The Fall

3 Now the serpent^(A) was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?^(B)”

⁴ “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.^(A)

⁵ “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,^(A) knowing good and evil.”

¹⁴ So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,