So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,[a] she took of its fruit (A)and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, (B)and he ate.

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  1. Genesis 3:6 Or to give insight

17 And to Adam he said,

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
    and have eaten of the tree
(A)of which I commanded you,
    ‘You shall not eat of it,’
(B)cursed is the ground because of you;
    (C)in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
    and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
(D)for you are dust,
    and (E)to dust you shall return.”

20 The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.[a] 21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

22 Then the Lord God said, (F)“Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand (G)and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden (H)to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the (I)cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

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  1. Genesis 3:20 Eve sounds like the Hebrew for life-giver and resembles the word for living

(A)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. (B)To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of (C)the tree of life, which is in (D)the paradise of God.’

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