A reading from the book of Genesis.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.

He said to the woman,

Did God actually say, you shall not eat of any tree in the garden?

And 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 trees in the garden, 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.

But the serpent said to the woman,

You will not surely 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 were opened, and they knew that they were

naked, and they sowed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. 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 a 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 the fruit of the tree, which I commanded you not to eat. The man said, the woman whom you gave to be with me,

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