The Serpent’s Deception
(Romans 5:12–21)
Now the serpent 1was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” 2Co 11:32Co 11:14Rev 12:9Rev 20:2Mat 4:3Gen 3:13-15Mat 10:16Mat 4:6
The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, Psa 58:4 but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’” Gen 2:16-172Co 6:17Exo 19:12-13Gen 20:6Job 1:111Ch 16:22Col 2:21Job 19:21
“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her. Jhn 8:442Co 11:31Ti 2:142Co 2:11Gen 3:132Ki 1:162Ki 1:42Ki 1:6 “For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Ezk 28:22Th 2:42Co 11:13-152Co 4:4Gen 2:172Co 11:3Act 12:22-23Act 26:18
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. 1Jn 2:16Jas 1:14-151Ti 2:142Sa 11:2Jos 7:21Rom 5:12-19Gen 6:2Ezk 24:16
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves. Gen 2:25Isa 59:6Gen 3:5Job 9:29-31Gen 3:10-11Isa 28:202Ki 6:20Deu 28:34
God Arraigns Adam and Eve
Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze 2of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. Jer 23:24Heb 4:13Pro 15:3Job 34:21-22Psa 139:1-12Gen 3:10Jon 1:9-10Rom 2:15
But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?” Gen 4:9Gen 16:8Gen 11:5Gen 18:20-21Jos 7:17-19Rev 20:12-13
“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.” Gen 2:25Psa 119:120Isa 57:11Isa 47:31Jn 3:20Exo 3:6Job 23:15Isa 33:14
“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” Rom 3:20Gen 4:10Psa 50:21
And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” Pro 28:13Jas 1:13-15Job 31:33Rom 10:31Sa 15:20-24Gen 2:18Luk 10:29Pro 19:3
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” 2Co 11:31Ti 2:14Gen 3:4-6Gen 4:10-12Jhn 18:352Sa 12:9-122Sa 3:24Gen 44:15
“The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
The Fate of the Serpent
So the LORD God said to the serpent: Mic 7:17Isa 65:25Psa 72:9Isa 29:4Deu 28:15-20Gen 9:6Lev 20:25Exo 21:28-32
“Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all livestock
and every beast of the field!
On your belly will you go,
and dust you will eat,
all the days of your life.
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, Rom 16:201Jn 3:8Rev 12:17Isa 7:14Heb 2:14-15Gal 4:4Jhn 8:44Mat 1:23
and between your seed and her seed.
He will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel. 3”
The Punishment of Mankind
To the woman He said: Tit 2:5Col 3:181Co 11:31Co 14:341Ti 2:15Eph 5:22-241Ti 2:11-121Co 7:4
“I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth;
in pain you will bring forth children.
Your desire will be for your husband, 4
and he will rule over you.”
And to Adam He said: Rom 8:20-22Gen 5:29Isa 24:5-6Ecc 2:22-23Jhn 16:33Job 14:1Jer 7:23-24Ecc 5:17
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten from the tree
of which I commanded you not to eat,
cursed is the ground because of you;
through toil you will eat of it
all the days of your life.
Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, Isa 7:23Job 5:5Mat 13:7Psa 104:14-15Heb 6:8Isa 32:13Isa 5:6Jer 4:3
and you will eat the plants of the field.
By the sweat of your brow Ecc 12:7Job 34:15Psa 104:29Gen 2:7Psa 90:3Eph 4:28Ecc 3:201Co 15:21-22
you will eat your bread,
until you return to the ground—
because out of it were you taken.
For dust you are,
and to dust you shall return.”
And Adam named his wife Eve, 5 because she would be the mother of all the living. Mat 1:23Gen 2:23Gen 2:20Gen 5:29Gen 16:111Sa 1:20Act 17:26Exo 2:10
The Expulsion from Paradise
And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them. Isa 61:102Co 5:212Co 5:2-3Gen 3:7Rom 3:22
Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...” Rev 2:7Rev 22:14Pro 3:18Gen 11:6-7Rev 22:2Gen 2:9Jhn 6:48-58Gen 1:26
Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. Gen 4:2Gen 3:19Gen 4:12Ecc 5:9Gen 2:5Gen 9:20 So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life. Heb 1:7Psa 104:4Exo 25:18-221Ch 21:16-17Heb 10:18-22Jhn 14:6Ezk 10:2-22Gen 2:8-9