What is happening here?
Genesis 3 records the entrance of human sin into the biblical story. The serpent questions and contradicts God’s word; the woman and the man eat the forbidden fruit; shame and hiding follow. God questions them, pronounces judgment on the serpent, woman, and man, gives the promise concerning the woman’s seed and the serpent’s defeat, clothes Adam and Eve, and sends them from Eden so they cannot take of the tree of life in their fallen state.
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