1. The serpent was more crafty than the other beasts that God had made.
Note: before being cursed, the snake was supposedly a beautiful creature. Nowhere in this account is the serpent referred to as Satan.
2. He said to the woman: “Did God actually say ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden?’ The woman said ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden
3. but God said ‘you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden. Neither shall you touch it, lest you die.
4. The serpent said ‘You will not surely die’.
5. For God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
6. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Note: Eve was deceived, Adam ate knowingly. Their sin was worse than merely eating the forbidden fruit. They were disobeying God. They believed the serpent’s lie. They put their will ahead of God’s.
7. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sawed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
Note: they felt guilty for their sin.
8. They heard the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, so they hid in the trees from God.
Comment: throughout the chapter God continues to be referred to as “the Lord God”. Adam & Eve’s intimate relationship with God had been broken.
9. The Lord God called to the man ‘Where are you?’
10. Adam said ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.
11. God 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 ‘The woman whom who gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.’
13. The Lord God said to the woman ‘What is this that you have done?’ The woman said ‘The serpent deceived me, and I ate.’
Q: how is this next section different?
14. The Lord God said to the serpent "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all the beasts of the field, on your belly you should go and dust you shall eat, all the days of your life.
Note: the entire animal kingdom was affected by man’s fall. Jer 12:4 and Romans 8:20 Micah 7:17 Isa 65:25
15. I will put an enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring (Jesus), he (Jesus) shall bruise your (Satan’s) head, and you (Satan) shall bruise his (Jesus) heel.
Comment: this is the first peaching of the Gospel – the promise of redemption…the redemption of Eve. She had sold her soul to the devil, but now her ancestor would redeem the world. John 8:44 and I John 3:13.
16. To the woman God said: I will surely multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire will be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.
Q: what does this mean? Note: 1 Tim 2:15 Eph 5;23
17. To Adam God said "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you ‘You shall not eat of it’. Cursed is the ground because of you, in 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, until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you were dust, and to dust you shall return.
20. The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Q: if the world was just created, where did all this language come from?
Q: where was it that Eve meant life producer, mother of all the living?
21. The Lod God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins and clothed him.
Q: why did God do this? Did God kill the animals to get the skins? Is this key to the chapter?
The Lord God shows that He does still love them, despite their sin and punishment. How do you think they felt after being punished?
22. The Lord God said ‘Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil…
Q: who is us?
Now, lest he also take of the tree of life and eat, and live forever…
Comment: now we know the purpose of the other tree. Had they ate from the tree of life they would’ve lived forever in their fallen state, in death and alienation. Rev 22:1-5 the river of life flows past the tree of life.
23. That is why God sent Adam out from the garden of Eden, to work the ground from which he was created.
Q: does this say that he was not cast out, but sent out with a purpose?
24. God drove out the man. At the east of the garden of Eden, God placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
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