Monday, May 5, 2014

They Are Driven From The Garden

The Lord God said to the serpent :
"Because you have done this , you are cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field . You shall crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life . I shall make the woman your enemy and her children the enemies of your children . They shall wound you in the head and you shall wound them in the heel."
To the woman he said :
"I will multiply your suffering . you shall bring forth your children in sorrow and for happiness you shall depend on your husband , and he shall rule over you ."
To the man he said :
"Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate of the forbidden fruit , the ground shall be cursed beneath you . In sorrow you shall eat of it every day of your life . Thorns and thistles it will bring forth for you , and you shall eat the grass of the field . By the sweat of your brow you will earn your bread until you return to the earth , for out of the earth you were taken : dust you are and to dust you shall return ."
The Lord God then made coats of skin for the man and his wife , and clothed them .
And the Lord God said :
"Behold , the man is like one of us now . knowing all things . If he were to put out his hand and eat also of the tree of life , he would live for ever ."
Therefore the Lord God sent man out of the garden of the Eden , to till the ground from which he was made . He drove him out , and placed cherubim to the east of the garden of Eden , and a flaming sword which turned in every direction to guard the path to the tree of life.

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