Welcome to this special Christmas Eve episode of the Crossway podcast. Today, we invite you to

slow down and reflect with us on the greatest story ever told. We'll be guided through eight

key scripture passages, read by eight of our ESV audio Bible narrators, each offering a glimpse

into God's unfolding plan to save and restore his people through Christ.

We pray this time in God's word, points your heart to the hope and joy of Christmas.

And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

But the Lord God called to the man and said to him,

Where are you?

And he said, I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked

and I hid myself.

He said, who told you that you were naked?

Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?

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

And the Lord God said to the woman, what is this that you have done?

The woman said, the serpent deceived me, and I ate.

The Lord God said to the servant, 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 dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman,

and between your offspring and her offspring. He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

To the woman, he said, I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing.

In pain, you shall bring forth children.

Your desire shall be for your husband,

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