2:5 Those who live by the sea, the people who came from Crete, 1 are as good as dead. 2
The Lord has decreed your downfall, 3 Canaan, land of the Philistines:
“I will destroy everyone who lives there!” 4
The Temptation and the Fall
3:1 Now 1 the serpent 2 was more shrewd 3
than any of the wild animals 4 that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Is it really true that 5 God 6 said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?” 7
