Genesis 3 (NET)

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Genesis 3:1¹Now the serpent was shrewder than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Is it really true that God said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 11:3 2 Cor 11:14 Rev 12:9 Rev 20:2 Matt 4:3 Gen 3:13-15 Matt 10:16 Matt 4:6 Isa 27:1 Matt 4:9

Genesis 3:2²The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 58:4

Genesis 3:3³but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, ‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 2:16-17 2 Cor 6:17 Exod 19:12-13 Gen 20:6 Job 1:11 1 Chr 16:22 Col 2:21 Job 19:21 Job 2:5 1 Cor 7:1

Genesis 3:6⁶When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 2:16 Jas 1:14-15 1 Tim 2:14 2 Sam 11:2 Josh 7:21 Rom 5:12-19 Gen 6:2 Ezek 24:16 Ezek 24:25 Hos 6:7

Genesis 3:7⁷Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 2:25 Isa 59:6 Gen 3:5 Job 9:29-31 Gen 3:10-11 Isa 28:20 2 Kgs 6:20

Genesis 3:8⁸Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 23:24 Heb 4:13 Prov 15:3 Job 34:21-22 Ps 139:1-12 Gen 3:10 Jonah 1:9-10 Rom 2:15 Amos 9:2-3 Job 31:33

Genesis 3:10¹⁰The man replied, “I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 2:25 Ps 119:120 Isa 57:11 Isa 47:3 1 John 3:20 Exod 3:6 Job 23:15 Isa 33:14 Exod 32:25 Gen 3:7

Genesis 3:11¹¹And the Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 3:20 Gen 4:10 Ps 50:21

Genesis 3:13¹³So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 11:3 1 Tim 2:14 Gen 3:4-6 Gen 4:10-12 John 18:35 2 Sam 12:9-12

Genesis 3:14¹⁴The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 7:17 Isa 65:25 Ps 72:9 Isa 29:4 Deut 28:15-20 Gen 9:6 Lev 20:25 Exod 21:28-32 Gen 3:1

Genesis 3:15¹⁵And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 16:20 1 John 3:8 Rev 12:17 Isa 7:14 Heb 2:14-15 Gal 4:4 John 8:44 Matt 1:23 Rev 12:7-13 Isa 53:3-4

Genesis 3:16¹⁶To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Titus 2:5 Col 3:18 1 Cor 11:3 1 Tim 2:15 Eph 5:22-24 1 Cor 14:34 1 Tim 2:11-12 1 Cor 7:4 John 16:21 Gen 4:7

Genesis 3:17¹⁷But to Adam he said, “Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 8:20-22 Gen 5:29 Eccl 2:22-23 Isa 24:5-6 John 16:33 Job 14:1 Jer 7:23-24 Eccl 5:17 Gen 2:16-17 Ps 127:2

Genesis 3:19¹⁹By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 12:7 Job 34:15 Ps 104:29 Gen 2:7 Ps 90:3 Eph 4:28 Eccl 3:20 1 Cor 15:21-22 Gen 18:27 2 Thess 3:10

Genesis 3:21²¹The Lord God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 61:10 2 Cor 5:21 2 Cor 5:2-3 Gen 3:7 Rom 3:22

Genesis 3:22²²And the Lord God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 2:7 Rev 22:14 Prov 3:18 Gen 11:6-7 Rev 22:2 Gen 2:9 John 6:48-58 Gen 1:26 Gen 3:5 Isa 47:12-13

Genesis 3:23²³So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 4:2 Gen 3:19 Gen 4:12 Eccl 5:9 Gen 2:5 Gen 9:20

Genesis 3:24²⁴When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 1:7 Ps 104:4 Exod 25:18-22 1 Chr 21:16-17 Heb 10:18-22 John 14:6 Ezek 10:2-22 Gen 2:8-9 Josh 5:13 Ps 80:1

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