Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Morning Prayer Reading #4

 

The Fall of Man

Genesis 3:1-7

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.


He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You[a] shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 


6 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,[b] she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

 

Footnotes:

a. Genesis 3:1 In Hebrew you is plural in verses 1–5

b. Genesis 3:6 Or to give insight

 

Schnorr von Carolsfeld woodcut "The Fall" copyright © WELS used with permission for personal and congregational use 

 

English Standard Version (ESV)

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

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