen 9:20 · Eccl 5:9

24So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.Cross-references: Gen 2:8 · Ex 25:2 · Ex 25:18 · Num 22:23 · Josh 5:13 · 1Sam 4:4 · +9 more