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(Genesis 3)
The Lord came walking in the garden in the cool part of the day. He called to Adam and Eve. "Where are you?" he asked. Adam replied from among the trees, "I heard you coming and so I hid, because I am naked." "Who told you that?" God asked him. "Did you eat from the tree I told you to stay away from?" Adam tried to think of an excuse. "The woman that you made gave me some of the fruit."
Eve said, "The serpent lied to me, and so I ate it." God said, "Serpent, because you have deceived the man and woman, you will be cursed. You will crawl on your belly and eat the dust. "Eve, bearing children will be difficult and painful for you, because you disobeyed me," God said. "You, Adam, because of your sin, will have to work hard to grow the food you need to live. And when you die, your body will become part of the earth. I made you out of dust, and to dust you will return." God made clothes out of animal skin
for Adam and Eve and sent them out of the garden, so that they would have to
work hard to grow their food. He put an angel with a flaming sword at
the gate of the garden so that Adam and Eve could not get back in.
They could not eat from the tree of life, and they could no longer live in
their beautiful home.
(From Classic Bible Stories, A
Family Treasury retold by Lise Caldwell (c) 1998 Standard Publishing.
Used by permission. This book may be purchased at your local Christian
Bookstore or from Standard Publishing (800-543-1301). |
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