(20,21) Adam and Eve are driven out from paradise. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point For dust you are, a. I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid: Sin made Adam afraid of Gods presence and afraid of Gods voice. Satan came in the form of a serpent to tempt Eve It is difficult for women in Christian lands to realize the miseries of their hundreds of millions of sisters in pagan lands, where the lot of women is little above that of cattle. Because she was the mother of all living: Adam named her Eve, even though she was not a mother at all at the time. Genesis 2. 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. iii. Prophets God confronted Adams problem squarely. It was also in Gods plan to allow Satan to tempt Eve this way. 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 No one falls like Adam and Eve will fall, all of a sudden. A foundation has been laid. WebThe temptation from the serpent. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forevertherefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. c. She took of its fruit and ate: Satan could tempt Eve, but she didnt have to take it. Major Prophets a. WebAlthough death was the fruit of Adam's sin, it was by God's grace that His curse did not fall upon Adam. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point His employments and enjoyments are imbittered to him. in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. In our courts of law, we do not require men to answer questions which would incriminate them, but God does; and, at the last great day, the ungodly will be condemned on their own confession of guilt (Spurgeon). i. Satan, by their corruptions, buffets them, sifts them, and seeks to devour them. WebGenesis 3 tells the story of paradise lost by the willfulness of human sin. The principle of Galatians 3:13 is established as we consider that Jesus bore each aspect of the curse upon Adam and Eve in its totality: Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. There is no doubt this is a prophecy of Jesus ultimate defeat of Satan. i. a. I will greatly multiply your sorrow: God first cursed the woman with multiplied sorrow. d. They sewed fig leaves together: Their own attempt to cover themselves took much ingenuity, but not much wisdom. The idea that the woman takes her name from the husband, and the idea that both genders are encompassed in terms like mankind, humanity, and chairman. His sufferings and death; pointed at in Satan's bruising his heel, that is, his human nature. Then the eyes of both of them were opened: Seemingly, it was only after the sin of Adam that they knew of their sinful state. c. And clothed them: This, together with the expression of faith in Gods promise indicated in the naming of Eve (Genesis 3:20), indicates that Adam and Eve were rescued from their sinful condition. Genesis Chapter 19 Summary & Analysis Then the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. No condition will of itself bring content, unless the mind be brought to it. Poetical Books Genesis 3 And how admirably the satisfaction of our Lord Jesus, by his death and sufferings, answered the sentence passed on our first parents! i. This does not mean God did not have a name for Eve, but we are told what the name is in Genesis 5:2: He called them Mankind. Because you have done this, a. Adam called his wifes name Eve: Up to Genesis 3:20, the woman has never been called Eve. They knew that they were naked: Both Psalm 104:2 and Matthew 17:2 suggest that light can be a garment for the righteous. He did not disclose his design at first, but he put a question which seemed innocent. Eve misquoted Gods command to Adam. They must have thought, Its our turn next!. It is by the deceitfulness of sin the heart is hardened. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point One must be hardened to willingly and knowingly serve Satan. ii. God gave His approval of the sense of shame which had led our first parents to cover their nakedness. (Leupold). Adam sinned willfully, having abdicated his leadership position. iii. We are so used to saying Adam and Eve that we assume she already had her name. The devil tempts them, persecutes and slays them; and so bruises the heel of Christ, who is afflicted in their afflictions. (Genesis 3:8-9) Adam and Eve hide from God; God calls out to them. 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. c. The LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden: We dont know if Adam and Eve wanted to stay in the garden of Eden. Satan promised they should be safe, but they cannot so much as think themselves so! The excuses men make to cover and lessen their sins, are vain and frivolous; like the aprons of fig-leaves, they make the matter never the better: yet we are all apt to cover our transgressions as Adam. CSB 19 You will eat bread by the range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed God ordained that the pain with which women bring children into this world be an example of the pain they experience more generally in life. This may well be true, but it makes Adams sin not one bit less rebellious. 3. Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him (John 1:18); and no man has ever seen God in the Person of the Father (1 Timothy 6:16). The heel is the part within the serpents reach. i. ii. The serpent: The text here does not, by itself alone, clearly identify the serpent as Satan, but the rest of the Bible makes it clear this is Satan appearing as a serpent. 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. There is a sense in which idolatry of Eve was an aspect of Adams disobedience against God. I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; What does Genesis 3:19 mean? | BibleRef.com Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. His habitation is cursed. It would not be until the cool of the day (Genesis 3:8) when God would normally come to them. Web(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 which she had sought to gratify the desire of Yet you can do what is right before God right now by confessing and repenting. iii. But the tree was nothing more than a restraint on Adam and Eve. Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. 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, And he said to the woman, Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?. 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 i. But their eyes were instantly opened to their own sin and rebellion. The friendship Eve and the serpent seemed to enjoy earlier in the chapter is finished. ii. God Himself ate first of the fruit of the tree, and then He created the world. iv. iii. Fig leaves have something of a prickly quality, which would make for some pretty itchy coverings. Unto We may not understand everything involved in the way Satan used the body of a serpent, but we can know it was true and this is no mere fable. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. The curse of death shows that the result of Adams sin extended to the entire human race. He shall rule over thee, is but God's command, Wives, be subject to your own husbands. All the days of your life. And Christ's sufferings are continued in the sufferings of the saints for his name. 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. (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 i. Matthew Henrys Bible Commentary (concise), Matthew Henry Bible Commentary (complete), California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. b. Tunics of skin: In order for Adam and Eve to be clothed, a sacrifice had to be made. Because of this, God has implanted it in the minds of men that more modesty is appropriate for these areas of our body. After the fall, everything looked worse. Perhaps they felt if they left the garden, they might never see God again because it was the only place where they met Him. Few of us are willing to simply say as David did, I have sinned against the LORD (2 Samuel 12:13). On this occasion, Satan chose to indwell the body of a pre-curse serpent. 1. Major Prophets But when Adam ate, he was not deceived as Eve was. Notice is given concerning Christ. 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. a. i. b. Those who by sin go astray from God, should seriously consider where they are; they are afar off from all good, in the midst of their enemies, in bondage to Satan, and in the high road to utter ruin. Covering ourselves with our good works is like Adam and Eve trying to cover themselves with fig leaves. He quoted the command wrong. ii. What Satan said is more important than how he said it. An immaterial spirit must be invisible; and therefore he must embody himself in some way or other before he can be seen. To eat dust has the idea of total defeat (Isaiah 65:25, Micah 7:17). 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. Behold our Lord in his human nature sore bruised: he was betrayed, bound, accused, buffeted, scourged, spit upon. Who then can say that Adam's sin had but little harm in it? iii. In contrast, we should be like Jesus, who came as a servant (Matthew 20:28). GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Use semicolons to separate groups: 'Gen;Jdg;Psa-Mal' or 'Rom 3-12;Mat 1:15;Mat 5:12-22', There are options set in 'Advanced Options', The Whole Bible 2018 David Guzik - No distribution beyond personal use without permission, The Whole Bible In Jesus, we share in the victory over Satan: And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly (Romans 16:20). The fruit probably was pleasant to the eyes, though that shouldnt mean much. Observe the startling question, Adam, where art thou? i. Genesis 3 Despite that, Adam and Eve needed only a bit of prompting from a talking serpent to If this fruit is something good for her, why doesnt God want her to have it? Genesis 3:19 - By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food u The stronger ones in a chain must expect an attack against weaker links and support them against those attacks. This speaks of an inherent challenge in embracing the husbands role as leader of the home and family. In toil you shall eat of it We read of the travail of Christ's soul, Galatians 3:13. Clarke on nor shall you touch it: Some Jewish writers state that as soon as the woman had asserted this, the serpent pushed her against the tree and said, See, you have touched it, and are still alive; you may therefore safely eat of the fruit, for surely you shall not die.. And it was only true in Eves mind that the tree was desirable to make one wise. This is not because there is something intrinsically