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Old Testament Reading - Eve's Temptation

¹⁵ The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden as its gardener, to tend and care for it. ^16-17 But the Lord God gave the man this warning: “You may eat any fruit in the garden except fruit from the Tree of Conscience — for its fruit will open your eyes to make you aware of right and wrong, good and bad. If you eat its fruit, you will be doomed to die.”

¹The serpent was the craftiest of all the creatures the Lord God had made. So the serpent came to the woman. "Really?" I have asked. “None of the fruit in the garden? God says you mustn't eat any of it? ”

^2-3“Of course we may eat it,” the woman told him. “It's only the fruit from the tree at the center of the garden that we are not to eat. God says we mustn't eat it or even touch it, or we will die. ”

⁴“That's a lie!” The serpent hissed. “You'll not die! ⁵God knows very well that the instant you eat it you will become like him, for your eyes will be opened — you will be able to distinguish good from evil! ”

⁶The woman was convinced. How lovely and fresh looking it was! And it would make her so wise! So she ate some of the fruit and gave some to her husband, and he ate it too. ⁷And as they ate it, suddenly they became aware of their nakedness, and were embarrassed. So they strung fig leaves together to cover themselves around the hips.