Day 2: The Fall of Adam and Eve (2022)

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[4] Today, we'll be reading Genesis chapter 3 and Genesis chapter 4.

[5] So after the great news of creation, the good news of What happened then?

[6] How did things get so terribly messed up?

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[16] Genesis 3 and 4.

[17] Now, the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God had made.

[18] He said to the woman, did God say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden?

[19] And the woman said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but God said you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden.

[20] Neither shall you touch it lest you die.

[21] But the serpent said to the woman, you will not die.

[22] For God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

[23] So when 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 of its fruit and ate.

[24] And she also gave some to her husband, and he ate.

[25] Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

[26] And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden, in the cool of the day.

[27] And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

[28] But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, Where are you?

[29] And he said, I heard the sound of you in the garden to now as afraid because I was naked and I hid myself.

[30] He said, who told you that you are naked?

[31] Have you eaten of the tree which I commanded you not to eat?

[32] The man said, the woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I ate.

[33] Then the Lord God said to the woman, what is this that you've done?

[34] The woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.

[35] The Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this.

[36] Curst are you above all cattle and above all wild animals.

[37] Upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

[38] I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed.

[39] He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

[40] To the woman, he said, I will greatly multiply your pain and childbearing.

[41] In pain you shall bring forth children.

[42] yet your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you.

[43] And to Adam, he said, because you have listened to the voice of your wife and eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, you shall not eat of it.

[44] Cursed is the ground because of you.

[45] In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.

[46] Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you.

[47] And you shall eat the plants of the field.

[48] In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken.

[49] You are dust.

[50] And to dust you shall return.

[51] The man called his wife's name, Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

[52] And the Lord God made for Adam, and for his wife, garments of skins, and clothed them.

[53] And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, and now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever.

[54] Therefore, the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

[55] He drove out the man, and at the east of the Garden of Eden he placed the chair of him, and a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

[56] Now Adam knew his wife, Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain saying, I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.

[57] And again she bore his brother Abel.

[58] Now Abel was a keeper of the sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.

[59] In the course of time, Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel brought some of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions.

[60] And the Lord had regard for Abel in his offering, but for Cain and his offering, he had no regard.

[61] So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

[62] The Lord said to Cain, why are you angry?

[63] And why has your countenance fallen?

[64] If you do well, will you not be accepted?

[65] And if you do not do well.

[66] Sin is lurking at the door.

[67] Its desire is for you, but you must master it.

[68] Cain said to Abel his brother.

[69] Let us go out to the field.

[70] And when they were in the field, Kane rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

[71] Then the Lord said to Cain, "'Where is Abel your brother?' he said. "'I do not know.

[72] Am I my brother's