Genesis 3:9-24

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⁹But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”^(A)

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

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

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

¹³Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me,^(G) and I ate.”

¹⁴So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

“Cursed^(H) are you above all livestock
    and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
    and you will eat dust^(I)
    all the days of your life.
¹⁵And I will put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring^[a]^(J) and hers;^(K)
he will crush^[b] your head,^(L)
    and you will strike his heel.”

¹⁶To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.^(M)
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.^(N)”

¹⁷To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’^(O)

“Cursed^(P) is the ground^(Q) because of you;
    through painful toil^(R) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.^(S)
¹⁸It will produce thorns and thistles^(T) for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.^(U)
¹⁹By the sweat of your brow^(V)
    you will eat your food^(W)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”^(X)

²⁰Adam^[c] named his wife Eve,^[d]^(Y) because she would become the mother of all the living.

²¹The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.^(Z) ²²And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,^(AA) knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life^(AB) and eat, and live forever.” ²³So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden^(AC) to work the ground^(AD) from which he had been taken. ²⁴After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side^[e] of the Garden of Eden^(AE) cherubim^(AF) and a flaming sword^(AG) flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.^(AH)

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Footnotes

Genesis 3:15 Or seed
Genesis 3:15 Or strike
Genesis 3:20 Or The man
Genesis 3:20 Eve probably means living.
Genesis 3:24 Or placed in front

Psalm 90:1-12

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BOOK IV

Psalms 90–106

Psalm 90

A prayer of Moses the man of God.

¹Lord, you have been our dwelling place^(A)
    throughout all generations.
²Before the mountains were born^(B)
    or you brought forth the whole world,
    from everlasting to everlasting^(C) you are God.^(D)

³You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”^(E)
⁴A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.^(F)
⁵Yet you sweep people away^(G) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:
⁶In the morning it springs up new,
    but by evening it is dry and withered.^(H)

⁷We are consumed by your anger
    and terrified by your indignation.
⁸You have set our iniquities before you,
    our secret sins^(I) in the light of your presence.^(J)
⁹All our days pass away under your wrath;
    we finish our years with a moan.^(K)
¹⁰Our days may come to seventy years,^(L)
    or eighty,^(M) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,^(N)
    for they quickly pass, and we fly away.^(O)
¹¹If only we knew the power of your anger!
    Your wrath^(P) is as great as the fear that is your due.^(Q)
¹²Teach us to number our days,^(R)
    that we may gain a heart of wisdom.^(S)

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Mark 8:1-10

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Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand^(A)^(B)^(C)

8 During those days another large crowd gathered. Since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said, ²“I have compassion for these people;^(D) they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. ³If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance.”

⁴His disciples answered, “But where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them?”

⁵“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked.

“Seven,” they replied.

⁶He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people, and they did so. ⁷They had a few small fish as well; he gave thanks for them also and told the disciples to distribute them.^(E) ⁸The people ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.^(F) ⁹About four thousand were present. After he had sent them away, ¹⁰he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.