The Fall

3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal^[a] which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God indeed say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?” ² The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, ³ but from the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, ‘You shall not eat from it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die’.” ⁴ But the serpent said to the woman, “You shall not surely die. ⁵ For God knows that on the day you both eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you both shall be like gods,^[b] knowing good and evil.” ⁶ When^[c] the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, then^[d] she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave it also to her husband with her, and he ate. ⁷ Then^[e] the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed together fig leaves and they made for themselves coverings.

⁸ Then^[f] they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden at the windy time of day.^[g] And the man^[h] and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. ⁹ And Yahweh God called to the man^[i] and said to him, “Where are you?” ¹⁰ And he replied,^[j] “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I am naked, so I hid myself.” ¹¹ Then he^[k] asked,^[l] “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I forbade you to eat?”^{[m] 12} And the man^[n] replied,^[o] “The woman whom you gave to be with me—she gave to me from the tree and I ate.” ¹³ Then^[p] Yahweh God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” ¹⁴ Then^[q] Yahweh God said to the serpent,

¹⁶ To the woman he said,

¹⁷ And to Adam^[v] he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree from which I forbade you to eat,^[w]

²⁰ And the man^[y] named^[z] his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life. ²¹ And Yahweh God made for Adam^[aa] and for his wife garments of skin, and he clothed them.

²² And Yahweh God said, “Look—the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. What if^[ab] he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?” ²³ And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴ So^[ac] he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming, turning sword^[ad] to guard the way to the tree of life.