Sin’s Consequences

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze,[a] and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.(A) So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

10 And he said, “I heard you[b] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

11 Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

12 The man replied,(B) “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”

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Footnotes

  1. 3:8 Lit at the wind of the day
  2. 3:10 Lit the sound of you

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking(A) in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid(B) from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”(C)

10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid(D) because I was naked;(E) so I hid.”

11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked?(F) Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?(G)

12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me(H)—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

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