The First Promise of a Savior
Genesis 3:8-25
And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool[a] of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”[b] 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 The LORD God
said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this, cursed are you
above all livestock and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go, and dust you
shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will
put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring[c] and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
16 To the woman he said,
“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to[d] your husband, but he shall rule over you.”
17 And to Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of
your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not
eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it
all the days of your life; 18 thorns
and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the
field. 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat
bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are
dust, and to dust you shall return.”
20 The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.[e] 21 And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
Footnotes:
a. Genesis 3:8 Hebrew wind
b. Genesis 3:9 In Hebrew you is
singular in verses 9 and 11
c. Genesis 3:15 Hebrew seed; so
throughout Genesis
d. Genesis 3:16 Or shall be
toward (see 4:7)
e. Genesis 3:20 Eve sounds like
the Hebrew for life-giver and resembles the word for living
Schnorr von Carolsfeld woodcut "Adam and Eve expelled from the garden"
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