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For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened [that is, you will have greater awareness], and you will be like God, knowing [the difference between] good and evil.” And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise and insightful, she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband [a]with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of the two of them were opened [that is, their awareness increased], and they knew that they were naked; and they fastened fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:6 This may have been sometime later. Jewish tradition said that Adam was absent at the time of Eve’s conversation with the serpent (according to the Talmud).

“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,(A) knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable(B) for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband,(C) who was with her, and he ate it.(D) Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked;(E) so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.(F)

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