The Garden of Eden
Genesis 3
Now of all the animals that God put into the garden of Eden, the snake was the cleverest. This snake said to the first woman, "Did God tell you not to eat any of the things that grow on the trees in this garden?
"We may all the fruit we want," she told the snake. "But we may not eat any fruit of the tree of knowing good and bad. If we eat that fruit, we will die."
The snake said, "You won't die! But if you eat that fruit, you will be like God, and you will know what is good and what is bad."
The woman listened to the snake. She was that the fruit on the tree of knowing good and bad looked delicious. She took some and ate it.
Then she gave some to the man, who was with her, and he ate some, too.
Suddenly they understood what was good and what was bad. They were ashamed and hid in the garden.
When God found out what they had done, God was angry. "You ate some of the fruit that I told you not to eat," God said to the man and the woman.
"Now you will have to work hard for your food. You will have to plant seeds instead of picking fruit off the trees in Eden."
Then God made Adam and Eve leave the garden of Eden forever and put an angel with a sword made from fire in front of the garden to guard it.
