This was how the LORD had fellowship with Adam and Eve, in a very natural, close, intimate way. This shows how remarkable it is that Jesus could say, Satan has nothing in Me (John 14:30). By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.. 2. He quoted the command wrong. The serpent was more cunning than any beast. Perhaps Satan knew by observation Adam didnt do an effective job of communicating to Eve what the LORD told him. Those who are willing to take the pleasure and profit of sin, are backward to take the blame and shame of it. The question was meant to express Gods sorrow over mans lost condition. in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. c. In toil you shall eat of it: Adam worked before the curse, but it was all joy. Adam named her in faith, trusting God would bring forth a deliverer from the woman because God said He would defeat Satan through the Seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15). i. When God made clothes for our first parents, he made them warm and strong, but coarse and very plain; not robes of scarlet, but coats of skin. (Genesis 3:4-5) Satans direct challenge to Gods Word. All the days of your life. i. She was not a mother at all, but as the life was to come through her by virtue of the promised seed, Adam marks his full conviction of the truth of the promise though at the time the woman had borne no children. (Spurgeon). 1. range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed From the beginning, Satan has tried to undermine Gods people by undermining Gods Word. Let us not look on that which we are in danger of lusting after, Romans 5:19; disobedience to a plain, easy, and express command. If he could make Eve confused about what God said, or to doubt what God said, then his battle was partially won. d. He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden: Cherubim are always associated with the presence and glory of God (Ezekiel 10, Isaiah 6, Revelation 4). According to a 1992 survey, as many as 12 million Americans can be considered active participants in the New Age movement, and another 30 million are avidly interested. It was the ground that was cursed due to Adam's sin, so that he had to toil by the sweat of his brow throughout this earthly life to provide what was originally bestowed in plentiful supply. He was sent to a place of toil, not to a place of torment. 16-19 The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow, and of subjection; proper punishments of that sin, in which she had sought to gratify the desire of her eye, and of the flesh, and her pride. Wisdom Literature Cookie Notice: He asked it because He allowed Adam to make the best of a bad situation by repenting right then and there, but Adam didnt come clean and repent before God. 3. e. Made themselves coverings: After making their coverings, Adam and Eve waited. Genesis 3 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (concise) Sooner or later it will bring shame; either the shame of true repentance, which ends in glory, or that shame and everlasting contempt, to which the wicked shall rise at the great day. The devil contradicts Gods word by falsely assuring Adam and Eve, you shall not surely die.. (1-3) Lot convinces the angelic visitors to stay with him. I will put enmity between you and the woman: In addition, there is a natural aversion between mankind and serpents, especially on the part of women. Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?. b. (Genesis 3:2-3) Eves reply to the serpent. Because of this, God has implanted it in the minds of men that more modesty is appropriate for these areas of our body. The way to the tree of life was shut. d. You will be like God, knowing good and evil: The final enticement was the most powerful because it was how Satan himself fell, wanting to be equal with God. See Romans 7:11; Hebrews 3:13. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a His victory over Satan thereby. 1. So when the woman saw: Eve surrendered to this temptation in exactly the way John describes in 1 John 2:16. This failure on Adams part made Eve more vulnerable to temptation. ii. iii. WebGenesis 19. She was not even pregnant yet. We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: Eves knowledge of what she should not do is partially correct, but what she doesnt seem to know makes her all the more vulnerable to deception. But man was only sent to till the ground out of which he was taken. Blue Letter Bible is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. iv. WebBut the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die (Genesis 3:4) God had expressly declared to Adam, in the day that you eat of (the forbidden tree) you shall surely die.. They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: Adam and Eve knew that when they heard the LORD coming, He would want to be with them. you shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return. It reminded them they were not God, that God had a legitimate claim to their obedience, and that they were responsible to Him. d. Dust you are, and to dust you shall return: The final curse upon man promised there would be an end of his toil and labor on the earth but it was an end of death, not an end of deliverance. Adam and Eve were clothed with a garment that was purchased with the life of another. i. Your good works are essential to what it takes to live out your life, but they are not legal tender before God. We can see the precise truth of Pauls statement in 1 Timothy 2:14, that Eve was deceived when she sinned. i. They couldnt refuse to answer God the way a criminal might keep silent when questioned. ii. iii. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point Such are all the rags of our own righteousness. