First ReadingGenesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7
From the Book of Genesis
7The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground,and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;and man became a living soul.8The Lord God planted a garden eastward,in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.9Out of the ground the Lord God made every tree to growthat is pleasant to the sight,and good for food,including the tree of life in the middle of the gardenand the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
some verses are not read1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the fieldwhich the Lord God had made.He said to the woman,“Has God really said,‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
2The woman said to the serpent,“We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,3but not the fruit of the treewhich is in the middle of the garden.God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it.You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”
4The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,5for God knows that in the day you eat it,your eyes will be opened,and you will be like God,knowing good and evil.”
6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food,and that it was a delight to the eyes,and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,she took some of its fruit, and ate.Then she gave some to her husband with her,and he ate it, too.7Their eyes were opened,and they both knew that they were naked.They sewed fig leaves together,and made coverings for themselves.