Genesis Chapter 3

The snake was the sneaky animal that the Lord had created. The serpent asked the woman, “Has God ever told you not to eat fruit from any tree in this garden?” The woman said, “We can eat any fruit from the trees in this garden, but God said that we should not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If we do, we’re going to die.”  The serpent told the woman, “You certainly won’t die. God sees that if you eat from that tree, your eyes will be wide open, and you will be like God, who knows you well by your evil deeds.” 

Later on, the man and woman saw God taking a walk in the garden. God asked the man, “Where are you?”  Then the man said, “I am here.” God asked in a serious voice, “Who told you that you were naked? I told you never to eat from the knowledge of the tree of good and evil.” The man told God, “The woman whom You made gave the fruit from the tree to me, so I ate it up.” God then asked the woman, “What have you done?” The woman replied, “The serpent tricked me from eating that fruit.” 

God told the serpent, “Because you have done this false thing before them and told them bad lies, you will be upon a curse of all the animals in this garden. You will crawl on your belly and find dust to eat all your life and never return to holy ground. I will put hostility and brutality between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers. He shall strike your head down, and you shall bruise his heel out.” 

God told the woman that giving birth would be painful, and that her husband would rule over her. Adam, on the other hand, wouldn’t listen to God’s voice at all. God said to Adam that it would now be hard for him to get food. Adam will die and his boy will turn to ash. Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all people. God made clothes for Adam and Eve. God said that Adam should not eat from the Tree of Life. God sent Adam out of the garden to work hard for his food. 

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Questions

1. Who tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit?
2. What was the name of the tree they were not supposed to eat from?
3. What was the consequence of Adam and Eve eating the fruit?