Welcome to the Jesse Tree on the Catholic Sprouts podcast. As you follow along, make sure that you are coloring and hanging your ornaments, which you can find in print for free in the notes for this podcast episode. Today is the first Sunday of Advent. It's the first week of Advent and this week in the Jesse Tree will take you through

some of the first people that we meet in the Bible, all of whom can be found in the book of Genesis.

As you likely know, the Bible starts with the story of creation. God created the world and everything in it as a gift for us. The crowning

piece of creation is man and woman, created in God's image. The Bible tells us that God

breathed his very life into humanity and made them stewards of creation.

In a beautiful garden, Adam and Eve lived in absolute harmony with each other and with God.

However, although God intended for humanity to live like this forever, Adam and Eve were not alone in the garden.

Listen now to a reading from the book of Genesis where we will see Adam and Eve commit the first sin.

Genesis chapter 3 1 through 13. Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, did God say you shall not eat from any tree in the garden? The woman said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the

middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die. But the serpent said to the woman,

you will not die, for God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like

God, knowing good and evil. 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.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked,

and they sewed fig leaves together and made loining claws for themselves. They heard the sound of the Lord God

walking in the garden at the same time of the evening breeze, 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? 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 from the tree of which I commanded

you not to eat? The man said, The woman whom you gave me to be with me, she gave me the fruit

from the tree, and I ate it. Then the Lord God said to the woman,

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