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Genesis 3:12 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” "
Genesis 3:12
Verse in Context
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10 The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
11 God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
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Genesis 3:1
"Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”"
Genesis 3:2
"The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,"
Genesis 3:3
"but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”"
Genesis 3:4
"The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,"
Genesis 3:5
"for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”"
Genesis 3:6
"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 some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too."
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