Genesis 3:10-20

10 And he said, "I heard You^[a] 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 had commanded you not to eat from?"

12 Then the man replied, "The woman You gave to be with me-she gave me [some fruit] from the tree, and I ate."

13 So the Lord God asked the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "It was the serpent. He deceived me, and I ate."^[b]

14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.

15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.^[c]

16 He said to the woman: I will intensify your labor pains; you will bear children in anguish. Your desire^[d] will be for your husband, yet he will dominate you.

17 And He said to Adam, "Because you listened to your wife's voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'Do not eat from it': The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labor^[e] all the days of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.^[f]

19 You will eat bread^[g] by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust."

20 Adam named his wife Eve^[h] because she was the mother of all the living.

Genesis 3:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 3

In this chapter an account is given of the temptation of our first parents, of the instrument of it, and of their fall into it, and of the effect of it, Ge 3:1-7 their summons upon it to appear before God, against whom they had sinned, Ge 3:8-10 their examination by him, and the excuses they made, Ge 3:11-13 the various sentences passed of the serpent, the woman, and the man, Ge 3:14-19 some incidental things recorded, expressive of faith and hope in man, and of favour to him, Ge 3:20,21 and his expulsion from the garden of Eden, Ge 3:22-24.

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit the sound of You
• [b]. Rm 7:11; 1 Tm 2:14
• [c]. Heb 2:14; 1 Jn 3:8
• [d]. Gn 4:7
• [e]. Lit it through pain
• [f]. Gn 2:5
• [g]. Or food
• [h]. Lit Living, or Life