1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Adonai God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’ ”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, 3 but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’ ” *Compare what the woman says with what God told the man in (Gen 2:16). †Compare (Gen 2:7, 2:16) with (Gen 3: 3-4, 3:23-24). What kind of death is God referring to as punishment?
4 The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die, 5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 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 some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too. 7 Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves. 8 They sh'ma ·heard obeyed· Adonai God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Adonai God among the trees of the garden.
9 Adonai God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 The man said, “I sh'ma ·heard obeyed· your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
11 God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I enjoined you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Adonai God said to the woman, “What have you done?”
14 Adonai God said to the serpent,
16 To the woman he said,
17 To Adam [Human, Red earth] he said,
20 The man called his wife Eve [Life] because she would be the mother of all the living. 21 Adonai God made coats of animal skins for Adam [Human, Red earth] and for his wife, and clothed them.
- a Compare what the woman says with what God told the man in (Gen 2:16).
- b Compare (Gen 2:7, 2:16) with (Gen 3: 3-4, 3:23-24). What kind of death is God referring to as punishment?
- c MP: Enmity between “Thy seed and her seed” Women have ovum, not seed as males, therefore this is a miraculous birth. (Luke 1:35; John 12:31)
- d MP: Messiah’s heels bruise the serpent’s head. The serpent retaliates, but is hurled down from power. (John 12:31-33; Heb 2:14-15; Rev 12:10, 20:1-3)
- e Quoted in Heb 6:8