Our morning text is found in Genesis chapter 3 verses 1 through 19.

Please follow along with me as I read.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God had made.

He said to the woman, did God say you shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

And the woman said to the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the

trees of the garden but God said you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which 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 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,

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, and he ate.

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

sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons, 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 thee in the garden,

and I was a prey because I was naked and I hid myself.

He said, who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree which I commanded you not to eat?

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

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