The Root of Sin

Jeremiah 2:13

for my people have committed two evils:

^kthey have forsaken ^lme,

the fountain of ^mliving waters,

and hewed out cisterns for themselves,

broken cisterns that can hold no water.

 

The Fall

3 Now ^uthe serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORDGod had made.

He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You¹ shall not eat of any tree in thegarden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in thegarden, 3 but God said, ^v‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of thegarden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 ^wBut the serpent said to the woman,“You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened,and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the treewas good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desiredto make one wise,² she took of its fruit ^xand ate, and she also gave some to her husbandwho was with her, ^yand he ate. 7 ^zThen the eyes of both were opened, ^aand they knew thatthey were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.