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Genesis 3:4-16 Modern English Version (MEV)

4. Then the serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!

5. For God knows that on the day you eat of 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, that it was pleasing to the eyes and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

7. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

8. Then they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

9. The Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

10. He said, “I heard Your voice in the garden and was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself.”

11. And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

12. The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”

13. Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What have you done?”And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

14. The Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, You are cursed above all livestock,and above every beast of the field;you will go on your belly,and you will eat dustall the days of your life.

15. I will put enmitybetween you and the woman,and between your offspring and her offspring;he will bruise your head,and you will bruise his heel.”

16. To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth,and in pain you will bring forth children;your desire will be for your husband,and he will rule over you.”

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