in the garden.

The woman answered the serpent,

we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden.

It's only about the fruit of the tree

in the middle of the garden that God said,

you shall not eat it or even touch it,

lest you die.

But the serpent said to the woman, oh, you certainly will not die.

No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it, your eyes will be open and you will be like gods,

who know what is good and what is evil.

The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom.

So she took some of its fruit and ate it.

She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Then the eyes of both of them were open and they realized they were naked,

so they sewed fig leaves together and made lorncloths for themselves.

When they heard the sound of the Lord moving about in them in the garden at the breezy time of the day,

the man and his wife hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

The word of the Lord.

Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven.

Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven.

Blessed is he whose fault is taken away, whose sin is covered, blessed the man to whom

the Lord imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no guile. Blessed are those whose sins are

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