Genesis 3:11-21

11 He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"

12 The man said, ¹"The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."

13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, ²"The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

14 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and ³dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring^[a] and ⁴her offspring; ⁵he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."

16 To the woman he said, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; ⁶in pain you shall bring forth children. ⁷Your desire shall be for^[b] your husband, and he shall ⁸rule over you."

17 And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree ⁹of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' ¹⁰cursed is the ground because of you; ¹¹in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; ¹²for you are dust, and ¹³to dust you shall return."

20 The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.^[c]

21 And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

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Genesis 3:11-21 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

1. Genesis 2:18; Job 31:33
2. ver. 4; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Timothy 2:14
3. Isaiah 65:25; Micah 7:17
4. Isaiah 7:14; Micah 5:3; Matthew 1:23, 25; Luke 1:34, 35; Galatians 4:4; 1 Timothy 2:15
5. Romans 16:20; Hebrews 2:14; Rev. 20:1-3, 10
6. [John 16:21]
7. Genesis 4:7; Song of Songs 7:10
8. 1 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Corinthians 14:34; Ephesians 5:22-24; Colossians 3:18; 1 Timothy 2:11, 12; Titus 2:5; 1 Pet. 3:1, 5, 6
9. Genesis 2:17
10. Genesis 5:29; [Romans 8:20-22]
11. Ecclesiastes 2:22, 23
12. Genesis 2:7; Psalms 103:14
13. Job 34:15; Psalms 104:29; Ecclesiastes 3:20; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Romans 5:12

Footnotes 3

[a]. Hebrew seed; so throughout Genesis
[b]. Or against
[c]. Eve sounds like the Hebrew for life-giver and resembles the word for living

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