The LORD God placed the man
in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
but the LORD God warned him,
“You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—
except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
If you eat its fruit,
you are sure to die.”
The serpent was the shrewdest
of all the wild animals the LORD God had made.
One day he asked the woman,
“Did God really say you must not eat the fruit
from any of the trees in the garden?”