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.. Adam bears the name of the dying body, Eve of the living soul. d. Lest you die: This may seem like a small thing to hinge the destiny of the human race and all creation on. Johannine Writings Despite that, Adam and Eve needed only a bit of prompting from a talking serpent to disobey their good Creator. They didnt proudly show off their fig-leaf outfits; they knew their own covering was completely inadequate, and they were embarrassed before God. He tempts them to seek preferment, as if they were fit to be gods. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, This is the last historical mention of the garden of Eden in the Bible. Therefore, He forbids you to eat of it, lest you create other worlds Hurry now and eat the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, and become independent of God, lest He bring forth still other creatures that will rule over you (Ginzberg). Yet you can do what is right before God right now by confessing and repenting. Wisdom Literature If Adam would have sinned first, and if he had then given the fruit to Eve, she might have a partial excuse before God: I was simply obeying the head of our home. We need to let Jesus cover us (Revelation 3:5, 18), and put on Jesus Himself as our covering garment (Galatians 3:27). GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, (Hebrew/Greek Search by English Definition), * 'Number Delimiters' only apply to 'Paragraph Order', Search verses, phrases, and topics (e.g. (Genesis 3:16) Gods curse upon the woman. Enmity has the idea of ill will, hatred, and a mutual antagonism. For dust you are, When he gave me the fruit, I ate of it.. After the curse, it still produced good, but thorns and thistles will come faster and easier than good fruit. In Satans direct challenge, he tries to get Eve to doubt the badness of sin. We will see Adam and Eve in heaven. To eat dust has the idea of total defeat (Isaiah 65:25, Micah 7:17). They saw the happiness they fell from, and the misery they were fallen into. Like Adam, we have reason to be afraid of approaching to God, if we are not covered and clothed with the righteousness of Christ. i. Satan questioned whether it were a sin or not, to eat of this tree. Not in the dead of night when the natural glooms of darkness might have increased the terrors of the criminal, not in the heat of the day, lest he should imagine that God come in the heat of passion; not in the early morning, as if in haste to slay, but at the close of the day, for God is long-suffering, slow to anger, and of great mercy. (Spurgeon). We can speculate that God did not destroy it, but left it to the effects of the curse and suppose that it generally deteriorated from its original condition, blending into the surrounding geography. If this is true, it wasnt so strange to Eve that an angelic being might appear to her in the form of a beautiful pre-curse serpent. It is more than probable that they were clothed in light before the fall, and when they sinned the light went out. (Barnhouse). And how admirably the satisfaction of our Lord Jesus, by his death and sufferings, answered the sentence passed on our first parents! f. Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Men know not that they shall die, even though they confess it with their lips almost daily. In attacking Jesus, Satan made his own doom certain. He excused the fault by laying it on his Heaven and hell can never be reconciled, nor light and darkness; no more can Satan and a sanctified soul. i. Eve does not seem to know the name of this tree; she only calls it the tree in the midst of the garden, instead of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:17). And to dust you shall return.. No condition will of itself bring content, unless the mind be brought to it. Luke-Acts New Age author Marianne Williamson (author of A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles), guru to many of Hollywoods spiritual seekers, spent a night at the White House as the personal guest of Hillary Clinton. iii. The Gospels Johannine Writings Obviously, they covered their genital areas. He became obedient unto death. Email / username or password was incorrect! God obviously knew where they were but He also knew a gulf had been made between Him and man, a gulf that He Himself would have to bridge. All Rights Reserved. WebThe temptation from the serpent. a. Despite that, Adam and Eve needed only a bit of prompting from a talking serpent to a. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point iii. Man has, perhaps, far more cunning than any mere creature but Satan has more of cunning within him than any other creature that the Lord God hath made, man included. (Spurgeon). War is proclaimed between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. Web2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, Would you prayerfully consider a gift of support today? In toil you shall eat of it Though Adam and Eve and their descendants were prevented from eating the fruit of the tree of life (by Gods mercy), they could still come there to meet God. WebGenesis 3:19 The last part of God's curse on Adam involves the brevity of physical life. Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had iii. Humanity was originally given every perfect thing they could need or want, and virtually no restrictions. You will not surely die: Satan first wanted Eve to forget all about what God said about the consequences of sin. And I will put enmity She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. A woman gains more of her identity from her husband than the man does from the wife. 2. Genesis 19:3 Commentaries: Yet he urged them strongly, so they Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year. Webhis body was composed of the dust, was of the earth, earthly, and should be reduced to that again by death, which is not an annihilation of man, but a bringing him back to Satan promised they should be safe, but they cannot so much as think themselves so! Genesis 3:19 in all English translations. The serpent deceived me, and I ate: When confronted by God, Eve didnt necessarily shift the blame when she admitted the serpent deceived her and then she ate. a. Adam called his wifes name Eve: Up to Genesis 3:20, the woman has never