Ch 3 / 50~3 min
Bereshit

Chapter 3

The Promised Seed Who Crushes Evil

The first promise of a Redeemer is spoken — the seed of the woman will crush the serpent's head, pointing to Yeshua's victory at the cross.

  1. The Serpent Deceives the Woman

    The enemy's first tactic: twist Elohim's words and make you question His goodness. Notice how deception begins with a question about what Elohim said.

  2. 1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which YHWH Elohim had made. He said to the woman, “Has Elohim really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
  3. 2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
  4. 3but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. Elohim has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”
  5. 4The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,
  6. 5for Elohim knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like Elohim, knowing good and evil.”
  7. 6When the woman saw 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, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
  8. 7Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.
  9. Elohim Confronts Adam and Eve

    Even after the fall, Elohim comes seeking. He asks 'Where are you?' — not because He doesn't know, but because He wants them to come home.

  10. 8They heard YHWH Elohim’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of YHWH Elohim amongst the trees of the garden.
  11. 9YHWH Elohim called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
  12. 10The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
  13. 11Elohim said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
  14. 12The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
  15. 13YHWH Elohim said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
  16. The First Promise of Redemption

    In the curse on the serpent, Elohim hides the first Good News: a seed of the woman will crush the enemy's head. This is Yeshua, promised from the beginning.

  17. 14YHWH Elohim said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
  18. 15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”Fulfilled · Hitgalut 12:17
  19. 16To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
  20. 17To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labour all the days of your life.
  21. 18It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
  22. 19You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
  23. 20The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
  24. 21YHWH Elohim made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.Fulfilled · Ivrim 9:22
  25. Exile from the Garden

    Elohim drives them out but also clothes them — judgement and mercy together. He guards the way back to the tree of life until the appointed time.

  26. 22YHWH Elohim said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”
  27. 23Therefore YHWH Elohim sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
  28. 24So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
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