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Genesis 3:11-22 World Messianic Bible (WMB)

11. God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded 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. The Lord God said to the woman, “What have you done?”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 animal of the field.You shall go on your bellyand you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

15. I will put hostility between 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.In pain you will bear children.Your desire will be for your husband,and he will rule over you.”

17. To Adam he said,“Because you have listened to your wife’s voice,and ate from the tree,about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’the ground is cursed for your sake.You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

18. It will yield thorns and thistles to you;and you will eat the herb of the field.

19. By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground,for out of it you were taken.For you are dust,and to dust you shall return.”

20. The man called his wife Havah because she would be the mother of all the living.

21. The Lord God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

22. The Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

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