been called Eve. General Epistles Genesis 3:19 - By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food u Because of the curse, Eve would have to fight a desire to master her husband, a desire that works against Gods ordained order for the home. And you shall eat dust The beasts, from whose skins they were clothed, it is supposed were slain, not for man's food, but for sacrifice, to typify Christ, the great Sacrifice. Historical Books God gave the earth to the children of men, to be a comfortable dwelling; but it is now cursed for man's sin. Major Prophets (Read Genesis 3:16-19) The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow, and of subjection; proper punishments of that sin, in God gave His approval of the sense of shame which had led our first parents to cover their nakedness. (Leupold). The person tempted was the woman: it was Satan's policy to enter into talk with her when she was alone. Did sorrow come in with sin? For out of it you were taken; General Epistles a. General Epistles ii. The two angels come to Sodom. The New Testament Sin appears most plainly in the glass of the commandment, therefore God set it before Adam; and in it we should see our faces. i. The Lamb of God has made for us a garment which covers our nakedness so that we are not afraid to stand even before the bar of God. (Spurgeon). After the fall, everything looked worse. So he said, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself. And He said, Who told you that you were naked? And between your seed and her Seed; Historical Books The woman saw that the tree was good for food: Eves perceptions were partially true and partially false. Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade, and like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages (Job 7:1-2). Often neglected in favor of more "exciting" prophecies, this first prophecy holds the fundamental principles for understanding the nature of Satan's relationship to Christ and the church, woman's relationship with man, man's relationship with nature, and sin's role in human suffering. This prophecy also gives the first hint of the virgin birth, declaring the Messiah the Deliverer would be the Seed of the Woman, but not of the man. The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow, and of subjection; proper punishments of that sin, in which she had sought to gratify the desire of her eye, and of the flesh, and her pride. Who then can say that Adam's sin had but little harm in it? Adam and Eve must have been terrified as this once-beautiful creature called a serpent was transformed into the creeping, slithering, hissing snake we know today. The Whole Bible The serpent deceives Eve. Fig leaves have something of a prickly quality, which would make for some pretty itchy coverings. Because of this sin, posterity has been cursed with overwhelming toil just to stay ahead, paradoxically for our ultimate benefit. Because of Adam: ii. We can almost picture Adam telling Eve, See that tree in the middle of the garden? Poole says the woman wasnt surprised at the serpents speaking because Adam and Eve had free conversation with angelic beings that often appeared in the form of men. Perhaps there is a note of sarcasm by God here (as Elijah used in 1 Kings 18:27), regarding Satans empty promise to become like gods. e. The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate: Adams attempt to blame Eve is completely consistent with human nature. WebGenesis 3:16-19. Web19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Major Prophets ii. Now the two angels came to Satan came in the form of a serpent to tempt Eve i. No one falls like Adam and Eve will fall, all of a sudden. A foundation has been laid. By his death he gave a fatal blow to the devil's kingdom, a wound to the head of this serpent that cannot be healed. Genesis 3:19 Catholic Bible: You will have to work hard and With anxiety and perhaps a bit of agony they waited until God patiently came to them. This was their holy of holies. Therefore, it was important to send cherubim and a flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life. i. And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. b. 2023 Christianity.com. This lost sheep had wandered without end, if the good Shepherd had not sought after him, and told him, that where he was straying he could not be either happy or easy. When men deny the Scriptures and the truth of God, they always go to work in an underhand, mean, and serpentine style: Upon thy belly shalt thou go. If guilty man begins to plot for his own advantage, scheme for his own glory, and aim at perverting the truth, you will notice that he never takes a bold, open, manly stand, but he dodges, he conceals, he twists and shifts: Upon thy belly shalt thou go. Sin is a mean and despicable thing. i. They knew they were naked, in the sense of having their shame exposed to all creation. The tempter was the devil, in the shape and likeness of a serpent. More than 90% of the subscribers to New Age Magazine are college graduates, compared to half the general population. Few of us are willing to simply say as David did, I have sinned against the LORD (2 Samuel 12:13). This was not the interrogation of an angry commanding officer, but the heartfelt cry of an anguished father. I. In response, God issues three individual ''curses'' which affect humanity to this day. Learn hence, that Satan's temptations are all beguilings; his arguments are all deceits; his allurements are all cheats; when he speaks fair, believe him not. They saw a loving God provoked, his grace and favour forfeited. Your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children: The first curse upon women is a broad one. Albeit that henceforth all he ate was to be with the sweat of his face, yet still he was to have enough to eat, and he was to live on. (Spurgeon). iii. Satan took Gods positive command in Genesis 2:16-17 (Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat) and rephrased it in a purely negative way: God wont let you eat of every tree.. God placed a natural animosity between Satan and mankind. 