Daily Discovery Bible Study

9 The Lord God called out to Adam, “Where are you?”

10 “I heard you walking in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid,” he replied.

11 “Who told you that you were naked?” asked the Lord God. “Did you eat fruit from the tree I ordered you not to?”

12 “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit from the tree, and I ate it,” Adam replied.

13 The Lord God asked Eve, “Why have you done this?”

“The serpent tricked me, and so I ate it,” she replied.

14 Then the Lord God told the serpent, “Because of what you've done, you are cursed more than any of the other animals. You will slide along on your belly and eat dust as long as you live.15 I will make sure you and your children, and the woman and her children, are enemies. One of her children will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

16 He told Eve, “I will make pregnancy much more difficult, and giving birth will be very painful. However, you will still desire your husband, but he will have control over you.”

17 He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will have to eat wild plants.19 You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”

Genesis 3: 9-19