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            <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The snake tricked the woman</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You know, God made lots of animals, but the snake was more smart than all the other animals. He was really smart and tricky. One day, the snake went to the woman and said to her, &#8220;Did God say, &#8216;You can&#8217;t eat fruit from any of the trees in the garden&#8217;? Is that true?&#8221;</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Revelation 12:9; 20:2</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The woman said, &#8220;No, that&#8217;s not true. We can eat fruit from those trees there in the garden. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">God said that there is only one tree that we can&#8217;t eat from. We can&#8217;t eat any fruit that comes from one of the trees that is in the middle of the garden. God will not even let us touch that tree. He said that if we eat fruit from that tree, we will die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The snake said to the woman, &#8220;You will not die. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">God knows what will happen if you eat fruit from that tree. He knows that if you eat fruit from that tree, you will know more things, like God himself. You will know if the things you do are good, or if they are bad.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The man and the woman did the wrong thing</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The woman looked at that tree. It was pretty, and the fruit on that tree looked really good to eat, and she reckoned that if she eats some of that fruit, she will think properly. So the woman got some of that fruit, and she ate it, and she gave some of it to her husband, and he ate that fruit too.</span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Straight away, the man and the woman knew more things. They knew that they were naked, and they felt shame. They wanted to make clothes to cover up their naked bodies, so they picked some big leaves from a tree and sewed the leaves together to make some clothes.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The man and the woman tried to hide from God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Later on, in the cool part of the day, the man and the woman heard God walking in the garden. So they got behind some trees in the garden to hide from God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">God called out to the man, &#8220;Where are you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The man said, &#8220;I heard you walking in the garden, and I was frightened, because I&#8217;m naked. So I hid from you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">God asked the man, &#8220;How do you know that you are naked? Did you eat some of that fruit from the tree that I told you not to eat from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The man said, &#8220;Yes, but it was the woman that you put here with me, she gave me fruit from that tree, so I ate it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then God said to the woman, &#8220;Why did you do that bad thing?&#8221;</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">2 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Timothy 2:14</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.3.13"><span class="content">The woman said, &#8220;That snake tricked me. That&#8217;s the reason why I ate that fruit.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God judged the snake</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then God said, &#8220;Snake, you did the wrong thing, so I will curse you. I will not curse the other animals, but I will curse all you snakes. From now on, you are going to crawl around on your bellies. You will always be down on the ground in the dirt. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The woman&#8217;s kids will hate you, and so will all their kids, and all the people that will be born later on. People will always be your enemies. And Snake, your kids will hate the woman&#8217;s kids, and so will all the snake mob that will be born later on. You snake mob will always be the people&#8217;s enemies. They will hit your heads, and you will bite their feet.&#8221;</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Revelation 12:17</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God judged the woman</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then God said to the woman, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to give you a lot of trouble. You are going to have a lot of pain whenever you have a baby. It will hurt you a lot. But you will really want to have a husband, and your husband will be your boss.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God judged the man</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17 v18" data-usfm="GEN.3.17+GEN.3.18"><span class="label">17-18</span><span class="content">Then God said to the man, &#8220;I told you not to eat any fruit from one of the trees in the middle of the garden, but you listened to your wife, and you ate that fruit. So I will curse the ground and make it bad for you. It will never be easy for you to get your food from the plants in the ground any more. The ground will have lots of rubbish plants and prickles in it.</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Hebrews 6:8</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will work very hard to get your food, so you will get hot, and you will sweat a lot. And later on, you will die. I made you from the dirt, and after you die, your body will turn back into dirt.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God hunted Adam and Eve out of Eden</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Adam&#8217;s wife was the first woman, and all the people in the world came from her. So Adam gave her the name </span><span class="em"><span class="content">Eve</span></span><span class="content">. That name means </span><span class="em"><span class="content">somebody that gives life</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">God made some clothes from animal skins for Adam and his wife.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After that, God said, &#8220;These people are like us now. They know what things are good, and what things are bad. We have to stop them, so they will not eat fruit from the other tree in the middle of the garden, the tree that makes people stay alive. If they eat that fruit, they will live for ever.&#8221;</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Revelation 22:14</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So God hunted them out of the garden. To get food, they had to dig the ground and grow plants. You know, God made that man out of the ground, and after they left the garden, that man had to dig that same ground.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After God hunted them out of the garden, he made sure that they couldn&#8217;t get back. He put some of his angel workers as guards just outside the east side of the garden in Eden. And he put a long knife there with them. That knife kept on moving around all the time, and it looked like it was on fire. Those angel workers and that long knife, they kept everyone away from that tree that makes people stay alive.</span></span></div>
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You know, God made lots of animals, but the snake was more smart than all the other animals. He was really smart and tricky. One day, the snake went to the woman and said to her, “Did God say, ‘You can’t eat fruit from any of the trees in the garden’? Is that true?”
The woman said, “No, that’s not true. We can eat fruit from those trees there in the garden. God said that there is only one tree that we can’t eat from. We can’t eat any fruit that comes from one of the trees that is in the middle of the garden. God will not even let us touch that tree. He said that if we eat fruit from that tree, we will die.”
The snake said to the woman, “You will not die. God knows what will happen if you eat fruit from that tree. He knows that if you eat fruit from that tree, you will know more things, like God himself. You will know if the things you do are good, or if they are bad.”

