The Temptation and Fall

3 Now the Shining One^[a] was more clever than any animal of the field that the Lord God had made. He^[b] asked the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You are not to eat from any tree of the garden’?”

² “We may eat from the trees of the garden,” the woman answered the Shining One,^{[c] 3} “but as for the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You are not to eat from it, nor are you to touch it, or you will die.’”

⁴ “You certainly will not die!” the Shining One^[d] told the woman. ⁵ “Even God knows that on the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you’ll become like God,^[e] knowing good and evil.”

⁶ When the woman saw that the tree produced good food, was attractive in appearance,^[f] and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it.^[g] Then she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate some, too.^{[h] 7} As a result, they both understood what they had done,^[i] and they became aware that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.