5. Though he is the tempter, we are the sinners. See her what dishonour and trouble sin is; it makes mischief wherever it gets in, and destroys all comfort. Observe the steps of the transgression: not steps upward, but downward toward the pit. The goal of becoming God is the center of so many non-Christian religions, including Mormonism. Adam laid the blame on his wife; but though it was her fault to persuade him to eat the forbidden fruit, it was his fault to hearken to her. (6-8) God calls upon Adam and Eve to answer. (2-3) Eves Has God said, Ye shall not lie, nor take his name in vain, nor be drunk, &c.? Who told you that you were naked? The stronger ones in a chain must expect an attack against weaker links and support them against those attacks. God didnt ask Satan (the being animating the serpent) any questions because there was nothing to teach him. Satan took advantage by finding her near the forbidden tree. 1. i. ii. Genesis 3:19 Commentaries: By the sweat of your face i. The New Testament The New Age movement and the desire to be god are just as strong as ever. As the gospel gains ground, Satan falls. Charles Spurgeon thought the sense was, in the wind of the evening, when the evening breeze was blowing through the garden. iv. On your belly you shall go, i. iii. d. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you: The idea is to contrast the womans desire and the husbands rule over her. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. The greatest potentate of evil was here doomed to cringe and crawl, and his seed have never forgotten their fathers posture. (Spurgeon). CSB 19 You will eat bread by the We are clothed with a garment of righteousness that was purchased with the life of another, Jesus Christ. See also God's care for our first parents, notwithstanding their sin. i. Satan can only effectively work when he has established a foothold. It is good to feel guilty when you have done something wrong, and having no sense of guilt or shame is worse. iii. It is the craft of Satan to speak of the Divine law as uncertain or unreasonable, and so to draw people to sin; it is our wisdom to keep up a firm belief of God's command, and a high respect for it. a. We all sin, but when we sin, we can still give glory to God by openly confessing without shifting the blame onto others (Joshua 7:19-20). The representation of Satan as a serpent makes the idea of Moses saving Israel by lifting up a bronze serpent all the more provocative (Numbers 21:8-9), especially when Jesus identifies Himself with that very serpent (John 3:14). Not only does Adam unjustly accuse Eve, but also he refused to accept proper responsibility for his part in her sin. Genesis, CHAPTER 3 | USCCB (Genesis 3:10-12) Adam tries to explain his sin. There are only two religions; there is the religion of fig leaves and there is the religion of Gods perfect provision through Jesus. We can assume this is God, in the Person of Jesus Christ, appearing to Adam and Eve before His incarnation and birth at Bethlehem, because of God the Father it is said, No one has seen God at any time. It is idle to call the narrative of the Fall a mere allegory; one had better say at once that he does not believe the Book There was a real serpent, as there was a real paradise; there was a real Adam and Eve, who stood at the head of our race, and they really sinned, and our race is really fallen. She saw. Adam probably had regard to the blessing of a Redeemer, the promised Seed, in calling his wife Eve, or life; for He should be the life of all believers, and in Him all the families of the earth should be blessed. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point i. Our good works are like monopoly money great for monopoly, but not legal tender. And he said to the woman, Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?. Genesis 4. Verse Genesis 3:19. Satan couldnt cram the fruit down her throat. Genesis 3:16-19 meaning | TheBibleSays.com And take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever: In mercy, God protected Adam and Eve from the horrible fate of having to live forever as sinners by preventing them from eating from the tree of life. 1. ii. Minor Prophets It is by the deceitfulness of sin the heart is hardened. In this vivid way, Jesus bore the curse for us. But though Satan's subtlety may draw us into sin, yet it will not justify us in sin. i. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread His business, before he sinned, was a constant pleasure to him; but now his labour shall be a weariness. God bid man go out; told him he should no longer occupy and enjoy that garden: but man liked the place, and was unwilling to leave it, therefore God made him go out. His incarnation, or coming in the flesh. Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. It is the fruit of this enmity, that there is a continual warfare between grace and corruption, in the hearts of God's people. The Gospels She could have simply run from Satan and the tree, but Eve didnt take Gods way of escape. ii. WebGenesis 3:19 New International Version 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust Sin brought death into the world: if Adam had not sinned, he had not died. a. ii. WebGenesis 3:19 Catholic Bible: You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. It is as if a deaf person was promised to be able to hear again, but all they could hear was screaming. But the tree was nothing more than a restraint on Adam and Eve. ii. Our first parents were shut out from the privileges of their state of innocency, yet they were not left to despair. Now the curse on Eve makes it much harder for her to submit and flow with Gods institution of male headship in the home. Blessed be God for his Son our Lord Jesus Christ. See here what is commonly the folly of those that have sinned. Minor Prophets He gave way to temptation, but the Saviour withstood it.
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