Scriptures

New Living Translation (NLT)

Genesis 2
²⁰ He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him.
²¹ So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the LORD God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the opening.
²² Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man.
²³ “At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’”
²⁴ This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
²⁵ Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.
Genesis 3
¹ The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”
² “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied.
³ “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”
⁴ “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman.
⁵ “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”