The Fall of Man

  The serpent was the most subtle of all the wild beast that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?  The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden.  But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death".'  Then the serpent said to the woman, 'No!  You will not die!  God knows that in fact that on the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil.'  The woman saw that it was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was desirable for the knowledge it could give. So she took some of the fruit and ate it.  She gave some also to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.  Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realized they were naked.  So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-clothes.   

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