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- Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.
And he said unto the woman: "Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?"
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- And the woman said unto the serpent: "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
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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 unto the woman: "Ye shall not surely die;
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- for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil."
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- And 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 the fruit thereof, and did eat;
and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
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- And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked;
and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles.
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- And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden toward the cool of the day;
and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
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- And the LORD God called unto the man, and said unto him: "Where art thou?"
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- And he said: "I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked;
and I hid myself."
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- And He said: "Who told thee that thou wast naked?
Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not 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 did eat."
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- And the LORD God said unto the woman: "What is this thou hast done?" And the woman said: "The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat."
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- And the LORD God said unto the serpent: "Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou from among all cattle, and from among all beasts of the field;
upon 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;
they shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise their heel."
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- Unto the woman He said: "I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail;
in pain thou shalt bring forth children;
and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."
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- And unto Adam He said: "Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying: Thou shalt not eat of it;
cursed is the ground for thy sake;
in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
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- Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;
and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
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- In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground;
for out of it wast thou taken;
for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
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- And the man called his wife"s name Eve;
because she was the mother of all living.
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- And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
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- And the LORD God 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 for ever."
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- Therefore the LORD God 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 at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way to the tree of life.
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