unclean in our sexuality, but because we have both received our fallenness and pass it on genetically through sexual reproduction. Did sorrow come in with sin? Any angel of the lowest rank could have dealt with Adam. Our good works are like monopoly money great for monopoly, but not legal tender. a. WebGenesis 3:19 Clarke's Commentary. Uneasiness and weariness with labour are our just punishment, which we must patiently submit to, since they are less than our iniquity deserves. c. Your desire shall be for your husband: This is true of women in a way that it is not true for men. Perhaps Satan made the voice supernaturally seem to come forth from the serpent, or perhaps Satan communicated this to Eve in her thoughts. WebGenesis 3:17. Therefore, it is Adam and not Eve who bears the responsibility for the fall of the human race and for the introduction of death into the created order (Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:22). Then the LORD God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. He was a man of sorrows; his soul was, in his agony, exceeding sorrowful. 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. His incarnation, or coming in the flesh. Wisdom Literature Yes, I am sure he has, and it is well said; and by his grace I will abide by it. And the woman said to the serpent: Eves first mistake was in even carrying on a discussion with the serpent. She was not even pregnant yet. Take and eat will one day become verbs of salvation, but only after Jesus had lived in the world of Adams curse and surrendered to death. Cool of the day is literally the breeze of the day. From Hebrew geography and culture, we might guess this means late afternoon or early evening. (Genesis 3:2-3) Eves reply to the serpent. ii. Minor Prophets Genesis 3 (Genesis 3:22-24) God sets cherubim to guard the Tree of Life. Having food and a covering, let them be content; they are as well off as Adam and Eve. Martin Luther said of this verse: This text embraces and comprehends within itself everything noble and glorious that is to be found anywhere in the Scriptures (Leupold). Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. 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. To this point, death had been mentioned only as a threatened punishment for sin ( Genesis This same word for desire is used in Genesis 4:7 of the desire of sin to master over Cain. g. He shall bruise your head: For God to see the defeat of Satan at Satans first flush of victory shows God knew what He was doing all along. The principle of Adams headship as a husband was established before the fall (see Genesis 2:18 and 2:22). Satan took advantage by finding her near the forbidden tree. Cookie Notice: 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. 1. As the gospel gains ground, Satan falls. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Many other passages associate a serpent or a snake-like creature with Satan (such as Job 26:13 and Isaiah 51:9). This failure on Adams part made Eve more vulnerable to temptation. i. (Genesis 3:4-5) Satans direct challenge to Gods Word. And more than every beast of the field; (Genesis 3:10-12) Adam tries to explain his sin. Thus the devil was from the beginning a murderer, and the great mischief maker. In the sweat of thy face Though the whole body may be thrown into a profuse Bridgeway Bible The taking was all her doing. Pentateuch Genesis 3 d. You shall eat dust all the days of your life: This was true of the serpent as an animal, but it is also true of Satan. God came to them with truth, showing them their lost condition. Would you prayerfully consider a gift of support today? i. Poetical Books Satan teaches men first to doubt, and then to deny. b. Cursed is the ground: Because of Adam, there is a curse upon all creation. 5. And he shall rule over you.. Humanity was originally given every perfect thing they could need or want, and virtually no restrictions. Rebellion against God is not better when motivated by a romantic impulse. iii. i. 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). Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. (Genesis 3:17-19) Gods curse upon the man. Ezekiel 28 tells us Satan, before his fall, was an angel of the highest rank and prominence, even something of a leader of worship in heaven. Her words, you shall not eat it and lest you die are close enough, but she added to the command and put words in Gods mouth when she said, nor shall you touch it. See Romans 7:11; Hebrews 3:13. The question was meant to lead Adam to confess his sin. God came to them patiently, waiting for the cool of the day the evening time. Luke-Acts The New Testament 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). ii. Men know not that they shall die, even though they confess it with their lips almost daily. WebGenesis 3:16-19. And I will put enmity And you shall bruise His heel.. See also God's care for our first parents, notwithstanding their sin. This is the last historical mention of the garden of Eden in the Bible. It is an ill sign with men when they cannot be brought frankly to acknowledge their wrong-doing. (Spurgeon), And the LORD God said to the woman, What is this you have done? The woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.. of Scripture. Although the sentence took