The woman looked at that tree. It was pretty, and the fruit on that tree looked really good to eat, and she reckoned that if she eats some of that fruit, she will think properly. So the woman got some of that fruit, and she ate it, and she gave some of it to her husband, and he ate that fruit too. Straight away, the man and the woman knew more things. They knew that they were naked, and they felt shame. They wanted to make clothes to cover up their naked bodies, so they picked some big leaves from a tree and sewed the leaves together to make some clothes.

Later on, in the cool part of the day, the man and the woman heard God walking in the garden. So they got behind some trees in the garden to hide from God.
God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
The man said, “I heard you walking in the garden, and I was frightened, because I’m naked. So I hid from you.”
God asked the man, “How do you know that you are naked? Did you eat some of that fruit from the tree that I told you not to eat from?”
The man said, “Yes, but it was the woman that you put here with me, she gave me fruit from that tree, so I ate it.”
Then God said to the woman, “Why did you do that bad thing?”
The woman said, “That snake tricked me. That’s the reason why I ate that fruit.”

Then God said, “Snake, you did the wrong thing, so I will curse you. I will not curse the other animals, but I will curse all you snakes. From now on, you are going to crawl around on your bellies. You will always be down on the ground in the dirt. The woman’s kids will hate you, and so will all their kids, and all the people that will be born later on. People will always be your enemies. And Snake, your kids will hate the woman’s kids, and so will all the snake mob that will be born later on. You snake mob will always be the people’s enemies. They will hit your heads, and you will bite their feet.”

Then God said to the woman, “I’m going to give you a lot of trouble. You are going to have a lot of pain whenever you have a baby. It will hurt you a lot. But you will really want to have a husband, and your husband will be your boss.”

Then God said to the man, “I told you not to eat any fruit from one of the trees in the middle of the garden, but you listened to your wife, and you ate that fruit. So I will curse the ground and make it bad for you. It will never be easy for you to get your food from the plants in the ground any more. The ground will have lots of rubbish plants and prickles in it. You will work very hard to get your food, so you will get hot, and you will sweat a lot. And later on, you will die. I made you from the dirt, and after you die, your body will turn back into dirt.”

Adam’s wife was the first woman, and all the people in the world came from her. So Adam gave her the name Eve . That name means somebody that gives life . God made some clothes from animal skins for Adam and his wife.
After that, God said, “These people are like us now. They know what things are good, and what things are bad. We have to stop them, so they will not eat fruit from the other tree in the middle of the garden, the tree that makes people stay alive. If they eat that fruit, they will live for ever.” So God hunted them out of the garden. To get food, they had to dig the ground and grow plants. You know, God made that man out of the ground, and after they left the garden, that man had to dig that same ground.
After God hunted them out of the garden, he made sure that they couldn’t get back. He put some of his angel workers as guards just outside the east side of the garden in Eden. And he put a long knife there with them. That knife kept on moving around all the time, and it looked like it was on fire. Those angel workers and that long knife, they kept everyone away from that tree that makes people stay alive.

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