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Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
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And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;
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but of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
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And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
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for God doth know that, in the day ye eat of it, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
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When the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that [it was] pleasant to the eyes, and the tree [was] desirable to make wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
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And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they joined together fig-leaves, and made themselves aprons .
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And they heard the voice of Jehovah Elohim walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah Elohim, in the midst of the trees of the garden.
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And Jehovah called to the man and said to him, Where art thou?
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And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and was afraid because I [was] naked, and hid myself.
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And he said, Who told thee that thou [art] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat?
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And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.
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And Jehovah Elohim said to the woman, What [is] this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
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And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed [be] thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all [the] days of thy life.
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And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.
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Unto the woman he said, Increasing I will increase thy sorrow and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; unto thy husband [shall be] thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
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And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto thy wife’s voice, and hast eaten of the tree [of] which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed [be] the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all thy life’s days;
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and thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat herbage of the field;
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in sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken. For dust [art] thou, and unto dust shalt thou return.
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And the man called the name of his wife Eve , because she was the mother of all living.
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And Jehovah Elohim made for Adam and for his wife coats of skin, and clothed them.
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And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, the man is become as one of us to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever, …
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Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken.
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So he drove out the man; and he placed eastward of Eden’s garden the Cherubim and the blade of the flashing sword to keep the way of the tree of life.