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God knows that if you eat the fruit from that tree, you will learn about good and evil and you will be like God!"

Then they heard the Lord God walking in the garden during the cool part of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the Lord God among the trees in the garden.

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

God asked, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?"

Then the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."

The Lord God said to the snake, "Because you did this, a curse will be put on you. You will be cursed as no other animal, tame or wild, will ever be. You will crawl on your stomach, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

Then God said to the woman, "I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant, and when you give birth to children, you will have great pain. You will greatly desire your husband, but he will rule over you."

Then God said to the man, "You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. "So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.

The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.

Then the Lord God said, "Humans have become like one of us; they know good and evil. We must keep them from eating some of the fruit from the tree of life, or they will live forever."

So the Lord God forced Adam out of the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

After God forced humans out of the garden, he placed angels and a sword of fire that flashed around in every direction on its eastern border. This kept people from getting to the tree of life.

Later, Cain brought some food from the ground as a gift to God.

Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth and said, "God has given me another child. He will take the place of Abel, who was killed by Cain."

This is the family history of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them in his own likeness.

After Methuselah was born, Enoch walked with God 300 years more and had other sons and daughters.

Enoch walked with God; one day Enoch could not be found, because God took him.

When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also later. That was when the sons of God had sexual relations with the daughters of human beings. These women gave birth to children, who became famous and were the mighty warriors of long ago.

This is the family history of Noah. Noah was a good man, the most innocent man of his time, and he walked with God.