The Fall

1 Now the ^kserpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.

He said to the woman, ^l“Did God actually say, ^m‘You¹ shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, ⁿ“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, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 But 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 ^olike God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman ^psaw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,² she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were ^qnaked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God ^rwalking in the garden in the cool³ of the day, and the man and his wife ^shid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”⁴ 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman ^twhom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent ^udeceived me, and I ate.”

Sarai and Hagar

1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had ^uborne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has ^vprevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children^{1 w}by her.” And Abram ^xlistened to the voice of Sarai. 3 So, after ^yAbram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and ^zgave her to Abram her husband as a wife. 4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, ^ashe looked with contempt on her ^bmistress.² 5 And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!” 6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.

7 ^cThe ^dangel of the Lord found her by a ^espring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur. 8 And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai.” 9 The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her.” 10 The angel of the Lord also said to her, ^f“I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude.” 11 And the angel of the Lord said to her,

13 So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,”⁴ for she said, “Truly here I have ^jseen him who looks after me.”⁵ 14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi;⁶ it lies between Kadesh and Bered.

15 And ^kHagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.