Verse 22
Genesis 3:22
GOD'S WORD Translation
22
Yahweh God (Elohim) said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֗ים הֵ֤ן הָֽ/אָדָם֙ הָיָה֙ כְּ/אַחַ֣ד מִמֶּ֔/נּוּ לָ/דַ֖עַת ט֣וֹב וָ/רָ֑ע וְ/עַתָּ֣ה פֶּן יִשְׁלַ֣ח יָד֗/וֹ וְ/לָקַח֙ גַּ֚ם מֵ/עֵ֣ץ הַֽ/חַיִּ֔ים וְ/אָכַ֖ל וָ/חַ֥י לְ/עֹלָֽם
English Translation
And the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever."
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Chapter 3 Context
1
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God (Elohim) had made. He...
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2
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
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3
but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God (Elohim) has said, ‘You shal...
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4
The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,
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for God (Elohim) knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like Go...
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6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that...
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7
Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and...
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8
They heard Yahweh God (Elohim)’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and...
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9
Yahweh God (Elohim) called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
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10
The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid my...
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11
God (Elohim) said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded...
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12
The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it....
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13
Yahweh God (Elohim) said to the woman, “What have you done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived m...
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14
Yahweh God (Elohim) said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
you are cursed above all lives...
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15
I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He wil...
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16
To the woman he said,
“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.
In pain you will bear childr...
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17
To Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to your wife’s voice,
and ate from the tree,
about which...
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18
It will yield thorns and thistles to you;
and you will eat the herb of the field.
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19
By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground,
for out of it you were...
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20
The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
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21
Yahweh God (Elohim) made coats of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
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22
Yahweh God (Elohim) said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, le...
23
Therefore Yahweh God (Elohim) sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he...
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24
So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming swo...
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