It's Not Supposed to be This Way: The Shame of Sin

He said to the woman, “Did God really say, 'you must not eat from any tree in the garden?'"

²The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, ³but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”

"You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.

Adam. Where are you?

I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.

Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?

It was the woman You gave me...

I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children.

Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.

Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.

…the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.”

¹⁵And I will put enmity

between you and the woman,

and between your offspring^[1] and hers;

he will crush^[2] your head,

and you will strike his heel.”

You will bruise the heel of the seed of Adam and Eve, but He will crush your head.

The Lord made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.