Life in the Garden of Eden – Gen. 2:8-3:24

SUMMARY

Main Characters:

•  Adam – First Man created
• Eve – Adam’s wife created from his rib
• Serpent – A talking  walking animal in the garden

Important Facts:

•  YHWH placed Adam in the garden on the 3rd day of creation during the creation of the plants & trees. (gen. 2:5-9)
• A river went out of the garden to water the garden and turned into 4 heads.
  • The first river was called Pison:  it compasses the whole land of Havilah, there is gold, bdellium & onyx stone.
  • The second river is Gihon: it compasses the whole land of Ethiopia.
  • The third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria.
  • The fourth river is Euphrates.
• YHWH placed Adam in the garden to take care of it. (gen. 2:15)
• YHWH gave Adam one important instruction & law when in the garden:

• “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” – (Gen. 2:16-17)

• Adam names the animals which YHWH made
• YHWH made Eve from Adam’s rib
• Institute of marriage was created. (Gen. 2:23-24)
• The serpent (snake) was once a walking talking animal before he was cursed.
• The Serpent tempts Eve to eat from the forbidden fruit. Eve eats and gives Adam to eat also.
• Adam & Eve is kicked out of the garden & cursed by YHWH.

Main Events

During creation, YHWH places Adam in the garden on the 3rd day.  YHWH gives Adam a rule in the garden, which was not to eat of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good & evil.  After YHWH makes the animals, he brings them to Adam to name.  Soon after, YHWH forms Eve from Adam’s rib.  Adam & Eve become husband and wife.  During their stay in the garden, Eve is tempted by the serpent to eat from the forbidden tree of knowledge of good & evil. The serpents tempts Eve into disobeying YHWH’s rule and she eats from the tree.  She then gives Adam the fruit of this tree and he also eats from it.  Their eye open and they realize they are naked. YHWH finds out and they are all cursed and kicked out of the garden.  The serpent is cursed to crawl on his belly & is cursed above all cattle, Adam is cursed to work hard to gain food from the ground & Eve is cursed with child labor pains.

Key Memory Verses:

 “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” – (Gen. 2:16-17)

“Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” (Gen. 2:23-24)

Listen to the Audio:

GENESIS 2:8-3:24

 2:8 And YHWH Elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

2:9 And out of the ground made YHWH Elohim to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

2:11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

2:12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

2:15 And YHWH Elohim took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

2:16 And YHWH Elohim commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

2:18 And YHWH Elohim said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

2:19 And out of the ground YHWH Elohim formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

2:21 And YHWH Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

2:22 And the rib, which YHWH Elohim had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis 3

3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which YHWH Elohim had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath Elohim said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, Elohim hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

3:5 For Elohim doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be like Elohim, knowing good and evil.

3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

3:8 And they heard the voice of YHWH Elohim walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of YHWH Elohim amongst the trees of the garden.

3:9 And YHWH Elohim called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

3:13 And YHWH Elohim said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

3:14 And YHWH Elohim said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the day of thy life;

3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

3:20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did YHWH Elohim make coats of skins, and clothed them.

3:22 And YHWH Elohim said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

3:23 Therefore YHWH Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

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