away from Adam the luscious fruits of paradise, yet it secured him a livelihood. Despite that, Adam and Eve needed only a bit of prompting from a talking serpent to disobey their good Creator. The womans desire is to control her husband (to usurp his divinely appointed headship), and he must master her, if he can. c. And he said to the woman: Apparently, before the curse pronounced in Genesis 3:14-15, the serpent was different than what we know today as a serpent. Every attempt to cover our own nakedness before God is just as foolish. The devil contradicts Gods word by falsely assuring Adam and Eve, you shall not surely die.. But while the heel is bruised on earth, the Head is in heaven. The LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them: God wanted Adam and Eve clothed, not naked. He can undermine just as effectively by getting us to neglect Gods Word as by getting us to doubt it. c. Where are you? Sin brought pain to childbirth, and no one knew more pain than Jesus did when He, through His suffering, brought many sons to glory (, Sin brought conflict, and Jesus endured great conflict to bring our salvation (, Thorns came with sin and the fall, and Jesus endured a crown of thorns to bring our salvation (, Sin brought sweat, and Jesus sweat, as it were, great drops of blood to win our salvation (, Sin brought sorrow, and Jesus became a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, to save us (, Sin brought death, and Jesus tasted death for everyone that we might be saved (, Barnhouse, Donald Grey "Genesis: A Devotional Exposition" Volumes 1 and 2 (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1973), Boice, James Montgomery "Genesis: An Expositional Commentary" Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1987), Ginzberg, Louis "The Legends of the Jews" Volumes 1-7 (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1968), Leupold, H.C. "Exposition of Genesis: Volumes 1 and 2" (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1976), Spurgeon, Charles Haddon "The New Park Street Pulpit" Volumes 1-6 and "The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit" Volumes 7-63 (Pasadena, Texas: Pilgrim Publications, 1990). The two angels come to Sodom. 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. 20 The man gave his Believe this (Spurgeon). The story of this chapter is perhaps as sad a story (all things considered) as any we have in all the Bible. b. This shows the falsehood of the tempter, and the frauds of his temptations. ii. Wisdom Literature Satan couldnt cram the fruit down her throat. Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil: The idea behind this phrase is difficult to understand. 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. The New Testament iii. Genesis 3:19 Commentaries: By the sweat of your face Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade, and like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages (Job 7:1-2). Major Prophets 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. This signified the shutting out of him, and all his guilty race, from that communion with God, which was the bliss and glory of paradise. But in our desire to be gods, we become like Satan. Eve was tricked into sinning; Adam knew exactly what he was doing (1 Timothy 2:14). iii. Your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children: The first curse upon women is a broad one. The devil implies that man is independent of God our Creator. He was crowned with thorns for us. In all probability the reptile called the serpent was a nobler creature before the Fall than now. 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). Web19 sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt." Adam bears the name of the dying body, Eve of the living soul. ii. Minor Prophets Blessed be God for his Son our Lord Jesus Christ. Sin brought sorrow into the world; that made the world a vale of tears. We can almost picture Adam telling Eve, See that tree in the middle of the garden? c. On your belly you shall go: Whatever noble bearing the creation known as the serpent had before the fall and the curse, that nobility was gone. a. The question was meant to express the accountability man had before God. We read ( ch. It was Eve's weakness to enter into this talk with the serpent: she might have perceived by his question, that he had no good design, and should therefore have started back. Perhaps Satan knew by observation Adam didnt do an effective job of communicating to Eve what the LORD told him. WebGenesis 3, Sermon Bible Commentary, One of over 125 Bible commentaries freely available, this 12 volume, chapter by chapter commentary of 4,800 sermon outlines and 24,000 homiletic references. Eve tried to become a god by rebelling against God. God announced that Satan would wound the Messiah (you shall bruise His heel), but the Messiah would crush Satan with a mortal wound (He shall bruise your head). There is a strange proneness in those that are tempted, to say, they are tempted of God; as if our abuse of God's gifts would excuse our breaking God's laws. 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. 3. The serpent was more cunning than any beast: Satans effectiveness is often found in His cunning, crafty ways.

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