The
Garden of Eden
Genesis 2:4 -3:24 with 36
illustrations
The Garden of Eden
Genesis 2:4-5
On the day Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens, no plant or
shrub had yet sprung up because Yahweh God had not caused it to
rain, and there was no man to work the ground.
Genesis 2:7
And Yahweh God formed man from the dirt of the ground.
Genesis 2:7
And he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
Genesis 2:7
And man became a living being.
Genesis 2:8-9
Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, causing to sprout every tree
that is pleasing to look at and good for food, with the tree of
life in the middle of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good
and evil.
Genesis 2:15
Yahweh God took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden to look
after and maintain it.
Genesis 2:16-17
Yahweh God commanded the man, 'From every tree of the garden you
may freely eat, but from the tree of knowledge of good and evil,
you may not eat. For the day that you eat from it you will
surely die.'
Genesis 2:18
Then Yahweh God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone.
I will make him a helper—his counterpart.'
Genesis 2:19
So from the dirt Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and
every bird of the sky.
Genesis 2:19-20
He brought them to the man to see what he would call them.
Whatever the man called them, that was its name. But no
suitable helper was found for the man.
Genesis 2:21
Then Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man. And
while he slept, he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in
its place .
Genesis 2:22
And from the rib Yahweh God had taken from the man, he made a
woman.
Genesis 2:22-23
He brought her to the man, and the man said, 'This at last is bone
of my bones, and flesh of my flesh! She will be called woman,
because she was taken out of man.'
Genesis 2:24
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his
wife, and they become one flesh.
Genesis 2:25
And the man and his wife were both naked and were not
ashamed.
Genesis 3:1
Now of all the animals of the field that Yahweh God had made, the
snake was the most clever. He said to the woman, 'Has God
really said, "You shall not eat from any tree of the
garden"?'
Genesis 3:2-3
The woman said to the snake, 'We may eat from the trees of the
garden, but of the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden,
God said, "Do not eat from it, and do not even touch it, or else
you will die."'
Genesis 3:4-5
The snake said to the woman, 'Surely you will not die! For
God knows that on the day you eat from it, your eyes will be
opened, and you will be like gods, knowing good and
evil.'
Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the
eyes, and desirable for the knowledge it could give
Genesis 3:6
And she took fruit from it and ate it.
Genesis 3:6
She gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate
it.
Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both them were opened, and they knew that they
were naked.
Genesis 3:7
So they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves
loincloths.
Genesis 3:8-9
Then they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking about in the garden
in the breeze of the day. The man and his wife hid themselves from
Yahweh God among the trees, and Yahweh God called to the man,
'Where are you?'
Genesis 3:10
The man said, 'I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid
because I was naked, so I hid myself.'
Genesis 3:11
God said, 'Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten
from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?'
Genesis 3:12
The man said, 'The woman you gave me, she gave me fruit of the
tree, and I ate it.'
Genesis 3:13
And Yahweh God said to the woman, 'What have you
done?'
Genesis 3:13
The woman said, 'The snake convinced me, and I ate.'
Genesis 3:14-15
Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have done this, you are
cursed! On your belly you shall go, and eat dirt all the days
of your life. I will put hostility between you and the woman.
Her offspring will strike at your head, and you will strike
at her offspring's heel.'
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, 'I will greatly increase your suffering
during childbirth. In anguish will you bring forth children.
You will desire your husband, and he will dominate
you.'
Genesis 3:17-19
To the man he said, 'Cursed is the ground because of
you! It will yield you thorns and thistles. In
painful toil will you eat from it all the days of your life until
you return to the ground from which you were taken. For you are
dirt, and to dirt you will return.'
Genesis 3:21
Yahweh God made leather garments for the man and his wife, and
clothed them.
Genesis 3:22-23
Then Yahweh God said, 'The man has become like one of us, knowing
good and evil. He must be prevented from reaching out his
hand to take from the tree of life, lest he eat from it and also
live forever!'
Genesis 3:24
So he drove the man away and stationed cherubs at the east of the
garden of Eden, and a whirling flaming sword to guard the way to
the tree of life.
Genesis 3:23
Yahweh God sent him away from the garden of Eden, to till the
ground from which he was taken.
