Study Desk

Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed.

Then the Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and guard it.

Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him."

Then the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, he took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the flesh.

Now the snake was the most cunning animal that the Lord God had made. The snake asked the woman, "Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?"

"except the tree in the middle of it. God told us not to eat the fruit of that tree or even touch it; if we do, we will die."

God said that because he knows that when you eat it, you will be like God and know what is good and what is bad."

That evening they heard the Lord God walking in the garden, and they hid from him among the trees.

But the Lord God called out to the man, "Where are you?"

"Who told you that you were naked?" God asked. "Did you eat the fruit that I told you not to eat?"

The Lord God asked the woman, "Why did you do this?" She replied, "The snake tricked me into eating it."

Then the Lord God said to the snake, "You will be punished for this; you alone of all the animals must bear this curse: From now on you will crawl on your belly, and you will have to eat dust as long as you live.

And the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for Adam and his wife, and he clothed them.

Then the Lord God said, "Now these human beings have become like one of us and have knowledge of what is good and what is bad. They must not be allowed to take fruit from the tree that gives life, eat it, and live forever."

So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden and made them cultivate the soil from which they had been formed.

Adam and his wife had another son. She said, "God has given me a son to replace Abel, whom Cain killed." So she named him Seth.

This is the list of the descendants of Adam. (When God created human beings, he made them like himself.

After that, Enoch lived in fellowship with God for 300 years and had other children.

He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.