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Text -- Genesis 3:1-24 (NET)
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The Temptation and the Fall
3:1 Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made . He said to the woman , “Is it really true that God said , ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard ’?”
3:2 The woman said to the serpent , “We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard ;
3:3 but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said , ‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die .’”
3:4 The serpent said to the woman , “Surely you will not die ,
3:5 for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil .”
3:6 When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye , and was desirable for making one wise , she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
3:7 Then the eyes of both of them opened , and they knew they were naked ; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall
3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day , and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard .
3:9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
3:10 The man replied , “I heard you moving about in the orchard , and I was afraid because I was naked , so I hid .”
3:11 And the Lord God said , “Who told you that you were naked ? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from ?”
3:12 The man said , “The woman whom you gave me , she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”
3:13 So the Lord God said to the woman , “What is this you have done ?” And the woman replied , “The serpent tricked me, and I ate .”
3:14 The Lord God said to the serpent , “Because you have done this , cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field ! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life .
3:15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring ; her offspring will attack your head , and you will attack her offspring’s heel .”
3:16 To the woman he said , “I will greatly increase your labor pains ; with pain you will give birth to children . You will want to control your husband , but he will dominate you.”
3:17 But to Adam he said , “Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life .
3:18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field .
3:19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground , for out of it you were taken ; for you are dust , and to dust you will return .”
3:20 The man named his wife Eve , because she was the mother of all the living .
3:21 The Lord God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife , and clothed them.
3:22 And the Lord God said , “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil , he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat , and live forever .”
3:23 So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken .
3:24 When he drove the man out , he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Adam |
Serpent |
Eve |
Good and Evil |
ASTRONOMY, II |
Tree of the knowledge of good and evil |
GENESIS, 4 |
Fall of man |
GENESIS, 1-2 |
Sin |
FALL, THE |
WISDOM OF SOLOMON, THE |
Temptation |
Fall of Mankind |
DEMON; DEMONIAC; DEMONOLOGY |
Women |
SELF-SURRENDER |
God |
Satan |
Tree |
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NET Notes -> Gen 3:1; Gen 3:1; Gen 3:1; Gen 3:1; Gen 3:1; Gen 3:1; Gen 3:1; Gen 3:1; Gen 3:2; Gen 3:3; Gen 3:3; Gen 3:4; Gen 3:4; Gen 3:5; Gen 3:5; Gen 3:5; Gen 3:6; Gen 3:6; Gen 3:6; Gen 3:6; Gen 3:6; Gen 3:6; Gen 3:6; Gen 3:6; Gen 3:6; Gen 3:8; Gen 3:8; Gen 3:8; Gen 3:9; Gen 3:9; Gen 3:10; Gen 3:10; Gen 3:11; Gen 3:11; Gen 3:11; Gen 3:12; Gen 3:12; Gen 3:13; Gen 3:13; Gen 3:13; Gen 3:14; Gen 3:14; Gen 3:14; Gen 3:14; Gen 3:15; Gen 3:15; Gen 3:15; Gen 3:15; Gen 3:15; Gen 3:15; Gen 3:15; Gen 3:16; Gen 3:16; Gen 3:16; Gen 3:16; Gen 3:16; Gen 3:17; Gen 3:17; Gen 3:17; Gen 3:17; Gen 3:17; Gen 3:18; Gen 3:19; Gen 3:19; Gen 3:19; Gen 3:20; Gen 3:20; Gen 3:20; Gen 3:20; Gen 3:21; Gen 3:22; Gen 3:22; Gen 3:22; Gen 3:22; Gen 3:23; Gen 3:24; Gen 3:24; Gen 3:24; Gen 3:24; Gen 3:24
NET Notes: Gen 3:1 Heb “you must not eat from all the tree[s] of the orchard.” After the negated prohibitive verb, מִכֹּל...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:2 There is a notable change between what the Lord God had said and what the woman says. God said “you may freely eat” (the imperfect with th...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:3 The Hebrew construction is פֶּן (pen) with the imperfect tense, which conveys a negative purpose: “lest you die” =...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:4 Surely you will not die. Here the serpent is more aware of what the Lord God said than the woman was; he simply adds a blatant negation to what God sa...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:5 You will be like divine beings who know good and evil. The serpent raises doubts about the integrity of God. He implies that the only reason for the p...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:6 This pericope (3:1-7) is a fine example of Hebrew narrative structure. After an introductory disjunctive clause that introduces a new character and se...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:8 The verb used here is the Hitpael, giving the reflexive idea (“they hid themselves”). In v. 10, when Adam answers the Lord, the Niphal for...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:9 Where are you? The question is probably rhetorical (a figure of speech called erotesis) rather than literal, because it was spoken to the man, who ans...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:10 Heb “your sound.” If one sees a storm theophany here (see the note on the word “time” in v. 8), then one could translate, R...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:11 The Hebrew word order (“Did you from the tree – which I commanded you not to eat from it – eat?”) is arranged to emphasize tha...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:12 The words “some fruit” here and the pronoun “it” at the end of the sentence are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for s...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:13 This verb (the Hiphil of נָשָׁא, nasha) is used elsewhere of a king or god misleading his people into false confid...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:14 Dust you will eat. Being restricted to crawling on the ground would necessarily involve “eating dust,” although that is not the diet of th...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:15 The etiological nature of v. 15 is apparent, though its relevance for modern western man is perhaps lost because we rarely come face to face with pois...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:16 This passage is a judgment oracle. It announces that conflict between man and woman will become the norm in human society. It does not depict the NT i...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:17 In painful toil you will eat. The theme of eating is prominent throughout Gen 3. The prohibition was against eating from the tree of knowledge. The si...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:18 The Hebrew term עֵשֶׂב (’esev), when referring to human food, excludes grass (eaten by cattle) and woody pla...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:19 In general, the themes of the curse oracles are important in the NT teaching that Jesus became the cursed one hanging on the tree. In his suffering an...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:20 The explanation of the name forms a sound play (paronomasia) with the name. “Eve” is חַוָּה (khavvah) ...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:21 The Lord God made garments from skin. The text gives no indication of how this was done, or how they came by the skins. Earlier in the narrative (v. 7...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:22 Heb “and now, lest he stretch forth.” Following the foundational clause, this clause forms the main point. It is introduced with the parti...
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NET Notes: Gen 3:23 The verb is the Piel preterite of שָׁלַח (shalakh), forming a wordplay with the use of the same verb (in the Qal s...
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