1God made lots of animals, but the snake was the animal that had the most brains. He was really smart. One day the snake went up to the woman and talked to her. The snake said, “Did God say, ‘You can’t eat fruit from any of the trees in the garden.’ Is that true?”
2The woman said, “No, that’s not true. We can eat fruit from those trees there in the garden.
3But God said that there is only one tree that we can’t eat from. We can’t eat any fruit that comes from the tree that is right in the middle of the garden. God will not even let us touch that tree. If we eat fruit from that tree, we will die.”
4The snake said to the woman, “No, you will not die.
5God knows what will happen if you eat fruit from that tree. He knows that if you eat fruit from that tree, you will know about the things you do, if they are good or if they are bad. If you know that, then you will be able to think properly, like God himself.”
6The woman looked at that tree. It was pretty, and the fruit on that tree looked really good to eat, and she reckoned that if she eats some of that fruit she will think properly. So the woman got some of that fruit, and she ate it, and she gave some of it to her husband, and he ate that fruit, too.
7Straight away the man and the woman could think properly, and they knew a lot more things. They knew that they were naked, and they felt ashamed. They wanted to make clothes to cover up their naked bodies, so they picked some big leaves from a tree and sewed the leaves together to make some clothes.
8Later on, in the cool part of the day, the man and the woman could hear God walking in the garden. He was coming their way. They tried to hide from God, so they got behind the trees in the garden.
9God called out, “Where are you, Adam?”
10The man said, “I was listening, and I could hear you coming my way. I’m naked, so I was frightened, and I hid from you.”
11God asked the man, “How do you know that you are naked? Did you eat some of that fruit? I told you not to eat any fruit from that one tree in the middle of the garden.”
12The man answered God. He said, “God, you gave me that woman. She was the one. She gave me the fruit from that tree, so I ate it.”
13Then God said to the woman, “What did you do? You know you did a really bad thing.” The woman said, “That snake tricked me. That is why I ate that fruit.”
14Then God said, “Snake, you did the wrong thing, so I will curse you. I will not curse the other animals. From now on you are going to crawl around on your belly. You will always be down in the dust of the ground.
15The kids that will come from the woman will hate you, and so will all their kids, and all the people that come from them. People will always be your enemies. And Snake, your kids will hate the woman’s kids, and so will all the snake mob that came from your kids. You snake mob will always be the people’s enemies. They will hit your mob’s heads, and your mob will bite their feet. Yes, one day one of her mob will hit your head.”
16Then God said to the woman, “I’m going to give you a lot of trouble. You are going to have a lot of pain whenever you have a baby. It will hurt you a lot. But you will really want to have a husband, and your husband will be your boss.”
17Then God talked to the man. He said, “Adam, I told you not to eat any fruit from that tree in the middle of the garden, but you listened to your wife, and you ate that fruit. So I will curse this ground and make it bad for you. It will not be easy for you to get your food any more. You will have to get it from the plants in the ground, and that ground will have lots of weeds and prickles in it. You will work very hard to get your food, so you will get hot, and you will sweat a lot. And later on you will die. I made you from the dirt, and after you die, your body will turn back into dirt.”
20Adam gave his wife the name Eve. She was the first woman, and all the people in the world came from her.
21God made some clothes from animal skins for Adam and his wife.
22After that God said, “These people are like us now. They know what things are good, and what things are bad. We have to stop them, so they will not eat any fruit from the other tree in the middle of the garden, the tree that makes people live. If they eat any of that fruit, they will live for ever.”
23So God hunted them out of the garden. At first God made that man out of the ground. Later on that man had to dig that same ground outside the garden, and he had to grow food plants there to get his food.
24God made sure that people couldn’t get back into that garden called Eden. He hunted them out, then he put some of his angel workers to be guards just outside the east side of the garden. Their job was to stop anybody from getting near the tree that makes people live. They had long knives that were on fire, and they waved those long knives everywhere, to keep everyone away.
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