Genesis 3:4-15
1599 Geneva Bible
4 Then the (A)serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not [a][b]die at all,
5 But God doth know that when ye shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, [c]knowing good and evil.
6 So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meat, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired, to get knowledge) took of the fruit thereof, and did (B)eat, and gave also to her husband with her, and he [d]did eat.
7 Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they [e]knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig tree leaves together, and made themselves [f]breeches.
8 ¶ Afterward they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the [g]cool of the day, and the man and his wife [h]hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 But the Lord God called to the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10 Who said, I heard thy voice in the garden and was afraid: because I was [i]naked, therefore I hid myself.
11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12 Then the man said, The woman which thou [j]gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13 And the Lord God said to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, [k]The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 ¶ Then the Lord God said to the serpent, [l]Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and [m]dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
15 I will also put enmity between [n]thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. He shall break thine [o]head, and thou shalt [p]bruise his heel.
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- Genesis 3:4 This is Satan’s chiefest subtlety, to cause us not to fear God’s threatenings.
- Genesis 3:4 Hebrew, die the death.
- Genesis 3:5 As though he should say, God doth not forbid you to eat of the fruit, save that he knoweth that if ye should eat thereof, ye should be like to him.
- Genesis 3:6 Not so much to please his wife, as moved by ambition at her persuasion.
- Genesis 3:7 They began to feel their misery, but they sought not to God for remedy.
- Genesis 3:7 Hebrew, things to gird about them to hide their privities.
- Genesis 3:8 Or, wind.
- Genesis 3:8 The sinful conscience fleeth God’s presence.
- Genesis 3:10 His hypocrisy appeareth in that he hid the cause of his nakedness, which was the transgression of God’s commandment.
- Genesis 3:12 His wickedness and lack of true repentance appeareth in this that he burdeneth God with his fault, because he had given him a wife.
- Genesis 3:13 Instead of confessing her sin, she increaseth it by accusing the serpent.
- Genesis 3:14 He asked the reason of Adam and his wife, because he would bring them to repentance, but he asketh not the serpent, because he would show him no mercy.
- Genesis 3:14 As a vile and contemptible beast, Isa. 65:25.
- Genesis 3:15 He chiefly meaneth Satan, by whose motion and craft the serpent deceived the woman.
- Genesis 3:15 That is, the power of sin and death.
- Genesis 3:15 Satan shall sting Christ and his members, but not overcome them.
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