Today is the second day of January. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is great to be here with you today on day.

Two of our grand adventure through every book, every chapter, every verse in the entire Bible.

Welcome back. This is sort of move in week where we just kind of get our bearings and our rhythm and then realize pretty quickly how poignant the Bible is and can be.

And so as we just began the journey yesterday, we began four books, Genesis and the Old Testament, Matthew, which is the first book of the New Testament.

And then Psalms and Proverbs. And that's a lot of moving in in one day. And so we're taking a few days just to kind of go over, kind of give an overview of what it is we're reading.

And so we orient ourselves a little bit to the book of Genesis yesterday. And we'll do the same thing when we get to the book of Matthew today.

But before we get to Matthew, we have another step forward in the book of Genesis. Or reading from the New Living Translation this week, Genesis, chapters three and four.

The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?

Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, the woman replied.

It's only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, you must not eat it or even touch it. If you do, you will die.

You won't die. The serpent replied to the woman, God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it. And you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.

The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious and she wanted the wisdom it would give her.

So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate it too.

At that moment their eyes were opened and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.

When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees.

Then the Lord God called the man, where are you? He replied, I heard you walking in the garden. So I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.

Who told you that you were naked? The Lord God asked, have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?

The man replied, it was the woman who gave me the fruit and I ate it. Then the Lord God asked the woman, what have you done?

The serpent deceived me, she replied, that's why I ate it. Then the Lord God said to the serpent, because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild.

You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live and I will cause hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring.

He will strike your head and you will strike his heel. Then he said to the woman, I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy and in pain you will give birth and you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.

And the man he said, since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you.

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