Adam's Story
A painting of Adam and Eve before God after they disobeyed

Adam's Story · Event 7 of 12

God's Judgment

The Fall · The garden of Eden

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Genesis 3:14–19

14So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you did this, you are cursed above all livestock and wild animals. You will crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life. 15I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel. 16To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception. In sorrow you will give birth to children. Your desire will be to your husband, and he will rule over you." 17To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree I commanded you not to eat from, the ground is cursed because of you; in sorrow you will eat from it all the days of your life." 18It will produce thorns and weeds, and you will eat the wild plants of the field. 19You will work hard and sweat to produce food, until you return to the ground from which you were made. You are dust, and to dust you will return."

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About this event

What happened?

God cursed the serpent. He said he would put hostility between the serpent and the woman, and between the serpent's offspring and hers. Her offspring would crush the serpent's head, and the serpent would strike his heel. God told the woman that she would bear children in pain. He told the man that the ground was cursed because of him. It would grow thorns and thistles, and he would eat by the sweat of his face until he returned to the ground, “for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

Who is here?

  • The LORD God
  • Eve
  • The serpent

Where did this happen?

The garden of Eden

The garden God planted in the east, in a land called Eden. A river flowed out of Eden to water it and then divided into four rivers, including the Tigris and the Euphrates.

Where this fits

Event 3 of 5 in The Fall: Adam and Eve eat from the one tree God told them not to eat from, and they are sent out of Eden.

Good to know

Many Christians see God's words to the serpent (Genesis 3:15) as the first promise of a Savior who would defeat evil. The verse itself does not name him, and others read it more generally as the long struggle between people and evil.

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Adam's Story